#also cant do this with watercolor sketchbook for the same reason | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

skunkes · 5 months ago

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i think watercolor wld be less daunting if it didnt require special paper, which is Obvious but I dont even mean it in the "i dont wanna waste the good paper" way, more like I'll doodle aimlessly in my sketchbook and if a Nice Drawing happens to come out of me as a result, and I feel like painting over it in gouache, I will simply do that... watercolor is scary bc i feel i have to go into the Specific Special Paper with a plan and I rarely have plans

#like i cant just aimlessly doodle on the special paper bc thats a waste if i only wanna color one drawing #also cant do this with watercolor sketchbook for the same reason #does dis make sense....#the other day when i painted that Talon i did so with the goal of painting him #and the og drawing was stiff and ugly so thats why it came out so bad #then i realized i cld just draw as usual (no pressure) and paint over anything later #i was easing up on watercolor anxiety (lol) when i realized that it doesnt have to be a complex painting‚ i can just use watercolor #to color in any drawing i want.... doesn't have to be a big deal #but then Yes It Does. bc in order to do that it has to be drawn precisely onto that stupid rough special paper #dude arches cold press is just the exact same as the other cold press block i have #so u can actually draw on hot press but it feels like painting on cardstock. and cold press is better for paints but u cant actually #draw on it. ok #how does anyone do dis shit 😭

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