Sharpest Crayon posted:

I love that terrible rasterization, it's absolutely perfect. A special brush? Special filter?

Sharpest Crayon posted:

I finally got some comes-in-a-tube-watercolours to try and also some of those wicking-brush-with-empty-container-for-watercolour-things and I thought I'd knock out a variation of the cathybrid face I did recently 'cause I really liked it and I thought it would be SO GOOD to get to draw them red eyes again but with an actual brush and maybe extra details everywhere and who cares if I can't find masking liquid in the single craft store near me, pffft, I got this!



No wait. I haven't got this.
It's a frustrating, humbling amateur hour where I spent half my time loving around the equipment, finding out that the plastic spikes on the caps of the little metal tubes actually just flatten when you try to press them against the opening of the tube, trying to fill the brushpens with the sticky thick colours getting stuck in the opening of the tank and going nowhere, diluting them with water and wondering if I still hosed up because they're really not wicking through. Like, at all. Also, haha, there's dog hair everywhere because of course there is, maybe don't cuddle the dog straight before doing painting next time!
It's just been too goddamn long since I did traditional and I'd forgotten that the paper is super absorbent, and I should've done a proper "drowning" before I started because all my attempts to get the paper wet enough that the colours would do that pretty thing where they run and spread from the drop you put down were met with the pigment stubbornly refusing to shift. I also had massive trouble blending brushstrokes together if they were put down more than 5 seconds apart.

Tomorrow I'll change my approach a bit and dig out my acrylics if I can't get the patterns to behave. I was planning on doing some intricate small patterns in a dark blue onto the gold stripes.
Seriously though, has anyone used the brushes that have fillable tanks? If so, how can I get the colours to wick through, does it just take forever or what?

Pentaro posted:

Local boy.

Radio du Cambodge posted:

Thank you for your comment. Sometimes feels like a crutch though, as the above exchange with user Neon Noodle pointed to.

ANyway here's another sketch like this. These are really fun to do and i like how they look but they definitely don't capture the likeness of the source. There's a resemblance but it doesn't quite get there. Tried overlaying them in photoshop and there are some clear issues with proportions.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0W2WfDRxf/

ThePlague-Daemon posted:

These are really cool and I'm jealous.

Internet Kraken posted:

So dumb question: how do you guys draw stars? I mean the cartoony, 5 pointed stars. It seems like such a simple shape but I tried drawing some and found I couldn't get very few that actually looked good

a hole-y ghost posted:

Try to have at least a 3x3 within the face (as in make your grid with enough subdivisions for that). What you're doing won't help that much for face proportions

sigma 6 posted:

Sharpest Crayon posted:

Unfortunately, the only way to get the leaves in front of the door now is to ditch watercolours and move on to acrylics to get some opaqueness. Watercolours are firmly in the "should've thought of that earlier" camp of painting when it comes to adding stuff to the foreground.
Your options would have been to paint them first, then very carefully paint the door in around them, or using the aforementioned masking fluid to mask out the parts where they will be, painting the door, then peeling the mask and painting the leaves in.

Radio du Cambodge posted:

This is really cool what is the medium??

The Dregs posted:

You mind if i use this as my new desktop background?

TheMostFrench posted:

Discussion wise, I've been doing a live drawing class where the lecturer tells us not to leave out the head or face because it's a form of identity erasure (we've also been discussing the history of nudes and how classical nudes were oppressive to women), and will mark you down if you just submit body sections. Has anyone else ever encountered this? What do you think? It seems like the intention is to train us to consider the meaning behind every mark we make, or to try and rise above historical ideals.

a hole-y ghost posted:

Hangin' out @ the ShameZone

sigma 6 posted:

Hacked to draw wall size dick pics... ugh.

Here is a quick 5 min portrait.



Feeling really rusty / out of the loop lately.

Radio du Cambodge posted:

his head got a little melted i nthe back here

Crappers posted:

Just have not been drawing in forever and trying to make an effort to get back into it , even if only for an hour or less every day. This is pretty rough and dodgy but I might do the colouring thing in photoshop eventually. I kind of want to start again and make the heads look more like shop fronts in some western scene. Just fun to be drawing again though tbh!