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TQ: It's the height of summer in the north and the dead of winter in the south, what do you personally do differently to compensate for the extremes of temperature and humidity affecting your materials?

>>7662459 (OP)
>TQ: It's the height of summer in the north and the dead of winter in the south, what do you personally do differently to compensate for the extremes of temperature and humidity affecting your materials?
Nothing. I just curse more whenever my materials don't do what I want them to do.

Did you do it, anon?

>>7662521
One day this will be me
But I first want a good printer and also an air filter so I don't get dust on my paintings all the time.

I painted this. Would love some thoughts. I feel like I went too heavy with the watercolours, lost a bunch of detail. Should I try to do lighter washes, or a more reestricted palette? I love the look of Moebius art, with ink shading, and some watercolour shading. Would love some feedback.

>>7662521
Nah, I got a canon scanner of some sort. If I was a professional painter I might though,

>>7662459 (OP)
I haven't really noticed anything different, though it's very humid now and I guess the ink does take longer to dry.

>>7662530
>a good printer and also an air filter so I don't get dust on my paintings all the time
One day this will be me
But I first need to start picking the cat hair out of my paint.

>>7662536
> I feel like I went too heavy with the watercolours
Yes, the wash is way too saturated and too dark at places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZVokXas-Q

>>7662521
I just got a macro lens for my 'show'
it was $20 and slips onto a phone with a clip
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FgGuTkP2bz8

Big study of Bougereau , 38”x30”

>>7662745
2018

>>7662745
nigga 2018 was 12 years ago, post new stuff

>>7662745
You need to put on your big boy pants and work on your fundis.

Quick, cue the "BUT I MAKE MORE MONEY THAN YOU AND I DON'T NEED TO WORK ON MY ART ANYMORE!!" script!

>>7662908
More please

Any advice on how to cheaply display practice works? I think they're pretty enough to be put on the wall but not enough to buy actual glass frames.

>>7663015
A ghetto-cheap way is to use a clear plastic sleeve and blutack it to the wall

>>7663015
Just get a cheap matte border from Michaels.

>>7663015
Encase it in epoxy and then observe with sadness as it yellows over the next 3-10 years

>>7663026
lol, now that you mention it, these are pretty cheap pastels so it's very likely they'd fade anyway. Hopefully I'd have improved a bit by the time it's black and white.

>>7663041
If you want to keep them up for a while then just get something to prop it up on a shelf, like a bookstand. Rotate a new one in when you're proud of it.

You could also glue a bunch of them to a $1 sheet of foamcore or posterboard, varnish it, and then blue tack that up.

Does anyone else focus and unfocus their eyes looking at their art or a reference? I know some people can’t do it, but intentionally blurring your vision, I suppose it’s a muscle you’d have to train if you can’t do it. I find it super helpful.

schizo wip

>>7663109
I also do this. It helps to break down a reference to nothing but colors and shapes so you don't get distracted by details when you're blocking.

>>7663138

>>7663178
i really, really love this. it’s so captivating. inspires me to want to salute it through drawing a reimagining.

>>7663178
Maybe I ruined it

>>7663215
you need to work on your technique
maybe this would be cool if properly executed, but it just looks amateurish and sloppy
you need to either give it depth to make it read as surrealism or drop the pretense and focus on the brushstrokes to make it work as an abstract of what I assume is cum

After switching to paper i havent finished 1 single piece. Its laking depth compared to oil. Is oil really the only medium for real art?

>>7663296
pyw

>>7663296
You just suck, and I know you know it too, so why make dumb posts instead of painting?

>>7663313
I havent painted anything yet, just some proofs of concept of mixing ink and water color. Yes my ink is waterproof, dip pen on arches paper is not perfect bit quite good, otherwise it looks like shit.
>>7663322
But it looks flat.

lol

>>7663138
What do your paintings or drawings of people look like? Could u do just a regular portrait so we can see? I mean yes you ruined it at the end but three iterations of this painting looked good, so 3 for 4

>>7663380
This is like my 5th painting ever. I've only done abstract tests/experiments.

>>7662756
>work on your fundis.
meaningless. "you should relearn every single thing about art because the one you posted holds not a single good artistic quality" gaaaaaaaay so incredibly gay of u to say shit like that gaaaay ur gay gay gay homosexual gay dick in ur butt gay gay gay you want my attention while also demeaning me in the most insane way because you are a gaaaay maaaaan who is in the closet about being a gay guy, youre deeply cloeseted

anyways ive been doing pastels again

>>7663434
NTA but work on your fundies doesn't mean forget everything and relearn them. It means you obviously haven't mastered them and you need to do more studying.

But if someones saying this shit genuinely, they'll usually tell you which ones.

>>7663434
>meaningless
nta, but that depends on your goals. if you want to stay at that limited level of ability, then by all means don't try to get better.

>>7663468
>>7663471
get a room homos oh wait u cant bcuz ur not a successful artist like me ahahahahahahaha

>>7663498
get a better non-argument

>>7663504
get better art oh wait u cant hahahahahahaha jk you can buy mine ahahahahahhahaha gottem again

>>7663515
>you can buy my slop
no thanks

>>7663515
People pretending to be me is so awesome I’m gonna post again just to see more retards get confused I love starting drama I’m such a fat little girl I’m rolling around in the mud eating worms

>>7663527
> I’m gonna post again just to see more retards get confused I love starting drama
Naggers do literally everything instead of studying fundis

>>7663570
Name ten fundis

>>7663570
You know we already know your fundamentals aren't good because we know the work of everyone itt, right?

I just spent 250 bucks on more oil paint. Finally no more being stingy with paint!
Also, I cried a little when I saw the prices for Old Holland oil paints.

>>7663922
>buys old holland paints
>not new holland paints
starving artists istg

>>7663926
I only saw there's also New Holland when I got home and checked their website. There was probably a New Holland section at the store but I was happy buying Schmincke for now without checking out all the available brands.
Now I gotta learn to actually paint instead of worrying about materials so much.

>>7663109

It's called squinting in art instruction and it is a known and tried technique to identify different values. I do it as well, unfocusing to make my sight blurry, but not everyone is able to do it so those who can't will have to close their eyes halfway to get the same effect, ie squint.

>>7663926
>>7663935
I thought it was a joke, never heard of it, either

>>7664006
>>7663935
Wait, fuck. I confused it with another brand that had "New" in their name.
Less making jokes, more painting!

bring back high art bobs

>>7663296
You just suck.

Everyone knows that gouache and watercolor (painted on paper) are the true patrician-tier media.

encaustic painting

my medium > power gap > your m*dium

>>7663918
These random blues and reds flowing down from his mouth make him look like a dead corpse and the eyes looks lifeless , u will be a master in macabre shit

>>7664472
> gouache
You put a gun to my head and ask whats worse, gouache or acrylic and i wouldnt know what to answer.
>>7664518
Thx, its a little series im doing with watercolors. This one is a little bit older, from last year i think.

>>7664541
>You put a gun to my head and ask whats worse, gouache or acrylic and i wouldnt know what to answer.
All this does is prove how poor of a painter you are. And the work you post proves it.

>>7663296
>compared to oil
Unless you are doing collage work, paper is a substrate that you can still use oils on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz4sdc-D1k

>>7664541
>You put a gun to my head and ask whats worse, gouache or acrylic
LMAO >>7663322 completely vindicated.
You just suck.

Why must we always fight?

>>7664573
>bad artists exist
>/ic/ mad
>/ic/ smash

it's quite simple really.

>>7664583
it's not a matter of existing, it's a matter of lacking self awareness
the guy blames the medium and calls >>7663322 flat while posting >>7663346
it's like posting about "mercedes not being for real driving like a porsche" while posting videos of yourself attempting to parallel park for 3 minutes before hitting a hydrant

>>7664602
It truly is baffling. How we can get primitive masterworks from neolithic man smearing mud and clay on rock walls with their hands to "boo hoo, the paint was only student grade! I can't be a decent artist without my mastergrade fineground pigments!"

>>7664573
life is one big struggle.
t. Australian painter

>>7664625
heil holbein

>>7664602
Relax your anus, dude. Im talking about my results with the medium in the first place. Acrylic is just objectively evil, though.

>>7664633
The posts are right there, everyone can tell exactly what you said.

>>7664633
>Acrylic is just objectively evil
Only if you don't know how to paint.

>>7664619
Not really. The artists in prehistoric times were not only old enough to have the skill to make art, they were old enough to survive in those times, meaning artists were also generally the most vicious hunters (most art then was of what was hunted, meaning they were part of enough of the hunting to be either leading them through experience or close enough to the kills to remember them)

>>7664440
>every woman’s breasts in art were the breasts of a teenage girl on a grown woman
Can you say based

>>7664650
>on a grown woman
>based

>>7664635
You are such an autist, you really think white knighting a medium, that someone is jokingly trashing is a good idea to put time in.
Not to mention that you havent postet any own watercolors, thats just a given for a nodraw.

lol he's seething

>>7664656
Yes, you won, again. How the fuck are you even doing it?

>>7664655
Just take the L and don't be a retard next time.

>>7664633
No, it's lawful evil.
Anyways, thoughts?

>>7662712
>POV
>Self Portrait

>>7663346
>>7663918
>>7664541

LMAO THIS CAN'T BE REAL LOL

>>7664659
it's ez 2bh

>>7664663
Okay, I think I got it :^)

>>7664674
Missing: ink, oil pastels, soft pastels, tattoos, airbrush

>>7664674
I'd personally move digital to lawful evil as digital artists and their lazy-ass corner cutting and one-button copying is the main reason AI image generation exists.

>>7664663
These don't make any sense because D&D alignments are based on cosmic forces.

You could do something like and axis of pigment vs dye and then another of solvent vs water. And then class those as good/evil/law/chaos (the selection of what applies to what being the Funposting part)

>>7664678
nobody cares, dweeb

>>7664674
I fixed it. Fuck digital.

In thinking about anon's shitty alignment chart, I had a ponder.
Do people paint with pigmented epoxy resin? Like I know people pour with it or do weird things like squeegeeing it, but is there any significant amount of people who like, use some kind with slowdry additives in it and paint with it using a brush like normal?

>>7664684
And yet you made this using digital tools. Curious indeed.

>>7664686
fuck off cris

>>7664686
I mean, technically, this is a painting. You can make trad art from anything, really.

>>7664687
Stop following me to my home pls

>>7664687
digiwhat?

>>7664692
digizoomers don't even know how much pain we had getting the egg yolk cooked to the right consistency each time we wanted to use a mouse

>>7664686
I've seen it. Poured resin almost always looks cheap due to its gross over-popularization in social media content farm videos. But in some mied media stuff it can sort of look cool. However i don't think it's widely used.

>>7664688
Cris is dead, I'm just someone who knows enough about the material properties of things to realize when some shit is equivalent.

Like how anyone "seasoning" their cast iron is just rapid-curing a food-grade, unpigmented and pure version of the same oil used for oil paints.

>>7664689
>You can make trad art from anything, really.
Truth.

>>7663918
Looks like metalocalypse lmao

was told to come here a while ago from people in /beg/ but I have nothing to draw but shitty doodles due to lack of motivation. does anyone else really like to draw statues?

>>7664766
>was told to come here a while ago from people in /beg/
It was me.
>I have nothing to draw but shitty doodles due to lack of motivation
Okay, I publicly apologize for bringing this Howie here. Motivate yourself or go back. There's only Serious Artists Who Definitely Are Going To Make It™ here.

>>7664770
oh I'm not a howie I'm just an attention rotten zoomer, sorry lol. didn't mean to seem like I was asking for help, I was just apologizing that was all I had to show right now.

>>7664773
End your Howie arc and become A Serious Artist by making a finished piece

>>7664777
I can try...

>tfw no lead white

>>7664786
Do it. Do it now.

I saw some oil pastels on sale and I thought about buying them, but I stopped myself when I found out that I also needed special paper and equipment, wew.

>>7664993
>not hoarding supplies
ngmi

Lots of suffering here but I learned lots of things I shouldn't do next time around. I'll still finish this. Eventually.

>>7664790
Buy some, Holbein is cheap

>>7665023
> I learned lots of things I shouldn't do next time
What?