What colour do you sketch with?

Posted 5 years, 2 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

RustHeart

I always have done the first rough sketch in red then the slightly more refined one in blue. Both are very bright shades, I just bring down the transparency on the red when I start sketching over it.

AlleycatIrony

i rarely sketch digitally (normally it's all traditonal) but when i do i use pink!

reinapepiada

depending on my mood & confidence, i either sketch in cyan or grey! sometimes in black and i lower the opacity after :O and i also do the thing where i use different colors depending on the complexity of the sketch

WhiskeyWorks

I almost exclusively sketch in purple on a grey canvas. For some reason the combo is just suuuper pleasing to my eyes. Occasionally I'll add layers in other colours for clothes and hair, etc, just so I don't get confused, but I'll still generally shift those to the same shade of purple after some cleanup. Example under the cut:


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TenMomentsTill

I'll typically use black for characters and then red for sketching in the background.

creamyjam

I typically sketch in the characters eye color, especially if I'm doing huge group shots. If characters have similar or the same colored eyes I use colors that I think fits them so most of the time my sketches can range from any color from black to red, red to blue, blue to green, and green to orange.

Makes it just easier to have a feel for the char for me and be able to make a sense of my sketches lmao

-Alex-

Flat black. When I need to do the actual sketch or lineart, I lower the opacity and sketch on a new layer.

FellowPigeon

Most of the time I sketch in a blue. I tend to do several sketch layers so each time I raise the opacity

Kattenkvvaad

Either black (on a low-ish opacity) or bright red

Hanae

i sketch with black then color over it u vu