#gouache stim

[starry-stims]

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[nocturnal-stims]

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[nanmo-wakaran]

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[fluffygif]

Amazingly talented

[nana2359-blog]

My happy yellow room

Meu quarto amarelo e feliz (2023)

Medium: acrylics, dirty water, gel pens and gouache painting

I painted this in 2023 to represent how it feels to have sensory processing disorder and "go to your happy place" (using ear plugs, wearing good fabric, staying away from crowds, meditating, etc), yet sometimes things don't go as planned and the triggers start to leak into the room.

The moldy walls show that the room has already been flooded to the top a few times, and now it started to leak again. I know that once the room is flooded, all I can do is float and dissociate.

I obviously love to explain my thought process.

You might have seen this painting on TikTok or Facebook, but I can assure you it's mine 👍

Excuse my disgusting nails

[mxkitchimera]

dragon braid - watercolor/gouache, pigments PR122 + PG7 + PY110 + PW6.

she's showing you the new hair braiding spell she's been working on! (it's not going well but she doesn't know that yet).

I've been in a haze of 3D assets for months now, but I needed to paint something in meatspace before I exploded. I guess I have some specific stim requirements haha!

it's just a sketch, I said. It'll only be a couple layers, I said.

i think I need to realize that if I'm laying down a background wash I'm in it for the long haul ><

[kitchimera]

dragon braid flatlay - watercolor/gouache pigments PR122 + PG7 + PY110 + PW6

she’s showing you her new braiding spell! (it’s not going well)

been doing too much digitally and needed to stim—gouache has a sliiiiight grit or grip (or at least the m graham PW6 I pastelize my watercolors with feels grittier than, say, PR122 which is a bit slippery?

idk, it seems like a silly amount of difference but I NEEDED the PW6 feeling on the paintbrush OR ELSE so it’s officially a stim now I guess.

I do feel better tho!

[cosmicgardencreative]

Not all art has to make sense

It's been a really busy couple weeks. We managed to accomplish a couple things in between, but it's mostly behind the scenes and storyboarding, so nothing we can show quite yet.

Even with the break that we could manage this Sunday, I got frustrated that I wasn't in the mode to draw my OCs. Instances like this was a reminder that sometimes you just gotta let your brain defrag itself with warmups that aren't character designs.

I don't know many others who do their art therapy like this, but I get a lot of satisfaction with playing with various brushes and colors.

First round was using the different airbrushes in CSP. Second was mixing some airbush with the realistic watercolor brushes, sort of a digital mixed-media feel.

It got pretty telling afterwards that my mind was brewing some dark clouds. The moody rainstorm I ended up painting, though, wasn't ominous but rather cathartic. Looking back at it now, it's weird recognizing how busy my internal workings can get, to the point where it's full of rolling clouds and flashing lights. Still, it's a pretty accurate visualization as I was then contemplating over how I'll be dropping my two weeks' notice on my manager tomorrow.

Although current budgeting prevents us from investing in a sub, I've gotten to appreciate CSP's unlimited doodle mode sans the export feature. MediBang's one hour free session just doesn't quite compare especially against CSP's brush engine.

When I refreshed the canvas for the next round, I played around a lot between the pen, watercolor, gouache, lasso tool, pencil, chalk, charcoal, and crayon subtools. I couldn't really care what I was doing then. I felt like a tired parent sitting on the bench while I let my hand run free like a 5-year-old at a playground.

This particular canvas session was more fun because I felt like I reconnected with how my hand naturally behaves. Who knew that stimming doesn't have to take fidget spinners and squishing colorful sand.

It was about at this point that I started taking notes on what brushes I was using and how they interacted with colors as I got more conscientious of the pressure sensitivity and tilt angles of the apple pencil.

Even though none of this was related to producing concept art, or finishing my queued WIPs, I'm not mad that it's not usable art. Not all art has to make sense, and we just need to be okay with drawing stuff that no one else would care except yourself.

[yo-gummy-sharks]

Idk what this is but I like it

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[allstimgifs]

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[obsob]

catgirl but she frequently commits arson 

[stimtoy]

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[nanmo-wakaran]

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[fluffygif]

Incredible nature paintings!

[wrappedinflowers]

I’m not very good at these things called... Art or life 🙃 gn