★ ART SUPPLIES for beginners | tips and tricks ★

Also to note on watercolor, the crayola ones are super vibrant, but you can’t add pen/pencil/ink over it because they’re too waxy.

tbh best choice I ever made was getting an insanely sharp knife so I can sharpen my pencils by hand to get that super long and sharp end. I always hated how prismacolor leads break constantly with normal sharpeners 😭 amazing video as always friend!

i know this was three months ago but i just wanted to say fine point sharpies are HELLA underrated

I started and acrylics and I never look back… EVER, I did re-try them and realized I should keep looking back. Also Walmart carries canson paper and it’s pretty cheap!!

For your international peeps, I recommend Roman Szmal as a great quality but more affordable option! They sell them on Jackson's. And saying that....Jackson's own brand of watercolours are actually REALLY GOOD too! Like professional quality but so much more affordable.

This video is going to be so helpful for so many people! Art supplies can be so overwhelming, and there’s so much variance in price. I would also def recommend starting with fewer colors when it comes to paint- learning to mix colors is how I learned color theory & my preferences with color

You're so wonderful! Thanks for all the advice!

hey! I'm super early! I'm more on the intermediate level, but I really apprechiate this guide. I will share this with my beginner artists friends so they have a good reference

This is great advice! It's fun to have the full hard-to-soft assortment of graphite, but we agree, it's absolutely possible to get great results with a minimal assortment. Really, most of the time, artists end up settling on a go-to selection, whether it's paint, markers, pencils, or other media. You have to admit, though, it's pretty nice to have that big boxed set of every color, even if you don't use every one all the time!

cant wait to add these to my christmas list!!

So I am the person buying the brush/bullet nib alcohol markers and I love them. I am heavy handed, I can cover large areas with my brush nib, but straigh fine lines are really hard for me a brush nib. I find I can blend with a bullet nib though with quck feather strokes, very similar to the way I blend with a brush nib just is smaller areas. Menawhile I find the chisel nib almost useless, anytime I try to lay down a large swath of color it looks blotchy no matter how many layers I put down. Otherwise I love all your advice. :)

The reflections in your glasses are mesmerizing

woah im early 🎉 love the vids they make me wanna draw and paint everytime you upload❤

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Thank you for your information 🙏

Cansons The Wall paper is bleed proof on both sides so if you don't mind working in a spiral bound pad it's pretty great. I did end up tearing it all out and making a sketchbook out of it which is also working very well.

I like sakura koi watercolors. I have two of the travel watercolor sets, one of them I've had since middle school (I'm in my 20s now), and it's still going strong.

You’ve made some really excellent points here 👏🏻 I would say though sharpener wise, if you’re okay splashing out a bit, get the derwent super point sharpener, its a real game changer! I agree with what you said about generally anything from an art store being decent. It’s also good to note that prices vary by country so whilst one artist could really recommend a particular brand, they are factoring in the price they paid. I had this with Daniel smith, it is extortionate in the uk and really was not worth it, whilst Windsor and newton cotman is sold everywhere for peanuts 😂

Wow! Great video! It also feels weird to be this early 😅

For heavy body acrylics if you're getting started, I recommend getting Arteza acrylics specifically the set of mini tubes or mini tubes of the primarys and black they work well and work better than liquidex in my opinion However also buy a big tube of Golden white fluid acrylic to make it easier to work with the heavy body while still having white