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Experiment!by *nicholaskole

Traditional Art / Drawings / Other

Sometimes you just need to sketch and make messy nothings and then throw some watercolor on them.
I'm trying to find my voice, continuing my art-style-puberty.
Something about this felt right.

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~shardas1 May 11, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I have a question, since I'm a newbie at watercolor: how do you make the shading seem realistic? Like making it dark where you want it to?

*nicholaskole May 14, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

ha! ooof- that is a question I cannot answer! It takes practice and observation, but I can offer a few tips: don't spend too long trying to get it "just right". In my experience, watercolor works best when you move quickly with it.
The other thing, and this is tricky, but try to focus on painting the light, instead of painting the object. Don't look at the contours and shapes of the subject of your painting as much as how the shadows and pools of light play off the surface.
Last thing: Save your whites...work from light to dark, and don't cover up the areas you know you'll want to keep brightest at the end!

~shardas1 May 14, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Oh. OK. BC I was using a tutorial on YouTube by Bob Ross and he said to work from dark to light. "You need to paint the dark to show the light." Does it really matter, or is it just a preference?

*nicholaskole May 15, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

I doubt he was working in watercolor- haha. Dark to light works fine for acrylics and oils- in fact, that's the best way to use them...but watercolor is a fundamentally different paint!