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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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[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I also feel like they might not be great if you wanna make something more than simple drawings/colorings

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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."