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dragonessjade wrote:sunhawk wrote:dragonessjade wrote:
Snap, Crackle, Pop….Nabisco. hehe
Your welcome.
Oh we are forever the slaves of past marketing campaigns LOL
I can’t help it. I have more commericals memorized then shows. 😆I’m always vaguely amazed how many random jingles i have stuck in my brain forever LOL
dragonessjade wrote:Snap, Crackle, Pop….Nabisco. hehe
Your welcome.
Oh we are forever the slaves of past marketing campaigns LOL
dragonessjade wrote:Ooooo. My head is spinning because it is so colorful. 😆
J/k. It is very nice.
You should see them in person, they definitely… pop LOL
Thank you ^_^
My latest addition to my “collection” of magnets, check out my other (very popular ;)) magnet thread to see the dragon and gryphon ^_^
This particular style of magnet is also $5 USD plus S&H, drop me a private message if you’d like to order one or a few 😀
dragonessjade wrote:Why do so many people read the book and then watch the movie? I would think that it would ruin the movie because a lot of times ppl say things are left out.
I never thought the book would ever get made into a movie :X
Greater Basilisk wrote:Okay, I guess you’re right. It’s still a good idea to be able to at least show how to do it better, rather than saying “I don’t like it” but being unable to point out any way to improve it.
I agree that providing a demonstration yourself is an excellent way to help constructively criticize a work. But it’s also possible to learn how to do certain things but not actually be able to do it – in terms of being aware of the materials or steps involved to get a certain artistic result.
A simple example of this, in regards to Eragon, is that many people have suggested that the author needed to do more “Show, don’t tell.” This method of writing is considered a good way to bring the reader into the described world more fully. While not all literary critics can write in that sort of fashion, they do and can recognize when it is being done or not.
I mostly jumped in here because you used the word proper, which I feel is a misleading way to describe one method of criticism ^_^
Quote:That’s the thing. You can’t properly criticize unless you can do it better.
I have to say I disagree with you, since it’s very much possible to be educated about artwork or writing and discuss it intelligently without being able to write or draw/sculpt/paint yourself. It’s just a different but equally-valid type of criticism ^_^
Thanks frozen and Romeo for your pics, they are great for illustrating how base colour can change how the paints look ^_^
Melody wrote:We use Golden acrylics. They come in all kinds of metalics and interferance colors. Our colors are usually a mixture of several of these, plus pigments…We spend a lot of time formulating these perfectly, and I don’t even remember what is in most of them. You can approximate these colors yourself, or better yet, come up with new ones, by mixing and experimenting with the metallics that are available from Golden and Liquitex.They are great paints.
The Ruby color is much trickier. It is achieved by carefully airbrushing the transparent red over layers of metallics and other colors. It may not look it, but that color took a long time to perfect!Thanks for those answers! I actually prefer to hear that my problem is with the simplicity of my mixing efforts rather than you using a different brand or type of paint, which may sound crazy. But i can be very patient with layering and mixing paints, i’ll try mixing metallic paints and see what happens, i don’t know why i didn’t think of that. I guess i’m so used to looking to interference paints for anything shimmery! LOL
With pigments, i’m guessing they are specially designed or mixed to be lightfast? I know that pigments by themselves tend to be less lightfast than acrylic, which is something that came up when I was trying to figure out how to make a transparent yellow acrylic mixture for my stained glass. White and yellow, if you just try to dilute them with medium, they turn out so cloudy!
I can believe the ruby red took a long time, there is something really deep about that particular colour.
ruffian wrote:I know some companies sell a metalic medium that you add to any color you want has anyone tried that?
Do you know of any brands offhand? Or are you thinking of silver or bronze metallic medium, because I think i’ve seen those.
starbreeze wrote:Someone has to buy PYOs from those of you who paint them….that’s what us non-artistics types do best…we oooh and aaah…that’s our job… 😀
And i am thankful for people like you, LET ME TELL YOU! LOL
Nambroth wrote:Red is the hardest color to do I’ve found (and Melody’s told me!) because it never looks like the red we have pictured in our head… it always comes out looking like nail polish or something. It’s always off somehow and doesn’t look ‘right”. That’s why they used an automotive paint on the Ruby dragons! And they still weren’t totally happy with it (though I think it looks pretty!).
Oh gosh, I agree that the ruby colour is very pretty, like dark ruby stones! I love deep jewel hues like that. But thanks for confirming that the Windstone painters use Golden too, i love the brand myself ^_^
Yeah I had trouble with my red and it wasn’t even a jewel red, i just wanted it to not slide into the pink or blue-tone kind of red but still be red! LOL
