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Paris my beloved.

Fineliner + watercolour, including a beautiful phthalo turquoise that I picked up at the Sennelier shop in Paris itself. This is painted on 100% cotton rag paper, sometimes I don't love the texture but it really shines for some of these urban drawings. Don't ever try and erase pencil on it though, the surface will disintegrate T_T

#my art #watercolour #urban sketching #usk #urban watercolour #one line art #ink and watercolor #winsor and newton #sennelier #Paris #eiffel tower #France #clair obscur: expedition 33 #why is the tower straight??

Little sketch of Bethy in S4 E12 "Still"

A new Blackwing 'soft', very soft. Lots of smudges.

I'm too lazy to search for decent references online but I have a TV and a pause button which works just about as well

#my art #sketchbook #blackwing #pencil sketch #the walking dead #beth greene #twd season 4 #portraits #portrait study #eye study

awakeagainstmywill

❌ Just draw something, don't overthink it

✅ Noodle around with the simplest of concepts for fucking ever

factual-fantasy

danidarkarts

@factual-fantasy

fynori

i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.

danidarkarts

Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!

Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!

Gotta work on my bounce light 💪

labrador-entity

My good friends this is called using a

Gamut Mask

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James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!

I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.

technecat-scratchings

Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.

While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.

An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!

Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl

Paris, je t'aime. A tres bientot!

Drawn on the Eurostar on the way home

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ineffablemossy

I got some new brushes

#my art #death stranding #procreate #one line art #watercolour #my blog

A loose Igor because I love him. Dragging his colleague's arse out of that truck with no regard for personal safety. A good death denied him. He's so brave and so tragic I want him to chew on.

CDT 4 EVA 🖤