I am interested in learning urban sketching and stumbled across your channel. I’m so impressed by your content and instruction. Your very pleasant voice is an added bonus. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Excellent. Thank you! Please consider creating a beginner's series of videos. I think it would be a very encouraging initiative so beginners would be able to understand how to better start. I also enjoy the way you demonstrate the steps, its clarity and pace.
It’s great to see you showing Holbein watercolors, which in my experience are of the highest quality. For instance, the color “viridian” is such a great mixer for greens, and the Holbein brand does not break up like other brands. I love the “leaf green” color, which captures beautifully leaves as they are first unfurling.
So much helpful information. Wish I had see this 18 months ago when I started painting with water colour, it would have saved me a lot of time and materials 🙂 Thank you Teoh, for your excellent tutorials
quick guide to sketching with ink & watercolour by Teo Yi Chie. This is an excellent video for me. Although I have painted in watercolour for many years I have never combined it with an ink drawing so the advice on what different pens can do and also on the ink drying time before using paint were brilliant for me. Thank you Teo. It is very much appreciated. Joan Storer. England.
Teoh you’re so cool! You motivate me to jump right in to making art just by sharing your process. I really don’t like overthinking creativity. Thank you for pushing us all forward man.
Most excellent presentation! I wish I had seen this before I spent so much energy and money trying to learn all of this on my own. Thank you. I look forward to more of your videos.
TFS, Teoh! Occasionally I do a quick paint box sketch to swatch my paint colors. It does create some additional interest to my swatch charts! Great pens and inks type info also. 👍🏾🍁
I loved it! Thank you very much for this video. I've been feeling burnout and I decided to start experimenting with watercolors. This helps very much! Thank you once again.
I just treated myself to my first bottle of ink and dip pens. I can't wait to incorporate out into my watercolour painting!! Thanks for this great tutorial.
Really enjoyed this guide, Teoh. Its quite comprehensive, and for a beginner like me, the way you combine quite technical information with enthusiasm for the fun and creative process of sketching is just wonderful. You are by far my favourite channel.
Your content is always of such incredibly excellent quality. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and for your hardwork! May you be blessed and happy everyday!
I really can’t stress enough the importance of testing pens for watercolor because there are some pens that say waterproof but sometimes blot or spread when water is applied,sometimes it’s the paper’s quality,so it really is important to test things and watch reviews.btw thanks for featuring holbein watercolors,it’s one of my favorite brands to use.
Hello Teoh. I'm a beginner in pen and ink and I recently got interested in adding watercolor to my sketches. This quick guide was very helpful. Thank you. PS I love your ink and watercolor sketches.
Great video and most informative and interesting information so thank you very much for sharing your videos with us also you are great you tube channel and keep your videos coming.
I don't usually add ink lines after watercolour. The ink lines may become thicker on watercolour, and also the colour of the ink does not look as nice on top of watercolour vs under.
Another great video, thanks! However, as I am never one to refrain from critical commentary, I would love it if you were able to describe how you set up & work when you are doing Urban sketching. I am in New York, and it seems like space is a questionable Prospect for most of my Urban sketching, so I've taken to using water brushes which are frankly very unsatisfying in terms of the quality achievable with them. I see your sketching walk videos and I see some of your compatriots with what looks like an entire artist studio spread out on their laps, where I'm just trying to juggle a small thumb-ring palette, a moderately- sized Sketchbook and a water-brush! I'd love to see your insight into space organization on one's lap, whether anyone uses a lap desk or not, two handed art supply manipulation (kind of like a lesson in brain surgery, y'know?), where the paper towels or rags go when you're done with them, whether or not you're carrying a suitcase size carrier for all this stuff, that sort of thing. Some of us are deep into this not just beginners, and I would love to get some insight from you and maybe some of your co-urban- sketch colleagues about how they "juggle." Thanks!
If you bring too many things, it's going to be heavy and tiring to carry them around. I just have a small portable stool, my sketchbook and watercolour box. The sketchbook is placed on my lap and the watercolour box is on the ground. You can see me in action in this video th-cam.com/video/-7U9dH1sTRA/w-d-xo.html
Great video. Alot of good advice and great recommendations. I am new to your channel. I tend to mix my watercolor pencils with my watercolor paints. It's fun and sometimes handy in case I do not have the exact color that I need.
Thank you for this. I like that water colour set you have there. I have a tin set that has two flaps or mixing space (not sure what it is called) and I tend to only use one of it. And I find the other one a bit troublesome.
To many choices. Mechanical lead holder with 4B graphite, lead sanding block, Pigma Micron .1 waterproof pen, Arches hot press block watercolor paper, Winsor/Newton Cotman water color paint ( Alizarin crimson, Cad yellow light, French ultra marine blue, Burnt umber, White, small tubes), white vinyl eraser. Now just do it. A lot.
Hi, Theo, thanks for this great channel, I see you have the canson watercolor paper, have you reviewed yet? I don’t seem to find reviews, I’m thinking on buying a block, but don’t know yet, they have available the large and medium blocks. Would you recommend it?
It’s average watercolor paper. The video review has yet to be published. You can check out the text review at www.parkablogs.com/content/review-canson-xl-watercolour-paper-300gsm
And when your “disposable” Micron/Pitts tech pens go dry, you can just pull the nib out and refill them with your waterproof carbon/India Inks and they’ll keep on going :)
What about using flat brushes of 1/4 inch to 1 inch...? Are there flat brushes for watercolor and will they help with control over edges and big areas...? Will these be recommended for beginners.?
Flat brushes are good for covering large areas, bold and straight strokes. I prefer squirrel brushes because I find them more flexible for general use and they can cover large areas too.
Oh hell i was finding material for my essay and I stumbled on this video. I was utterly shocked when your sketchbook is full of Vietnam's scenery. Welcome to Vietnam bruh XDDD
Hi Teoh. I quite enjoy using inks like watercolours, but finding suitable brushes to use with ink has been hit and miss. Do you think I should use normal watercolour brushes or different ones?
If I remember correctly... Hansa Yellow Medium Lemon Yellow New Gamboge Pyrrole Red Permanent Rose (Mission Gold) Rose Madder (MG) 3 browns Phthalo Green Olive Green Phthalo Blue French Ultramarine Sodalite Genuine Burnt Sienna I just use whatever colours I have. I don't think too much. Even with a 12 colour palette, I usually just use 4-6 of them.
A wonderful intro video! All of your videos are very good; I am enjoying them and learning a lot! In your discussion of artist v student-grade watercolors, I'm surprised you don't mention colorfastness. I've been given to understand this is a very important feature of watercolors. For example, if you are creating art to sell/display (as opposed to just sketching in your sketchbooks), you want to be sure to use watercolors that are colorfast, so that colors don't change or fade over time. What do you think? Do you think these differences are sometimes overrated?
It's best to get lightfast colours that last. But I don't have the capability to test all the colours I use, so I have to rely on the manufacturer labels. Commonly used colours and pigment have lots of information on lightfast quality. So I tend to use those
What the heck you mind reader, I JUST decided to start looking into buying better watercolor this weekend! 😂 Also the pilot high tec C pens in my opinion only seem waterproof after a few hours. What is your experience? They aren't waterproof in time for my location sketching class, but my pentel pocket dries instantly!
You can get a mister. Those small plastic bottles that can spray a mist. I usually don't use them. I would use the watercolour brush to put droplets of water into colours I'm going to use. One less item to bring around outdoors.
Hello, ive been using winsor and newton for 2 years now and i feel like an upgrade. Id love some Schminke but sadly its too expensive for me. Do you think White Nights is a good upgrade from Cotmans?
I started with W&N Cotman and moved to White Nights and I very quickly gave my Cotman set away. White Nights, for the price, opened the door to water colour for me. Good luck!!
Can someone please advise me on reasonable watercolour sketchbooks with white smooth stitched paper about A4 / A5 with elasticated closer. Regards- Andy D
Thank you, that was very helpful. Only one problem: I could t hear any birds in the background! J Your tutorials are so informative, and I find your voice very relaxing. Thanks for all you do.
Hello am a new fun of yours, sorry for having find only now your interesting tutorials, just wanted to ask you a q: do you think I can buy all these pens on-line ? Thanks 4 your kind attention..
I didn't know the Arches was expensive, I got my first A5 300grm coldpress Arches for like 10 US dollars (8 European euros or so). Maybe it's just me living in the Netherlands :'D
You have to look for waterproof inks that mention specifically that they are safe for use in fountain pens. But even so, it's good to clean out the pens once in a while, and definitely clean the pen if you are not going to be using them for long period of time. If you cap the pen problem, the ink will not dry out.
28 minute quick guide 😂
Haha but it's a very good guide
and 28 likes for your comment
Still faster than me. 😂
quick guide deluxe with free overtime 👍
Love your videos, thanks a million.
The longer the guide the better! I love learning everything about art
Thanks 😄
Hi small youtuber here you can also check my vids about architecture & arts! :) th-cam.com/video/-x0sVaIBRYo/w-d-xo.html
I am interested in learning urban sketching and stumbled across your channel. I’m so impressed by your content and instruction. Your very pleasant voice is an added bonus. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I agree. I came here for instruction, but I find all Teoh's videos very soothing. I liked these so much I signed up for his Patreon too.
Excellent. Thank you! Please consider creating a beginner's series of videos. I think it would be a very encouraging initiative so beginners would be able to understand how to better start. I also enjoy the way you demonstrate the steps, its clarity and pace.
Thanks for showing all the brand names close up! Most artists don't seem to do this and fly by so fast it can be disappointing. You're the best😊
It’s great to see you showing Holbein watercolors, which in my experience are of the highest quality. For instance, the color “viridian” is such a great mixer for greens, and the Holbein brand does not break up like other brands. I love the “leaf green” color, which captures beautifully leaves as they are first unfurling.
I have watched your videos for years and everyone is a pleasure to watch. Thank you
I knew it all already, but watched the whole video anyway. Somehow you present information in a way that doesn't make feel like I waste my time.
Thanks Teoh, I love your ink and watercolor sketches
So much helpful information. Wish I had see this 18 months ago when I started painting with water colour, it would have saved me a lot of time and materials 🙂 Thank you Teoh, for your excellent tutorials
Great video. It is amazing how quickly a nice picture can be created. Thank you.
You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you so much for this video. See you next time!
quick guide to sketching with ink & watercolour by Teo Yi Chie. This is an excellent video for me. Although I have painted in watercolour for many years I have never combined it with an ink drawing so the advice on what different pens can do and also on the ink drying time before using paint were brilliant for me. Thank you Teo. It is very much appreciated. Joan Storer. England.
Nice demo. I learned a lot. Thank you for basic intro that was easy to understand.
Teoh you’re so cool! You motivate me to jump right in to making art just by sharing your process. I really don’t like overthinking creativity. Thank you for pushing us all forward man.
Most excellent presentation! I wish I had seen this before I spent so much energy and money trying to learn all of this on my own. Thank you. I look forward to more of your videos.
TFS, Teoh! Occasionally I do a quick paint box sketch to swatch my paint colors. It does create some additional interest to my swatch charts! Great pens and inks type info also. 👍🏾🍁
The info about the pens was exactly what I was looking for -- thank you!!!
Love your looseness in sketching & painting - & excellent composition! Thank you for sharing & teaching 🙏
You provide such clear and concise explanations , thank you
I really enjoyed this video. I may not be brand new to watercolour and yet it was great for remembering and seeing pen and watercolour combos
I loved it! Thank you very much for this video. I've been feeling burnout and I decided to start experimenting with watercolors. This helps very much! Thank you once again.
Very helpful video! Makes me want to pull out my little watercolor paints and doodle again.. two thumbs up, Teoh!
Hi small youtuber here you can also check my vids about architecture & arts! :) th-cam.com/video/-x0sVaIBRYo/w-d-xo.html
Great beginner video! I've been watching your videos for a while now but this is a great refresher.
Thanks :-)
I just treated myself to my first bottle of ink and dip pens. I can't wait to incorporate out into my watercolour painting!! Thanks for this great tutorial.
Really enjoyed this guide, Teoh. Its quite comprehensive, and for a beginner like me, the way you combine quite technical information with enthusiasm for the fun and creative process of sketching is just wonderful. You are by far my favourite channel.
Thanks :-) I try my best
Your content is always of such incredibly excellent quality. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and for your hardwork! May you be blessed and happy everyday!
Your paintings are beautiful!
I enjoyed this demo! Thanks Teoh
Great informative video, thank you!
I really can’t stress enough the importance of testing pens for watercolor because there are some pens that say waterproof but sometimes blot or spread when water is applied,sometimes it’s the paper’s quality,so it really is important to test things and watch reviews.btw thanks for featuring holbein watercolors,it’s one of my favorite brands to use.
Hello Teoh. I'm a beginner in pen and ink and I recently got interested in adding watercolor to my sketches. This quick guide was very helpful. Thank you. PS I love your ink and watercolor sketches.
Lovely Quick Guide! Waiting for part two.... );
I love your sketches, paused the video to look at them more closely
As always, Parka, helpful & informative. This is a great ‘entry’ video to bring new people into your tribe. 👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks 😁
Great video and most informative and interesting information so thank you very much for sharing your videos with us also
you are great you tube channel and keep your videos coming.
Another great video!!!!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for your videos!
Great teaching! thank you
Another great video! Thank you Teoh!
So nice. Your videos are always exciting and relaxing at the same time. Magic I say!
Thanks :-)
beautiful sketches!!
Thank you, excellent video!
Thank you for taking the time to teach :)
I'm atotalbeginner and you helped me a lot. Thank you 😀
Great pen demo, keep it up!
I like to use my pilot pens for quick sketching as water spreads the ink and creates quick shading with a waterpen.
Great, I like.,Thank your teaching.
Helpful. Thanks
Love the skipping through your sketchbook, awesome work!
This is a great introduction to watercolor. Very helpful indeed. 👍 😄 Thanks Teoh.
Thanks :-)
Hi. Love your ink watercolor examples!
Can you show how to paint a piece with watercolor only & adding ink adter the colors have been applied? Please
I don't usually add ink lines after watercolour. The ink lines may become thicker on watercolour, and also the colour of the ink does not look as nice on top of watercolour vs under.
Wish I’d had this when I started but hey enjoy the journey. 👍
Great video fr beginners, thanks!
enjoyed this.
Another great video, thanks! However, as I am never one to refrain from critical commentary, I would love it if you were able to describe how you set up & work when you are doing Urban sketching. I am in New York, and it seems like space is a questionable Prospect for most of my Urban sketching, so I've taken to using water brushes which are frankly very unsatisfying in terms of the quality achievable with them. I see your sketching walk videos and I see some of your compatriots with what looks like an entire artist studio spread out on their laps, where I'm just trying to juggle a small thumb-ring palette, a moderately- sized Sketchbook and a water-brush! I'd love to see your insight into space organization on one's lap, whether anyone uses a lap desk or not, two handed art supply manipulation (kind of like a lesson in brain surgery, y'know?), where the paper towels or rags go when you're done with them, whether or not you're carrying a suitcase size carrier for all this stuff, that sort of thing. Some of us are deep into this not just beginners, and I would love to get some insight from you and maybe some of your co-urban- sketch colleagues about how they "juggle." Thanks!
If you bring too many things, it's going to be heavy and tiring to carry them around. I just have a small portable stool, my sketchbook and watercolour box. The sketchbook is placed on my lap and the watercolour box is on the ground. You can see me in action in this video th-cam.com/video/-7U9dH1sTRA/w-d-xo.html
These are the things I bring for outdoor sketching th-cam.com/video/cQyANbDSx_0/w-d-xo.html
Love your videos Teoh.
Thanks
YO TEOH, I love your channel found it recently
Thanks for your support 😁
Great video. Alot of good advice and great recommendations. I am new to your channel. I tend to mix my watercolor pencils with my watercolor paints. It's fun and sometimes handy in case I do not have the exact color that I need.
Watercolour pencils are fun!
@@teohyc Agreed 😊
Thank you!!!
lovely.
Thank you for this. I like that water colour set you have there. I have a tin set that has two flaps or mixing space (not sure what it is called) and I tend to only use one of it. And I find the other one a bit troublesome.
Love the guide!! Maybe I will try go back to traditional art instead of digital for a change of pace ~ 💕💕
Teoh, what’s your current favorite watercolor sketchbook?
Thx
I’m using a custom made sketchbook with 100% watercolour paper. Good ones are Strathmore Travel Journal, Koval Sketchbooks
Love the guide! Will there be a review on the Holbein watercolours?
Not sure when I will be able to get to that review.
I know Teoh is really busy, but I can't wait to hear what he has to say about Holbein! People either love them or hate them.
To many choices. Mechanical lead holder with 4B graphite, lead sanding block, Pigma Micron .1 waterproof pen, Arches hot press block watercolor paper, Winsor/Newton Cotman water color paint ( Alizarin crimson, Cad yellow light, French ultra marine blue, Burnt umber, White, small tubes), white vinyl eraser. Now just do it. A lot.
Also brush (Silver/Black Velvet/ 3/4 oval wash)
Hey Robert Bickel, you seem to know a lot about this subject, let's see some videos.
You got some good materials there!
Hi, Theo, thanks for this great channel, I see you have the canson watercolor paper, have you reviewed yet? I don’t seem to find reviews, I’m thinking on buying a block, but don’t know yet, they have available the large and medium blocks. Would you recommend it?
It’s average watercolor paper. The video review has yet to be published. You can check out the text review at www.parkablogs.com/content/review-canson-xl-watercolour-paper-300gsm
@@teohyc I see Canson's XL brand paper at my local Michaels all the time.
Because they are very affordable and many buy them.
And when your “disposable” Micron/Pitts tech pens go dry, you can just pull the nib out and refill them with your waterproof carbon/India Inks and they’ll keep on going :)
17:00 Whoaaaa Bali!!!
Like before watching 🙌🏻
Thanks 😁
Your drawings are interesting and I like them, wish we could see more :) I find the drawing in 16:38 so interesting.
Your English is very good!!!
Thanks
What about using flat brushes of 1/4 inch to 1 inch...? Are there flat brushes for watercolor and will they help with control over edges and big areas...? Will these be recommended for beginners.?
Flat brushes are good for covering large areas, bold and straight strokes. I prefer squirrel brushes because I find them more flexible for general use and they can cover large areas too.
Oh hell i was finding material for my essay and I stumbled on this video. I was utterly shocked when your sketchbook is full of Vietnam's scenery. Welcome to Vietnam bruh XDDD
Will the paint be more durable in the tube than squeezing into the pan? Im using mission gold.
Paint will be easier to work with in tube. Mission Gold work better in tubes because they don't dry fast in pan
cuales son los colores que tienes en tu paleta, estoy mirando ideas para hacer una propia :D
cool video. very informative. what kind of camera are you using? you are extremely close up on the materials. nice shot.
Panasonic GH4 with Olympus 12-50mm lens (with Macro)
Hi Teoh. I quite enjoy using inks like watercolours, but finding suitable brushes to use with ink has been hit and miss. Do you think I should use normal watercolour brushes or different ones?
What colors are in this palette? Do you prefer using this or the limited 12 for sketching in person?
If I remember correctly...
Hansa Yellow Medium
Lemon Yellow
New Gamboge
Pyrrole Red
Permanent Rose (Mission Gold)
Rose Madder (MG)
3 browns
Phthalo Green
Olive Green
Phthalo Blue
French Ultramarine
Sodalite Genuine
Burnt Sienna
I just use whatever colours I have. I don't think too much. Even with a 12 colour palette, I usually just use 4-6 of them.
i love your vids
A wonderful intro video! All of your videos are very good; I am enjoying them and learning a lot! In your discussion of artist v student-grade watercolors, I'm surprised you don't mention colorfastness. I've been given to understand this is a very important feature of watercolors. For example, if you are creating art to sell/display (as opposed to just sketching in your sketchbooks), you want to be sure to use watercolors that are colorfast, so that colors don't change or fade over time. What do you think? Do you think these differences are sometimes overrated?
It's best to get lightfast colours that last. But I don't have the capability to test all the colours I use, so I have to rely on the manufacturer labels. Commonly used colours and pigment have lots of information on lightfast quality. So I tend to use those
What the heck you mind reader, I JUST decided to start looking into buying better watercolor this weekend! 😂
Also the pilot high tec C pens in my opinion only seem waterproof after a few hours. What is your experience? They aren't waterproof in time for my location sketching class, but my pentel pocket dries instantly!
The Uniball Vision Needle features waterproof ink and writes as well as that Pilot. So no reason to use the Pilot
hi teoh did you put some water in your kit to make it moist. i bought something like that but i don't know how to use
You can get a mister. Those small plastic bottles that can spray a mist. I usually don't use them. I would use the watercolour brush to put droplets of water into colours I'm going to use. One less item to bring around outdoors.
@@teohyc thank you so much teoh!
Hello, ive been using winsor and newton for 2 years now and i feel like an upgrade. Id love some Schminke but sadly its too expensive for me. Do you think White Nights is a good upgrade from Cotmans?
White Nights is good.
I started with W&N Cotman and moved to White Nights and I very quickly gave my Cotman set away. White Nights, for the price, opened the door to water colour for me. Good luck!!
Can someone please advise me on reasonable watercolour sketchbooks with white smooth stitched paper about A4 / A5 with elasticated closer. Regards- Andy D
Hahnemuhle, or Handbook
Thank you, that was very helpful. Only one problem: I could t hear any birds in the background! J
Your tutorials are so informative, and I find your voice very relaxing.
Thanks for all you do.
I’ve moved so the birds aren’t around anymore. If I open the windows, it’s traffic noise now. :-(
Noo I liked the birds sounds :'(
What watercolor set did you use?
It's actually a Winsor & Newton Deluxe Sketcher Box but the paint inside are mostly Daniel Smith.
Troy,are you never work with YUPO Paper?
I don’t use that paper
Hello am a new fun of yours, sorry for having find only now your interesting tutorials, just wanted to ask you a q: do you think I can buy all these pens on-line ? Thanks 4 your kind attention..
FYI: Ackerman Pump Pens do not seem to be available at this time (10/2018)
Do you still work in publications other than TH-cam? 👍🤓
I work night shift as an artist/designer for a newspaper
yellow is the complementary color to blue????
Yellow, orange
platinum carbon ink doesnt work for me :/
Why?
@@teohyc when i tried it it doesnt stand the water well. it seems just a little water resistant but a lot of ink still activates
Same for me, I've had issues with the ink reactivating and greying my paint regardless of how long I wait.
A piece of paper a ballpoint pen and my small tin of watercolor and my single brush is all I need
great :)
Watching in 2022 😍
I didn't know the Arches was expensive, I got my first A5 300grm coldpress Arches for like 10 US dollars (8 European euros or so). Maybe it's just me living in the Netherlands :'D
Isn't water-proof ink clogs fountain pens dead if it ever dries out?
You have to look for waterproof inks that mention specifically that they are safe for use in fountain pens. But even so, it's good to clean out the pens once in a while, and definitely clean the pen if you are not going to be using them for long period of time. If you cap the pen problem, the ink will not dry out.
ah i wish you uploaded this earlier 🤧
even your ugly feathering is beautiful, Teoh! All the best to you :)