Nia ... thank you so much for the tour. I love to take a peek into other artists sketchbooks. I knew you were a fabulous artist, but your portraits of people and figures are amazing. You are very gifted and I thank you for sharing your talent with the RU-vid community. Can’t wait to see what’s coming up next from you. I would personally love landscape tutorials. Best to you in 2019. Cheers!
Hi Lori, thanks! I'm not too confident with my portraits and figures yet... I still need a lot of practice, before I can be a bit more comfortable with it. But thank you so much for your constant support. I haven't tried to paint many watercolor landscapes, but I can try to practice it more :D Hope you have a great year ahead in 2019!
Hi Nia, thank you so much for sharing. I loved seeing inside your sketchbooks. I’m new to this and always watch your tutorials and have actually done some I’m pleased with! Please keep sharing/teaching. Love all your work 😀
Wonderful work! You are very gifted. I have learned so much from your detailed and patient tutoring. Thank you so much. Looking forward to following you again in 2019. Happy New Year!
Hello from California. I just wanted to tell you, because you seem so humble. You are amazingly talented. Your portraits are beautiful and I loved your wolves and your pastries made me hungry. You have been given such a beautiful gift. I love your artwork.
It was curious seeing the Moleskine, like you said it was all over the place and the quality is jumpy (but still very good throughout!), although like the case of the galaxies it's really nice to see the improvement basically side-by-side. Ahh, the infamous Fabriano sketchbook. I don't know if you remember but I said it worked better with Ecoline in an older video. I wish to amend that statement: It does, but it's not worth the frustration. I use it for brush lettering now LOL because of it's smoothness and relative durability compared to normal marker paper. Love your food illustration as usual - I spot some from your Skill share classes in the third sketchbook. It's curious to see how you've changed your style, if I'm not mistaken I can spot two or three hair shading styles and the food illustrations seems to change as you flip through them - less white pen highlights, more vibrant colours, Etc. EITHER WAY this was a treat to watch, definitely nice to see not all artists finish sketchbooks... I'm sure a lot of people will feel a little less guilty thanks to you.
Hi Jocellyn! Yea! The moleskine is my first watercolor sketchbook, so I was trying all sorts of styles and subject matters. Back then, I actually just started getting more into watercolours, hence the experiments. I still would like to explore, but I think I know what my favourite subjects to paint are now :p Maybe if I practice more with figure drawing, and get better at it, I'd probably like painting them more xD Ah! I totally forgot about you mentioning that it works better with Ecoline, I've yet to try it, kind of interested still because I still like the size of the sketchbook and I'd feel bad wasting the sketchbook. So hopefully that'll workout :D thanks! Yes, I'm still trying to explore the style that I like with food illustration. I would prefer to use less white pen all together, but sometimes, I don't think I've achieved enough of the highlights. And I'm always trying to explore with colours and shading, incorporating different hues instead of just using black for shadows :p I still haven't mastered food illustration yet haha but part of the fun is actually the experimenting and the experience.
Lovely sketchbook tour! 👏 The owl looks amazing, I also really liked all the different coloured leaves and food illustrations. All the best to you in 2019!
Loved seeing all your work Nia. I had no idea you were so good at drawing and painting people. You had some really beautiful figures in your sketch books. You should do some more of those so you won't get rusty sketching figures. Even though, it would be hard for me to follow along as I can hardly sketch at all. I had never done art except in junior high art class, and now I am a grandmother of five, and I just started learning watercolor painting last year.
Thank you so much! I still have so much difficulty painting figures and I still practice them from time to time, but because I know how difficult it is, I never want to turn it into a tutorial on this channel. There's so much fundamental behind the shapes and movement that I wouldn't be able to mention in such a short tutorial >
This is perfect from the begining to the end😍 I really love everything you do, from your tiny doodles to the elaborate food illustrations💕💕 And you fanarts are so cool, I also like TLOZ alot 😊❤
Oooo you do? 😁😁😁 I dont play video games anymore 😐 coz I cant afford the console hahaha but I'm satiafied by watching playthroughs n things these days. I'm happy you enjoyed the sketchbook tour xD hopefully I'll have more to show by the end of this year.
Love the variety of your subjects! Suggestion to add your Ko-fi link to every video posted. Not sure of the effort involved in updating your descriptions, but you are supporting yourself with your art. Everything posted should give viewers the opportunity for a donation. Enjoying seeing and hearing your journey. 💜
Thank you, Loretta! :D:D Thank you for the suggestion! I actually kinda forgot about the older videos, it's a good idea though! Thank you for reminding me haha I'll get to them slowly but surely ❤️
It is so inspiring! I start to draw every day from this year, hope I will finish my sketch book like you did! I just practiced the poppies part 1 yesterday and I will learn the part 2 later today ~~~lastly, your art works are amazing, especially the portraits and delicious food ^_^
Hi thank you so much! That is such an amazing goal! I know for myself that I'd never be able to draw every single day, sometimes I have to teach along and bake along the side. Hope you have an amazing artsy year ahead!!!
Aw thank you so much for your compliment!!! There are many great food illustrators who are way way better than I am.. I really do enjoy the subject though, so I'll keep practicing :D:D:D
Thank you for sharing your sketch books with us. I need to work on drawing people. I can see that I am getting better, but still have a way to go. You are a wonderful artist and I thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Yea, figure drawing is really hard. I'm still so very uncomfortable with it, but since I've been enjoying food illustrations so much haha I need to go back to practicing figure drawing
@@Nianiani When I work on food sketches I always get hungry and want what I am sketching. Maybe I should do those after a meal otherwise I am in dangerous territory! LOL!
Great job! Don’t worry about limiting yourself by separating your sketchbooks by subject matter. Loads of people do it (myself included). I like to keep things I’ve tried form books and tutorials separate from my original work.
Buetfully & Nice Creative, painting with Interesting effects of the Sketch Vizlistion preacatical of the Deom etc. Book review and tutorials i Lick but Nothing.anyway thanks.
I know this is an "old" video but wanted to say I love your sketchbook! As a newbie to doodling/watercolors, you've inspired me to try again... I've been using a water brush to paint when I doodle. Do you think I should use "normal" brushes instead? Hmm... I think I answered my own question. LOL Will have to watch more of your videos and learn! :D
hahaha xD I personally find water brushes a bit harder to handle, so I do prefer the "normal" brush for more water control. I'm so happy you decide to give it ago! Happy painting and have funn! :))
your black moskin sketch book in 2015 has a portrait and owl painting, hope u can consider do portrait and owl painting in skills share classes. I just joined skill share and is your follower.
Thank you for your interest! I will take it into consideration, however it takes a very long time for me to produce a Skillshare class and I'm only able to produce them every 2-3 months. So I'm really not sure when or if it'll come...
Thank you so much 😊 Not in youtube. But I just recently published a skillshare class on it. The class is 1.5hrs long, if u're interested. I decided to turn it into a class because there are quite a few steps to complete... Don't think I'd be able to turn it into a short youtube tutorial without cutting so much information off.
I have a few up already but for the more detailed ones I upload on skillshare as full classes because they take me around 2-5 hours each depending on the size 😅
Hi !! Did you do the galaxies ? Can you give me a tip on doing that to avoid what or to do that ?? I'm practicing galaxies and wet on wet paintings .. Thank you 😀😀😊😊😄😄
Hi! I'm not sure if you follow me on skillshare or not, but I did 2 in depth classes on how to paint galaxies. If u're interested in the class you can check the description box for 2 months free membership. I'm wondering what do you find hard from painting galaxies? maybe I can answer ur questions here :)
When I grow, ı want to watercolor artist like you. I hope ı will because ı was bought van gogh watercolor and clairefontaine etival paper and I am trying paint your easy paintings but ı cant. (Pathos and bookmarks➡Blue flower)
You can do it! Just go slow, start with just basic brush control and don't focus too much on the outcome but what you've learnt from the painting :) The difference between a professional and an amateur is the fact that the professional has most probably failed more than the amateur has even tried and even now I still can't call myself a professional artist because I know I have so many weak points that I need to improve in my art :) You can do it! Keep painting :D
Hello this is your new subscriber . I love 💖 your all drawings , you’re so talented BTW which colours have you used in these drawings? I hope you’ll reply.😀
Welcome to the channel! I don't think its possible to name the colours for every single painting 😅 but for the tutorials I made, I always mention them on the vid 😊
Hi NIA , I'm from India. During lockdown I just started with the watercolor paintings. First few months were very best,was browsing through different channels and learning. But now I feel lost 😒unable get the best out of me.Donno what to paint...?? But this video has helped me with some ideas n courage too. I want learn painting hydrangeas, chrysanthemum...pls help...tq
Hi! I have videos on those subjects that you can find on my channel, but I wouldn't say that they're suited for true beginners (I'm guessing if you've only painted for a few months?). However if you want to give them a go you can find the videos here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-34t6_VTz95U.html - Chrysanthemum ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L6NzruzlnsY.html - Hydrangea Happy painting! :)
The first one is moleskine, the yellow one is a local brand (bought it from tokopedia) called Khuma Bindery, but I didn't like the paper. And the other ones, I made my own sketchbooks.
