🌈 Experimenting in my New Sketchbook ! 🌈 (Patreon)

Today I wanted to share the first pages of my new "experiment" sketchbook - my only goal with this sketchbook is to try new techniques and art supplies, especially gouache, ink and colored pencils !

G O U A C H E 

I started with gouache - I think this is my all time favorite kind of paint, I am the kind of person who fangirls about artworks made with gouache - the rendering is amazing, artists who use gouache are the best, I am in awe with their work, I admire people who can use gouache effortlessly and I hope one day I will be able to create with gouache too !! Yes, I love gouache. 

Anyways, I started with little shapes, leaves, stars and flowers. I love to mix colors when it comes to gouache because they all look very good somehow ?? 

Then I practiced with faces and hands.

I N K

I always use ink, all my illustrations are made with Colorex ink. I love this brand, their colors are very bright and easy to use - the rendering never disappoints ! But I use it mostly to outline my characters, never to actually paint with it. So I tried to paint with it, and it's harder than I thought (I did use black ink for Inktober and I loved it ! But colors seem harder to use than black). 

I stared with little shapes, just like I did with gouache. Leaves, stars...

Then I tried to draw some faces I like - this is a Wyatt Shears from the band The Garden (I also want to draw more men in this sketchbook !!) - I sketched his face with a colored pencil and painted over it. I like the rendering on the first one I did (on the left), the blue jacket looks cool and his face looks smooth, I am happy with this one ! The second one is okay I guess, just not as fun as the first one. 

That's it for today, let me know if you like this kind of posts, I'd be happy to show you more ! And if you have any question, feel free to ask 👋

Have a lovely week ! 💖

Hugs,

Sibylline