Gel Plate Learning
After speed-running all the mistakes you can possibly make with gel plates over the course of a day, I melted the gelatin down and started over. Ended up with two smaller plates, and am starting to get a better feel for how it works.
There’s definitely a learning curve, which is not unexpected. Talented artists got that way because they did a lot of bad art before they got good, and that included learning how different tools and mediums work.
I tried a layered thing, where I was trying to make mountains. However, I didn’t let the paper stay on the plate long enough, and it didn’t come up as the image I expected. It came up as a couple of toned blobs.
So I made something out of it.
