Inspiration can come from the oddest places

[chabas]

As some of you know, I used to paint and draw a lot, and with fairly good results (some of which can be seen here). I pretty much stopped when I left highschool. I'd been following courses there with some regularity, and after I graduated, I simply didn't get around to it anymore. I occasionally thought I should start again, make an attempt or two

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[firefly124]

Oh, cool! Isn't that an awesome feeling when an image comes into your head and you just *have* to get it out somehow? I'm doubly impressed you know how to do watercolors. I just tried playing with them for the first time in many years, Friday night, and was reminded why I find them a far too unforgiving medium.

[chabas]

I started doing watercolors when I was... 12 or 13, I think. The trick is really learning how the water responds. Once you've got that figured out, it's wonderful to work with. It's very *alive* as a medium - it does its own thing. I basically work with watercolors, and pencil, and that's it. I would be interested in charcoal, but otherwise, I have no real interest in any other medium, since I simply don't think it'd be as nice to work with.

[firefly124]

Now charcoal, that I love. Charcoal and chalk pastels are my two favorite media, followed by acrylic and clay. Things that can be erased and reworked, or painted over, or re-shaped, are more up my alley.

I may play with watercolor some more, because as you say a lot of it is just learning how it responds, but I think I'll probably stick more to media in which it is easier to fix mistakes.

[kabbal]

*Blink**Blink**Blink**Blink*

*Blink* X 37

Hey, hang on for a second, you seriously painted an Urborg Panther??

Wow, thats cool.. you should get a scan of that made... yes indeed..

*swoons slightly*

[chabas]

Dude, I think you just outgeeked my bf. No, not an Urborg panther, just *a* panther.

Said bf, btw, insists that I'm far too sweet to draw something as evil as an Urborg panther.

Gonna bosh 'n gonna nosh 'n da hurt'll disappear.

[kabbal]

Well, maybe an Urborg *inspired* panthers anyway.. I thought there was kind of a shortage of magic panthers that get sacrificed. :-)

And, yes, I can outgeek people pretty good if I feel like it. :-) But then again, I'm not sure if thats true, I don't actully read the books or anything... Well actully, thats not entirely true.. I read a couple of the first ones.