dividedbyblue: Black and white drawing of a paper swan. Its reflection in the water is a swan of flesh and blood. (Default)
Dawn ([personal profile] dividedbyblue) wrote2025-05-03 10:26 pm

What art medium do you like to use?

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.
sisterdivinium: jillian salvius from warrior nun (archaeologist!jillian)

[personal profile] sisterdivinium 2025-05-11 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's a delightful piece as well! Even without whatever little tweaks went into the image when it was posted you can get a sense of the light, how it falls on the fabric of her dress that's at once simple but full of detail... Wonderful.