mystical mediums

[pasithea]

I like pure blacks and sometimes the feel of a ballpoint pen but I want to draw with something that isn't so smooth, something that lays down a heavy black but sticks and makes little sucking chapping noises like a grease pencil, but I want to be able to turn the page of my sketchbook and not have it smear or stick to the previous page and make a negative.

I want a media like charcoal that I can spread with my finger but I don't want it to get my hands dirty and be something I can use when I've only stopped for two minutes and again I don't want to use a fixer.

I want a metal barrel rapidograph that I never have to clean.

I want a watercolor and gouche set that fits in my pocket and doesn't get muddy with a brush that has a good tip and cleans out easily. Maybe a brush pen filled with water that I can just squeeze until it's clean. I think I could make this but I don't want to spend any money on it.

I want the time to use these things and learn and keep learning instead of buying and holding and using not nearly enough.

Maybe if I just had some ability that would be enough.

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[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Mediums make themselves known as you struggle with them, I've tried dozens over the years, with some successes and some horrid failures, and here I am doing everything in Photoshop when a few years ago I swore I would never work that way because pure Photoshop wrangling didn't look organic enough.