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and hy tumblr. Little color nerdy things today

so I hath over the past weeks accumulated a few new art supplies which I've post about on twitter but I don't have enough room there to express my color theoriiiiesss.

internet has convinced me that I guess I do kinda like swatching..I guess its relaxing even though I thought they were dumb videos but here we are. So I've decided to create me a swatch book because...I'm wasting a lot of sketchbook space on swatching colors...when I'm trying to make decorative sketchbooks here.

so I purchased a few new pencils to add to my collection. I don't use colored pencils that largely...but these ones looked beautiful. I had to get standard black (the colored pencil I do abuse the most) and a white just to test it. These are the first luminance I've ever used. So I look forward to doing something with these.

and then the watercolors. So I don't own any Winsor and Newton watercolors. Purchased these on a whim because they look like spring. I was expecting them to be..pastel-y..tho...little bit of a disappointment..HOWEVER! I purchased holbein titanium white watercolor (which is toxic yay), and guess what happens when you merge white with other colors..you get pastel-y colors lmao. These are now practically as opaque as my acryl gouaches and I think I'm going to make halfpans of them. blessed creaminess.

and then I painted a ferret. I actually did use a bit of my pink (and accidentally lavender) in my ferret. But mostly it was holbein and turner acryl gouache. I did another longboi because twitter taught me how to easily merge large paintings together when they're too big for the scanner and bravo..it works. I posted it on tiktok which is username Dausypoo btw.

So my drawing tablet is getting old and the center has gotten somewhat bumpy, which makes it hard to draw on it.

Which means I'll probably need a new one soon enough.

So here's the thing. The virus interrupted my search for a job so I have very little money, that I was kind of saving up cause I actually wanted to get a drawing tablet with a screen someday (my current one doesn't have it, it's a bamboo Wacom).