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Andrea (she/her) illustrator, comic artist and blogerette

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tags: #star-trek #dc-comics #aubreyad #movies #traditional-art

(you can also follow my main @chicafinal where I mostly talk about movies and star trek)

+mini q&a under the cut

unfinished claudia sketch

#I might try to give it a go with acrylics #idk I just wasn't feeling any of the digital brushes I was using :/#claudia iwtv #interview with the vampire

markgemma for @faint-glimmers-of-hope 💘

#markgemma #mark scout #gemma scout #severance #commission work

comm for @gespargobbler, they're twin characters! 😉

#digital art #commission work

maybe uhura star trek? or poison ivy <333

her!

#nyota uhura #star trek #star trek tos

zoom in because I really like how clark turned out 🫶

❤️💙💚💜

#now back to our regularly scheduled enemies yaoi #clex

hey i’m sorry if that came off condescending! i didn’t mean to imply anything about your training. i also went to school for fine arts originally, and had plenty of classmates who were never told what the point of gesso is because they didn’t work with oils often and they happened to get unlucky with their professors in required classes. in my conservation program, one of my conservation classmates who had a BFA actually brought in oil paintings she made on uncoated paper as an example for the professor because at the time she made them, nobody told her it was a bad idea. it turns out that even among trained artists, material knowledge can be wildly variable, so i like to mention it when i can, just in case. sorry again!!

Noo I get it no worries, and I'm really sorry if my reply was rude I get a little bit passionate about painting on paper and what you say is 100% true. Lots of people don't even know you can do it and its important to know the basics if what you want is a piece that lasts a long time 🫂🫂🫂

Anyways shout out to conservators!!! we love you guys even if you make us artists/curators/mediators/everyone else in the arts&culture really really anxious

#I have minor degree in conservation but its aplied to ceramics and wood. Just a bit of Andrea trivia #I worked on a (very mild) restoration of an virgin mary statue last year

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While we are on topic, the best and cheapest paper for painting (in my experience!) has always been the Fabriano oil paper. Its textured like linen canvas and it resists layers extremely well, so if you ever want to try oils this is a great paper for that. Its also very easy to frame which is a huge plus

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for reference this is the texture of the Canson mixed media paper (the other paper I like). I like it but I do like the Fabriano look better

#also these are zoom ins #you can barely see it irl #the advantage of the canson one is that they sell it in a sketchbook format

While we are on topic, the best and cheapest paper for painting (in my experience!) has always been the Fabriano oil paper. Its textured like linen canvas and it resists layers extremely well, so if you ever want to try oils this is a great paper for that. Its also very easy to frame which is a huge plus

#I get mine for like $15 at the local crafts store #the second best is maaaaybe the canson mixed media paper but I haven't used it in a while so I don't know if its still good #this makes it sound like I paint a lot but I really don't. I used to at university tho!

I do sometimes not use gesso for quick studies on cardboard but don't tell my conservator friends. One of them already wanted to kill me when I told her I sometimes do a first layer with acrylics 😬

#like not everything is made with the intention of existing forever some stuff is just quick practice #or a study for the real thing

hey!! first off I want to say i love your work. but I did notice that a lot of your traditional work is oil on paper, and i wanted to ask, are you coating the paper beforehand? i’m a conservator and unfortunately, putting oil paint directly on paper will eventually cause the paper to degrade. the oils will eat through it and cause stains, which will eventually lead to the paper becoming brittle and falling apart. not everyone is taught why gesso is important and it’s hard to tell if your paper is coated from photos, so i thought i would give you a heads up just in case!

Hi! I know you mean this well and of course you have NO way of knowing but I have a degree in the arts, and I've worked with conservators on multiple occasions irl (even as a conservators assistant) so I can't help but read this in a sort of condenscending way 😬 but yes I do know the importance of gesso

Edit: anon sorry for being rude I'm keeping this up because the info is good. much love 🫰

#like I know I'm just a random on the internet and you are very very kind to be concerned but. yeah #also not to diss on conservators but they are always telling us this like yes we get it paper is fragile we've been through this a lot #shout out to my conservator buddies!

Hi!!! I absolutely adore how you draw Carrie White. I can tell you put so much love into her design and it's really nice to see book-accurate fanart of her. ♥

thank you so much! she's one of my all time favorite book characters and I'm so glad my illustration resonated with people 🥹

#also I saw a lot of folks in the tag saying they were interested in giving the book a try so yay!

Shane Hollander 👀