u/tellmeboutyourself68

Edit: please only share *watercolor* paintings as this is a watercolor sub :)

is post is okay. I'd be interested in seeing the very first paintings you all made.

This would give me the courage to share too and ask for advice.

Thank you :)

I'm amazed that so many self-taught painters are able to paint vibrant still life, photorealism...

I know that practice doesn't always make perfect. Some people say practice makes permanent.

I cannot afford classes at this point, but I have decent paper and paints.

How do you use tutorials? Do you paint the same thing over and over again? Do you watch the same tutorial repeatedly before painting?

thank you!

I'm on a budget and still a beginner. I'd really love free resources to learn because I have a difficult time finding videos that aren't sped up and hard to understand on youtube.

thank you 💛

Edit: Thank you so much everyone! Blessings and good things for you all.

I'm doing my best to stay strong thanks to you.

lt has been bad and my chronic pain flare-ups difficult to deal with. I also have some milder unlucky misfortunes that came my way and made things worse, like damaged art paper that was supposed to be brand new.

This of course is making me really depressed. I am taking care of this in the mundane way but would also love some help here if it's not too much trouble.

thank you very much

Bonjour,

J'aimerais savoir d'où vous pensez que je viens et si j'ai un accent neutre.

Merci

First, I'll report her and won't be going back because I do not think pushing Magick on people who are suffering from mental health issues is a good idea. She said she was "spiritual" then started her mumbo jumbo shtick.

I'm a beginner chaos Magick practitioner, but only ask for little things, nothing to do with other people, love, bad intentions or money.

I asked her if she had heard of Neville Goddard, and she played dumb.

It smells strongly of law of assumption and law of attraction to me with a dash of chaos magic but poorly executed.

She had me list goals and insisted I give her my wildest goals, even the ones that aren't possible. No, I cannot medically drive a car, yet she pushed hard for that until I reeeeally spelled it out and she relented (temporarily by the looks of it).

Then she told me off for not speaking in the present. She was taking notes (= starting a grimoire for me). I then told her one of my dreams was to become an accent reduction coach and she FLIPPED OUT because of the word "reduction". "DON'T SAY THAT IT'S A NEGATIVE WORD".

What. The. Heck

She also recommended I do something that I was told NOT to do by my doctor and my nurse.

Needless to say I won't be going back, but what kind of Magick was she pushing on me?

With all due respect, I know little about magic, but more than her. I don't see how the word "reduction" coupled with "accent" would be problematic in a spell. I'm not into this fear mongering.

Also, I did not have to pay to see her since she's covered by my insurance. Still ridiculous.

makes me really sad because I want to be at least an asset to him, not a leecher. i used to make some beginner art, but I've been struggling with that a lot too due to my health.

so if I can't repay him maybe it's not my place to try worshipping Him again?

Ideally I'd want to read books that were recently published, because I'd like to discover authors I haven't given a chance to yet.

I can tolerate a medium thrill level. Nothing close to horror level please, but I don't mind a few mild scares, as long as there are no supernatural elements.

Thank you!

won't go into detail but my inner child is crying I won't let them make art with the good supplies I have now because I'm still a beginner and clumsy and sometimes i damage stuff on accident.

And maybe my art just isn't good enough to let myself create.

I'm even considering just not making art anymore because maybe my supplies are just better off getting bad in a corner of my room but that can't be true right

Is there a way to combat this? I mostly have DS tubes and I'm concerned about this.

I've heard of people just filling two 5ml pans tops with a 15ml tube of DS paint.

I try. I really do. I've been making art on and off for years now, but nothing sticks. I actively get worse at pencil drawing and watercolor painting instead of getting better, probably because my health hasn't been good. Heck, there are medical studies on the topic of chronic pain and illness and how it makes people's art worse.

I just wanted to get good enough to paint the pictures that are in my head, draw my cute characters, my pirate boats, my fan art, then call it a day. I want to be good for myself.

Since I'm too unwell to game on a computer, I put that gaming computer money towards nice art supplies instead.

Mostly professional watercolor tubes, some decent cotton paper (not Arches, but serviceable), and even cheaper paper (bamboo and wood pulp, both hot press and cold press) for preliminary sketches or swatching colors. I also have some cool pencils, erasers, and brushes.

I really don't think my supplies are the issue. Actually, on a good day, I actually painted something I liked on printer paper. This was a bit of an accident since I was supposed to trace the sketch onto better paper, but was unable to at that time.

I even have a nice, big standing desk. This helps with my health for sure, but it's not a magic fix for everything I've got going on.

I have sketches of Anime faces I drew when I thought I sucked. Hm, I was actually not terrible at the time.

At least my beginner drawings looked cute.

Now my faces look like they're straight out of a horror movie because I've gotten so bad and rusty.

I don't know what the point is.

I want to paint. I want to draw. But my body is dumb.

And I don't want to use my art supplies when I don't feel okay, even though I said I would.

I literally just bought 150 sheets of cellulose (wood pulp) paper to mess around on.