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Faces, for me, is the hardest hands down; it drives me nuts to see what wonderful images Marg and a few others wring out of that one.
Avatars and Gothic are rather limited in tonality but can again make astounding pictures.
Candy I also find tricky to use well, and am regularly impressed with the glowing stuff people make from it.
Animals can produce some wonderful pictures but ever since the advent of Beads, I find no inclination to work with the Animals palette. I keep meaning to, then just don't.
Lunartics works for me as long as I go into it with the determination that I'm not going to need a strong dark. I do wish its maker would've come through with the addition of one or two more pieces for that depth.
Beads are easiest because of the transparent layers... but they're hard to use with certain angles. Oh lord I love that glowing golden amber bead! And the lacy bit... and the carnelian... and the delicate blues and... lol
Space, I'm pretty darn sure, can be used for much more sophisticated versions of most everything we developed in Animals and Beads, but I'm not comfortable with it yet.
Flowers are my absolute faves simply because they make such charming 'painterly' portraits... with Fruit not far behind (amazing tonal qualities there, even though limited).
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In every case the big issue for me is just that four letter word: t i m e
It takes time to work with the edges and layers in the gazillion tiny increments that make a drawing into a more evocative "painting". Unless, of course, you're five or artdillon... then you just slather the bits around with some sort of innate wisdom, like wet watercolors or impasto encaustic, and they build up into pure magic...!
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(PS -there's an implicit "thaaannnk you!" in there, you sweet folks who created TD!)
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