best colors to date

**Art of Drowning** · December 3rd, 2005, 02:46 PM

im not to sure if there suppose to be here but im not exactly done with em so there goin here anyway. My teacher Ms. Copley is pretty cool and she hooked it up with the sketchbook ive been using and some paper used for colored pencils and a blending tool with it; pretty nice on her part.

anyways I guess ill show my best to worst

she wouldnt accept this because I didnt know the guy personally and it was from a photo.

I havent shown her this one yet, so I dont know if shell accept it. Its a picture of my gramps. Looks grainier(?) then the first post

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...irstcolors.jpg
didn't like how this one came out (possibly the paper?)
anyways, shes still a hottie.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...e/skeleman.jpg
one of my more recent mess arounds.

**Elwell** · December 3rd, 2005, 03:12 PM

A quick tip: try not to lay in the interior contour lines quite so strongly, and if you know you are going to be rendering an area in warm colors (skintones, etc) use a dark brown or maroon instead of black.

**SprayNation** · December 3rd, 2005, 03:45 PM

Not bad. Don't get carried away with detail before the actual drawing is complete. Listen to Elwell and throw away your black pencil. Black isn't a color. Do alot more of these, they're good practice.

**Elwell** · December 3rd, 2005, 04:03 PM

Hey hey hey, I never said that

. There's nothing inherently wrong with black, you just have to learn how to use it. Actually, the thing to remember is that black is a color, not just "darkness", and it mixes with other colors like a very dark, desaturated blue.

**Art of Drowning** · December 3rd, 2005, 04:12 PM

Alright, thanks alot guys. I agree with you alot about the inner contour, it does kinda make it look odd in the second post. the thing your probably refering to about the black is the neck right? I did go in with a dark brown but it didnt seem to be dark enough so I used black. Ill take note about the black. thanks guys, there'll be more comin soon.