#jyakusha

thnankyu 🥺 well it truly does depend on what style im using ! plus im quite bad at explaining my process & i dont like doing timelapses lmao im sorry, but if u struggle w specifically painting a lot then id totes recommend messing w gradients then blending w them or layering them w a low opacity pen and color picker . ive only done this method a few times since i prefer my other ones BUT, nonetheless, it seems good for ppl who havent gotten used to rendering !

i dont know what rendering style of mine ur referring to in specific, im gonna assume u like the type i do on mspaint/aggie w the flat brushes ? well for that my best friends are always "making the canvas way bigger than im used to in comparison to csp" and the default mspaint color pallet . i end up barely using the color wheel since i basically blend them together by stacking colors on top each other to get the specific one i want . for more complex art on mspaint i tend to save some colors by dotting them on the drafts canvas & it ends up looking a real life pallet haha, but usually its not as many as the example here

speaking of this drawing though ! i also like to make little checkpoints for whenever im gonna do smth im a little unsure of will work, so i have some process pics of it

i also have this unfinished rodya

u can certainly notice the way i dont only stick to the marker, but the default (finer details/scratches) and calligraphy (blocking out colors without opacity) aswell !

however, alternatively, if ur referring to the style of my most recent posts theeen well . for that its much more of a manual process where i dont even use opacity 90% of the time to help choose colors

once ive done the base, i just start off w 2 colors for the shading (one is lighter w more saturation, the other is darker), then add a 3rd more contrasting one to the tone of the colors (warmer art gets a colder third shading color, vice verse), then a 4th thats usually a color borrowed from elsewhere on the piece (i love recycling colors a ton, & do it extremely often w my painted aliased art, but with this more recent art ive been kinda lazy abt it), then a 5th thats the base color but slightly more vibrant just to make it all pop better from a distance (in general, seeing ur art from a distance & keeping that distance in mind can be v helpful to combat perfectionism, especially for painting (this specific artstyle isnt painted BUT it is aliased so its basically just as important . okay anyway))

you can also see how often i add little lines to """blend""" them together (its like they r holding hands kinda ....) . what i love to do w these lines usually (especially in a painted piece that uses anti-aliasing instead since i have better personal free range w colors) is make them a 2.5th color thats between the brightness & saturation of the 2 first ones, since it gives the shading more depth . but uhm this drawing was quite honestly a pretty lazy one, so i did not do that for this, bc i was tired ! therefore the more limited colors lol sorry dante

hope this was of any help !