This exercise was especially challenging since I’m not used to colouring. Since I was using dry media I found it difficult to find the right tones of colour because I could not mix the colours like paint. I was tempted to go over with water so i could mix and control the colours more but I felt it went against the point of the exercise which was to layer colour and work fast.
It was difficult for me to portray the transparency the blue and red lanterns and I felt that my colours were too bright and had difficulty dulling them down.
I also faced difficulty when it came to the edges of my objects. it was hard to get sharp edges and this may be from me using my fingers to blend the colours. In fear of blending my objects and colours together I ended up leaving an undesirable white ring around all my objects. In hindsight I may have been able to avoid these difficulties if I used a sharp edged blending tool instead of my fingers.
In my second drawing, I decided to do away with the two lanterns because I preferred the composition with just the three other objects. The pencils I used were watercolour and once more I felt like working over it with water but decided against it because it went against the point of the exercise. This one ended up looking rather washed out but it may be from my lack of colouring skill of maybe it’s just the natural effect of the pencil, although the pencils I used were good quality so I’m leaning more toward it being my fault.
Colour blending here was more difficult than in the last drawing because here I had no way of blending without water. I do however rather enjoy the random patches of colour especially with bottle in the back.
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