Discussion: Different art media
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drawesomeSo, a thing I thought about just now, after having done the recent challenge in pastels...
What is your preferred medium of choice? What exactly do you like about it? Is it special techniques or effects that other media don't provide? Is it the haptic experience? Is it the cost? Childhood experiences? Art from artists you admire? The "comfort zone" due to practice?
What brings you to push yourself into trying a less practised/or new medium? (Is it a mood, a character/situation, just variety, inspiration from other artists using that medium ...)
Do you ever play around with a mix of traditional and digital media?
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For example, I just did a smallish pastel drawing (will post tomorrow when I have good light for taking a photo) because I miss working with colour. The format isn't really great for using pastels or even pastel pencils because the medium just isn't so great for detail work. (I think I remember a post by Alby Mangroves, for example, where she had a photo of her works on huge formats. There you can put in detail more easily).
Yesterday I tried using coloured pencils (which I rediscovered for a challenge piece this week) and found that things I do in other media don't work with them). It got a tad frustrating and I wished I had done the art on watercolour paper so I could used those instead.
Media I use (roughly in order of frequence): pencil, watercolour, pastels, ink/felt pens and the like
I'm just really interested in your experiences with or feelings about the different media we have available for drawing.
What is your preferred medium of choice? What exactly do you like about it? Is it special techniques or effects that other media don't provide? Is it the haptic experience? Is it the cost? Childhood experiences? Art from artists you admire? The "comfort zone" due to practice?
What brings you to push yourself into trying a less practised/or new medium? (Is it a mood, a character/situation, just variety, inspiration from other artists using that medium ...)
Do you ever play around with a mix of traditional and digital media?
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For example, I just did a smallish pastel drawing (will post tomorrow when I have good light for taking a photo) because I miss working with colour. The format isn't really great for using pastels or even pastel pencils because the medium just isn't so great for detail work. (I think I remember a post by Alby Mangroves, for example, where she had a photo of her works on huge formats. There you can put in detail more easily).
Yesterday I tried using coloured pencils (which I rediscovered for a challenge piece this week) and found that things I do in other media don't work with them). It got a tad frustrating and I wished I had done the art on watercolour paper so I could used those instead.
Media I use (roughly in order of frequence): pencil, watercolour, pastels, ink/felt pens and the like
I'm just really interested in your experiences with or feelings about the different media we have available for drawing.
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Date: 2018-04-14 01:20 pm (UTC)I’m a bit of a control freak so my style’s never going to be loose/rough/free-flowing, and I tend towards overworking details.
sounds familiar ;-)
Re watercolour pencils, I found that they mostly work if I use them only sideways for shading larger areas (instead of keeping them upright), that way you don't get the distinctive lines, but this doesn't work for really large areas you want coloured with an even layer. I sometimes take a wet brushtip to the pen-tip and take colour off that way (esp. if it's a colour I don't have in a pan). But mostly I use them for details (like I would 'normal' coloured pencils) on a watercolour painting done with the colour from pans. Sometimes I don't even put a wash of water over those details, esp. if they are small. Don't know if that helps you.
I'm looking forward to your skillshare review!