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haptalaonNone of my friends are speaking to me / or vice versa, which is very good for anybody on tenterhooks for more webpages
I've added two more bits to the Journey section - a journey through the Forest, which I'm not super happy with visually but I am relieved that it's done and over (and it has image descriptions too); and a web toy Black Hole which is so, so cool.
I have to get more watercolour paint. My old set have gone mouldy over the winter (who knew that could even happen?) and I think I want to have a professional set of colours, as well as mull over the spiritual meanings of warm and cold colours (as 'warmness' and 'coolness' seem to be important within the system) and develop a fixed method for mixing each of the key colours I use. I'm sort of wondering if what I really want instead is gouache. I've always hated watercolour, I've only ever used them because my grandma left the kit to my sister and it ended up with me; so it's always just been there. Gouache is 'like watercolour but not see through', which is far more true to how I want to use them; but i'm wary of investing in a tool I've never used, as I am at least better at watercolour now than when I started.
I've started work on a new symbol which sorts out the reds, because I've noticed there's a relationship between each red I know and another colour already placed...but I don't have primary red and, someone speak to the science manager at once, but you just can't? mix primary red? ever? lmao. I am unaccountably put out by this, but that's another reason to get a real spread of student colours
I'm actually quite good at art when I put some effort in? Maybe egotistical or silly to say, idk. I do sketches from the Loomis books or copy photos and they look absolutely bangin'. So I think I need to start getting or making better reference images for the things I want to draw and just slowing my process down. I've never really progressed beyond the Anime books I learned from as a teen, and I feel like I probably do have the capability to be a much better artist; but on the other hand, the fairly simplistic paintings I do DO bring me a lot of pleasure; I'm not sure the style I want to develop is much more mature. I do like the golden age of illustration style, though, and I'd like to get better at handling colour.
