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

hanachu

I sketch in a light brown. I use Pokemon Art Academy and that's the first available color option so I just stick with it. Plus it's easy on my eyes and blends well with many colors if I paint over it.

glizzrybear-sell

Lately I just sketch in black and use other colors like red (or blue) to sketh out details/overlapping materials!

Swissy

I used to sketcy with pure red. Nowadays, i use black-ish blue since it's better in my eyes

aaawhyme

black, blue and red. 

black is the base colour, and blue and red are for differentiating the various parts of the sketch, if i start getting too confused with the all black... i have messy sketches so this is necessary

cinsin

on digital art, i normally start out with red. lately ive been making the sketches pink just for fun haha- if there's multiple parts to the drawing, i'd still start with red, then go to blue and green

Prankster

Maroon on a cream/tan background

jellyfishstars

Light blue or grey!

akhayashi

I always sketch in bright blue, and when I finish it I put a black layer with clipping mask above it, to turn the lines black. Then I lower its opacity and do the rest (lineart, colors...)

grael

honestly i use whatever color i last used for another piece, but it's usually just black or a dark shade of pink! theyre my favorite colors :0c

Trundlebug

I used to do light blue, pink, or other lighter colors, but then I realized that it actually effects how the lineart looks to my eyes -- the lighter colors give the illusion of lines not being as full. In delicate areas like hands or eyes, this can suck, because when I line over it in black I can't get the same look.

Now I usually just do a darker grey color and brighten since the base layer in corel doesn't have an opacity function.

Peony

Usually I stick with brown or dark blue, but when it comes to commissions the color I'm using is generally the darkest color in the reference's palette!