art

i bought some prismacolour pencils....just to see....I was pretty sceptical. Like, how good can coloured pencils be? but yes, they are really, really good. To me, they were noticeably better than even other specialised artists pencils I've used. Apparently, the absolute best coloured pencils are Faber Castell Polychromos, so I might try them one day, but not for a while...I still have plenty of use to get out of my prismacolours, as well as lots of other pens and pencils - some cheap, others more expensive - some reasonably priced but quite good, some cheap and not particularly good quality, but you can actually make art using pretty much anything...cheap pencils, cheap paints, cheap markers, crayons, salt, etc. 

one of the things that really attracts me about using coloured pencils is the lack of mess, and also lack of special processes. Paints are kind of messy and a bit inconvenient to use, but with pencils all you need is the pencils and paper (and a pencil sharpener). 

I bought a wacom graphic tablet a couple of years ago, but unfortunately I don't use it at all any more. What happened was that I bought it at a time when I was trying to develop my art skills, but then I found that using the wacom was like another dimension of difficulty/ potential in that process. I ended up following a lot of very basic tutorials and producing drawings that were kind of like cartoons (drawing on paper, not on the tablet, but I was going to get to the tablet eventually)....they weren't too bad, but they weren't conceptually interesting. 

I really like seeing the way other people do digital art - the way they combine the use of a graphics tablet with software like paint tool sai, krita, gimp, fire alpaca, inkscape, blender, clip studio paint, etc and they create characters and animations. There's a fluency in the way they work...moving between different levels, drawing things fast, moving parts of the drawing around. you watch tutorials of people doing that stuff on youtube and you think it's filmed in time-lapse, but then you see someone doing it in real time and it's pretty much the same speed. 

i want to get back into the practice of making my own images for my blog, but i have to make the art for the sake of making the art, not so that I can use for my blog