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Tips ! Illustration 3
Use a combination of regular and watercolour pencil.
Work in layers.
When blending the colours together go the opposite direction of the previous
colour to make blending more smooth.
Use other colour rather than black to make it look realistic .
Use colour pencil for the outline instead of regular pencil so that it will blend
with the shading .
Materials
Faber castell tri colour pencil
faber castell watercolour pencil
eraser .
Colour Palette
The amanita muscaria is probably the most popular image of a mushroom where
everyone is familiar with in pop culture .The english name for it is called fly agaric.It
started of as a white bud and continues to get its red colour as it grows.The vibrant red
colour is surely an indication that the mushroom is poisonous when consumed.For this
mushroom in order to achieve that vibrancy we will use alot of red orange and purples
to recreate the glossy looking cap .Time taken 5 hours.
watercolour regular colourpencils.
pencil
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