Tutorial: watercolors BG by idheen

I'm still studying english, so PLEASE TELL ME if you see mistakes ( grammar/vocabulary) I need to improve my english and i will be happy if you help me

This is a quick done tutorial sorry u_u and only for background >_<''''

If i'm not lazy you will have a full tutorial next time XD

Dellamanda Featured By Owner Sep 18, 2014 Hobbyist General Artist

thank you so much love you!!!

idheen Featured By Owner Sep 20, 2014 Professional General Artist

you're welcome!

Annabells117 Featured By Owner Aug 3, 2014

Lovely, thank you. Is drawing gum the same as masking fluid? I have a 'masque pen' and it puts green masking fluid. I don't really use it very well. Lol

idheen Featured By Owner Aug 3, 2014 Professional General Artist

yeah it's the same! i don't know why it has so many different names... i've been wondering, is this pen useful for small details?

ehm-chan Featured By Owner Jun 5, 2014

umm umm what is the white gouache for? LOL it gives nice effects here, but how and when do I use it?

idheen Featured By Owner Jun 26, 2014 Professional General Artist

i used it only to make small sparkles XD i remembered using it when the watercolors was still wet

broror-nam Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2013 Student General Artist

this is so cool!

idheen Featured By Owner Aug 1, 2013 Professional General Artist

thanks!

KarinaPotter Featured By Owner May 29, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

awesome!! =]

idheen Featured By Owner May 29, 2013 Professional General Artist

thanks! ^^

sillycoyfish Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I used masking fluid on sections that were already watercolored, and it lightened them up,so I have to retouch, but I really really lke this tutorial!~ beautiful drawing.

idheen Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2013 Professional General Artist

the same happen to me, it was cause by the brush (because i need to water it if i don't want to damage it) so now i use another tool to apply drawing gum: toothpick!

sillycoyfish Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

ohh! thank you! I thought it was due to the masking fluid itself.

i have made a drawing just now, and it ried to use your technique. but your sky came out much nicer. thank you!!

idheen Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2013 Professional General Artist

you're welcome ^^

lemony-monster Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2012 Student General Artist

Say I've found this gum you mentioned, how do you use it?

idheen Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2012 Professional General Artist

sorry for the mistakes ( both vocabulary and grammar xD i just woke up)

-use an old brush to aplly it on your drawing

it dries quickly that why it's better to use an old one and it's almost impossible to clean it...but

-you can wash your brush with a soap, it prevents the drawing gum to stick ( not 100% but at least you can reuse it several times~)

but you need to do it quite often... ( wash mine every 1 or 2 minutes xD i'm paranoid ha ha)

-let the dawing gum on your drawing dries. After that you can use your wtaercolors !

- time to remove it! use an eraser or your finger. Be careful, don't try to do it quicly because you'll damage your sheet of paper! ( use at least a 200g watercolor paper )

it's hard to explain how to use it xD

lemony-monster Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2012 Student General Artist

Thank you for the explanation! Don't worry about your mistakes, I can still understand it perfectly! At least now I have the gist on how to use it, thank you very much

idheen Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2012 Professional General Artist

you're welcome ^^

Masha05 Featured By Owner May 17, 2012 Professional General Artist

where you buy this gum??

idheen Featured By Owner May 17, 2012 Professional General Artist

it can be found in any art store in France with other watercolor mediums ^^ i'm sure you can find it in some art supplies websites

fLy-sLy Featured By Owner Dec 8, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

best bg tutorial ever.....i must get me some of that gum

p3NGu1Ns-gAloR3 Featured By Owner Oct 20, 2011

wow...

that's really awesome

lunarprime Featured By Owner Jul 18, 2011

ah! so that's how you protect the chara from being topped by the background color! drawing gum

and salt for texture, too!

Yarbro Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2011

Salt, it can do stuff!

idheen Featured By Owner Apr 18, 2011 Professional General Artist

MegBuns Featured By Owner Apr 14, 2011 Professional Digital Artist

I love how detailed your tutorial is!

great job!

idheen Featured By Owner Apr 17, 2011 Professional General Artist

thanks ^^

Denneldum Featured By Owner Jan 31, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

this is the first time i've heard of drawing gum

idheen Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2011 Professional General Artist

everybody tells me that... 030 i've some books about watercolors painting and they always use it 'XD

PeachyLatte Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2011 Student General Artist

_{If I'm correct drawing gum is another term for Liquid Masking/Masking Fluid or friskit.
Because it serves the same purpose and mine is also gray. It comes in other colors too.}

idheen Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2011 Professional General Artist

even in french it has several different names x'D i use this name because it's the one written on my bottle ^_^'

PeachyLatte Featured By Owner Feb 24, 2011 Student General Artist

_{Yes it has so much names that it gets confusing! ^-^
But here on deviantart I see that many artists just call it liquid masking.
Though one of my art books also calls it drawing gum, it sounds cooler too. xD
Great tutorial by the way, I will try using salt again~}

penxpaper Featured By Owner Jan 6, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Beautiful and very helpful! Love love!

Cha-san Featured By Owner Dec 31, 2010 Student Digital Artist

Soooo... just spread some grains of salt around and it becomes fancy? Just normal salt that I can find in the kitchen?

Very useful and understandable tutorial! Thank you for making it!

idheen Featured By Owner Dec 31, 2010 Professional General Artist

yes the salt you use for cooking ^^ (coarse salt works too, and you'll have biggest "patterns"

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thanks i'm happy to hear it ^^/

XFrancyX Featured By Owner Nov 24, 2010 Student General Artist

great!!

idheen Featured By Owner Nov 24, 2010 Professional General Artist

thanks!

Baby-Suzu Featured By Owner Sep 23, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

^{Oh, man... this is great! Thanks for taking the time to make this. ^^
Your tutorial is extremely helpful for me since I've wanted to use watercolors!}

I am not sure if anyone has told you about your grammar! QAQ;;
^{"Please read the artist's comment before ><" makes sense even though it is a bit broken. It would be more complete if put like: "Please read the artist's comment before you respond ><"- or something along those lines.

(For step #4) "a first layer" works well, but if it were changed to "the first layer" it would be more grammatically correct.

(Also for step #4) "I laid a second layer in the top" gets your point across. However, "I laid a second layer along the top half of the background."

Your english is already quite good... but I hope this helps you in some way!}

idheen Featured By Owner Sep 24, 2010 Professional General Artist

thank you ^^

oh i'll try to edit the tuto as soon as i can >x<" thank you so much for you help! ♥

hrafnsdottir Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2010

Merci beaucoup pour ce magnifique tuto :3

idheen Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2010 Professional General Artist

hu hu j'espère qu'il a vraiment permit d'aider ceux qui s'intéressent à l'aquarelle X)( j'ai même pas corrigé les fautes au passage -v-")

hrafnsdottir Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2010

Justement, je me suis mise récemment à l'aquarelle, et je pense que ton tutoriel m'aide beaucoup parce que j'ai le matériel, mais pas les bases donc j'ai commencé récemment en faisant par moi même et ce que je trouvais sur le net ^^'

Donc, oui, ça aide beaucoup, merci

idheen Featured By Owner Sep 8, 2010 Professional General Artist

il faut savoir aussi que je n'ai jamais pris de cours ou quoi que ce soit donc voilà c'est peut être la meilleurs façon de faire aussi Xd

enfin je suis contente d'entendre que çà aide! ^^
( et si possible et si j'ai le temps surtout, j'essayerais de faire un tutorial complet >.< voir même un l'utilisation de medium divers qui sont bien utile x})

hrafnsdottir Featured By Owner Sep 10, 2010

XD Et bien, tu as vraiment du talent ^^

(Ah oui, ça serait vraiment sympa de faire un tutoriel complet *o* En tout cas, bonne continuation x3 )

idheen Featured By Owner Sep 10, 2010 Professional General Artist

c'est surtout une question d'entrainement et beaucoup de passion ^^

merci =3

BlackWolfWings Featured By Owner Jul 29, 2010

you probably get this a lot, but how do you scan your pictures and get the colors that nice? when i scan mine, i always have to edit it in Adobe programs, but the colors still turn out wrong :/

idheen Featured By Owner Jul 31, 2010 Professional General Artist

urg D= i scan my pic, and edit it with photophiltre ><' the colors of the real drawing is better for mine too, don't worry @___@ just try to change the saturation o__<"