my top 5 art supplies for sketching & mix-media! 

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I'm excited for a sketchbook tour of this one since so far it looks messy but in a way where it feels like you're just going with the flow and not feeling restraint by perfectionism or self doubt and I just love it

Last week I threw some left over gouache paint on a sketchbook page because I didn't want to just let it dry. Such a good decision!! I just did random shapes and lines, but now that the page is already "messed up," I can draw and doodle whatever on top of it without worrying about what it looks like. Filled the page with cute and ugly sketches and I didn't worry about it!

watercolors, gouache, waterbased markers, pencils, and colored pencils- a mix media approach in each illustration 👍🏻

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1) a mechanical pencil, preferably with 0.7 lead 2) Water-based markers, I really like the Koi brush pens but I only have a few of them! 3) A super thin liner (my favorite is the Pilot G-Tec-C4!!!) 4) Zebra mildliners are. simply divine. chefs kiss 5) soft colored pencils like prismacolor!

I usually use alcohol markers and colored pencils, but I recently purchased a set of oil pastels just for fun and they are actually really amazing and fun to layer. I try to be a perfectionist with my art and these force you to go outside those boundaries which I’m having fun with :)

Actually you can revive brushes covered in dried acrylics with nail polish remover ^^ I have this beautiful oval brush that got covered in it and was useless for over 6 months! Then I got some acetone (polish remover) and it dissolved and was good as new :3

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Hey again, always glad to see you posting on here. A relevant bit about solvents: If acrylic paint dries in a synthetic brush, before you toss it out, try denatured alcohol to dissolve the acrylic paint. (May be known as "mineral spirits" where you are.) Denatured alcohol is murder on a natural hair watercolor brush, but it may save your good synthetic brushes, especially if you are at the point of no return and are going to throw them out anyway. If the acrylic paint has "cured" a long time, results may vary. But most often, denature alcohol can cut thru the latex in acrylic paint. Acetone will also work, but breathing the vapor is REALLY BAD for your internal organs so if you use acetone, do it outside in a hurricane or maybe in a wind tunnel, OR with an appropriate gas mask rated for aromatic hydrocarbons. Acetone is also really bad for natural hair brushes, but will get the paint out. Also if you have waterproof ink, and it dries in your brush or other tools, shellac thinner will often dissolve the waterproof inks. If you are going to do art, it pays to learn what solvents will cut thru your various art materials. After going to a zillion life drawing sessions and only having 20 minutes (or so) to draw a whole person, I dropped doing pencil sketching altogether, and leaned to draw directly with a watercolor brush to save time (working in watercolor). I also spent the last bunch of years using pen and ink directly when sketching, forcing myself to "look harder" and draw with more deliberate strokes. But YOU have been inspiring me to use graphite and Col-Erase colored pencils for sketching again, and I am amazed at how much you can fix if you allow yourself to erase. :D I also wanted to mention that Prismacolor has a line of HARD colored pencils called "Verithin". The color choices are limited, but they are good for doing smaller details when the mushy Prismacolor pencils are too soft. Because they are hard, they do burnish the paper surface and can be difficult to erase. But used in conjunction with softer colored pencils they do serve a purpose.

Basically what I use all the time in my sketchbooks is cheap watercolor, ink and water based markers. I've been trying to paint first and then ink it without a sketch underneath (unless I want to add more texture) and just go straight in with the ink pens and markers and it's been going quite well so far :D.

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I always forget what you look like and then you show your face and my first instinct is"awwww" your one of my favorite art youtubers. Thanks for being great.

I love the vibrant colours on this page. 😊

Usually watercolor with colored pencil or chalk pastel pencil. But recently started acrylic paints (soft & heavy)....

most of our favorite supplies are the same actually. i also do printmaking, but that isn't really a sketchbook thing (i do make some test prints in my sketchbook occasionally but it's still not really sketchbook based except for like design ideas n stuff). watercolor and gouache are my go to supplies; i also mix my white gouache to get thicker paint or as a way to lighten a color without losing pigment. graphite is always great, and i really love water soluble graphite! my colored pencil phases come and go a lot, but i'm currently in a colored pencil phase so i've been using that in my sketchbook and with my watercolors lately. some other supplies i enjoy are my posca pens, copics (but like on a piece of marker paper taped in lol), and regular ole liner pens. mixed media is a must for my sketchbooks bc not only do i love using watercolor, i like to use a lot of water. so my paper has to handle wayyyy too much water lol

I'm so glad to see you posting again! I love your videos, they always inspire me to pull out my sketchbook!

Thank you for posting this video since now I get to see what you look like instead of listening to your voice in the video. You are really pretty and can't wait to see your next video. Hopefully it is a drawing one or something.

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1. Any sketch book but have been using strathmore mixed media sketch book 2. Blending stump 3. Tombow mono eraser 4. Kuru toga 0.5mm mechanical pencil with 2B lead 5. Colored pencils :)

My main sketching supplies are actually pretty similar to yours! I use watercolour, coloured pencils, cheap markers, graphite and ball point pens. I've been trying to get into gouche but none of the stores near me sell any so I have a odd assortment of colours. Thank you so much for this video! You never cease to make me feel inspired to do art

Love your art style and mix media

I’d say my top five are markers, liners, straight up paper (can I say that? I know you use paper to sketch but I love looking at all types of paper), acrylic paints, and colored pencils. They’re not really in any order those are just five that I like. :)

My top 5 art supplies I have been using recently are Colored pencils,faber castell markers,random art supplies,graphite pencils and posca pens

For me currently I think using Prismacolor’s color pencil, Blick’s 4B pencil, watercolor, marker, and I’m really starting to enjoy using color pens (random). I normally only sketch with a 4B pencil, but idk sketching with interesting colored pens is starting to become fun.

ahhhh I love your purple hair!!! Also the up close sketching was so fun to see. I love all the individual color strokes, your art is very whimsical and fun but it can also be calming too. Hmm as for my go to sketching supplies, I love mechanical pencils!! I usually end up using pilot color enos, but I want to also get back to using more pens and liners, just because it adds a fun pop to things. There's so many fun things to try out honestly, you might as well go a little crazy lol

My top 5 are probably Graphite, watercolor pencils, regular coloured pencils (/pencil crayons), charcoal, pen and ink or ink with brushes and i have been enjoying watercolour graphite lately a lot

So legit same for sketching aside from coloured marker pens, I tend to use straight up black fine liners. Simply because I do like to colour everything in my sketchbook and I can never be confident that the colourful stuff wont blend together. I discovered gouache last year and it's one of my fave things to work with now, so versatile! I know you weren't a huge fan when you got them, but I also like to work with graphite watercolours in my sketchbook, because once you get used to consistency, I actually find them quite forgiving to use (being able to watercolour-lift them AND erase them) and useful for doing a quick wash of tones. I love love love how colourful your work is though, and I was so happy to see we use so many of the same supplies.

I can’t wait for your next video

I always thought art in general was stupid but after watching your channel for a year I'm proud to say I'm a semi good sketch artist like my friends wanna know how I got so good to sketching and I tell them to check out your channel along with other channels and just learn but thank you for inspiring me to explore my creative side :)

Love the snakes!! You are so talented and your videos inspired me!!!

You’re so pretty 🤩 And your art is my favorite thing ever, sooo relaxing and inspiring omggggfhfbdb

The tombow fudenosuke brush pens are so good!

i use the white gouache x watercolor method, it's excellent for adding more depth to your work but the downside to it is hard to get dark colors, but now i want to try actual gouache and experiment with new media

Man this video inspires me to use my sketchbook more! I normally, mainly, create digital art, but it's nice to grab those traditional tools once in a while. As far as I remember I mainly used colored pencil for a base sketch and then use a mechanical graphite pencil on top to flesh it out. Then I would often decorate those sketch with different supplies. Sometimes I'd use watercolors or watercolor pencils, other times markers and once I even used gouache (that was really fun, should use it again). Maybe I should try to mix and combine them all like you do, that looks really good and fun to do

Tbh I've wanted to branch out forever, but I'm a shut-in and I pretty much live on my bed, so... I just use the same supplies all the time. Just mechanical pencil, black fine liner pens, watercolors and a water brush, and a white posca pen for highlights. Sometimes I might use metallic gel pens as well but that's rare.

For my sketchbook it's mostly soluble graphite pencils (graphitint by Derwent), brush pens filled with ink, fineliners, ecoline and waterbased markers for kids, and watercolour pencils. Cool thing to do with those waterbased markers is you can take a waterbrush to them and make it look like watercolour, or use the marker on something plastic and pick up the pigment with your brush from there. It's really fun!

Thanks for the recommendations. I haven't tried them yet myself, but if you want a hard, sharp-point Prismacolor for outlining, they have the Prismacolor Verithin in a few dozen of the same colors as the soft-core Prismacolors. For some reason while the 24-pack contains all of the 12-pack, the 36 pack is missing indigo blue and process red (pale magenta). And process red isn't available as open stock where I've looked. So now they're making me have to choose which ones I think I'd actually use instead of just grabbing a fairly inexpensive complete set.

Right now I'm really into using my Zig Kuretake Cocoiro pen, Zig Kuretake Bimoji pen, copic markers, gouache, and a Sennelier ink brush for super loose thumbnail sketches :) Oh, almost forgot I love to use Zebra Mildliners too :D

I love throwing plenty of mediums at a Sketchbook it's so much fun! and also do any of you know a good mix Square mixed-media SketchBook I'm a bit lost😳

gouache is great for any paper but ofc you should opt for thicker consistencies. but in general, it's great if you want to paint in sketchbooks. i love gouache

I think I have a problem with art supplies, I have a lot. So many art supplies that I'm missing space to work while having them handy and I feel like I can't use all of them and I'm either using just one and not the rest or struggling to decide which to use each time. I wish I had bought just one good watercolor pallette and one brand of nice paper and like, one fineliner that I like and that's it.

water based markers are so fun for sketching! also, the colours on this spread are sooo gooood!

your one of my biggest inspirations for really learning that I can do what I want in my sketchbook

Love your videos 🥰

Did I catch a page of sugar gliders! I just sketched a page of those!

I missed you!! It already looks like your enjoying art more in this new sketchbook 💜

I've mostly just been doodling in my sketchbook for a month and I wasn't very happy with that. So I recently started using prismacolor pencils again and have been enjoying that a lot. I also like alcohol markers, watercolor, and a brown copic linners.

I've been in an art block lately and been wanting to get into more mixed-media type art, so this is perfect! Tip - if you have white gouache and mix in some watercolour, you can create pastel gouache shades, it isn't perfect gouache but if you have limited money or space it can be useful, I've used it for a few pieces in my sketchbook when I want a splash of a more opaque colour but only have limited supplies!

I do a lot of mixed media stuff too! I use essentially the same as you but I also use ink a lot (brush pens usually). Lately I've been really loving putting ink and especially graphite over gouache. The shininess of the graphite really shows and you can add more texture, and the ink can allow for really dark areas that gouache sometimes cant do on it's own. I really liked this video! It inspired me to draw, and to lean into the mixed media messiness more than I let myself sometimes.

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I've been using gouache in my SketchBook more often and I really like it's just taking the gouache and the paint brush and not caring what happens, but I don't doodle on top of them and I think it would be cool to do that so... Thanks for the idea!

love this video xD I myself love drawing with comic sketch markers, I really want to try colour pencils more, so I hope to buy some soon xD I do mostly digital art, but I hope to do more traditionally xD

Wow I’m early! I’d just like to say I really love your videos and u really inspire me.

Your artwork inspires me so much! You are one of my favorite artists and I look up to you as just a starter.

I just got some new gouache paints and I have been having a lot of fun with all the colours this week! :D Otherwise, my favourite supplies are watercolours, oil paints, and pencils. :D

Super enjoyed the video, those snakes are wonderful

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I don't have special taste in art supplies, but my favorites would be 1. Gouache 2. B6-8 pencils 3. Mechanical pencil 4. Watercolour 5. Graphite block for quick shading

Personally I use the pentel orenz mechanical pencil,and a zig cocoiro pen for a lot of my sketches but I’m trying to break into more mixed media stuff

fountain pens are my favorite for sketching! That and a good .5 mechanical pencil. I prefer H or 2H lead if it is available. Poscas are also very fun to use and the main medium right now for most of my projects. Watercolor & gouache are great, as well ^^

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This was very inspiring! I tend to use a bursh tip ink pen at lot in my sketchs.. Along with some color microns pens and sometimes colored pencils.. But I've been wanting to expand or add to some other mediums like gouache and maybe watercolor. This might be the push I needed. :)

It is interesting to learn from other artist on how they sketch and what they use for sketching. I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but, lately I've been sketching with ballpoint pens (in different colors, cause it's fun) ballpoint pen is great for me, because it has a very pencil feel like, if I put pressure then more inks comes out and less pressure then the lighter it is, the biggest difference of sketching with a ballpoint pen is that, it's permanent! And for me it kinda pushes me to just let a mistake happen and hope to fix that mistake next time I sketch, I also use technical pens (microns, also in different colors 😁)

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I use mechanical pencils and markers for the most part. Boring, I know lol. Great video!

Derwent have a variety of pencil crayons

Have you tried woodless graphite pencils? Those are my favorite type of pencil

I love your videos so much, they are so inspiring to watch 🌸

Wow poggy video i would like to try these out some time, especially the gouache i didnt even know what that was before u introduced it through ur videos and art, probably would have thought it was some kind of french food, anyways thanks for blessing people with ur art and content jess, shoutouts to skillshare, water based markers are cool too

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hubby didnt know what i was talking about when i said I work in pencil crayons lol i dont know if I have 5 things I use for sketching, basic pens work for me

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I don’t know if you already answered this question, but toward the end of the video you say your drawings were printed in Canada. Can I known where exactly are they from? I also wanna do print and since I’m from Canada I might as well go with a company from here :0

Is this a watercolor paper or is this like mixed media paper ?

Wait wait wait, do you use the Shinhan Professional (their actual student grade) or Shinhan PWC (their professional grade)?

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