i was experimenting with watercolours last night (results: black is hard) and this is the only picture i liked, so here you go
a little angry wolf
a little angry wolf
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Wolf
Size 366 x 561px
File Size 123.4 kB
for watercolour darks alternate & mix your deepest brown & deepest blue--you'll get true payne's grey*, which you can get pretty much as dark as you need (especially if you have them in tubes, easier to mix on a palette/bit of plastic etc (I think ultramarine, burnt umber and white are the ones that benefit most from tubies)) and also has the advantage of being situationally variable for warm and cold darks. However in watercolour it's best to abandon the idea of an absolute, intense black (or anything else); watercolour is often thought to be the hardest paint medium to master because it's partly -about- imperfection and gradation of tone & hue. For flat, even translucent colour gouache is better.
*there's a "payne's grey" colour sold in shops, but that's some furious bullshit. The whole point of payne's grey is that you make it up in different mixtures as appropriate for the situation.
*there's a "payne's grey" colour sold in shops, but that's some furious bullshit. The whole point of payne's grey is that you make it up in different mixtures as appropriate for the situation.
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