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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[sisterdivinium]

"more affinity for creating traditional art ... so for the time being, I will continue to create that"

You and me both! Yay for traditional art :)

[dividedbyblue]

Yay indeed! I actually just yesterday started my first small oil painting in painting class. I tried unsuccessfully to paint with oils in my youth (I tried on my own, I didn’t have anyone to go to for questions, and YouTube didn’t exist yet), but now I’m giving it another shot. The teacher helped me, and it was fun! It’s a small portrait, nothing special, but it was fun and relaxing :)

[sisterdivinium]

Ohhh, I’m so happy for you that you’ve started working with the oils already *and* that it’s going well!! A good first step is always a good sign and having a teacher to lean on as we explore new terrain is always best <3

[dividedbyblue]

Thank you <3 Yes indeed, a good teacher is very valuable. The teacher of the painting class I am taking is very open in giving his course. He provides a task we can do, but we can also work on something of our own, and he will guide us with that project. He had been saying that I should try and give oil painting a go for a while now, he was happy that in this week’s lesson I had oil paint with me :)