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gorgeous work, watched and enjoyed till the end ☺

Watching you doing the lineart is so satisfying! I feel like whenever I use a brush pen my lines always end up a wobbly mess haha

I love watching your videos regardless of whether there's music! My personal preference is no music while talking, and some kind of music to fill long stretches of silence.

That sketch ended up so lovely! Can't wait to see more of the series. :)

Will the cap post? No reviews mention it

Thank you for showing this! Can't wait for the setup video

I've only been doing watercolours for a few months now so I dug up an old plastic open palette my mother used a few decades ago. I use that and an old circular plastic lid from a takeaway box for more mixing area. If I keep practising for a whole year, I might treat myself to a new palette that folds and closes. I've taken a break from watercolours this week to focus on colour pencils and cartoon-style sketching. I'd been painting real objects and birds, landscapes and cityscapes for a while, so it's been fun to do cartoon style illustrations! Surprisingly challenging!

This palette is a great find, lots of mixing space and finally exchangeable wells for the paints. Love it!

I really appreciate und enjoy listening to your thoughts about watercolors and co, but this music just distracted me 😭😭 although it’s fairly subtle,I think it’s not necessary🙈

While this palette is not for me and how I manage my paints, I find it incredibly intreresting and fascinating. They did slanted wells but also gave you the option of shifting them around like full pans/half pans or even bigger pans. Very unique design, it's going to make a lot of people happy. (I have my main palette which is in a giant tin box and holds 160 colors, my travel palette which is a smaller tin that has 50 colors, and then two smaller porcelain travel palettes that are both 12 wells and have a split primary, greens, purples, and browns - not traditional split primaries, more niche and unique as I'm looking for interesting and not to be able to mix all the colors possible. And yeah, it's TWO separate and different sets of split primaries with no repeating colors because... of who I am as a person. And then I have a third 12 well porcelain palette with my most loved granulating colors. I like metal or porcelain, something about the texture of mixing on plastic gives me the ick.)

This evolution of the "mijello" slanted plastic palette is fantastic! It's the first time I'm seeing it. Thank you for sharing.

Now waaaaaiiiit a minute how have I never seen this palette before? It sounds literally perfect for me 😭😭😭 such a shame I just started a strict no buy 😔

I almost bought this palette for my QoR paints, but since I could not find the measurements, or any reviews on this, I got the metal palette. But now seeing it in video, I think for my use the metal palette is better suited, since it has more wells and is smaller. And those double-size pans are hilariously large. That would easily hold like 15ml tube of paint 😂

What a nice palette! I was wondering why you wouldn’t use this one as your main palette. Too big?

Can i use sketchbook for writing with pen?

I know you mostly draw animals and I love your animal sketches but I didn't know your human illustrations were so amazing too! Particularly love the woman with snakes growing out of their hair and scales on their lower half! What kind of paper does this sketchbook have?

A very similar thing happened to me and my Leuchtturm sketchbook! I got the big square one and took it to a life drawing class. This life drawing class has a tradition of everyone putting their favourite pieces from the session in the middle of the room on the floor for everyone to look at and see how everyone draws differently/uses different mediums etc. I'd not been often, was new to life drawing, but decided to be brave this time. Unfortunately, it was the session before Christmas, so the break time in the middle of the session had wine and snacks, and long story short, a tipsy/more rowdy member of the class knocked their entire glass of red wine all over my sketchbook =( I'll be honest, I rage-quitted that sketchbook, I was so frustrated (plus i really dislike the smell of wine personally, and my sketchbook definitely smelled of it for weeks later). Tbh you've reminded me to try going back to it; maybe it doesn't smell any more and enough time has passed for it to not sting as much (it was Xmas 2023). I hope you manage to enjoy your sketchbook despite the stains, the work you've done currently is beautiful (your line work for the snake hair woman is incredible!! How did you do that in graphite?!)

That Chocobo sticker looks so good on that mint green! I think I would do the same, use the more damaged pages for practice and clean page for finished artworks. Grass green is someting that is impossible to get out in dog fur, so I imagine it sticks really well on paper. Also, if paper is thick, you can wash over it bit darker color and paint over with goauche. Or even gesso the pages, but it may make it bit wrinkly.

A few years back, i got my first etchr sketchbook. I was super inspired and emediantly got to work on a mildly ambitious (for me at the time) piece called "lightbringer". I had plans for making a serene woman walking through a forest and where she touched, light would come. My( 3at the time) daughter saw i was inking it and decided to "help" by coloring in her face.....i was devastated, but decided to finish the work regardless and actually like it as it is now with the scribbled face. Im sure others will suggest you try and incorporate the smudges. It can be a fun challenge that pushes you out of your comfort zone, but i get the frustration you must feel now. Im glad to see your work inside is still easily visible and am interested in seeing what you end up doing with it. Thanks for the relatable upload and best of luck with salvaging it.

It's a bit sad that your new sketchbook fell, but I'm glad you're ok and that some of your drawings survived. Honestly, I wouldn't mind the "mud" if it happened to me. Yes, it's annoying, but you can remove some when it's dry and try an eraser carefully. And maybe you can incorporate some of the stains into your future drawings. It depends. It's good that some pages survived untouched. Maybe you can use those for more finished pieces. And others for exploration and play? The snake lady is a very cool idea and design! Would love to see your review, I know you're thorough.

You could always try doing a wash on the more damaged pages? Embrace the aged look!

If it helps, I think the stains give it some character! Though I can totally understand feeling utterly mortified so I send hugs <3

I love the last picture with the snakes in the hairs ! the mud damage seems alright, could have been much worse

Total coincidence. I just got one of these (but in green) and challenged myself to make whatever I can fit in it comfortably my every day kit. To be honest, other than room for a kneaded eraser and a sharpener (easily put in a pocket) I don't miss much else. Simplifying has actually made me draw more. Happy sketching!!

These books look so good, watched and enjoyed till the end 😊

Love watching your videos. I have seen some people fixing the sizing on watercolor paper with watercolor ground. It might not be worth the effort but passing the info. Search for: restoring sizing watercolor paper.

This is so impressive! Keep going!! ❤️

What a lovely collection! I have that Sketching from the Imagination book too, it's fantastic! I also have Mythical Beasts: An Artist's Guide to Designing Fantasy Creatures by 3DTotal which I highly recommend

Thanks for sharing this! I had no idea Weatherly had released a cats book. I'm off to buy that now :D

When i was a kid i remember i bought a book like the second one but which was about old egyptian designs. I was not into art but i still loved the attention to details in the book

Wow, this is such a great review of all materials on these sketchbook, thanks for sharing all your examples! I wish Talens would make a sketchbook option with thicker paper, it's not quite thick enough for what I like. I use a lot of pen and ink and it does bleed over as you mentioned 😔

I didn't know about all this history with the availability of quinacridone gold and the drama! How many years ago did this happen?

I've seen some people soak their watercolour papers before use to stretch them out fully. Does that wash the sizing off? If so, could that make your expired paper useable again?

Does a kneaded eraser ever lose its sticky kneadableness? (if that makes sense) Do you prefer the stick or kneaded erasers? Love how organized it is. I've got a pouch full of pencil stubs I've accumulated over 15 years 😅

Yours is so tidy! Meanwhile my pencil case is just full of a bunch of random HB pencils and ballpoint pens I've accumulated over the years haha

The contrary works too. Print a digital artwork and use them with transfert methods on a canvas then paintover it. Can be an inceptive result of trad to digi to trad. For example you might like an accurate guideline for a painting, like geometric shapes or just something that was challenging to do traditionnally on first hand. Then you digitalise your lineart, work on complex shapes to make then perfect, transfert them back on canvas (Gelli plate, transfert medium) and paint over, then take a professionnal photo and do prints of them so you now have an original (trad/digi project) and some prints on the side.

Its nice to do an inked lineart and do an abstract set painting for underpainting, background, textures or accents, then continue on photoshop or procreate. Depended on the desired result, it may be useless to do an inked lineart for more realistic illustration. Still, I'm with you, its really nice to work on paper. Also, I like to work in public setting: a cafe or park even at the bar. Its more intuitive and easy to bring a sketchbook and a pen around. Digital art always felt more reclusive to me, but maybe I should try an IPad (Im on Cintiq 13hd, not a standalone).

Wow, don't stop doing your draws, you gonna be so good in once days ❤

That's.... gorgeous ❤

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So cute so beautiful ❤

Well if this aint the neatest thing I seen today ... I dont know what is

this is such a stunning design, I love it ☺

This was interesting. I didn't know you used Clip Studio too, as the algorithm has mainly recommended your sketchbook videos to me lately. I'm not an artist (I wish!) but I'm definitely an art enjoyer and teaching myself pencil and pen sketching as well as watercolours (landscapes, birds and so on but not people bc i find them too scary for now) off RUclips recently, everyday when I get home from work. I don't have Clip Studio but maybe I'll try it out someday though the layout and colouring process on it feels intimidating from what little I've seen in videos. How many years have you been practising traditional and digital art? I've only used Procreate once on a friends laptop and the undo button was certainly a fun feature!

I love veiled lady mushrooms, they're so spooky looking! And your human design for it is so pretty! I like to sketch traditionally too when I can, it saves me so much time trying to work it out digitally (where more often than not I get stuck if an 'ctrl + z' loop lol)

Thanks for sharing this, was awesome to watch! I do a similar thing myself, I love sketching things out physically (especially with graphite, for the value control)

This is the best review of ANYTHING I've ever seen 😭 thank you for being so thorough!!!!!

my dream is for Talens to make bigger square sketchbooks (like A4 with the bottom chopped off)