Why Sketch in RED & BLUE Lead?

I sketch in colour because it doesn't smudge as easily

drawing in colour will make it much easier to colour in too, you always get gross grey lines if you draw in pencil

1.) The "lead" itself is waxy, so it glides smoothly on the paper. 2.) It's not reflective like graphite pencils. 3.) To separate the elements on the paper. Example: characters vs background (Lines CAN get confusing) 4.) To make the sketch clean up EASIER. 5.) Some colors will not pick up in a scanner. 6.) I just like the way it looks. (I didn't list the reasons so that you the viewer didn't have to watch the video. I really did it for me when my ADHD is in 4th gear.)

you dont have to sketch that lightly to get rid of the blue when scanning you just have to adjust the expose and it'll be gone. ( someone who makes comics and draws very hard)

5:55 So that's how professional artists trace without awkwardly holding your image against a window XD

Sorry the video's a bit late! I accidentally scheduled the video for Saturday instead of Friday. All good now :) Also, just a reminder videos will be Fridays only until mid August because I'm out of town and had to make them in advance. Livestreams are also suspended, but I'm going to try to get in an art stream and a couple gaming streams in July. It all depends on what I'm doing and how much free time I have, so keep an eye on Twitter for updates! @baylee_jae

As far as I know the main reason comes from the animation sector. You did mentioned it in your video a little bit. When the xerox copiers came available they wanted to use in in animation to speed up the developing of the animation. To do this they used xerox copiers to transfer the "sketched" image to a cell and so only had to paint the colors on to the cell. Before that there were people that traced the lines of the sketch to a cell, which was very time consuming. Now the scanners were made to not pick up blue/red colors. So they were used to rough sketch the drawing and then the animator would use a normal pencil to draw the final image. (After that there might also be a clean up stage in which someone would clean up the drawing) I Believe Disney was the first to use this technique. If you look at the earlier animation movies from Disney you will see very clean and even colored lines. For example in Snow White. When they switched to xerox copiers the final animation has black outlines and they are much rougher. Part of this was due to the fact that the xerox copiers were not that good back then and could only reproduce in black. An example of these movies is 101 Dalmatians. These days with computers the need of using specific colors like red or blue is actually not needed anymore. If you want to you could also filter out other colors, if that is the reason why you would want to use them. Of course using an other color to sketch with can have it's benefits, but I think the main reason why we are still using these colors is just due the long history and people got used to them.

Me too! I love sketching with colors since it makes to so much easier to clean up the lines! OuO Also I love this picture!! <3 I'm excited to watch you color it! =D

I know there's benefits in using blue or red but i don't have strong reasons lol, i just prefer to sketch with colored pencil rather than graphite. less messy and for some reason it just make me happier than random grey lol :3 I don't stick to red or blue, i tried indigo, purple, brown, pink. It aslo add color to my sketchbook, it's just not plain grey all the time. I even prefer the dark grey in colored pencil over the graphite one. I still like graphite sometimes, it's just very different and it's up to everyone to choose what they love :)

I was just wondering about that...

is it ok that I use gold as my sketching color

I find that whenever I sketch in school, people who don't even draw seem to think they can tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I should do. I do take criticism and suggestions from people because a fresh pair of eyes helps, but when that person doesn't draw and/or doesn't understand my style fully, it just annoys me so much when they try to tell me what I'm doing wrong. Does anyone else get this?

This is the earliest I've ever been for a Baylee video and I feel proud 😊

Since I usually do digital painting, my choice for drafting is blue, orange, green and purple. Because these 4 are easy to tell from each other, so that I can tell the different layers easily. If I need more than 4 layers of drafting, which never happened before, I would set some of the layers to lower opacity.

I absolutely adore sketching with Prismacolor col erase for pretty much exactly some of the reasons you listed. They're smooth, don't smudge in my sketchbook like graphite does for me, and the color variation just looks nice.

I bought a red lead for my mechanical pencil recently and I LOVE it, never really given it any thought as to why I like it so i found this video super interesting :). A treat to watch!

They're also nice (at least for me) for progressing through a sketch. Like I'll do my first go through in red very loose and just trying to figure out what I'm doing them clean it up a bit by going over my lines that I want more permanent in the blue then do the final line work in graphite or ink or whatever, it helps a lot because the blue and the red make a dark purple where they overlap and I can see better how it's going to look, and I save paper by not tracing it like 8 times like I know some people do

I kept trying to blow away that piece of stray eraser shaving at the top! I looked quite silly blowing at my computer screen.

Why does the coloured pencil always feels like it does not want to let go of the paper? it feels sticky and grippy ;3;

Do you just use a red colored pencil or is a specific type of pencil meant for this purpose?