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

Great-Vegetables

I sketch with any  variation of red for one person drawings. For something with complication I normally chose green or blue to not blend in with the  red original sketch.

Jovian

I usually use cyan and then use yellow and then magenta if the sketch starts getting so complex that I have a hard time picking out individual features.  I rarely ever need more than that, I usually use different layers for sketches of characters and BG so the details don't get lost.

Aarix

usualllyyyy I sketch in thick brushes with black or very dark red, on a dull light-brown b/g. I might throw in some off-white to separate out something important.

bunnymousefox

I sketch with a desaturated pink; it's easy to blend in once I render.

Flakes-Of-Ash

I usually base the color I sketch in on whatever color the character I'm drawing is. For instance, if the character has a purple shirt, I'd sketch in purple. There's no real reason I do that, it's just how I usually sketch out my drawings.

WhiteMask

Light gray Or if I have multiple characters I do a version of a light color that they have a lot of Like SU characters, I Always will do their colors but light, almost white

TheRoundEggy

Mine tends to be random. I typically don't really care much about the color of the sketch as long as it's not too dark or too light haha.

Although I did get a digital brush pack recently which included a brush that mimics a pencil in the traditional field, so when using that brush I most likely will go for a grey or dark grey color c:

rosecoloredgutz

Red, Blue and Green! Red for the main basics like the body, blue for the other basics like the face and hair, and green for clothes and details! I know it's a lot of colors but I'm a beginner and sketch kinda messy so it helps to have everything mapped out nicely :')

MistCat

I mostly use red, sometimes black but occasionally I'll use the theme color of the character I'm drawing. 

Poluslus

Depends on how complex is the thing I wanna draw, moat of the time I do the base sketch in light red then lower the opacity and use red again, but if it has too many details then I do the clothes/details in blue