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koyamori — watercolour tutorial v.4
Published: 2011-11-21 15:30:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 79214; Favourites: 3907; Downloads: 1188
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Finally compiled enough photos to do a tutorial.Most of it is common knowledge but I hope it answers some questions. C:
If you have something you'd like to know in addition, feel free to ask them here and I'll try my best to answer.
p.s. I get asked a lot about masking fluid but no, I don't use it very often. None was used for these pictures.
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Hi!! I love your tutorials, I hope you're okay with me using them, I'm running so low on time for my AP art projects!! It gives me some guidelines!
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Hi! Can I ask how do you scan your watercolours so perfectly? Whenever I try, I loose all the subtle shades and colours, and so in the end I just take a photo of the painting... :C
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You can check it out on her tumblr account. Scan tutorial.
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i had that problem too. i don't know about you, but it was because my scanner has an auto-color correct option that's turned on by default, i turned that off, restarted it, and it worked a lot better. if you're making them specifically for DA and only care about how it looks on here, you could experiment with making details that would normally be subtle more striking and then mess around with them in either SAI or Photoshop- either with the hue/saturation/contrast options, or adding a layer, setting it to 'overlay', and then messing around with white-gray-dark colors with a soft brush to see how that changes it.
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Eeer...sorry to be a bother but how do you create such *even washes with each layer, while still managing to add *depth? ; v ;
The first layer is a wet-on-wet wash, of which you let it dry. After the first wash/layer, do you continue with wet-on-wet or wet-on-dry as you paint? I've been frustrated with layers because as I continue with wet-on-dry (started with the initial wet-on-wet wash then add layers of wet-on-dry), it looks dry an uneven. Gahh, so what kind of watercolor technique do you use after the first wash of wet-on-wet to layer and create the shapes? I'm sorry for the late questions - T^T
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Aahh, sorry to be a bother but I was wondering how do you create such an even look with such depth? ;; u ;;
With the first layer it's wet-on-wet - then you let it dry. After the first initial wash, do you continue with the wet-on-wet process for each layer or is it wet-on-dry after the first wash? Eeer... I just beeb having some difficulties after the first layer - sorry about the.bombarding of questions. T^T
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than you for the tutorial!// would you happen to have any tips for using the blowdryer? ; v ; such as certain position/angle/strength. Whenever I use the dryer, the dollops always get blown over to the areas I don't want painted;;
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I usually just turn the blow dryer to high, and blow dry in a circle all around the page so the paper is not damaged by the heat. The dollops I try to wipe away with a dry brush as much as possible before drying because then they will fly everywhere. ><
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thanks for the tutorial.
(gracias por el tutorial)
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Thanks for sharing your process with us! Always interesting to see how others work
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If its not to much trouble can you make more little tutorials like this or just maybe tips. It would be helpful.
Good job btw.
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Sure!8)
I will make more as I gather some pictures of work in progress.^^
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THANK YOU! I literally love EVERY one of your pieces!!! <3 <3 <3
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What type of watercolor paints/pencils do you use?
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in using watercolour pencil to outline, i'm guessing you can't paint over the outlines or they'll wash away? do you have to leave a small gap between the wash and the pencil?
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I usually just paint over the lines of the pencil, but it does wash away after a while but it gives a good guideline.^^
Sorry for late reply haha.
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really helpful tutorial! thanks for sharing
how long does it take you to finish a watercolor piece?
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You're so amazing and thanks for sharing 
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i just recently bought some water colour pencils they shall now be put to great use but i bought a small water coulor sketch book just to test out my skills in this area
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Thank you for the tutorials! They were really helpful
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when you do the first wash layer, do you 'assign' a brush to each color or do you only use a single brush?
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I just use one or two brushes and don't assign colour. ^^
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on the darkest part (the last wash?) what colors do you use ,is it just plain black or do you mix other colors? how do you make it look 'flat?
sorry for being so annoying. Thank you so much for replying ^^
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Hello (:
I'm a big fan of your work and I often tried to follow your tutorials to create something like that. And I always wonder how you can get the shapes in the background so clean! I always totally mess everything up ... do you have any tipps or special tricks? ^^
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I love your watercolor gallery its so inspirational
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i wonder if using these techniques with digital painting and watercolor texture would look good 
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Wonderful
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ty! i really want to get better at watercolor and i love you style/techinique :3
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Thank you! I hope it'll be useful to you!<3
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Should one stretch the paper before or after doing the sketch? I've got 9x11 inch 140 lb paper, and I was told that I probably wouldn't need to stretch it.
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Pardon me for the delayed reply.
For that type of paper, usually you don't need to stretch it unless the warping of paper bothers you. You can finish painting and put it under heavy objects to reflatten everything.
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