It always starts with an idea!
A bunch of scrap paper with sketches a doodles.
Then I get a clean piece of watercolor paper and a light table and use a micron pen to apply a crisp clean out line.
I could always draw my designs on the water color paper. But if your sketch work is as messy as mine. I use the light table. Because pencil lead with interfere with the application of paint on the paper.
It is alway good to map out what colors you are going to use. So nothing clashes to much on your flash sheet.
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