I love your art! What is your process and materials you use???
Aww, thank you! >w< Here is my materials list. I plan on laying everything out and taking pictures one day. The list is up-to-date :) As for process, the closest thing I have is this video, in which I am coloring part of the jacket on this Hiro Hamada drawing I did. I have full video, but I don’t do these often because it’s distracting to hold my phone in place while I try to concentrate on my task, and my broken thought process is very noticeable lol. Anyway! That there is of course colored pencil, but I use various mediums and both sketching and mechanical pencils for the sketches. I favor the mechanical. I purchase my materials from Michael’s, JoAnn’s and Jerry’s Art-a-Rama (sketchbook) My watercolors are from Blick.Examples: All watercolor | Watercolor w/ some colored pencil shading | Colored pencil | Copic markers (lined with Gelly Roll pen) | Copic marker with watercolors | Ink/Brush Pen and Copic marker The white lines and dots you see on eyes, noses, chins, clothes, ect is white Gelly Roll pen (get mine on eBay) Any white ink pen will work really.This is pretty long so I’ll put my explanation under a cut
-First I start out with the typical circle or oval with cross-hairs, then I form the head and hair. From there I tend to jump around. But I’ll always do the neck, eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, ears next but maybe not in that order. From there I sketch the body and I just eyeball it the rest of the way. I actually clean as I go because I don’t like sketchy, messy lines as I draw.
-Once I have my sketch done I add color. I’ll explain how I do my watercolor+colored pencil paintings.
-First I’ll dip my brush in my water cup and put a “wash” over the area I wish to fill with color. I do this on large surface areas mostly. Sometimes I will just dip my brush, ready a pan of color and then put it right on the dry paper. With watercolor it’s all about pulling the color around. For example: When I color a hand. I’ll wet my brush with water, ready the peach pan by swishing my brush around, dipping it in the water and back to the pan as many times as I need until I feel there’s enough water to grab the color. I’ll then dab my brush on a paper towel, getting rid of any excess color and water, and then apply it to the dry paper. I’ll start at the wrist ( where I want it to be darkest) and pull the color up to the knuckles where it fades out ( to show lighting). After that I get more water and paint on my brush, dab excess and paint the fingers. And because skin tone is never just one color, I let that base layer dry, then apply the same process with a layer of orange, let that dry and then do it again with a layer of pink. I always start with skin first because it’s the lightest color and takes the longest lol. Then I do hair, clothes, ect. Pretty much I layer up a lot. Base layer(lightest), secondary layer, final layer (most saturated). Once I have all my layers of watercolor on, I line everything with colored pencil and do a little shading with colored pencil. Something to keep in mind: the less water on your brush the heavier the paint is. The more water on your brush the lighter and more “soupy” the the paint will be. I usually use a medium amount or there about.Here is a WIP of an unlined watercolor with the base and partial secondary layers of skin tone. To get all that “shine” in hair, faces, ect. I just don’t fill the whole area with color. I eyeball where I want it to be and just cut my brush strokes short ( mostly for hair) Skin tone, I let the color “fade out”. Always think about where your light source is. If the character has a long sleeve on, you’ll want the color to be darkest at their wrist. I also use those Gelly Roll pens and sometimes white colored pencil. The Hiro video is a good example of this coloring technique. I do it not only with watercolors, but colored pencil too! My coloring technique doesn’t really change much between mediums.-After all that is done, I may add some glitter, beads or jewels, scrapbooking stickers, to add some character and interest. These things can be found at craft stores. Aaand pretty much it takes me around 8 hours over 2 days to sketch and color and completely finish a piece. Sometimes a little longer. All this probably sounds confusing without visuals xD I really do want to record a video of me painting, but I don’t have a tri-pod or even a webcam. I also am one of those artists that leans ( more like hunches-haha this is great for my back. Not lol ) over their work table, so I’d probably be blocking 95% of the time if I recorded in full. Some day one day! I hope this could be informative. If there is anything specific you are wondering about, please feel free to ask! :D
