#watercolour tips

[gbirrd]

Hey, everyone! Have this translated Studio Ghibli guide to watercolours that a classmate sent me.

[boobilby]

Some Etho and Bdubs watercolour for the world of tumblr

[korppipoika]

Kielo

Watercolor, ink, gouache

Do not copy, repost or use in any other way without permission, thank you

[gh99st]

Has anyone got any watercolour tips?..

And yes I know it's not perfect but I drew what was there

[pityroadart]

Hi Nic!! What's the thing you most look forward to doing when you're drawing/painting? I've never touched a paintbrush in my life, sorry if that's a super broad question. But say, your eye watercolours- is it trying to reproduce the tones with a limited (at least to a digital artist) palette? The initial drawing stage? Painting in the wispy lashes and brows? It all seems like magic to me!!! 😍

Hello I apologise for the late reply! Race week was busy, and I wanted to give your lovely message the care it deserves (& also I just love talking about watercolours)

That's a hard question! I really enjoy the process as a whole (except when I am complaining about it, which is an important part of the process), especially my eye paintings because they're so intuitive to me by now.

But, a few parts I really enjoy are:

1. Choosing the palette — both the actual paint palette I'll be using (I have so many), and the palette of usually 2-6 actual paint colours I'll be mixing my colours from. I'm a bit of a pigment nerd, so figuring out which paints are gonna have the perfect properties (granulation, staining etc) and mix the colours I want very enjoyable

2. The first wet wash, normally working wet-in-wet (applying diluted paint to already wet paper), where the goal is to simply place your colours in the approximate areas they should be, and let the watercolour work its magic.

Here's a couple WIP shots of my Yuki eye, in both that initial stage and the one I'm about to describe below:

3. Getting the darkest darks in, and all of a sudden, just like magic, it becomes an eye! This is normally the third layer out of an approximate 4, and whilst I try to save the individual brow hairs and lashes until that final stage, I'll often mostly block them in here. An artist I follow on youtube, Arleebean, says often that if you feel your painting is going through the Ugly Stage, you've probably lost your values and need to get the (relatively) darkest darks in to bring it back to balance. It's a rule I live by, and that's what this stage is to me. I also get any freckles/spots/splatters in at this point, which is very fun to do too!

I hosted a watercolour workshop on eye paintings back in 2022 (and have another planned for this year), and here's a step-by-step I made of the first four stages (sketch, wet wash, mid tones, darks) in preparation for that. The final step after that would be, as you mentioned, any fine eyebrow hairs and eyelashes, which I think you can tell it's missing here

4. And possibly the stage I get most excited about, from about the middle of the painting onwards if it seems to be going my way, is posting it in the group chat or on here and watching my fandom friends and mutuals yell about it :)) Big fan of that, even if I am usually terrible at replying to nice comments :')

Here's a selection of older eyes I painted again as workshop examples, all using a limited palette of four colours (quin gold hue, pyrrol red, ultramarine, burnt umber)

+ a selection of more recent eyes:

Thank you so much for the lovely message! I adore your art (& seriously, if you're ever in the mood for an art collab or something, you know where to find me), so I'm glad you enjoy mine too ☀

[linktoo-doodles]

seen a square brush so beautiful you start crying

i got you man [x]

[tearmizu]

A small advice from one artist to another 🎨✨

[pictures-and-things-321]

I have been making some posable insect themed dragon wings. I am planning to make some articulated paper dragon dolls/puppets for stop motion animation purposes. And also because I love derpy little dragons.

The orange and white one is based off a male orange tip butterfly and the other two are based off different species of lantern bugs.

They are made with watercolour paper, watercolour paint, ink and split pins

[goneatlas]

entirely too charmed by dundy's little imaginary hat tip gesture when he's not wearing a hat that he does when crozier enters the great cabin after sir john's death

wait a diddly dang minute the imaginary hat tip is also in the same episode as him eavesdropping and then hauling ass immediately so he won't be caught. he's so funny

[cutedreamerangel]

[fujobritta]

also a significantly less cool 4×04 watercolour diana to follow up the bridget i posted earlier

[st4rsinthenight]

★ ( I'm not sure what to put here, side profile practice I guess. (ft Donnie !! )★

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[simp-for-long-hair]

please click for better quality

magnolias 🌸✨️

[windwenn]

hiiii so sorry if this has been asked before but i was wondering what brushes you use for your art? i love the texture :3

your art is so so lovely i loooove the linework and the shapes!!!

Honestly if this had been asked before it wouldnt matter bc im addicted to using every brush i can get my hands on atm lol

Currently for lineart i use a modified version of the procreate pencil, pandani, inka, and blotchy brushes, which are all default brushes on procreate (though you'll see me using procreate pencil the most bc i spent hours modifying it lol). For extra crunchiness though i ALWAYS always use the spraypaint brushes instead of airbrushing, and the blackburn brush is great for painting with once you get the hang of it.

[aquarellchill]

Me painting blackberry

What to do when it's sunny but it's cold outside?

Paint!