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Please can you fav it for me? It's important to me,i want to won a tablet,i need one: [link]
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=///= Your whole gallery always amazes me. I'm a starter at pastels and just seeing the way you work with them literally killed me. It's so impressive!! Both the crazy amount of details you manage to get in, but also the way you use colors!! =w=''' Mine always get saturated before I can really start on the details I want to add in =w='' You really are godly with those!
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I have a few pointers for your saturation problem: Plan out your color scheme more fully or try using a different, rougher paper (like cold press water color paper or canson color paper). they also make a specific paper for pastel that allows a person to have a heavy hand, called sennelier or wallace paper (feels like sand paper and it will eat your pastels). there is also working with pastel pencils but you need to keep your layers light. A more expensive (but worth it) method is pan pastels which will allow for beautiful under painting coverage so you are allowed to go crazy on the details on top!
...I hope that's not too much information to throw at you... I'm kinda crazy about my mediums I use.... Please feel free to ask me any questions or to tell me to stfu if you want. lol! Pastels are fun to explore and see what you can get out of them! Just keep practicing!!!!
=w= I've only started using pastels a few weeks ago, and actually it's my first real beginning with colors, sooo right now I'm trying out bunches of media (and I have to say, my heart sways between pastels and acrylics XD). My problem with pastels is that I like to use lots of layers, I don't like smudging at all but I don't like it too rough either, sooo to make up for it I use all those bunches of layers to make the result smooth... Without smudging it. Does that make sense?? =w=' But well usually this works even with oversaturated colors when I only need to add in the very dark ones, or blues most of the time... But yes... It kills it for details. =w=''
I think I'll try to go and see if I can find those papers!! I took note of the names, and I'm definitely thankink you for those!!
I also saw that you're crazily good at gouache XD Would it be a little too much to ask you about that too? I've never used it to be honest (apart to paint cats and horses when I was a kid- *sighs* ) and I don't know much how to use it... Do you use it with water? Does it usually work well for you with bunches of layers, like acrylics?
...I-I don't dare try oil pastels yet, they kinda scare me =w=''' Because I'm usually so messy, with pastels and acrylics I can use and transform my mistakes but oil pastels... >.> when I look at them, I feel a bit like a stain is going to be, like... Definitive. =w=''
XD Sorry for asking so many question!! Definitely feel free to tell me to stfu too!! >^<
Gouache, like any other medium, takes practice and patience. It's bold like acrylic and water soluble like watercolor. It's best used flat.
The way to make it lie flat is to add water until the paint is the consistency of melted ice cream. Try working with different papers to see which works best and work with the paint to see what is the best consistency for you.
I prefer to use cold/ rough press watercolor paper (at least 120 pounds so it won't warp). The melted ice cream consistency works best for me on that paper because it allows me to add layers and details over bigger washes of color. When it comes to adding layers, you have to be careful because the paper will only hold so much before the under layers will start coming up with your brush strokes. Make sure the layers on the paper are COMPLETELY dry before making another layer on top.
Arches cold press is my favorite, the heavier the poundage the more layers the paper will take. Some people will use hot press watercolor paper (smoother surface), Bristol, or illustration board (cold or hot press). Smoother papers won't hold as many layers and I find that the paint will try and slide off as you paint. Try getting samples of both cold and hot press papers, and experiment with everything.
Gouache is amazing for details!!!! I love using it over my watercolors for details and have the watercolors be the under painting!
TONS O' INFO!!!!!! Any questions, just msg me!!!
PS: Don't fear oil pastels or how you use pastels! I didn't smudge my Allie pastel piece, I got that texture by just layering the pastel marks. Just try different open marks (like hatching) instead of coloring things in! Take a closer look at the wings and you may be able to see what I did exactly. Oil pastels are the same way, they are just more gooey! If you like smoother images, try oil pastels!
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