I want to give a card to one of my teachers and wanted to decorate it personally, I have never been into painting, but I don’t want to get anyone else to paint for me. Wish me Luck

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      9 months ago

      How are there stored usually? I’ve seen plenty of watercolors tubes my whole life. It is no surprise to me.

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        29 months ago

        Dried reservoirs of paint in a pallette you mix a little water into are the only kind I’ve seen up till now.

        Something like this:

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          19 months ago

          I’ve known both but the dried version cannot easily be turned into paste but the paste in tube can be diluted further down to get this watery color.

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            9 months ago

            I’ve never seen or heard of the tubes before, I assume because I don’t regularly paint.

            Are they recently popular or did you use them as a kid?

            • @pseudo@jlai.lu
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              29 months ago

              I used them as kids. Especially in art classes but for home painting, giving a kid the dried ones is more common. I assume it is because it is easier to store and to wash if when the kid put paint everywhere.

    • @fastandcurious@lemmy.worldOP
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      29 months ago

      One thing was how fricking cheap they are, idk anything about quality, will have to see when I try but still, also there were others like this but half the price

      • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        29 months ago

        Nice. That’s a good score.

        I don’t know anything about watercolors quality either, but you should post again later and let us know how it went

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          19 months ago

          Tbh, if anything is gonna fail, it’s my painting lol, but there are always colour pencils which are never gonna fail, but I really wanted to try something else

          I think I am just gonna draw some gradients and stuff instead of something complicated

          • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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            29 months ago

            Cool. I always liked colored pencils, but I can never get them to do what I wanted.

            Not that I practiced enough in the first place of course.

            I tend toward simple lines and drawing comics more, I love black and white ink line drawings

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                9 months ago

                Colored pencils?

                Yeah, I don’t think I ever got passed crude brontosauruses and t-Rexes with those.

                But boy, was there an excess of dinosaur coloring going on, haha.

                Oh and one detailed gryphon in 9th grade.

                Actually, I remember that this one gryphon turned out so well that I stopped used coloring pencils afterwards haha.

                Like I thought to myself " All right, I’ve reached the peak of my craft. Time to move on."