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These mostly have minimal promotional content other than mentioning their own Patreon if they have one. Some of the artists haven't uploaded as much in 2020, which is understandable. Some have uploaded more.

Landscapes and Cityscapes:
Dragonfly Spirit Studio
- excellent watercolour tutorials and teaching vids, largely about landscapes, with some still life or flower paintings. They always make me want to try what Lynne's demonstrated.

Liron Yanconsky - an Israeli watercolorist who teaches or demos some aspect of technique in each of his vids (landscapes and cityscapes, mostly). He also does 'Painting Masters' vids where he presents a relatively well-known watercolour artist and tours their work, discussing his favourite paintings. 

Portraits and Figures:
Jenny Dolfen - gorgeous fantasy and fanart watercolours e.g. of Silmarillion characters. She gives tips about her painting techniques and her use of gold leaf. 

Arleebean - interestingly loose, expressionistic watercolour and gouache portaits with explanations about her process and artistic decisions. Grinds her own paints sometimes, and tries some different handmade paints. Sometimes does specific tutorials.

Jane Beata - interesting process vids of watercolour portraits (in the past, broader subjects e.g. florals, objects). More detail is on her Patreon (which is ridiculously cheap - she undervalues herself), but the shorter YouTube vids are interesting and useful. 

Jess Karp - see her 100 things challenges (heads, hands, eyes etc.) and her 'fruitheads' series and sketchbook tours. Very talented and cheerfully informative.

Myriam Tillson - a unique artist who uses gouache, acrylics and watercolours to paint surrealistic figures and portraits. I love her and she's extremely talented but a warning for frequent dark and disturbing images and body horror, e.g. hollow people, trees and snakes coming out of people, headless people, etc. - so she's not for everyone. She's a lovely person and she explains her process and ideas well, more so on her Patreon, but the shorter vids are also good. Her Inktober series are amazing - the 2019 vids are on her channel and for a glimpse of the 2017 and 2018 Inktober works see her shop here.

Animals and Technical Aspects of Watercolour Paints
In Liquid Color - Denise Sodan. Denise does detailed swatching and discussion of different watercolour brands and pigments, and specialises in painting animals. See her' Colour Spotlight' and 'Brand by Brand' series. 

Florals and abstract Doodles
Creationsceecee - relaxing small, semi-abstract pics she calls doodles, with soft watercolours and then fine drawings (of florals or shapes) superimposed, and some use of gold and silver paint. Great ideas for cards and bookmarks. 

Nianiani - Mostly florals, some food, landscapes etc. Good and very basic tutorials about painting different types of flowers and leaves with watercolours.


Digital Art
I recently found this digital drawing tutorial useful, to cut down shakiness in drawing lineart on a tablet or screen. I don't do much digital art these days but I like clean lineart to print off and use to start painting. The other take-away lessons recently from digital art tutorial vids have been to use some of the "smoothing" function in Photoshop, and to use layers, with initial rougher drawing(s) superimposed by the final lineart, also not to be afraid to erase a lot to get to the final version.

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Art Rec Challenge

There's still a lot going on in the world, so here's a low-pressure challenge that's about what you've been looking at and enjoying over the past few months, rather than a drawing challenge.

What's this challenge about?

Either in a separate post or in the comments here, give us some recs or resources you've explored and tell us why you enjoyed them. Things like favorite artists on Youtube or elsewhere who've inspired you, or who post interesting challenges or tutorials, sites with resources for drawing or painting, sites or posts with technical info, inspiration or art ideas. Add a link to any site or post you're recommending.

Ideally, link to sites or posts that are freely available and don't require registration or a fee. e.g. Instagram won't work for people unless they have an account, and Skillshare's great but you have to register and pay, so those two aren't as suitable. But if you really want to recc a paid site, let us know the usual fee and why you think it's useful and good value.


This challenge will run through to mid February.

Happy reccing, everyone! :)

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Hello, hope you all are well during these strange times.

I've been doing some drawings/colouring lately (I've done two new ones which I will share later this week!)

However, the cards I've been using has run out. However, I have been using a different sketch pad but no tear out but found myself disappointed with the quality. There are some bleeding around the lines when I use the sketch markers (pictured below) while the ones I used for the Prompt Bingo Challenge (29) didn't have any bleeding around the lines. Also, the colours on the sketch pad are not as bright as the cards.

I use:

pictures of sketch markers )

I would like your suggestions for a tear-out sketch pad with this size (pictured below)

size for new sketch pad )

Thank you in advance for your suggestions/advice.
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Inktober is coming. This year's official prompt list is out and all the unofficial ones will pop up soon. Since people sometimes try new supplies for Inktober I wanted to post the super basics of two types of inking methods, dip pens and Japanese pre-filled brush pens. I had a learning curve with both last year and have also seen lots of Art Snacks and other unboxing videos where people break very nice pens.

First, brush pens.
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Dip pens!
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Testing inks for coloring.

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I have a little tutorial thingie for you guys again! This time it's not about cheap watercolor but about the more professional stuff: a guide on how to choose which colors to buy, which criteria to apply and so on. As an example, I'm discussing my own travel set and how the colors in there came to be there.

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I just wrote this review of cheap watercolors and what you can and can not do with them, with some paintings using the cheapest colors I could lay my hands on as examples, and [personal profile] goss suggested I share it with our community. So here it is! :)
(Clicky on the preview picture to go to the entry)

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[admin post] Admin Post: Inktober Discussion Post

Oct. 3rd, 2018 10:21 am
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Hey guys, I came across this video today that's right up our alley. It has some really useful points for those of us participating in Inktober:


It also got me thinking that since the comments section of our INKTOBER MASTERPOST has really taken off with everyone sharing their daily Inktober offerings there, we could have a separate space as an Inktober Discussion Post during this time, for questions/comments/suggestions on topics like:

- What kinds of tools and art supplies are you using for Inktober?
- Are you limiting yourself to just black ink, or using a variety of colours and values?
- Are you using a new medium for the first time, like dip pens, or are you experimenting with particular products?
- Do you prefer everything being organised in one sketchbook? Are you using varying kinds of paper?
- Have you discovered any new tutorials or inking techniques that were useful to you?
- What kinds of challenges and frustrations are you encountering?
- Do you need a boost of encouragement to keep on going?
- Are you having issues with time management? Is it affecting your RL/work life?
- Or anything else about Inktober that you might want to talk about.

So feel free to use this post over the next four weeks for discussing all things Inktober-related. :)
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So, I think I mentioned getting one of these artbox thingies. I got the same as [personal profile] sexycazzy so maybe she can add her experiences with these pens as well.

So far I've mostly gotten pens and here are two that warrant a tiny review:sample art and some thoughts )
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In my Sketchbox this month I got Derwent blender pens meant for pencil drawings. I've used those little paper rolls for pencil blending, but using those effectively can be wearing on the wrist.

I decided to do a quick drawing and blend one side only:



Larger image )
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So, I saw this colour set in the December box of scrawlrbox and instead of ordering the whole box I just ordered these on a different site. for images )
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The most recent box I got made me decide to renew my subscription. I may review individual products, but I feel that 3 box reviews are plenty :) Or, who knows, maybe I'll become a YouTuber who does those slo-mo unboxing videos.

The box had a few items, but the star was a tin of 12 Derwent Inktense pencils. I've tried watercolor pencils a few times and they've always made me feel inept. These 'ink pencils' work how I always wished 'watercolor pencils' would.

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My overall review of Sketchbox is this:

The boxes seem to contain a few awesome things and a few things to pad out the box. Using their products has solved a ton of things holding me back. I was impressed by them providing translations for the packaging on Japanese pens in a previous box. The product demo videos they've started doing are also a nice touch.

I've checked prices for the box items on Amazon. The boxes are a chunk of change, but they do give good value and the items are very well chosen. A lot of the money I've spent on art supplies before was pretty much wasted. On a ROI basis, this has been money very well spent.
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It was a bit hit or miss this time, but I am overall happy with it.

What the pen marks look like, and most of the pens:


Review continues )
olivermoss: (Default)
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Hi All! I got one of those art supply subscriptions and just got my first box. There was some interest in seeing what they'd be like so I've got pictures within. The have both a premium and a regular subscription. I got a few months of premium.

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I am posting a picture of my first box from SCRAWLRBOX - I haven't used the little sketch book yet, but have used the pencil, pens and line painter pens - they were used in some of my doddles for Inkobter. The line painter pens were a bit difficult to use, you have had to push the pen down, so that the paint comes out of the pen - strange pens but interesting! I think I might use the line painter pens on my colouring books - it might be fun! :-)

The next box will be along around 20th November and if you are interested, I am quite happy to keep posting here with my SCRAWLRBOX updates with pictures etc. 

Let me know in comments!

Picture of pens etc )
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Hey all, sorry for being so absent last week. I'm back and off to comment on all your wonderful Inktober posts in the next couple of days.
ETA: I decided to make a poll. Sorry if the answer options a kinda dumb, it's my first poll ever.Read more... )

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