Got inspired by @louistonehill.bsky.social to do another attempt at doing acrylics, this time painting the greatest archmage roke has ever seen
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SHRIEK Alejandra, this is Gorgeous!!! Ged my beloved 💜💜💜👀👀👀 Your acryllics are as good as your digital hero poses. Thank you for some good food
aug 24, 2025, 9:59 am • 1 0 • view
Hehehe, you're far too kind 💚 they resist being ctrl+z'd and that's just rude of them, but I'll keep trying to level up my traditional media a bit hehe
aug 24, 2025, 1:57 pm • 1 0 • view
And here I thought acrylics would be easier to control than gouache, guess it has its own personality
aug 24, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Although admittedly I have done very little gouache. Most of my traditional media experience is in oils but I can't use them much cause I'm real messy and getting things with names like "titanium white" on your skin/face is not super good for you I think 🥲
aug 24, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeeaaah I use japanese poster colours so I get to avoid titanium white, but with gouache you have a similar problem. You can use it as water colour or as a more opaque paint, but what you have to keep most in mind is as soon as you mix white in you lose your saturation,
aug 24, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
so you have to protect your highest saturated colours as much as your lights
aug 24, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Oooooofffff... Makes me respect gouache painting a whole lot more. That explains the terrible results I got trying to follow along to a whatts attelier livestream a couple years ago
aug 24, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Right? I was really lucky with the online course I found, but it took me a while to realise why I was getting it wrong to begin with (the right demo had to come up 😅) and I'm still not entirely comfortable with it
aug 24, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I would love to see your gouache tbh 👀 And yeah, I started doing oils back when I was like 19-20 (I'm 28 now) and I'm still not comfortable. Granted I do it quite sporadically but it feels like I'm always missing something 🫠
aug 24, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Oooof i couldn't speak for oils. That's one intimidating medium 😬 These are all master studies or photo studies from this spring. Haven't really used them since, since I haven't had the time, but the goal was to get good enough and fast enough I could take them out with me for lighting studies
aug 24, 2025, 3:11 pm • 19 3 • view
It's like a mix between oils and gouache, really. i like being able to do precise mixing and then use it as wash. On the other hand, it never really goes 100% opaque so if you don't protect your lights you're done for.
aug 24, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Seriously? I always thought acrylics could go 100% opaque :O Guess no matter the medium you have to protect your lights
aug 24, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe I'm just doing it wrong lmao I got into acrylics with the same idea but I just can't make them opaque. At least not when you have a darker base.
aug 24, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably pretty hard no matter what you do tbf. My dad painted buildings for a living, and he said if you had to paint a door correctly, you had to apply 8 coats of white. Otherwise the wood would show through
aug 24, 2025, 2:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, that's my experience so far. Ged's scars just would not go up in value after three coats. I guess I needed another five 🥲
aug 24, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe 😆 I like these! They feel really deep and it gives me the shivers, thinking about what that poor boy went through when he got them
aug 24, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks! And yeah, I really like that his scars are never quite forgotten in any of the books. I think they even play a part in Tehanu? When she asks if he was burned? Jesus I love Ursula so much
aug 24, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Dang it I forgot to add descriptive text. The images show an acrylics painting of an older dark skinned man, holding a staff on his left hand while reading a book. The man has three gashes on his face, and is draped in an old green cape. The second is a sketch of that same image.
aug 24, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
