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This is a mixed media color study done on heavy cotton based paper with watercolor, ink, Copics and acrylic paint. The original reference is a Jolly Jack original.Related content
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When you say the heavy cotton paper, you mean with a cotton vellum?
I really love how this turned out, kinda looks like she's flying through the cosmos.
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This was an individual sheet of 22" x 30" 140 lb watercolor paper. It has cotton fiber in the paper and a rough texture. I wanted something that would hold up to watercolor and paint. It also needs to travel as I take it to and from my mural project.
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Oh, I get what you mean. I used to use a bristol board with cotton vellum but it really made for some awkward effects that I just didn't like. Sometimes the vellum would lift and leave little strands on the paper. I really annoyed me so I switched to smooth bristol board.
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I pretty much use watercolor weight paper, I use smooth bristol for pencil, nothing else seems to work as well. The heavy weight paper works good with Copics and the watercolors I use. Light weight paper lets the ink bleed something fierce!
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Yeah, I've noticed that the standard 98 lb mix media paper I use for non-colored pencil drawings, bleeds a bit more than my normal bristol paper does whenever I use my Prismacolor markers. I have a big 11 by 14 inch tablet for my black and white pencil drawings, a small 7 by 10 for practice and my 11 by 14 bristol.
I used to have such fear when choosing paper. When I started getting really into professional grade drawing, like using supplies beyond a simple mechanical pencil, I used a 60lb Strathemore that was only like 10 by 12. I never felt good about it. It was too thin, it was too small. Then eventually I got a 70lb paper from Utrecht and it was good, but still not great. My Canson Mix-Media, my love, I feel confident when I open it and let me pencil touch. Now I probably sound like an even more crazy person.
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I've been using 98 lb paper at a minimum. I'm on a 140 lb watercolor paper kick. I sliced some of it up into 2.5 x 3.5 inch sketch card sized sheets. I am trying to force myself to keep my character sizes to a minimum. Also, I can pencil, ink and color in one sitting using sketch card size. They are fun too. I find drawing pads at Goodwill and Value Village pretty regularly, I buy too much shit like that. However, I do find neat stuff to try every now and again. You know you can scrape dry pastel chalk and mix it with water to make a watercolor type wash. Also, use color pencil and go over your color with a marker for a whole different effect. I love mixing media. I'd really like to do something with crayon, just haven't done it yet.
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I have developed a fondness for some mix media stuff. Like, whenever I use my colored pencils, it is now standard procedure that instead of using my black colored pencils, I just use my black Sakura pen. See, one a few of my drawings, the black smudged and I just lost my mind on that and no matter how hard I tried to avoid the smudging, it always happened. So, my friend suggested I use the ink, and just shade over it if I had to, and it worked great. I usually use the ink for the pupils when I do colored drawings.
Sometimes I like to use marker too, but my friend, she says that can be tacky sometimes lol.
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