Did a half arsed test on Moleskine art book paper to see how Derwent pastel pencils would do, and how activating them with water might warp the paper. It did make the colors more vibrant.
What I did was use a damp brush and used directional strokes over a small area. I started with the lightest parts and worked darker, wiping my brush in between, and doing the odd color out (green) last. If you used Inktense you know what it's like to work with quick drying stuff.
There can be some color travel from heavily pigmented areas and I assume a super wet spot would produce a pool. So do all the blending and so on with the dry pencils themselves. I also use a blending tool instead of a finger.
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68/100 a broken gesture (it feels like rain)
materials: a green Derwent Inktense pencil and two (yellow + pink) acrylic paints. the sketchbook page was prepped with soft pastel.
it’s 3materialsdrawingchallenge hosted by @/naomitippingillustrator, @/charlotte.durance and @/kathryn_boyt. the point of this challenge is to draw every day for a 100 days from life using just 3 materials and for no more than 30 minutes.
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«Will Turner»
A1, paper, pastel pencils.
https://youtube.com/shorts/j6ZAXSdqYI0?feature=share
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This cozy elder rescue is Rick - a wonderful reminder that adopting the older, wiser kitties is full of rewarding experiences!
If you happen to be looking for a new furry family member this holiday season, don't skip over the older ones. They have SO much to give 💕
Rick's portrait was created with Panpastels, Derwent Pastel pencils, and general's charcoal on Strathmore 500 series charcoal paper.
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Fluffbruary
February 18: recovery | flight | film
Caran d’Ache Neocolor Pastels & Derwent pencil (Chinese white) on black paper
Been thinking about my first attempt of working on black paper a lot, and how I approached it all wrong, and the ways in which to fix that. This was an exercise in patience, but I’m so much happier with this second try!
Black paper is now just straight up code for angst. Sorry about that.
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Hit the Fluffbruary tag to see the other days in the challenge and check out @fluffbruary for MORE FLUFF
This is my RedBubble Shop, for anyone interested.
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hi, i love your work! may i ask what materials you use in your illustrations?
For my colour penciled work, I use derwent coloursoft pencils and faber castel polychromos pencils, on catridge or fabriano paper. For my crayon and oil pastel pieces, I use caran d'ache crayons and sennelier oil pastels as they have a very nice saturated colour, although I tend to buy them individually from my local art shop as they are so expensive lol.
Thank you for your question, and I'm glad you like my work!
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Whole face-ups process. Took me a couple of days finishing the boys as the weather conditions were bad. I like to check my work using natural light and these days are cloudy and rainy.
My favourite parts of the process are designing the eyebrows and gluing the eyelashes (most tricky parts).
I am waiting for their wigs to arrive. At the moment, they will be wearing beanie hats.
Materials used:
Mr Hobby Thinner
Munitorum Varnish
Rembrandt pastels
Derwent Color pencils
Liquitex Acrylic gouache
Windsor and Newton gouache
Tamiya X-22 gloss
Sculpts:
Felix: Volks YoSD Chika
Sylvain: Volks YoSD Kun
They both have glass 14mm eyes.
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Could we have a brief tutorial on how you manage your simple pencil-like style, if you don't mind? I have no intentions of copying your work, but I would love tips on making quick but still neat and cute drawings.
// Sure thing! I'm not out here keeping any secrets lmao. The brush I use is the real pencil on CSP, but the derwent pencil on procreate is similar. also I use an iPad and apple pencil, i found they made it a bit quicker but obviously an investment that isn't necessary. Though if you have one, one way to speed up is that if you tap the side of the pencil twice it switches to the eraser.
here are the general settings i use. when I sketch, the brush size is 50, and when i line the brush size is 30 - also I put the stabilisation up to 100% for lines. obvi use multitude of different brush sizes for colouring.
I sketch with any random mid tone and start like this, then fill out the torso
Sketching is always fairly messy. Point is to not give a shit about what it looks like, just get the vibe down.
After torso I throw on the limbs. Usually i sketch out where the ribcage is too if I'm putting detail on the chest. Then I throw on details like the face and clothes
I'll then put down the transparency of the sketch layer and on a new layer throw on the line art. brush size 30, and 100% stabilisation. I have just realised the hands are two different sizes. this happens often because of how quick i try throw together things like this.
As for colouring, blushies go here, and usually i over colour with a large brush and erase around it. For bigger pieces I do a thicker line around the outside of the figure, select the space around it, invert selection, grow selection by 10px, fill in with white, and then use a clipping mask or transparency lock, then you don't have to erase around it. I stick to as few colours as possible and i rarely colour skin unless the character has dark skin cus if I don't it looks strange i've found lol. I use pastels as well, like if i'm colouring in black I colour it grey instead.
AND WE'RE DONE!
Drawings for this blog depending on complexity usually take me anywhere from 20mins to an hour. I'm not fussed about perfection cus I just wanna get them done to answer or doodle my thoughts. Since I started this blog I've gotten way quicker at drawing just cus i was drawing so much when I first started, I was able to adapt the style. I used to do it with like longer faces but somehow it evolved into something more chibi like. I also went through a massive style overhaul when I first started I used to draw something very detailed that took me multiple days, but now I have the simpler style I adapted from doing this which is faster. as you see from my commissions I still have the detailed style, a simple style, and the chibi style which is what I use for the blog.
TLDR; 1 sketch layer, use loose, quick lines. Don't stay stuck on details and perfection, the more you draw the more shortcuts you'll find.
idk if this was necessary brief but there ya go!
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