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Drawings in Watercolor - A Brush of Warmth

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:00:00 +0900

With their soft textures and gentle, bleeding hues, watercolor illustrations have a charm all their own. The way the colors melt and mingle captures the artist’s warmth and breath in every brushstroke.

Grab your brushes and paint for this collection of illustrations in watercolor.

The Making of 15 Watercolor and Colored Pencil Drawings - A Glimpse Behind the Scenes

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0900

Have you ever gazed at a drawing in awe and wondered how it was created? Here on pixiv, we feature a variety of beginner-friendly drawing tutorials and making-ofs, taking you behind the scenes of some of our creators’ masterful illustrations.

While digital illustrations might be more mainstream nowadays, there’s something charming about good old-fashioned analog drawings with all their perfect imperfections. Today’s feature will give you a glimpse into the making of 15 watercolor and colored pencil drawings from start to finish.

Enjoy, and we hope you can learn some tips from these tutorials!

Drawings Made Using Watercolors - Delicate Sensibility

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:00:00 +0900

Watercolors have a distinctive vibe that you really just can't achieve with any other medium. Soft yet emotive, they're able to bring out a delicate kind of vulnerability that you just can't seem to achieve with digital painting.

We're not just saying it! We've brought you a bunch of examples of watercolor paintings to check out below!

Drawings Done in Watercolors - Clear and Vivid Beauty

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0900

Creating illustrations that feature a watercolor-esque style of coloring may be difficult to get the hang of at first, but the result can be some absolutely gorgeous works of art. The rich and vivid colors of the Eeveelutions (from the Pokémon franchise) look stunning when juxtaposed with their individual flowers, don’t you think?

Have any of the illustrations below unlocked a sea of new ideas for you?

I Want to Get Better at Drawings! Coloring Practice

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:00:00 +0900

There’re so many different ways of coloring, and everyone has different quirks. For those of you looking for a change in their art style, why not check out illustrations with new coloring styles? Tagged as “Coloring Practice”, they use the same line art template to color in 5 different styles, thick coloring, Gal game, monochrome, anime, watercolor styles. As the base is the same, it is easy to analyze the coloring styles.

Here are some illustrations under the “Coloring Practice” tag. Do try your hand at the various coloring styles!

Drawing Coloring Tutorials: Cel-shading & Thick Painting

Mon, 30 May 2016 18:00:00 +0900

There are many ways to color your digital illustrations. Cel-shading, thick painting using layers, watercolor-style and the various gal-games styles… The colors are what really makes or breaks an illustration. It’s important to learn how to color properly! It looks like even total beginners can become coloring masters using tools like SAI, Photoshop, ibisPaint and CLIP STUDIO PAINT. Today we collected really useful coloring tutorials. So, take a look!

Transparent Watercolor Samples

Wed, 04 May 2016 18:00:00 +0900

Transparent watercolors are a specific kind of watercolors that allow light to pass through the pigment particles on paper, giving the painting a transparent finish. It’s really fun to experiment with transparent watercolors, since you can test different combinations and different grades of opacity to meet completely different results. Today’s Spotlight is about illustrations of transparent watercolor palettes created using the colors of various art suppliers, such as Holbein and Kusakabe. They can be useful when using analog painting tools, but also when using transparent watercolor brushes while drawing digital illustrations. Take a look!

Transparent Watercolor: Works in Progress!

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:00:00 +0900

Watercolors are paints which you mix water to make even more transparent...! It's so beautiful. Sometimes even waiting for the paper to dry is fun. Today's Spotlight is about seeing the progress of illustrations with these transparent paints. Maybe you'll learn something? Pay attention to how they do things and the paper!