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Sometimes you just need to sketch and make messy nothings and then throw some watercolor on them.I'm trying to find my voice, continuing my art-style-puberty.
Something about this felt right.
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so awesome!! what do you useΒ toΒ transfer your art onto your computer? Camera or scanner?
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I use a small scanner!Β
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that's so beautiful :') looking at it makes me feel so good
Please i'm practicing on my watercolor techniques on my own
Β and Β i would like to know what brand you used here since it's seems beautiful if you don't mind ^^"Β
thank youΒ
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I have a question, since I'm a newbie at watercolor: how do you make the shading seem realistic? Like making it dark where you want it to?
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ha! ooof- that is a question I cannot answer! It takes practice and observation, but I can offer a few tips: don't spend too long trying to get it "just right". In my experience, watercolor works best when you move quickly with it.
The other thing, and this is tricky, but try to focus on painting the light, instead of painting the object. Don't look at the contours and shapes of the subject of your painting as much as how the shadows and pools of light play off the surface.
Last thing: Save your whites...work from light to dark, and don't cover up the areas you know you'll want to keep brightest at the end!
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Oh. OK. BC I was using a tutorial on YouTube by Bob Ross and he said to work from dark to light. "You need to paint the dark to show the light." Does it really matter, or is it just a preference?
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I doubt he was working in watercolor- haha. Dark to light works fine for acrylics and oils- in fact, that's the best way to use them...but watercolor is a fundamentally different paint!
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What level of lead pencil did you use to make the lines under your really really nice colouring?
I would imagine it would be around a 2H or HB since the lines are so light in colour
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haha- for these? I actually use a blue ballpoint pen
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Blue ballpoint pen?
How do you stop the ink from blending in with watercolours?
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Biros/ballpoint pens use dry ink, not wet ink. This means they're waterproof c:
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Yup. I tested it with my school pens
Handy eh?
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haha- I'm not sure why, but it just doesn't seem to!
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it looks cool anyway, feels simple and free in the gesture, even if it's maybe not !
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Thanks! 
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Yes. This looks very nice. I like the overall softness of the colours and the movement of the messy lines.
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c: uh-huh, I know that feeling. It can be tricky to find a nice middleground between loose lively sketches and finished pieces - If its's too rendered it can look stiff but if it's too sketchy it can look sloppy. (But it also depends on what kind of drawing it is and what it's going to be used for, I guess) I personally really like these looser drawings you've been experimenting with.
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hi nick, this is cedar, just made an account
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Yussss! Welcome to the internet, friend!
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This very much reminds me of Heather Larkin's art [link] - This is a good thing! I like
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Dude- I love Heather Larkin's work, so I'm happy to get the comparison!
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I think this is a really great direction. Messy isn't necessarily bad. There's a great webcomic series called Bayou from Zuda Comics and the artist leaves in all the construction work on the finished page. The effect is quite interesting.
I'd suggest you to check it out.
[link]
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Thanks a lot- I appreciate the thoughts. I remember seeing Bayou a long time ago- I've always liked work that shows a little more of the 'hand' in it
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This looks terrific, I really like the colours and light.
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His eyebrows are fantastic. Also, he looks like a jet.
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haha- hey, when you're a jet you're a jet all the way
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I really like his eyebrows. I like thick eyebrows for some reason, maybe because I myself have very thick eyebrows.
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hehe- awesome. Thick eyebrows are a major obsession of mine. I have quite thick ones myself as well!
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I like the bomber jacket. Puts him in a particular time period maybe, giving him some slight depth as a character.
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Thanks! Yeah- he's just a doodle, but I was thinking about kind of classic high-school stories
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The watercolor adds so much life to this
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thanks- I'm glad you think so! I think I will keep experimenting with this direction
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wow I really love everything about this pic <3 I think the gesture, the loose sketch/strokes and simplicity adds so much life and natural feeling to this,
while at the same time, the medium and the wonderful color choices adds a really nice and relaxing feeling!
really amazing job! pretty inspiring too really, I need to start making more traditional stuff.
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