When making illustrations with the mediums we've used so far I think I'd rather mix them. I'd much prefer drawing something to redo digitally, making line art to color with watercolor or in Photoshop or even using whatever type of paint or even pen is needed to better sharpen or define a rougher medium. I'd rather work with color but with the ability for well defined lines and shadows that watercolor doesn't easily allow.
I'd rather not use watercolor alone, ever. The medium has always been my least favorite. I love colors, I love painting, but I've never understood watercolor. I can never master any techniques and fall back on the same methods I use with any other painting, where I paint in a rough shape of color only to mold it into what I want. I even treat pencil sketches that way and always prefer doing those before making any lines in pen. But when the process of painting is about adding layer upon layer from light to dark, without being able to lighten up an area later, then anything I make feels sloppy. I'd rather that sort of painting in a digital form, where I could just as easily lighten with a low opacity eraser or brush. Despite all this I have no trouble working with the Gouache subtraction. It's just watercolor that I feel I can't ever do right.
I also think I enjoy having more instruction given when it comes to large pieces or many little ones. When I have to make something big I hesitate more in deciding the subject matter, and when I have ten small and unimportant images to make and a completely open instruction on their subject, then I have a hard to knowing where to even start looking for inspiration because I'd rather it be something I want to do in that case, and I never know what I want to do. When piece is small enough to not take as many resources if I need to restart it but I only need to do that one, then I have no trouble figuring out what in my infinite range of options, I want to make, and if I don't like it I can more easily start over.
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