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January 30, 2014 at 4:05 am
What's your style and mediums
I stuck to late impressionist style closer to Monet than Vangoh
My mediums include acrylic paint, chalk and oil pastels. I've given up on colored pencil for tactile reasons.
I have a soft spot for turquoise and deep shades of red
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January 30, 2014 at 6:23 am
I like to consider playing videogames to be an art if your good at it. Moving through the map more fluidly than a nooblet could ever dream of. Killing your opponents so quickly and easily that they start screaming your name.
Up to now I stuck with the Xbox 360 + regular controller. I branched out to the scuf when I was sponsored by them but the controller ended up breaking so I went back to the standard. I've recently decided to move towards the PC because of the more versatile keyboard and mouse combo. It's taking me a while to adapt to the medium but I already see the benefits.
I also used to like using CoD when I first started but found it lacked the necessary range needed to fully express myself. I found moving to the Battlefield series offered me more tools in how I wanted to paint the pixelated canvas of warfare. The more in-depth gameplay allows for more fluid and freeform mayhem and destruction that is truly required to express oneself.
As for my style I prefer the traditional run and gun but I am versatile as I love to PTFO. I also like to be more daring and risky in my chosen medium than most of my peers. This gives my work a more unpredictable quality I think.
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January 30, 2014 at 6:27 am
My style is classic. My media are wood, steel, catgut and nylon.
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January 30, 2014 at 6:53 am
I write, sketch (well, I doodle more than anything), do digital art, and dabble in whatever else I find interesting and accessible.
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January 30, 2014 at 7:12 am
(January 30, 2014 at 4:05 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: What's your style and mediums Paper, pencil, ink.
Paper is just about any type though I am partial to slightly thicker and rougher surfaces such as Strathmore 400 Series sketch pads or the Canson art pads. I keep a few pads of newsprint because every now and then I get an urge to draw on it.
Pencil is mostly Col-Erase Blue (20044) which I often refer to as "non-photo blue" even though Prismacolor does make a separate pencil with that specific name, but it's too light for my uses. The 20044 is dark enough to allow me to sketch with a light stroke but won't show up on a B/W scan. I also have some mechanical pencils with blue 0.5mm leads of the same shade as the pencils.
I have "normal" pencils and leads of varying hardness (5H to 3B) but almost never use them anymore, as I became used to the blue pencils some ~25 years ago and haven't looked back.
Ink is a whole array of drawing markers for lines and Sharpies for spotting blacks. I have tried a half-dozen or so brands of drawing markers and my current favorites are the Pigma Micron and the Copic Multiliner. Both consistently provide a sharp and clear line. I have mixed feelings on some other pens (like Pelikan, which are pretty popular but I find to be less precise than the others) and have only come across one set that I did not like at all (called Nano-Liner, they manage to bleed profusely on pretty much every paper surface I have tried; I wonder if they would even soak into glass, sheesh).
I will occasionally use a rolling ball pen for inking a practice sketch or for outlining an area that I plan to fill with black ink, but they're not meant for drawing and can mess up a line with an inkblot.
I don't use color very often, as I am not good at it and haven't had the urge to do so. I still use traditional tools for most of my work because I'm comfortable with it and enjoy the experience, but I acknowledge that digital is the wave of the future. The main benefits for me are when I want to produce a comic book page; digital lettering is a (cough) godsend for me.
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January 30, 2014 at 7:14 am
I use my Derwent Artists coloring pencils and Sakura Micron to ink. I used to have a Wacom tablet, but unfortunately it broke. Ken Akamatsu and Yuu Watase are my favorite manga-ka.
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January 30, 2014 at 10:13 am
Pen and ink on bristol, brush ink usually, but will use pitt pens for small details. As for my style, cant really pin point that.
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January 30, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Pencil, Pen, and Markers are what I use the most for drawing. I do have my Wacom Tablet but I haven't been using it lately.
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January 30, 2014 at 3:03 pm
(January 30, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Dark Fatal Knight Wrote: Pencil, Pen, and Markers are what I use the most for drawing. I do have my Wacom Tablet but I haven't been using it lately.
Yeah I enjoy my wacom tablet, but I find it most useful for digital coloring, which I really don't do much of. So it just collects dust.
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January 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(January 30, 2014 at 3:03 pm)Asimm Wrote: (January 30, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Dark Fatal Knight Wrote: Pencil, Pen, and Markers are what I use the most for drawing. I do have my Wacom Tablet but I haven't been using it lately.
Yeah I enjoy my wacom tablet, but I find it most useful for digital coloring, which I really don't do much of. So it just collects dust.
I had one of those. I'd sit in the chat room of deviantArt with three windows open, one to draw people, one to run my neck, one to do other stuff... I still got one, but I don't do shit no morez, cause I suck. 
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