Did I Ruin My Drawing by adding Watercolor?
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I don't think I ruined it, but I do like both versions of the drawing, with and without color. I am definitely going to keep experimenting with adding color, especially since I spent so many years shying away from it. But that won't be all I do, I'll still do black and white drawings........ I want to do everything! But there are only so many hours in the day! It's difficult!
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I've got a hunch the answer is "no," but I'll report back in 15 mins.
Exactly same
Well,I believe that colours is not the best ability of the master Peter; maybe he should have chosen another piece to destroy instead this amazing Master piece 😅
Well?
I was right. It's great. Reminds me of something out of Howl's Moving Castle. The dark blue takes out some of the detail of the line work, but I like blue, so it works for me.
Your piano playing has also improved a lot. Inspiring, really.
Peace ✌️
What happened?!! Was it good?
I’ve always been a fan of your ink doodles but something about your exploration with colour through the watercolour medium is massively satisfying for me. P.S shoutout Squarespace for continuing to sponsor your videos, I know you’ve talked recently about views dwindling but I’ve been here for 10+ years and will continue to stick around as long as you still make videos, truly hope you can continue supporting yourself with it for the foreseeable future because you’re one in a million.
Ditto!!
Love the haircut. Love the watercolors in the drawing. Love the piano playing. And yes, some plants thrive when they are carefully tended, but in the end, they really don't need us. Which is a relief.
I love how your ink drawings are of nothing and yet still something. It's just neat how you manage that.
I liked both versions! Your line work is beautiful as always, but when you added the color it took on a graphic novel look. It made me happy to look at and imagine what story was going on in it. Thanks for sharing so much with us over the years. I always look forward to your videos! 🙂 Also, I think it is only natural to struggle with new mediums vs our comfort zones. It’s human nature regardless of hobby or profession to be uncomfortable trying something out of our “norm” in my experience. But when it comes to art I think it’s important to try new things anyway so we don’t become stagnated. It is important for growth and joy!
$45! That's highway robbery. Hubby and I trim each other's hair to save money. I haven't been out to get hair done since my wedding...some 28 years ago... back then, I thought the $15 was expensive. My Gran was a stylist and she taught me to cut hair... used to say I might need to know someday. How true she was.
wow i love this one! i really think the color adds a lot of depth to the piece! it kinda reminds me of the types of machinery you would see in dreams, where the details keep shifting whenever you change your viewpoint. awesome stuff!
What a wonderful man you are Peter. Good job on your doodling
Admittedly I have not seen the finished result yet but I believe it will be great
Your starry night song is a thing of beauty as is just about everything you do. ❤❤❤
No Matter what you do with water colour Peter it will always be Cool. I'm a believer....tip: don't use black when most of the drawing is already black ...water it down and use it more in the grey/ slate blue tones.
I feel like colour can widen a dimension of a drawing. You can explore more texture.
Beautiful piece at the end.
whoah... it turned out great. just the line work by itself is one of my favourites . amazing
Wow, I continue to be amazed by the speed of your piano progress! That is a lovely wee piece - and you look so much more comfortable than last time I looked.
I have many thoughts on your thoughts, but then this will be a novel, so suffice to say I think the addition of colour is neat! The transformation can jar a bit as you lose detail, but I love the way you used the watercolour, and it turned out cohesive and appealing. Did you mean to make the... antennae on the top left look like cattails? It felt appropriate with the botanical ramblings. ❤
absolutely love the watercolors after the linework.
I like the watercolors…seems to help create the feeling of a story. Love you, too 🤗
🎶Starry night 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Blue and yellow always work well together, I like it.
Awesome art. That piano song at the end is really good too!! :3
Peter! That piano piece was so beautiful! I'm very impressed at your skill at not only playing, but playing with feeling.
lovely!
I think the drawing looks awesome with the paint, I love the opposing blue and yellow. Also that short of the paint with the microscope was killer! I must have sat and watched it 20 times, lol.
I love the art Peter! The top left but reminds me of cattails growing out of a machine, though more mechanical (so very on topic^^)
Speaking of plants growing wild, I just finished helping my Dad mow and pull my Grandma's lawn yesterday. It was severely needed😄 And already the weeds are growing back
Hullo Peter, I loved the watercolor I think you could do more! If you’re worried about your line work scan or take a photograph. I have worked on drawings for hours, days, weeks sometimes and before I start painting I take a picture. I enjoyed your music at the end and if you’re taking requests I also vote for piano man and I’m sure you sound great playing and singing! This is my third attempt at trying to leave a comment so I will end here saying please continue to share your artistic journey with us. You’re an amazing artist and I enjoy your videos very much, thank you.
That's cool that you grew up in the Philippines. I had a similar childhood. I lived there from 1994 till 2010... I wonder if we ever crossed paths.
The color is beautiful, I love it! Your hair looks good and your piano playing is great! I used to play the piano when I was young many many years ago. You can do more piano along with the added color to your drawings and that would be fine by me! ❤
I did ruin one good drawing with colours today but yours looks refreshing!
Why I cannot get notification when you upload a video?
It works for other channels, except yours and yours is iportant!
i LOVED how the colors interact with the lines, makes it so ALIVE
I love this one! The recital at the end w nice treat.
Color looks great! you could have stopped after the application of just the blue. Everything you do is awesome though...so....
love you too
i scan my line art if i'm afraid to ruin it. just practice if it feels nice man. and maybe check out Takehiko Inoue or other people who's great with watercolors if you're up to learning the techniques. Felicia Ciao switched to watercolors from copic markers couple of years ago. And if you're into making the tiny details - just try cheapest tiny synthetic brush with a wooden handle that's nice to the touch. It can make a world of difference. Cheers, and thanks for the vibes, Peter
I still check in from time to time. Over a decade since I first started letting go of my drawing hangups.
The song is lovely. Cheers bro. I appreciate you.
The line drawing turned out nice and it's also nice with color. I like them both.
It's ok to struggle with how to feel about the relationship with nature.
There's a place for giving the grass a haircut, but there's a place for letting the plants just be magnificant and look wild.
All plants at one point were weeds. People just decided which ones were not weeds.
I have lots of animal friends who live around where I live and every time I get my lawn mowed the rabbits sit in my yard and glare at me and I have to appologize for cutting the grass. It makes me feel bad. But there are rules here about keeping lawns nice. City councils don't care what the rabbits prefer on their dinner menu.
Anyway, I enjoyed the song. It was lovely.
casual peter lore drop. wonderful work as always. cheers and good tidings !
Line only or color… both are very nice!
It's got this urban sketch feel to it. Love it.
I like the drawing with color, it adds to the machinery overtaken by nature kind of thing I see in the drawing. Also, good haircut! The song at the end I wish lasted longer, I liked it! Thank you for reminding me to breathe, I had a stressful day and you posted a video at the right time for me. 😊
LOVE IT, I used to also barely use colour now i can happily say I’m glad I made a few drawings look a little weird to figure it out a lil more. Hope to see more colour drawing or not if it not your thing anyway love the art no matter what!
Also ps keep up the good work on the piano!
Wonderful song!👏👏👏 I found the notes to be very interesting and unexpected. I love it.
I like the drawing. It’s interesting how you covered some areas in black paint. I think it stands out more. The red, blue and yellow scheme is just great I can almost hear lyrics in your music.
This is dope! U should do more of these!❤
No! Ink and wash is a beautiful and flexible combination.
I love it. That is sharp. I like the watercolor.
Looks good! Like the comic book art I've been watching being created. David Finch is a good one to watch for that in quite a few mediums. He always has a fully inked drawing before coloring it. I think he prefers acrylic so that subsequent washes don't lift previous ones. A tree falling in the woods provides an opening in the canopy so light can get to new growth. It also contributes to the soil for that growth. A continuation of life in harmony that we flatter ourselves with the idea that we interfere. The timeframe of these things is longer than our attention span. Life finds a way.
I love your art style, could you ever do some mecha art? Maybe like machine and nature, and use water colors on the nature side of things while dry and harsh on the machine side of the art pieces?
I dunno just a thought.
Hey peter, nothing wrong with doing both, black / white and color. I think the color adds another great dimension and who knows where the color will take you and isn't that the magic? Anyway the color looks really promising to my eye..
Your playing is lovely 😍
Love the addition of watercolour to your doodle. Really cool. Thank you for sharing. Love You too. 😅
Amazing work Peter the drawing is awesome
I love pampering myself by going to a nice hairdresser and always say yes to the drink that they offer. And the scalp massage is the best!!
It’s who you are. I would have used a less obliterating tint of colour - more transparency. That’s probably because I have a fear of losing any mortal thing. I have my dear, dear father’s beautiful handwriting in which I feel love in every stroke.
I enjoyed the piano at the end and I think the color makes your drawing pop. I look forward to more piano and more color in the future. Keep up the good work.
Its beautiful! The colors look great! Good luck with the weeds
As someone who lives in Cali, $45 is DEFINITELY too much for a haircut. I'm a small time character actor and I get many different hairstyles and cuts for many different roles and I usually pay 20-$35 per session. Only time it's ever been $40 or over is when I ask for a bleach or to get my eyebrows trimmed and shaped
Brilliant! (the drawing and the musical composition)
I was thinking about the topic of contrast, and colour. Naturally black on white is high contrast, but when you have a lot of black and white the contrast diminishes, so by using colour in certain areas you do gain contrast between black and white areas, and black and coloured areas.... So I think colour can help in that regard. I should also addd that some of my favourite artworks are just black and white with minimal use of one or two colours.
Personal opinion: I love your line work with just a few splashes of color. Look around the 10:30 mark of this video where there's maybe 10% color coverage. That's my jam :) Have a great day
Loved all of this 🐙
Love the addition of color to your drawing!
It is beautiful. The process is beautiful.
I think the color adds a whole new level of interestingness!
Peter, have you ever considered making an illustrated children’s book? I think your unique perspective would really help kids see the world in your beautiful way.
Thanks for the piano playing too
Oh wow! It's like a little miniature train with a robot engineer that got lost in the grass and now it's rusting and is being reclaimed by the back fence wild grasses. You didn't ruin it AT ALL. The watercolor is a very nice addition.
Also, xeriscaping is where it's at. There are several houses on our block with native plants in place of grass. One with huge shrubs and even a little dry creek bed looking thing, like some canyon of Southern Utah. I want to do it at our place but my hubby is a traditionalist so we have grass and garden flowers. Vegs in one corner.
No. Your colors are cohesive and work well. You're really good at shadows and highlights
It's fantastic with the paint !!!!
water colors are very pretty and the haircut looks good! :)
Honestly watercolor, in my experience, is the most forgiving medium. Personally i have never used a brand of watercolor paint that couldn't be removed, even after drying, with a little work by re-wetting and soaking up the pigment and water with a towel or even a dry and clean brush. Some pigments require a little extra work and attention to remove without damaging the paper or surface you are working on but generally they are removable. Even with graphite or charcoal, I usually can't get every last bit up when I erase something but watercolor is much more forgiving from my experience. Thats why it's so fun using watercolor to do super quick loose paintings in like a 10 or 20 minute window.
As an artist who works with ink, and people always ask if I am going to 'color in' my ink art, watercolor can be tough. Even with good, fast drying ink, it tends to muddy up the picture in certain spots. It can look nice for certain pieces, but the tighter your pen work is, the worse the water colors will make it. The dark blue areas in your work for example the lines are harder to discern, taking away from the finer details.
Peter, you inspire!
Hey Peter! Big fan of your work. I could have missed it, but I don't think I saw any videos on it. Have you ever tried the Kakimori Brass or Stainless Steel dip nib? I felt with it's ability to hold a bunch of ink/option to play with line width, it might be something you'd enjoy! Love the watercolors btw. ❤
It's great! Nice story.
I like the colours. Do you take a photo before the colours so then you can keep both versions?
I have the same feelings about gardening and I've been a gardener for years. Invasive plants I'm happy to remove but I still feel bad for the individual because they don't know they're in the wrong place after all. I love xeriscaping and the Kill Your Lawn movement and very keen to do it myself.
Your piano playing is beautiful, so impressive!
Sick!! (I don't mean that it is unwell, Peter. Sick actually means that it is very cool and nice!).
Welcome to getting older Peter, things aren't growing faster time is just passing quicker. You get used to it right now it still feels like new years wasn't that long ago and it's 5 months into the year!
I joke with my family about this every year, "Y'all better start putting your lists together, Christmas is basically tomorrow" in mid-June.
And there are still folks scrambling, including myself some years, to get gift ideas at the last minute 😂
🤓ahh.. Self Care! Soo important💜 more with mixed media please?🙏..Specifically neocolors and watercolor🙏??
Love it 😊❤
The color really gave it character. But without color I kinda give it my own character in my head. Interesting
Thank you for talking about the plants. I’m glad someone else feels weird about playing god. But I guess everyone/thing does it sometimes.
Personally I've liked black and white "ink drawings ", I think through talking to people about art more are drawn to color. I also was told or read somewhere art is all about the color. I like both ways.
I do think it was better before the coulouring. But it is how it ends up. Just go with it and made a new one
I do think you shoukd have add softer layers of same colour getting from light to daek.
There's too much pigments in the watercolor rendering you obtain. Maybe going step by step with less pigment and more water.
I work similarly, but with two differences you might want to consider:
1. Way less detail in the original pen & ink. Then COMPLETE it, not just decorate it, with color. Maybe use a dark gray ink instead of black.
2. Avoid using black paint. Remember: Wayne Thiebaud said shadows are blue.
Song request, "Piano man" by Billy Joel, you have to sing it too.
this is not about the artwork but fun fact about the beavers, they eat wood! particularly bark. so if you see random chewing that may be them snacking on the job
Fern Gully! The goo monster was voiced by Tim Curry
Love it! :)
Hey Peter, great art as always, I really like how the watercolors turned out!
To your thoughts about "weeds" and grass, I really like where you mind wandered, and I'm of the belief we should be learning to live with nature (as we are part of it) instead of going against it.
You could look into so-called "ground covers" instead of having regular grass that does get too tall. Maybe with some native flowers or other beneficial plants attracting some pollinators and other beauty.
Nature's been great inspiration and I always highly admired it, it always saddens me to see the desctruction we are imposing on it, at the scale we do.
If you are interested in this topic ,I would recommend you to look into the whole field of "Permaculture" which doesn't focus solely on plants but has a broader meaning involving "culture" as a whole.
Yes, the main problem is that I’m renting my house and mowing the grass is part of the lease contract, so it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of room for experimenting with ground covers, etc.
@@peter_draws I see, and you did mention it later in the video, I just had to share my thoughts half-way through watching it :)
I hope you will have your own place one day where you can experiment and find your peace with nature :)
I like it,but i am really a sucker for your linedrawings...its good that you explore i guess.
Color looks good
When you have a haircut you like, take a picture of yourself, and bring it in with you next time! (If the back is unexpected from the front, take a back photo too.)
Relatable gardening rant... I like the look of nature as it is, even the fallen down bits with new life growing from them and all of that "mess." It's life, it's beautiful. And I feel like I impose enough of my clean, square, structured will on the house. I wish I could let my yard be more free but I live in the city with all its rules. :-/
I think you'll value honest opinions on the watercolor, so mine is that I have mixed feelings on it. Some of it I quite like and other places the line work (which I really enjoyed on its own, as I always do with your art) feels like it gets a bit lost or muddled. This could be an issue more with YT compression, I'm not sure, or maybe something about the line density and how it interacted with the layering of the watercolor. Anyway I do know that I want to see you do more of it. I understand the fear of ruining something you're happy with and it's very cool to see you going for it anyway.
"Starry Night" piece was beautiful, and you seem more confident in your movement, good job practicing! It was lovely to listen to. And thank you for including the composer, I think I'd like to learn it now.
You always shine a bit of light into my day. Thank you
It has been my experience that when a drawing/image is planned, if within that planning it is decided that color is essential it cannot ruin said idea,.......perhaps. PEACE dear Brother and God bless.
Do the thing where u tie the mower to a stake in the ground, and then it runs in a spiral by itself!
You meet the Eager Beaver!!
I've experienced something similar in my area where things grow really fast. I'm like Willem Dafoe now. IT makes me uncomfortable and would likely unsettle others as well.
It's amazing
i learned how to cut my own hair so i didn't need to pay lol
it's a lot of experimentation, i have no professional technique, but even when it turns out bad there's a sense of pride knowing it's my own haircut, i did it myself and no one will have the same haircut as me(not that many would want to)
it's been 6 years of trying out shapes, colors and lengths, plus now i'm somewhat proficient at it
Love the watercolor
I guess that’s y I have hair to my waist I don’t see even paying 25 at super cuts at Walmart love the drawing with watercolor great as always bud
Tizz a good day, hark the water and ink in dyad, da day da day 🎼
No, it looks great.
Color is life!
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Yes. Disaster. Next time you go to the $45 'Salon de coiffure', show it to them and say "I want a dye".
But you made up for it with the sweet piano tune!
the song was amazing bro
I liked both versions.
Colour all the weeds with sweet music and draw curly lines in your hair