^^Septic Ores^^

This is the most fun I’ve ever had ᗒ•ᗕ -20 yr Greek/Dutch artist- DNP & JSE || let’s be friends:]

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Dr. Schneeplestein fanart in 2026?? yessir :P

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I don’t know if anyone here likes re:zero but I drew subaru and emilia ❄️

The emilia couch coloring was pretty ambitious for me, working with watercolor with bold colors like this isn’t something I’ve done before but I’m happy with how it turned out !

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Watercolor drawings I’ve forgotten to post!

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Hello, I was wondering how you shade with your watercolors? It looks so smooth and pretty and I just love how you paint with them <3 I have so many watercolors questions and you just seem like a really good artist to ask ^-^

Hiya! Thanks for the question and the compliments :)

The first step to having smooth watercolors is the materials you use. I use the art creation sketchbooks, they’re very affordable and the paper stays flat! For watercolors I use the van gogh watercolors, they’re a bit on the expensive side but if you can get a set then it should be worth your money.

Second step is how your brushes and how much you wet the paper. I suggest looking up a video about this topic, try Casey golden or Kristin Van Leuven on youtube!

Lastly I’d like to tell you that the way I work with watercolors probably isn’t the professional way to do things but I still will tell you since you asked !

After I have my lineart (with a smudgeproof fineliner) I fill in big spaces with very watered down paint and I always keep a paper towel nearby to blot the paper if it gets too wet. With watercolor it’s important to work with the whites of the paper, because watercolor white doesn’t exist, if a watercolor pallete has white, that’s gouache, which is opague and it will cover up your other colors and lineart.

For creating shadows I will often use the same color but add some blue or orange, it depends on the setting I’m trying to achieve in the drawing. I take a step back and see where shadows are required and then use a very thin, fine brush (unless it’s a big shadow) to lay the darker color down. I then will blot the paper again and repeat step above until I’m satisfied with how dark it has become. Furthermore if you want to have a shadow that’s gradual (like a gradient) you lay your base color down but have it be more wet than normal, and then lay down the shadow color on the part you want dark, then blend them in the middle with your brush (sometimes they do it themselves because of the wetness of the paper, again, watch the Kristin Van Leuven videos on it!)

That’s all I can tell you at the moment! Just remember to use the whites of the paper and use color theory to create your shadow colors correctly! Look at references, it helps a lot.

Here’s a piece where I used all these techniques for reference :)

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Full Metal alchemist doodles w/ watercolor 🦾

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Ardi⚡️

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learned about line weight today, little gravity falls / unravel inspired doodle🌲🦌

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Doodling forest scenes has to be my fav past time

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"I asked ChatGPT--" Okay well I asked this gossip stone and it told me that the treasure you can earn in the Gerudo Training Ground is not as great as you would expect given the difficulty

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🦌 back from the dead :3 here’s a deer page 🦌

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mwaaaaah

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Zora's Domain! 💙 It's one of my favorite places in BOTW! I'm very happy with this artwork :p

For some reason, the image is a little blurry, so click on the image for better quality!

It's so blueee💙

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not particularly proud of this one but to celebrate the release of fatal frame 2 remake I drew mio and mayu!🦋

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Monado in watercolor from XenoBlade Chronicles

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sorry I’ve been gone for so long, I had some art block but I’m back! Drew Yuri from fatal frame 5

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Dating Pro Tip! : Take them to a place they’ll hate 🥰

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I have insane art block at the moment, it’s not that I don’t know what to draw more so that everything I draw is really below my expectations