/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2493716
Cheap white has no pigment you're trying to preserve. It's merely a lightening agent. The quality of the pigment lies in what you're mixing it into. You don't want to spend 25.00 on dinky ass 37 ml tube of designer gouache, when you know you're mixing it with every fucking thing and aren't using it true.

Gouache is essentially a reworkable acrylic. Lay something down, don't like it, re-wet and wipe off. Or do wet/wet techniques. You want the consistency as liquid acrylic. I would add only a wet brush full of water to a thick piece of gouache. It borders a fine line of being too much water and too little.

>>2493903
Never had this happen. If you're using a 4.99 set of 12, don't be surprised.

>>2494376
It dries lighter.

My technique for skin tones is to keep a base, and then lightly darken it before it dries out by adding a darker color. It's a medium you gotta work fast in, or things take a turn for the worst. (too much water on her arm, shadows too dark, colors look blocked in bad, etc)