I would have come to regret the gelly roll pen but, thanks to you, now I won't! Thank you for that! You just saved me from a big disappointment (and money!). 😂👍
My experience with gelly roll pens: I test it on my hand first. It's pure white. I test it on a blank piece of paper. Much of the same. I test it on my drawing. It's streaky, it's milky, and it's damaging the paper.
Hi, I have found that any powder mediums you MUST use a gum Arabic or another liquid medium to keep it together and on your surface! I have also had better results with this kind of “paint” if I seal it down with a spray fixative or UV varnish! Best white highlight option is Dr. pH Martins bleed-proof white!
I also agree with the gelly roll ........ saw so many people raving about how great they are but I have never had any luck with it. I much prefer the uniball signo.
I love the Schmincke Bronze powder. I found nothing else that is that brilliant. I mix it with just a little bit of the horadam watercolour (usually with a yellow or orange) and I never had a problem with the powder coming off.
@@illustrazionidilutit’s great mixed in with colour! If you mix it with watercolour it rises to the surface after it dries, meaning the watercolour is a tint underneath. Failed completely with gouache which made sense in retrospect as gouache has bigger particles.
With white gelly rolls in my experience number 10 sort of works, the thinner ones not. Also, it goes well only over permanent mediums, like black sakura fineliners or coloured pencils. On watercolor and water based inks, it picks up colour. I sometimes go over that once more when the one that picked up colour has dried and it's slightly better.
same - the finer ones in the set don't work, or are really unreliable. They're great over the sakura fineliners, pencils and alcohol markers, but isn't so good on water based media
@sarastarfury Would the white Uni-ball Signo Broad UM-153 be a better alternative to the Gelly Roll? Or maybe one of the famous Posca pens (PCF-350, PC-1MR, PC-1MC)?
Can't beat a proper porcelain pallette. Also - using the back of the plate is genius! That Schminke gold paint - I wonder if it would work better mixed with an acrylic gel medium? I'd like to see the art supplis you love. ❤
I don't have such acrylic gel... For sure there should be a better way to use it, but I haven't discover it so far 😅 as for the palette, the big flower one is imitation porcelain, works pretty well but it's much lighter! Thanks for watching ✨
Golden satin glazing liquid is a great medium to mix the gold mica powder & it won't wipe off after drying. Golden satin glazing liquid is affordable & comes in a good size bottle. It's normally used to stop acrylic paints from drying to quickly but I use it like gesso to prepare paper that isn't intended for water mediums & it works great & fixes your work. I do recommend. Much love & *Virtual hugs* from Perth Western Australia xxx
I have an old white enamel baking dish that was my mothers and it is fantastic as a pallette, it is about 40 cm long and 20 wide and because of the high walls, no spillage if it gets tipped and all paints just wash off with water.
For any kind of dry pigment, you will need a binding agent to turn it into paint. So if you want the metallic waterpaint, then yes you'll need to add ox gall. You can also add egg yoke to turn it into tempera, or oil to turn it into oil paint :) so don't give up on it, it's just a single component you can use to make your own colours.
@@illustrazionidilut Egg for egg tempera paints, not water painting, but if you use a fresh egg yolk then it doesn't smell :) I've painted egg tempera paintings using just pigment, water, and egg yolk and it's lots of fun, but it needs the surface to be properly prepared :)
Guess I need more instructions about it 😂 I paint with coffee once and made it smell badly too... It was nescafe cappuccino and the milky part of it became sticky 😂 any reference I can search online?
The problem is that items like that are marketed at places like calligraphy expos as a ready to go easy alternative to gold leaf. There are mixed level including beginners mini lessons where people can try the product on a scrap piece of paper to learn new technique or product and you’d be excited and buy it there and not realize when you make a project it will rub off.
@@ladyelainefairchild3546 yeah that would be a little disingenuous, since dealing with dry pigment is never super easy and also requires some safety precautions to prevent breathing them in. Compared to gold leaf it is easier and cheaper, but I wouldn’t say total beginner friendly.
I enjoyed hearing about your issues with the purchases you've regretted. My palettes are white porcelain plates I purchase at thrift shops. I have some cast iron dragon shaped brush holders that are much smaller than yours and they work great. I actually like Fabriano 1264 hot press paper. I appreciate the sizing that keeps the paint on the surface instead of being absorbed into the paper fibers. It works well for my style of illustration. As a long time water color/gouache artist, I've always been disappointed with markers. Marker colors are limited. I can always get the color I desire with wc. Markers leave streaks and often bleed through the page. I even use wc on sketch paper and don't have issues with streaking or bleed through. Marker tip size determines the thickness of the line. I use a Manga brushes with my wc and using only one brush, I can achieve wide marks as well as teeny tiny lines and dots. Markers are way more expensive than wc, and because they're plastic, they have a much larger negative impact on the environment than a tube of wc that can last for years. I've totally stopped using Micron pens and white gel pens because they are expensive and always dry out quickly. Because they're plastic, they also have a negative impact on the environment. I've switched to Le Pen Technical Drawing Pens which although plastic, last me approximately 1 year instead of 1-2 weeks for Micron pens. For white highlights, I use gouache and a fine brush. I also use dip pens and ink because I like the variation in line weights inherent in works made with dip pens. My biggest regret purchase was a $140 set of Marmai Blu watercolors. They come with a stupid huge palette that doesn't fit on my desk. The pan layout inside the palette is curved and totally awkward because it makes most of the colors difficult to reach. The layout suggested by the manufacturer not how I lay out my palette. After 3 years of not using these paints, I finally spent $2.49 on a compact plastic palette, then spent about 4 hours digging the gummy honey based paints out of the stupid palette so I could transfer them to the new palette. Now that I have a palette that fits on my desk and is laid out in a way that makes sense to me, I actually like the paints and have been using them regularly. Another regret purchase is the Derwent set of 3 water soluble graphite woodless pencils. There is almost no variation between the light, medium and dark. They cannot be sharpened to an exact point, so I cannot draw precisely with them AND, the color is permanent when dry so it cannot be lifted and cannot be erased, which means I have to keep applying more and more graphite to attempt to get contrast. I end up muddy dark works. Additionally, slight pressure causes the pencils to break, so I now have lots of small unusable pieces. I recently purchased Faber Castel Graphite Aquarelle pencils that I love. There's distinct variation between the shades, they can be reactivated with water, which means you can move the graphite around to correct the intensity of the application. FC WSG can be lifted and erased, and I can get fine detail because they sharpen to an exact point. My first regret purchase was a Pentel Aqwash water brush. It leaked uncontrollably and I was convinced that water brushes were a total waste of money - until I tried the Kuritake Zig water brushes. I now use my Zig water brush constantly.
I actually like my small pentel water brush. About markers, I feel the same, lots of plastic and space for such medium... And I hate that they bleed through that bad.
Thanks for the info! The ceramic brush holder is perfect for chinese brush calligraphy brushes like the orchid bamboo brush or large mountain horse brush for landscape work.
Clicked on this video because I saw the Fabriano 1264 paper in the thumbnail, which I have considered buying. Glad to hear your opinion and will avoid it now. Now I'm also glad I didn't get a proper brush stand. When I feel like using one, I'm using a chopstick holder, which works quite well. Nice video and I would like to see the Art supplies you love!
Chopstick holder is genius! Someone here suggested zigzag sponge holders too. And about Fabriano, try their Artistico line if you are looking for watercolor paper! I love it
@@illustrazionidilut Thank you! I own the Fabriano Artistico cold pressed paper, but don't quite get along with it. May just need more practice. I got a sketchbook with their hot pressed paper as a birthday gift recently and I'll give it a try soon.
The Ohuhu markers you purchased was the "landscape" set. If you had purchased the "portrait" set instead there are lots more skin colours to choose from and you would have had no problems blending and mixing them to look very realistic. There are also various skin types included, not just Caucasian, but Asian and African skin colours.
Of this cheap set (16 euro) there was only landscape and illustration...this one is illustration. I will probably buy the skin set 24 pieces with brush tip, just to make it complete...
Regarding schminke powder (as someone who has more than one bottle and loves them)) Basically treat them not as a replacement of a gold leaf, but a metallic loose pigment which is as sparkly as a gold leaf AND won’t evade the paper completely in seconds as normal pigment does after water dries. Can mix it with other watercolors, can blend and do gradients, do drips and basically any effects which gold leaf won’t do. If you want something looking the same but much more stable after drying - they have an acrylic paint in this range, works and feels as a basic soft body, adheres to anything same way etc. (I’ve used it for sizing once, it worked).
@@illustrazionidilut there’s a gold paint in schminke acrylic line (which is meh), and acrylic (and oil also) variation of schminke bronze line. The latter brings me joy) P. S. Great video, will have a look around, thx RUclips algorithm))
Okay you crack me up because I have the same supplies that don’t work for me. The schminke gold powder should be mixed with gum Arabic, then it will work and stay put on the paper
I also just use white dish, but never upside down! Mind blown. With markers there, where you used green as shadow, it does work with pencils, but I would choose purple or gray. Yet, I am not nearly as skilled as you are
Hi, i completely agree with you on the white gelly roll. I feel they were highly promoted by quite a few art youtubers as being excellent for white highlights. The best white pen i have used is the Uniball Signo. But even these can be temperamental at times. Re: the Ecoline brushpens. I love these, but rarely use them diretly on to paper. I think using them on a palette with a brush gives far nicer effects plus you can mix the colours better in this way, and knock back the brighter shades.
I'm not that impressed with either of the white gelly roll or the signo pen. They worked ok at first, but getting them to write smoothly after a time is impossible. The white posca pc 1-mr is the same, too. I've yet to come across a good white fineliner pen that works properly.
I have that Uniball signo too, and I didn't included it in the list because it worked for a while - at least. Not that long tho. And for ecoline brush pens, they are sitting on my table on purpose to remember me to give them a try on a palette! Thanks for remembering me!
Looks like there is a long queue for the Sakura gelly roll white pen because I too have had problems with it. The ink is too milky and only the 10 works well enough for any highlights at all.
I love my acrylic inks! I find them really versatile. I can water them down and layer like I would with my drawing inks or I can use them opaque like acrylics. I also have a lot of trouble with the Jellyroll pens. I gave up on trying to make them work for me and use a small brush with gouache instead.
I like acrylic inks because I can use them like watercolour - I find tube acrylic paint to be too thick to work with and it usually ends up drying lumpy if you don't smooth them out. As it can't be reactivated like watercolour once it's dry, I also find the tubes to be quite wasteful - with acrylic ink, I only need a few drops and I get lots of coverage from it without wasting a lot of paint.
If you want a place to rest your watercolor brushes as you paint, I suggest a chopstick rest. These are usually ceramic are often beautiful and only about 1/2" or 1 cm high. They are small, so not helpful if your work space is as messy as mine.
Thank you for posting about the fabriano 1264. I thought I was getting a really good deal for 25% cotton. I found their mixed media paper to be more enjoyable for watercolour. I'm going to try stretching the watercolour paper, maybe it just has too much sizing
I love the Schmincke Aqua bronze. I mix it with Golden brand iridescent paint. I have also used it with water with no flaking or smearing. 50% product / 50% water or 50/50 with Golden paint. No issues.
I tried the Sakura white gelly roll pens and hated them as well. However Sakura does make a very nice white, gold and silver pen just called something else. I forget the name. Sorry. But they work great over watercolor!!
7:27 I have a set with the 5, 8 and 10 - the 5 and 8 are stored in the back, worthless - only size 10 works !! And it does, I Think they used an other formula, it seems more thick than the smaller ones..
Coincidentally, I just saw another RUclips video that showed a similar handle-less brush to spread glue over a large sheet of paper 😊 Good video, thanks for posting.
Oh I would never use a good brush for glueing... Honestly that's my only handle less brush, but was a bit uncomfortable probably I need to practice! Thank you for watching!
The mix media brush with the squat hand is great for laying gesso on a canvas. I still won’t get it and just use a brush from the hardware shop, cheaper and does the job.
A note on the Liquitex acrylic inks... they are a wonderful solution for underpainting when you want to still be able to see your linework on the canvas before laying down paint. And you don't have binder break down like you do when you water down the heavy body to the same consistency. They might have other uses but that's the one I personally use them for. Oddly they work pretty well for underpainting gouache as well.
I love these kind of videos, because what it can be useful for someone, can be a regret to other! I kind of wish to make myself a video of "art supplies i regret buying - here's how i use anyways" as a "hack" to use what i got until the end and not let it spoil in my stash, haha. For aqua bronze, i was considering buying the powder and mix with gum arabic, mulling on a glass slab, like a traditional way of making watercolor, but now I am not so sure (seen on Jackson's art blog commentary section that gum arabic does not react that well to aqua bronze because the powder already has some dextrin glue to make it water soluble) BUT! maybe you could make that powder salvageable by buying their Aqua-fix solution? it's a sort of milky jelly fixative you mix in with watercolors, it dries transparent and does not lift off any paint that`s been mixed with it!
Is it called Schmicke aqua fix solution? That would be a good try. And yes, your idea of a video of art supplies you REGRET buying but how to use them is great! 😄
Markers and pencils seem working great together! Unfortunately I'm not into colored pencils at all, as color blind person I struggle too much with choosing them
If using plastic palletts for watercolor, if the problem is pooling of colours, simply rough up the pallettes with sandpaper to make a rougher surface. Problem solved.
Ecoline is not lightfast. They are just a dye based marker, one thing I noticed with dyes is they don't mix clean and you need to test your markers before you use them because there is always some amount of color separation no mater what brand you choose (copic, prismacolor, etc.). if you want something that will mix more like traditional watercolors you could try windsor & newtons watercolor markers or if you like ink you can try Faber-castell's pit pens, or Pentels ink brushes.
If you mix the gold powder with watercolour it will work better, as pointed out by other people because the watercolour has gum arabic in it as a binder. I have the same problem sometimes with gel pens. Sometimes you can get the colour to come out if you bang the ball tip hard against a table if you hold the pen vertically at a 90degree angle. You can use the porcelain brush holder if you put a book or something similar next to it so that the height difference is not as big.
I prefer Winsor and Newton markers for blending (under painting then I use colored pencils)- I once had a huge set of copic and prismacolor markers but gave them away not because I thought they were bad but it was because they were too many color choices that I never get used to/ got to know well enough to have an effective system of using them. I bought one broad brush like that to try my hand at abstract painting but like you it gave me hand pain. As an amateur artist for 5 years (planning to go pro), I agree with you on everything you mentioned. And yes go ahead and do that art supplies you love video.
Thanks for your comments! These are my first markers (after pantone that was using 20 years ago) and coming from watercolor, they seem too bright to me, but Blending is pleasant. I don't think I want to spend money for more expensive one, but I'll get a skin tones set for sure 😂
Thanks so much for the informative video. I also use up anything, even if I don't like it, so there is no waste. This is a testament to your talent that you can do so well with sub-par supplies. You can also donate to a local arts center or school. Gel pens were disappointing for me, also. I got ones that worked a bit, then dried up. Some watercolor artists uses a pastel pencil for highlights, which I would like to try. I am going to try a Derwent Inktense block in Antique White, as it is very affordable and wets easily. Many artists use this and you don't have to worry about it drying up.
What?? I didn't know about using white pastel for watercolor highlights 🤯 mind blowing! I must give it a try! I just order a white marker too... Thanks for watching ✨
i have the same Schimincke porcelain palette - you need to use a back end of a fork or something thin but solid to pop it out - its held down by a large magnet ;) I keep the porcelain bit on my desk and the box is stuffed with full and half pans ;)
@@illustrazionidilut yup :) i keep it on my desk - just in the open, i replaced half of the academe colors with artist quality and it became my workhorse little brick of a palette that's always near by - its too damn heavy for anything else - unless you want to carry it as a self difference tool lol. Love the box separately. But together that whole design is a no go.
Grazie! L’oro schmincke che hai mostrato sono sempre tentata si comprarlo, ma immagino già che non mi soddisferà .. hai trovato qualcosa di intenso e più stabile ?
Ho parlato direttamente con schmincke in fiera e hanno detto che sarà perché uso troppa acqua, ma per averlo proprio fissato dicono che vada diluito con gomma arabica... Non saprei. Potresti provare un acquerello gold come quelli di pigmentaty, li la gomma arabica c'è già nel composto... Io uso un pennarello oro ma non è lo stesso
In realtà ho già ho già una palette di godet Schmincke oro.. è una vecchia Limited edition, che mi piace. Però permeavo che questo prodotto in polvere poteva tornarmi utile per riempire aree più ampie velocemente. In ogni caso ho anche la gomma arabica a casa 😅
Great video, thanks. For your Ecoline markers, you can blend them easily on a plastic pallette and then pick up the newly mixed color with a brush. MIght not be the application you had in mind, but at least you won't have wasted them and your $$$. I use a piece of plastic packaging from stickers with the white card inside the plastic wrapper. It works great as a pallette and is free.
That's a good idea, you are not the first one suggesting this... But I don't this is was Royal talens had in mind when they launched the product 😂 what white card you mean ?
I'm new to watercolor and made the mistake of buying that Fabriano paper. We live (buy) and learn... I shake my fist at it every time I see it on my shelf. XD
I find a lot of watercolour paper isn't up to scratch. I get scrawlrbox sometimes and nearly all the watercolour paper that they include in the box buckles and warps - worse than a cheap paper that I get sometimes from a discount shop and the watercolour paper is supposed to be good quality. I end up using it for dry media like coloured pencils.
I love my Gelly Roll pens. The Uniball Signo had me at my wits end so I had to get the Gelly Roll. I regret buying Holbein watercolours. Just not my jam.
I have Arches but practice on the 1264, it's not bad. It's also much better than Canson to take washes. I was thinking about the Bronze stuff but read a lot of reviews and saved my money. Gelly Roll is garbage. I use Signo instead.
I regret buying this masking fluid pen/drawing gum marker. Whenever I use it, it ends up ruining the paper if I try rubbing it off, and it never 'peels'. At least on the watercolor paper I use, but alas. I should have gotten a bottle of the masking fluid instead....
I just got the horadam pallette in this size - but it doesnt have the porcelain inside, just 3 standard rows - that porcelain thing is not something you see everyday 10:06 I believe you Can get your money back if you sell it 2.hand…
New sub UK . you made me laugh .good video. I am not an Artist I am learning to draw and paint Water color . The worst thing I brought was the Faber Castell Pitt Fineliner and the smudge with Copics, Polychomes ....so now I use them for writing note and my planner! Thank you so much for sharing
I’m not sure white gel ink will do what you want, but two things to note: 1. Gelly Roll white comes in 3 sizes: 05, 07, and 10. I’ve found only the 10 works well and remains functional without clogging 2. If you are looking for a more opaque white gel, many people like Arteza. For myself, I prefer the Uniball Signo Broad 1.0. They do have a tendency to clog over time, but I’ve found the ones from Japan perform much better over time. Hope this helps.
I find the comments on the gelly roll pen simply fascinating. I use the 08 and 10 religiously and have had little to no problems with it. For a time I would go so far as to say I would have praised it as a valuable tool. That is not to say it hasn’t had its moments for sure, but I am surprised the amount of hate it gets. Perhaps my idea for it differ from others though so who knows.
using acrylic airbrush medium instead of water with the aqua Bronze would probably work better. mixing acrylic ink into mediums instead of using them as ink might be worth doing. fluids mix easier than heavy body. Golden Higb Flow for example use to be Golden Airbrush Colors and they renamed them to Golden High Flow. they were intended for airbrush, not ink drawing, but you cam use them that way.
Thank you for sparing me any grief by purchasing the Liquitex brush. Your demo shows me it is not suitable to my needs. Also thanks for speaking truth about the Jelly Roll white pens. Good show & tell.
Your opinion on 25% cellulose watercolor paper has made me think. I use it for practicing (although from another brand) and I like it. It’s not as good as 100% cotton, of course, but it seems much better to me than 100% cellulose. Perhaps this is because I make beginner’s mistakes and paper with some cotton better resists my tendency to overpaint 😅. I will consider your advice and continue learning, thank you.
I tried only this brand, maybe other brands have much better quality, but I personally will not buy this mixed cotton cellulose paper anymore... What brand are you using? You could give a try to baohong cotton paper, it's very affordable too
@@illustrazionidilutI’m using Van Gogh watercolor paper, fine-grained, because is the only mixed paper available on my local store. It’s only 200 g and I use it for practicing. When I’m interested in a good result, I use Canson Heritage, 100% cotton, 300 g. I’ll try the Baohong when I have the chance.
Really? The Gelly roll? You must have gotten a bad one. I know I have had a couple duds over the years. And even with the working ones, I usually go over the spot a fe times to build the opacity.
The gelli white pen was the same for me and they came dry complitely. And i bought many in another country in Europe and they all were awful. Such a disappointment . Thank you . I thought it was only my buying that were wrong..
I'm SO glad I'm not alone in just finding Fabriano 25% cotton papers to be a total regret of a purchase. I really wanted to like it but I agree that even 100% cellulose paper worked better than it-- at least with cellulose paper, I know what I can and can't do on it. I've actually really enjoyed using Canson Montval for some specific watercolors as well as fountain pen ink, for one. They have their niches. That Fabriano 25% was just... a sopping mess in between, plus the surface kept peeling off on me. I have no idea if I got a defective batch but once was enough.
You could use the brush holder with hakes, and Chinese/Japanese calligraphy brushes - which is what they're really made for. Just not much use for ordinary watercolour brushes. The things I regret buying - a lightweight watercolour paper from Fabriano, which would do nothing that I wanted it to do. And generally, sets of colours - they are very rarely balanced in any way, the only principle they follow is that they always contain the cheapest possible pigments, including black (which I rarely use). Gouache sets are particularly useless, because the mix fugitive with permanent colours; the white is always Zinc/Chinese White, which is fine but a good, opaque Titanium would work a lot better. Apart from that, I struggle to think what I really regret buying - other than the Lamy Joy fountain pen, which might not qualify as an art material: the one I have just won't work - no reliable ink flow. Best recent buys - Fude pens from Hongdian and Sailor; carbon black ink; and Hahnemühle rough torchon watercolour paper, which is beautiful to work with; Sailor brushpen; String and Space heavyweight cartridge paper in spiral-bound sketchbooks.
Thanks for this detailed comment! I feel like they should directly put a bigger white tube to gouache sets. I'm curious about the hahnemühle paper you mentioned. And yes, I still need to find a reliable fountain pen!
Thank you very much! Your skills make it look like a cotton paper sketchbook! Keep up the good work! PS Gelly rolls,didn't work for me either! same issues!@@illustrazionidilut
Thank you so much for this video. Totally agree about the Fabriano brand. I bought Fabriano Pastel paper, not cheap - white Ingres - it has indented lines into the paper!!! Un-usable. I would never buy Fabriano anything again. I look forward to hearing about art materials you like. 😊✔️
Ingres is supposed to have indented lines, it's a laid textured paper. Look up RUclips tutorials by Colin Bradley. The trick is to work from light to dark.
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Oil paints haha. First excursion into oils left me less than impressed. I'll stay with acrylics. And I agree with you about plastic pallates
Oil I guess it's a total different philosophy in terms of time and effort..
Glass pen definitely, I had to use a tone of ink and it wouldn't last long on the pen.
Oh good to know that, I wanted to buy one of those!
I would have come to regret the gelly roll pen but, thanks to you, now I won't! Thank you for that! You just saved me from a big disappointment (and money!). 😂👍
My experience with gelly roll pens:
I test it on my hand first. It's pure white. I test it on a blank piece of paper. Much of the same. I test it on my drawing. It's streaky, it's milky, and it's damaging the paper.
Sad story short 😂
I agree. A pen that does not work.
I love Posca Pens for white. They come in different nibs.
Many use those
I agree with you about the gelly pen. They never worked for me.
Really? I've heard so many artists complaining about them, that I'm wondering why a big brand like Sakura is still selling them...
Also gave up, use white acrylic marker instead
I agree they always skip even the good brands.
@@illustrazionidilutI used to use a uniball signo years ago and it was so much better than a gelly roll, but I don't know about it now
I hate gelly pens. I am using a thin brush with white gouache. It works perfectly.
Hi, I have found that any powder mediums you MUST use a gum Arabic or another liquid medium to keep it together and on your surface! I have also had better results with this kind of “paint” if I seal it down with a spray fixative or UV varnish! Best white highlight option is Dr. pH Martins bleed-proof white!
Thanks a lot for the tips! Using a fixative is a great idea 💡
I literally use a gelly roll pen to apply it lol. Just have treat it like the stupidest brush.
Despite the paper not working for you those paintings are beautiful.
Thank you 😊
Good to know.
I also agree with the gelly roll ........ saw so many people raving about how great they are but I have never had any luck with it. I much prefer the uniball signo.
Here in the comments it's definitely the most hated thing 😂
Yes those jelly pens are not at all good..never got one that worked 4 me
AGree about Signo white gel pens - mine have never been streaky and have been nicely juicy but not wet.
I love the Schmincke Bronze powder. I found nothing else that is that brilliant. I mix it with just a little bit of the horadam watercolour (usually with a yellow or orange) and I never had a problem with the powder coming off.
Omg mixing it with watercolor itself it is so clever!!
@@illustrazionidilutit’s great mixed in with colour! If you mix it with watercolour it rises to the surface after it dries, meaning the watercolour is a tint underneath. Failed completely with gouache which made sense in retrospect as gouache has bigger particles.
I'm gonna give it definitely a try 🧐
I find it works better when you let it dry completely after mixing and then rewet when using. But the watercolor hint is good!!😊
I also have good experience with taking only water and spraying an fixative on the art at the end
Art supplies you love. Yes!please.
Thank you for watching ✨
Scrub the plastic palettes with whitening toothpaste. Makes a huge difference.
With white gelly rolls in my experience number 10 sort of works, the thinner ones not. Also, it goes well only over permanent mediums, like black sakura fineliners or coloured pencils. On watercolor and water based inks, it picks up colour. I sometimes go over that once more when the one that picked up colour has dried and it's slightly better.
I had same experience
same - the finer ones in the set don't work, or are really unreliable. They're great over the sakura fineliners, pencils and alcohol markers, but isn't so good on water based media
@sarastarfury Would the white Uni-ball Signo Broad UM-153 be a better alternative to the Gelly Roll? Or maybe one of the famous Posca pens (PCF-350, PC-1MR, PC-1MC)?
Can't beat a proper porcelain pallette. Also - using the back of the plate is genius!
That Schminke gold paint - I wonder if it would work better mixed with an acrylic gel medium?
I'd like to see the art supplis you love. ❤
I don't have such acrylic gel... For sure there should be a better way to use it, but I haven't discover it so far 😅 as for the palette, the big flower one is imitation porcelain, works pretty well but it's much lighter! Thanks for watching ✨
Golden satin glazing liquid is a great medium to mix the gold mica powder & it won't wipe off after drying.
Golden satin glazing liquid is affordable & comes in a good size bottle. It's normally used to stop acrylic paints from drying to quickly but I use it like gesso to prepare paper that isn't intended for water mediums & it works great & fixes your work. I do recommend. Much love & *Virtual hugs* from Perth Western Australia xxx
Thanks a lot for the tips! I have relatives in Melbourne and Sidney :D
I have an old white enamel baking dish that was my mothers and it is fantastic as a pallette, it is about 40 cm long and 20 wide and because of the high walls, no spillage if it gets tipped and all paints just wash off with water.
For any kind of dry pigment, you will need a binding agent to turn it into paint. So if you want the metallic waterpaint, then yes you'll need to add ox gall. You can also add egg yoke to turn it into tempera, or oil to turn it into oil paint :) so don't give up on it, it's just a single component you can use to make your own colours.
But If I use egg yoke it's gonna be stinky I guess? Schmincke sell it as adding some water is enough...
@@illustrazionidilut Egg for egg tempera paints, not water painting, but if you use a fresh egg yolk then it doesn't smell :) I've painted egg tempera paintings using just pigment, water, and egg yolk and it's lots of fun, but it needs the surface to be properly prepared :)
Guess I need more instructions about it 😂 I paint with coffee once and made it smell badly too... It was nescafe cappuccino and the milky part of it became sticky 😂 any reference I can search online?
The problem is that items like that are marketed at places like calligraphy expos as a ready to go easy alternative to gold leaf. There are mixed level including beginners mini lessons where people can try the product on a scrap piece of paper to learn new technique or product and you’d be excited and buy it there and not realize when you make a project it will rub off.
@@ladyelainefairchild3546 yeah that would be a little disingenuous, since dealing with dry pigment is never super easy and also requires some safety precautions to prevent breathing them in. Compared to gold leaf it is easier and cheaper, but I wouldn’t say total beginner friendly.
I enjoyed hearing about your issues with the purchases you've regretted. My palettes are white porcelain plates I purchase at thrift shops. I have some cast iron dragon shaped brush holders that are much smaller than yours and they work great. I actually like Fabriano 1264 hot press paper. I appreciate the sizing that keeps the paint on the surface instead of being absorbed into the paper fibers. It works well for my style of illustration.
As a long time water color/gouache artist, I've always been disappointed with markers. Marker colors are limited. I can always get the color I desire with wc. Markers leave streaks and often bleed through the page. I even use wc on sketch paper and don't have issues with streaking or bleed through. Marker tip size determines the thickness of the line. I use a Manga brushes with my wc and using only one brush, I can achieve wide marks as well as teeny tiny lines and dots. Markers are way more expensive than wc, and because they're plastic, they have a much larger negative impact on the environment than a tube of wc that can last for years.
I've totally stopped using Micron pens and white gel pens because they are expensive and always dry out quickly. Because they're plastic, they also have a negative impact on the environment. I've switched to Le Pen Technical Drawing Pens which although plastic, last me approximately 1 year instead of 1-2 weeks for Micron pens. For white highlights, I use gouache and a fine brush. I also use dip pens and ink because I like the variation in line weights inherent in works made with dip pens.
My biggest regret purchase was a $140 set of Marmai Blu watercolors. They come with a stupid huge palette that doesn't fit on my desk. The pan layout inside the palette is curved and totally awkward because it makes most of the colors difficult to reach. The layout suggested by the manufacturer not how I lay out my palette. After 3 years of not using these paints, I finally spent $2.49 on a compact plastic palette, then spent about 4 hours digging the gummy honey based paints out of the stupid palette so I could transfer them to the new palette. Now that I have a palette that fits on my desk and is laid out in a way that makes sense to me, I actually like the paints and have been using them regularly.
Another regret purchase is the Derwent set of 3 water soluble graphite woodless pencils. There is almost no variation between the light, medium and dark. They cannot be sharpened to an exact point, so I cannot draw precisely with them AND, the color is permanent when dry so it cannot be lifted and cannot be erased, which means I have to keep applying more and more graphite to attempt to get contrast. I end up muddy dark works. Additionally, slight pressure causes the pencils to break, so I now have lots of small unusable pieces. I recently purchased Faber Castel Graphite Aquarelle pencils that I love. There's distinct variation between the shades, they can be reactivated with water, which means you can move the graphite around to correct the intensity of the application. FC WSG can be lifted and erased, and I can get fine detail because they sharpen to an exact point.
My first regret purchase was a Pentel Aqwash water brush. It leaked uncontrollably and I was convinced that water brushes were a total waste of money - until I tried the Kuritake Zig water brushes. I now use my Zig water brush constantly.
I actually like my small pentel water brush. About markers, I feel the same, lots of plastic and space for such medium... And I hate that they bleed through that bad.
Thanks for the info! The ceramic brush holder is perfect for chinese brush calligraphy brushes like the orchid bamboo brush or large mountain horse brush for landscape work.
That's why it was sold next to Chinese brushes 😩
@@illustrazionidilut 😁
I hope you give the Schminke bronze paint another try. That shine is very beautiful unlike any other gold paints I've seen 😍
I will try to mix it with watercolor
Clicked on this video because I saw the Fabriano 1264 paper in the thumbnail, which I have considered buying. Glad to hear your opinion and will avoid it now.
Now I'm also glad I didn't get a proper brush stand. When I feel like using one, I'm using a chopstick holder, which works quite well.
Nice video and I would like to see the Art supplies you love!
Chopstick holder is genius! Someone here suggested zigzag sponge holders too. And about Fabriano, try their Artistico line if you are looking for watercolor paper! I love it
@@illustrazionidilut Thank you! I own the Fabriano Artistico cold pressed paper, but don't quite get along with it. May just need more practice. I got a sketchbook with their hot pressed paper as a birthday gift recently and I'll give it a try soon.
lemme know, I love hot pressed paper!
The Ohuhu markers you purchased was the "landscape" set. If you had purchased the "portrait" set instead there are lots more skin colours to choose from and you would have had no problems blending and mixing them to look very realistic. There are also various skin types included, not just Caucasian, but Asian and African skin colours.
Of this cheap set (16 euro) there was only landscape and illustration...this one is illustration. I will probably buy the skin set 24 pieces with brush tip, just to make it complete...
Regarding schminke powder (as someone who has more than one bottle and loves them))
Basically treat them not as a replacement of a gold leaf, but a metallic loose pigment which is as sparkly as a gold leaf AND won’t evade the paper completely in seconds as normal pigment does after water dries.
Can mix it with other watercolors, can blend and do gradients, do drips and basically any effects which gold leaf won’t do.
If you want something looking the same but much more stable after drying - they have an acrylic paint in this range, works and feels as a basic soft body, adheres to anything same way etc. (I’ve used it for sizing once, it worked).
I'm definitely gonna try mixing it with other watercolors! Thank you. As for acrylic gold, I have two but don't like it too much..
@@illustrazionidilut there’s a gold paint in schminke acrylic line (which is meh), and acrylic (and oil also) variation of schminke bronze line. The latter brings me joy)
P. S. Great video, will have a look around, thx RUclips algorithm))
Okay you crack me up because I have the same supplies that don’t work for me. The schminke gold powder should be mixed with gum Arabic, then it will work and stay put on the paper
Sorry for that 🙏 at least you know we have the same taste about art supplies
I also just use white dish, but never upside down! Mind blown. With markers there, where you used green as shadow, it does work with pencils, but I would choose purple or gray. Yet, I am not nearly as skilled as you are
The upside down dish trick is as simple as effective :) I should give a try with purple or gray markers then, thank you for the tip!
Hi, i completely agree with you on the white gelly roll. I feel they were highly promoted by quite a few art youtubers as being excellent for white highlights. The best white pen i have used is the Uniball Signo. But even these can be temperamental at times. Re: the Ecoline brushpens. I love these, but rarely use them diretly on to paper. I think using them on a palette with a brush gives far nicer effects plus you can mix the colours better in this way, and knock back the brighter shades.
I'm not that impressed with either of the white gelly roll or the signo pen. They worked ok at first, but getting them to write smoothly after a time is impossible. The white posca pc 1-mr is the same, too. I've yet to come across a good white fineliner pen that works properly.
I have that Uniball signo too, and I didn't included it in the list because it worked for a while - at least. Not that long tho. And for ecoline brush pens, they are sitting on my table on purpose to remember me to give them a try on a palette! Thanks for remembering me!
I will try uniposca (or a generic white marker) soon, otherwise gouache is the only option
Looks like there is a long queue for the Sakura gelly roll white pen because I too have had problems with it. The ink is too milky and only the 10 works well enough for any highlights at all.
Yes that's the experience of the most of us!
I love my acrylic inks! I find them really versatile. I can water them down and layer like I would with my drawing inks or I can use them opaque like acrylics. I also have a lot of trouble with the Jellyroll pens. I gave up on trying to make them work for me and use a small brush with gouache instead.
That always works!
I like acrylic inks because I can use them like watercolour - I find tube acrylic paint to be too thick to work with and it usually ends up drying lumpy if you don't smooth them out. As it can't be reactivated like watercolour once it's dry, I also find the tubes to be quite wasteful - with acrylic ink, I only need a few drops and I get lots of coverage from it without wasting a lot of paint.
I think mine is waterproof... I should check
I used acrylic ink to paint a foam item, very good coverage due to the thin texture. Not sure what else it is good for though.
@@soniccookie655airbrush application and anywhere that requires light fastness, which conventional ink, being dye-based, won’t deliver.
If you want a place to rest your watercolor brushes as you paint, I suggest a chopstick rest. These are usually ceramic are often beautiful and only about 1/2" or 1 cm high. They are small, so not helpful if your work space is as messy as mine.
That's a good idea! Thanks
Thank you for posting about the fabriano 1264. I thought I was getting a really good deal for 25% cotton. I found their mixed media paper to be more enjoyable for watercolour.
I'm going to try stretching the watercolour paper, maybe it just has too much sizing
You are welcome! It's still a good paper for other medium
I love the Schmincke Aqua bronze. I mix it with Golden brand iridescent paint. I have also used it with water with no flaking or smearing. 50% product / 50% water or 50/50 with Golden paint. No issues.
I'm gonna try this ratio!
@@illustrazionidilut I’m glad you are willing to give it another try! Best wishes!
I tried the Sakura white gelly roll pens and hated them as well. However Sakura does make a very nice white, gold and silver pen just called something else. I forget the name. Sorry. But they work great over watercolor!!
Yes that was my set! The silver and gold still working today! White one never worked
7:27 I have a set with the 5, 8 and 10 - the 5 and 8 are stored in the back, worthless - only size 10 works !! And it does, I Think they used an other formula, it seems more thick than the smaller ones..
I have the same set and totally agree with you. I would have liked the thinner ones to work, because the size 10 is too broad sometimes.
Same. The 05 does not work.
Art supplies you love ❤️
thanks for sharing
Ok 👌 thanks a lot for watching!
Zigzag soap dish- most effective brush holder for my practice
Ahah that's clever!
I use one of those too, it's perfect!
This is what I use too. Mine is a wooden one.
I had the same experience with the jelly roll pen! I heard so many artists say they use it and love it but it didn't work for me at all
As well as for most of the people here in the comments!
I’ve moved to the Kuratake White ink instead of the Gelli Roll and I’m really happy with it.
That's something to try! Thank you
many of the mentiones I wanted to buy soon. thank you for making this video. what are the art supplies you love?
Brands are gonna hate me then 😅🤣 glad it helped you! What did you want to buy? I will make a video on my favourite art supplies soon... Stay tuned
I was just at Barnes and Noble and they were selling the Fabriano Pad and I was so tempted but decided not to 😂
Ahah Fabriano is gonna hate me
I've just about given up on white Gelly Roll pens. The ink just seems to dry so quickly and then it all gunks up at the tip.
I've just thrown mine away
Hi! I do agree with the sakura white gelly roll. I bought a set of 3…🙄
Coincidentally, I just saw another RUclips video that showed a similar handle-less brush to spread glue over a large sheet of paper 😊 Good video, thanks for posting.
Oh I would never use a good brush for glueing... Honestly that's my only handle less brush, but was a bit uncomfortable probably I need to practice! Thank you for watching!
The mix media brush with the squat hand is great for laying gesso on a canvas. I still won’t get it and just use a brush from the hardware shop, cheaper and does the job.
So it's probably useless for a watercolor artist who never painted oil... But I saw great artists using it with watercolors too
Acrylic ink is great on gel plate
I bought the same thing from sminke the aqua bronze but it needs its own medium
It's called Schminke, German brand
I really really enjoyed this video - thank you :) Love to get other opionions (and you dont sound too judgemental ❤)
I try my best to not be judgy (not easy 😂) thank you
A note on the Liquitex acrylic inks... they are a wonderful solution for underpainting when you want to still be able to see your linework on the canvas before laying down paint. And you don't have binder break down like you do when you water down the heavy body to the same consistency. They might have other uses but that's the one I personally use them for. Oddly they work pretty well for underpainting gouache as well.
Thanks for this information!
I love these kind of videos, because what it can be useful for someone, can be a regret to other! I kind of wish to make myself a video of "art supplies i regret buying - here's how i use anyways" as a "hack" to use what i got until the end and not let it spoil in my stash, haha.
For aqua bronze, i was considering buying the powder and mix with gum arabic, mulling on a glass slab, like a traditional way of making watercolor, but now I am not so sure (seen on Jackson's art blog commentary section that gum arabic does not react that well to aqua bronze because the powder already has some dextrin glue to make it water soluble) BUT! maybe you could make that powder salvageable by buying their Aqua-fix solution? it's a sort of milky jelly fixative you mix in with watercolors, it dries transparent and does not lift off any paint that`s been mixed with it!
Is it called Schmicke aqua fix solution? That would be a good try. And yes, your idea of a video of art supplies you REGRET buying but how to use them is great! 😄
I've been actually adviced by Schmincke themselves to add Gum Arabic to the Aqua Bronze if it does not stay put on the paper. And it works.
I use Arteza EverBlend Markers for my portraiture and I use Polychromos and Derwent Lightfast pencils on top
Markers and pencils seem working great together! Unfortunately I'm not into colored pencils at all, as color blind person I struggle too much with choosing them
If using plastic palletts for watercolor, if the problem is pooling of colours, simply rough up the pallettes with sandpaper to make a rougher surface. Problem solved.
Thanks for the tip! I was using them for ink and gouache, which is not the best if they are that small
They also stain.
Ecoline is not lightfast. They are just a dye based marker, one thing I noticed with dyes is they don't mix clean and you need to test your markers before you use them because there is always some amount of color separation no mater what brand you choose (copic, prismacolor, etc.). if you want something that will mix more like traditional watercolors you could try windsor & newtons watercolor markers or if you like ink you can try Faber-castell's pit pens, or Pentels ink brushes.
I know ecoline is not lightfast unfortunately. Thanks for the recommendation
If you mix the gold powder with watercolour it will work better, as pointed out by other people because the watercolour has gum arabic in it as a binder.
I have the same problem sometimes with gel pens. Sometimes you can get the colour to come out if you bang the ball tip hard against a table if you hold the pen vertically at a 90degree angle.
You can use the porcelain brush holder if you put a book or something similar next to it so that the height difference is not as big.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions :)
I prefer Winsor and Newton markers for blending (under painting then I use colored pencils)- I once had a huge set of copic and prismacolor markers but gave them away not because I thought they were bad but it was because they were too many color choices that I never get used to/ got to know well enough to have an effective system of using them. I bought one broad brush like that to try my hand at abstract painting but like you it gave me hand pain. As an amateur artist for 5 years (planning to go pro), I agree with you on everything you mentioned. And yes go ahead and do that art supplies you love video.
Thanks for your comments! These are my first markers (after pantone that was using 20 years ago) and coming from watercolor, they seem too bright to me, but Blending is pleasant. I don't think I want to spend money for more expensive one, but I'll get a skin tones set for sure 😂
And best of luck to you for your pro artist career!
Thanks so much for the informative video. I also use up anything, even if I don't like it, so there is no waste. This is a testament to your talent that you can do so well with sub-par supplies. You can also donate to a local arts center or school. Gel pens were disappointing for me, also. I got ones that worked a bit, then dried up. Some watercolor artists uses a pastel pencil for highlights, which I would like to try. I am going to try a Derwent Inktense block in Antique White, as it is very affordable and wets easily. Many artists use this and you don't have to worry about it drying up.
What?? I didn't know about using white pastel for watercolor highlights 🤯 mind blowing! I must give it a try! I just order a white marker too... Thanks for watching ✨
Acrylic ink is lightfast pigment. Most really bright colors fade over time, especially regular inks made of dyes.
i have the same Schimincke porcelain palette - you need to use a back end of a fork or something thin but solid to pop it out - its held down by a large magnet ;) I keep the porcelain bit on my desk and the box is stuffed with full and half pans ;)
So you use the porcelain palette separated from the tin palette?
@@illustrazionidilut yup :) i keep it on my desk - just in the open, i replaced half of the academe colors with artist quality and it became my workhorse little brick of a palette that's always near by - its too damn heavy for anything else - unless you want to carry it as a self difference tool lol. Love the box separately. But together that whole design is a no go.
@ezenami too damn heavy 😂 thanks for the idea! I actually was going to buy a new tin palette but I can use that instead
Grazie! L’oro schmincke che hai mostrato sono sempre tentata si comprarlo, ma immagino già che non mi soddisferà .. hai trovato qualcosa di intenso e più stabile ?
Ho parlato direttamente con schmincke in fiera e hanno detto che sarà perché uso troppa acqua, ma per averlo proprio fissato dicono che vada diluito con gomma arabica... Non saprei. Potresti provare un acquerello gold come quelli di pigmentaty, li la gomma arabica c'è già nel composto... Io uso un pennarello oro ma non è lo stesso
In realtà ho già ho già una palette di godet Schmincke oro.. è una vecchia Limited edition, che mi piace. Però permeavo che questo prodotto in polvere poteva tornarmi utile per riempire aree più ampie velocemente. In ogni caso ho anche la gomma arabica a casa 😅
@@laurartetorino allora un tentativo puoi farlo! Ci sono anche molte tonalità diverse
Great video, thanks. For your Ecoline markers, you can blend them easily on a plastic pallette and then pick up the newly mixed color with a brush. MIght not be the application you had in mind, but at least you won't have wasted them and your $$$. I use a piece of plastic packaging from stickers with the white card inside the plastic wrapper. It works great as a pallette and is free.
That's a good idea, you are not the first one suggesting this... But I don't this is was Royal talens had in mind when they launched the product 😂 what white card you mean ?
You can also mix your colours in the markers with the refill
What do you mean exactly?
Not sure what you mean. Plastic packaging with stickers? Maybe that's a European item.
I'm new to watercolor and made the mistake of buying that Fabriano paper. We live (buy) and learn... I shake my fist at it every time I see it on my shelf. XD
Ahahah you can use it for other techniques tho! And Fabriano Artistico paper is one of the best watercolor paper I know!
I find a lot of watercolour paper isn't up to scratch. I get scrawlrbox sometimes and nearly all the watercolour paper that they include in the box buckles and warps - worse than a cheap paper that I get sometimes from a discount shop and the watercolour paper is supposed to be good quality. I end up using it for dry media like coloured pencils.
Normally also gouache works well on cheap watercolor paper!
I love my Gelly Roll pens. The Uniball Signo had me at my wits end so I had to get the Gelly Roll. I regret buying Holbein watercolours. Just not my jam.
Haven't tried Holbein yet!
With the gold schmink use a spray fixative
That's an option too! But also mixing it with watercolor make it more stable
I buy larger brushes at a local pro Benjamin Moore paint store. A 3" Chinex bristle brush with a long wooden handle is about $20.
The schminke gold pigment I add a little medium to the water and it remains stable on the page every time
What kind of medium?
@@illustrazionidilut I have just used Liquitex Matt medium, but I'm sure other similar ones would work the same
Art supplies you love, please! 🙂
Thanks for watching ✨
Love your Artwork. Beautiful💕
Thanks a lot ☺
I have some of those brushes. I use them for acrylics. I love them.
I guess they are made for acrylic
Definitely get Ohuhu brush tipped big bundles. Much better. They have a lot of skin tones.
I wanna try them!
No plastic paint trays. I would be using silicone fidgit poppers for paint and watercolors and ink because when it dries they just peel off.
Art supplies you love please! Great art 👏🏼
Thanks a lot! ☺
I regret buying expensive ink. I'm much more familiar with the viscosity and flow of waterproof India ink instead.
Oh no the jelly Sakura pen! I just bought a bunch of them for the first time! They are coming 😢. I hope they work.
It seems that may depend on your geographical area if they work or not... Give it a try! Or send them back 😉
Thank you excelent information.........looking forward to : Art supplys you love!
Thanks so much for watching ✨
I have Arches but practice on the 1264, it's not bad. It's also much better than Canson to take washes. I was thinking about the Bronze stuff but read a lot of reviews and saved my money. Gelly Roll is garbage. I use Signo instead.
Glad you had a different experience with Fabriano 1264!
I regret buying this masking fluid pen/drawing gum marker. Whenever I use it, it ends up ruining the paper if I try rubbing it off, and it never 'peels'. At least on the watercolor paper I use, but alas. I should have gotten a bottle of the masking fluid instead....
I have one of those but never used them... I don't like masking fluid in general, it makes all the process too stiff
Ohuhu has a skin colour set and I really like the markers. They're also a lot cheaper than Copic markers.
That colour set is next in my shopping list 😬
I just got the horadam pallette in this size - but it doesnt have the porcelain inside, just 3 standard rows - that porcelain thing is not something you see everyday 10:06 I believe you Can get your money back if you sell it 2.hand…
I bought it second hand already 😂 I guess was some kind of limited edition, because I've never seen like that too
I regret buying the aqua bronze too. It’s an absolute mess
Never buy anything from Temu.
New sub UK . you made me laugh .good video. I am not an Artist I am learning to draw and paint Water color . The worst thing I brought was the Faber Castell Pitt Fineliner and the smudge with Copics, Polychomes ....so now I use them for writing note and my planner! Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you, I'm happy that I gave you a smile!
@@illustrazionidilut 😀
Greased Lightning degreser will clean those plastic palettes right up. It literally eats ink, both India and acrylic based.
Incredible!
Art supplies you love - this would be wonderful! Per piacere 🙏
Omg that's so sweet! Thank you 😊
I’m not sure white gel ink will do what you want, but two things to note:
1. Gelly Roll white comes in 3 sizes: 05, 07, and 10. I’ve found only the 10 works well and remains functional without clogging
2. If you are looking for a more opaque white gel, many people like Arteza. For myself, I prefer the Uniball Signo Broad 1.0. They do have a tendency to clog over time, but I’ve found the ones from Japan perform much better over time. Hope this helps.
Yes, everybody is telling the same, about the set of 3 pens and about signo too. Never tried the arteza ones tho. Thanks for watching!
@@illustrazionidilut You know what they say: Sixty million -Frenchmen- RUclipsrs can’t be wrong! 🤣🤣 Good luck!
Would love to see your most used supplies
Thank you for watching the video ☺
I find the comments on the gelly roll pen simply fascinating. I use the 08 and 10 religiously and have had little to no problems with it. For a time I would go so far as to say I would have praised it as a valuable tool. That is not to say it hasn’t had its moments for sure, but I am surprised the amount of hate it gets. Perhaps my idea for it differ from others though so who knows.
Someone says it depends on the level of humidity on your geographical areas!
using acrylic airbrush medium instead of water with the aqua Bronze would probably work better. mixing acrylic ink into mediums instead of using them as ink might be worth doing. fluids mix easier than heavy body. Golden Higb Flow for example use to be Golden Airbrush Colors and they renamed them to Golden High Flow. they were intended for airbrush, not ink drawing, but you cam use them that way.
Thank you for sparing me any grief by purchasing the Liquitex brush. Your demo shows me it is not suitable to my needs. Also thanks for speaking truth about the Jelly Roll white pens. Good show & tell.
Thank you! Some artists use that brush for acrylics with success!
Your opinion on 25% cellulose watercolor paper has made me think. I use it for practicing (although from another brand) and I like it. It’s not as good as 100% cotton, of course, but it seems much better to me than 100% cellulose. Perhaps this is because I make beginner’s mistakes and paper with some cotton better resists my tendency to overpaint 😅. I will consider your advice and continue learning, thank you.
I tried only this brand, maybe other brands have much better quality, but I personally will not buy this mixed cotton cellulose paper anymore... What brand are you using? You could give a try to baohong cotton paper, it's very affordable too
@@illustrazionidilutI’m using Van Gogh watercolor paper, fine-grained, because is the only mixed paper available on my local store. It’s only 200 g and I use it for practicing. When I’m interested in a good result, I use Canson Heritage, 100% cotton, 300 g. I’ll try the Baohong when I have the chance.
I like Canson heritage as well
Really? The Gelly roll? You must have gotten a bad one. I know I have had a couple duds over the years. And even with the working ones, I usually go over the spot a fe times to build the opacity.
Yes you must have been lucky... Most of people here in the comments had troubles with them!
brilliant video ☺☺☺
Thanks 😀
The gelli white pen was the same for me and they came dry complitely. And i bought many in another country in Europe and they all were awful. Such a disappointment . Thank you . I thought it was only my buying that were wrong..
There are dozens of artists telling the same experience here... Thanks for watching!
I love the Gelly Rolls, but I use them to write with, with an occasional detail here and there on a picture. I'm not an artist, just a pen junkie.
I'm SO glad I'm not alone in just finding Fabriano 25% cotton papers to be a total regret of a purchase. I really wanted to like it but I agree that even 100% cellulose paper worked better than it-- at least with cellulose paper, I know what I can and can't do on it. I've actually really enjoyed using Canson Montval for some specific watercolors as well as fountain pen ink, for one. They have their niches. That Fabriano 25% was just... a sopping mess in between, plus the surface kept peeling off on me. I have no idea if I got a defective batch but once was enough.
you can still use it for gouache, I think it´s pretty valid for that
I hate white gel pens. I got different ones but they all suck. will try white uni posca pens, fingers crossed...
Those gelly roll pens are the worst, they never worked for me either. Great video, thanks for sharing. ❤
Thank you for watching!
You could use the brush holder with hakes, and Chinese/Japanese calligraphy brushes - which is what they're really made for. Just not much use for ordinary watercolour brushes. The things I regret buying - a lightweight watercolour paper from Fabriano, which would do nothing that I wanted it to do. And generally, sets of colours - they are very rarely balanced in any way, the only principle they follow is that they always contain the cheapest possible pigments, including black (which I rarely use). Gouache sets are particularly useless, because the mix fugitive with permanent colours; the white is always Zinc/Chinese White, which is fine but a good, opaque Titanium would work a lot better.
Apart from that, I struggle to think what I really regret buying - other than the Lamy Joy fountain pen, which might not qualify as an art material: the one I have just won't work - no reliable ink flow.
Best recent buys - Fude pens from Hongdian and Sailor; carbon black ink; and Hahnemühle rough torchon watercolour paper, which is beautiful to work with; Sailor brushpen; String and Space heavyweight cartridge paper in spiral-bound sketchbooks.
Thanks for this detailed comment! I feel like they should directly put a bigger white tube to gouache sets. I'm curious about the hahnemühle paper you mentioned. And yes, I still need to find a reliable fountain pen!
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just fyi.. for those plastic palettes, use magic erasers on them. gets them clean pretty good
What is magic eraser?
What's th esketchbook on 4:06 please? Do they sell these, or it's handmade by you?
That's a Boesner sketchbook, a local art retailer. It's similar to hahnemühle watercolor sketchbook with pulp paper
Thank you very much! Your skills make it look like a cotton paper sketchbook! Keep up the good work! PS Gelly rolls,didn't work for me either! same issues!@@illustrazionidilut
Thank you 😊 no it was pulp paper - not even good quality! Most of artists commenting had problems with jelly rolls!
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Thank you for sharing
I agree with alcohol markers. They are too bulky for storage.
Yes and you need soooo many shades
Thank you so much for this video. Totally agree about the Fabriano brand. I bought Fabriano Pastel paper, not cheap - white Ingres - it has indented lines into the paper!!! Un-usable. I would never buy Fabriano anything again. I look forward to hearing about art materials you like. 😊✔️
Ingres is supposed to have indented lines, it's a laid textured paper. Look up RUclips tutorials by Colin Bradley. The trick is to work from light to dark.
@@cg8397 Every pastel mark you make reveals the lines. Not convinced. If there’s a trick to it they should make it clear on the packaging/cover.
It's not a general thing... Fabriano Artistico is one of the best watercolor paper I've ever tried!!
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