Description
Watercolor. I also dabble in watercolor. I have the Arteza water-based real brush markers because I’m trying to learn brush lettering but they’re great for coloring too. I just started playing with gouache paint, which is a highly pigmented watercolor paint. This is an inexpensive medium and it can really be fun to create watercolor backgrounds. If you plan to use watercolor paint like gouache, you’ll want to use watercolor paper. It’s designed to have a texture that will hold the water. If you just use regular paper, it will not only warp a lot more but the paper fibers may start to pill and come off. For color blending, you definitely want to use a water blending brush. Alcohol markers have a colorless blending marker, but you can blend color-to-color without it generally. I’ve found with water-based markers, to get the soft “watery” look, using the water blending brush is really key.
I really like the soft watercolor look, so I’m going to keep practicing. It’s so much fun. Even when I watercolor a panel that doesn’t look so great (I’m no artist), I use it essentially like “pattern paper” and once it’s die cut or cut into a strip, it looks great. I once tried (over and over again) to watercolor an aurora borealis night sky (trying to follow along w/ a several YouTube videos). Only one looked half decent, but the rest I used to die cut from.
