24 art lessons we learned in 2024: from art materials to productivity, how to practice and improve, and where to find inspiration... but with a twist:
This is a collab with Annabelle Lee Artist, and we each share twelve lessons in our individual painting & sketching videos, both inspired by our favorite video games for a more laid-back art process to ring out the year.
https://www.youtube.com/@UCQmE5cp-u2SectUSQlDiLIg
https://youtu.be/CW5dX1mR2ms?si=_UpVZEhxgV6Tdhvb
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Winter brings out the sketchbook goblin in me, as I just want to bundle up in warm places and doodle. Here, I'm filling the first spread of a new watercolor sketchbook. I've been wanting to get a nice, large format sketchbook for mixed media art practice for a long time, so this was an early Christmas gift to myself. 😊
Sketchbook tours I love: https://www.youtube.com/@UC3tC6Ai-v_BpqsMR8zqa07g
✧ ART MATERIALS ✧
A4 watercolor sketchbook: https://amzn.to/3Pb687I *
White gouache: https://amzn.to/3XEMB54 *
All my Holbein gouache paints are in little DIY clay pans, attached to a metal case with magnets.
Water brush : https://amzn.to/4chD1cA *
Escoda Brush Size 8 : https://amzn.to/4cIYlXY * for both watercolor and (dry palette) gouache
Escoda soft watercolor brushes: https://amzn.to/4gPtVWs *
Da Vinci brush : https://amzn.to/3z1JHx7 * for gouache details
My oldest, full pans of watercolors that I still use after over a decade: Winsor & Newton, but professional grade, NOT Cotman. These are so highly pigmented that I still haven't used up the full pans after all these years. While the set from 14 (!) years ago doesn't seem to be sold anymore, this one with half pans comes very close, as the only colors I don't own from it are the white and Winsor Yellow: https://amzn.to/3DsuZkM *
I especially love W&N French Ultramarine, Magenta, and Permanent Sap Green.
Especially used "Brown Madder" - a unique red orange shade - combined with Quinacridone Gold to mix those vibrant skintone shades:
https://amzn.to/3BMBPRA *
Other watercolor favorites in my palette:
Quinacridone Gold : https://amzn.to/3MNmu5k * (this and Hansa Yellow Deep are great skintone mixing shades)
Lunar Black : https://amzn.to/3ZwEok2 *
Burnt Sienna : https://amzn.to/3Zr8NjL * (great for skintones)
Derwent Chromaflow : https://amzn.to/3Z5LQ3M *
MONO Tombow mechanical pencil : https://amzn.to/477Voz6 *
0.3 mechanical pencil : https://amzn.to/3PgE3Mm * (using 2B pencil mines)
Artify Brushes & Case : https://amzn.to/3AXPuVA *
Camera (though I got mine second-hand) : https://amzn.to/4gjf3iI *
* I may earn commissions for purchases made through the links above *
#sketchbook #drawwithme #artvlog
✧ MUSIC ✧
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Andres Jacque - In Nature's Home - https://thmatc.co/?l=5E4A46C2
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Blue Sirens - solitude - https://thmatc.co/?l=26AA71F6
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Blue Sirens - Walking with Waves - https://thmatc.co/?l=23C548A9
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by oh, the joy. - 3am in sydney - https://thmatc.co/?l=E04B41F2
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Music Goreng - Josephine's Forest - https://thmatc.co/?l=EBEB944A
Free Music for Videos 👉 Music by Blue Sirens - Mourning Birds - https://thmatc.co/?l=977AA6D4
& YouTube Audio Library
✧ CHAPTERS ✧
00:00 2024 art lessons with Annabelle Lee
00:50 watercolor sketchbook & art haul lessons
03:50 "art dates" & productivity
05:04 art study notes
07:15 "The Dabble Method" ™
08:25 travel sketching
09:20 mixed media portrait sketching
10:05 be a fan
12:24 Trojan Horse was a Unicorn
13:50 anti-procrastination environments
15:40 lesson 8
17:55 DIY art direction
19:08 mixed media strengths
21:08 paint a "masterpiece"
23:25 final lesson of 2024
24:34 a sketchbook spread of portraits