Watercolor is Easy, After You Learn This

hello my friend welcome to this new watercolor tutorial I've seen many watercolor beginners they they just wanted to see their progress in watercolor because they are spending so much of time and that's exactly I wanted to bring and I wanted to bring a very quick understanding to make things easier watercolor is easy and after you apply some of the techniques after you practice in a certain way you will definitely see watercolor your watercolor is actually improving the classic example I can just take this quick sketch I just did it and the reason I just made this a sketch in the very random paper it's a notebook this is from my kid drawing book it's not a fancy not at all it's a very random paper drawing paper it's a novel paper which I've taken from my kid school book and I'm going to show you if you apply if your if your mindset is right direction everything is good watercolor is not so complicated what you think it's very easy and after you learn certain technique certain practice you will see a tremendous growth in your watercolor learning so this is exactly I'm just trying I will you will see in this tutorial before you start this I would request you to please subscribe my channel and click on the bell icon I'm also offering you a very interesting loose watercolor technique that will help you to learn and understand how to create a loose watercolor artwork so check that out the link I've given in the description I'm sure you will you're going to enjoy this lesson so don't miss that now coming back to this particular practice you have to sketch the very first thing you have to sketch and this is where I'm seeing a lot of lagging in many watercolor beginners because they just want to escape this now even if you just try something like this and now you'll be saying oh it's already drawn I mean how can how can we draw something like this I have taken this again this paper which is again from my kid drawing book you can just do something very straightforward you can just do sketches like this like this you don't need to be very precisely doing everything neat and clean just do something like this which will help you to understand the light and depth even if you in art college and all you will be asked to paint and draw I mean the draw especially the pencil strokes for almost like a couple of years and that's exactly brings the basic of this the reason I'm just telling you to do something like this because if you wanted to see the growth in your watercolor journey then I think this is a very mandatory step you will be taking all you have to do is just do certain seeds what is the seeds you have the seeds of this the depth and the light the seeds in all of these areas right and the transparency of this lamp the softness the depth this is exactly what you need in watercolor what you see here is this this contrast these are something this stokes these are the stokes this is what you will be required in watercolor when you when you apply basically when you apply the color into your paper now see this is a very basic sketch right how many times honestly you tell me if you are if you are trying to learn watercolor tell me how many times you you practice this sincerely you ask yourself don't tell me you ask yourself am I doing this am I doing certain kind of practice in a regular basis I see what it does is once you do this let's do the force of this these stokes are so important my friend I see this lights you can use eraser when you can erase and get some highlight here you can have some depth more that light is supposed it which is coming from this direction then this does the right and the seeds goes here sorry the seeds goes here this direction see this is the learning these are the the learning you will immediately get to know okay where this seeds has to go and which direction I was just doing in this way right the light is coming from this side that's why you see there's a lot of light in that direction right so if you do something like this right how much time it took you just take five minute this is your base this is your base of everything your your watercolor is completely depend and how many whatever the number of time you wanted to draw it because see there is a gap here so you need to have a some more gap here so you need to have proper sketch something like this do something like this in a regular basis that's exactly this is your first approach and this is basically helping you this will help you to make watercolor looks very easy now you'll be asking okay so what this is the the first step now what should I do how I convert this in a watercolor all right so now what you will do is now this let me just keep in this way what you see here just I don't want you to take several color from here take only one color choose one color I'll probably I'll take let me see maybe I'll mix this two color make it a little darker because I don't have a black color otherwise we can use it I'm making this the darker pigment okay I'm just making a lot more darker pigment using ultramarine blue and burnt sienna all right now what happened is I will just take this particular color most it looks like a sepia and I will use I'll apply this learning okay I'll just take this this one here we have this learning possibly the light is coming from that direction so I'm just taking a lot of water and making things here and here we have a little lighter pigment here it's a gloss and now I'll use this one like this okay very quickly you really don't need to have a lot of time doing something like this okay and I just applied it here light something like this and now here we have there's a bench sort of things and we also have here maybe a couple of fruit maybe apple and since we are using the only one color so we'll use that same color here for both the places here we have this picture frame so basically you are making a composition okay and this might be the cloth and it's bold all right so now this is your first layer just assume that this is your not assume that this is this is basically your first layer how much time it took five minute sketching and two minute or three minute drawing six seven minute you're you're done with your first layer including sketches like how many times you do something like this tell me honestly how many times are you spending on I mean one hour doing very consciously driven things like that no you don't need that much you have this much of time I mean until until unless you really want to make that you will reach to that level but at this moment since you are learning you have to stick this okay now let's don't work anything until it's not right let it dry okay now you see the paper is dried and this is the time when you can go for this the second layer did you say that the second stokes I made right let's go for a second stoke so your the second layer is your the stokes which you have applied in the sketch so this time you need to make it a little bit darker than this what we have already done it I hope you are able to see my screen so this lamp has got some depth here and there I'm just trying to make things a little more darker colors are same I'm not changing the color so wherever it's required I'm just applying the depth here and there the upper part of this lamp and now we have this section some bit of work here and this the second seeds here goes something like this now you see the difference how it is coming your first layer and the second layer it comes like this right so and this has some now the same thing it goes here into this section all I'm just trying to do here is playing with the darker pigment and the light contrast generating the contrast okay here we have bigger patches here and there don't don't ever scared doing something like this some big patches like something like this because that's basically the real pleasure of water and if you just start doing this if you start learning all that you will see the real growth is basically started happening and you just if you start doing something like this in regular basis imagine what is going to happen okay it will just change the way you have been struggling with some of the things that everything is going to be changed okay everything is going to change and don't be I mean whatever I'm just making it don't try to make things beautiful and all that that's not I'm even I'm just doing I can do much better than this what I've just done but I don't I don't have intent I have an intent to tell you how to practice that brings changes that brings real learning you right so see these patches again it goes here because this side will be much darker here because this side is something comes here these are maybe little darker pigment here okay now come to this flower will reach will come here later or else we'll just make some work here this you know one I mean and I'm using I'm not even changing the brush basically it's the same yeah patches in there now see the how things are actually coming in right it started building now some patches here in this section right here this apple some of the patch here and there that's all it's all about how you are applying the the right amount of water and here we've got the another apple here in this section this is a great way I mean if you I'm telling you if you start doing something like this you will see you'll see like things are changing things are real changes are happening in your watercolor journey let's make this color a little darker here you need some more depth though we are still in second layer but things are basically it's coming out the texture of this apple you see it's a very random approach do you see my hand is allowing me to stop no I'm just working I'm just working I'm just enjoying the process whatever it comes because I see many many beginners basically when they apply the color they very consciously apply something like this shouldn't get I mean there shouldn't be any problem there shouldn't I should not do any mistake so all that things are actually stopping you and that's the reason I've just taken this paper my friend if I would have spent $20 paper and then I would have really thought about it no I would not spend my I would not ruin my paper I have invested into it and I'm not going to make any mistake I'm going to spend my time I'm going to make this beautiful and that mindset is basically ruining your experience okay and I'm not saying I'm not against those paper or good materials I'm not you should but for the practice purpose you should have and I'm inviting all the manufacturers as well because this is my biggest problem I see for the practice purpose it's really it's really not worth to spending hundreds of dollar for the paper there should be a proper paper where I can I can freely paint anything or else I'll be relying on such paper which is not meant for watercolor I'm using it this drawing paper which is still good for my practice but this is attention to all the manufacturers all the companies to give attention to this to the paper create a paper for practice work alright not everyone is making a gallery artwork okay let's come back to this let's make some more possibly now you just think about we are making the final round which is third layer though it's not dried I would suggest you not to work until it's not dried but I see there is a something is already dried and I'll just try to make a very some somewhere here and there I'll just make some some highlight okay so that's my that's my intent here to make things a little highlight on that surface and all right so make little more patches here and there so this gives you a very clear picture all right so now you see how something if you just imagine that if you start creating like this okay what is going to happen can you imagine that I'm telling you from my own experience that if you start doing something like this you will see tremendous growth from here from this do sketches come back to this apply these learning apply this learning to your to your painting the learning you happening from here the light composition right so this composition is so important recently I just made this composition for my patreon members you can see more but now I see this is the composition I've just made for my patreon members and I'm inviting you I'm inviting all of you to come and join the it's not about the tutorial it's not about you know the overall journey it's about how you are connecting with your similar mindset of people thousands of people there as my members and they are learning they are connecting they're sharing there they are they're inviting there's a lot many activities going in my forum and I'm inviting all of you to come and join me support me there with a just a minimal membership fee and even if you don't want to support or even if you don't willing to be there you just watch this what's this process and learn from there and come back to my forum and you can upload your artwork and you get your feedback the people will see will because see when you are in a you know in that space where you are trying to improve your watercolor there is a thousands of people have a similar mindset and they're in the same journey and it's very important for you to join that group join that you know such kind of a forum where you are seeing lots of people are basically continuing with their journey so check that out link I've given and and you'll see some some real learning happening in your watercolor journey alright so I hope this particular artwork has given you some interesting learning let me know what do you think of this as I said this is this kind of a learning is something takes your watercolor forward and if you believe that watercolor is is very tough and unforgiving then I don't agree with you okay it's just that you're not giving your diligent effort that's all it is very forget you know it's a very easy a very interesting medium I know a lot of many people say it's very easier than do but it's not true I was also in the same mindset it's just a mindset and a certain practice the behavior you all you need to change that and look at this medium as a first price perspective right so thank you so much I'll be coming with a new video very soon till then take care and enjoy