Okay, here’s the deal. Trying to keep track of a 24 color mixing chart may very well break my brain, BUT. If this video gets 20,000 likes and 1,000 comments, I’ll put it on my list of things to do for y’all.
Yes please! Mixing charts! I am now very curious about whether your complementary pigment hypothesis is correct too. What else is in the sketching set and where is it available in Japan? Thanks again for another very satisfying video.
I’d be curious to see it, but I know how much work it takes, I do it for my palettes and 24 would be a lot. I sold one chart cos the colours were so pretty, though, it was quite funny.
It is just beautiful. I have a 24 piece set, but not that one. I like them and I do not mix colors to much,but when I do, I mix up a batch and store that in small containers. There is something about swatching paints that I find very satisfying and relaxing. Stay well and remain positive.
I’m totally in the same boat when it comes to enjoying swatching. It’s just so pretty and soothing, somehow. I’m such a chicken and I never pre-mix my paints because I’m afraid I’ll regret it some day! =>.
Thank you for your fab swatching. To be clear, Miyazaki may have used this palette for sketching, but the actual anime frames were painted with poster paints ( eg Nicker) before digitizing the image. Poster paints have all the attributes that are needed as you mentioned, are more like gouache but much more fluid and not so portable and suffer from poor lightfastness.
I love this palette and would have bought it for my main palette if I didn't recently buy a set of winsor newtons! That Permanent Green 1 is soooo pretty!
This set is so gorgeous! I would say that it is a well balanced set for people who paint anime. I would think that anyone who was painting a lot of nature scenes might struggle with the stunning vibrancy of some of the colors! I did find it interesting that you said the paints were dry because a lot of them still looked kinda wet in their little pans.
Great points! But there are some very toned-down colors in there too, like the yellow grey or whatever it’s called, which is sort of a creamy light brown. I imagine it would be great for trees somehow. And yeah! They still look glossy and juicy but I swear they’re solid and completely dry to the touch!
@@MeowMeowKapow Yeah....kinda .... .> um...makes them look like dessert. Not that I am a curious kitty that would lick paint or anything! But I can totally understand why he would!
Kitarra Chaosweaver I have mentioned in MULTIPLE palette setups that they look like delicious hard candies. Totally feel where you’re coming from on this one! =>.
Not exactly related but I love the combination of opera and quin gold and opera and cobalt teal XD. Thanks for the video as always, it was nice to see you swatching!
I don't think a full mixing chart is necessary, but I would be curious about what grays and blacks you can mix with any complimentary colors in this set.
A lot of people say they love doing mixing charts, and that they help people zone out....but for me? Totally the opposite! They’re a huge amount of work and I usually get slightly frustrated with anything over five or six colors. =>..
As long as my kids arent going crazy I love doing them. I really do wish I could help out. I did a mix on a 24 set I got was a big brainless project to work on over 3 days.
Dahlia Bodil hm. Maybe my biggest problem is that I think of it as a singular task that must be completed in one time span, rather than breaking it up into more manageable chunks. Could theoretically spend a few hours a day doing it for however long it takes and not try to sprint through in one go.
I understand the logic behind this palette and you pretty much echoed my thoughts about not having to remix every color being useful for animation. (I thought the same when I was going to do a Comic in watercolor.) However, I’m not worried about mud like a lot of artists have been taught to be. 1, I find a lot of “mud” quite beautiful and more accurate to the colors in our world. Look at any picture of a swamp, and indeed, there’s mud there. I genuinely don’t see the problem with mud. So, no, I’m not a single pigment girl. 😂 However, I use a limited palette because lots of colors make things complicated and it’s cheaper to maintain. But I have added 2 convenience colors to my 12 color palette... indigo and quinacridone violet. (Plus I have 2 greens.) I might make it 13 color palette and add Daniel Smith’s moon glow... I will say that I don’t like colors with added white, but that’s mostly because I haven’t really used them, so I don’t know how to use them. But yeah, I can understand the logic of this set... even if it’d be too complicated for me to use. And I think even for those artists who are terrified of mud they could easily avoid it with this set.
Creating muddy colours is GREAT for landscape and urban sketching/plein air work, but not so great for character design. That's why a lot of artists are "worried" about it (though I feel a lot of that worry stems from not having a full understanding of colour theory either, but that's another conversation all together).
@@godzandheros Oops, I guess I'm using colors wrong. I often use mud in my character designs. Especially when mimicking leather,. 😂 I will agree that mud has a time and place... like not in the middle of the sky, or an awkward dark spot on a white dress.
@@curiousorigins Well obviously browns will be used for characters by default, what I mean is that for painting scenery it doesn't really matter if your colour gets dulled slightly (muddying up) by mixing colours together because nature isn't always bright colours everywhere. For character work, you want to keep those colours clean, crisp, and vibrant and you want to avoid unintentional neutralization or dulling of colour because you accidentally mixed two colours you thought would be safe but one contained a pigment that would be it's complimentary colour and that colour is now less impactful as you expected it to be. You see what I'm saying?
@@godzandheros Yeah, I understand you now. 😊 You only want to use neutrals where you want more neutral colors. And for some, that maybe don't know their paints extremely well, might neutralize on accident. Thanks for taking the time to explain further.
I don't know much about the Holbein brand, but usually watercolour paints shrink because there are fewer fillers and also the reason why so many paints look dark/almost black in pans is because of high pigment concentration. Does that mean Holbein watercolours have fillers in them and are less pigmented?
Ugh. But Sennelier is sooo prettttttyyyyyy. I loves them. I loves them so much. 😭 But Holbein has its time and place! Don’t think it’ll ever be my favorite paint, but I’ve definitely grown to understand them better over the last two years.
@@MeowMeowKapow yeah i feel the same ^.^ get a load of the " brilliant orange" though, no orange like that in Sennelier. i just keep buying the Holbein dot cards though xD
@@MeowMeowKapow or maybe its "cad yellow orange"", either way yeah they have different uses so maybe Holbein for cute characters and sennelier for traditional watercolour. (i like to make rules for myself for focus....)
Hahaha, right?!?! I will say that I do appreciate a good color chart and the ease or use having one brings, I just hate how panicked I seem to get while making them.
Kat I would love to see how these colours work together in a mixing chart. Also, who else was trying to which scenes of Studio Ghibli movies they had seen this or that particular colour in?
A couple of years ago, for ink toner, I did a couple of Ghibli-themed pieces, which I also colored. There are quite a few colors in here that I recognize from when I was doing those pieces myself!
For me Holbein makes the highest quality paints in the world. Followed by M.graham (or maybe they share the number 1 spot). Then Schmincke D.S and W&N seem to be all there sharing a second place. I didn't used Kremer pigment watercolors but they seem to be incredible good.
Oh my! OUR apartment company decided to send a scary drill man to play with all the vents, so Bubba is getting many many safety snuggles to get over the trauma. Plus, I’ve got vertigo today and he takes his duties as Doctor Bubb very seriously, so we both win! If these hadn’t been on my list of things to get for so long, I also wouldn’t have. But...c’mon. They’re basically a once in a lifetime haul for me! =>..
@@MeowMeowKapow Not the drill man!!! That's SO spook! >< Good thing he's got a job to do today to keep him busy. ^^ Hope the vertigo leaves your head alone soon! I hate that feeling. >< And, absolutely! I was in no way trying to say you shouldn't have gotten it! It's beautiful! I was just reminding myself the reason why I shouldn't get it. :P Also, I think that's a great idea to help you diminish your stash, and make some money back! ^^
This looks like a cute set, odd bunch of colours, I have tried so hard to love this brand but no luck. Power to you if you they found a way to get a heart beat.
As intrigued as I am by a mixing chart, I'd honestly feel bad for putting you through that.. :O that said, I'd love to hear your thoughts about these colours!!
Its a higher quality version of the prima confection series.. same concept and one that a lot of watercolor reviewers didn't understand. I came from acrylic decorative painting (also called tole painting) where we use bottled light body acrylics.. almost all of them are designer colors (convenience colors) which also change every year based on trends. The entire idea is to simply reach for a color and use it with the only mixing involved being multiloading on the brush and glazing. It was not uncommon for an artist to have a hundred colors in their collection. Sets were designed to coordinate with each other. So while the watercolor purists were freaking out because they had three or even four pigments in a shade with a cutesy name.. I understood completely. For the record I do appreciate a traditional mixing palette and in fact paint with that set up most often in watercolor with a seven to twelve color palette of single pigment transparent shades. BUT I also own a 48 color set that I can use in the same way as this, with basically no mixing necessary other than layering or blending on the paper. It's nice sometimes.. especially in conjunction with a pen and ink work.
soliferi oooh I solved this! I bought and drank a few single serving martinelli’s apple juice. It’s glass, has a lid, and a restricted neck so that if you only fill it a few inches, the cat won’t get in there
Weird colour choices for me. I personally don't find it balanced at all. So many blues and yellows yet so little reds. For my preferences, it's pointless to have that huge amount of mixed greens when the set already has lots of blues and yellow. I understand the convenience colours and all but... remove a blue and add another red (not that pinkish and cold and not that warm and orangeish, something in the middle) and maybe remove a green and add a bluish violet like dioxacine violet to be able to mix darker blues and Payne's grey. Maybe I'm too picky.
It's definitely missing some of the basics, it didn't need both ultramarine and cobalt blue hue? i think it was. I was shocked that it had like 3? fugitive paints included too.
