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I've been posting my miniature Bob Ross paintings over in the daily thread but I'm unreasonably proud of this one so I'm tossing it in here too. Got liquid white everywhere doing this, somehow. Everywhere.
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Angrymog posted:I really like this one - it's kitch, but it feels like a tropical sunset. Cheers, I will! So far I'm winging it and just approximating what he's doing, but I'm already getting the itch to move beyond 'copy Bob Ross' so we'll see how it goes:)
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Mar 8, 2020 13:58
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deep dish peat moss posted:This is really cool, the colors are great! Thank you!  These are 5"x7" which is just right for me, but I do feel the limitations of the size when trying to do fine details.Today, seaside. Tomorrow I may or may not finally attempt a bigger canvas. 
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Mar 9, 2020 17:43
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I've been messing around with watercolour tutorials this weekend and my goodness I enjoy how little setup and teardown there is compared with oils.
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Apr 26, 2020 16:36
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Chip McFuck posted:Does bookbinding count as a traditional art? I've been making my own sketchbooks since the quarantine started and getting back in touch with my love of book making. Here are a couple I made over the past few days: Hey these are excellent! I've seen videos of people doing bookbinding and it looks really satisfying.
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May 18, 2020 01:08
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sigma 6 posted:Did another burn of Zoben's art today. Please do not bring on the apocalypse with your awesome pictures.
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dog nougat posted:Finally finished this dang poster. Made the mistake of helping my girlfriend cut her grass and used a string trimmer for a couple hours. My hands were jittery/shaking for a couple days, so there was no way I was gonna try painting like that, glad it's finished. Feel like it took me too long overall tbh. Need to get it scanned, get some prints run off, and get it framed. This is excellent and I love it very much.
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Sep 12, 2020 20:52
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silicone thrills posted:hosed around with this watercolor for about an hour. From a photo I took at rialto beach a few year ago. This is great! I love the waves especially.
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Oct 4, 2020 15:04
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You have inspired me, I'm gonna pick up the watercolours again. Work went mad and I got exhausted and stopped but I find doing art actually *gives* me energy, so I should do it even if I feel tired, I reckon.
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Oct 4, 2020 22:21
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Keetron posted:Quetzalcoatl, The Feathered Serpent ooo what did you do the black lines with? This is lovely.
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Mar 28, 2021 20:45
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Keetron posted:In this case a pentel pocket brush but more common I use a Kuratake 50 sable brush pen filled with a platinum carbon ink using a converter. The pentel ink is waterproof but needs a bit of a drying time, the carbon ink is waterproof as well but is dry as soon as it loses the gloss. Also, the pentel uses cartridges. Final difference: the pentel brush is synthetic, the kuratake is sable, so a bit softer and I think a smoother ink flow. If you cannot find either, I have been contemplating doing this with a brush and india ink but the convenience of the brush pens is hard to beat. I love using india ink with my dip pen but there's no real line weight variation possible because it's just a glass dip pen. I might break out a brush though. Thanks!
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Mar 28, 2021 22:46
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Thanks so much for all the advice. I'm terrible at taking care of brushes but I want to move on to some decently expensive ones so I must Change My Ways. Watercolour tutorial! Some things worked well, some didn't. I like the clouds. And I'm glad I didn't break out a ruler for the eyewheel, I like wibbliness and vagueness and looseness in watercolour. Wish Westminster Bridge didn't line up with the boat jetty thing so perfectly, I should have been watching out for that. Overall I like it though.  e: in keeping with my usual accidental habit it looks a bit like the Houses of Parliament are on fire but I guess that's just what was in my heart
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Apr 3, 2021 15:13
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Keetron posted:That is really nice, especially that tree. Trees are hard and you nailed it. Aw thanks! Can't take credit for the composition, it's a tutorial I was following, but I am pleased with how the tree came out. I'm slowly learning when to stop loving with things and leave them be. e: Bought some very cheap khadi cotton rag paper. Only 150gsm. It didn't warp anywhere near as badly as I was expecting considering I didn't pre-stretch it or anything. Must avoid heavy working on it though - fibres started to peel loose. To be fair I was going nuts because I was messing with sky colours and going over the same spot five or six times. Overall I like it, the texture is beautiful and it loves the paint. HopperUK fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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Apr 3, 2021 16:53
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Choda Dog posted:I just finished this one for someone in SA Mart. Her name is Betty. Gorgeous! That soft background is perfect for the darkness of the dog.
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Apr 5, 2021 21:49
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Spinz posted:Your whole sky looks marvelous Thanks so much! I'm pleased with the clouds.
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Apr 10, 2021 00:03
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Swan! Love gouache for highlights, my new favourite.
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Apr 12, 2021 17:29
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Keetron posted:little car I did for Meh-pril over at the (mostly) goon art discord: Ooooo your ability to understand the shape of a car makes me jealous, that's gorgeous. Today, cat!  And cat 2, I enjoyed this one-colour thing. 
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Apr 13, 2021 23:20
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perepelki posted:i love the texture on her fur! she looks skritchable Oh my lord I love this! What did you use for the line work?
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Apr 14, 2021 13:46
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Choda Dog posted:Thanks guys for the great feedback These colours are *insane* I love them. So much personality in each bird! I did a Stitch today. I love Stitch beyond reason. Look at his ears. 
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Apr 15, 2021 16:51
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VM those flowers under the trees are amaaaazing! Hey lion painter-- that's great! First painting! You better keep it up
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Apr 23, 2021 16:24
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Harvey Mantaco posted:It looks like goku Holy poo poo yeah, what you've got there is a classic accidental Goku.
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Apr 26, 2021 02:08
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May 2, 2021 16:30
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Trabant posted:gently caress yeah, both of those kick rear end. I'm not wholly sure why but that super reminds me of Pink Floyd's The Wall and I am here for it.
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May 3, 2021 03:40
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Zoben posted:I don't have any art to share at the moment but in the traditional art world, I'm a tad dismayed to see Peter Gric sharing transphobic memes and views on Facebook since I've been a big fan of his for some time Always such a disappointment. Better to know, I guess. Magpies! Done for my sister before she finally answered my message with 'oo one with three magpies would be great!' well TOO BAD you shoulda got back to me before I completed the sketch.  e: replaced with colour-corrected to look more like it looks IRL, dumb camera HopperUK fucked around with this message at 17:58 on May 8, 2021 |
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May 8, 2021 17:42
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Quiet in here ain't it? Today I tried polymer clay for the first time and made a small Pikachu. He's about an inch and a half tall. The colour difference between the clay and the touch-up paint is way less obvious to the eye than on camera. Was fun to do!
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May 9, 2021 19:27
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Angrymog posted:HopperUK of this parish did a whole bunch of Bob Ross with acrylics. Oh hello! I didn't, I'm afraid, I mostly used oils. I've had limited success with acrylics though I've started messing with them now. My only advice as a total beginner is that even if the paper says it's primed, you might wanna buy some white gesso - it's cheap, buy a big thing of it - and paint a layer onto the paper before you start your actual painting. And don't thin acrylics out with water unless you really must because it fucks up the binding and the paint will slip and slide all over the paper like a dickhead. These days I do watercolours because you don't have to break out paint thinner and chemical-weapon your nosy cat. e: I painted a spaceship with heavy body acrylics and it pleased me though. I don't wanna hear the nacelles are asymmetrical there is only so long I'm prepared to spend crossing my eyes over a sketch when all I wanna do is gently caress with paint:)  It's the Orinoco I think. I should do more spaceships. Combine your nerderies, I say. e2: I am tickled pink that someone remembered my pictures.
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Jun 4, 2021 17:26
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Zoben posted:Haven't drawn for a while. Good to get back to it Pretty! Reminds me of that famous 'wave' painting.
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Jun 7, 2021 13:54
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Jack B Nimble posted:This adventure's map is going to be a bit different in that it's an actual dungeon. It's a lot of real estate so I was going to do something a bit faster; I'm going to sketch out the shape of each room or small section of the dungeon on a watercolor pad, clean it up and go over the walls with a sharpie, draw a line grid and go over that with a finer marker, and then hit the whole thing with a grey watercolor. Did you try this out? I'd usually do watercolour before line work but so long as your markers are permanent it should work like you think. Some of this is just a trial and error thing though.
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Jun 14, 2021 11:21
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Jack B Nimble posted:
Nice! I love the weathered look of the land especially. If you're not using decent watercolour paper, by the way, do get some - at least 300gm/140lb in weight. If you're wanting a weathered look you want cold-pressed or NOT paper, and if you can afford cotton rag, that is best. It's pricey though. If you're in the UK, Cass Arts do a decent watercolour jumbo pad - it's not cotton but it's decent. The paper is the main thing to spend on, if you're going to spend. Then paint, then brushes, I reckon. I see you got some runbacks there where wetter paint hit drier paint and bloomed into those cabbagey looking things. They're not always awful, but they suck when you don't want em. The main skill that I appreciated finally learning was 'lifting' - how to get rid of paint you'd rather wasn't there. Both touching a damp brush to paint to pick it up before it dries, and scrubbing gently and then dabbing kitchen roll to pick out clouds and highlights and stuff in a wash that's already down. Those kinds of tricks are SO much easier on better paper.e: it looks to me, Not An Expert At All, that you might not be using enough water. There should be a pretty silly amount of water. Wetter is usually better for washes. Do some practice messing around with washes. It's fun!
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Jun 14, 2021 11:57
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Keetron posted:yup, this is the way to go. Buy expensive cotton paper and be a very happy painter. Practice on smaller pieces if you fear throwing away money. yeah I bought big sheets of Hahnemuhle and just chop them up to mess around with. I do also paint on less expensive paper but the difference is really noticeable
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Jun 14, 2021 19:25
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an egg posted:thank you so much Mmmm love that warm little place in the cold surroundings! Sky's a bit streaky - was your paint a bit dry? If that's the effect you were going for then ignore me because it still looks awesome. I love this. The composition! The snowy trees! The way the focus is tight on the campfire and the little Santas! Adore it.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:53
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Zoben posted:Oh, now it works. Hooray (I know the skull and face don't line up perfectly but tough fuckin toenails) Mmmmm clean liiiines. Delicious. I would never have seen the misalignment if you hadn't pointed it out FWIW.
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Claeaus posted:I'm assuming you meant to quote my post and not an egg's since (while it is awesome) it doesn't have any campfire or santas Man I am posting so ineptly lately. Wrong thread, wrong quote. But yes, I meant yours, it is great. Bah. You might have to gesso the dang things but I get cross when I have to gesso something that's meant to already be primed. e: see this is what I mean, a shameful snipe, here, I'm drawing Flick from Animal Crossing  my lines are all stupid, shouldn't have inked while tired
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loving love this. *Love* it. Acrylics or oils?
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Claeaus posted:Really? Man, thanks a lot! It's made with acrylics. Yeah really it's extremely good, you banana.
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Carotid posted:Hi thread, I'm back with a few pieces to share. The pandemic slowed me down and I didn't make art for like a year, but I've been slowly getting back into things. Here's two watercolor paintings I've done in the last year: omg loving love this I am off work this week and I'm determined to get some goddamn art done, I keep letting it slip away from me. Oil paints - lose your temper and wrench it and end up somehow splitting the tube and now your paint is all stupid and there is a thin even layer of phthalo blue on everything you own. That's how I do it anyway.
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Keetron posted:1. Can I recommend sketch journalling? 10~15 mins every day, a small, direct to pen drawing of something in your surroundings and a short blurb (or not)? I'm trying to get into something like this yes! I have my sketchbook always on hand at my desk but I've ordered one a bit more portable that I can just keep with me all the time.
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Apr 2, 2022 19:58
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Keetron posted:If you have trouble getting motivated, the book The Creative License helped me out a lot: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40168.The_Creative_License This seems excellent, thank you. I also use Drawfee's art class streams to remind me not to get in my own head about perfection. Small amount of content, here's some sketches from last week - my little niece was deeply absorbed in playing Plants vs Zombies and was making amazing shapes with herself. 
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Apr 2, 2022 20:06
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Zoben posted:my version of a biblically-accurate angel Yesssss love a good ophanim
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Honestly I just bought some really big pieces and I cut them to size when I use them. For little unimportant sketches though I'll do those on whatever.
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