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 11:00 pm (UTC)For myself, I started out with traditional media in high school, using lead pencils, fine-tipped ink pen, oil pastels and acrylics, and that's all I stuck to for many years after. I thought that I was great at landscapes, but (in my eyes) an utter failure at portraying people, so I basically stopped attempting them.
Years later when I discovered fandom, I'd been teaching myself Photoshop, so naturally my very first foray into fanart was Photo-manipulations, which I enjoyed profusely. They are so bad, looking back, but I still have them up at my website because I'm proud of myself for taking that step out of my comfort zone and publishing my work online.
A year or two later, having gotten so many positive, encouraging responses to my Manips, I one day attempted a sketched portrait, which I scanned and colour-tinted in Photoshop. It came out amazing (to me) compared to the portraits I'd tried in high school. I guess somehow my eye for detail and proportion had gotten more developed through honing my skills producing Manips.
And that's when I slowly began transitioning from digital fanart to traditional media. However, I still do some playing around and correcting in Photoshop up to today.
My foray into any new traditional media (chalk pastels, watercolour pencils, watercolour paints, coloured inks) since then has been directly inspired by fanart and artists in fandom.
(I could go on and on with this topic, but will close here for now. *g*)