I’m a beginner sketcher/illustrator who loves drawing on location (urban sketching) and travelling. I share my drawing process, art hauls, product reviews and everyday life.
Great comparison!! 🥰 The $ was very intriguing!! 👍 I have seen someone cut off the back end of one of the woodies. Half of the shaft is just wood, no crayon. Additional plus for the neocolor IIs is that if you sharpen the neocolor IIs, you can place the shavings in a container or watercolor palette and use it as watercolor paint. It would also let you create your own colors that way. With the woodies, you would have to sort out the wood to do that.
I have not bought the Woodies because the colors are too saturated for my taste. I prefer pastels and muted colors. That’s why I love the Neocolor II, because they have both saturated and muted colors available, along with some lighter tones.
The Woody crayon only goes down half the shaft of the stick, so you get half as much crayon with the Woody vs the Neocolor. Edited to add: Thanks so much for this comparison. I appreciate your effort.
I think it's a bit much to call it a fraud. I think the purpose is that you will be able to use all the crayon inside and still have a chunk of wood to hold on to at the end. If the crayon went all the length of the wood, then you would get to a point where you physically can't sharpen it any more even with a knife, and you'd have at least an inch of unusable crayon inside. But it is true that you get less crayon in the Woodies compared to the Neos, and since the Woodies are already more expensive....
❤4:44 wow I LOVE your patterns series!- not just individually but being able to glimpse them all in relation to each other! Is there a flipthrough post or something I can see?
Oh this was fun!. Thank you so much for taking us with you. Luved the book flip too. Kat I really enjoyed how you modeled an approachable way to explore a new influence, working through multiple steps to extract what you enjoyed into your own art. I like all your works & especially luved your cut outs referencing your own life drawings and the city sketch. I think there is value im taking multiple stabs at the same sketch/work. You really got a lot out of this latest trip. Thanks again & take care
Love love love the plant and door paintings. Your process got me to thinking how I could redo some of my own. Thank you for these videos. They are food for my creative appetite
Hello Kat! I love your sketchbook. I appreciate how you describe what you did even when things aren't "perfect" for sketching. Like getting sick, and what you did sketch even then. I loved the Japanese trees, cherry blossoms, and how you said they waited for you! How happy you must have been to be able to sketch those. I like that you mentioned using markers, and which pencils, neo colors, etc. I enjoyed the castle, buildings and various outdoor spaces. If you do a self portrait in the armor, that would be so fun! Thank you for this. Paula
This is one amazing sketchbook. You absolutely nailed it with the colour and material choices. (Limited palette) so inspired. Now I want to go out sketching.
Great selection of colours on your kit! All my 'dark' browns in Luminance range are scratchy 😬 hate that, must be related with some pigment...including my brown neocolor is not as soft as the other colours!!!
If you don't have it already, try the chocolate in the Derwent drawing pencils. It's as smooth and creamy as real chocolate, not nearly so delicious though.
Another great little video, totally understand the food problem on the airline, I had the same problem with Emirates I'm allergic to mushroom, fish and wholemeal items (this one serious like nut allergy) gave the airline 9 months notice and still they gave me eggs & mushroom then fish and brown rice, the return flight ended up getting no food apart from a bottle of water not much bigger than a mixer , that was 12.5 hours no food 2nd flight back from Dubail 8 hours wasn't much better. Ill be going either BA/JAL Lufthansa/ANA,, KLM, Air France next year and they all goto Japan via USA the opposite direction than emirates
@@sketchingtheworldwithkat true, love for a budget airline in UK to fly there, maybe one day, I think China Eastern is the closest to low cost from Edinburgh via Shanghai is my option
Love the painting! The paints behave similar to Inktense paint pan colors and Stockmar opaque watercolors. For travel sketching I tend to use the Inktense paint palette no. 1 straight out of the pans, even though they mix well. If I didn't have a ban on buying new art supplies, I'd try a set of the Kuretake. Thanks for sharing your travels and sketches with everyone!
I've got a few of the inktense sticks but very rarely use them. I think because I put them in a box to protect them and that box is buried away somewhere. They are good because you can use them as crayons or paints.
My favourite watercolours 😍 I have a basic set of 12 that I should use more! Loved the sunbeams hitting your sketchbook 💛 and when you talked about Luigi waking up in mornings 😂
It feels like a dream trip to just go somewhere and sketch whenever I want. Very inspiring. Can I ask, how easy/difficult is it to do the things you want, buy the food you want if you don't speak any Japanese?
Nowadays it's pretty simple with stuff like Google translate and that other google app where you take a photo of something and it translates the text for you. Around Tokyo, especially tourist places, most things are in English. Once you go off the beaten path, you might have some issues but that's where I'd use Google translate.
@@sketchingtheworldwithkat it is, I'm hoping to fly into Osaka, cover Kyoto, Kobe maybe Nara then Hiroshima finish in Tokyo, take my sketch book and camera not sure who to fly with to get there, it won't be Emirates.
It's great around the Kansai area, so much to see all close together. If you are into Japanese sake, there are some great breweries you can visit in Kobe.
Lovely goodies can't wait until 2025, when I go myself, UK GBP pound forget is better than us dollar, today it's 197 yen to £1 GBP, last week it was 215 yen to pound, great video!
I did my first zine fair last month and preparing was like a second full time job on top of my full time job that pays the bills. I learned a lot. I have applied for another zine fair and I will find out in a week if I get in. I have decided to make one zine a month no matter what, at least get it to the ready to print stage.
It is so much more work than you expect, right. Doing a second zine fair would be easier (hopefully) because you'd have a lot of stuff already prepared.
Hello Kat. I am SUCH a fan of your travels and sketching! This is a wonderful view into your trip and art, and I really enjoyed it. Very well done, and I hope to get to see more! I could watch your videos, all day. Love the coffee breaks, and views, and seeing the shops and sites, etc. Well done, Kat. Thank you, thank you! Paula
