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    • M

      Introducing Myself!
      Introductions • introduction ink watercolor artist landscape • • MillustrationsArt

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      Yiming Wu

      Wow! Some really lovely works you got here! Very tight and detailed. I always love these architecture/environment drawings. I wish more people do this kind of more "classical" illustrations. I also love the studies you did in instagram. Not that many people are more interested in scenery/landscape, and I quite like the direction you are going. I especially love the textures on your traditional media paintings!

      Anyways, welcome and make yourself at home 😃

    • Katt

      Enhancing traditional art in Procreate
      Projects • traditional procreate watercolor gouache • • Katt

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      Sara Therese Art

      I remember the frustration I felt when I was first learning Procreate. I wanted to capture the watercolor and coloured pencils look that I had with traditional medium and had no idea how to do it. I searched Youtube for Procreate watercolor tutorials and followed along. After doing dozens of these tutorials I started to notice themes with techniques and brushes. If you haven't already done this, you may find it helps.

      Nowadays, I do all my drawing (and some color blocking) in Procreate and then take it into Rebelle for the watercoloring. It's an amazing program (with another big learning curve) if you ever want to check it out. I then finish it in Photoshop or Procreate for final details.

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      A new small fish around sharks
      Introductions • critique watercolor introduction • • Ghartark

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      Jeremy Ross

      Welcome @Ghartark! Love the tiger piece!

    • charlottesart

      Luminous lighting and loosening up watercolour paintings
      Artwork • luminous lighting loosening up watercolor composition • • charlottesart

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      charlottesart

      Hey everyone! I've completed a couple of pieces in the last couple of months and just wanted to share them.

      One piece is a master study of Lee White's beautiful composition of the boy and the moon. Creating the luminous glow with the white ink was so much fun.

      Another painting I've done is 'Ada building a hut', which I did after watching Lee's 'Loosening up in watercolor' class.

      With both of these pieces the main aim for me was trying to keep the painting loose, but not letting it get too messy/out of control. It's a tricky balancing act and I have a long way to go I think.

      I have also painted 'girl playing with her dolls'. I was going through the creative composition class after I had already started this one, so I wish I had done small thumbnails before I began it. Nevertheless, I tried my best to focus on the values in this painting and provide enough contrast/focus/interest, whilst keeping the colour palette to a minimum. I know there's room for improvement, but I do like it overall 🙂

      I welcome any feedback here, all about improving! My aim is to get to the point where I'm really happy with my watercolour paintings and then start learning digital illustration and how I can incorporate my watercolour. I also want to create enough quality pieces to go in my portfolio 🙂

      Thanks!![alt text](![image url](![image url](FE0A5662-6052-4DB8-A89C-C908F7B12D0E.jpeg IMG_2796.jpeg IMG_3002.jpeg image url)))

    • Abigail Hookham

      Finished Painting in Watercolours
      Artwork • watercolor illustration traditional dreamy character • • Abigail Hookham

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      Nyrryl  Cadiz

      @Abigail-Hookham lovely

    • B

      Help identifying acrylic/watercolour/ink
      Questions & Comments • watercolor ink painting • • Brett

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      sigross

      @Brett I love Ralph Steadman! He's from my home city of Liverpool too. I know he uses mostly ink brushes with nibs. And gets the splats with a spray diffuser that you just pop in a pot of ink and gently blow it out through the mouthpiece. A manual airbrush for the more personal touch.

    • NicolaSchofield

      Finding my style (slowvember WIP & beyond)
      Slowvember • slowvember dream portfolio style watercolor • • NicolaSchofield

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      NicolaSchofield

      @nkdrawings thank you, I think I'm going to be crawling along with all this into the new year 🙂

    • Darian

      Creatures in Watercolor!
      Artwork • illustration creature design watercolor fantaasy • • Darian

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      mare333

      @Darian The first one has more expression like almost surprised. I like it.

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      House Illustration-Perspective issue
      Artwork • critique feedback watercolor perspective question • • 12before34

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      NessIllustration

      @12before34 Uhmmm okay, here's an example. Last year I made this illustration of a haunted library.

      I started with a freehand quick sketch. I usually have an idea how I want it to look so I do this first, because it's very important to understand that you have to decide where you place your horizon and vanishing points depending on what angle YOU want. Not placing random points then being a slave to them to the end! That's why I use my freehand sketch to help me determine where to place my horizon and points to obtain the exact angle that I want.
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      From there, I placed my horizon line and vanishing points. I place my VP in my mind, but you can physically place yours. If you draw traditionally it will often involve taping some additional pieces of paper to your drawing to draw vanishing points outside he frame. From there, I suggest you use your vanishing points to draw some guides on your picture (then you can remove your vanishing points because you won't need them anymore with the guides to help you). The guides look like this when I'm done:
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      From there I draw my final sketch on top with the correct perspective. It's similar to my freehand because I'm good at eyeballing perspective, but sometimes there's a more drastic difference at this stage:
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      There you go, that's my complete process.

    • Thomas_A

      Watercoloring a dark scene
      Artwork • watercolor gollum cave • • Thomas_A

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      Thomas_A

      Wow, you all are amazing! Thanks SO much, for the suggestions, taking the time to find reference images, and for the redraw. I'll take it all into consideration and have another go when I get the chance (busy work week ahead). It's a little discouraging to struggle so much over one picture, but it's been a good learning experience, too.

      Also, just for kicks, I tried doing three thumbnails last night in all ink - about 90% black with white highlights. Everything looked great except for Gollum. Anytime I shadowed him, he just blended into the background.

    • Tania Lyons

      Request for critiques! Working hard on value & composition (^_^)b
      Artwork • critique watercolor digital digitalart kidlitart • • Tania Lyons

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      Jon Anderson

      To echo what @stringfellowart said, you're values are all very similar in the mid-light to light range. If you are working in Photoshop you can make a new layer on top set to color and fill it with black. This will make everything look grayscale so you can check the values then just hide the layer to see your colors. You can then adjust the saturation and darkness (ctrl-u on windows) of your other layers or a selection while the grayscale layer is on for a scary yet thrilling experience. You may not like the new color but it gives you and idea once you settle on a value. I learned that tIP here in the forum sometime last monthand it's been helpful for me.

      Edit: Just noticed you didn't use photoshop. Sorry. I'm not familiar with the program you used but if you can make different types of layers there may be a way to still do this digital trick.

    • Box-Head

      Critiques wanted for my WIP! Thank you.
      Artwork • wip critique illustration watercolor • • Box-Head

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      Box-Head

      @gary-wilkinson Thanks so much!

    • ?

      WIP - Please critique, thank you!
      Artwork • watercolor wip illustration color critique • • A Former User

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      Hi, I'd like some help with a personal illustration!
      So aside from the fact that I want the background to be a dark room, I don't have much else planned. Should the background be simple or busy? And should it be structured or more organic? I'd be so grateful if you gave me your opinions on my piece. Thanks so much.

      Oh, and I'd love to get some advice about colour, contrast, and depth! I've been struggling with those.

      (https://erin-chan-art.deviantart.com/art/WIP-Illustration-731872315)

      Sorry it's a link - my photo wouldn't upload for some strange reason

    • KathrynAdebayo

      Eager for suggestions - "Fearless"
      Artwork • kathrynadebayo watercolor fearless • • KathrynAdebayo

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      @miriam

      Thank you so much for taking the time to share these gems! Thank you to Lee as well, of course.

    • Teju Abiola

      Hello! (Portfolio + Introduction)
      Introductions • watercolor illustration portfolio introduction digital • • Teju Abiola

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      aska

      Amazing stuff, welcome! 🙂

    • Chris Perry

      Slowvember
      Artwork • wip dragons picturebook colored pencil watercolor • • Chris Perry

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      Chris Perry

      @kevin-longueil good eye! Thanks for the heads up. Or should I say the tongue out?

    • C

      Character Designs Little piggie
      Introductions • illustration sketch sketchbook gouache watercolor • • corlettedoug

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      Leontine

      very cute!

    • Dan Tavis

      Some of my recent watercolor illustrations
      Sketchbook • illustration painting watercolor ink • • Dan Tavis

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      Dan Tavis

      Hey everybody, here are a couple paintings i've completed recently 🙂
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    • akerman

      Edgar Allan Poe's "Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfaall" illustrations
      Projects • watercolor illustration • • akerman

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      Charlie Eve Ryan

      Really wonderful! Love the characters and they way you are handling the skin tones and overall color. Awesome!

    • Steff

      Steff's Sketchbook
      Sketchbook • field sketching watercolor studies • • Steff

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      Steff

      A few more...

      A hawk landed on a tree as I was sketching and stayed just long enough for me to get in some quick lines.
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      Trying out some indoor sketching. I still feel a little awkward looking around and sketching people though...
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      Will need to work on water and reflection!
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      This one is just... chunky... but the branches were good negative space practice.
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      Trying out more vibrant colors, and tried to convey the bigger mountains in the background with washed out color.
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      I recently watched one of Mark Taro Holmes's sketching videos and liked the way he draws bushes, so I tried it here. He also had some good advice about adjusting the color every time you dip your brush so you get some natural variation.
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