zomg, so pretty ;3;

Hiiiirooooshima ;_;

Nicely colored!

I still love your artwork! Amazing

Thanks!! howve you been doing??

All has been well, got a good paying job and want to see more of the country. Hows your good self?

use less water if you wanna saturate more? or you could stretch your paper beforehand. i usually don't bother, but to me it looks like you just need to use a lot less water. it's not that tuff to saturate h20 cullz.

not to sound preachy: just what i've found helpful in doin watercolour work over the years

still looks nice though! very beautiful n soft

Well, I get stuck on doing multiple layers of soft colours to build up areas, so I apply and reapply new layers of colour. :x
Whats a good way to do do better transitions into darks and lights without having to relayer repeatedly?
I thank you for your input!

Hmm, well I mean it sorta depends on the look you're going for. I'm by no means a master or anything, so feel free to take my advice with a grain of salt.

Generally, I've found that people who really like having lots of control when they paint and like to get everything just so and perfectly smooth etc usually gravitate away from watercolour. This could also just be the influence of the people who've taught me, but I've developed a strong belief that watercolour is a medium that is best allowed to work a little on its own. I personally really enjoy the weirdass shit that it does when you let water pool and dry, layer strange things on top of each other, etc. However, doing this tends to really call attention to the watercolour-iness of what you're doing, and may not be the best way to create smooth transitions, very specific detail/texture, etc. I also tend to be a lot less picky about the exact colouration of my stuff, and really enjoy using simple colours and layering/mixing on the painting itself to create an optical mix of what i want rather than mixing colours on the palette to be exactly what i want and then putting them in. I find this loose way of working extremely rewarding with watercolour, because it loves to do it's own thang and is constantly making beautiful things happen that i can attribute to something other than myself. lol

HOWEVER, to actually answer your question as best i can, transitions are pretty hard with watercolours, yeah. if you want to make seamless transitions of a very subtle nature, then it might really not be your medium. or maybe, i just don't know how to do that. you should try feathering, i.e. putting some very dark/saturated colour down in a spot, then cleaning your brush (quickly, obv), and putting some clear water right next to that saturated colour. the colour should "feather" out into the clear water, and will create a light-dark transition as it gets farther away from the source. However, it's difficult to control this, and you might not like the texture it produces.

I don't know if you're working wet into wet or not, but working that way could also be a way you could get more saturation/transitions into your work without doing many layers. if you can get your whole area wet and then just keep adding colour where you want it, while cleaning your brush and moving the pigment about to where you want it, you should be able to get some decent transitions going. this can tend to get kinda wet and produce those little rings of darker colour outside the wet area, but I love that stuff so I have no problem with it. again, my experience with watercolour is that it resists strict control. i've definitely seen beautiful beautiful watercolours by old masters etc that have a ridiculously tight and detailed aesthetic, but i do not know how to do that. lol

another thing about that last bit: are you using tube colours or colours in a pan? if you're using tube colours it should be easier for you to mix specific colours and get them really saturated, since you can mix the actual paint w/o water first and still have it in its most saturated form. however, if you're using pan colours and are also trying to mix specific colours on a palette, then you necessarily have to get them wet first and thus dilute them in order to mix. it's also very difficult to make a lot of a colour if you're mixing from a pan. this is why i like to work with basic colours - i can just take them at full saturation out of the pan and don't have to worry about keeping track of exactly how i've mixed something/how saturated it's getting, etc. it's much easier to get things really dark if you can keep them from getting watery.

hope this helps! sorry if it's a bit "tl;dr". i'd love to see some crazi saturated watercoloury stuff from you.

I just re read this, super helpful. I thank you greatly for sharing all of this!

Do you ever soak'n'stretch your watercolour paper with gumstrip? You can really splash about & reduce buckling on stretched paper.

it's probably kinda slightly narcissistic for me to love Hiro generally/especially in this, right?? I love the way you mixed up translucent & more opaque whites, there's places where it really seems to glimmer & shine. The way you flooded the surface with really bold, direct wet colour is really refreshing & the mirroring from sky to ground gives a gorgeous unified feeling to the environment. Landscapes!! You've really got an eye for 'em~

Oh neat, no Ive never heard of that!
I really did like how the colouring came out, all soft and flowy but not really realistic. <3<3<3

Ooooh, I love the surreal color scheme on this. 'Tis beautiful!

Its so glowey!

Watercolors are pretty horrible. But I feel like you seriously level up when you figure out how to use them in new and interesting ways.

That said, I have no idea how you managed such precise lines and shadows with your watercolor. There's so much color and gravity to this piece. <3

I think the coloured lines and white I put in there makes it look more precise.
I miss your stuff it was totally my fave.

I like it. And hey now. ;n; Thanks. <3

I have always loved their relationship so much.

Me too derpderp :3 ♥