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As promisedHere is my very first watercolour tutorial that you've requested me.
and something I would like to say before you start
Make sure you have some tissue papers while you're working, This will helped you control the water flow, cleaning your brushes,etc.
and don't use only one water container, let's find 2-3 of them
one is for washing your brushes and one for mixed with paints.
If you use only 1 water container, the water will become muddy and give you some horrible dirty effects, ruin your precious work for all time.
And use the best quality brush you can afford.
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Here's the link to my 2nd watercolor tutorial.
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It is alright to use other color pencil too, but I think I picked blue because it is pretty and light.
and I do erased pencil lines, if I make mistake then I will use eraser to rub it off then redraw.
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ah cool. But when you go about painting, do you get rid of the pencil lines s what i meant, or do you just go over with ink? ^^
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I didnt erase clean pencil lines, I just painted over them.
and I mostly used ink for final touch up, I rarely used it on outlining process.
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what is a lead pencil ? is it some special pencil ? or just normal one ?
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according to my tutorial, it is blue lead of mechanical pencil
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Do you stretch your paper before you paint on it?
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how can I make a light skin tone with raw sienna any ideas???
My colour palette is: Cobalt blue, Alizarin crimson hue, Light red, Burnt umber, raw sienna and ultramarine.
I really hope you can help me with my watercolours as you do such a terrific job on your art with water colour paints ^^
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I may try mixing light red with raw sienna, and dilute them alot with water to make light skin tone, [or just use heavily diluted light red]
if you want pinkish skin try mixing with alizarin crimson
Dont you have any yellow? mixing light red with yellow might be better than mixing with raw sienna.
what brand do you use? cotman?
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Yes I have a lemon yellow and yes I do use Cotman by Windsor and Newton and with the yellow should lemon yellow be alright to use with the light red?? and thank you for your reply it is really much appreciated.
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You can try mixing them yourself and see if you like the result or not,
btw my favorite colors for skin [from cotman] are cadmium orange hue, and lemon yellow mixed with permanent rose
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I think I need to start making my Christmas wish list LOL, anyways with the skin tone I used lemon yellow and light red and kept diluting it with water, and another thing I discovered that also worked is the raw sienna and light red and I kept diluting it and for a tan skin tone is the light red and lemon yellow and dilute and also figured out how to make my own orange with the lemon yellow and crimson red it turned out pretty good but I had to keep diluting the paints. I did start learning to do pen and wash in 2012 but I didn't understand much 2013 came and Queensland was struck by a devastating flood my house had 19inches through it, I was unable to find my watercolour paints that had been removed the house before the water went through it.
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it's inspiring. now we want to draw something too
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woowww.. thank you very much for this amazing tutorial. I will try it soon
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such a nice tutorialll... how about posting this tutorial in karoten.net so you can inspirate more artist with this amazing tutorial? you could help more artist there
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It's fine, You can post any of my tuts there.
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Could u do a tutorial on how u do digital art on sai please? Ur art is so pretty
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I'm new to watercolouring, and this will help a lot. Thank you!
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Q_Q waaaah u're incredible T_T let's get merry e-e ahahahah
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gosh....awesome, thanks for this awesome tutorial
i have been ditching watercolour
i guess thisll help me
yeah
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I have a question, should I use watercolor pencils or should I get the ones in tubes?
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I don't recommend using watercolor pencil as main medium unless it's for colored pencil picture.
[even the best one like Caran d'ache supracolor still sucks compared to student watercolor for its smoothness, when applying a wash ].
Student/artists' tube watercolor and pan/halfpan watercolor are much better.
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Thanks for the amazing water colour tutorial. I recently got a pack of winsor and cotman watercolours for my birthday and a another pack of them for free! Also I don't think your English sucks, it's pretty good in my opinion
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This is amazing, I still won't be as good as you though haha.
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Very nice art! Im having trouble finding the watercolor, but ateacher told me to buy them online and he had the same ones as you, could you tell me the name of the brand?
Sorry if my english is awkard, i self-learned
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Watercolor tube showed in this tutorial is Winsor&Newton Cotman watercolor
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sugoi ! =w= I hope I can do something like it someday ~!
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Would you be able to teach us a bit on how you draw bodies? I absolutely love the way you draw people and I though that maybe I could learn something from it 
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Uhh... Sorry to bother, but by ''pure water'', do you mean simply water? Sorry, my english is bad too >_<
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Yes I do
make sure it's clean and not muddy.
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Ah, I see! Thank you! Lovely artwork!
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