"Anyone can become an artist!" - Today this motto is more relevant than ever. Yes, yes, do not be surprised, in our time, anyone can feel like an inventive Leonardo da Vinci or an expressive Van Gogh. After all, it used to be that in order to paint your canvas, you had to study at an art school for years or, at least, finish expensive drawing courses. And everyone, regardless of gender and age, can create their own still life, portrait or landscape in just 3-5 days - just like a real master exhibiting in famous galleries.
What is the reason for this phenomenon? In paintings by numbers, which are gaining more and more popularity in the 21st century. After all, they allow to reveal the creative potential of everyone who craves it, even if they do not have enough experience or free time.
Drawing on the principle of "all inclusive"
Best of all, any home painting kit already comes with everything you need: numbered paint jars, one or more brushes, instructions, a checklist for checking shades, divided into sectors and marked with numbers cardboard or canvas with a stretcher, varnish mixture and wall fasteners for the finished painting. You can start creating right away! But first, you should choose the desired basis for the picture and get acquainted with life hacks for coloring.
Cardboard vs canvas
Experienced painters by numbers believe that it is worth starting with. After all, this material is very cheap, but at the same time it is able to absorb excess paint applied to it, which is important for beginner artists. But the cardboard does not give the paintings the texture and “realness” that the canvas gives: a little rough to the touch, already primed and stretched on a real stretcher (). Canvas, in turn, is available with a monochrome numbered outline or color. The last type of canvas is suitable even for the elderly and visually impaired, as well as children, because. coloring becomes intuitive. It is better to start with small formats and understandable subjects: animals, fish, birds, landscapes, nature or flowers. But it is worth moving on to drawing people, angels, icons or complex architectural structures after mastering the basic techniques of number painting.
With or without rules?
Of course, contemporary art no longer has clear “do's and don'ts” instructions, and the rules of contemporary art exist solely to be broken. But for this you need to know at least a little, and therefore, before you start unpacking the treasured box with canvas and paints, you should study the Internet encyclopedias in order to learn or refresh the concepts of light and shadow, line and shading, perspective and plane, front and background, color separation and contrast…
And if you are still a beginner and do not have experience in creating paintings by numbers, then it is better to follow the instructions that are in each set exactly. And when you master the basic techniques of this kind of painting, you can already work out the baggage of your techniques and chips. Moreover, there are not so many basic techniques that greatly facilitate drawing.
"Magnificent Four" methods of coloring pictures by numbers
There are 4 principles of canvas painting. You will remember them without difficulty, because they are unusually logical and functional, and so they are prompted by common sense and convenience to anyone who draws.
From light to dark
By painting over white, yellow, blue or pink areas at the very beginning, you will avoid accidental blots. After all, it is much easier to erase or block a pastel shade with another color than a bright or dark color.
If you paint at the very beginning all the large details of the picture, then you will not only avoid the blunders and blots mentioned above, but you can then correctly place the nuances and draw small details, put the right strokes and highlights. So it will be easier to compare the “small things” with the main semantic spots of the picture: agree that by painting over the vase and the three largest buds in it, it will be easier for you to place medium-sized flowers and leaves of the bouquet next to it.
Moving in this direction, you definitely won’t smear the pattern already applied on the edge with your shirt sleeve or elbow. As a rule, it is in the middle of the picture that classical artists have the main image, whether it is a hut in a pastoral landscape or a vase of fruit in an appetizing still life.
This way of moving across the canvas also allows you not to rub off the already applied paints with your elbows, they will dry out during the application, and when you get to the bottom edge, the top of the painting will be almost dry.
How to hold a brush and make strokes?
The brush is easiest and most comfortable to hold in the same way as you hold a ballpoint pen. Your hand must be supported. This is enough so that you do not get tired, and the picture is neat. To begin with, it’s worth mastering the usual strokes: just try to paint over each numbered fragment as evenly as possible, making smooth movements with a brush from left to right (if you are right-handed), putting paint in an even layer of the same thickness, without going beyond the contour.
Once you get the hang of it, you can experiment with layer thickness, hatching, and even dot painting if your artistic intent requires it. For example, if you need to draw a heavy and water-saturated rain cloud. After all, its lower part is rough and dark, which is well conveyed by small ripples of dots, and rain threads descend below, which are easiest to imitate with short oblique strokes.
Bright mix: how to mix paints correctly?
As a rule, paints are already mixed in a set, which is why there are so many numbers in it, because each of them means a certain shade, which sometimes differs only by a fraction of a tone from the previous one. If in the process of drawing you run out of the desired color, it is quite possible to mix it yourself from existing paints. Usually light tones end first of all, because there are usually more light spots in the picture than dark ones, and therefore it is enough for you to slightly dilute with white the tone that is closest in shade to the one you need. It is best to do this on a palette or a sheet of cardboard, and not directly in a jar, so as not to accidentally spoil the entire mass of paint.
Effective and Effective: Blurring the Boundaries
It's amazing, but with just two tricks - creating clear or blurry borders - you can give the picture depth, expressiveness, and a professional look. To understand in which area it is worth making the most clear contour, and where to slightly blur the edges, it is enough to carefully consider these places on the sample reproduction.
This is glitter: 3 unique types of varnish
When the picture is ready, you will probably want to give it a gloss and keep it from dust, cracking and fading by covering it with a transparent protective base.
Matte acrylic varnish is good because it dries unusually quickly, and also gives the colors extra brightness. Literally in a couple of 6-8 hours after covering the painting, you can proudly hang it on the wall and invite relatives and friends to your own vernissage.
Gloss, as the name implies, gives the image a special shine and smoothness. This is a plus if you want to smooth out some roughness, but a minus if you want to emphasize volume. The aforementioned matte does better with giving texture.
Craquelure truly magical: it allows you to nobly age a completely new picture in moments, covering the surface with a network of bizarre cobweb cracks, turning a newly created portrait or landscape into an elegant antique.
Auxiliary materials
Before starting work, you should cover the table with newspaper or film, install bright, but not eye-catching lighting, and also stock up with toothpicks and cotton swabs. The former will help to draw even the thinnest lines, while the latter will be useful in order to remove excess paint in time or correct an unsuccessful stroke. In addition, you may also need a set of brushes of the best quality and different diameters, a palette and even an easel if you are going to paint in nature or in the country.
Do not forget to put a jar of water on the table and put disposable napkins. But do not rush to immediately open all the cans of paint: acrylic quickly thickens, so open them in stages, number by number.
Frame for a man-made masterpiece: choosing the perfect frame
Acrylic perfectly imitates classic oil paint, and therefore it is worthwhile to decorate the finished picture with dignity. A textured, slightly deepened and gilded or silver-plated frame in the Baroque style will suit almost any plot: with fine ligature, vignettes or vines. After all, then the image will acquire the proper volume and become a worthy decoration of your home art gallery! ()
There are many more operational services than the 3 most common ones - police, ambulance and fire. And even accidentally getting into the color scheme of one of them is not difficult if you want to apply colors to the body in stripes. How not to get a fine and deprivation of rights, as well as how to properly paint the car in the colors of the police, ambulance and fire service in 2020, we find out in the article.
Is it possible to paint a car in the colors of the operatives?
No. This is directly prohibited by 2 regulatory legal acts at once: traffic rules and GOST R50574-2002:
- the first prohibit the operation of vehicles with color schemes of operational services not painted according to GOST,
- the second establishes a ban in principle on the use of coloring of the fire, ambulance, police services, the FSB, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the military inspection, the vehicles of the Investigative Committee and the anti-drug control agencies.
The main provisions of the Rules say that:
11. It is forbidden to use:
...
vehicles ... with special color schemes, inscriptions and designations applied to the outer surfaces that do not comply with the state standards of the Russian Federation ...
And GOST prescribes that:
It is not allowed to use in accordance with this standard color schemes, special light and sound signals on vehicles, not related to operational services.
Thus, painting with the colors of the traffic police and the police in general, ambulance and fire assistance for 2020 is prohibited.
Also keep in mind that GOST R50574-2002, unlike a number of others, is mandatory (section 1 of the Standard).
What colors can't paint a car?
Please note that we are talking specifically about the color scheme - that is, a certain combination of colors, among which there are:
- overall car background color,
- the color of the stripes (usually horizontal),
- lettering,
- identification marks of a certain department.
Let's take a look at the exact color schemes of operational services!
Police and traffic police
White or silver background and blue stripes and markings.
Ambulance
White background for simple cars and yellow (lemon) for emergency vehicles, red stripes.
fire protection
The background color is red, the stripes are white.
Ministry of Emergency Situations
Rescuers have the main color white, and the stripe is orange-blue.
FSB
Car background:
- at the service for the suppression of terrorist acts - black,
- at the demining service - yellow (orange, green or gray),
- at the border guard - light gray, black or green.
Band Color:
- at the service for the suppression of terrorist acts - white-blue-red,
- at the demining service - blue,
at the border service - green-blue.
investigative committee
The background color of the body is blue or black, the stripe is red.
A complete list of all colors of security vehicles can be found in Appendix A of GOST.
According to traffic rules and GOST, it is forbidden to match with all the color schemes illustrated above. At the same time, we are not talking about exact colors, but even about the similarity of the gamut - if the color of your car is even slightly similar to those indicated above, then it is easy to lose your rights!
If the color matches only partially
As we said earlier, they can be deprived of their rights for this (more on possible penalties below). Despite the fact that, according to the letter of the law, it is precisely the complete coincidence of color schemes that is prohibited, the practice of law enforcement in 2020 still dictates its own rules. Namely, you can not paint your car in colors similar to the cars of the security services, including such cases:
- if the color of the stripe is only slightly different from the "Ghost" one - for example, instead of a blue stripe - blue, instead of red - pink,
- if the car does not have an inscription indicating the service (for example, they bought a decommissioned car and painted over only the inscription),
- generally if similar colors of cars of special bodies are repeated.
If you buy a decommissioned emergency vehicle
And in this case, it is your responsibility to repaint it. The reason for this is the same GOST, which specifically regulates the ban on the color schemes of security services: fire department, ambulance, police, traffic police and others, if the car is not used in such security services.
Is it possible to paint the car in the colors of the American police or other countries?
It is legally possible. But in practice, again, 50/50. Again, GOST does not directly indicate that it is impossible to paint a car only in the colors of cars of Russian authorities.
Alas, the judicial practice is merciless - neither the traffic police nor the courts like such decorations on cars, and you can lose the right to drive, even if you painted the car in colors:
- American police cars (black and white),
- European ambulance (white-blue-red),
- American ambulance (orange-white).
It is possible (and necessary) to appeal against such decisions, but it is highly likely that the term of deprivation will come to an end until you get to the Supreme Court in the order of instances for challenging.
Moreover, in practice, there are even known cases of prosecution for the inscription "Sheriff" on the car.
What is the punishment?
For painting a car in the colors of the traffic police, police, ambulance, fire assistance and other color schemes of the operational services of Russia, the Code of Administrative Offenses in force for 2020 provides for 2 penalties at once, which can be applied simultaneously:
- directly for the fact of applying such a color coating (no matter whether it is paint or film), part 3 of Article 12.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses is applied with a fine for citizens in the amount of 5,000 rubles,
- and management is subject to a sanction under part 6 of article 12.5 of the Administrative Code, which provides for deprivation of rights for a period of one to one and a half years.
In addition, punishment is also provided for driving and painting a car in the color of a taxi - with fines of 5,000 rubles both for driving and for the fact of applying color.
Friends, hello.
The cool thing about coloring is that you don't have to have a lot of tools! In this article, we will review the most popular felt-tip pens, colored pencils and pens that can be used for both anti-stress coloring books and children's coloring books.
We will look at tools from different manufacturers and give examples of work done by a particular brand.
If you are a beginner, then inexpensive felt-tip pens will be quite enough for you. We do not recommend that you purchase expensive tools from well-known manufacturers from the very beginning. Move on to them gradually, as your experience and your interest increase.
The coolest combination, in our opinion, is the simultaneous use of felt-tip pens and pens. Thanks to their specific features, these tools allow you to create really cool effects!
Well, let's move on to the review.
Markers.
Copic company.
We give our preference to this firm of felt-tip pens. The big bonus is that they can be refilled!
Colors lay down very clearly, with minimal distortion when layered (a known problem with cheap brands). Markers from the Copic Sketch line have two brushes (thin and wide). The first allows you to paint small details of the picture, and with the help of a wide brush it is very convenient to fill large areas of the picture with color.
Copic markers can be purchased by the piece, so you can gradually add to your collection, starting with your favorite colors. These are professional tools, and everything good, as you know, is expensive. A set of 12 colors will cost you 5000 - 6000 rubles, and one felt-tip pen can be purchased for 400 - 600 rubles.
It is worth noting that the price of these markers is absolutely consistent with their quality.
Sharpies company.
Sharpie felt-tip pens paint very accurately and brightly. They are sold individually or in sets. There are markers in neon color which creates a very nice visual effect! Pay attention to these models - Sharpie Fine Point Markers. These are inexpensive felt-tip pens with an excellent combination of price and quality. You can easily find them in the nearest hypermarket. The average price of one piece is 100 rubles.
Their only drawback is not a large selection of colors. For example, you will not be able to find a pastel blue shade. We recommend using these markers along with other tools to create beautiful effects.
Prismacolor company.
A great option that is also used by professional artists, but is significantly cheaper than Copic. Felt pens paint clearly, have a large selection of colors.
Tombow Company.
In general, the products of this company are positioned as colored pens, but we still refer to them as felt-tip pens. The Tombow marker brushes are very thin and great for precise coloring. The markers are double-sided, the brushes vary in thickness. These markers are not very suitable for painting large areas, because when applying layers, the border is clearly visible (unlike Copics).
Crayola company.
These are inexpensive and very common felt-tip pens, which are great not only for, but also for adults! A wide selection of colors and excellent quality make them a leader in their price range. These markers are good for painting small details and are not very suitable for wide areas, as they leave a boundary line when applying layers.
Among the many marker data types, we recommend that you use Crayola Super Tips Markers . The downside to these markers is that they dry out pretty quickly compared to all the other markers on our list. If that doesn't bother you too much, then they're great for you.
Colour pencils.
Our choice is Prismacolor pencils. Their colors are so crisp and rich that by pressing hard on the pencil, a fully colored picture will look like it was drawn! A huge selection of colors allows you to create very unusual shades and effects. It is very cool to create shadows with these pencils. The shadow makes the picture more dynamic and interesting.
Colored with Prismacolor colored pencils
Prismacolor has several different types of pencils. Pay attention to these - Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils. These are professional pencils and slightly more expensive. They can be purchased individually (about 80 rubles). This is very convenient because you don't have to buy a whole set if you just want to try them out.
For painting very small details, pay attention to the Verithin series. These pencils can be sharpened very finely.
Helium pens.
Sakura company.
These are great pens that we recommend you use. The pens are very thin and come in a wide range of color styles (metallic, glitter, pastel, and moonlight). Helium pens are great for brightly emphasizing the details of the picture. The pen fits perfectly on top of the felt-tip pen, focusing on a specific area. Looks very nice.
Fiskars company.
Fiskars is another good brand of gel pens. Very affordable set of 48 pieces. The pens are bright and include many beautiful colors - metallic, neon, glitter and more.
Pens.
Staedtler Triplus Fineliner.
These are very thin pens, indispensable for precise coloring. Sold as a set and individually.
Paper Mate Flair Guard Pens.
While they don't paint as accurately as the other felt pens and pens we've covered in this article, these pens come in a wide range of colors and are great for painting small areas. In addition, these pens are not very expensive - always a plus!
Friends, we hope you enjoyed our review. Share your experience and thoughts with us in the comments! We wish you good luck and good mood!
Learn how to color with colored and regular pencils
Writing and drawing are very similar activities. Therefore, most people hold a pencil in the same way as a pen - between the thumb and the first two fingers, closer to the point of the pencil. But remember - a well-sharpened pencil tip easily breaks and crumbles with strong pressure. It is not necessary to press on the pencil, as when writing with a pen.
This method allows you to easily control the pencil and is ideal for specific techniques - line and cross hatching.
To give the drawing more expressiveness, liveliness and lightness, let's try to hold the pencil further from the end.
It is more convenient to do picturesque energetic lines or shading by pressing the rod from above with your index finger.
"Reverse capture" - the method can be convenient for hatching and shading. The pencil is placed on the brush and pressed with the thumb.
In this case, the movements are short, with the whole brush.
Another way to reverse capture.
The movements of the pencil tip are made with the whole brush.
In the academic school of drawing, there is a "correct way to hold a pencil." In this way, it is convenient for artists to use when they are standing at the easel. At the same time, the hand is overhanging and the movement of the entire brush is required to work. It does not close the drawing and it is not overwritten in the process.
Advice! When artists draw at a table (on a horizontal plane), they always put a sheet of clean paper under their arm - the “Backing”. The backing allows you to avoid "rubbing" the paper and protects the finished part of the picture.
Lesson two:
HATCHING AND SHADING
Two basic techniques for toning drawings.
Hatching is the application of strokes (lines) of various thicknesses and with different pressing forces at a certain distance from each other. Lines can be straight and curved, short and long, superimposed on each other in several layers at different angles, forming a grid.
Feathering - homogeneous (or with gradations) "filling" the surface with a pencil without gaps between the lines.
This can be as simple as rubbing a pencil across the surface of the paper to produce a solid tone of varying intensity.
Sometimes pieces of paper, cotton wool, suede, your own finger, etc. are used for this.
LEARN TO HATCH
In order for the hand to obediently apply strokes in the right direction and with a certain pressing force, the hand must be trained! The development of hand hardness, strength and timeliness of pressure require many hours of exercise!
Let's do a few exercises to master the basic drawing technique - pencil toning. Don't be upset if it didn't work out very well the first time. A little patience and you will see the result yourself!
EXERCISE 1. GENERAL HATCHING
Take a sheet of landscape-sized paper, a simple TM or HB pencil and draw 4 rectangles “by hand” (without a ruler).
The first rectangle is shaded evenly, using only one angle of inclination.
In others, we change the angle of inclination. We try to make the distances between the lines uniform!
The pressure on the pencil is the same!
EXERCISE 2. HATCHING WITH DIFFERENT GRADATIONS
Let's draw two (or more!) Rectangles.
Learning to make strokes with different pressure
Strong pressure at the beginning of the stroke and very weak (almost not touching the paper with a pencil) at the end.
And now so that the strokes gradually increase and then also gradually weaken and disappear.
We hold the pencil in our hand freely, as if making waves. In this case, the wrist should work very well.
The lines must be drawn without lifting the pencil from the paper!
The sheet cannot be rotated!
Do not forget to observe the same (or proportional) distances between the lines!
EXERCISE 3
Shade a long rectangle, evenly thickening the tone from light to dark.
Try to achieve its maximum even amplification.
Do not resort to rubbing strokes into spots and try not to use shading yet.
These techniques can be used individually or together.
When practicing or painting, try to avoid mechanical shading or shading. Always think about the nature of the surface, the shape and volume of objects.
It is necessary to learn how to correctly convey chiaroscuro, gradations of chiaroscuro of colored objects in the drawing.
By shading a drawing with a pencil, develop a sense of the ratio of tone strength and skill
see the power of shadow and contrast ratios in hatching. Using the hatching technique, try to convey the texture of the surface in the drawing.
unexpectedly, but since there are many techniques, I decided to write with examples.
(pictures are not mine)
what is not good - wax crayons in general, thick felt-tip pens (from 1.5 mm tip), thick watercolor pencils, unless you know how to use them in watercolor mode and do not plan to paint small details.
what is needed:
1. markers-felt-tip pens are different
a super-thin tip (0.3 mm or less) cannot paint over large volumes - they are best used for small contours or drawing. medium size (0.4-0.8) is possible, but you need to carefully monitor the layers and not falling on each other - this does not always look neat with felt-tip pens. I categorically do not recommend felt-tip pens to those who like accuracy and accuracy in applying color. in principle, you can draw with a felt-tip pen on a felt-tip pen, but only darker on a lighter one. thin light fineliners get dirty in the same way. about stamps: people complain that sharpie creep-spread even after application, but this is highly dependent on the paper.
with a brush tip (watercolor).
watercolor brush pen
but it is better to take double-sided - on the one hand a brush, and on the other a dense tip 
and metal markers. you just have to be careful with them, some of them leak a lot.
metallic marker
but wide markers apply Pts. hard 
2. ordinary colored pencils. minus - slowly and cannot be less bright than felt-tip pens and pens. plus - you can mix, unlike felt-tip pens. they can also be combined with any other - felt-tip pens, markers, pens, watercolors.
The subtlety with pencils is that you do not have to press with all your might, as in childhood. it is better to cover in several layers. well, light shading gives a lot of maneuvers - you can do graduation and mix colors as you like. only you need to remember about the direction of the strokes - it is better not to change them inside one object-place. you can make a layer in one direction, and on top of the other at an angle to it. if you draw in zigzags, it may turn out not very neat.
these two, of course, were painted by a pro ... 
those who need to be able to play everything back should color with erasable pencils. I'm talking about them
there is also a convenient version - double-sided pencils, where there are different colors. this saves space, and anyway, long ones almost never end, unless you draw professionally. but just short ones if you buy (there are such ones at the kraiola), it is inconvenient to hold for an adult
colleen colored pencil
3. watercolor colored pencils. usually expensive. but you can get the pluses of both pencils and watercolors at the same time 
4. watercolor - coloring paper should be quite dense. near the world-famous "enchanted forest" - just the right 
5. Multi-color pencils - these are pencils where the stylus is not of the same color, but from a pack of different pigments. there are versions by shades, there are completely mixed - iridescent
6. gel pens. best professional with a large selection of colors. minus - they run out quickly.
bright night gel pen
you can also take gel pens with different effects - metallic, sparkles, etc.
in this set they are also different thicknesses. but not cheap, professional quality %(
Sakura 57360 64-Piece Gelly Roll Artist's Gift Set 
about technology
I strongly recommend that before you start coloring the page, test new felt-tip pens-markers-pencils somewhere separately. check that nothing is leaking, even if you accidentally make 2-3-4 layers. This is especially critical for perfectionists. experienced fighters generally recommend putting a sheet between the pages, to be sure.
it is not necessary to follow the contours. you can paint, ignoring them, and creating your own color waves. 
or vice versa, smaller entities inside existing rendered objects - textures, new patterns, etc. 
and you can do without different colors 
don't forget the background. you can leave it white, or you can make it dark, multi-colored, or add textures too 
It is not necessary to follow any rules in colors. you can generally choose an object for coloring and with your eyes closed a random color. 
if you want a guaranteed beautiful, then you should first decide on the spectrum and the general rules for shading, especially if the objects are small. for example, the leaves are always purple with a red border, and not randomly. love the rules - follow them, do not like - do not follow. and what is written here can also not be followed%)
