I learned about gouache through the YouTube art community and picked up a cheap set to try out. I fell in LOVE with it. This painting was in my mixed media sketchbook and was unplanned beyond a simple sketch with a colored pencil. It's not perfect, since it was my first time and spontaneous, but I am in love with how I could get the colors to blend, and leave the painting but come back later to reactivate the other layers and keep working.

I knew that the water-soluble part was a downside going in, so I leaned into it and got some really cool effects that make it almost look digital! Every time I see this one I keep kicking myself for not doing more gouache paintings.

I chose Biyomon because she was not only one of my favorite Digimon as a kid, but also because I still have the toy figure of her on my desk. I didn't know what to paint so I painted what I saw.