| 3 Jul 2012 |  Faith Gerhardt |  Loading...Hello! I see you like the same things as me I also like DC & Marvel superheroes and fairy tales/legends/mythology. If you have time can you please look at my gallery! I draw dragons and monsters. | |
| 3 Jul 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... Thank you for the advice! I do need to practice more. I am trying to upload some drawing but I can’t It might be to detailed but I do not know. I uploaded my dot art Japanese Dragon! | |
| 8 Jul 2012 |  Richard Claraval | Loading... David,
Thank you very much for your compliment and for tagging me. Though I have done a lot of more main stream sculpture and drawing, I always am drawn back to Tolkien. I will be adding more to this site in the near future. I enjoy your Dragon Fight piece, lots of detail!
Richard | |
| 29 Aug 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... I have lots of new art up come look anytime! | |
| 4 Sep 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... I have lots of new art up come look anytime! Also what color do you like?  David N Melik replies: "I did look. I do not particularly like one colour more than any other." | |
| 1 Oct 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... I have new art up come and look when you have time! Also what is your favorite animal? David N Melik replies: "I may not really have a favourite anything, but in the past I probably would have answered that by ’deer.’" | |
| 8 Oct 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... Do you like dogs? David N Melik replies: "Perhaps a few types, but I like wild canines more." | |
| 18 Oct 2012 | Faith Gerhardt | Loading... Cool I like wild canines to! I have two dogs! They are both girls one is named Sunshine she is a Kerry Blue Terrier the other one is named Daisy she is a Mal-Shi. Do you have any pets? David N Melik replies: "I have no pets and plan to never have any." | |
| 26 Apr 2013 |  Braxton taibrax mullins | Loading... i see you’ve been hard at work sence i left hope to see you in person some day call me at(304-925-1397) i hope you missed me David N Melik replies: "I have not really been hard at work--just uploading new photos of older art (I would upload more if there had not been a problem.) I see you came to the chat room (which is on IRC,) and now I remember a comment from you about a dragon (that I also commented on,) that just did not seem relevant for my comment page, so I deleted it. I do not really like calling people I do not know in person, but I would be open to meet an Elfwood artist if we were in the same area at once. The best way to reach me is comments, emailing me on my page, the chat room or IM/IRC." | |
| 27 Apr 2013 |  Bill Gage | Loading... You have a really nice gallery. Thank you for including closeup of some of your paintings. I am trying to move towards using color more in my work so it is nice to see what can be done with different mediums. What would you say is the medium you like most? Watercolor, Acrylic, Colored Pencils? David N Melik replies: "You have a nice gallery too, and it would be fun to see more colour work by you.
I have usually heard pigments referred to as ’media;’ maybe the paper is the ’medium,’ or that is a term for all of an art itself (like ’the medium of art;’ ’the medium of film/tv,’ etc.,) but do not take my word.
I like watercolour/gouache, and my high school art teacher said coloured pencils are, technically, dry watercolour, both of which seem to work fine with pastels (i.e., chalk.) and I like oil paint equally... I also like clay & plasticine, polymer ’clay,’ wood, and to some extent other sculpture media such as metal, but not melting it besides soldering (I wish I could try metal/bronze, stone/marble, but never found a place to before I focused on other academic subjects.) I have used other colour media and it seems fine, and I also do a bit of computer art (though having a bit of disdain for it except for in the Demoscene, which I am part of,) sometimes mixed with traditional (only one such piece in my SFF, ’other works’ areas each.) I got used to acrylics, but they can be a pain by ruining work and brushes because of how they dry, so I would not normally use them unless I could not have enough ventilation, and I would not recommend them to anyone before they try oil paint.
Some artists think acrylics are better, except if you ever stop to think, or take a break, during such a piece, you better clean your brushes thoroughly or they may be ruined... and, though it has been years since I actually painted (though I have been working on pastel pieces,) if I recall, it may even be hard to completely wash brushes that you have used with acrylics unless you are rinsing them almost every few seconds... that may just be my memory of frustration with it many years ago, but just try it and see--I suspect brushes may just last longer with oils, maybe unless you are extremely careful (maybe after ruining one or more brushes.) The nice thing about acrylics is they are diluted with water, so they are like watercolours and like oils (acrylics being petroleum-based, I think.) So instead of mixing all those mediums for oil paint (mineral spirits, linseed oil) you know what the consistency is going to be with the tone... personally, it does not make much of a difference; it seems a bit easier to get used to mediums for oils than deal with the time limit of acrylics. I do not know if the range of pigment hues is about the same or if one type is better. They all work fine for me now." | |
