Ironically, fire and water(colours) do go well together.Use watercolour brushes in Frescoto add hue to your fire drawing in a dynamic way. “Go ahead and colour a little bit outside the lines,” says Elliott. “It adds movement.” Above all, remember to follow your instinct when drawing...
Step 4:When adding watercolour, I like to build up the colour gradually, so I start with a light yellow wash. Then, I use a darker tone of yellow on the lines I have drawn on the petals. I keep building that up, going particularly dark around the centre of the flower to give the ...
This video series, created with the California Native Plant Society will teach you some basic techniques to help you quickly and accurately draw plants, either for field sketching or careful botanical illustrations. These videos make use of paper models which you can cut out and manipulate to teac...
I print my pencils and ink them on a light box I made in resistant materials when I was 14 (the pens I use are zig mangaka flexibles which are my favourite). Then I watercolour straight on top. When I colour a comic digitally I can really struggle with how to do it and rethink it...
If your media doesn’t get premixed on a palette – think alcohol markers, colored pencils, pastels – then mix ON the paper. Either apply and blend like shown with pastels, or layer them atop each other in glazes. Note: you can use this for watercolor too – if the color isn’t oli...
Here’s the whole set up in use, taken when I was doing a little painting in my garden last summer. If I have a nice surface like this table to paint on I tend not to put my brushes e.t.c away in my pochade box, as you can see. I didn’t need to use my camera tripod ...
I like doing watercolour paintings, but I am not good at drawing. I struggle to trace the useful lines from a photo. This app is perfect – I can make the outlines as detailed as I want then print off the outline. I was wasting loads of ink printing off photos when all I wanted ...
I was intrigued….I wanted to make these coloured drawings.I got myself some pastel kit and also began attending life drawing classes. I’ve been smitten with both pastels and figure drawing ever since. Felicity House, “Model with Cats,” 2017, conté pencils on Art Spectrum paper 6 x ...
Colored pencils can be oil-based or water-based, so knowing how you'd like the flow of color and texture prior to investing in colored pencils may save you time and money. Also, there are tool aides you can use with colored pencils that can blend, erase and more depending on your ...