Ah yeah I have tried several of those, seems they work okayish at start but then they clog or just stop working or suddenly blurb out a lot of white :-). I’m probably using these wrongly. Any tips?
That’s my idea too, and fixing small mistakes… :-)
I’m trying guache like Titan (and China?) White but it gets heavily absorbed by the paper, I’m looking into acrylic paint too, and I’ll retry my gel pens :-) , we’ll see how it goes!
Do you have an example with your gel pen? Would love to see!
Here is what it looks like going over Tombow brush marker:
And here it is over waterproof fineliner:
The W mark indicates that I applied the white while the black base was still wet. The application looks similar when dry and doing similar strokes; it seems like the best technique for covering dark ink is to dapple it with the pen. I’m thinking that it works better over the fineliner because it doesn’t reactivate the pigment in the waterproof ink.
Here’s one where I used it in a piece. The paper isn’t great, but you can see it applied as reflection on the eye:
It’s a bit hard to see, but the first photo shows what I seem to get, whiteish un-uniform lines, and not a totally white area even if I do just a really small small area or line.
He he watercolor people unite and not let the paint dry enough :-D I have ruined some paintings that way, but when you are in the mood it’s hard to take a long break!
I sure need to get my white reflection game up, in this I think I did 5 layers (Edit: with titanium white paint), which now is too uniform everywhere:
BTW, I have a Lemmy server dedicated to the arts, and I made a community for sharing work in progress and techniques, I mean I love this discussion but it will probably be buried here (or maybe not?) I think it’s a shame if information like this disappear. Anyway it’s all new if you want to have a look : Art In Progress
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Have you tried using a white gel pen? It shows up even against black markers for me.
You mean like a big Posca?
This is what I had in mind.
Ah yeah I have tried several of those, seems they work okayish at start but then they clog or just stop working or suddenly blurb out a lot of white :-). I’m probably using these wrongly. Any tips?
I’ve used mine very sparingly, like adding reflective highlights to eyes. I guess they’re just not good for covering a lot of area.
That’s my idea too, and fixing small mistakes… :-)
I’m trying guache like Titan (and China?) White but it gets heavily absorbed by the paper, I’m looking into acrylic paint too, and I’ll retry my gel pens :-) , we’ll see how it goes!
Do you have an example with your gel pen? Would love to see!
So I did a bit of experimenting.
Here is what it looks like going over Tombow brush marker:
And here it is over waterproof fineliner:
The W mark indicates that I applied the white while the black base was still wet. The application looks similar when dry and doing similar strokes; it seems like the best technique for covering dark ink is to dapple it with the pen. I’m thinking that it works better over the fineliner because it doesn’t reactivate the pigment in the waterproof ink.
Here’s one where I used it in a piece. The paper isn’t great, but you can see it applied as reflection on the eye:
Nice, thanks!
It’s a bit hard to see, but the first photo shows what I seem to get, whiteish un-uniform lines, and not a totally white area even if I do just a really small small area or line.
He he watercolor people unite and not let the paint dry enough :-D I have ruined some paintings that way, but when you are in the mood it’s hard to take a long break!
I sure need to get my white reflection game up, in this I think I did 5 layers (Edit: with titanium white paint), which now is too uniform everywhere:
BTW, I have a Lemmy server dedicated to the arts, and I made a community for sharing work in progress and techniques, I mean I love this discussion but it will probably be buried here (or maybe not?) I think it’s a shame if information like this disappear. Anyway it’s all new if you want to have a look : Art In Progress
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !aip@lemmy.mindoki.com