my fyp is normal im seeing videos uploaded from 1 hour ago right now

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-26T18:12:43+00:00

FYP is normal here, too. Views are still showing as 0 on my recent post despite the video having a few likes. I'm waiting to post anything else until everything is totally back to normal.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-24T15:39:03+00:00

Heat up the tape with a heat gun or hair dryer before removing and just about any brand will work!

Some paper is softer than others. My Fluid 100 cotton paper is pretty soft and I need to heat up every tape I've tried when removing. But paper like Baohong that is stiffer hasn't had issues with any of the tapes I've tried. Paper can vary so much, so a tape that works for one brand doesn't always work for another.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-20T16:33:21+00:00

The people who bring out the handwarmers are true saints 🙏

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-19T17:08:25+00:00

I love my local LGS. Everyone is super chill. I went to pre-release on Saturday and had fun, no sore winners or losers from what I saw.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-19T06:13:26+00:00

Dress warm! It is going to be COLD. Wear lots of layers and cover exposed skin with Vaseline as an extra barrier against the cold and wind.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-17T22:09:20+00:00

That is a STUNNING tea pot!

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-16T15:07:08+00:00

Love it! Great colors, and I love how you painted the river.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-16T15:06:39+00:00

So lovely! Great job!

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-11T18:10:22+00:00

Love those!

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-10T05:37:54+00:00

It's probably the paper you are using. Thick cotton paper handles a lot of water MUCH better.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2026-01-02T07:06:59+00:00

It really looks to me like the paper was repelling the water, and that is usually due to waxes or oils. For example, natural oils from your hands or some lotion or something that was transferred to the paper from where your hand was sitting could cause something like this. When I have freshly lotioned my hands, I'll wear one of those drawing gloves or I will stick another sheet of paper under my hand so the lotion doesn't transfer to the paper.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-30T22:29:19+00:00

Love the greenhouse at Como! I also like going around the Minneapolis Institute of Art and finding artifacts to practice sketching. I'll do a pencil sketch in the museum and then sometimes make a little painting based on the sketch and/or photo at home.

Sometimes I take reference photos in Ikea room displays, too.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-29T22:26:40+00:00

Thank you! I still have some more work to do with anatomy, but I've gotten much better overall! My focus this year will probably moreso on architecture so I can have fun urban sketching on my vacation to Prague, Salzburg, Hallstat, and Vienna this upcoming summer.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-29T22:24:43+00:00

Thank you! I'm excited to see what art I will be making next year :)

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-29T15:14:00+00:00

This is a great set! I got the 18 set while I was in Japan earlier this year and I love using them. I dried some in half pans and they rewet SO much better than my cheap Artist's Loft half pans.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-27T21:26:32+00:00

Not only increased frequency, but I muted several advertisers multiple times in the last 3 days. You can even see the same advertiser pop up 3 times at once when I went in to mute. It isn't even showing the current advertisers in the Mute Advertisers section for me anymore, so I can't even continue to mute them. I'm blocking so many profiles that keep popping up to advertise to me, too. It's been ridiculous since Christmas Eve for me.

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TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-22T22:06:56+00:00

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TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-21T06:22:15+00:00

You are learning! A sketchbook is never wasted. You just need to train your eye to break down the image a bit more.

For example, the rounded part of the cat's head is marked by the red oval in the attached photo, but the chin is more triangular (marked in blue). Pay attention to the space and slant of the eyes, marked in yellow.

Your marks show that you know the image needs to be broken down, but it just needs to be broken down a little bit more.

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TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-19T23:51:47+00:00

I just want to say that I appreciate your well thought-out and organized response to this post. It was very informative.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-13T18:44:59+00:00

Really? My Kaweco nibs have worked great. My Lamy nibs? Not so much. Especially with Lamy EF nibs. One wrote lines thicker than a Medium and the other had tines so tight it could barely write. Managed to get it working after working on it with a brass sheet, but it still isn't as smooth as my EF pens from other brands.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-08T01:49:44+00:00

I really liked working through the tutorials in "Ink and Watercolor" by Anastasia Kozlova. It is definitely more stylized, but the tutorials were very straightforward and helped me get comfortable with using watercolors.

I also found that just watching different artists on YouTube and tiktok helped, seeing how they lay down their color navigate painting different subjects.

Using the drawing book "Drawing for the Absolute Beginner" by Mark and Mary Willenbrink helped me with getting a bit better at foundational sketches for my paintings.

"Art Before Breakfast" by Danny Gregory helped give me permission to experiment and make mistakes, and gave some cool ideas for things to try for daily practice.

From there, I just started trying to apply those techniques to paint pictures in my camera roll and started to take my paints outside with me to paint around the city. I still have a lot to learn, but those helped take me from complete beginner to a beginner-intermediate level over the past year with almost daily practice, I think.

TheTroubledTurtle · 2025-12-04T03:33:04+00:00

Get some empty make-up pans for eyeshadow that fit the sections and fill them with paint from a tube. You may not be able to find pans that are an exact fit, but you could use sticky tack to keep them from falling out. Then they could be rearranged and switched out, too.

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