Cloud colors
After doing a lot of sketches it’s clear that I’m doing something wrong. None of my clouds look like real clouds. After studying them some more I realized that there was something wrong with the colors I’m using. It’s seems that I don’t have cloud colors in my pencil box.
That means that I will [...]
Save drawings
Before I realized that photographs and drawings aren’t supposed to look alike I did like to draw. I just was afraid of the end result.
So to taste the joy of drawing without having to be afraid of the end result I drew a lot of Intersecting bottles. But there was only a limited amount [...]
Skill
Since there are no easy practical techniques to blend colors around details I’ll have to learn the skill to do it by hand.
Crossing lines
This doesn’t seem to be very difficult. Now I’m be finally ready to do “Purple music”.
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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 [...]
Series
This is the third part of a series about drawing dark colors around light colors. The series consists 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.
(You might also be interested in my easy technique to [...]
Series
This is the second part of a series of experiments to find an easy technique of drawing a dark color around light colored detail. The series consists 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
(You [...]
Light color on top of dark color
Ever since I started drawing with color pencils I found one annoying problem. It isn’t possible to draw with a lighter color on top of a darker color. That’s a problem because there’re a lot of situations where you would want to do so. White clouds reflecting on dark [...]
After reading about the 4th of July a few weeks ago I thought that it would be nice if there was some easy method to draw fireworks.
After thinking about it for a while I came up with a few methods. One very easy method use crayons.
When you’re finished with this drawing you’ll end up with [...]
For this drawing I wanted my colors to smoothly flow from yellow to almost red and from light blue to dark blue almost black.
I first tried blending the colors with a piece of toilet paper and got this sketch.
Pillar of community 1st sketch
You can’t see it very well in the scan but there is a light [...]
This idea of drawing a color fountain is proving harder than I expected.
When I made the first drawing using an eraser I felt the technique was reminiscence of a technique I used for a drawing years ago. It seemed like a good idea to try to replicate that technique using pencils and a eraser. The [...]