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*squeaks* my first one ever hatched! *hugs hatchling* XD
sorry guys, I am just way too excited about this. thank you so much for being instrumental in the hatching. and congratulations to the ones with new dragons and hatchlings! ^_^tasgrs wrote:HELP!!!
I am getting more frustrated by the minute. I have followed all the instructions I could find, verified the account, logged into and out of that site, and when I get to the cave entrance, and click on get mine, once I get to the log in page and enter my info, I get invalid username/password, or account may have been disabled. Yet the same info gets me into their forums. What am I doing wrong??? *bangs head on desk repeatedly*those more experienced may correct me, but I think the forum and the actual dragon-cave thing are separate, meaning that you need a different log-in for each one… you may have signed up for the forum and not the cave.
Did you go to the cave entrance and click “take one” and then register there?once I actually have money again I will probably look into buying better paints. until then, thanks for the tips! hopefully they will help me manage.
aye… but three won’t fit… I will have to limit myself to two at a time.
I clicked your eggs. look! a crack!
oo, thank you Barrdwing. I think I have some Folkart paints… once I get home I think I will make a check of what I have and see if I can get some thinning medium. I really have loved working on my muse. If I can get some pictures and repair the little bit of flaking, I might try and post them here. Seriously, guys, thank you so much for the experienced input!
Edit: for the sake of clarity, I have some Blick craft paints, some folkart paints, and the tube paint I have is Vanguard.
WindstoneCollector, I wasn’t offended, I just thought I would clarify ^_~
I am a starving grad student, so I am using pretty cheap paints which might be a big part of my problem… I am not at home right now though and I don’t know the brands of my paint off the top of my head. Mixing gel sounds like a good idea… even if it doesn’t help the mixing, sometimes I am frustrated with the speed at which my paints dry, so it sounds like a good additive.Thanks Jennifer! I guessed that too much water wouldn’t be good, but I didn’t know what to thin with besides that. with oils I would use a little linseed oil or turps, but obviously that won’t work here. I will consider saving up for some better paints…
Thank you Kujacker, that is very helpful! I will look those over more thoroughly. I am truly perplexed as to why my two paints don’t play well.
Kyrin, I am very aware that acrylics are not oil-based, I’m sorry if it sounded like I was confused on that score. Actually, the whole nature of acrylic paint is rather perplexing and frustrating for me because it is so different in nature from what I am used to, i.e. Oils.
I have actually tried thinning my paints with water, and it hasn’t helped them agree with each other. It may be a lost cause to even attempt it, but I am an experimenter by nature. I haven’t tried acrylic thinner, that may be my next attempt. thank you for your input!I am new to this whole paint your own thing, but am enjoying it. All I have so far is one almost finished muse. I am using acrylics, though, when most of my painting experience is with oils and on canvas. I have two different kinds of acrylic, one from a tube, an artist acrylic of some kind, and “craft paint” acrylics and the two don’t seem to like eachother… they will not mix, and when layered, they chip. Can anyone tell me why this happens and if there is any way to doctor the paints so that they can be used together or am I going to simply have to choose one or the other? This is new territory for me as I never met an oil-based paint that didn’t play well with other oil based paints, so the concept that water-based paints sometimes don’t is weird to me.
