• nieceandtows@programming.devOP
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    Thank you. I’m very glad you like the painting , but honestly it’s just me trying to paint something without exactly knowing how to. It’s a 200gsm water color paper, and literally the cheapest box of 15 watercolor cakes I could find. I used a brush pen that holds water (which might explain how dry the colors are). I like dry watercolor too, as it makes the colors pop more.

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      Well that’s how you do it, check out stuff and find what you like.

      Started out roughly the same like 2-3 years ago :-)

      I also like to have the possibility to have “popping” colors and I found Pebeo water colors “encre aquarelle” (literally watercolor ink), you’d just need the 3 base ones (cyan, magenta, yellow) to make any colour except grey, so a grey is good too :-)

      And they sure pop!

      So what’s the white :-) ?

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        That’s very interesting, just 3 colors and make any color from those. I’ll check them out, thanks. The white is from the same box. It actually ended up pretty transparent, which is why I couldn’t even show much foam. The opaque white parts you see are just the paper where there are no colors lol.

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          Hah yeah water color paper “eats up” the white color, I’m looking into more heavy color (IDK, different guaches maybe) to make better white.

          I love mixing colors, and if you don’t try for brown, (or a dirty look/feel) you just use two of them, so it’s quite easy too!

          Add water to make it lighter, let dry and paint on top (dry on dry) to make darker.

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              Ah yeah I have tried several of those, seems they work okayish at start but then they clog or just stop working or suddenly blurb out a lot of white :-). I’m probably using these wrongly. Any tips?

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                1 year ago

                I’ve used mine very sparingly, like adding reflective highlights to eyes. I guess they’re just not good for covering a lot of area.

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                  That’s my idea too, and fixing small mistakes… :-)

                  I’m trying guache like Titan (and China?) White but it gets heavily absorbed by the paper, I’m looking into acrylic paint too, and I’ll retry my gel pens :-) , we’ll see how it goes!

                  Do you have an example with your gel pen? Would love to see!

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                    1 year ago

                    So I did a bit of experimenting.

                    Here is what it looks like going over Tombow brush marker: marker

                    And here it is over waterproof fineliner: fineliner

                    The W mark indicates that I applied the white while the black base was still wet. The application looks similar when dry and doing similar strokes; it seems like the best technique for covering dark ink is to dapple it with the pen. I’m thinking that it works better over the fineliner because it doesn’t reactivate the pigment in the waterproof ink.

                    Here’s one where I used it in a piece. The paper isn’t great, but you can see it applied as reflection on the eye: budgie drawing