Hey, I picked up watercolor, but i’m fking awful with it and still in the practice stage, also, it’s makeup expensive, where you want to spend thousands on paper and paints. It’s unlucky.
I started writing slash again so it’s for my transmigration fantasy novel about an engineer going into like fantasy world with fantasy physics. These days online novel writing websites have options to put in pictures so there is a lot of art for my book. I started with gouche, btw. It’s kind of like a cross acrylic and watercolor. Less layery and additive than watercolor. I still use white gouache with watercolor if I want that creamy look.
I think that was incomplete. Also my scanner cant scan magenta at all. Well, it scans 2 colors in that range, red and pink. I spent so so long on how to paint crystals. Here’s an inside page.
My journey into pain crystals was a tumultuous one. I needed an optics refresher because I like when muh crystals are clear. The red one isn’t, because I just like rubies for science reasons, bu my fantasy pink and blue crystal can be on transparent and refractive and what not.
This is the obligatory galaxy painting. Everyone should try it. It didn’t really tie into anything else. Now on with the watercolor. I went with watercolor because it’s just so much cleaner to work with. For lines I use acrylic ink, which is significantly less clean, but it doesn’t fkn budge for nobody. Moreso than archival quality india ink imo. That or I keep getting bad batches of india ink or my city is too humid for waterproof ink.
aaaand here goes the rest of my scuffed meaningless watercolor dump, aka, my main intention.
These are all men, but I cannot draw men... I’m kidding. Wow, I think I could get cancelled for that. No, actually, I did struggle in the depiction of men though. Watercolor is very smooth and it’s hard to get shadows Men are generally very dark around the eyes. Their brows are prominent and their eyes are deep set, and there’s a lot of detail in small areas. Btw, I started going sienna, lilac, and green for the white people, and I struggled intensely with black people, because my colors are ez-lift colors, which I thought meant it comes out of the pan faster, but actually means that the colors just lift up easily, so they layer to grey and watercolor magic happens without me wanting it to for skin texture. The main reason I got this palette was for the metallics, that I do not use, and for the neons, which I use all the time I’m one of those people that need to paint in neon. I use neon blue for the eyes, neon pink for the blush, and so on. It comes in the brand SoHo, which I think is a less well-known brand that has a deal with a local art store for me, Jerry’s artarama. It was half off around christmas. But yeah, I’m thinking of getting the mejillo mission gold watercolor set, kuratake watercolors, and the culture hustle palette.
Now here’s some later runs, just because this is an art dump.
I uh, learned to paint naked men, but boi can i just not get the dick right. Also, my black people are purple, a cool brown, and burnt orange with some light spots where I just don’t paint sometimes. Then I go in with any blue, black and the same lilac color I use for non black people. It takes forever because every layer needs to dry completely or that lightening thing that I mentioned earlier happens.
Now to the rest of the disorganized mess of an art dump.
wtf was happening with the last ones eyes? well, I struggle with eyes and I had taken a bit of a break because a lot happened. I got some corona blues, political blues with blm at the exact time my dad got cancer. Btw my dad is a black police whose entire job is just telling police what to do so my entire relationship with the movement is more complicated than with most people. He’s an infp too so he bakes a lot of cookies and originally went to school for teaching, but couldn’t use the degree in the US. It was something, ok? I’m just not at peace right now so I drew without thinking about where eyes should go.
Well, here’s some random other things that I never made my main art folder on my pc so I had to dig up. No promises on the quality.
There’s like a disney style I heard about, um. It’s horrifying. If have glasses you can take them off here, and stand very far away, and as long as you are nearsighted enough, the paintings with black people will look okay. It’s just *cries* I hate granulation so much.
