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Picolo-kun — The Palette Project
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Paradigm Shift
On 2014 I've imposed myself a challenge: "I should draw a doodle a day, during the whole year".The reason why I took such a challenge was because I wasn't happy with how much I created on the year before, on 2013.
Before starting the challenge I would procrastinate instead of drawing, I would wait for some magic sort of inspiration to come in order to draw anything at all.
That was the paradigm, the standards of my work flow.
After concluding the 365 Days of Doodles project I had a new paradigm: I can create one black&white drawing everyday.
What I want to do now in 2015 is changing the paradigm again: I want to add color palettes to my doodles. Seven, to be more specific. 
The Project
Palette |pal - it|noun
"the range of colors used by a particular artist."
I have divided the palette project into 7 parts: each one represents a color of the rainbow. The following seven months will have a main color theme, from Red to Violet. 
I hope that by the end of the project I'll have a better understanding of lighting, mood and coloring.
I've been trying to color both on traditional and digital media but I'm taking a liking on the latter. I'm still getting used to a lot of stuff so things may change throughout the project.
Color can shape the world in amazing ways. This is the message I want to transmit on my drawings this year. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks a lot for everyone's support so far!
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A great idea, and I although I'm too late to join in, I think I'll definitely try something like this myself. ^_^
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Your drawings and paintings are SO gorgeous! Do you do all the watercolor digitally, and if so, how? I'm so curious! I particularly love the watercolor on picolo-kun.deviantart.com/art/… ~
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Woops, just found the answer on your page! I may have to become a patreon patron and see just how you achieve such beautiful effects~ I hope you never lose your love for art, because your work is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing with us
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My birthday is in May!! #starswarsday . I love your art so much! I think you've inspired me to draw more often than I do already!! Thank you!!
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I've been stalking you for 2-3 hours now. I can't seem to get enough of your art. . . . You're a genius !
I was also wondering what kind of tools you were using to color this? I'm just starting out on watercolor, and this feels like it but not. *0* If yes, you truly are a Genius ! -Bows in respect-
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you gave me so much Inspiration with this post!!!
I'm unsatisfied with my drawing style and my skills for a while now but I've never known how to improve.
It's a pretty great idea to draw a Llittle doodle every day, with months with color themes.
I just have one question yet: what Kind of water colors/aquarel do you use?
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I'll definitely do this when these months roll around!
It looks like a lot of fun! I guess I'll have to wait until next year, though. :'D
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aw man I missed the color phases by a month!
Well, I'm actually starting this because I'm bored of having ideas
but never drawing them or...I forget them and have nothing to draw
when I get home after work 
~ahem~
...and so these magical hands
will draw superheros in the mean time~!
I bet there are 365 characters to aim for xD
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Oh I am going to adapt this so that it starts in September so I could start next month. It is a really good idea thx!
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Thank you so much for the idea! I want to try this, as well as the doodle drawing a day thing!
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I must say ur "doodle a day" project was very inspiring to me. i'm a writer and I have a completed book out, "The Licensed Mage" which is on my page for free reading (unedited) but I have so many more stories and book to create. i'm currently trying to finish this one book but i'm procrastinating like nobody's business. I've tried to push myself to write a chapter a day like before but I'm somehow losing the magic, the muse for this one and find myself sitting in front of my computer waiting for some inspiration to hit me, when it never does. i'm trying to push myself again, at least to write some paragraph or two, though it has not been exemplarily lol so dude kudos to u for finishing and completely ur 365 doodles on such a high note.
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Totally doing the doodle thing, so I can do this next year. :')
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I'm wanting to start a 365 days of doodles too, and this gives me a small incentive to do something different with mine as well lol
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i can't wait for June, blue is my fav color
good luck with your project n.n
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I honestly love your April works, that's probably because it is my favourite colour 
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i love the idea of your project. I'm doing some challenges too, but they dont extend as far into the year as yours do. all the best!
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Excellent project, I'm inspired to do something of the sort for myself.
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Isn't drawing everyday a lot of work? Where did you get the inspiration to even draw everyday? Ideas are hard to come by.
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oh, it's not that hard ^^
in my opinion you have thousands of ideas a day and you can draw at least one of them
Drawing is the best thing in my life and you can show your mood in a drawing .... hah, ... I'm writing too much again xD
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It's that hard to me. I have a hard time getting ideas or inspiration. Both as a writer and an artist. So I resign myself to being a hobbyist. You're not writing too much at all! You should say what you want to say. That's how I am.
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I love this idea and thats excellent that you came up with it practing with color
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I see.... But what's about September, October, November, and December?
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I wish I had the time, inspiration and the perseverance to do a 1 drawing a day challenge too. I sometimes really wonder how you can do this.
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wow, palette project according to rainbow concept, awesome!
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This sounds like a great way to improve!! Mind if I steal the "doodle a day"?
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You should totally do one based off of the Fooly Cooly anime
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Awesome projects! awesome ideas! I shall put myself into challenges as well! Thanks for inspiring me! love ya! Ps. Your drawings are op,godlike, the next level!~!!! love them all!
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What a huge project! Way to push yourself, it's inspiring!
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Paradigm Shift . . . Final Fantasy?! >w<
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Picolo-kun, after initially drawing on moleskin, what medium do you use to ink and color? I'm using Photoshop and I was wondering how you're achieving the water color effect. It's beautiful.
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Very inspiring! If you don't mind, someday I'd like to try such kind of project too
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I really love this idea and I really like what you've done so far. I am looking forward to all the awesome pictures yet to come.
May I ask a question ? You said that you're taking a liking to digital media for colouring. Yet your pictures look very much like they're done with watercolor.
If you are digitally colouring - you are doing a VERY good job ! Have you ever done a tutorial for how you colour ?
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Thank you very much for the support!
Yes, all of my paintings are digital. My traditional isn't half as good as my digital (yet!). I'll make a painting tutorial soon, thank you for your interest!
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I'd be very interested in how you do that ! Thank you, I'm looking forward to it.
Keep up the good work, your art is amazing
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