All awash

I’m not a big fan of bright colour over line art, so with the request for a wash of colour on top of my drawing I turn to Corel Painter’s watercolour brushes. The default mode is Gel, which makes the colours a bit too garish for my taste, so I dial the Opacity settings down to 30 per cent and change the mode to Overlay. This gives me the real-world feel of a traditional watercolour wash. The highlights on the metal edges are added with Painter’s FX Glow brush.