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 Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:24 pm
I'm trying to decide what I should color with when I finally draw on my canvas I bought a month ago. I might go back to paints, for I might have to practice on that skill, rather than relying on CGing. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:54 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:37 pm
i say watercolor pencils, they are easiler to have control with drawing things. (for me anyways.)
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:32 pm
use the paint. the water might be hard to control at times, but i love it.
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:57 am
I really prefer watercolor pencils. Paint can be good for background or large areas but pencils are the best with details.
But are you going to use watercolor on canvas? confused I would suggest a good aquarell paper instead.
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:03 am
you could use them both, I often mix that two mediums with eachother
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:32 am
ChemieChan I really prefer watercolor pencils. Paint can be good for background or large areas but pencils are the best with details. But are you going to use watercolor on canvas? confused I would suggest a good aquarell paper instead. Hmm...Well it's a soft texture canvas, and I'd have to go to another town to get aquarell paper, since my town is a bit small. xD
I'll try aquarell paper and maybe buy some when I go to Atlanta this monday. ^^
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:25 am
[ ~ s h o r a i ~ ] ChemieChan I really prefer watercolor pencils. Paint can be good for background or large areas but pencils are the best with details. But are you going to use watercolor on canvas? confused I would suggest a good aquarell paper instead. Hmm...Well it's a soft texture canvas, and I'd have to go to another town to get aquarell paper, since my town is a bit small. xD
I'll try aquarell paper and maybe buy some when I go to Atlanta this monday. ^^
Well canvas does'nt abosrb any water and it will just run of and look terrible...but you can always try.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:32 am
ChemieChan [ ~ s h o r a i ~ ] ChemieChan I really prefer watercolor pencils. Paint can be good for background or large areas but pencils are the best with details. But are you going to use watercolor on canvas? confused I would suggest a good aquarell paper instead. Hmm...Well it's a soft texture canvas, and I'd have to go to another town to get aquarell paper, since my town is a bit small. xD
I'll try aquarell paper and maybe buy some when I go to Atlanta this monday. ^^
Well canvas does'nt abosrb any water and it will just run of and look terrible...but you can always try. i think i've seen canvas made specificly for water color. i've never used it myself so i can't say much about them.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:56 pm
Dirty_sox3 ChemieChan [ ~ s h o r a i ~ ] ChemieChan I really prefer watercolor pencils. Paint can be good for background or large areas but pencils are the best with details. But are you going to use watercolor on canvas? confused I would suggest a good aquarell paper instead. Hmm...Well it's a soft texture canvas, and I'd have to go to another town to get aquarell paper, since my town is a bit small. xD
I'll try aquarell paper and maybe buy some when I go to Atlanta this monday. ^^
Well canvas does'nt abosrb any water and it will just run of and look terrible...but you can always try. i think i've seen canvas made specificly for water color. i've never used it myself so i can't say much about them. Cool, I've never seen that. I shall do more watercolors soon, stay tunes for an antry in the picture post subforum! xd
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:06 pm
i'd never suggest using watercolor for canvas, as said earlier, canvas doesn't absorb water. unless this is canvas coated with gesso so it absorbs water, then thats another case. id still suggest watercolor paper, it's a lot cheaper.
as for the option between pencils, tubes or solids [which are the real 3 options] it depends on your level of comfort with the medium. if you're used to doing a lot of pencil or penwork, i'd suggest you maybe start by using pencils then gradually move up to tubes.
i personally prefer watercolor pans + tubes. watercolor pencils have to be of really good quality to work easily with, the cheaper kind ususally leaves streaks behind on the paper as much as you water it down or wet the paper and pencils aren't really equipped to handle dozens of pieces - they run out pretty quickly. they're used rather to add touches or sketch out a piece.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:42 am
i like both smile i wish i had a set of each though... i have to use the art room's at school
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 4:37 pm
In my experience, watercolor pencils bruise the paper quite a bit, so I only use paints and then use watercolor pencils as a last step.
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:57 am
For me, it's watercolour pencils, because I have more control with them; I find watercolours harder to use because they're much harder to control, but it depends on how you want your picture to look.
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:25 pm
Ditto to the "don't use canvas!" posts. You'll have problems.
I voted pencils just because I have more control with pencils than brushes, in general. It really depends on the look you're going for, and yes, the pencils are harder on the paper....
A popular technique seems to be the paints first, then touchups with the pencils gently over top. Maybe try that first?
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