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So in school I always took art classes and I can draw with a pencil pretty good but never could really paint on paper. Are most of you guys painting the pyo’s good on paper? And are most of you using airbrushes or acrylics or..?
I thought about trying a pyo for myself but I’m so afraid I’m just going to end up with a glob of paint since I don’t really know how to shade with paint or anything like that really. And i’ve never used an airbrush and don’t own one so it would be with acrylics probably if I tried…
Just get one and play – your first one might not turn out the way you want, but you’ll have fun and you’ll learn a lot of little tricks.
I went into my first PYO with no expectations at all, and just had a blast. 😀 The way I looked at it, I was paying $35 for the experience, rather than the end product.
I think you’ll have fun with one. 😀Ditto! Just give a try. I cannot draw more then stick figures, but it seems easier for me to ‘think’ in 3D. I started w/ acrylics and pastels. Even now I still prefer to work with pastels. I got an airbrush for xmas, so I have been adding that element as well. I really like it for base coating.
asinnamon wrote:Ditto! Just give a try. I cannot draw more then stick figures, but it seems easier for me to ‘think’ in 3D. I started w/ acrylics and pastels. Even now I still prefer to work with pastels. I got an airbrush for xmas, so I have been adding that element as well. I really like it for base coating.
Pastels as in the waxy crayon type?
Stephanie wrote:Just get one and play – your first one might not turn out the way you want, but you’ll have fun and you’ll learn a lot of little tricks.
I went into my first PYO with no expectations at all, and just had a blast. 😀 The way I looked at it, I was paying $35 for the experience, rather than the end product.
I think you’ll have fun with one. 😀Any recommendation on one being easier then another? I don’t really care for the muse, I’ve only seen a couple kyrins I like. I do like the wolves and the unicorns and the dragons.
You could always go to a discount store or craft store and buy those ‘ceramic’ animals and stuff that are unpainted. They are very cheap (a few dollars, if that) to try and practice on as well. Better yet, you can get a muse sculpt. It has a little bit of every texture that might appear on a windstone (hair, fur, large scales, small scales, wacky scales, feathers, ornamentation…)
I use acrylics and brushwork myself (I use an airbrush for basecoating). Watercolor can be used, but it soaks into the gypsum and takes some practice to get used to how it takes the watercolor. Purplecat uses an airbrush on hers (to give you an idea of a different look if you check her gallery out). With the warm weather, I’ll be giving pastels a shot (the stick pastels… look like charcoal sticks, only different colors. You grind them up into a powder and apply them in layers – add a layer with a brush, seal it, apply another layer, seal it, etc.)
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my pyo’s are all painted buy hand and brush…no airbrushing at all.
painting and drawing are so different that you do not have to draw well to paint.
painting does take practice to get the hang of if you have never done so before, but the only to really find out is to actualy do it. but some paints and a pyo and just go at it and see what happens firts.The muse is meant to practice, really. So even if you don’t like it, it has all the surfaces you’ll find on the other PYOs. Then you can decide which ones agree with you the best and go from there.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmsiberakh1 wrote:You could always go to a discount store or craft store and buy those ‘ceramic’ animals and stuff that are unpainted. They are very cheap (a few dollars, if that) to try and practice on as well. Better yet, you can get a muse sculpt. It has a little bit of every texture that might appear on a windstone (hair, fur, large scales, small scales, wacky scales, feathers, ornamentation…)
I use acrylics and brushwork myself (I use an airbrush for basecoating). Watercolor can be used, but it soaks into the gypsum and takes some practice to get used to how it takes the watercolor. Purplecat uses an airbrush on hers (to give you an idea of a different look if you check her gallery out). With the warm weather, I’ll be giving pastels a shot (the stick pastels… look like charcoal sticks, only different colors. You grind them up into a powder and apply them in layers – add a layer with a brush, seal it, apply another layer, seal it, etc.)
I draw, sculpt, build, paint, etc.
Wow the pastels sound complicated. I don’t have an airbrush, but I do have some of purplecats pyo’s! Does anyone here use plain ‘ol acrylics?
dragonmedley wrote:The muse is meant to practice, really. So even if you don’t like it, it has all the surfaces you’ll find on the other PYOs. Then you can decide which ones agree with you the best and go from there.
Thanks!! 😀
tatt2dcowgrl wrote:Does anyone here use plain ‘ol acrylics?
If you mean acrylic paints, then yep. That’s all I use on mine. I use mostly Folk Arts paints that cost $1-2 for a bottle. And those bottles will last a good long time too.
Do you usually mix them or start out with one solid color and then add other colors to the top or..? Maybe I should take a painting class lol
I tend to stick with pre-mixed colors, because I suck at mixing them myself. Occasionally I will mix a color, but then I do on my paint plate or in a small container I can seal if I will need more of the color later. Most of the time I don’t layer different colors on top of each other (just the same). The exception to that would be if I’m completely repainting a PYO and don’t feel like taking the time to strip it, ot as with the Aquamarine Kirin I just sold the color wasn’t right at first so I applied two slightly different colors to get it to what I wanted the color to be.
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