What colour do you sketch with?

Posted 5 years, 3 months ago by SonieTheDog

Pretty simple question. What colour do you sketch with and why? This is assuming you're going to line the sketch and not use it as lineart

I use to sketch in red but a friend of mine is colour blind, so they see red as yellow. After they told me that I started to sketch in light blue, and I've been doing that ever since

No7

I usually sketch in red and when i'm lining I lower the opacity! But if i'm drawing 2 characters, I use green for the second character

Emiju

I sketch with the color of the characters eyes!

I'm not sure why did I start doing it, been doing it for so long haha! It's especially helpful when working with more than one character

jukeboxes

I usually set the background to a dark grey and sketch with a lighter grey ^^ recently, though, I've been using neon-ish blue, pink, and purple to distinguish different parts of the sketch from each other, and make it easier to look at.

ducclord

i use any saturated colour but my go to is red and blue! When Im boutta line it though, I have the opacity reduced so they become a light shade :v and I also dont accidentally line the wrong layer difkdjs,m

vampyric

i've been known to change it up depending on the mood, but my default is a pale grey that will get darker as i add additional sketch layers. i've worked with light blue before as well in a similar way, but recently, to avoid the 'black lines problem' i've been sketching in a red-tinted medium gray.

Revvin_in_Red

If I'm sketching digital I use rainbow really.. a different color for each piece of the sketch. I don't know what but it just works better for me.

Traditionally though I tend to use either light blue or a vibrant orange depending on what the feeling of the picture is or my particular mood that day.

nen

i use black with a low opacity brush!

TotesallyRad

I tend to just pick a random color, but more often than not it's a pretty neon green I start with at least
When it's multiple characters I tend to pick a color from them to sketch in, like some others have mentioned doing!

FablePH

I have two sketch styles! When I plan to take a piece out of the sketch phase and into something with proper lineart, I use a light red. If the piece is just going to be a sketch, I typically leave my lines black. Red is the easiest for me to visualize and doesn't hurt my line of vision when I go to lineart, so I've found that the best color to work with for more advanced pieces.

entipikal

Black, but if I need to draw something over it that contrasts I use red or blue! Usually red