What art medium do you like to use?

[dividedbyblue]

Three weeks for Dreamwidth: What art medium do you like to use?

I work with fineliners, traditional pen and ink, acrylic paint, digital line art and coloring, and more recently, charcoal and pencils. As far as my favorite medium is concerned, I think it has always been fineliners/pen and ink or the digital equivalent. Though in traditional art, I nowadays mostly use fineliners in favor of pen and ink, the kind of drawing I make is more or less the same style as I’ve been making for years: line art - raw black and white or digitally colored. I love its classicness and timelessness. It’s very common in sketching and old book illustrations, and still alive in genres like old-school fantasy art.

Painting with acrylics is something I have been doing regularly for a few years now, and while still exploring the medium, I am looking forward to experimenting with oil paint. I’ve purchased paints and materials for that, and I’m curious to get to know the medium.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm not much good at drawing or painting, but we've used paint for ritual purposes a few times. We painted rocks with acrylic paints once, that was a lot of fun. We also painted wooden skull-shaped cutouts for Samhain.

I scrapbook poetry sometimes, which is basically a papercraft art with colored paper, stickers, decorative scissors, and such.

I've done polymer clay sculptures.

I do quite a bit of photography, and pay attention to the color and composition when I'm shooting to make it pretty rather than just recording things.

[sisterdivinium]

We have similar tastes in art materials! There was a time when I was obsessed with trying to make digital art but that faded away and I discovered that I'm much happier when I work 100% on paper. Fineliners are also my go-to, although I've recently quite liked using more pen and ink even if I never get to make it look like those amazing artworks you'll find in older comics (like, idk, Frank Frazetta or Barry Windsor Smith). It's either that or just leaving everything on graphite, lol. Paint is a very recent endeavour and I have no idea of what I'm doing with it so good luck in experimenting with oils! :)

[yourivy]

I wish I was talented at any kind of art but unfortunately I can hardly draw a straight line :(
I did have a phase where I liked using pastel chalks but my drawings looked like something a child would do, lol.