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My philosophy for this blog tbh. Thank y’all for sticking around !!

#(I doodled this the day I drew Hamnet and Mareth kissing lol)#but for real #whether it’s fanart or oc stuff #it makes my soul happy when I make it #al chatters #doodles #my art

Refilled the palette :o) it’s old and well used so it looks a little rough and unkempt even tho I just did maintenance, but it’s my prized possession and I love it

#I generally fill my pans A LOT because I love being able to use the whole side of a brush to pick up pigment #and as my art has gotten physically bigger than just 1’’x1’’ doodles I’ve grown to dislike half pans #so full pans have my heart rn and this palette is a fave #even tho I sorta ran out of room hehe #unsurprisingly the greens blues and neutrals needed refilling. I go thru SO MUCH paynes gray #anyways #al chatters #I could talk abt paint all day #if anyone asks me about my many palettes I will explain them. I will swatch them FOR U and list the colors #so plz don’t be shy if you’re curious #watercolor #watercolour

did some very challenging but unsuccessful studies this evening- learned a lot but didn’t make anything I was proud of. So I returned to my roots by swatching random colors and refilling my palette where it was getting empty and now I’m remembering why I loved watercolor even when I wasn’t any good at it: it’s so soothing to just watch paint run and bloom on paper and satisfying to organize paint tubes

#if you get a chance to just load up a page with water and dot some color in there plz do it it’s so chill #al chatters

Oh my cod I just found you through your httyd art and I love it all so much!! I was incredibly super ultra hyperfixated on them when I was younger but could never find anyone else who liked them so I would just listen to the audiobooks on repeat while drawing crappy fanart and finding other people who like them feels so vindicating!! Sorry for rambling I'm just excited ^^'

Yo thank you so much! I love those books sm and I'm due for a reread soon.

#no worries about rambling #I love rambles #ask #al chatters

They’ve only been apart for 24 hours

#my art #fanart #doodles #httyd books #httyd #how to train your dragon #how to train your dragon books #fishlegs no name #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #camicazi

2022 and 2023 sketchbook pages, some plein air but mostly photo and movie still studies

#I have one page left of this sketchbook and I need to use it lol #watercolor sketch #watercolor illustration #watercolor art #watercolor #watercolour #my art #al chatters #sketchbook pages

I need to clean my art desk but if I put everything away, I’ll be scared to use it and make it messy again and then I’ll get nothing done

My room is a pit rn for similar reasons

#feat a wip w blue masking fluid on it #I’ve been making linocuts recently #also just painting a lot of nature scenes based off of photos I took years ago #got that rien poorvliet book OPEN. using it as a ref bc i love the way he paints grass and implies detail w rough brushstrokes and graphite #al chatters

bigmammallama5

happy pride

snoopyoftheday

snoopy of the day

🌳🍃🪾🌿

#al chatters #my art #traditional art #watercolor #watercolour #study #lighting study #I’m trying 2 be nicer to myself about my art #so I like the leaves in the foreground on the left #and I like all the tree trunks #this is a mostly successful study #I’m starting to see a style emerge as I practice more environments #part of that is due to the bluntass brush I used that didn’t hold a point #but I like it

aldoodles

My fave color is orange but my fave color to paint with is dEFinitely green

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Greeeeeen

#what are y’all’s fave paint colors #al chatters

aldoodles

I really like these two drawings I did 20 years ago that I tried to paint and ended up ragequitting on.

4th grade me was not patient.

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Omg there’s another

The wolf is like 👁️👄👁️

#al chatters #old art #don’t worry 9 year old al ; I feel the same way abt painting woods now lol

I really like these two drawings I did 20 years ago that I tried to paint and ended up ragequitting on.

4th grade me was not patient.

#al chatters #old art #an attempt at fur texture was made #I remember using the fan brush for fur a lot and also for like EVERYTHING ELSE back in the day #I loved how it mixed the pigments

My fave color is orange but my fave color to paint with is dEFinitely green

#there’s just so many options #so many earthy greens and bright greens and spring greens and leaf and sap greeeeeens #viridan and pthalo are on THIN ICE. I have an issue w the super artificial looking jewel tone ones #that was started by my elementary school #bc we had to take out the premixed green from our watercolor sets bc it was ‘too artificial’ and ‘no natural green looks like that’#(mine didn’t pop out so I could keep it but I wasn’t allowed to use it)#I love mixing w viridian and pthalo tho!!!!! they’re super helpful !!!! but idk I just don’t like using them alone #anyways ty for coming to my tags Ted talk #al chatters

feluka

imagine if i did my work. if i sat down and Did it. and it was Done. can you even imagine such a thing

#I’m playing w paint instead of actually painting rn and I know what? that’s gonna have to be good enough rn

Three of my favorite textured greens

#I love playing with paint!!!!!!#watercolor #al chatters

awakefor48hours

"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other

awakefor48hours

On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.

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