yay! Crayon House Art!!

[tripperfunster]

If you read my journal (and if you're reading this, then you DO,) you know that I'm pretty much a black and white girl. Other than the odd cartoon, I mostly work with graphite. I have a phobia of colour, and although I love it in other peoples work, I hate it in my own.

Until ... the frighteningly talented elicia8 posted this FANTASTIC crayon tutorial that she did, step by step of House. http://elicia8.livejournal.com/94624.html

Now, mine isn't nearly as nice as hers, but I'm just thrilled to pieces with it. *huggles it*. I used THE shittiest crayons known to man (the ones in those $20 art kits that you buy for kids, that have like, 3000 pens, pencils, crayons, watercolour pads and markers) so the quality wasn't the best, but I feel like something clicked in my brain, and I may just have to go out and purchase some COLOURFUL utensils tomorrow! *SQUEE*

He's a bit more yellow than I intended (especially since I didn't use yellow at all.)
Anyhoo, without further ado, here's my crayon House pic

Comments

[carpet-diemon.livejournal.com]

*whispers in your ear*: a good set of color pencils, a good set of color pencils, and, if you should need to redo things, there's always photo software (;

nice work! i'm a bit color-phobic myself, but i solved that by going into an art field in which i'd have no control over the final color even if i tried.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like your icon! <3

Do coloured pencils blend? I tend to draw very large, (14x17) and usually close-ups and coloured pencils can be very tedious to colour in large areas. (I think)

I was considering pastels, but they're so greasy, and if the kids got ahold of them... *shudders at the though*

Any brand of pencils you'd recc?

[carpet-diemon.livejournal.com]

thank you!

i've liked prismacolor or caran d'ache. i hear faber-castell is good too. there's also pastel- pencils or soft color pencils if you'd like to experiment around a bit. colored pencils blend very well, but differently from pastels. i'm no expert, but, with pastels, you can really moosh them around whereas, with pencils, the blending is all in shading, which, i think, gives you more room to screw around with color saturation- that is not quite so straightforward with pastels.

i'd say, get some small packs of varying hardness and experiment.