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watercolor paper experimenting with doodles

Id like to start incorporating watercolor into trad gifts and comms I send to others... but theres a difference in how different watercolor paper take watercolor vs how they take colored pencil, and I like to incorporate both...

Ive drawn cupid smunkers (named such because of the paint color name) on 4 paper types I have (but only showing 3), to try and figure it out. Specifically chose this paint color because its very granulating, and i wanted to see how colored pencil goes over it.

Arches cold press....is very good for laying paint. But not very good for colored pencil at all. I usually incorporate colored pencil into the colored areas, but I didn't dare do so, knowing it would just look as rough as the lineart here does. (This is the laziest cupid smunker i drew LOL i like the chaotic effect that came from doing it quickly) Perhaps this would be ok if im able to master watercolor, so i only incorporate colored pencil in the form of lineart, but right now I really like and almost Need to blend the 2.

canson mixed media paper takes the paint ok-ly. I heart hard watercolor edge! The colored pencil for the lines is Ok, I Suppose, but the texture is far too evident when adding colored pencil to the colored areas....one would have to cover the entire area with it (seen here) because it looks too off and obviously out of place if you just want to add colored pencil to one area....

Arches hot press....i was too scared to play with the granulation here because this paper scares me. This one is arguably the best of the 3 shown but i get Scared to put the paint down because i fight for my life with hot press, and bizarrely enough colored pencil feels strange here too...where cold press grips and doesnt let go, hot press has me struggling to keep line direction and a fine point. You can also see in the arms that adding the colored pencil to a full area still looks....off...! I guess im going to have to keep experimenting.

The paper example im NOT showing is baohong academy. The smunker came out too ugly LMAO. I LOOOOOOVE how paint looks on it. Incredibly bad for colored pencil though, even just for lines, same as arches. Would be better for ink-and-washes but as of right now i am not really an ink-and-watercolor kind of guy

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This is the paper from my watercolor sketchbook which is also good-bad but my favorite overall, compromise wise. It handles paint ok-ly, kinda like hot press, but it takes my colored pencils well. It still looks "rough" but its an equal roughness that blends into each other texture wise, while still accepting colored pencil without much fight.

(For example, the top on the jinx stoat is paint only, but the texture matches the areas that have more colored pencil. Cat has limited colored pencil but the texture is all around the same, and the sea smunker here actually only has colored pencil for outlines in various areas, but still has texture, which is usually what makes watercolor paper struggle with colored pencil. You can also see the texture in the watercolor swatch squares, which are completely untouched by pencil. I hope this makes sense)

Maybe i just need to get loose sheets of this paper... Even if it does also piss me off in several ways LMFAO its the only one that really lets me balance both....

[iamataldis]

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered secret ending (REAL NOT FAKE)

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i asked this on bsky but let it be known. i love sending my ocs to play with other people's and am trying to be braver about it. if you ever think to yourself our ocs could be friends. i want to hear about it. i want to introduce them. u have to tell me ok?

[wehavetotalkaboutit]

Some days, grief feels like a whisper. Other days, it’s a scream

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really love trans mascs saying al is #goals and trans fems saying he needs to go on estrogen. he's perfect

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Might draw steven universe fanart in 2025 because i saw Opal and remembered she's like top favorite designs of all time

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dad barged into my room while i was looking at a picture of silco on twitter like this

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Bad: mom told me to shave my beard

Good: she has never ever had to tell me this before now because ive never been growing this many visible beard hairs

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Friend gave me 3 jobs to apply for but idk if i shld even try anymore bc i bet the tariffs thing is gonna make living alone with a low paying job impossible lmfao and then with the way things are going I bet I wont even be able to transition so whats the point

Going anywhere with my parents now is just. I dont want to live here anymore. I don't want to live here. I just want to go live in a cave + be alone for a few years to recover from how long I've had to live here. Please god give me a boyfriend to move in with if u cant spawn another friend in [city i want to go live in] that I've known for 10+ yrs to move in with

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why do people who sell clothes online do that thing where they bunch up the tops (like shirts and such) in the middle ❓

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"how would furries wear glasses?" pince-nez have existed for ages whatever the REAL question is how would prey-animals-with-eyes-that-dont-face-forward wear glasses

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favorite talon counterparts people have suggested (right column) when ive species swapped al (left column)

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al is like one of those giant rabbits

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as much as i love looking at textured rendering i dont think its for me not bc i dont think i could ever do it but i try it and im like i really wish i was looking at flat color right now!

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