Real paint / materials

Best Surface for Pen & Ink?

Pumpkin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:42:22 GMT

Hello lovely people,

I really recently took the traditional inking plunge & got myself a Hunt 102 Crow Quill pen, but I'm having trouble deciding on what surface I should be using it on. Ages ago I got given a few sheets of this fairly thick paper with a glossy side that takes pen & ink beautifully, but I've used it all & have no idea what it's called to try & find some more!

Can anyone reccommend from experience the best thing to use with inks? I've heard a lot about illustration board & Bristol board but I've never used either & have no idea what the difference is! I also tend to ink with a lightbox, so would anyone know of a good inking surface thin enough to trace through?

Thankyou so muuuch :D

Painting Smoke with acrylics

chuck_norris — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:06:17 GMT

Hey guys,

I am currently doing an acrylic on canvas painting. But I was curious on how I would go about painting green smoke coming out of an exhaust... I uploaded my painting, I basically want Green paint form the exhausts to go up through the grates. I apologies for the picture quality, I only have my mob Ph cam atm... I'm looking forward to your responses.

Water Color Pencils

carly801 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:50:25 GMT

Hey I'm looking to buy some really good water color pencils.I need some advice on where to go to here in Melbourne, Oz.....but shipping can take care of that....basically I'm going into water color pencils AND wood carving and I just need a good over-all quality and affordablity.I'll dedicate my first picture to you :) if you can help me.

Gouache Painting on Location - Video Tutorial

Main Loop — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:51:43 GMT

Hey guys, I did this painting while recording myself with a nifty little pocket-cam that can record up to 1 hr. worth of video. I painted this in about an hour, yes. This is my first attempt at recording this, so any feedback is hugely appreciated. Next time I won’t do the commentary at 1 in the morning, that might help!

(broken into 7 parts, because youtube has a 10 min. upload limit)

http://www.youtube.com/v/I6istv-Bpts&hl=en&fs=1&

http://www.youtube.com/v/NsfQcBG3T8A&hl=en&fs=1&

http://www.youtube.com/v/wpFbVb710VM&hl=en&fs=1&

http://www.youtube.com/v/LXXchqQcYyo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

http://www.youtube.com/v/Q1EZaOXvR2c&hl=en&fs=1&

http://www.youtube.com/v/OR8yMUnSodE&hl=en&fs=1&

http://www.youtube.com/v/Wccls4HeYE4&hl=en&fs=1&

Struggleing with colour theroy

phoenicorn — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:17:27 GMT

I heard something a while back that your could use complementary colours to create more natural highlights. This has been confusing me so if anyone could explain this phenomenon I would be very grateful thanks all

General Art Tutorials

phoenicorn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:04:46 GMT

Hi all. After all the encoragement I have recived here I thought I'd create my own tutorial section. This is basic stuff that I have found out or been told.

First area I will descuss is light. This is most likely the area that I have been going wrong in. Firstly I shall tackle simple shapes with black and white images.

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From my reasearch I have learn't that in my mind light falls into 4 areas

1. The intence light. You get this from the first area the light hits.

2. Transition shade. This is the area where the light fades and shade begins.

3. True shade. the area of the shape where the least amount of light hits.

4. Reflectional light. you get this from light bouncing off any serface behind the object.

Feel free to correct my studies as you feel fit if I am mistaken.

Home work for the forumites.

Draw some basic 3d shapes like above.

draw the 4 areas of light
Discuss how this may be applied to real life drawing
Grab a bottle of bleach (or something simpleish) and draw basic the shape with the 4 areas of light.

Felt tip markers

phoenicorn — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:02:09 GMT

Is there a way to get fainter marks using felt tips?

electric pencil shapeners?

phoenicorn — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:27:14 GMT

Well I was just wondering if it is worth getting an electric pencil sharpener? when I use my ordinary sharpener the lead breaks off in the pencil. I am fairly heavy handed so it could be me and I use pencils I got from poundland (got something like 50 pencils for £1). Any help would be greatly received

Eraserhead

Tector — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:40:44 GMT

I was watching a video of an Aardman artist at work (in my downtown Wallace and Grommit exhibition) and noticed the chap using a fat pen-type thing to erase bits of pencil work. Any ideas as to what this eraser-variant might be ?

painting moving objects

sudafreekan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:28:44 GMT

anyone have any cool tips or links on how to paint moving objects?

in this scenario its a missile moving through the air, i just want it to look lively and not too static

its for art at school, just so u know :P

Good sketch book

Locust1001 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:14:13 GMT

I cant seem to find a really good sketch book to carry around with me. Im looking for something just shy of A4 with some sort of tough leather cover, re-fillable pages and space for a few pens and pencils. Does anyone know of anything like that? tnx

Photographing Oil Paintings

egghed — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:43:04 GMT

Does anyone have any good tips on setting up a low rent home light rig to photograph oil paintings without reflection/glare etc. Doesn't have to be ultra pro, I just want to get decent looking digitals for web and A4 prints. I have a couple of daylight lamps and I suspect I need to find a way to reflect them off white things to make the light more diffuse...

Thanks

Egg

Drawing all Textures

Mesmer89 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:49:05 GMT

Does anyone know hw to draw different textures well- eg. silk, satin, velvet, iron, stone, fire, water,cloth, plastic, rubber, leather, etc. If anyone does please post a few of them and explain how to do them.

Thanks

M89

ANYONE NEED TIPS WITH PENCIL PHOTOREALISM?

mitchellnelson — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:03:48 GMT

hi well no one has posted on this forum yet so I thought I might as well be the first to post.

If anyone need any tips on pencil portraits esspecially photorealism Im here to help :D