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watercolour pen shenanigans

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i must concede defeat.

my sister got me a bunch of 'ohuhu watercolour brush pens' and i have no idea what the fuck i'm doing.

i've tried many watercolour techniques. i've tried just foolin around with them as markers. i've tried just using them to tint water/wet pages. they only spread/are mixable/behave the slightest bit like watercolours on a single type of paper i have, and it's NOT the shitty bane-of-my-existence watercolour paper, everywhere else they're like a permanent marker that absolutely WILL bleed through the other side.

i don't know how to art anymore o____o

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having cats is never being allowed to art without all the kitties being HEAVILY involved and HEAVILY present.

can't even take a heckin picture without my noodle-boyo puttin his paws all over the goshdang thing aaaaaaa.

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trying to search bird face reference images on google and it just bombards you with a stream of constant ai and photomanips and i JUST NEED SOME REAL HECKIN CROW REFS WHY IS THIS SO HARD GOOGLE.

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the worst part of not drawing for a while is re-training your muscles and mind to work together as well as they used to.

it's like riding a bike: your brain remembers but your body completely forgets.

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some character references i tried to get done for artfight but never really fully finished/was satisfied with.

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experimenting with watercolours and pencil crayons.

first head is how i normally approach colouring my art. pencil sketch, watercolours, get frustrated with waiting for paint to dry, forget about it until later and layer a little more paint in hair, then finish up with pencil crayons on top for detailing, emphasis, and colour variance.

second head i decided to use pencil crayons instead for the face, building up lightly with minimal pencil markings showing through. then the hair (+ eyebrows) are undetailed watercolour wash with in a slightly shifted more stylized shade than her standard orangey hair colour.

third head i was going over in just watercolours and lost track of what i was doing.

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sometimes you just gotta doodle an elf.

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some elf wives

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having cats is never being allowed to art without all the kitties being HEAVILY involved and HEAVILY present.

can't even take a heckin picture without my noodle-boyo puttin his paws all over the goshdang thing aaaaaaa.

[cthulhubrain]

the worst part of not drawing for a while is re-training your muscles and mind to work together as well as they used to.

it's like riding a bike: your brain remembers but your body completely forgets.

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i love art streams and wanted to eventually get around to being able to do my own. and since i'm more recently in the process of having to re-learn art muscle memory since i haven't been consistent with anything, i figured streaming my agonizing process would be one way of actually getting me to do and commit to it at all.

however.

this would not be digital art, so no clean contained streaming setup all in one place. no. this would have to be a traditional chicken-scratch use-your-gaddamn-phone-as-a-camera-and-hope-for-the-best, laptop set to the side to see anything sort of mess of a setup. and i'm wondering...

would people at all be interested in witnessing such shenanigans from me?

[cthulhubrain]

some character references i tried to get done for artfight but never really fully finished/was satisfied with.

[cthulhubrain]

experimenting with watercolours and pencil crayons.

first head is how i normally approach colouring my art. pencil sketch, watercolours, get frustrated with waiting for paint to dry, forget about it until later and layer a little more paint in hair, then finish up with pencil crayons on top for detailing, emphasis, and colour variance.

second head i decided to use pencil crayons instead for the face, building up lightly with minimal pencil markings showing through. then the hair (+ eyebrows) are undetailed watercolour wash with in a slightly shifted more stylized shade than her standard orangey hair colour.

third head i was going over in just watercolours and lost track of what i was doing.

[cthulhubrain]

sometimes you just gotta doodle an elf.

[cthulhubrain]

some elf wives