How to Select Colors for a Button

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ROBYN LYMAN: On behalf of Expert Village, this is Robyn. We're continuing with our drawing. As you can see, we've got the yellow in. We've got the green. These are the colors of the rainbow, and now we're going to start with the blue. I like this blue here particularly. I also have a Bic blue that gives it a light color, too. But this is a little bit darker than this one. And from here on, I want to kinda offset that with that. Can you see the difference in the two blues? I want that light blue to hit because the outside of this is going to be a darker blue so that will highlight the drawing and bring it up. As I've said, especially when you're drawing with a pen that's got a lot of bright colors and it's dark, and while we're drawing onto this green, it's going to show. So I want to make sure I have this blue all in one little square and keep it. So normally, I don't use a fine pen to draw a large area like this. It's just that I don't have a broad ink pen that has this pretty color as this blue. So we'll just go around the whole drawing, coloring all our blues. And I found out, too, when you're coloring with a color, to stay with that color until you're done with it, especially when you're on a pattern like this. You can say, "Oh, I want to see how it looks like after this so I'll going to go ahead and do something else." When you have as many pens like me, all of a sudden you pick up the wrong blue and you start coloring and you've ruined your drawing, and you have to go all the way back to your coloring stage. This drawing here is a real simple drawing. It's real basic; there's not much to it. But when you get into some of the detailed drawings like I have and you mess up, it's really aggravating to have to go back and draw it all over again. That's why I make copies of my drawings as I go. And that's why I always keep the master untouched so I can get the best copies.

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