"art"

AHH thanks so much! (: I find I usually like one (1) brush and use it for an entire piece. like this painting was done with the one brush below (and on procreate I've been loving Shiyoon Kim's Ink brush)

its just how you go using it? like I would do big fill in's with the brush and then add color by hatching it in!

I find hatching helps meld the colour's together, your eyes just put two and two together, so it does the job of colouring just fine.

Like if you look at Barcelonas jersey. It has hatches of blue in the red of the jersey... but to our eyes, especially when at a distance, it appears more purple than anything!

so same kinda applies here! when using this method while applying colours with a huge saturation or tone disparity the hatches will pop out alot more - the orange and grey/purplish hatches. so you can really experiment and get the texture/colour to pop!

but to get back on track! one thing I do to try to keep a painting harmonious is picking an overall base colour!

So in the early stages of this piece I used a light beige as Beatrice's base, and you can see I plan to make this a warmer piece.

I then applied some colours over the base on a different layer, more saturated than normal for her palette!

And then I reduced the opacity of that saturated layer, so it would meld into the warm beige of the base

and then add details on afterwards, hatching them on to keep it consistent. While we know her dress is blue, it's really just desaturated and grey leaning.

But because the desaturated warm-blue contrasts with the red/orange warm tones in the final piece, it still pops out while being harmonious!

and voila! you can still see the base colour with hatches applied so it retains its warmer quality!