by Henk ter Heide on Sunday October 7, 2007
Returning to my study to mix the colors needed to draw clouds.
It’s been a little over a month but I finaly have the feeling that I should be able to mix some colors to do the drawing I wanted to do.
Clouds 7
The colors in this sketch aren’t very good. To make matters worse I don’t like the way you can see the pencil scratches.
I did find out that there is a little difference depending on whether you blend with a tortillon or with a white pencil. White pencil seems to pull the blue’s out while tortillon pulls the reds out.
I don’t know why that is or if it has anything to do with the drawing method.
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday October 3, 2007
Drawing a tree without the use of brown and green.
I’ve found that using only brown and green for a tree isn’t very interesting. It doesn’t feel very life like. When you mix a few colors in it becomes much nicer. Even if you use colors you wouldn’t see in a real tree.
For this drawing I wanted to try to mix brown for the bark and green for the leafs.
The funny thing is that you need blue to mix both brown and green.
The bark went allright. The first drawing has a little to much blue in the bark but after a few tries I get a nice color.
The only problem is that the tree doesn’t have very much bark. So there isn’t much room to play.
I’m not as happy about the leafs. It’s rather scratchy. I must find some other method to draw leafs.
When I was finishing the third tree I realized that I now know how to draw fire. In fact the third tree looks something of a burning match.
Blue tree 1
Blue tree 2
Blue tree 3
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday August 27, 2007
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 have to make them.
Mixing colors
It is possible to make new colors by mixing the colors you already have.
To try the concept I started out with mixing some red’s and blue’s…
Mixing colors 1
and got this.
I didn’t like this very much. It seems so grainy.
Drawing book
A few days later I came accross a book about mixing colors with color pencil.
It seems that you have to blend the colors you’ve mixed.
I mixed some more colors this time using a piece of toilet paper to blend them…
Mixing colors 2
and got this. Looks a lot better although still a bit grainy.
Purple music
Reading a little more in my book I found that you can use hues of grey to make a color darker or lighter. Since I’m still looking for a method to do my drawing “Purple music” I tried some pinks.
Mixing colors 3
I don’t like this. It’s more of a grey/black then pink.
After thinking about it some more I realized that I probably put to much pressure on the pencil when I was coloring grey.
What would happen if I used a little less grey and a little more pink.
For this study I used a little darker hue of pink.
Mixing colors 4
This is better.
The first four are mixes of black and purple and very dark grey and purple. The bottom row are mixes of light grey and purple. Alternating one layer of grey and two layers of grey.
Playing with blue
I also tried some blue thinking that it would be a good idea to have an other go at drawing a starfield.
The left most blue oblong are actually two hues of blue and two hues of grey. The top half consists of dark blue with light grey and the bottom half of dark grey with light blue.
I wanted to know whether it is possible to get the same hue using different combinations.
It is possible!
That could be handy to know.
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