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Published: 2018-11-14 16:42:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 848; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 6
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Cutie Mark Crusader Day 2018 is round the corner and also winter is coming. That last fact means that for a while I will be unable to draw outside with chalk because it is just too cold for that. However, for a while I have been wondering if it could be possible to make much smaller chalk drawings on pieces of slate rather than outdoors. Experiments with regular chalk have let to no satisfactory results, but some liquid chalk pens I got for birthday look promising.
There are some downsides since the number of colors is limited to seven and mixing is not an option without a high risk of permanently messing up the color of a pen.
Therefore I tried out a somewhat more simplistic style for a series of cutie mark crusader chalk paintings on slate. Here is the first one, Apple Bloom.
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Thanks a lot, Vile-Flesh
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Thank you very much, OptimusV42
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My pleasure.
By the way, what do you think of my latest vector?
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You're very welcome, OptimusV42
I wrote about Jungle Jewel on her page
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Thanks.
Well, to clear it up⦠It's the first vector of Jungle Jewel. I've made vectors before. But I've gotten a lot better at it, over time.
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CuteΒ I never tried liquid chalk before; Are they worth it?
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Thank you very much, AutinBrony
I guess it depends very much on what exactly one wants to do with them (and it is still too early for me to pretend that I had an awful lot of experience in using them). You can use them on very smooth surfaces like glass, but it is pretty much impossible to create very thin lines (so they didn't really work to draw sketches for later engraving on dark glass). They can be easily wiped off / removed with water again, so in case of the slate above I am going to fixate the color with a spray on fix to make it less likely to scratch or smudge in case any drop of water ever got onto it.
The cover is thicker than it would be with regular street chalk on such a small surface. The color range (as far as I have found so far) is limited to seven colors. I seems it might be possible to mix colors and maybe even create gradients if one drew with a second color into the first one, but I am afraid this would likely permanently smudge the tip of the second pen and they are somewhat expensive (not as much as a marker pen, but still...).
This is what I can say on them so far. But I might find out more in the future when I create more projects with them on slate or (less likely because of the higher risk of it getting scratched) glass.
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Thank you for that informationΒ I'll be sure to think about that next time I look for art supplies.
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Never heard of liquid chalk before.Β At first you had like neon paint or something from the thumbnail and had to see what this was about.
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I haven't known about it for a long time myself. The original thought when I first spotted them was that they might be useful to draw outlines on dark glass for later engraving (they do not allow for thin enough lines to make that practicable), but I had also been experimenting with very small chalk drawings on slates which cannot really be done with regular chalk. There is a lot of potential for experience here
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