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Hi all the arty people out there
Im expandibg more on learning how to draw
Ive recently brought water colours
Can you please give me tips and dos and donts of this sort of pencil?
When drawing do you use the water colours draw the whole pic then paint over in water or do you do it in sections?
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The soft charcoal is more crumbly @outlander, so it is releasing more charcoal onto the paper, leaving a darker mark. The hard charcoal is exactly that, hard, so it is not releasing much at all. It's the same with lead pencils. The hard (H) pencils make a sharper, softer mark the more they increase (ie 6H) while the softer (B) leads have a looser, darker mark (ie6B).
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That sounds good @outlander .... a watercolour of a beach. Try different water colour papers if you can. That is definitely part of the joy of painting with watercolour.
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