God wants you to draw : Part 2

On Part 1, i left it with this;

So Part 2 starts with this;

and it turns into this;

this

and this.

I am certainly not a good drawer — the worst person to teach anyone anything, but if the question is about blending 2 or more colors, what i could share is;

1) I usually start with softer color as the base, and put darker color on top of it, overlapping each other.

This is the basic of blending, usually the only thing we need to do. But at times we cannot afford to put more colors as it will make the drawing darker, and we kinda need a kind of colorless blender. So for colorless blending, i usually use either my finger, a tissue, or a torchon or the combination of all, depending on the situation.

2) If by putting more colors will make that are darker, but that particular area needs some blending, i usually use my finger to blend (only when my finger is clean and dry).

3) When the area is too dark and i need to lighten it up a bit by one or more tones, i use tissue.

4) When dealing with small areas, i use torchon instead since it has pointed tips.

Well one thing i could share about coloring human skin is that when i first started drawing i use only one color – brown. Then i learn to gradually mix more colors into it. For this drawing i use white, yellow, pink, soft brown, earthy brown, red, blue, dark brown and black. All put not on the same area but i played it with the tone – for more prominent lines i use more brown and black.

That’s all i guess for part 2 since i really think i suck at doing this.