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We're doing a big comic book themed month in May here at the Library--since May is when "Free Comic Book Day" is. They asked artistically inclined staff to maybe draw something comic book-like.
Eh, so I drew 'Ponies on comic board (11x17 Strathmore Bristol comic board). :p
Oh, and I used some glow-in-the-dark-paint to do the auras of Stel and the space fishies. :D
MLP belongs to Hasbro. OCs belong to me. :)
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I was skeptical when I bought the paints--you know, a lot of places do a lot of gimmicky art supplies. Some work, some don't. It's not like the glows themselves are pink and yellow, but the fact that the effect of a glow DID turn out, that surprised me a lot. The set I got had 6 paints in it, although two were white.........but there was a pink, a magenta, a dark blue and a turquoise/greenish color. With that color scheme, I could do a flat-colored painting of my MLP OC, Maraschino Cherry, since (except the greenish) all of those are her colors--and the whole thing would glow in the dark.
But, of course, there was a small part of me that wondered if you could like mix the white with normal acrylics and they would also glow??? hmmmm
Did your friend like his painting? :)
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Yeah some of them gimmick paints are garbo, I think I had some acrylics that were supposed to be fluro but they were so separated in some colours that they were just unusable even after mixing them to see if they would recombine.
Yes he did, it was a a bit of joke painting with some cartoony people doing rude gestures lol
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I'm always willing to give something new or a new brand a shot, see what it's like. Some are good, some are bad--and some are used better in certain ways than others. Markers are especially like that--not every "pro artist" alcohol-based marker is the same, but you can find uses for them. Like some of the ones that bleed more than other brands--I'll save those to use for backgrounds and stuff, then use the higher end stuff like Copics for characters. :)
That worked out good, then! XD
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I think my worst experience with art stuff was probably this marker paper that was supposedly great for blending and alcohol markers but it bled so damn bad that you couldn't get any colour build up cos it would just eat the colour solid and the colour would bleed through like 3 pages before it stopped.
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I am not a fan of what is called “marker paper”. :p I’ve never had good experience with the stuff called marker paper—it feels too thin and weirdly soaks up marker like there’s no tomorrow. @_@
I generally try to stick to using Bristol (smooth) paper when I do marker work. I do better with blending on it and don’t get the crazy bleeds! :)
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I love Bristol, I have quite a few Bristol pads and they are awesome to work on with my markers, pencils and jelly gouaches. Yeah I tried a few marker pads, cos I asked around and everyone was like yeah you need marker paper for markers so I went out and got a few different types but they all had issues. One wouldn't bleed but the surface was smooth and plastic feeling like magazine paper and the markers would smudge like crazy and took ages to dry leading to dirty weird blending and the others all had issues with bleeding and you couldn't really build colour layers cos it would just eat the markers so the only way to build shades was to use a much darker colour and use that which lead to really off balanced shading.
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Bristol is my go-to paper for nearly anything. In fact, this comic page is Strathmore Bristol. :)
I have tried marker paper from many different companies, but I still don’t like it. It feels wrong for markers. I’m not sure who came up with the brilliant idea that marker paper is best for markers……maybe Crayola markers. :p In the end, I just wind up using marker paper for just B&W ink drawings! XD
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If I don't have any Bristol I tend to use water colour paper or some of those thickish card stock type of papers but yeh that marker paper makes me very confused cos I'm like if it's for markers why is my markers not liking this paper so much?
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There’s gotta be some secret to marker paper that you and I don’t know! @_@
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I once did a painting for a friend entirely in glow in the dark stuff so he couldn't see his gift until he put it in the dark.