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 Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:09 pm
So. Let's talk about the medium we like best~ I don't care if it's pencil, silly putty, your Nikon, photoshop, your granmami's cookies, or whathaveyou, just as long as it's the tool you most enjoy/find the most comfortable/think's the easiest for you when you make art. Why do you like it? What do you think it's weaknesses/strengths are? Are you very experienced with it or did you just decide it's your favorite five seconds ago? (Anyone who says that gets a cookie, 'cause I said so. And believe me, Pillsbury makes GREAT cookies for me to shove into the oven. 8B ) Anything else you want tell about it, too~
For me, it's watercolors. I luurve my watercolors~ But I only used watercolors rather sparsely before early this spring, because that's when I went to this art workshop at a nearby college. I chose to do the painting class, because I wanted to branch out, and the grad student teaching it (a really nice, blond, total trip xD) had chosen to do watercolor diptychs as the project. A diptych is a piece of art that has two different images that have to go together, btw, and here's a good example. Anyway, we were doing self-portraits, and HOLYFAZOOLEE, it was amazingly fun. I absolutely loved how the colors could lay on top of each other, and the base we used made lifting off (removing paint) practically like crack. 8D
Anyway, long story short, I bought a neat little set of watercolor pans at the college's school store, and set to experimenting even more with them. I love how versatile watercolors are~ there's just so many techniques (dry on dry, wet on wet, lifting off, ect. ect) and it's amazing to see how different people can produce different painting styles with them. Heh, and I also just bought some tube paints that are fun to mix. x3
Some things I don't like though -- you have to change the water so much! Otherwise you end up with yuckiness all in your paints and your brushes. The warping! I hate it when, even if you tape it down, your paper warps and curls because of the paints. And you can buy this Clayboard stuff that will never warp, but it's more expensive and so not practical. >3> (But it's also really great for lifting off~)
Well then, now that you've read my nonsense, let's see if we can liven up this forum a bit, eh?
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:44 pm
i like to combine traditional and digital (mostly cause i lack a tablet emo lol) mostly doing rendering/inking in pen or pencil the putting it in photoshop and colouring it there, thats just how iv'e learnt to do it lol
i use crappy printer paper cos i cant afford anything good, but sometimes i steal from my parents photo paper and use that for inking on with ballpoint, seems to work better
recently ive been doing more traditionals cos my computer died, but it chuked a jesus a few days ago and ressurected itself so i've done a few digitals lol
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:19 pm
c a n d y w o l f i like to combine traditional and digital (mostly cause i lack a tablet emo lol) mostly doing rendering/inking in pen or pencil the putting it in photoshop and colouring it there, thats just how iv'e learnt to do it lol i use crappy printer paper cos i cant afford anything good, but sometimes i steal from my parents photo paper and use that for inking on with ballpoint, seems to work better recently ive been doing more traditionals cos my computer died, but it chuked a jesus a few days ago and ressurected itself so i've done a few digitals lol
Have you gone and looked at your local art supply store for any cheap paper? Sometimes you can find some good quality stuff. Or you can go to an office supply store and see if they have any heavy weight printer paper; sometimes they have big sales, too~
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:54 am
Since I haven't really "expanded" my boundaries (all I've been stuck with is paper and pencil media), I'd say my favorite is sand. I've never tried it, but sand art is absoutely beautiful. To see some for yourself, look "sand art" up on Youtube. You'll find some beautiful recordings.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:03 pm
Wow, I youtubed sand art and it really is beautiful. *-*
But as for me, my favorite media is too simple. I love pencil on paper. I don't kow why, I guess it's the most simple and controlable. I don't really like digital, paints, or anything like that. D:
I mean I will use them sometimes, and sure, tablets are fun, so are watercolors and oil paints, but I really like pencil.
I'm so boring. D:
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:25 pm
@Britt-Chan: I would not say pencil is boring. I've seen far too many jaw-droppingly good pencil works. This gal is 14 and has some awesome pencil pictures. biggrin They're mostly black and white, but still. Colored pencils also have quite a repertoire of capabilities that are far from boring. My favorite medium thus far would have to be marker. Watercolors are nice, and I like playing with them, but they take up more preparation space than I generally have, whatwith needing a place for the paper to sit at an angle, the water, the palette, etc. I like markers because they put out such vibrant colors and they mix in such cool ways. It's almost like using paint, but more self-contained. There are some limitations on lifting color, but it's still possible and even produces some really cool effects when it works right. Really, the only downside to the markers that I've found thus far is that they're not so great if you just want a little bit of that color. You can always go darker, but it's hard to go lighter. But you can blend them to make just about any color you want, same as paints. I'm still experimenting with digital media to see how well it works with me. xd
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:04 pm
Dgitial... it's the only thing I can upload to the net!
Plus, I can fully erase colors and lines without messing the picture up.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:07 pm
Hum... I kinda like them all. ^^; I'm the type that has more clear dislikes than likes, and when it comes to art I rarely dislike anything. I used digital the most because of the speed and it presents well on the web, and you know, no mess. But I truly love traditional mediums, especially graphite and ink, two mediums I use the majority of my traditional art time with, followed by vibrant colors in whatever form I can get my hands on--markers, colored pencils (although I'm not a fan of textured papers when using them) pastels... I just did a gel pen painting for the first time and enjoyed it greatly, but they never scan well for some reason. I'm really not picky unless the stress is on.
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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:59 am
I often sketch on paper, then scan it up for digital painting. I've tried acrylics, gouache and watercolours... out of the traditional painting I only stay away from watercolours because I have yet to know how to use it effectively. There's also 3D, but I'm not moving into that yet.
Nothing special on art medium preferences. Just whatever that gets the job done. biggrin
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:27 am
Weeell
I usually draw with my favorite mechanical pencil, and either lineart on the computer, or on the paper it's self with my microns. (i love microns). I'm quite partial to photoshop elements, and Corel painter. I use a tablet, of course.
For other traditional media, when i'm really into it, i'll break out my watercolors and canson watercolor paper. But normally i use Prismacolor Markers and pencils.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:11 am
Acrylics every time...watercolours get on my nerves and pastels/chalks get everywhere, poster paint is childish and pencil/charcoal is officially for prep work...oils are ok and ink is pretty cool, but I think acrylics are the easiest to work with...
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