#artistro

[ragan-a]

I'm sick of color!

Four years ago my first art teacher gave me color. I already had plans for what I would make when I got color and I was preparing for it for forever. Literally my whole damn life I was preparing for color. I looked at paint, markers, colored pencils amd landed on watercolor and learned everything I could think of on how to use it. So when I got it I already knew how it worked.

After I got watercolor all of my big ink only and pencil only art stopped completely. I only used pencil and ink to make my colored work look better. The objective of my ink standing on its own very slowly got lost.

Now I'm getting tired of color. It's a love hate relationship that I never had with ink and pencils.

It completely shocked my ink and abilities. Now I'm thinkn about it, it basically put my ink in a coma. I could not get the fuck out.

[art-of-kraay]

Happy Valentines day! If anything, today is a great day to show yourself some love too. I know that can be hard, but that's okay ^^ it can take some practise, and this lovable bulbasaur will gladly help you with it!

Drawn with Posca, Molotow and Artistro paint pens on hot press watercolour paper.

[magwriterus]

Nasturtiums! . . . #acuarela #art #arts #artsy #artoftheday #artistsoninstagram #artistlife #artistro #artistroartsupplies #colourful #creative #crearivity #creativityismysuperpower #flowers #flores #nasturtium #nasturtiumflowers #painting #watercolour #watercolourpainting (at Lincoln, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqEEzVMLEFa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[glimmerbugart]

Artristro Watercolor Paint Kit Review

When I teach watercolor classes, I think it’s important for people to try out products that are more budget friendly if they are new to watercolors.

That being said, you can’t compare the best of the best (Schminke, Daniel Smith, etc.) with other brands, but for starters, it can be daunting and scary to spend all sorts of hard earned money on a few tubes of watercolors.

This watercolor set is a great value for what you get and is perfect for beginners. This is the set that I share with my students so they have a decent start with watercolors with an array of shades that will help their imagination and creativity thrive.

If you’re in the market for a kit, definitely give these a try:

[elvenwarriorart]

Fruits and balloons in watercolor 🍊🎈

Back in January, I got my first watercolor sketchbook from the Blick Art store while in Old Town San Diego along with travel sized watercolor palettes and Prismacolor watercolor pencils. Since then, I have been practicing little by little and trying out different types of watercolor brands that I had collected over the years from my childhood to my college years but have never tried. And honestly, this has been the best experience for me!

So far, I have been enjoying it immensely and while I don’t do it everyday, I do look forward to coming home after teaching all day to paint something as basic as fruit when I have some extra free time.

I hope you like it!

I used: Hahnemuhle Watercolor sketchbook, Artistro watercolors, and Loew Cornell watercolors.

instagram.com/elvenwarriorart

[a-mint-bear]

got a little watercolor journal from the dollar store and finally tested out my Artistro watercolors that i got for... christmas, i think

i have an art supply hoarding problem

[merchantarthurn]

hello!!! if you dont mind me asking what kind of white pen do you use for adding little highlights in your art? your art inspired me to start inking and coloring my traditional art and ive been having a lot of fun with it for a year or so now but i can never seem to find a good white gel pen to use 😭

you and me both friend 😭 I have a lot of issues with the ones i've tried and im thinking i might switch to just using white dip-pen inks (shirahama has given the brand she uses it's something like icy-white but i'll have to dig that out again).

the best luck i've had has been the following:

General notes of paint/acrylic markers - be extremely careful of smudging and drying times, both of the pen and whatever you have underneath. For any solvent-based mediums (paints, alcohol markers and ESPECIALLY linework inking) acrylic markers can pick up some of the colour or damage the paper and create smudges and tears. This is relatively easy to avoid so long as you wait for stuff to dry and work in small areas. The paint itself will take a while to dry so I usually let it sit for 30mins-1hr before putting it anywhere near my scanner bed. If you need to work on a larger area and the paper you're working on isn't pretty robust you should probably switch to a paintbrush and just use regular acrylic paint (which has a longer drying time).

I've also found that with smaller pen nibs getting a reliable opacity is an absolute crapshoot lol.

Artistro paint market pen - really good when fresh, but god help you if you go without using it for too long after you start using it. it'll gunk up and I don't know how to fix them. They are relatively cheap and come in packs at least. Doesn't seem to have larger sizes though.

Posca paint pens (various sizes) - far more robust than artistro if you store them right but regrettably more pricey. I've also found the finest nibbed white pen to be... deeply underwhelming. It never seems to have adequate pigment no matter how long I shake and prime it. By contrast the artistro gave the same sized line much more consistently, but at the cost of the pen nib itself being pretty unreliable.

Decobrush pigment - I've not got these in white so can't speak for them directly, but the colours I do have are pretty spiffy and it's a BRUSH pen, which gives you so much more control and a range of sizes per pen. There is some difficulty with low opacity on these though (since they're meant to be used with other decobrush markers), so I don't know how a white "corrector" would fair. The colour range is generally pretty gorgeous though, in the long term i'd like to have more of them.

General note on gel pens - I've got a love-hate relationship with gel pens honestly. I find I can get more consistent results out of them because the ink doesn't settle and you don't have to prime the nibs, but that's only if you can find a good brand... and then a good specific pen lol. I've also found an issue when you don't let the medium below dry properly re: smudging, but it also seems like if your work isn't boneeee dry (like overnight or multiple days of alcohol markers drying) the gel can very easily take on the colour of the pigment underneath, especially darker ones. Oddly this doesn't always show up when scanning, but it will look odd in person. Not always a draw back though - it looks great for white detailing in shadow.

Sakura Gelly Roll 08 - Not sure if there's other sizes (or their efficacy) so I thought I'd be specific because if there's one thing about gel pens the specificity MATTERS. I've got a couple of these and they don't disappoint (insofar as my expectations for gel pens go)

Uniball signo broad - this was my favourite until it ran out of ink. I cannot say for the uniball signo (without the broad part) which seemingly just gave up delivering ink and enjoys carving lines on the page and maybe delivering just enough ink that you can see where the ball is on the track it leaves behind. But the broad? I really liked. It honestly probably performs the same as the gelly roll but the pen just feels nicer to use lol, and the fact that it ran out of ink rather than dried out speaks for how much I liked it lol

as a general warning though - basically any gel pen or acrylic pen should be the last thing you do on your piece, because the second it goes down you will not be doing any more colouring in that area (unless you paint with acrylics). You can maybe use lineart pens on top of them once fully dried for at least an hour (ideally more) but it's very likely to smudge.

honestly... if you scan your work, there's no shame in cloning a white area of your work to use as a highlight post-scan. i always feel like im cheating until i remind myself that every digital-artist peer i have gets do to this at their leisure lol. i'd recommend getting a good scan/photo of the work before adding any highlights anyway because it's sooo easy to bugger them up and be unable to fix it (i say this as someone who never remembers and always regrets it lol)

examples:

you can see where the opacity doesn't quite hide what it's covering - an extra layer or digital correction would have been great. pretty sure this was artistro acrylic pen. but the unseen thing is i had to correct around the iris to the point where i said "well fuck i can't do what i want now" and just fixed it digitally.

dot highlights on the left and in/around the eye - definitely gelly roll. gel pens are really good for little pin pricks because you avoid the ball-point smearing things too thin and you can get pretty high opacity from that. also some more digital "help" with a bit of airbrush glow.

Definitely gel pen but i forget which kind, but I wanted to show what I meant by "picking up some pigments" and how can can be a boon, but also how sometimes the scanner just picks it up as white anyway (left is scanned, right is a photo - you can see it's purplish in the shadows)

[everywebkin]

faq

tldr: eric, 18, he/him, i use paint pens to draw, reuploads ok with credit

how can i use your art?: tumblr profile pictures and headers are okay without credit. on a different website, please link back to here. edits are okay (like im ok with editing out a bi flag to replace it with a trans flag or country flag. reposting (downloading my art and posting it to another website) is okay with credit linking back to this blog (if it's on instagram or toyhouse, then please tag it with @esotericprince )

what do i use to draw: i use posca and artistro paint pens. i take a photo of my work (no fancy scanner yet </3) and digitally touch it up in medibang paint. (to erase pencil marks and smudges mostly. i'll also colour correct a little) i made a tutorial on my process as apart of a school project, so i'll link it here when i eventually post it :) )

whats my motivation... why did i start this blog: this blog is my thesis project for 3 different classes now. it started as a way to get extra credit in my digital media course, and now my teacher is letting it count as extra credit in my art courses. I almost only draw webkinz during class. my other main motivation is autism <3

what other blogs/sites do i like: i'm a big fan of @kinzvestigation 's work :) go check them out. @mspaintdex and webkinz bot inspired me to start. webkinz guide has been a great help in researching.

how do i decide what webkinz to draw: when not going off requests, i'm going in chronological order. i'll be skipping out on virtual only pets, lil kinz (if they have a normal version), and signatures for now. feel free to send in your request multiple times if you think it got lost in tumblr's shitty code.

whats the accuracy on the release dates: take every release date with a grain of salt! both the official kinzapedia and unofficial fandom website have unreliable and unsourced information) if anyone has a better source on release dates feel free to dm or send an ask

who am i...: i'm eric :) i'm 18, have been playing webkinz and collecting plushes as long as i can remember. i'm canadian (am in driving distance of webkinz hq.....) and in grade 13. i'm going to university for cognitive science. you can see my nonwebkinz art here. i also infrequently post cosplay and art to my instagram. outside of art, i'm a big fan of pirating games on my 3ds, watching wayneradiotv and jerma streams, and thrifting for webkinz.

what webkinz do i have !: far too many to list! i have about 25 plushies right now. i got back into collecting this year (they took my childhood webkinz in The Divorce) my only surviving childhood webkinz is my profile picture :) a whimsy dragon named sparky.

[theodorehysope]

I added details on the hand with artistro white pen and i'm not convinced

[harkamal]

Oodles of Doodles. Doodles of Oodles. Vol 5

The oodle name is starting to get a bit cringe, but whatever. The last time I posted something was the yearly self portrait in October. I have been dropping bigger projects as soon as I am starting them.

I’ve been trying to do more smaller mixed medium drawings as well as trying out different mediums. Initially, I thought Matte Pencils were a joke- they actually work and get rid of any shine with darker tones. Alcohol markers have been difficult. The greatest use I can find for them is in cartoon drawings. That said, I do have a greater respect for Inkers/Comic Book Letterers as my line work is trash with my shaky hands lol. I still enjoy using ballpoint pen for my drawing. I have found a nice highlighter in Artistro paint pens.

If anybody knows how to better blend or best use for alcohol markers, I am all ears. Any feedback, negative or positive, are greatly appreciated cause yo boy is strugglin'

[bugbyte]

I got sent some acrylic paint markers to test out and made my contractually-obligated video to talk about them. Just saying, not saying, if you watch it and click on the shop link thingy on the video I get a little kickback. I believe you don't have to buy anything for me to get some amount of something. But if you wanted to see me play with some fun-but-not-at-all-pro-grade-markers, here's a thing!

[art-of-kraay]

Autumn mandala as a gift to my grandma and grandpa.

I don't draw mandalas often but this was fun to do!

Acrylic markers on paper.

Art © art-of-kraay

[magwriterus]

First time using the te unique of shadowing to create whiteness. Not bad for a beginner. . . . #acuarela #acuarelas #aquarelle #aquarell #beautiful #chiaroscuro #tulips #art #myart #artsy #artistro #artistroartsupplies #whitetulips #shadows #shadowsandlight #watercolour #watercolourart #watercolourpainting (at Lincoln, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnuLBpsH9C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[glimmerbugart]

Artistro Watercolor Paint Kit Review

When I teach watercolor classes, I think it’s important for people to try out products that are more budget friendly if they are new to watercolors.

That being said, you can’t compare the best of the best (Schminke, Daniel Smith, etc.) with other brands, but for starters, it can be daunting and scary to spend all sorts of hard earned money on a few tubes of watercolors.

This watercolor set is a great value for what you get and is perfect for beginners. This is the set that I share with my students so they have a decent start with watercolors with an array of shades that will help their imagination and creativity thrive.

If you’re in the market for a kit, definitely give these a try:

[cyan-pickaxe]

Was looking for the darkest black to draw with, second to last was best and it’s a artistro paint marker pen