Just starting colouring for the first time on my portraits wanting to know some tips

[atomic lantern]

Mainly looking for help on what I could do to improve ? Video suggestions or any sort of help that could help me out with blending or picking the right colours thank you in advance

[granite elbow]

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐛𝐡

[atomic lantern]

@granite elbow thank you I've been drawing portraits for quite some time but only just got into using colour usly my drawing tend to be just black and white so I can easily pick up on shadows but with colour it's hard since I'm new to it I've looked on tiktok n YouTube for help and haven't had any luck it's just I'm not sure how to blend ? Cause I want my lines to be smooth and blend the colour together that's kinda my struggle

[deep sleet]

1. your pencil strokes are heavy right now. Lighten you hand up a bit. You can always go darker, but once you go dark it's done and going lighter is hard.

2. for the background, your pencil coloring is all over the place. Pick one "line" to move the pencil on and stick with it for the whole background.

3. Search terms for tutorials will be "color shading practice".

[atomic lantern]

@deep sleet I used a red Texter for the background then it ran out of ink so that's why some the the background lines look abit funny which I probably should of used a red pencil for it and yeah my pencil strokes are all over the place and my pencil strokes are heavy cause I'm so used to using heavy strokes with my portraits I probably should have tryed with lighter lines and with drawing and colouring with colour pencils with the drawing should I draw it out with colour pencils or grayled ?

[deep sleet]

You don't use lines as much with color work if you want smooth shading as an effect. You lightly rub the side of the color lead along the paper, just enough to get color on the paper. Do a single pass around your edges first, aiming to not go outside your edge, and move inwards. Be gentle with shading work.

Understand that coloring with marker and coloring with pencil are different things completely and will look very different. Marker puts color down on the paper differently. So your techniques will be different for each.

[granite elbow]

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫. 𝐀𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 . 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

@deep sleet 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭?

[atomic lantern]

@granite elbow yeah I will give my work my time and try be slower with each pencil stroke and layer of colour

[granite elbow]

@atomic lantern 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭. 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐁𝐭𝐰 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

[atomic lantern]

@granite elbow that's good what are you learning right now ?

[granite elbow]

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬