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Small Lady and Helios dressed as Belle and the Prince.Helios was a winged unicorn before and then he changed into a human
Sailormoon (c) Takeuchi Naoko
Beauty and the Beast (c) Disney
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this is really pretty, I love the colours, is it with water colours?
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Yes, I'm colouring everything with watercolours nowadays
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well you colour well with them! I tried once with paint... lets just say its now rotting away in a dump... I never mention it to anyone D:
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Hm, pity for the paint if it's never used and rotting away! Maybe you can try to sell it? Then you could use the money to buy art supplies you would use.
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yeah thats true, but Id like to give it another go, I guess after one failure its not fair to just give up!
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Good luck then
Is it watercolour paint or acrylic paint?
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I have both, I used acrylic that time though I think water colour has a nice touch to it 
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I prefer watercolours - I use the watercolour "blocks" (not the tubes with paint in them, though I do have one of those) because when I use tubes, I always squeeze out too much paint! (which resulted in painting almost everything pink in this picture , when I used the pink tube watercolour paint).
I use quite a lot of water (well, they're watercolours), so I can do a reaaaaaally long time with my watercolour blocks (a few years). If you use less water, you get darker colours and the paint is used up a lot faster, but if you like to do that it's nicer to use acrylics, I think.
The colouring order for watercolours is from light-to-dark (if you put lighter paint onto darker paint it's more difficult to see). With acrylics you can also work from dark-to-light, as it's not see-through paint. I think this is one of the more important things to remember when colouring with different kinds of paint
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ahh okay! I see what you mean, thanks for the info on water colours, I would have tried dark to light so thats very much needed information!
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When using coloured pencils, I think it's also useful to work from light-to-dark. Or maybe I just do that because I got used to it by using watercolours XD
Anyway, if you've coloured something with paint, show me? I'm curious :3
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yeah its the same with colouring too
I think Im going to watch you then!!
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Thanks
I thought of another thing to watch when using watercolours: make sure the paper is thick enough, otherwise it will start to "wave" when you make it wet. If you work very dry, you can of course use thin paper, but then you'll kind of lose the watercolour-effects.
Personally I prefer paper of 180 gr/m2 or heavier (the weight is on the sketch book cover).
You can work wet-in-wet, so you get 'blurry' effects (nice for backgrounds, for example) . Or you can let each layer of paint dry before you paint another layer on top of it - then you get a distinct difference between the colours.
If you are painting an area next to an already-painted area and you don't want the colours to blend, be sure the first area is dry before you paint the area next to it (for example when you've coloured the hair and then you want to colour the skin of a person - if you don't wait long enough or aren't careful, the hair colour blends into the skin colour and most of the time you don't want that).
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thanks for the info! yeah I experienced my paper beginning to wave when I was painting, that made it terrible
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Before I started I thought pink hair wouldn't go well with a yellow dress... but pink fits with every colour XD At least in this image!
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Well, these last two were just quick images I had to finish for contests at a forum XD
Didn't have time to do a normal background for this one (but I like the pink and purple!).
Plus the scanner kinda broke so there is now a new scanner connected to my computer - I changed the Medusa drawing to the new file, as that was the one I thought was most different from the original version. So take a look at it?
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Why is it so hard to get watercolours scanned correctly ( >.> ) ?
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I am happy with this new scanner
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I really like the thick lines you used for the outline ^^
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