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Title: Prometheus
Medium: Watercolor Pencils on 140 WaterColor Paper
Date: 3/19/2016
Size: 4x4
So, I’ll briefly go into this week, it’s likely going to be Mythology week, all of the drawings are going to, in some way, relate to mythology, I don’t think I’ll limit myself to a medium for this week, I’m a little sick of limiting the medium for now. As you saw yesterday, I was already in the mood for mythology before hand, using one of the Anemoi in my last Charcoal drawing.
Anyways, I’ll preface what I have to say about this drawing with: HOLY CRAP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRISMACOLOR WATERCOLOR PENCILS AND REGULAR WATERCOLOR PENCILS IS SOMETHING ELSE. I sketched this in, like, light, barely shaded lines, I had this nice light flesh tone with some minor shadows and the background was just a series of circular lines, I was expecting a little color to wash off but for the lines to remain. NOPE NOPE NOPE. These are incredible. I was expecting the difference to be like like regular colored pencils, which have a nicer fudgier texture, but for the most part, function exactly the same, with a bit more difficult in the cheaper brands. NO. Totally wrong. I’ve done a lot of comparisons before between student and professional brands, and usually when I finish, I find them to be similar enough to argue that an artist limited in funds can (and do) create high quality works with low quality materials. But this, this is different. The difference between the two is the sky and the ground. I actually feel like I’m working with watercolor in a pencil form with Prismacolors, the other cheaper watercolor pencils I’ve used felt like I was pushing around the pigment that didn’t stick to the paper when I put it down. The colors are thicker and more vibrant. The only use I can think of now, for the cheaper watercolor pencils I have, is to get very subtle pastel washes and very low saturation color, because they DO make nice colors, they’re just extremely limited comparatively.
Anyways, here’s Prometheus, he’s a titan who stole fire, he’s often depicted as having long hair, and I figured I’d throw him in a cloak to emphasize the idea that he’s a thief, he’s coveting a flame he holds in his hands in the darkness. Now that I know how differently these prismacolors function, I won’t let the drawing get as out of control and intense as this (I meant for the skin tones and the robe to be much softer) I used a mix of leaving white spots on the paper, and using a Signo White Pen to get a variation of white tones in the drawing, with more intense, and more natural whites playing together.
Medium: Watercolor Pencils on 140 WaterColor Paper
Date: 3/19/2016
Size: 4x4
So, I’ll briefly go into this week, it’s likely going to be Mythology week, all of the drawings are going to, in some way, relate to mythology, I don’t think I’ll limit myself to a medium for this week, I’m a little sick of limiting the medium for now. As you saw yesterday, I was already in the mood for mythology before hand, using one of the Anemoi in my last Charcoal drawing.
Anyways, I’ll preface what I have to say about this drawing with: HOLY CRAP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRISMACOLOR WATERCOLOR PENCILS AND REGULAR WATERCOLOR PENCILS IS SOMETHING ELSE. I sketched this in, like, light, barely shaded lines, I had this nice light flesh tone with some minor shadows and the background was just a series of circular lines, I was expecting a little color to wash off but for the lines to remain. NOPE NOPE NOPE. These are incredible. I was expecting the difference to be like like regular colored pencils, which have a nicer fudgier texture, but for the most part, function exactly the same, with a bit more difficult in the cheaper brands. NO. Totally wrong. I’ve done a lot of comparisons before between student and professional brands, and usually when I finish, I find them to be similar enough to argue that an artist limited in funds can (and do) create high quality works with low quality materials. But this, this is different. The difference between the two is the sky and the ground. I actually feel like I’m working with watercolor in a pencil form with Prismacolors, the other cheaper watercolor pencils I’ve used felt like I was pushing around the pigment that didn’t stick to the paper when I put it down. The colors are thicker and more vibrant. The only use I can think of now, for the cheaper watercolor pencils I have, is to get very subtle pastel washes and very low saturation color, because they DO make nice colors, they’re just extremely limited comparatively.
Anyways, here’s Prometheus, he’s a titan who stole fire, he’s often depicted as having long hair, and I figured I’d throw him in a cloak to emphasize the idea that he’s a thief, he’s coveting a flame he holds in his hands in the darkness. Now that I know how differently these prismacolors function, I won’t let the drawing get as out of control and intense as this (I meant for the skin tones and the robe to be much softer) I used a mix of leaving white spots on the paper, and using a Signo White Pen to get a variation of white tones in the drawing, with more intense, and more natural whites playing together.
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