Post by aquabluejay on Jul 10, 2011 5:49:17 GMT
Ok so I spent the last two days on the floor of my room, surrounded by epic mess, painting with water colors, and it was glorious.
I so rarely find the time to sit down and paint, I forget how much fun it can be and how good at it I actually am! ^^
There are some projects where I have trouble with my hands shaking just a tiny bit, or controlling my lines and making things go where I want them too
(although these problems are usually caused more by exhaustion than anything else). I'm always amazed at how steady and precise I am with a brush.
On My 10th Doctor Project:
As with most of my art, I like to scan the inked copy and work on a print out, blown up or the same size, or sometimes even slightly reduced,
depending on the project. The problem with the last few projects I'd done during the school year were that I was using standard printer paper,
which of course is no substitute for watercolor paper.
I've experimented once or twice with running different papers through my printer, but I'd not had particularly high hopes for water color paper working well.
One of my art teachers once ran off a project of mine on it using the school photocopier. (That woman continues to disappoint me actually...)
And it didn't print well due to the texture of the paper.
I wanted to use water colors on the Tardis that 10 is leaning on in this, but Didn't want to mess with the original, even though it was on slightly nicer paper.
Also, I'd already gone ahead and colored in the Doctor with colored pencils on a printer copy.
Printer paper would have died obviously, and quite frankly Magnus kind of put me off of digital art the other day. No offense taken or anything, you made some perfectly legitimate
points and it was great to get some serious feedback but the whole conversation just kind of put me off the idea for a number of reasons.
In the end, I decided to take the leap, and go ahead and cut down some cold-press watercolor paper to size for my printer.
I was elated at the perfect results, and was almost tempted to just stop there I liked the look so much! XD
After spending most of the day carefully, and painstakingly painting in the blue of the TARDIS (the first brush water colors I'd used in over a year). I managed to fully grasp a whole 'nother
chunk of painting theory and technique which I had never really taken my teacher's word for. (She's still rubbish btw, but I'm starting to see what she was trying to explain terribly ineptly.)
I'll post the finished version later, after I've had a chance to do a few touch-ups needed from the scanner, I don't quite feel up to it tonight.
In an attempt to use up all the left over, (and extremely gorgeous) Tardis blue, I printed out a few of my other projects, with large fields of blue, and also went to work on them is the most
old fashioned way I know how (this is for you Magnus XD!)
I so rarely find the time to sit down and paint, I forget how much fun it can be and how good at it I actually am! ^^
There are some projects where I have trouble with my hands shaking just a tiny bit, or controlling my lines and making things go where I want them too
(although these problems are usually caused more by exhaustion than anything else). I'm always amazed at how steady and precise I am with a brush.
On My 10th Doctor Project:
As with most of my art, I like to scan the inked copy and work on a print out, blown up or the same size, or sometimes even slightly reduced,
depending on the project. The problem with the last few projects I'd done during the school year were that I was using standard printer paper,
which of course is no substitute for watercolor paper.
I've experimented once or twice with running different papers through my printer, but I'd not had particularly high hopes for water color paper working well.
One of my art teachers once ran off a project of mine on it using the school photocopier. (That woman continues to disappoint me actually...)
And it didn't print well due to the texture of the paper.
I wanted to use water colors on the Tardis that 10 is leaning on in this, but Didn't want to mess with the original, even though it was on slightly nicer paper.
Also, I'd already gone ahead and colored in the Doctor with colored pencils on a printer copy.
Printer paper would have died obviously, and quite frankly Magnus kind of put me off of digital art the other day. No offense taken or anything, you made some perfectly legitimate
points and it was great to get some serious feedback but the whole conversation just kind of put me off the idea for a number of reasons.
In the end, I decided to take the leap, and go ahead and cut down some cold-press watercolor paper to size for my printer.
I was elated at the perfect results, and was almost tempted to just stop there I liked the look so much! XD
After spending most of the day carefully, and painstakingly painting in the blue of the TARDIS (the first brush water colors I'd used in over a year). I managed to fully grasp a whole 'nother
chunk of painting theory and technique which I had never really taken my teacher's word for. (She's still rubbish btw, but I'm starting to see what she was trying to explain terribly ineptly.)
I'll post the finished version later, after I've had a chance to do a few touch-ups needed from the scanner, I don't quite feel up to it tonight.
In an attempt to use up all the left over, (and extremely gorgeous) Tardis blue, I printed out a few of my other projects, with large fields of blue, and also went to work on them is the most
old fashioned way I know how (this is for you Magnus XD!)
