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Wendigogo [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 12:44:55 PM  
Welcome, creative Farkers, to the Fark Arting Thread!

Share artwork/creative projects past, present, and in progress, embracing all disciplines and various hobbies or crafts: cooking, baking, brewing, quilting, needlework, sculpting, drawing, painting, metalsmithing, woodworking, found art, digital, film, musical, and more. Anything creative you'd like to show off.

This is a community of inspiration, support, advice, ideas, and techniques. Even if you'd rather not submit anything, feel free to join the conversation. Anyone with experience in a specific discipline is more than welcome to share tips and tricks. This is a gallery, but also a place to talk shop.

If you offer advice or critique, please be kind.
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 2:54:07 PM  
Favorite medium right now is colored pencils on watercolor paper. One that has some texture to it, but not too much. I like it because I can get a lot of color and detail into drawings.

Latest drawing. Juvenile blue koran angelfish.
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kabloink [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 3:36:39 PM  
My favorite has always been pencil on white paper. I draw mostly digitally now for convenience, but still I get far more satisfaction from traditional media.

The messy charcoal and pencil cat drawing I did on Sunday

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Anderson's Pooper
2023-02-06 4:44:54 PM  
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Favorite medium is wood.  But in this instance I will also include colored pencils so as to fit in with the rest of the thread.
 
spontn80 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:01:12 PM  
My favorite medium hmmm... this is hard.

Metal, definitely metal. I love the sparks when you cut it and grind it. I love that you can liquify it and manipulate it and make big things out of it that last forever.

Wait, wait, Wood I mean Wood is my favorite. I love that it used to be a tree. I love the smell of it when you cut it and I like shaping it to my will. I like matching grain patterns, laying all the lumber out and grain matching the whole kitchen. The upper doors with book matched panels, the drawer bank out of one stick, the top row of drawers and false fronts out of one stick. Picking out just the right piece for the bar rail or bannister. Spending time with the wood finding out what it wants to be made into. Carving a little face with a pocket knife... all of it I just love all of it.

No, no I guess it really is Guitar Music. That's  the thing. Seriously, when I wake up in the morning I'm a guitar player and guitar music is the way I express my most inner feelings and emotions. Blending tones and patterns, reading the listener a story told without words.

Wait, wait, wait... guitar music is cool and all and I'm pretty good at it and all those other things but definitively, now that I have thought about it, I would have to say that my favorite medium is, drum roll please...
LOVE SONGS, because they make her melt.

In Your Arms
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AlgaeRancher [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:21:03 PM  
My favorite medium is glass

The way it interacts with light is mesmerizing

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piece going into the kiln to slump into a bowl a couple of weeks ago
 
RogueWallEnthusiast [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:27:55 PM  
Beach sand, so that I can feel accomplished and no one has to endure my terrible projects longer than high tide/random people needing to step there.
 
AlgaeRancher [OhFark]
2023-02-06 6:36:10 PM  

RogueWallEnthusiast: Beach sand, so that I can feel accomplished and no one has to endure my terrible projects longer than high tide/random people needing to step there.


Username checks out

/I used to love doing this, we would take a garden shovel and delve deep. Dug up some unsettlingly large crabs by accident 🦀 .
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 7:51:58 PM  

phimuskapsi: I just recently got a drawing tablet, and prior to that I mainly worked with pencils. I'm currently learning the basics of painting with it, using a very cool piece of software called "Rebelle 6".

https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/try/

You can actually try it online, and the cool thing is, it's not just a drawing program but a piece paint emulation software. Watercolors run, you can make a whole canvas wet, etc. I've been demo-ing it and will likely buy it at the end of the week.

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Some stuff I've made, I can't really show the full image because of how the demo works. I've also been popping Bob Ross on from YouTube, and using those as a guide


Looks like an interesting program.

Watching Bob Ross is relaxing. Trying to follow along and wonder how he went from a squiggly black line to a full mountain range with snow and shadows and a lake at the bottom in two minutes is not relaxing.
 
Anderson's Pooper
2023-02-06 9:34:39 PM  

Wendigogo: Anderson's Pooper: [Fark user image 425x531]
Favorite medium is wood.  But in this instance I will also include colored pencils so as to fit in with the rest of the thread.

Can I pm you about these? I'd like to buy one for the SO.


Absolutely.  Email is in the profile.
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:40:54 PM  

Wendigogo: eyeq360: Favorite medium right now is colored pencils on watercolor paper. One that has some texture to it, but not too much. I like it because I can get a lot of color and detail into drawings.

Latest drawing. Juvenile blue koran angelfish.
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You are rocking the colored pencils, as usual. :) How do you work around the waxiness that tends to happen with built up colors/layers of pencil? I've struggled with that, when mixing mediums.


Applying the color with a light touch helps a lot. That way you're not getting as much wax binder onto the paper. Light colors tend not to bloom as much as dark colors.

I try not to overdo it with the colorless blender as that can add extra wax to a drawing as well. Blending happens when I get most of the color down. Pressing too hard and overblending can lead to a gritty, dirty look and feel. Same thing with a burnisher pencil or a hard wax colored pencil, though as it's harder, it's not as noticable.

If you do get wax bloom or a waxy feel to a drawing, going over it lightly with a folded tissue will help remove the wax bloom and the waxy feel.
 
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