The easy and greasy way of drawing stars (Sketch: Stars)

Series

This is the last part of a four part series to find an easy technique to draw a dark color around light colored details. The series consist of:

• An easy artsy way of drawing fireworks
• An easy and dirty way of drawing fireworks
• A quick and dirty way of drawing fireworks
• The easy and greasy way of drawing stars

Finishing touches

After doing A quick and dirty way of drawing fireworks I wasn’t satisfied with the color of the night sky. It was far to light for my taste.

The point of that drawing was to find if it would be possible to get a dark sky without putting very much “work” into the drawing.
Clearly it wasn’t.

With this drawing I put in all the work that was necessary into getting as dark blue as I could get.

Pressure

Just like with the last drawing I started out with drawing the stars. After that I painted the paper with hair styling wax. Than I colored the whole sheet blue. All over the stars.
I used quite a lot of pressure on the blue pencil and drew three layers. I used three hues of blue to get the best and darkest result possible.

The yellow and orange stars where just visible through the blue pencil and I used a tee spoon to scrape the blue off. As usually I finished my drawing with a hair spray to fixate it.

Stars

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Conclussion

What have I learned from my experiments?

• It’s quite easy to draw fireworks and stars against a dark sky.
• It’s possible to draw on top of colors that are fixated with hair spray .
• Although it is possible to blend colors using the brush I used to paint wax on the sheet of paper, the whole sheet gets the same color. A flowing color like I got in Mask doesn’t seem to be possible.
• When mixing pencil with hair styling wax you should be very careful where you put your hands otherwise everything will get blue

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