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High concept stickfigure art you say?  (my 9 day trip to Iceland)
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Feb 23, 2018 12:32
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Neon Noodle posted:Those water brushes aren't designed to have anything more viscous than water inside. If you want to fill them with watercolor, you should take some watercolor paint from the tube, dissolve it completely in water to the desired pigment density, and THEN fill up the water brush. However, I don't think this is a good idea generally. The reason being, that even when diluted in water, the watercolor pigments are granular and will eventually clog and ruin the brush. As the water evaporates from around the brush, the pigments will re-concentrate and get gunky. You can probably save it by disassembling the brush and cleaning everything thoroughly, but some parts of the brushes are hard to get at to clean. How about bringing a palette with dried paints and then using one of those water brushes for painting (on the go)? Is that feasible?
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Mar 4, 2018 05:33
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I just flew back from Bhutan and boy are my arms tired! From field drawing!   
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Apr 3, 2018 06:06
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If you're talking perfect stars with straight edges, then it's not cheating to use a protractor, or even to just find a pre made one and stamp it on and/or trace over it. I don't think it counts as stealing when there's literally only one way it can look (barring color/texture). Otherwise just eyeball five equidistant points on a circle.
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Apr 11, 2018 03:25
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I wouldn't recommend starting with any particular part as the base. Start with the overall gesture, then refine that into big shapes, which you then refine further and further. Here's a good intro; watch it then do a bunch of exercises at quickposes.com or line-of-action.com. Start with 30 second sketches, making your way to 5 minute sketches, and maybe do one 10 and one 15 at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HR59yFZ7Y
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May 31, 2018 05:13
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This is my own take; someone might have a different idea, but if you have to do your practice exercises digitally, see if you can use a more rectangular brush that's much wider side-to-side than it is from end to end. That should be a decent approximation of working with a charcoal stick (although I'd really recommend using an actual stick and newsprint). And just to reiterate, as mentioned by the others earlier, keep in mind that the intention here isn't for you to end up with a great finished work but to get you accustomed to finding the large gestures, seeing the big shadow shapes, and working from big to small without worrying about details.
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Jun 1, 2018 05:11
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I'm going on another trip and I wanted to try travel sketching with watercolor for the first time (previously I was just using pencil and pen), so here's some practice I did using photos as reference.  Stuff I haven't figured out: 1. What's a good palette material for mixing watercolor (mine are pan) on? The plastic and metallic surfaces I have don't seem to be ideal since there's so much water diluting it, so the water just clumps together. Is mixing colors on a palette even a thing, or do you just let that poo poo blend on the paper? 2. I also dabbed some white gouache on the palette, thinking I could leave it there because as far as I know gouache can be reactivated, but even in the 30 minutes I allotted myself for the sketch, it not only dried up but was all hard like it was acrylic. It definitely says gouache and not acrylic gouache on the tube, so what's up with that?
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Jun 17, 2018 13:04
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Hermione Granger, who as we all know is black and has always been black. 
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Jul 23, 2018 04:26
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A 20 minute fanart of one character quickly ballooned into like 2 or 3 hours of fanart
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Aug 9, 2018 14:03
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Drawn from reference
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Aug 14, 2018 11:25
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Wowporn posted:I like never draw backs and when I do I remember I don’t know a drat thing about back muscles Enjoy (but be sure to check out the basics on gesture and figure drawing and such first, if you aren't already aware of those)
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Aug 26, 2018 10:32
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I was not happy with these first two  so I thought maybe hey, forget the prompt, I will just do studies of some masters and see if I can learn how to do textures in ink better: (ref: Franklin Booth)  (ref: Harry Rountree)  (ref: Charles Dana Gibson) 
Argue fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Oct 6, 2018 |
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Oct 6, 2018 08:00
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More studies, this time not just from old timey masters but also from old timey stills, hoping to learn how to design hatching/values in ink properly:    (references: James Montgomery Flagg and TS Sullivant)
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Oct 10, 2018 07:30
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I really didn't like the hatching I did on that Uhura so I followed up with a bunch more studies of just faces (unlabelled set of faces is Charles Gibson), to figure out how to hatch in the right direction. I figured hatching in one direction was the way, but these masters didn't stick to one direction and it turned out great, while my hatching just looks like a mess.   
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Oct 16, 2018 08:52
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Several small studies, followed by some portraits. I think halfway through the middle one I got the gist of how I want my hatching to look, and the last one feels like I hatched it much better than the weird patchwork-looking hatching in some of my previous ones.  
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Oct 20, 2018 07:58
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A very quick study: Freehand invented city, no underdrawing, using a photo of Santorini as reference:  More studies of stills from old films; also I think I'm having a harder time with the quality of my digital linework than traditional:  
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Oct 25, 2018 09:00
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