YueLqn
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Hello~ The below is just an explanation, I'll put a shortened version under that if you don't want to read it all haha
I chose art for my elective this year, (always wanted to) but I had to take band last year and the year before because of my mother.
So, I'm more experienced in digital art, normal doodling with paper and pencil/pen is fine for me too, but oh god coloring in traditional forever haunts me.
Anyway, its already been like, a month or so in to the school year and we've done around 3 finished projects now. The teacher requires us to use color in both, no white space unless its colored in with white. And I, being a color noob, really think I failed with colors on both ah.
On the first one, I used colored pencils and sharpie for line art because I don't think they have inking pens (the school I don't think they put enough of the budget there.. even the colored pencils are old >.>) And I really.. messed up on the colors pfft. I tried to shade, using colors, darker hues, but I kept on forgetting there's no undo button anywhere so it was just a weird mash of color.
The second one was better, I guess, but someone put a white pastel in the color pencil bin and istg I was curious ah. It ended up being a mix of colored pencil and shaded white pastel for a blur effect. The colors were mainly greys too.
And the third, one I just finished, was mainly colored pencil and little bits of colored pastels because I found that it created a cool texture, and blended colors well. I also didn't have to search the color pencil bin for a usable one because I don't have a sharpener and they're all broken/dull hh
What I want is advice on coloring, shading, texturing, how to use colored pencil and or pastels/markers that is efficient and works well (can't be too time consuming, I'm a slow drawer in general..)
Anyway, don't tell me to ask my teacher cause she's also the band teacher, the school didn't hire a professional smh. (I mean I had a sub for 6th period for like an entire month because of short staff)
short version: took art this year and its all traditional art, I can't color for life and I need advice on how to color using colored pencil, pastels, markers, sharpie etc. I've tried using pastels on colored pencils for a blur effect kind of thing. (like, is that bad for the pastels??) I'd like to know more experienced traditional artist's opinions on this. (I'm a digital artist, please the course was digital art and design,, thought it'd be something digital.)
I chose art for my elective this year, (always wanted to) but I had to take band last year and the year before because of my mother.
So, I'm more experienced in digital art, normal doodling with paper and pencil/pen is fine for me too, but oh god coloring in traditional forever haunts me.
Anyway, its already been like, a month or so in to the school year and we've done around 3 finished projects now. The teacher requires us to use color in both, no white space unless its colored in with white. And I, being a color noob, really think I failed with colors on both ah.
On the first one, I used colored pencils and sharpie for line art because I don't think they have inking pens (the school I don't think they put enough of the budget there.. even the colored pencils are old >.>) And I really.. messed up on the colors pfft. I tried to shade, using colors, darker hues, but I kept on forgetting there's no undo button anywhere so it was just a weird mash of color.
The second one was better, I guess, but someone put a white pastel in the color pencil bin and istg I was curious ah. It ended up being a mix of colored pencil and shaded white pastel for a blur effect. The colors were mainly greys too.
And the third, one I just finished, was mainly colored pencil and little bits of colored pastels because I found that it created a cool texture, and blended colors well. I also didn't have to search the color pencil bin for a usable one because I don't have a sharpener and they're all broken/dull hh
What I want is advice on coloring, shading, texturing, how to use colored pencil and or pastels/markers that is efficient and works well (can't be too time consuming, I'm a slow drawer in general..)
Anyway, don't tell me to ask my teacher cause she's also the band teacher, the school didn't hire a professional smh. (I mean I had a sub for 6th period for like an entire month because of short staff)
short version: took art this year and its all traditional art, I can't color for life and I need advice on how to color using colored pencil, pastels, markers, sharpie etc. I've tried using pastels on colored pencils for a blur effect kind of thing. (like, is that bad for the pastels??) I'd like to know more experienced traditional artist's opinions on this. (I'm a digital artist, please the course was digital art and design,, thought it'd be something digital.)