I've been eavesdroping on your convo - hope you don't mind!
I have a technique from school I absolutely love. The way you are talking about technique I think it may be a fun medium for you to try. It's a fluid technique that has a feel like nothing else.
Charcoal, oil paint and turpentine (or whatever oil thinner you have). I use a single color - usually an umber or sienna to give an 'antiqued' feel. Charcoal spreads like a paint when you touch it with thinner but resembles nothing else when used this way. It can make for a very dense velvety black or subtle shading. A very thin oil color, when used in the shading, just produces this great effect. I should dig up a pic of the end result... I really think you'd enjoy it and I think it would take to cardboard beautifully.
I know you have no idea what everyone sees in this but the texture and warmth of the cardboard is really lending quite a bit to picture. There is this lovely section just above Brad's head - the background of the tent that just has this glow to it. That is probably a bit of the reflectivness working... no matter. Your unconventional surface choices lend quite a bit to your work. They are unusual effects that most people aren't used to seeing - especially now that so much is digital (not that there is anything wrong with that!). You are knee deep in 'happy accidents' which, I think, is a huge part of the artistic process that is being lost in the digital age. I think that may be a bit of what people are responding to - besides the awesome concepts and execution.
Sorry for the soapbox - I don't often get a chance to wax poetic about the nitty gritty of art. Forgive me my repressed enthusiasm wriggling free...
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I have a technique from school I absolutely love. The way you are talking about technique I think it may be a fun medium for you to try. It's a fluid technique that has a feel like nothing else.
Charcoal, oil paint and turpentine (or whatever oil thinner you have). I use a single color - usually an umber or sienna to give an 'antiqued' feel. Charcoal spreads like a paint when you touch it with thinner but resembles nothing else when used this way. It can make for a very dense velvety black or subtle shading. A very thin oil color, when used in the shading, just produces this great effect. I should dig up a pic of the end result... I really think you'd enjoy it and I think it would take to cardboard beautifully.
I know you have no idea what everyone sees in this but the texture and warmth of the cardboard is really lending quite a bit to picture. There is this lovely section just above Brad's head - the background of the tent that just has this glow to it. That is probably a bit of the reflectivness working... no matter. Your unconventional surface choices lend quite a bit to your work. They are unusual effects that most people aren't used to seeing - especially now that so much is digital (not that there is anything wrong with that!). You are knee deep in 'happy accidents' which, I think, is a huge part of the artistic process that is being lost in the digital age. I think that may be a bit of what people are responding to - besides the awesome concepts and execution.
Sorry for the soapbox - I don't often get a chance to wax poetic about the nitty gritty of art. Forgive me my repressed enthusiasm wriggling free...