USING INEXPENSIVE ART SUPPLIES 

I think it would have been really cool to see you paint the same piece with a watercolor set of your choice to see how that would look compared to how this one turned out. I know the point of the video was to test out inexpensive paint, not to compare anything. I think the painting came out great but you kept mentioning how much farther you could have taken it with different paint so I just wondered what it would have looked like if you had chosen a watercolor set of your liking.

THANK YOU for making the effort to draw beautiful art using cheap supplies. I'm so sick of other art youtubers purposely making awful art when reviewing cheap art supplies it's so pretentious and annoyed the hell out of me.

Well the things you used as the "cheap" supplies are like my good stuff xD

PAPER! It is so important that when cutting corners that you don’t buy cheap papers! You can use cheaper paint but the frustration level is so much higher with bad paper! Even brushes can be marginalized when painting but the paper is what your painting will live on forever. DaVinci Paints in California has a professional level paint selection in every medium, from watercolor to oils! And they are very very reasonably priced, I even remember spending more on student grade paint cost him more they were not as good as my Da Vinci watercolors! Be safe and take care!

I personally really really enjoy cheap chalky watercolors, mostly if I just want to draw some vintage/pastel images of flowers etc

"using inexpensive supplies" But " Has an Expensive HANDS "

I would love to see your personal recommendations for affordable but good art supplies and maybe separate the video into different tiers from beginner, intermediate, etc? I would like to see what paints you recommend ( Gouache, Watercolor, oil, acrylic if you use acrylic? ) ,paper and sketchbooks,colored pencils & other mediums. Maybe markers or pens. These are just ideas though don’t feel overwhelmed to include all of these of course!

It's so easy to forget that you can buy student grade paint and simply buy the 3 primary shades and still get a great range of colors. It's just so tempting to buy premade shades lol. 🥺

The way you paint facial features is truly mesmerising, the shine on those eyes! The lip details!

That palette was my first watercolor palette. I remember it was really cheap, also being a random girl from Argentina, a country in which its economy makes every importation product cost more, gave it a personal and special meaning since is very difficult for us to pamper ourselves with those things.

When you started talking about the ceramics class I got so sad because I started making a cow mug at school in ceramics class and now I may never be able to finish it 😭😭😭

When it comes to art the materials doesn't vary how expensive or cheap the materials are but the artists like how they use them and others

Such a stunning painting. Absolutely dazzling ✨

Wow, those results with those materials, I dunno how they went together. Amazing job

you should try the prang watercolors they’re in my opinion right up there with kuretake watercolors in terms of quality but they’re not light fast

I really love how you've used these to create artwork that looks very similar and just as good as the more expensive materials you use. It's a really great reminder that you can create great art with anything! I love your videos so much it makes me happy to see you uploading more every week✨🦆

I’d say the prang oval semi-moist watercolours are amazing for an artist who is just starting out Super cheap, not chalky at all, good colour payoff, easy to activate

Lockdown has brought me back to this channel after a few months of neglect... I missed it so much! Your voice and art are so pleasing to my eyes and ears, and the vids are always sooo aestheticlaly pleasinggggg. OMG, I just... *chef's kiss*

I personally used this paints at a point and I didn’t suffer these problems as much as you did, specifically I only had the breaking apart on the olivey brown color on the darker pallet,

I've had a four piece kit for years and have done just fine. I didn't expect this, but I got more confidence from this video, if I can make good art with them, I'll be awsome once I get expencive ones :)

This is honestly an incredible piece, one can tell you put a lot of dedication in what you do and the fact that you achieved such a beautiful painting using those hard-to-work-with supplies shows your quality as an artist. Loved it :-)

Your work is always so stunning, just so much emotion in your work! Love it!

This masterpiece is literally so pretty. I'm in love with you're art style:)

I am inexperienced in watercolors, and I did a lot of research before buying an inexpensive yet quality paint -the white night artist grade tube set. I have enjoyed them and think they're a good option.

I'm so happy I saw this 🦆❤✨Your color combinations are wonderful

Thanks for sharing your techniques and demonstration. I love your portrait artwork.☺️💕

I personally use Jane Davenport watercolor paints. Although they are tiny tins, they are my die hard favorite. Easy for travel and not that bad of a price. She even has watercolor pastels and oh, I just love the quality in her products.

It's always good to know an artists process and tools they use. You are very clear in this video

This is just really perfect for me. 💞 It looks beautiful and its definitely bout the skill not what you use that makes a great painting.

*A found a lefty friend!!!!* Love the outcome!! Your right, it doesn't matter if you use inexpensive or expensive materials, what matters it how you use them and the outcome you choose to show😁

I have those paints, I've had them since high school!

Love this piece! So beautiful for not the best paints. 😍 seeing a budget art supply video would be great! Maybe something along the lines of $30 budget and what good quality paper and/or paint that can possibly buy...?

that is such a cute watercolor set

I really like the outlining of the piece

I have these paints, bought them a couple years ago also and going back to them trying to get back into art, even swatching them was stressful

wow I really like the way you display the picture and the color of the work great I hope to see the latest videos from your channel so cool ❤️❤️

Yess please do a video about the watercolor cheap art supplies 😍

i was binging your channel and saw you posted and got wayyy toooo happyyy!! :)

An inexpensive brushes i use grace art watercolor brush set ws12 on Amazon, it was $6.99 for 12 and compares well to high end synthetics. I use artist loft paper pad from Michael's for experimenting with water color. It's decent enough to get an idea what to do on better paper.

Watercolor palette from Michaels. Apple barrel acrylic paint. Basics acrylic paint.

Editing looks super polished, Sara! Really love watching the real-time footage. Would love to hear your thoughts on storytelling/concepts in your artwork vs just sketching for fun. Do you think it is necessary (especially as a RU-vidr/influencer) to have a certain amount of artworks that tell a story to outweigh random drawings?

For a student grade watercolor set, at that price point, i could recommend the pretty excellent watercolors, u can find them on amazon for about 20 bucks, they are pigmented and transparent, it gives 36 colours, but if you wanna mix them yourself u can still do that

this was really nice to watch and i subscribed just now. Thank you so much for making the effort of creating your beautiful art piece through just cheap art supplies. Though I am from a country where most of the materials ain't cheap for me lmao but still keep up the great work and stay safe, healthy and sanitized. Have a wonderful day

Loving these art videos! Please make more drawings on procreate and digital art! Your traditional art videos are also wonderful :) just draw what you love!

Ur art influenced me... Really.. Love thiss And also I'm ur new subscriber.... Take love💟

When I was starting out with watercolors I used the sprang watercolors. They were amazing quality for the price.

I personally like this little set and have used much much worse at the same price point so in comparison these are decent. I don't use them for anything I would consider finished though, I use them in my sketchbook so that I don't feel pressure to make it look good because I'm using my good supplies. What I've found is that they look better on paper that is not meant for watercolors better than they do on watercolor paper a lot of the time and even the more expensive paints don't shine on that paper. I wasn't feeling so good about the sketchbook I was working in so this was my way of saying "It's just a sketchbook I don't care it doesn't have to be beautiful" and just have fun. I've even dug out the paints I couldn't stand to work with because it was in a similar palette design and filled it with another student grade paint to supplement colors I found myself mixing a lot or was curious about playing with. For my purposes, it's all in how you decide to use them. They're by no means my go to palette and never will be, but they're fun to play with during warmups when I'm feeling in the mood to be a bit messy.

I really recommend Prang watercolors for beginners. Roughly the same price, very dependable, a good enough balance between pop colors and earth tones to start out with. Cracked them open last year and was surprised at how reliable they ey were.

Great art! Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

I got a Meyco 12 half pan set for 9€ on a local store. 100% better than those dry and chalky cakes. You can get them on Amazon for around 8/9$, I like them more than the Cotman and also the Sakura Koi watercolors, they are more vibrant, moisty and less chalky.

So incredible drawing !!! It’s beautiful !!!

nice video~ for suggestion on art supplies: Royal Langnickel...? been using it for a while, but i cant tell if it’s just me or it doesn’t go well with my spiral bound 7”x10” Canson watercolor paper. I’ve noticed you use Canson as well, especially in this video and you make it seem like it’s pretty good.

I’m sorry this piece wasn’t enjoyable to make but my god it’s stunning!!!! Would you ever sell this as a print? Because I’d buy that so fast!

This is beautiful!! I love it!!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Beatiful water color art ....

one huge recommendation I have for paper/ sketchbook is the artway studio sketchbooks, they are around £6-£7 I think (idk what that is in USD) but the paper quality is pretty great and they hold my watercolours really well! Would definitely recommend if you want a cheap but nice sketchbook :)

Reminds me of my old days with watercolor. I started out with a $5 36 color pan set, and I actually could say I made some pretty nice art with the set. I now have much more expensive tube paints and I still can’t seem to approach the same level of beauty I had with the old set! Sadly I had to stop using the pan set because it kinda expired and stopped working for me... granulated a lot in ways it hadn’t before. Although I want to make these tubes work for me! So I will do my best.

This is so inspiring! ♥️ Nice work!

Your artwork is still very beautiful using that watercolour!!❤️

Turned out beautifully

incredible result, look so delicate!

Would love to see you doing this painting with some good quality colors

Really beautiful !! I get a lot of inspiration from you!

I am using acrylic colours but i see first time how can water colours be so beautiful . You done amazing job 🖒💟

The first set of watercolors I used were similar to these, really inexpensive and chalky. They were fine, at first, but eventually as I improved or tried to paint something ambitious, I noticed that the paints would not perform in the way that I wanted and it really did become frustrating to paint things and do actual watercolor techniques. It is possible to make art with cheap art supplies, but some art supplies really do "fight you" in a way and it could hinder your progress with the medium after using them for a while. So I definitely agree with buying an affordable primary colors set if its possible for your budget. (Also yes, those Michael's coupons and Jackson's sales are so so nice when they are available!!) Kinda long comment, but yeah loved the video :)

Your painting came out so beautiful despite the struggle with materials. I feel similarly on the topic of buying expensive art supplies vs buying supplies that are right for someone based on current needs. There's sometimes too much brand dependency or elitism in the art community. Like its okay to be a fan of a brand. I just wish more artists wouldn't go overboard, and start getting controlling over other artists about it. Something else I've kept is mind also is that some artists are kind of brand ambassadors for certain products. So I just try out what looks interesting to me, with my own personal budget in mind and tune out everything else I guess.

This is awesome!! I love your work 🤩

Just wow T^T i love how u made those colors work so well, can u try the pebeo brand, especially the watercolor tubes & how abt trying a middle range quality paper?? Its really pretty 💜💜💜

this is so beautiful!

I love your artstyle!

Wow! It turned out really good 😂 love the soft effect 🥰

I started watercolor using cheap paints (two dollars actually). Watercolor cakes, 12 colors if i remember. I'm currently using Kuretake Gansai Tambi, happy but would like to buy traditional paints if ever. I'll try Koh-i-Noor too for my school projects. Thanks for the review!

Love your portraits!❤️

When i first saw the thumbnail i immediately remembered joshua's face in fallin' flower mv with flowers covered my a band-aid i'm sorry lol

You did a gorgeous job with these supplies, Sara. I definitely second your sentiments about using your money to buy fewer high quality supplies over a wider range of lesser quality supplies.

I started with 2€ 12 dry cakes from unknown brands and I liked them at the time, they didn't make me give up on watercolors

The two sets of watercolors I own are an Artist Loft set (24 colors) which is $5 and a Daler Rowney travel kit (which I think has 10 or 12 colors) for $13. The jump in price really does make a HUGE difference, at least to me. I don't know how much you use markers, but maybe trying artist loft alcohol brush markers would be an interesting challenge. Loved this!

Could you try Winsor and Newton brushes and watercolor paper? As far as I can remember, they are inexpensive but I don't know if their quality is good.

If you want good paints for tenish dollars? Go for a Prang 8 set. The pans are nice and big and the colours explode upon contact with water. They're anywhere from $6 - $10 depending on where you live. I have the 8 and 16 sets and they taught me SO MUCH.

**laughs in brazilian, where everything you just used is 5 times more expensive and only the elite can have**

My first, nicer, set of water color was Winsor & Newton. I payed about $28.00 usd for them on sale, I was and still am happy with that particular set.

ive never seen the canson in my michaels. and i went there last month and i looked.

Woaaa i have this koh i Noor watercolor too.

Try the shinhan watercolor paints the student range is an amazing quality for honestly a price so cheap it’s hard to believe, I would’ve loved to have started with those instead of koi...

Their brilliant disc set is amazing. It is artist grade. The paint disc you have used here is student grade and does exactly everything you have said and shown. Although sometimes the look or feel of a painting is very different using less expensive supplies. It should not deter a artist imo. It would be interesting to see you try the Brilliant Disc set from Koch I Noor.

When you said about experience s about primary colors, I agree. I'm not a pro artist but I will say that I've been into watercolors for a year now. Back then I preferred those watercolor with 24 or 48 color but after meeting expensive watercolors, I tried to save money by only buying the primaries and I didn't regret it, I love them. I looked at my old set and found out that most of the colors were almost untouched and only the primaries and black were used. So remember that you must save money by only buying the necessary colors such as primaries and learn to mix colors.

I started with a £5 for 32 coloured pencil set from whsmith. Theyre not awful so i created some pretty good realism with them. Only last year did i finally upgrade to artezas coloured pencils😁

Omg wonderful so cute and realistic 🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍👌👏

I think you said something important, you don't have to compromise quality for price all the time. Sometimes it is hard to pay lower prices for decent tools but research and waiting for sales are a good way to stretch your coins.

This was such a cool video! Please do an inexpensive art supply recommendation video, that would really help me :)

I’d recommend Van Gogh watercolors they’re inexpensive and great quality

When you said you don't use a lot of lifting techniques, I was surprised because you said the opposite in your kuretake gansai tambi paint video.

Gorgeous piece!💜💜💜

Thank you.

YEASSS SOME BEATIFUL ARTTT

Good paper is the key!

i personaly love working with cheap paints once awhile because of its "broken textures" and broken colors.. i think its fun to have some kind of variety in my sketchbook. something that is very transparent and faded(?). the result might looks ok for one or two days but keeping it for a long time is the biggest problem. they're too powdery and the color can fade even more..

id love to see you use the brand reeves, watercolor or gouache

I really enjoyed your insight in this video! also you have a very sweet comforting voice i almost fell asleep watching,,, haha

Wow amazing work i love it💜