I started painting with acrylics a few months ago and I tried to paint this ninja cloud character on canvas. I'm learning as I go so I decided to take pics of my progress for one of my paintings. There are lots of mistakes if you look closely but I think it turned out ok. (I hope the japanese characters make sense, it's meant to say "cloud ninja")
Dood. This is freakin' awesome. Makes me want to paint.
Have you tried guache at all?