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[nakotaco]

changed my journal/flist titles *dances around*

Look at this fucking adorable picture of one of my doggies that my sister sent me on my cell yesterday!!

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[kriscynical]

Oh believe me, I am "one of those people", too. Most of the time I call Sushi "baby" or "sweetie pea" and I always talk to her in baby talk (if she's being good, which can be a rarity some days).

Blending stumps are a very nice tool for graphite still life, yes. If you end up doing more like that on your own, you should think about getting a tin of drawing pencils with different hardnesses of lead. A small one like this or a slightly larger one like this would be good if you don't already have different hardness levels of leads. It'll let you get a wider value range in your pieces without breaking the bank.

Gouache is awesome. :D The look of watercolor without the pulling-out-of-hair. I like you you can get really opaque with it when you want, too.

The white bowl with the pink paper is the easiest way to see reflected light to begin with and learn what to look for. Literally EVERYTHING reflects light and color, and it's something I never noticed until I was taught about it at Ringling. It was definitely a "Eureka!" moment and it's a super-easy way to give your work instant three-dimension. :)

[nakotaco]

Oh yeah, our dogs are nine and we still refer to them as "the babies." And they both have a million stupid nicknames. XD

Damn I love Dick Blick. I got my gouache set on sale there and after tax and shipping I paid $15.18 for 24 of them. Yeah, right now I just have like six 2B ones, I really need to get some more.

I get now why my costume teacher spent the first several weeks of the semester talking about how awesome gouache is - you can get so many values out of just the one color! Which is super-useful when you're doing costume renderings and you have to show that kind of thing.

If it were not 3:30 in the morning, I would be going on a hunt for a white bowl. HA. Dimension's one of the things I really need to work on - my observation skills are good enough that I can get the shape of stuff without much of a problem, generally, it's making them look three-dimensional that's a challenge.

[kriscynical]

Holding your arm out (maybe 2" or so) over a light colored counter top or table with a light shining on it will do the trick, too. You'll see the light bounce up on the under-side of your arm. If you look at some of my stuff on DA you'll see reflected color and light on the under and back-sides of things, too.