I mentioned in another comment- I used a liquid masking fluid to cover the 2 smaller birds, the broom head, and the radio. Really helps with clean even washes when you can ignore those inconvenient areas and lay down some paint freely.

Thank you so much for the comment.

No, I masked the area with frisket. I actually would have used white gel but I was masking other areas anyway.

Thanks! Appreciate it :)

Yeah thank you so much. A lot of thought went into the textures on the coat actually. I know they use a couple different methods for their art, it's all absolutely beautiful. One day I might mess around with gouache, I believe it's what they primarily use.

Thanks! Posted over there, appreciate the suggestions!

Thank you, I decided to paint almost entirely wet on wet to capture the softness of babies but I worry it's a bit blotchy. Appreciate the comment.

Thank you! I shrunk down the image and I think I see what you're talking about, ha. I assure you the real baby is adorably human looking!

Oh my God Secret City, I haven't thought about that show in ages.

Lovely loose style, detailed without details is a challenge, looks great.

You nailed the metallic look of the armor. Kudos

Yeah, I used Lamp Black, Neutral Tint, Fr. Ultramarine, and Burnt Sienna. I wanted to play around with some warm and cool greys but I'm not sure if it loses a little cohesion as a result but I'm happy with most of it.

This one in contrast has that cohesive feel I was talking about since it uses only Lamp Black and Daniel Smith Moonglow.

Good is kinda relative. I like Arches cold pressed ($$$) or Baohong academy ($$). Any 100% cotton 140lb paper is probably good. Pulp paper is cheap enough I use it for watercolor sketches or studies which means I paint more but the quality is all over the place. Pulp paper is harder to paint on, it's less forgiving of moisture control. Jackson's has some good cheap blocks I recommend.

A wash, just being a separate, distinct layer of color or colors which is allowed to dry before a second wash may be applied.

I must have misunderstood when you said "flat", just getting that even coat of color. Sounds like you're using a bead to get an even wash, slowly working down the incline of your surface which is how I do it. On good paper using that method has always given me the most even wash if that's what I'm going for.

flat water color

Might be your paper, getting an even wash has a lot to do with your paper. Your technique might be good but wood-pulp paper is tricky to get an even wash.

I've ordered Jackson blocks a couple times now. I've found the smaller Jackson blocks perfect for quick studies, practice, color checks, etc. The price is cheap enough on the smallest blocks that I just have them around the house, at work, in the car, I can pencil sketch something to paint later or whatever. Versatile.

I've been painting "real paintings" on Baohong lately, specifically the rolls. The price seems good for the quality/quantity but requires me to stretch the paper which I don't like doing so we'll see.

Thank you!

The balance of detail and abstraction is something I'm trying to work on. I find myself focusing in on some details unnecessarily and bringing attention away from the interesting bits or parts that I want to bring the viewers attention to, so your comment is particularly welcome.

I'm painting for fun and to help with anxiety mostly.

Honestly, thank you for your kind words.

Love how purposeful and also loose and casual each stroke is, it has a confidence that's compelling.

Thanks for sharing, song slaps and the riding is lovely.

Just realized I was getting cross posted. Thank you.

They've said they are working on integration with other apps, and have said the ultimate goal is the AI could create its own interface for any app. I dunno if that's gonna happen but if it did it would be closer to an actual assistant, imagine "rabbit, log onto my work schedule app and check my vacation hours" or "rabbit, compare prices for a SanDisk 256 gig memory card on Amazon, eBay, and Newegg".

More than likely it'll just fuck it all up but that's the dream I think.

I left the flash as a large white box, completely separate from the camera body since I wanted a hard edge. I filled the box with a series of warm and cool strokes up and down to mimic the reflections, darks splotches last and a couple warm glazes until it felt... like, aged enough? If that makes sense? I gave it a thick dark edge when I realized I'd missed the proportions a bit to cover my mistake (lol).

I'm realizing now, the whites are just paper, no gouache used at all.

The lenses I used a bit of masking since I wanted to try a controlled backwash to get an organic lens distortion, I tried on both lenses and they both more or less work imo to create that effect I was going for.

Beautiful, love the light skipping across the lillypads and where the water disperses the light so you get those rich colors in the pools, ripples and koi are just icing. Lovely.

Also the composition flows really well, kudos there.

Reference.

I had one of these when I was a kid, passed down from who knows, I used to love taking photos when I could get my hands on film.

First off, the marble background, if that's what you were going for, is phenomenal, the color and texture is spot on.

Your colors are begging for more saturation, rich beautiful saturated colors. With some work on perspective and some shadows to support it the realistic vibe I think you're going for would really work well. Unless that's not what you're going for and you've got a vibe and style you want.

I can see some good wet on wet (like the rust suggestion on the pipe, among others) which I love, and given your couple of months introduction is just great to see, wet on wet has a ton of depth to it. Keep experimenting with it. I can see you playing with shadows, they are so hard, but keep trying. Shadows can do so much heavy lifting in a painting when they are done right. 💛

Thanks! The shadows are Daniel Smith Moonglow, normally I'd have used something like neutral tint but I wanted to see if Moonglow alone would give a metallic feel to the white tube. I think it kinda does.

Thanks, I'd already posted there but your post got more traction than my own post did.

Source https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/painttubereference.jpg

Maybe the family brought it in...

I post here only so other people would feel encouraged to post. I'm flattered, but.. no, no website. I'm just someone trying to paint their anxiety away.

Right on, thanks!

It's actually a Halloween decoration.

I ordered half a dozen blocks from Jackson, thanks for the recommendation! It's as good or better than any other cellulose paper and pretty inexpensive. Cold press and Rough finish is nice, have not tried Hot press. Definitely recommend this paper.

Thank you, I appreciate you.

The perspective of the left woman's feet is confusing to me

100%

It bugs me too. I made her left leg a bit too long which forced it into this weird perspective. Appreciate the observation. The subtleties of perspective are tricky.

Hey! Thanks so much!

Brella main as well, the kit is incredible, just access to a lethal bomb is a game changer. With the vanilla kit I had to depend almost entirely on my special or teammates to displace long-range anchor type weapons.

And small government...

Yeah absolutely, no rush at all. Thanks!

Suggestion - can we get the brand ability +/- affinity in these splatnet posts?

"I don't actually know if regen time was what it needed"

I actually feel qualified to answer this one. I main brella, the buff is nice but not the problem with the main weapon. It's inconsistent. The reason brella players keep advocating for the revert to 90 damage vs the 81 currently is an effort to address the consistency issues the pellet system has.

I would be fine with current brella damage if they, for example, gave us an extra pellet but left damage cap. More consistent but not more maximum damage.

I feel you on LDE, it's ubiquity is indicitive of a larger problem. I can't wait for a second Explo kit. Great weapon but don't burnout if you're not having fun, branch out.

Your tomatoes get chilled or frost over?