Art Share🎨
This is a friendly community for everyone who wants to share their art with the world! Everyone is welcomed 🎨
Please visit https://lemmy.world/c/artmarket as well! This is a community for artists to post their portfolios and announce availability to take commissions, as well as get visibility for Ko-fi, Patreon, and other funding for art activities.
Rules
AI Art: While we appreciate AI generated art, there are more appropriate communities to post that type of art to. Please keep posts to non-AI generated art only. This rule includes AI art that was then manually manipulated (e.g. drawing on top of something generated by AI).
NSFW Policy: Nudity and suggestive content has always been a part of art, but it may be something that some users don't wish to see or cannot view in certain circumstances (e.g. at work). If your work contains nudity or suggestive content, please mark it as NSFW. Work that contains nudity or suggestive content that is not marked as NSFW will be taken down. As long as the NSFW tag is used, we welcome nude or suggestive subject matter. If you aren't sure if your work is NSFW or not, just ask yourself, "Could I look at this at a typical office job and not get into trouble?" If you're still not sure after that, you should probably mark it as NSFW just to be on the safe side.
Spam: Please do not spam this community. Self promotion is fine if you just want people to be aware of your work, but blatant attempts at spam will result in the past being removed and possibly a ban. If you aren't sure if what you are posting is spam, please contact the moderator first.
Conduct: Be nice, and don't be a jerk. Constructive criticism is OK, but don't be mean. Encouragement is always welcomed.
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Every visual artist needs to learn to sketch, get 2 pencils, 2H and 4B would be my go-to. Standard 80mg copy paper is somewhat lacking, not exactly bad but I don't like it, even then you don't need a professional sketchbook, notebooks are pretty good, actually. If you get into paints, don't repeat my mistake, watercolors are the least forgiving medium Ive tried. Crayons are fine, chalk I have no experience on, you could consider pastels
Oilpaint is a pain to use because of all the material, cleaning etc (use water miscible oil paints, with them you swap out solvents for water! Easy to clean too, just use soap, and no toxic fumes!), but as it takes ages to dry, it's actually very newbie friendly, move that paint around, add in more paint or even scrape a bad part off! And ofc, paint on top of dry paint.
That said, it's probably the hardest to master.
I started with watercolors because they survived from my primary school times, later bought a semi-professional watercolor set to finally end up with gouache, and I will probably stay with those. I do have acrylics too (I painted with them literally once, image below), but watercolors and gouache are so much more compact in working with and cleaning up, I love that aspect
Nice!
I have tried acrylics and gouache, but man it dries fast 😁!
I have used inks for water color, very popping colors, but oil is something in its own IMO.
Oil WIP:
Bristol board was always my fav
I gave it a go at crayons some time ago. While I didn’t go very far, I enjoyed the experience!
My total expense to get started was a notebook, a pencil (don’t remember which) and a pack of nice crayons. I then spent some afternoons copying nice photos of the Internet. I had fun and I saw the improvements over a relatively short time! Then life got busy and goodbye :/