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I've been asked to do a guide/tutorial/something to explain how I draw, it's been kind of hard for me because when I draw I'm just trying to get it done asap between other things but managed to take a few pics last night.

This is just a random sketch of Korra and Mako I scribbled while watching the latest episode yesterday. It's on nothing fancy, just my sketchbook and a blue col-erase pencil. I love blue pencil for sketching and animation drawing, it's so delicate and faint you can build up images and early mistakes are easy to get rid of. Hard 2H pencil is my other favourite.

For this, I did the "clean-up" (lets face it, I'm an old animation student, I still can't help it but think of stages of drawing as sketching followed by ink and paint...) with peat brown Winsor&Newton drawing ink and used pen nib. Depending on image I might also use a fine marker, brush pen, ink with brush or just softer (2-6B) pencils. Sometimes I skip proper clean-up altogether and paint over the pencil sketch.

After the ink was fully dry I erased most of the blue scribbles and started with the watercolours. This usually takes me on and off the whole evening for each picture or sometimes I have two or three pictures I'm colouring at the same time taking turns as the paint dries in another. It's only slow because watercolours are all about layers and building up colours gradually takes time but on the plus side actual painting is very quick. I might spend five minutes painting and then be forced to do something else for half an hour as the picture dries. I know lot of people use hair dryers for this stage but I have other stuff and chores to do as well so the breaks usually work out nicely. If it's a detailed piece it can take two, three or four evenings for this stage.

After I'm happy with what I'm seeing on the paper I leave it overnight (habit I've gotten into just to make absolutely sure I'm not getting wet watercolour on my scanner glass...) and then scan it in. I have a 6-year old average household scanner so it's a bit crap and tends to kill off any faint colours. I tweak vibrance/saturation/colours in photoshop a little to get it closer to what it looks like on paper and then I'm done and out to the internet it goes.

Hope this helps someone out there.

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~gorgeouszombiegirl May 12, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Does having a blue col-erase pencil help at all?

~TaijaVigilia May 12, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Well I like to sketch with it since it's much lighter and softer than normal gray pencil. I'm cheap/poor/bit of both so I don't tend to sketch my pieces on one piece of paper and then clean up on another (I don't even have a proper lightbox to do that), instead I use same paper all the way through and blue col-erase cleans up much better. It's mostly personal preference though.