Thanks! And yeah, I got a Mastodon, Pixelfed, and most recently Friendica.

And yeah, I’ve been going for a kid-like art style for a while now, which wax crayons, chalk, and oil pastels best facilitate, but paints and watercolor crayons are good for as well, as shown in the following for watercolors+watercolor crayons, acrylics, and wax crayons respectively

Also, chalk has always been one of my fave art media ever since I actually got into art way back in high school, because it’s just fun, chalk is basically like dry fingerpaints, or at least it is with how I use it by using my fingers instead of a blending stump to blend with (both because I get better results with fingers instead of a blending stump, and also because of the aforementioned fun factor), but oil pastels are kind of a hybrid between chalk and wax crayons; they’re easily blended by smudging, and thus are as fun to play with as chalk is, but aren’t as messy as chalk is.

Wax crayons are also a medium I recently got into after learning how to use them without linework by applying the layer blending/shading technique picked up with chalk and oil pastels, except obviously without smudging because wax crayons are a non-smudging medium, and porting them over to that medium.