Black and White VS Colour

[dreamer676]

17th: thats interesting. May I ask why you don't consider them to be the same?
And I agree with the B&W being powerful comment XD


MaxR: Greyscale is for photos right? I would say that came under black and white esp as I meant black and white as shadeing/tonal, may it be with only usng black and white paint or only using pencil.

Thanks for your comments XD

[Elyd]

[dreamer676]

yeah that what i meant in my head seems like most got what I meant though XD

[smc822]

I prefer to work in color, although what media I use depends on the piece. I've been doing a lot of CG's lately but I really want to learn how to use watercolors.

[dreamer676]

smc822: I would love to be able to use watercolours as well. Mainly because of a guy called Alex Ross actually prehaps you've heard of him? But either way I love his photorealism XD

[Iiwi]

I love watercolor! I'm not so good at painting, but watercolor is the one type of painting I can do okay. ^^'

[dreamer676]

I think I have had a grand total of one completely successful watercolour and I'm thinking that was because it was for my boyfriend for his birthday so I got myself into the it has to be perfect mind set ^^ It wasn't but y'know XD

[smc822]

Meh... Ross seems to specialize in Marvel-type characters. I admit the technique is amazing, but I find the subject matter rather "blah."

[dreamer676]

Yes Alex is a comic book specialist, not restrained to marvel, but he can
still produce people that are so realistic that they could walk of the page and I think that is very hard to come by. It's because of this that I respect him as an artist and could only dream that one day I could even get close to how talented he is.

Also I think he can send out a strong message in his work. I have seen a picture he did of George W. Bush biting the neck of Lady liberty before. I think thats pretty strong tbh, but I do sort of agree with you in the sense that he is a designer rather than an artist and that he is near on told what he must paint or portray.

Thanks for your comment XD

[Smite]

I prefer mixed Medias. Tradition art colored or edited in photoshop. I normally only do lineart because it takes so long to do a decent color job that I dont feel its worth all that time for a few measly bucks or some forum currancy. And when I do art for myself I normally just color it traditionly because if I screw it up I dont feel so annoyed scrapping it and starting over. ;>__>

I do LOVE to pixel sprites and small dolls. Something about trying to make such small pieces work the way you want them to interests me alot.

[dreamer676]

thanks for your comment.

er lets see, yeah I'm more of a lineart artist than a colour or shading artist, when it comes to doodleing. I put effort in for shadeing when I'm attempting realism and colour when I'm determined or just fancy a bit of a change. I must say i don't often mix medias, but if and when I do it'll be possibly pencil (graphite) mixed with coloured paint or chalk pastel.

[dreamer676]

thanks for your comment.

er lets see, yeah I'm more of a lineart artist than a colour or shading artist, when it comes to doodleing. I put effort in for shadeing when I'm attempting realism and colour when I'm determined or just fancy a bit of a change. I must say i don't often mix medias, but if and when I do it'll be possibly pencil (graphite) mixed with coloured paint or chalk pastel.

[Smite]

I love to use charcoal and pastel chalks <333 But I hate the smell of fixative so I dont like to use them as often as I was to.

[dreamer676]

My art teacher said to save money and just use hairspray, and it does work prob doesn't smell as bad as fixitive either XD

[Affection]

Oh thats a good idea I'll have to try that. =O Though Arasol hairspray is bad for the environment. D=

Not sure if fixative is or not now that I think about it.