I'm quite a beginner at this, I know. I've only recently started trying to paint with acrylics (and I still haven't tried either watercolors or oils, though I'm interested in both)

This is the first time I colored a sequential using only acrylics :D






But I want to know about your experience!


Do you guys paint? What media do you use? Want to show me a bit of what you've done?

If I just saw that I'd have thought you did it digitally in Corel Painter. It's got a cool little whimsical feel to it. It's a good piece.

I love using stencils and spray paint personally. I don't have anything to share since my camera was recently stolen and my stuff is too big to scan but I'm bidding on a couple of them on ebay so I might be able to post something soon. I've been thinking about a sequential piece with spray paint. I just haven't gotten around to it.

most of my painty stuff is in a studio. :c

I need a studio or a painting room so I can actually have room to breathe and get messy when painting. It's not very tempting to right now. D:

Never learnt how to paint traditionally. me + paint = messy disaster. and I usually kept on forgetting to clean the brush or not cleaning it well enough, so I kept on stuffing for example a brush covered in green paint into the blue paint container :P

I'll probably find some cheap painting stuff so that I can use it to make textures for my art, but that'll be it.

On the other hand I pretty much admire any of the painter artists who actually know how to paint. Dan Brereton (Giantkiller, The Nocturnals), John Mueller (Oink: Heaven's Butcher), Christopher Moeller (Sheva's War), Jon J Muth (the mystery play, m), Kent Williams (The Fountain, destiny, blood: a tale), David Mack (kabuki), Bill Sienkiewicz (Stray Toasters, Voodoo Child, elektra: assassin), Simon Bisley (Slaine: Horned God, Judgement on Gotham), Ashley Wood (although he mixes media and is partially digital), Ted McKeever (Plastic Forks - it's painted using food products like coffee, mustard and ketchup!) and so on... plenty more.

Ludeshka- that page looks pretty awesome! I'd recommend varying your brush sizes and shapes-- you'd be amazed how it affects how your work looks.

Here are some of my paintings. I'm in a class called "Aqueous Media" right now, which basically means watercolors, although we'll make the leap to acrylics after spring break. Watercolors were a lovely challenge, and I feel like I've truly "figured them out." Not like I've perfected my technique (pah!) but I feel like behind each medium, there's a little something-or-other you have to grasp before you really get it. For oils it was, "candlelight dispersing into darkness". That sounds weird. But it means, like, start with the darks and have the lights reach out and mix. Watercolors are exactly the opposite -_-. And I think the little secret behind them is to let the water do its work.

Here's my first painting; you can tell I didn't really 'get' watercolors yet. Also, the photo's out of focus a little.


Here's a still life; I liked how this one came out.



Here's a random painting; we were supposed to scale down, painting at half the size of our reference. My reference was from a bridal magazine (a girl in my class is getting married, and I didn't bring a reference myself) but it was kind of hokey and boring, so I turned the bride into a black widow trophy wife, pretending to mourn her husband.



I really like my class : ) hooray

I'm a terrible painter, just dreadfull. Theres just something about the brush that turns me into an angry infant who just doesnt give a damn.

This is the cleanest I've ever painted

that's cool-- I like the thick black lines and the lime green.
And who says painting has to be clean?

@Kristen, love the lady in red.
Nice work on all the shadows and highlights in there.
@Ludeshka, the style of the comic is cool, nice and free, lively, bright.
@Eddie, that pic shows a a lot of good design elements.

All my studios were always the cleanest out of all my fellow artists. -Just because I always put stuff away, washed and cleaned brushes, containers etc, and hated getting paint on my clothes! -The best way not to get paint on your clothes is to ensure the only place it does go is on the pallet, the painting, and the cleaning jar... If you do it right there shouldn't even be any except ddiuted dirty water paint on your cleaning rags.

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I used to do a lot of watercolour paintings before I went digital. When I was in art school I painted in a freer, more stylised, abstract way in oils and acrylics, but afterwards I went back to my older more illustrative style-

Flapper (info)



Flying knight (info)



Gryphon (one from uni days, info)



Execution (acrylics, this was a commission. Still think it looks wrong. Info)

I meant, why does it have to be clean stylistically. (you need to clean your brushes, of course, if you don't want to go broke really, really fast.)

awesome paintings, ozone. I love that flapper's dog. And that pegasus! wow. I aspire to that level of horse-drawing.
Is the gryphon one painted on wood? I always wanted to try that, but I don't know where to find a suitable board (and wouldn't have to want to gesso).
The issue with the commission one may be the lighting. The execut-ee definitely has bright light coming head-on, but the sky behind the two is bright (aka, natural light source.) Then why do both of the figures look like they should be in a darker area? And while the details on the chopping block guy are certainly enviable, especially his arm, he is so grey in comparison to the executioner, and especially the crowds of spectators.
There's kind of two different styles going on here-- illustrative (the red shoes, the blue pants, the hay, the executioner, the crowds, etc) and realistic (the guy's torso.)

That being said, it's really cool, though I'm wondering what kind of person commissions an artist to paint an execution scene. XD