Hi there! My name is Valerie (aka Artscribbler) and I make videos about oil paintings, manga, master copies, and reviewing art supplies whenever I can get my grubby hands on them.
On this channel, you can watch me paint, learn, struggle, and hopefully improve on my art journey as I go through it. This is my second channel dedicated solely to the art process, painting videos, art challenges, art studio vlogs, and anything about the act of creating.
For life and travel vlogs as a freelance writer & artist, you can find those at my main channel. Thanks so much for dropping by. Let’s have fun making art together!
Beautiful painting. Also, this video is valuable. I searched on RU-vid for how to do paint with acrylic inks. After scrolling for a bit, so far, this video was the only video where it wasn not an abstract painting of pouring and doing drops. Thank you for doing this!
Thanks for dropping by, Michael! So glad it's helpful. Acrylic inks are amazing! They're so vibrant and versatile. I love using them in washes to get the right saturation or value, but also dig the idea that if I want to go for bolder coverage, it's an option. :) Hope you'll have fun working with them too!
Totally agree with you about drawing with ballpoint pens are really satisfying! I remember one year, I would only use ballpoint pens and nothing else. It forced me to get better at my line work meaning once you put that line down, there is no erasing lol, you had to adapt of what you put down and work with it!😁 It's so much fun and I find you gain confidence as you go along. Nice work though, your sketchbooks are AMAZING, keep it up! 😎🤙
Thanks for dropping by and the kind words! 😍 And you're right, it's perfect for improving line work and boosting that extra confidence of putting down a mark, something I find lacking in other mediums. 😁
That painting is almost as thick as it is wide, haha! I don't understand people who don't paint the sides of a picture when it's on stretched canvas or whatever you said that was, did you say it was thick board? It looks really thick!! I saw a video the other day by this guy who had a whole load of paintings to sell but he said "I've just gotta paint the sides first," then proceeded to paint them all black! On the handful of canvases I've actually finished I've always painted a continuation of the picture. But I always choose the thinnest stretcher i can find, purely for practical reasons: they take up less room in storage, but mostly so they're not too heavy and can hang on my wall with sticky hooks. What did you mean when you said you had a studio but had barely painted any acrylics? You do not paint like a beginner so you must have been painting with something else... but what? BTW I quite like the finished picture. It's at least as good as the old version. PS: I use paint pens sometimes, but only in black and white. I don't think I'd stretch to coloured pens because they run out so quick. I painted my friend's Lakeland terrier in a cartoon style outlined in black paint marker and used an entire pen on an A4 canvas. And that was just outlining a dog inside a flash of colour. By the way your voice sounds familiar, do you review fountain pen stuff? That's where I think I remember you from.
I’m sure you can do it! 💪🏼 I also struggle with finishing a full sketchbook (even thin ones). This was somewhat a miracle to pull of and it took several years. 🤣🤣
I love prepping panels when I get into artist block so when I’m creating and in the moment if I have an idea, I can paint it right away. Cool to refine the idea in the ipad before painting though!!!
