I am a self-taught artist – and you can be, too! V2
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This second volume of my series of tips and tricks for self-taught artists like myself goes out to the shoppers who hope the 24 colours watercolour box that costs easily four times as much as the basic needs will make their art more awesome right away. I think the more stuff you have the harder it is to master them - and you want to master something as soon as possible before feeling like you aren't an artist after all. Don't try juggling ten balls before three make sense, and look at artists who do awesome stuff with only ballpoint pens or tape.
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Really enjoyed this zine. I 100% agree with starting with the cheap stuff. I think I might also add paint brushes to something that is worth investing in. Not because it necessarily makes your art "better" but it's so satisfying to have really soft nice brush <3 Thanks for the zine!
Thank you! It is an expansive subject. I was mostly thinking of the people who either think any supply will do, and those that think the expensive stuff must have an Art Quality +3 Booster!! built in :) In art class at uni the prof said very clearly: get three paints. EVERYBODY showed up with the Schmincke 24-colour box. Then failed at cleaning the colours (becaues using a wet tissue on them was out of the question) and ending up doing studies in magenta "because it was the only colour not mucked up". Which I thought looked nice but wasn't what they wanted. Well, they weren't there for the art, but still.
What an interesting anecdote. I wonder what happened to their paint :P Probably unused somewhere!