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dragonimp
Jun 17, 2012, 6:19:22 AM UTC
You can probably tell I fought with that grey XD I don't like using straight black paint so I was mixing, and I think it did turn out a bit on the warm side. I probably didn't notice because the background was warmer at that point.

Speaking of, yeah, I see what you mean. It's supposed to be barren, but the lack of a horizon is a bit too ambiguous. I'll have to keep that in mind Smile

Thanks!

Comment ID 87428

[Art] Queen Serenity
ArkillianDragon
Jun 17, 2012, 6:29:35 AM UTC on [Art] Queen Serenity
How much do you know about mixing colours to make a grey without the black pigment, and about how colours are compromised? Is it something you've researched? Or just play by ear? I've got a book on watercolour, and learnt a bit about colour mixing from it but it's just for water colours, not for coloured pencil like I use.

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  • dragonimp
    Jun 20, 2012, 9:19:29 PM UTC
    Most of my color mixing comes from oils painting. <i>Most</i> of it transfers, but watercolors don't always work quite the same. Like mixing prussian blue and burnt sienna is always either on the blue side or the brown side, I can never quite get that true grey that I get with oils. I think the grey on her dress was mostly Winsor violet and yellow ochre, but I have a very bad habit of not recording my color mixtures ^^;. It probably had a little prussian blue in it as well.
    • ArkillianDragon
      Jun 20, 2012, 10:31:12 PM UTC
      IT's a good idea to keep swatches. All of the tutorial books I have suggest making swatches of colours in various states, and colour combos you like. I use to referance my copic one alot, but I'm much more familiar with my colours now so I don't need to as much now. I need to do it with my coloured pencils, btu this is VERY important with a one way trip like watercolour. Get a peice of your good card so your swatch is true to what you're putting it on, and make a 100%, 50%, and a watered down version of each colour so you know what tints you have. I'm not sure what colours are closest to primary colours, but look up some water colour books- they'll know what colours are good for base colours cause what happens is your prussian blue may have a high level of red and yellow in it to give it a nice colour. This is all good straight, but if you mix it, the colour wont be as vibrant as you'd like it to be cause if you mix the hues evenly, you get grey. http://www.amazon.com/Color-Theory-Made-Easy-Approach/dp/0823007545/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&qid=1340231075&sr=8-31&keywords=color+theory I have this book and it had alot of great knowledge on watercolour. I read it and realised it wasn't as useful to me, but it opened my eyes about great new approaches. They have an interesting approach of using CMY as their primaries which angers alot of people, but it makes sense for ink based product. Donno, but if watercolour interests you, I'd suggest hunting it out Smile