I missed a couple of your videos!! Time to binge watch haha :)) this set is interesting but is it normal for the ochre and sepia to have that many pigments even in other watercolor brands? Also, I managed to get myself that Meiliang/Pretty Excellent set on Shopee before the lockdown, and it’s also a really good beginner set for a relatively inexpensive price! 36 colors for 800 (sale price tho, orig is around 1k). Will compare it to Paul Rubens once this all blows over and I can get a 24 set of those :) can’t wait for your paper reviews though! 💚 as always, your demo piece is superb 😩
You have all the time now to binge watch. hahaha. 4 pigments in a color is a bit too much, honestly disappointing,.. but believe it or not, Ive seen 5 pigments at the highly regarded Old Holand and Isaro watercolors! hahah. Wow, I now envy because of that Meiliang Set. hahhaa. Some people say theyre exactly similar to paul rubens only put on different containers.. i dont know. But the price is too cheap! it's a still. Again, thank you for watching and for the appreciation. :)
Yes indeed! So glad for your vids during this time, very informative and gets me itching to do art hahah :) hopefully you’ll be able to grab a set too if you’re interested :D ako hanggang pangarap na lang muna si White Nights at Paul Rubens and others XD pero all in due time 💚
Thank you very much. I think this is the best review I have ever seen. I have just bought the same ArtGraf sets and having seen your painting demonstration I am very pleased that I have-
Ohh. Thank you so much. 🙏 i hope you enjoy your ArtaGraf well. These paints will really lasy loong. They're huge. I saw they have the magenta and phtalp green colors now. I wish i could include them in my chalks. 😊
Hmm.. yes expensive.. but in a way, if you look at its size and quality, you'll realize it's worth it. If you buy let's say the primary colors (700), you and 5 more of your friends can share. Tig 117php lang kayo. ☺️
I've got the white one - super pigmented and effortlessly opaque, I love using it for details. I've never tried gel pens or gouache, and don't see any reason to now that I've got this block. It's so pigmented I'm sure it's going to last me a long, long time!
I just recently bought these paints and I am so impressed with the very high pigmentation. They are so nice. I tried them today…so happy that I found them. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Wow, those blocks are gargantuan ^^' - even bigger than those Japanese pans :) I like, that their palettes are made out of cork - less plastic waste :D! I wonder though, why "primary" for so many brands means red and some type of darkish blue hue - I'm not particularly fond of pink, but always feel it's so much easier to mix proper secondaries when those are included ... Those colours are beautiful, though. I especially like the browns. Those look beautiful 😍I wonder what I would paint with them 🥰
Hi. Yes i agree. I think, it is because the primary colors taught in school which are red, yellow and blue are made more simple and 'achievable' with the available basic kid crayons and paints. It is truly easier to mix from a rose red because it is more pure. Notice the ink colors are CMYK. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. Those colors can help you achieve the widest range of colors with only 4 colors. I believe the explanation there was those colors are the 'purest'. Yes, i totally agree the the strength of Artgraf are the earth and neutral colors. These are nice and easy to use paints but be mindful that they can get powdery or chalky if used thickly. 🙏🏻🎨☺️
@@AllanJayQuesada They actually teach yellow/magenta/cyan as primaries in art classes here in Germany ^^'. Though red/blue/green is the more prominent system in anything science related as those are the "primary colours" of light :3 And they are equally often used in anything related to CAD/graphic program, at least until the digital data is primed and processed for printing :)
@@LunaBianca1805 they teach us the same here in Portugal. But most of the time people confuse the magenta with the red. A lot of people think the primary colors are yellow red and blue, and some people don’t even know...
Thank you for making this video! I became very interested in the Monochrome ArtGraf when I saw Teoh Yi Chie (from Singapore) review it, but the lightfastness or pigment information was not publicly available. Some pencil drawing artists (like my art teacher from grade school) recommend using hairspray to prevent graphite from smearing if artist "spray-on fixative" is not available, or even giving a finished pencil drawing a wash with traditional transparent watercolor to seal the graphite onto the paper. Maybe a wash of gum arabic binder without pigment will have the same effect? I don't really know about that last one, it's only a thought.
I'm also a follower of Teoh Yi Chie. 😉 And i also saw his separate reviews of the artgraf. I really thought then the product was high quality so i got interested in it. Hairspray, is that also what we call spray net, the spray that makes hairdos hard and steady? That's interesting. I have not tried fixatives yet. Im windering if itll be noticeable under glass. I have also observed and i can agree that some certain watercolor binders seal graphite on paper. I always notice that after painting on top of pencil lines, those lines cant be erased anymore. Theyre like 'glued' once painted on.. ☺️
If you are trying to keep work for a long time please only use products designed for this. Hair spray goes horribly yellow over time. If you were to sell your work you’d soon be very unpopular.
@@AllanJayQuesada Thanks! I did buy the red, yellow and blue yesterday, and played with them last night. So fun! They remind me a bit of Derwent Inktense colours, which I love. 😊
Thank you for providing that very detailed description of the Art Graf Tailor block which I had never heard of before. I loved your painting as well, keep up the good work.
exactly! I have those water soluble oil pastles back in gradeschool.. and theyre almost same with argraf. the only difference is that these are drier. :)
Interesting video. Have you tried Derwent Graphitint pencils, similar in that they are muted colour graphite pencils. Another interesting purchase would be Derwent Inktense blocks or pencils.Both Graphitint and Inktense are water soluble. Both can also be just used without using water as well. Love your picture !
Oh my. I'm interested to any muted sets. 🎨☺️ But i dont think we have the blocks yet here in PH, only the Graphitint pencils.. 😉 now im itching to get to the artstore.. hahaha. Thank you! And thank you for the material suggestions. 🙏
The first primary color must be magenta not red, if you use red instead of magenta you cannot get any color that you want when you mix colors the magenta color is similar to pink but not red
Yes, i agree. I know. It should be CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) to get the widest range of colors with least number of colors. This is because, CMY are purest in its hues. But, due to other factors, like in earlier school years, Primary colors are introduced in a simplified manner to the red blue yellow. But ideally, primaries should be 6. split triads. Warm and cool in each of the primaries. 🎨😉
Thank you so much for contacting the company, sir Allan! Now we know hehe... Lightfast pala ang pigments niya... But I wonder if the formulation (final mix) has compromised that
You're welcome po. Hahaha. Yun ang kulang ko, hjndi ko natanong kung ano ung jbang components, vehicle and binders.. pero i think, kahit tinanong ko, di nman nila sasabihin lahat..for confidentiality and mystery nalang isipin natin. Hehe
Pero very comparable ung feelings pag gumagamit ka ng Kremer Pigments watercolors.. mabigat din ung pigment load and medyo nacompromise ung kapit sa papel.
Hola Allan!! Gracias por la revisión. Hoy estuve a punto de comprar este material, pero lamentablemente en mi país (Perú) hay restricciones para la importación de este tipo de artículos, lo cual hace que este proceso sea muy largo y tedioso :(
¡Hola! Es muy triste saberlo. por cierto, lo siento por mi respuesta tardía. Pero, ¿ya hay una actualización sobre su pedido? conseguiste las pinturas?
@@AllanJayQuesada Hola Alan!! Afortunadamente sí. Encontré una web que me aceptó el pedido. Solicité el set de las 6 tizas de grafito acuarelable y hace precisamente 2 días llegó mi pedido.
Thank you! 🙏🎨 Yes i saw in their website that they have magenta and phthalo green. These colors would finally balance the color selection of this set. I wish our provider here in Philippines soon will have stocks of those colors. Have you tried their Magenta and green?
@@AllanJayQuesada I have not. I have the earth tones set which I use all the time, but I'm trying not to buy any more paint as I have a lifetime supply already.
Hello thank you for giving us the pigment information and lightfast ratings. I wanted to ask you whether these are relatively more or less staining than watercolours? I need paints for underpainting in portraits, and since I use a lot of layers I need paints that won’t lift easily. Thank you in advance from India.
You're welcome Suveksha. These are generally not as staining as the typical watercolors, but I'm afraid, i can't recommend this for layering. These paints are the easiest to activate and i think that has something to do on why paints are strongly bonded on paper. Well, that's just my guess. These paints have tendency to lift easily because it's like chalk.
Wow! These are interesting! Thanks for sharing the info.. Maganda at lightfast pala ang ArtGraf pigments. Ang ganda ng kinalabasan ng sample painting! At first, parang chocolates pala yung itsura ng blocks (o gutom lang ako? 😅 haha).
hahah. mukha talaga siyang masarap dba? parang pastilyas at chocolates. hahaha. Salamat po! May bago po akong review, yung Pentel naman. hehe. balik school grade tayo. hehe
@@AllanJayQuesada Yesss! Mukhang masarap talaga sila.. Nag-crave tuloy ng chocolates at pastilyas..haha. Wow! Pentel! I have Pentel wc set, a gift from a friend. 😊 Will watch ur new vlog, Kuya Allan!
This is something that I'm quite curious about with this watersoluable graphite. According to Amazon, this product can be used both wet and dry. So I want to know, does this erase easily as graphite when you use it wet or dry? As a second question, when using this chalk dry, are you only able to use it like a chalk---meaning with your hand to draw with it. I keep thinking that this medium is the same as powdered graphite where if I rub a dry brush over the chalk, it'll still lift some of the pigment off the chalk and I'll able to use it like powdered graphite.
when you say "erase" easily, do you mean liftable? if that's what you mean, yes, it's liftable, specially the earth colors. if you meant using it dry and erase like pencil, no. i dont think so cause it has this moisture feel, like close to oil pastel, but not oil based. there was a part in this review here where i tried to use it dry and drew lines with it. but to answer you, no, it cant be used like powdered graphite. theyre almost sticky..atleast here in the PHilippines, where it's almost humid..
Disregarding the price, i will go for any genuine Kolinsky brush, Escoda or DaVinci or Raphael. I always prefer brushes that are sturdy and wont curve overtime which happens to most synthetic brushes.
These Artgraf are nearly more like oil pastels (atleast to my humid place), than the soft pastels i commonly know which are closer to dry and powdery chalk.. But soft pastels vary across brands, so..
Well it depends. If one of the pigments jn a mixture is not as lightfast as tge others, or not as transparent as desired, it has an effect to the overall color. Single pigments as much as possible are preferred to give the artist the freedom to mix his own. Some convenience mixes arent bad specially for those who are really starting or to those who havr established color choices.
Wish this virus will finally get the cure so that I can go to artbar cause I'm making a huge art haul😅.... And by the way can you make a giveaway if you reach 3k subs😅🙏
I know the feeling. hahaha. i know we are all itching to get out for our needs and arthauls, but we have no choice but to wait. haha. But I think you can purchase from some online sellers, like, ehem.. me. hahaha. I have some watercolor sets like MGraham from US, Roman Szmal Aquarius from Poland, Van Gogh from Netherlands and more. You can get the item via grab express. :) Oh and the giveaway, I was supposed to have a giveaway last month for my birthday but I decided to cancel the plans because of the pandemic. the 3k mark is a nice timing. I think I can reach that by June.. My main issue is what is my giveaway mechanics.. hmm
@@AllanJayQuesada by the way I forgot what's your shopee name... I think I got the wrong term... But I'll buy in your store as support for your channel and the giveaway would be a great idea if the pandemic will soon stop..... And the mechanics if they'll like, share, comment in one of your particular video with subscription
@@james-bs2hf i sent my shopee link so that you may be able to checkout my items. However, the delivery system for it doesnt work and i dont encourage my buyers going to banks to deposit payments. If you want any of my items, we can arrange it outside shopee instead because we are using grab or lalamove, depending on your preference.
