Anyone got any tips/books for learning watercolors? Started doing art more than a year ago doing strictly graphite, and consider myself capable of applying values/drawing. But using color still escapes me.
My normal work, for reference.
When it comes to water color, you're going to want to start from your lightest values/hues to your darkest.
Good book, covers different techniques and suggests paints to use but mainly focuses on portrait, some paintings suffer tumblr nose but they still look good imo.
>>2539417
ive been drawing for 7 years and my faces still dont look like that, whats up with that?
>>2539698
Without being a meme maybe post an example of your work?
Your color will go two shades lighter after drying. All I really have for advice.
>>2539415
Buy tubes of watercolour to start out, never the dry cakes. You don't need a bunch. My palette is a cool and a warm yellow, a cool and a warm blue, same for red, a black, payne's grey, white, ocre and burnt sienna.
Don't be cheap on the paper. An expensive pad with all sides glued is best. Don't be cheap on the petit gris brush, the big one that will only EVER be for water. Don't spoil it with paint.
Consider the techniques of chiaroscuro and make sure that you have a focal point in your drawing and are less precise things around it. Watercolour can look really precise but that's a very high level skill (see Gustave Adolphe Mossa for that), usually the whole point of the medium is to be impressionistic and let the color flow.
You can paint what they call "wet" and "dry". In "wet" techniques you put water on your paper and add color. Dry techniques is when you paint when the paper is still or has already dried. Be patient. Starting to paint in the wet when you want to do something very precise (requires it to be dry) can ruin your painting.
Learn up about warm and cool colors, normally you can find guides of which is what. It's not always that precise, but to start out, cool colors = shadows, warm colors in other places.
Don't draw shadows by making things more dark/black, but add blue. This is why payne's grey is such a favourite watercolor, it's lamp black + cool blue that I don't remember.
>>2539417
If you could be so generous as to give some pointers to how you do your faces as well, I like what I see a lot and struggle with them.
What about that technique went you wet the paper or something so it will be stretched when it dries, and your watercolour wil?
I know I read about it somewhere
>>2539698
>>2540405
>7 years
>>2540429
is that a bad thing? this is only 20 mins into a drawing.
>>2540405
i like this to be honest
>>2540405
Maybe draw more traditionally?
>>2540466
drawing traditionally doesn't magically change someones anatomy
>>2540439
For 7 years not being able to draw a portrait of that quality?. Yes, it is a bad thing. Stop drawing from imagination.
What books did you study?
>>2540480
im not trying to be a fine painter like that guy is, what are you talking about?
>>2540439
I believe what's more horrifying is that in 7 years you were never able to spend more than 20 minutes on a drawing.
>>2540485
a-are you retarded?
>>2540488
If I am, then why didn't you post anything nicer than a 20 minute sketch?
>>2540483
>7 years
>"I'm not trying to be as good".
No, this isn't a "not going to make it". You didn't make it. It's over. If you didn't git gud before, I doubt you are going to now.
nice a watercolor thread
i just want to know how to paint like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOPmJj6GbA
i even tried to replicate it but it was a complete failure
well i only bought watercolors this week
and all i know is some basic pencil drawing
>>2540494
Post the last thing you completed
>>2540497
i don't like being doxed
>>2540497
Post your work. >>2540405 only spent 20 minutes on that and you are saying they aren't going to make it? Since when did /ic/ get this salty over wops?
pls anon, just stop and go study already. You obviously don't want to be called on your shit, so go learn how to do a portrait.
>>2540506
Bear in mind the watercolour drawing he talked about in the first place is also a WIP
>>2539929
>never the dry cakes
I disagree.
Artist grade pans are perfectly fine.
It just all comes down to preference.
>>2540492
Watercolor takes a lot of time. You will also need to learn how to draw.
The best way to practice is to paint whatever you see.
Zimou Tan's best advice was to use the heel of the brush to create a gradation.
>>2540512
back in my days mobilefags werent allowed in here
this thread is just another example why "show your work" is a retarded meme, and why I will never respect anyone who posts it
>>2540483
>complain that you're not as good as someone
>"but I'm not TRYING to be that good or anything"
Well gee, I wonder why you aren't.
>>2540539
i can tell by the filename you didnt draw that
nice try newfag lurk moar
>>2540550
>you can't copy a photo, anon
>you are bad, baka
4chan memes will never die.
>>2540539
>>2540555
patreon?
>>2540534
In the old days mobile phones had shit Web browsers
>>2540570
https://www.patreon.com/tojyo?ty=h
>>2539415
Look up Ways with watercolor by Ted Kautsky, trust me on this you will thank me later.
The author is pretty underrated so the book itself is pretty cheap if you decide to buy it, his other books are also definitely worth checking out
>>2540576
>no chromatic aberration
into the trash etc
>>2540528
To start out the tubes are better imho, the color intensity is stronger. The pans are great once you know your way around, like how dark your colour needs to look once diluted to obtain the result you want on paper.
After that I agree that it is preference.
>Zimou Tan's best advice was to use the heel of the brush to create a gradation
not native speaker, what do you call the heel? The place where the hair is bundled together in the metal tip?
>>2539415
Alright boyz, I just finished my first watercolor piece(after some testing). Wish I had the confidence to go into color, but I'm still learning how to use paintbrushes and all that. Also having trouble not ripping the paper cause it's starting to fall apart.
Any tips??
>>2540643
buy 600g fabriano 100% cotton or equivalent paper
>>2539929
>pointers to how you do your faces
Literally - loomis. Drawing the Head is a great book, and if that's too wordy, then Proko sums it up pretty well in his videos. I've watched like 4 of his videos and each time I watch one (while applying what he says) I become so, so much better at drawing faces.
You just need to learn the basic proportions of a face (4 lines, really) and then how to do values/shadows. Also with that particular portrait I put a lot of time into the line weights, which is important for characterizing a face.
>>2539929
What is a petit gris brush, and why should I only cover it in water?
was this made with watercolors?
>>2540643
>Also having trouble not ripping the paper cause it's starting to fall apart.
What kind of paper are you using?
>>2540685
Just a sketchbook, I guess. The paper is more thick/hard than printer paper, but if I apply enough water then it starts flaking away.
>>2540676
Digital over a posterized photo. Time to quit art if you think that looks like water color desu
>>2540607
>not native speaker, what do you call the heel? The place where the hair is bundled together in the metal tip?
Yeah. The inner part of the brush should only hold water and no color. So when you use that part when laying down some paint, you will get one hard edge from the tip of the brush and a soft edge from the heel.
>>2540643
Be more confident, use a bigger brush and less layers.
Don't fuss with the paint.
