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BRUSHTOBER // week 1 - ecoline & watercolor (Patreon)

Published:
2020-10-02 13:09:00
Imported:
2022-04

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I started on Brushtober! This week is just to experiment and play around with the paint and paper. I started by playing around with ecoline ink and watercolor, just testing out the paints and seeing how it interacts with two different paper types. It’s been such a long time since I just tried out something new just for the sake of it, and I’m really enjoying it! Next up, I’m going to try out gouache and acrylic. If you guys have any tips for me, let me know! I'm so new to this haha.

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Anonymous

It looks like you're so good already!!! I started watercolor recently as well. What helped me was understanding the wet on wet technique, dry on wet and being patient with the drying!

Anonymous

This is so nice to take the time to just try. During the lockdown, I took 2 and a half day to make all the colours charts of my watercolors and it was SO nice and relaxing! I miss that. Have fun testing 🥰

Aadishri Soni

I have Ecoline watercolors too. There been in my shelf for so long, finally got time to use it

Niquey

Wow! This is great Loish! Good luck with Brushtober!

Anonymous

ooh I love the colors you're experimenting with! I love both watercolor and gouache, but gouache does seem to be a bit more forgiving, and I feel like you can get some amazing vibrant, almost graphic pieces with it. I think you're really going to enjoy it :). I would try experimenting with different amounts of water with it and see the results you can have. More water makes them act almost like watercolor.

Anonymous

Make a grat gradients with the Ecoline's is really hard, but always fun make some mess in my drawings. So cool :D

Anonymous

Watercolor takes a lot patience. It is one of the paint mediums I try to avoid haha. I am much more proficient and enjoy oil paint and acrylic paint. Acrylic paint is very forgiving. If you mess up, let it dry completely and simply paint over it. I would recommend squeezing the acrylic paints onto some sort of ceramic surface to use as your palette because it is much easier to clean off when they dry. Acrylics become pretty much like plastic whenever they dry on the ceramic surface, so it is incredibly easy to scrape/peel off. Also helps to run the paints under warm water! Peels off beautifully!! Hope that helps! :)

Anonymous

Very nice! 😻 Someone already said wet on wet technique. It is the way to go with liquid water colors (like ecoline). Things that help me with water color is having a piece of cloth near me for drying patches that are too wet. And my ultimate tip (and fav ‘tool’) is: making a template! You must have a sketch already. Trace (not neatly) it on a piece of paper (or scrap mix media paper of 250gsm), cut it with a exacto knife. And fill in the cut out with a wet brush, dry brush ink, spraypaint etc. Now you have a clean shape and with flowing ink lines over it, it gives something like using the lasso tool in Photoshop. It is much more work but worth it! Enjoy the rest of Brushtober.

Anonymous

This looks soooooo good. I would love to see more watercolour art from you !

Anonymous

this is really helpful! i was thinking on buying a set of inks just to see the differences, but you saved me with this!

Anonymous

i have a question though: your fineliner pen doesn't clog or stop working when you draw over the dry watercolor spots?

Anonymous
>>45132675

This sounds really cool. You don’t have a demo of this anywhere do you?

Anonymous
>>45132675

Hi Kristin! To be honest I don’t have a real demo online. In one of my IG highlights about my Analogue progress I have photos about how I make an illustration in this way, but it doesn’t do the template (stencil) technique and how I put down my watercolors and blocked out parts first before inking any justice. I was looking into creating a video to put on IG and my website, but I still haven’t found time to make it. I share a clean studio with a graphic designer, I prefer not to use inks and paints at that space. I joined later and I rent a table in the studio. I use digital tools during the day. And create my analogue illustrations at home at night. My home is dark and gloomy, that means bad lighting (and it is often very messy too ;). And I am still looking for an affordable mounting device for my phone / camera. But with Inktober now, I really have to set a day to record this progress from A to Z 🙈 And explain the how, what and why. :) Btw are you are analogue or digital person?

Loish
>>45135209

it didn't happen on this page, but it did happen with the gouache! I drew these lines before adding watercolor though.

Loish
>>45130124

thanks! i used a lot of acrylics in high school and used plates for a palette, so i could scrape the blobs off when i was done lol.

Loish
>>45129537

thanks! when experimenting with gouache i went from watered down to thicker and that worked quite well!

Anonymous
>>45132675

Lois, enjoy the experiment! You can two different result with the stencils. If you would use spray can of glue it will be very clean edges. I personally don’t do that. I just put the stencil down on my paper. I like the ‘shadow’ it creates (think of Banksy). The ink sometimes bleeds and you will get a playful shape that is a bit clean and havd little bleeds. But ca be a way to create gradients or patterns in one place without it go all over the place :)

Anonymous

You have me so fascinated with these Ecoline watercolors. Did you have a certain set of colors, or just individual bottles? I would like to try them out, but can't decide what colors to start with. Are these colors on this test page all the ones you are working with?

Loish
>>46063986

i have a bunch of bottles! i bought 5 colors that are fall-themed, those are the ones you see on this test page! i also found an old stash of inks from 15 years ago that still seemed to work, so i used those in some of the other art from that week as well.