Hi! Hello! Big fan of your work. Each aspect of your paintings and sketches seem so thought out and organic. It’s a HUUUGE inspiration for me. I tend to have full on minutes long sessions where I just zoom in and try to observe the little details, understand the process. They’re truly magical in a sense. Especially to colors, oh my god the colors.

Is there any specific reason why some of your sketches use two different tones/colors? What’s your thinking process when it comes to that? Would you recommend trying out this method?

hi hi, thank you so much! so glad to hear you appreciate the details in my work 🥺

the only reason for my two/three tone sketches is cause it looks cool! i like colors 🤭 around a decade ago i tried sketching with a lighter colored pencil + refine the drawing/add weight to the lines with a darker colored pencil, and i really liked the result. here’s one of those drawings:

it looks fairly monochrome, but i did in fact use a warmer light gray & dark navy pencils. i drew it after a year long break from drawing (no longer remember the name of the website that hosted the reference photo, unfortunately; it was an artist ref tool), and it just looked nice. i’ve enjoyed sketching/drawing with two colors ever since; i don’t even have a full rainbow set of colored pencils, just a scattering of various colors i bought for the sake of pairing them into aesthetically pleasing duos 🤭 to be clear, i’m obviously far from the first person to have used two colors in a drawing (duh 🤭), this ask just reminded me of the first time i did it in this way.

i think it’s fun, especially if you get a bit tired of graphite pencil/charcoal sketching (i do recommend sealing the finished drawing so it doesn’t smudge!). same for digital sketching, i like sketching digitally in different styles, and colorful overlays/gradient maps is just one of them.