^I'd highly recommend the markers when you feel like exploring new mediums; the great thing about them is that they are indeed markers, and so are easy to control and not messy, but hey blend beautifully like paints.
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just saw this thread thought at first reading the title it was painting walls 
but seeing the pics here i wish i could paint even half as good as you guys, tried water colors once eneded up with the table looking like a swimming pool
but seeing the pics here i wish i could paint even half as good as you guys, tried water colors once eneded up with the table looking like a swimming pool
The trick with watercolour is waiting. Lots and lots of waiting while layers dry.
I'll see if I have anything I've painted I wouldn't mind showing...
I have the worst luck with markers. I think it's my awful left handedness. I have no qualms with dragging half my fist across something I just colored.
I don't consider it a good painting experience unless half of my is covered in various blues and greens.
I always end up with marker and pen lines everywhere -- pen lines on my chin, marker on my legs. Often I don't even know how the ink ends up where it does!
I'm just as bad with Photoshop. The other day, I turned myself into a charcoal sketch and didn't know it till I looked in the mirror. 
Do you have a DA Gallery, tsq?
Do you have a DA Gallery, tsq?
Don't fall for it tsq, the grape'll suck you into something and before you know it you'll have wasted years on some new website.
^hehe . I don't have one yet, but I am going to set one up. I've been very productive as of late, and as soon as I'm done with the series of drawings I'm working on now I am going to work on getting them online.
. I don't have one yet, but I am going to set one up. I've been very productive as of late, and as soon as I'm done with the series of drawings I'm working on now I am going to work on getting them online.
I used to want to be a comic book artist when I was a kid. I even took Art for a one of my GCSEs.
I got a D.
Ugh, art classes. You can only be creative within the confines of what the teacher is willing to put up with.
So basically your grade completely rests on the teachers shoulders and just how much of a bitter person they've become.
That hasn't been my experience with art education at all.
I still take classes at Otis when I have the time. I always get something new out of them.
^^ Well, any kind of education is hit or miss; you're lucky to have found something good.
Hahaha. My plans never fail.
Great-- let us know when you're on there.^hehe
NOOO! tsq has been sucked in by the evil Grape corporation.
It's funny the more people find out about me starting this the more I get asked if I've taken any classes or people just seemed shocked I'd suddenly decide to take it up. Has anyone else gotten just the strangest looks or comments for doing something a bit creating and outside the norm?
It's funny the more people find out about me starting this the more I get asked if I've taken any classes or people just seemed shocked I'd suddenly decide to take it up. Has anyone else gotten just the strangest looks or comments for doing something a bit creating and outside the norm?
Well, I've been doing the writing and art all my life, so people I know take it for granted. But new people are usually surprised that I didn't go to school for either of those, or for computers, or business, or anything else. 
It is weird how apparently in order to be able to do anything you are supposed to have gone to school for it.
Nice work. Did you use Photoshop or some such program to get the glowing star effect?
I think my next mission will be to learn to draw the glowing star effect with markers. I've always wanted to be able to create that image, but I don't know how feasible it will be to do with markers rather than paint. I may try with colored pencils first.
It does look trixsy. What if you used a combo of the two tsq? Maybe a little wash to make the glowing middle.
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I enjoy painting and i'm starting to consider selling them on ebay to the highest bidder. 
It's an idea to consider, but I'm a bit intimidated by the paintbrush! I'm considering colored pencils to achieve the effect.
Embrace the paint brush, tsq. Love the brush.
Na na na na na na na na na na na paint brush!
Na na na na na na na na na na na paint brush!
