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Published: 2007-09-01 17:10:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 45439; Favourites: 1146; Downloads: 924
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This pretty much explains itself.If you really liked it and found it useful - you could do me a favour and link to me.
Here is the original painting used in the tutorial: [link]
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Comments: 93
great pointers and tips - exactly what I needed! (: (I actually messed up a rather good painting I was doing yesterday, due to hastiness ._.)
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you shuld do a anime watercolour tutorial!
awsome
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Why? These techniques are applicable to any type of art style... and I don't even draw so-called "anime style".
But I'm glad if you had use of the tutorial.
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Most helpful watercolour tutorial I've found so far - thanks!
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I like this tutorial because it goes through all the steps instead of skipping to the painting stage. Huzzah! }:=8}
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This is a really fabulous tutorial! Nicely done! <3
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great tutorial, good explanation, and also very beatiful work
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You draw and use watercolor beautifully. Thanks for sharing some of your expertise.
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Thank you for the tutorial! Definitely useful.
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I've recently been trying to get better as a painter using watercolors but I was despirate need of some advice and tips. I have to say out of all that I've seen so far (and I've looked at quite a few) yours is exceptional, your tutorial does what many do not, it explains good practices when using water color in general where most will say "This is how I use watercolors to paint this type of picture" I really benefited from this because you didn't assume that I already knew what I was talking about, you including important things like the planning. Great tutorial!
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Don't mind my horrible gramar its 3:44 am, I hope you know what I meant by most of that. i reread and it doesn't make much sense, haha.
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a very helpful tutorial especially for someone like me who struggles to learn watercolors. Very interesting technique and very interesting art idea.
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Growing up learning oil paints, I became obsessive about making sure the whole canvas was covered with paint. I'm having that problem with my watercolors now, I always want to make sure every inch is colored and I never let the paper show through. I need to ease up on HOW much paint I use
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Yes, I can definitely see that happening. When using watercolours (my style) it is a balance between using vibrant colours but not too much paint. If too much paint is used you risk making the picture look sloppily done - because each stroke shows so much when using darker shades of watercolours. If you want everything to be covered in paint then you can do that but begin with paler colours. Use alot of water and start with a very light tone as in my tutorial.
Make sure that you plan ahead what exactly you want to stand out from the picture. I find it helpful to choose one or two colour ranges that will stick out and focus on those (and making other colours blend with them) instead of trying to make all colours equally bright/vibrant. In the tutorial painting I chose blue and black as you can see.
Umm... I hope I helped!
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Thank you for your help! I really appreciate it and am going to try to implement it in my next painting!
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Holy crap! This tutorial is completely fantastic!! 
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Thank you! I'm glad you find it useful
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this is great!!!
how do u keep ur paper from wrinkling though? do u stretch it before the sketching?
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Thank you!
(I answered a similar question below, so I stole some lines from myself here.)
No stretching was done by me, I always use prestretched watercolor paper in drawing blocks and sketch directly upon them. I always paint quite small and that also helps. (I think it works like this
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o well, that makes sense
thank u~!!!
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No problem, I'm just happy you found my tutorial useful
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Woah ^^ This tutorial looks pretty useful to me, since i've just begun using water colours and i still think some of my colours are too strong when they should be quite pale T_T So thanks for sharing tips with us
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This is a really good tutorial. I really like how much explination you put into what you decide to do... But I was also wondering why the peice its self doens't seem to be in your gallery, despite being aboslutely wonderful...
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Oh, that is simply laziness/forgetfulness. I didn't want to add it before I had finished the tutorial, and then I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. Adding it to the gallery now!
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This is a wonderful tutorial, I'm totally faving it for future reference.
(Isn't toilet-paper such an amazing artistic tool?) XD
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Nice. 
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First off, what kind of paper do you paint on? I always use prestretched watercolor paper in drawing blocks. Keeps it from denting. Of course I always paint quite small and that also helps, but the example in the tutorial was made on A4 and it dented a little. I usually scan it while it's still in the block. Or, if I scan it after I've cut it loose, then I put a heavy book (same size as the painting) on top of it in the scanner so it will be flattened and keep from sliding when I pull the cover down. That's what I did with this one. It also matter what weight the paper is I think. Heavier paper can suck up more water without denting. I usually use paper with the weight of 300 gsm (grams per square metre).
Hope I helped!
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Thanks. I don't think I've ever used paper that thick.. gotta buy some and test.
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Just wonderful Mirre, thanks for sharing - I always thought you did incredible watercolor work so I think it's great you made a tutorial!
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Thanks Brianne, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Thats fucking awesome
You basically do as much of the same things with water color as me minus the whole leaving the pencil marks on for a lighter effect :3 Nice tips!
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Thanks 
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oh yay! a mirre tutorial!
I'm gonna save this baby for some fun later *rubs hands together* >:}
your watercolor is amazing, this is sure to help me!
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Hee~! I hope you'll enjoy it. This is the first tutorial that I have made btw, so I hope I did well!
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