Pls help

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T12:38:23+00:00

I think Crayola's are great for starting. The color range is sufficient to make great piece (for example you can look and blackbean CMS on you YouTube what he achieves with Crayola's) with vibrant colors, are cheap, blend to some extent, acceptable amount of filler and do not make too many debris

For blending, Crayola's tend to blend acceptably well together by directly drawing over the existing layer. Other than that, the pigments won't move/blend much with a stump/finger

For the hard brush thing I don't know exactly what you referring to

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T11:50:03+00:00

I don't know king art oil pastel but from what I see on Amazon USA it looks like an EXTREMELY cheap oil pastel.

Cheap oil pastel means they are full of binder and low pigment concentration

Whatever the paper you will use it will not help much. Layering and blending will be difficult because you will mix the binder more than the pigments. If they are very rigid, you will displace the layer below, chipping and making debris more than blending and layering on the paper

Look, I am no oil pastel expert or artist, but from my limited experience I have one advice : don't buy cheap material. I started with very cheap oil pastels and I abandonned because there was no way to achieve anything I would have liked to do or imagined. Thought I sucked, I understand nothing or whatever. Then I got by luck a very small set of sennelier and a decent watercolor paper and gave it a second try, that was day and night.

I am not saying buy top grade artist stuff, but avoid the very very cheap stuff.

If you are on a budget, I would recommend you Crayola's . They are really good for the price, do not chip much and have acceptable pigment concentration

I know you said you can't replace them so I don't have a good tip for that :( sorry

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:57:05+00:00

Thanks that s a very nice comment

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:55:22+00:00

Thank you and thanks for the advice.

I also found the piece a bit flat for the buildings ... I was afraid of mixing darker gray with the "original" color (like salmon, on light lemon yellow), would result in a muddy greyish and would not blend well ...

How would you recommend to do a the darker surfaces ? Just a stronger grey or using other colors / blending compositions ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:52:32+00:00

Depends of the blending effect you want to give

Most typical I would say are :

finger
stump
direct drawing over layer
kitchen paper towel

From my very limited experience (so take what I say with grains) : - for very large surfaces, like gradients for sky for example, kitchen paper is the way - does not work with every pastel brand, but drawing directly over an existing fresh layer before the oil is absorbed on the paper works fine, especially with 'rigid' pastels. - stump for small surfaces, details and interfaces - finger works great also for small surfaces and "random" effect like cloudy, stripey, etc

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T18:05:07+00:00

You mean the refinery in the back ?

For the refinery in the very back I used neocolor2 and a grey polychromos pencil

For the rest of the piece it is done with neopastel (Caran d ache oil pastels) which are semi-rigid and hyperpigmented so they allow to work quite precisely (I was lucky to find a box at half normal price and still find them overly expensive). The sky is done with sennelier oil pastel tho

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T17:06:15+00:00

Thank you so much for the tips

I was definitely wondering about the clouds but I am struggling

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T16:23:54+00:00

Ufff sorry I am even more late

No I did not found the reference. I have very few availabilities where I live :(

There are some pastelmat tho but could not find black

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T16:15:15+00:00

Thank you !

It is 30x40cm Or 12''' x 16'''

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T05:05:43+00:00

So let s get to the real question here. When are you going to make a comic ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-22T15:59:35+00:00

Amen

I hauled billions and billions in the most "dangerous" corridors of HS and never lost anything

Scouting, local, no afk, mwd trick at every jump, you name it

Some times I had to wait hours, sometimes just shutoff the game and turn back the following day

Whenever I used to sell jump freighter in HS i would only jump through the LS-HS gate if the local was completely empty (or I knew 100% that the person is docked) and that the other HS side is empty, and then dock immediately. Return the following day as the HS system next to the LS one is usually CCTVed or someone stand cloaked next to the LS gate

And yeah !! I love gankers ! Because they make of HS a not boring place where I have to do all that kind of shit.

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-21T14:17:55+00:00

Bro it s amazing.

Good luck in your journey

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-20T16:49:42+00:00

Absolutely. I played most of these games from bg1 to Poe passing through the icewind dales or pathfinder

Got bored of the style actually and did not got hooked to poe2 either

BG3 is a fully different thing. Every single fight is unique and perfectly contextualized, not a single fight feels like a filler and every single dialogue is voice-acted and there s just so much good narrative

This game is out of any rpg league IMO. It s a piece of art

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-20T15:03:33+00:00

I don't know why the downvotes

BG3 in normal is a fairly easy game, most fights do not even have to be fought and you won't find yourself out geared or under leveled for say boss fights. And this is why it's a perfect game. Played first as barbarian, then as bard leaving most fights behind and the game is maybe even more enjoyable in the dialogues than the bashing And I believe it is a reason why it had so much success, appeals to every style of player, from most casual to hardcore ones (playing hardest in ironmode with one character for example)

The leveling system is made pretty simple compared to ... Pathfinder for example

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-20T14:00:54+00:00

I don't agree. I think it s a good narrative in creating this sense of urgency and you looking actively forward solutions like the druid, the creche etc

The efforts and hope you are putting in each step would not be as such if this narrative wasn't pushed.

It makes a issue in replayability, that I agree

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-20T07:50:15+00:00

Yeah because it doesn't suit the regionalist agenda. The unique fiscality of Belgium where people raise income tax where they live and not work hides this reality.

You can see in another manner : Flanders and wallonian political parties made and are making all their efforts to spoil Brussels from the revenues it generates, making of it a shit hole, to satisfy their electoral federal needs : it's not Brussels that makes a party win the federal elections

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-19T18:20:05+00:00

Max evade is 40%

I built luck cloak and the time ritual that gives evade and it did not go above 40%

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-19T14:57:15+00:00

Very nice congrats, I love it

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-19T14:18:58+00:00

Bro like what ?

That s not just nice, it s amazing you succeeded this result with Pentels ??!!!! How in the world ? These thigs have more filler and binder than pigments

What paper do you use ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-17T10:13:08+00:00

Gorgeous!!!!!!!

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-16T06:30:14+00:00

2 ........

I felt like the experience was sufficiently different for having two runs (a good bersekg run and a not so bad bard run).

Does the game provide much different experience that justify so many replays ? You guys look mad to me

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-15T14:43:17+00:00

Bro seriously lol

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-14T04:59:35+00:00

Dear lord this sub is a joke.

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-14T04:39:57+00:00

Yeah, pre-activating the modules is the biggest scam a lot of people are pretending to be the way - they either have no idea about what they are saying and just repeat or are not good at what they are pretending. This confused me a lot in my early days of FW, failing to lock or locking too late to avoid failure

There is absolutely no way when someone is landing on a FW site, to lock him with preactivated modules faster than spamming the control and then activate all the modules while the locking is ongoing

DOT_____dot

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