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I have trouble with colouring dragons. I draw them in pencil but how or what do you colour them with? I have tried colour pencils but it doent work, i have also tried felt pens but that aint to good. How do they paint them on the drawing section?
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Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Dragon Queen

I do belive this belongs on the Art section not Dragon Discussions....

Don't feel bad I made the same mistake....

I think this is the right spot. It is a question and more on the subject that some of the other questions here.

Try just for now using the pencil to work out the shapes and shadows with shading. When you get the hang of that you can start maybe using charcoal that is a great medium of drawing. You can get shapes and shadows with little effort. And then try different color systems, and keep in mind the shapes and shadows. Just think of drawing an apple, you have a light side and a dark side with curves and a shadow under it. So treat a dragon like that, just cut each part away form the main dragon and just draw them on their own. Like just draw an eye and the little amount around the head, and just keep doing that until you get the hang of that. And continue for the rest of it. I have a number of note books of hands, eyes, arms, faces and other things like that. I do hope I did not do more harm than good, but was my advice.

Or, if you find working with ICT better, use Photoshop or MSPaint.

Photoshop has a feature that lets you 'level' off your work so you can do each peice seperatley.

i always do all my pics in black and white but if i do do colour then i usually use coloured pencils lightly and then use a tortilion to blend it so its not as rough then i sometimes take a felt marker or somti=hing and drw in the little details that need to be highlighted

Moved from the Dragon Discussions forum to the Artworks forum.

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I hailed tempest for his supreame powers over the board!!! And everyone else is copying me....

Copying is the ultimate form of flattery. It means everyone likes you enough to do the same as you....

And count on someone to divert a thread like this.

I personally don't color my best pictures, prefferring black, white and grays, because I know that the moment I set out to color it I ruin it.

Haha, me too. I've tried to color many of my pictures, but they all end up in the trash bin.

Some of them I spend way too much time on to even shade them.

i normally just colour in balck and white too only shading if one of my friends want to keep a picture i did

My problem though is that I draw in pencil. Just regular pencil, particularly mechanical, 0.7 mm lead, with a white plastic eraser. And I'm left handed, so I have to be careful about not smearing the graphite.

I personally can't draw worth a .... but I have a friend who likes to draw anime comics.... he's good at it too....

I think everyone's got a friend that can draw anime comics these days. Like me.

I try to draw anime, but I don't ever get the same effect without directly reproducing a sample pic.

Well he can draw those little stubby arm guys best...

you mean...chibi's? Those things rule!

Hey Neco, I have a solution to your picture coloring problem, although it is alot of work.(Some times)

Its easy, all you do is creat copies of your drawing. That way you can keep the original in its black and white formate and experiment with coloring that picture by coloring its copies.

ie. It is only hard work when you dont have a copier and have to trace your creation.

Yes, I have thought of it. Tried it to. I guaess I've figured that some drawings are best left alone for detail, and some I can color real easy when I feel that they should be bolder. I have a binder full of pics that are all colored really neat in...guess the medium...crayola colored pencils.

So...it's basically detail or no detail. That is the question.

i know this is 'rebrithing' a topic but i also recommend either Prismacolours or Copic markers. Watercolours are an excellent choice too

i tried this chinese water painting once and it looks really cool..but im kinda limited to bamboo, butterflies, cats, and then chinese characters

it is fun though.i want to try to see iof there is a way i can make a dragon but i havent figured it out yet.

Dragon Queen wrote:I have trouble with colouring dragons. I draw them in pencil but how or what do you colour them with? I have tried colour pencils but it doent work, i have also tried felt pens but that aint to good. How do they paint them on the drawing section?
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Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Dragon Queen

Do you have prisma color pencils? What you do is pick out three colors, one dark, one a little lighter than one with the actual color of the dragon. Color in the only the darkest parts with the darkest color. Then use the middle color to expand the shadows and blend in with the dark color. Then go over the whole thing with the last color.

A similar method can be used on photoshop. For dark colors, violet and indigio blue work well. Do the darkest parts in the dark color. Then go to where the brush mode says normal and change it to overlay. Expand the shadows and go over with a dark shade of the color you intend to use. Then go over the rest with the actual color you want to use. Beware, for if two strokes of the same color overlap it will create a dark blotch where they intersect, you take your time.
After it's colored, blend with dodge highlights for highlights or burn highlights for shadows. Then touch up with the smudge and the blur tool.