Does anyone here paint?

[koolpc]

I used to dabble with Digital art, many years ago.

The good thing about digital art is no mess, and ctrl-z

The bad thing is that you spend even more time at the PC! Real painting has a certain allure to it, although do research whatever medium you are using, I think that oil paints have historically been rather toxic if not handled properly for example!

Some of my digital work (all done with a Wacom tablet and either Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop).

Superb

 

[robfosters]

Wow! There's some really talented individuals on here.

 

[koolpc]

I would like to start drawing again.

I used to take my pencils to bed with me! I needed to draw the curtains every night!

 

[koolpc]

I love pencil drawing. Used to have more but threw them!

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Wow! There's some really talented individuals on here.

We do. An old thread that needs more posts https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18265708&page=37

 

[h4rm0ny]

No but wouldn't mind giving it a go. Wasn't good at drawing at school though maybe practice would improve that, I'm pretty sure it's a gift, or natural talent. Handwriting is awful also. Why is that?

This is definitely false. Short of having some kind of disability such as blindness or parkinsons, sketching and painting are learned skills. People frequently try briefly and then decide they can't do it. Some people even try to learn the skills and despite the evident improvement decide that they lack some natural talent.

Then they look at some piece of work by a professional and never think to ask how long it took to do. Answers of "eight hours", "a week", "a month" are not uncommon. These people are not only frequently dismissing years of practice, they are also dismissing the fact that they spent an hour trying to draw something and the professional spent two days on it.

Watch the below (I've set them to start after the beginning to get to the relevant parts). Imagine you're an eight-year old watching this series. Now imagine you've never seen it. Now imagine both versions meeting in art class at fourteen and one saying "you have a natural talent".

It isn't. It's learned. There may be some degree of innate talent - possibly - but nothing that would show up as a differentiator between two people who hadn't studied to a very high level.

 

[Chaos]

I havent read them myslef but I've heard a lot of people saying that the Watercolor/Acrylic/Oil Painting for Dummies books are actually pretty good.

A lot of painting classes use the book Alla Prima by Richard Schmid but I think thats used after you have been painting for a while.

Landscape Painting by Mitchell Albala is also recommended for beginners.

For Beginner Drawing - Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards.

Some Art Tips -

 

[gord]

Amazing!!! The detail on the fur!!! All done with pencil? What pencils as my daughter loves drawing!

Pretty sure she mostly uses Faber-Castell.

Cheers for all of the comments. Finding the time to paint is the difficult bit. Loving some of the digital pieces shown, never really experimented with tablets.

 

[Muffherwell]

I don't, but a good friend of mine does. Some of his paintings are just beyond belief, like you're looking at a photograph.

http://www.ronniemcinnesart.co.uk/painting-commissions.html

 

[~>Dg<~]

actual painting over graphic art. tbh.

if you can draw or paint as good as digital art.i will give ya a pass

 

[itchy]

I paint. My latest creation below I call, Special Delivery.

^^^^^This wins hands down.

 

[datalol-jack]

Used to get up to some pixel art in my teens. Can eat up quite a few hours and you can do mean mosaics if you don't want to be stuck on the PC. Quite relaxing too. No time to pick up anything creative these days, unless I give up all sleep. If you've got some, though, give visual arts a shot.

 

[HungryHippos]

Superb

Thanks!

actual painting over graphic art. tbh.

if you can draw or paint as good as digital art.i will give ya a pass

Yeah it's just that there is a much lower barrier to entry to digital painting, software pricing not considered. A cheap wacom tablet is £50, and should be good enough for most people, plus everyone here more or less will have a reasonable PC already to use it on.

For real painting you need supplies, and a good enough space to work in! painting onto a canvas has more of a sense of permanence, and a definite cost against it. I'd love to spend more time and effort on this but I don't have a good enough area to work in as a studio, without encroaching on my living space.

 

[Aberfala]

There's some great artistic talent exhibited in this thread, I have none so am always in awe of anyone who can paint or draw.

 

[gord]

Would I start with oils? Water? What ? Any links to cheap but good supply shops ?

That really depends on your style, but I'd say start with acrylics. Oils take longer to dry and are generally trickier. There are downsides to acrylics too but generally they are easier to handle, they just make some techniques harder such as gradients because you have to do them faster.

 

[randomshenans]

Yeah, I dabble occasionally.

Some of the random pieces of **** around my house:-

I'm not creative, but I do get inspired - i.e. I don't have ideas of my own, but I'll see another piece of work that inspires me and I try to emulate it.

I like this one. I'd LOVE to be able to paint more. I used to when I was younger, and I have ideas and everything, just don't get them out. I really enjoy abstract art though. One of the reasons I love art, is that there is something for everyone, and that someone's crap can be another person's love.
And as an artist you can express whatever you want to in your work. Whether that's what other people see from it, that doesn't matter for me, it's about a way of getting that out.