MyPaint Brush Usage Demonstrations - Video 1:

MyPaint Brush Usage Demonstrations - Video 1:

A while back I wrote a semi review and a heavy overview of the art program MyPaint. 

Although the overview was quiet detailed I thought I'd make a video and probably the first of a series based off of the brushes on MyPaint. Each brush I use, I use only that tool, not even an eraser if I wanted to erase I used white instead of the eraser. - I didn't sick with total default settings of the brush itself but it's good to see the brush used in different ways anyway.

The brushes I used are as follows:

• Light Pencil
• Hard Pencil
• Art Pen
• Inking Pen
• and Fill – Marker

My Review/Overview for MyPaint can be found here.

[Update: If you prefer to read in detail instead of watch a video Click Here to download a readable description of each brush in this video.]

Each section will be a mini Speed-Paint (Time-Lapse-Video), the finished drawing will show the icon for the brush I used and before beginning a drawing there will be a circles around the brush as seen in the menu. - All brushes in this video are from the “Set #2” in the brush menu. - Note: The Drawings will not be particularly awesome, it's just to get the point across. - No Audio.

Light Pencil is good more for early sketch lines, as it is very light. -  But I still attempted to draw something.

Video 2
Video 3
Video 4
Video 5 
Video 6

I hope this has helped you in getting started with MyPaint.
Enjoy! 



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Washable Markers, Cheap But Useful!

Washable Markers, Cheap But Useful!

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We all have a few of these scampering within the drawers of our homes, normally the 8 pack of Crayola brand markers we bought our child for his or her birthday and did they use them? Nope. Do we keep them possibly even years after our child has grown up? Yep!... And do we use them? Nahhhh, maybe if we can't find a pen when we have to write down a vital phone number but that's about it, but I say that though they are cheap they are still very useful! They are wonderful for coloring, maybe not as high of quality ink wise but they are still fine to use.

Main Idea:

You can color with washable markers and blend with them, and once they dry out you can use the dry markers to blend a color that is wet. I color with Markers over colored pencil so my paper is very smooth from the wax and it takes a little longer for the color to soak in to the paper, with that style that I color with it's easier to make markers look soft shaded with blending colors together and stuff.

I use The Crayola 50 pack that costs about 7-10 dollars and RoseArt 50 pack for a similar price, compared to 7 dollars for one Copic or 4 Dollars for one Prismacolor. Although with price there is better quality, I have 3 copics markers (2 light purples and one skin tone) and 3 Prismacolor (two shades of blue and one black) and they are amazing but I still love my crayolas and I highly recommend them to people who are new to art or coloring, good art supplies aren't what make you good at art, it's talent and practice, learn to make something amazing with lower quality stuff before you go to the the good quality stuff.

Crayolas are also good for making watercolors when you don't want to use or buy watercolors See more here: Washable Markers; A Painting Beginner's Delight! - Blog Post

Washable Markers are one of the main medias I used in these Drawings; I used Crayola Markers for these, I also used colored pencils and other medias but each of these have over 15 crayolas used each.

My main warning for washable markers and really with markers in general is that the cap colors aren't the same as the color of the marker itself. Other than that it's all good!

Taking care of your markers:

Keep them in a reasonably temperatured place or else they will dry out eventually, this would probably apply to most if not all markers in general.

DON'T use tissue to take another color off of the tip of your marker, the tissue drains the marker almost instantly and then your marker is dry, if you want to try and get the tint off of your markers use them on a separate piece of paper until the tint dirty look goes away, that normally works.

Try to keep the original box or package that the markers came in (if the dog ate the box, you can't do much about that, it's bye bye boxey) then arrange your markers in color order, you will have a huge pain if your markers aren't in color order, if all else fails keep them in color sections bound together with rubber bands.

That's all I can think of for now, so with this I bid you Adieu!

Enjoy your markers!

May God Bless You, Your Family, Friends, The Health Of You And All That Know You ~ Amen

~Firefly