#cheap watercolor

[yellowmelle]

Latest video on youtube, I got bored and challenged myself to make a watercolour painting using only dollar store art supplies.

Conclusion, dollar store watercolor is gooey and weird!

[ganondoodle]

wanted to work on all my personal stuff today but the super chef of the company i work for is sick and one of my coworkers wants me to draw a picture to gift to him and its gotta be done until tuesday ... i haven worked with watercolors in a decade and it SHOWS, spent 5 hours trying to get even just a test done and it looks like babies first watercolor adventure

[zencaia]

Watercolor 🎨

[3liza]

I know exactly who needs to hear this: the reason models and actresses have smooth lipstick borders and the haggard fujoshi in our mirrors dont is because you have to get rid of all the peach fuzz around your mouth to be able to get a solid line with a brush or a liner pencil. otherwise it's like trying to get a crayon to make a solid line on top of a kiwi fruit. no one tells you this. they just expect you to either figure it out by yourself or look bad.

item 2: almost no one can easily or reliably get even, smooth, non-lopsided lipstick application by putting the actual stick of lipstick directly onto your mouth and dragging it around. I mean you sort of can, if you're just dabbing or swiping a light application or a color close to your lip color, but that thing in movies where the lady puts on a full mouth of dark red lipstick in a mirror in one layer in one movement like she's outlining a ghost on a paranormal video screenshot is a male fantasy. you have to use a lip brush or pencil (i really recommend lip brush, pencil still has the crayon texture to it on skin usually) to get a really precise border or edge and to make avoiding fuckups easier and also removing fuckups easier.

you can shave around your mouth with a regular leg razor and it's fine, I do it dry all the time and it's not a big deal. you can also use one of those twinkle razors. or an electric shaver

[skunkes]

swatched my watercolors onto my sketchbook (that is not made for em at all 🫶) for Fun and Pretty Colors reasons

[sceebybeeby]

happy "i draw phoenix sad" day today and happy "i draw phoenix smoking a blunt" day tomorrow ^^ here's a kristoph doodle i did in art instead of my work

[lodka-p]

hater's personal maid (and still second-in-command)

[pearl-kite]

Hard year for drawing ideas, so I redrew this old one of Gale and Claire from 2009:

Proportions have improved drastically in the intervening years

[catboy-a-day]

Catboy 141 ^_^

[bluebellwren]

Maybe it's because I'm not a professional, but it confuses me that artists will condemn certain brands of traditional art supplies and then turn around and go "art is a skill!! it doesn't matter what tools you use, it's practice that makes it look good!!" whenever people ask them about their go to art tools (whether traditional or digital)

[thecheesecracker]

The wind in summertime 🎋

[margoes-akira]

PIKMIN 😊

[keeskiwi]

A couple more watercolor esk, testing out some new paper! It turns out that uh, using high quality watercolor paper has some benefits huh.

[arminsxseaxshell]

Drew it back in 2023 :)

[cobra-wives]

some watercolor work + closeups!

[snickerdoodlles]

I've been trying to get back into painting this year, watercolors in particular. I feel extremely rusty on them, so most of my painting has been stuff like stain glass windows or other very geometric sectioning of the paper as I remember how to mix colors and smush them around, but I'm really pleased with how this lil guy came out, I love that he looks like a friend coming to say hello.

used a technique called 'accidental watercolor', which is where you first soak the paper and blob 3-4 colors on it, then decide what you want to paint over it. for example, this is my sketch over the first stage of painting;

I just really love doing this sort of painting. it always has a really cool color and texture effect for any nature paintings, especially if it includes water. plus it's really nice to have a step in the process that's just turning off my brain and letting the colors go wherever, it's very therapeutic.