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
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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
These are so good!!!! The way you use transparencies to aid the light and atmosphere is top notch. Agh if we were closer I'd be inviting you to go plain air one of these days 💚
aug 24, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Aww thanks!! That means a lot :D coming from you!! 💜 And that would be so cool!! Maybe one day when there's money for travel
aug 24, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • 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
For real! I also think it's super cool that she uses yin-yang imagery for his and and Tenar's faces? Dark face with a white scar for Ged, and black hair with a white face for Tenar. It's really cool she used the tao not just for world building, or plot, but also for their relationship and "design"
aug 24, 2025, 3:19 pm • 1 0 • view