Luigi, Gouache, and Flops

What better way to try out gouache paints for the first time than to make a Luigi sketch card?! Being opaque, gouache seems to be a bit more lenient than watercolor, which is nice when you're still kinda terrified by paints in general :D

Luigi was done around two weeks ago, but this quick, little giraffe is more recent. I was curious to see how gouache would work on cardboard.

And that's sorta it. Today I was working on an idea for Illustration Friday and ended up scrapping it completely. I had decided to try diving into the work without too much thought or worry. It was penciled and inked pretty quickly (perhaps hastily is a better term), and on a piece of thick cardboard to boot, but by the time the drawing was ready to be colored I didn't like it all. I don't think it was the idea that was off but rather the way I went about making the drawing. 

It feels weird abandoning something but I guess it happens every now and then.