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7/6/2025, 12:56:03 AM
>>7632653
Hey OP, I want to comment because I began my acrylics on canvas journey about a year and a half ago and see myself in your work. I think I'm somewhere in the beg-int region, maybe, on a good day.
1. Perspective, as others have mentioned. Just aligning everything correctly is half the work needed to make something look good and correct. I improved by drawing on thin, bleed-proof designer type paper with B pencils and then retracing and redrawing on a new sheet with lighter/HB/H pencils, potentially over several copies until I really got a feel for things. Also learned to draw people this way.
2. Acrylics on canvas isn't just acrylics *on* canvas. I feel the medium is best when it is rough, heavy, or layered. If you have some cash to spare I can genuinely recommend you buy bigger, if not big, canvases (pre-framed or raw cloth, I've done both) and really go physically hard at it over many layers. Some thin, some thick. Some wet (yes, really wet, work it in), some straight from the tube. Potentially use brushes from the hardware store to work it in and go over it a thousand times. The attached pic is maybe just 20cm across but it was done in 4 or 5 sessions iirc. Learn to use the transparency of wet acrylics and the opacity of tube acrylics. And if you can let the canvas give the piece texture, then you can make nice things.
Hey OP, I want to comment because I began my acrylics on canvas journey about a year and a half ago and see myself in your work. I think I'm somewhere in the beg-int region, maybe, on a good day.
1. Perspective, as others have mentioned. Just aligning everything correctly is half the work needed to make something look good and correct. I improved by drawing on thin, bleed-proof designer type paper with B pencils and then retracing and redrawing on a new sheet with lighter/HB/H pencils, potentially over several copies until I really got a feel for things. Also learned to draw people this way.
2. Acrylics on canvas isn't just acrylics *on* canvas. I feel the medium is best when it is rough, heavy, or layered. If you have some cash to spare I can genuinely recommend you buy bigger, if not big, canvases (pre-framed or raw cloth, I've done both) and really go physically hard at it over many layers. Some thin, some thick. Some wet (yes, really wet, work it in), some straight from the tube. Potentially use brushes from the hardware store to work it in and go over it a thousand times. The attached pic is maybe just 20cm across but it was done in 4 or 5 sessions iirc. Learn to use the transparency of wet acrylics and the opacity of tube acrylics. And if you can let the canvas give the piece texture, then you can make nice things.
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