★ starting a NEW SKETCHBOOK | THIS is why i love gouache ★ 

For anyone trying to figure out how to use gouache, this is how to do it! There's a reason color theory classes so often use gouache, because you have to mix distinct steps of color rather than just smudging gradients. This was so much fun to watch!

What you mentioned at around 7:00 really resonates with me ! I feel like as artists we just like to hoard supplies and put them on pedestals with caution tape around it lmao ! This year I'm definetely gonna try to pull the expensive stuff out and use it !Loved this video and the painting

What a fantastic first page! I love the way you placed lots of different shades of gouache next to each other rather than blending it smoothly… if that makes sense? ❤

I love being able to see the previous layers reacting a little while youre painting - that aspect of gouache scares me so it’s fun seeing you just flow with it! What a lovely painting. The blues are just stunning ❤

This is my absolute favorite album cover. Perfect way to start a new sketchbook.

The pink underpainting really makes it pop! I just finished my sketchbook after only drawing in black brushpens and ink for a personal challenge and I'm moving to another one with no "rules" feels so weird rn but i'm trying to experiment and stuff in it

Beautiful painting ! My goal for last year was to use all the art supplies when I wanted, expensive or not, just for a doodle using luminance pencils etc. It brought me a more relaxed way of sketching and making more random pieces. In October I started an a2 size art piece with polychromos pencils and 4 luminance ones, which I never would have done before. Like using so much expensive pencils on an insane piece of papier 😂 I hope you have an amazing art year (for everyone here) and don’t save the good stuff for a good time that in the end will end up with art supplies unused

Your positivity for the new year and this new sketchbook is so inspiring!! ❤ I hope this new year is great for all of us

I love this piece, the colours, the expression, it's so fun and vibrant and I love the details and her lips and teeth and the hair and the way her makeup looks a bit vintage y, like the mascara. Just ugh it looks so so good

so worried about starting my first page. hearing your thoughts and struggles is comforting :) I wanted to use primarily watercolor in my new sketchbook, but also picked up a brand new tube of white gouache and I've never actually used gouache, so it's nice to watch your process. thanks for sharing your process!

I always always look forward to your content your overall vibe makes me so happy 🌞👑✨

Girl❗️ I m listening to Yes Big Generator on cassette😎 so Cool to see someone else listening to cassettes as well😁

Love love loooooooooveeeeeeeeee this!!!!!

You have a great energy! Love ur work and vibe 👍🏾

Love this painting ❤❤❤

Love the painting. Love the Cars. I can't listen to them while i drive though even the mellow ones turn my foot into a lead filled anvil!

Bruh this is so good! I feel the same with artist grade gouache vs the Himi gouache, like it's easier to tile stuff like Holbein or W&N cuz it's opaque for most of their colors. It's extremely hard to get an opaque laydown with Himi because the paint (even the white) is more transparent, so endless layering occurs rather than laying down a color from Holbein and moving on

I'm getting electric 80's synthwave vibes from this painting, love it!

This is such a beautiful piece!! Also I loved the pink underpainting, so excited to see what the new year brings you!

thats a great page! looks great and it looks very happy😀

wow wow that painting is so gorgeous!!! i feel like you really adapted the reference image and made it your own if that makes sense? good luck for the year, can't wait to see more from you!!

Wow what an amazing page!

I always fall into the trap of being too precious with my more expensive art supplies and I always think "no this is just a fun piece, it's not going on someone's wall" but I do art for fun and I think I need to let myself use my cool, good quality stuff even if the painting is for me. It makes me happy and I'm excited to use them and I enjoy the stuff I make with them a lot and it doesn't help my art supplies either if they're sitting in my closet for months and months untouched. I consciously tell myself to use the good quality art supplies when I'm making art just for myself, sometimes, and i find it more enjoyable that way. I don't think you need the most expensive supplies for everything, but I have them and it's okay to use them just for art that's for me.

It’s great to see you happy, Al! You deserve to love what you’re doing ❤

That is FABULOUS!! You really captured her feels in that painting! I love the palet too...just beautiful. You are so right too about saving things. I have dishes that I don't use because I'm saving them for some special occasion that may never happen - SO I'M USING THEM!!! I learned quite a bit from this video that I can apply to my new found love of painting. I've been doing it since this past January and I'm LOVING it. Still discovering all the different mediums too and that is so much fun. I'm just starting to use guache too. Thank you so much for your video!!

Beautiful gouache piece omg what a way to start a new sketchbook. The pink really brought the colors together 💖💖

Wicked awesome! This made me subscribe, love your work!

I absolutely love The Cars and I saw this video suggested and thought... wait! Is that...? It is! Really lovely work - doing believable transparent things can be a challenge - I've never tried that in gouache, but I can see how it would be even harder because you can't really blur stuff easily. I dunno! I'll try! New subscriber :)

I LOVE THIS PAINTING!! I’ve had my best friend’s girl on repeat so when I saw that you painted the album cover I got really excited

Great piece! 😍

I love the colors you use and how you always made the characters or scenes come to life! Great work and Happy New Year

ABSOLUTELY POPPED 👏 OFF 👏 ❤

perfection! love the colors and just how it all came together. what a great first page! 💜

Great 1st page! I was procrastinating my first sketchbook page, but your paint really inspired me!

Wow ,an amazing first page! ✨ Its so good to watch you paint!

So excited for this!! I love your videos so much!!!!💗

i love the way they this page turned out! the colors look so beautiful 💗 i’m looking forward to the sketchbook tour!

also that looks so good. :O

this came out great! the color palette suits you

I love how this looks! I love the cars! This slayed! Manifesting a good year!

It looks so good!!! Congratulations!

I just got my new sketchbook on January 2nd! I'm trying to get it done in about 3 months new sketchbooks are always so exciting!!

So talented. 😍🤩

Omg it’s so beautiful! I love this.

This was such a great piece! So cool to see it come together, and see the process of using gouache in this manner. Definitely a good omen. 😀 I think I feel similarly about jelly gouache versus tube gouache.

This piece is magical ✨️😍

Heck yeah! I love this one! I’m also starting a new strathmore of the same dimensions and wanna let loose and not worry about making it perfect :)

aaaa i've been thinking about starting a new sketchbook lately and this motivated me to finally do it!!! i recently subbed and i love your content, this turned out absolutely beautiful❤️

This is one of my favorite album covers and you absolutely did it justice! Are you familiar with Supertramp’s Breakfast in America? That’s another album cover that I think would look great in your style.

Do u mind doing a guide or tutorial how you mix colours for portraits in "paint by number" style? I struggled a lot with it

no way! I'm currently using a lot of gouache and just yesterday I did a painting with a hot pink underwash (though I was using the jelly gouache)

Always look forward to your videos 🎉 Happy New Year!

Great first page! Lovely video as always ❤️. Do you stop and change your camera angles? Also, how to come to the 3 month goal to work in a Sketchbook?

I feel the hardcover being weird to work in, I use the softcover but got hardcovers two different times for christmas and its just so weird having the extra size, also I would for you to talk about the differences you see when reactivating the artists gouache vs straight outta the tube and what you prefer

maybe something fun you could try is redraw a childhood drawing of when you were like... below the age of ten or something. Imo it's different than a standard redraw as most kids draw the funkiest stuff around that age which will make you wonder if the thing they drew is an apple or a cat :'-) I think it might also help with exploring your creativity, see what you make out of it now

2020 helped me get over my fear of using my "good" supplies until I'm "good" enough to use them. I had the realization I might die, dark, but true. Faced with mortality I imagined someone cleaning out my apartment and throwing things I value in a trash bag. Now I stick my stickers and use my nice paints. The idea of them being thrown away without having been used sobered me up to actually using them. Would the person who cleaned up my stuff even know or care what daniel smith watercolors are to donate them? Idk.

i didnt know you could put gouache over acryl gouache . it never occured to me to try that.

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Can I ask you a question about your process on this? What is the purpose of starting with the pink underwash, when almost none of the pink remains visible in the final painting? Why include that step at all?

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