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How to use Watercolor

Journal Entry: Sun Dec 9, 2012, 3:52 AM
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Watercolor tutorial

1: preparations
Water, brushes of multiple sizes, watercolors, tissue, cardboard for
mixing some colors. I use the Russian brand 'White Nights' watercolors.
White ink if you like, but you don't have to.

2: getting started
For a coloration I take either a pencil drawing or an inked one (with
waterproof ink!)
The size of your illustration is up to your own feeling, I usually draw
on small sheets like A4 or A5.
The illustration I am coloring in this video is A5 size.

3: apply base
Usually I start with the basic skin tone.
First of all, I mix the colors and apply a thin layer of the basic skin
tone on the paper.
I use a lot of water, please take care that it won't get too dark yet.
Then, wait a little until the foundation dries.
Now I set the shadows. Take care of the light source!
I mix the base tone with a little darker color and less water and apply
it on the paper.
Later, I emphasize the lips with a mix of skin color and pink.

4: hair
Please wait until the paper dried before starting to paint the hair.
For this illustration, I decided to draw dark hair.
As for dark hair, I take brown/blackish tones and then I mix a
complementary color (a blueish shade) seperately.
Then I apply both colors via wet-technique, it means that I don't wait
until the water dried but just go on painting.

After it half-dried, I apply some shadow colors to the hair to give more
depth.

5: eyes & clothes
As for the clothes I usually begin with the brightest part. Then I apply
darker shadows fitting to the folds.

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Thank you very much for watching my video. Please notice, that I just
described the way I do watercolor illustration, you can do it in
whatever way you are comfortable with! It is a very interesting media to
paint with. Please enjoy!

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~IVadrenaline Feb 22, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Hey, Kai, I've taken note of this tutorial, and it's really helped me. :heart: since you said it's okay to link our progress, here's mine [link] I hope you look at it, and hope you like. ;)
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:iconkrylucifer:
I really want to see this video but it says it's private. Does anyone else have that problem? :(
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:icondreamylove:
I do! I do! Have no idea what's going on!
I already notified him but he hasn't answered yet =/
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:iconyoite7:
I have to thank you for this video! I learned a lot and I have improved a little compared to before.
After watching your video, I put into practice what you have said and I am able to do better than I did before. Although surely I'll never be as good as you, thank you very much :heart:
this is the link of my latest work [link]

I'm sorry for my bad English ^^
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:iconcrystalbluedragon:
I wish I was better at using the water colors that you use, I use them in the pencil form and wet my brush, pick up paint off the tip of the pencil and then apply the paint.

Here's the link to one of my works that I have done recently. [link]
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~TheAfroMafia Dec 29, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
<3
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Mood: Joy ~Bahar1 Dec 26, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Nice tutorial, will try it!
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~Dream-Catcher-88 Dec 25, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
i love how use color!!thank you :D
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~Shynessarrrow-Ujo Dec 24, 2012  Student Digital Artist
WWWOOOOWW
This is so usefull
Thanks Kai Sama XDDD
(PS:U look handsome X3)
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Mood: Affection ~Horizont8 Dec 23, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
thanks so much for this it helped alot
here the link of how i did it
[link]
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