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Sketchbook Snapshot: Fun Doodles

Had a good time doing some drawing and coloring with the kiddo. 🙂

This was a lot of fun. And a lot of coloring. Shout out to supercoloring.com for an awesome selection of free, printable coloring pages.
This is a copy of the titular character from Mike Wu’s wonderful Book, Ellie.
Learning how to draw aliens, astronauts and UFOs with the kiddo using a “How To” library book. I don’t remember the book though. :/

Comic #10: The 6 Stages of Assembling Boxed Furniture

Alternative Title Ideas:
-The 6 Stages of Making a Comic or a Souffle or Anything Really
-The 6 Stages of a Man Trying to Find the G-Spot (Which May or May Not Exist)
-The 6 Stages of Helping Your Grandmother Set Up Her New Phone

What alternative title can you think of? Let me know in the comments.

Sketchbook Snapshot: Mother’s Day Watercolor

For Mother’s Day this year, we invited my plant-loving, artistic Mama over for some watercolor painting. This is one of my creations.

a watercolor painting of 6 green plants in variously shaped terra cotta pots. 3 of the plants have flowers.

Webcomic Color Palettes

As I am working on defining my particular drawing style, I’ve been noticing that many webcomic artists use a very particular color palette that helps differentiate and define their comic. As I try to define what I might want my own webcomics to look like, I decided to compile a sheet of all my favorite webcomic’s color palettes. I thought I’d share it here in case anyone else was interested. Disclaimer: this is not an extensive list of every single color ever used in every single one of their webcomics, but it is enough to give me a good idea of their color palette.

These are all webcomic’s that I follow or have followed and I highly recommend all of them. Most of them can either be found on the Webtoon app or the TinyView app but some have their own websites such as The Oatmeal.

Some of them like Art by Moga and Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle have, what seem to me, very clear color palettes. Interestingly enough, these are also the two comics that use something other than pure black for their line work. I recently experimented with this for the first time while drawing a character from The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken and I really liked it – I feel that it adds an extra layer of interest. Perhaps that’s why they have such clearly defined color palettes? Any color looks good with a black line but not every color looks good with brown line work or a deep blue-pink line.

Many of the webcomics use black and white almost exclusively and use color as just an accent. It also appears that many of them just use whatever color best fits the comic they happen to working on at the time although most of the time they do lean more towards a certain saturation (i.e. more pastels or more bright colors).

Personally, I can see how a defined color palette could be quite freeing but I can also see how it would be restricting. So the moral of the story is: do what you want and what you like the best because if you don’t like the colors you are working with, you won’t actually enjoy drawing.

Sketchbook Snapshot: Children’s Book Characters

Got to do a couple more character drawings from some children’s books that my kiddo and I have been reading lately. Both books were a lovely read. <3