I'm curious, did you do the white spots on the antlers before laying down the black?

After - that's when I realized that it was too much.

Ok, now I'm really curious, how do you do that with watercolor? White is that opaque? >O.O<

Well, you cheat, kind of! I used kosher salt and white gel pens to get the effects I wanted.

You can also use frisket, which is a waterproof seal that can be painted onto the paper's surface and then peeled off after the paint has dried. That doesn't guarantee that the color won't soak through the paper under the surface, bringing color with it...

You can also use gouache - which is really STRONG watercolor - in a non-watered-down form. Straight from the tube, most often. (I'm not fond of this option because paint is expensive.)

The traditional way to "paint white" using watercolor is to avoid laying down paint in those areas. Sometimes, however, the details are really small, or the rest of the piece requires broader brushes than would allow for that method, so using another material is acceptable. I did this a lot for Snowmelt, although because of the technical issues mentioned in the description, most of those details don't really stand out.

I see, that makes sense, thanks for the information! =^^=

Anytime!