 Well, well, well. Welcome back. Didn't think I'd see you around this part. Welcome back to the average and without further ado let's reveal the watercolor palettes. Oh my gosh it's so shiny. I'm revealing my whole setup here. Is this much bigger than you thought it was gonna be because it is for me. I thought it was gonna be like that but yeah big big old palette. Let's get the plastic off so I can actually just get into this. No nails. My nails would happen to them. So first impressions first impressions. Nice. I hate this like white line that they put. I don't know what that is but I really like the packaging. I really like this pink like kind of I don't know makeup palette kind of vibe that is giving off. So let's open it up. Ah so many colors. These are definitely definitely looking chalky to me. They're looking like those kind of like watercolors that you get from like a kid's palette when you're younger but I will say that this was 15 pounds which is probably quite cheap for a watercolor palette this size. So it probably is gonna be a little bit chalky but we'll find out. That's why I'm here. I'm gonna test it for you guys. It can't just be beautiful. It has to work as well. Comes with this little brush. When I was looking online I was like that looks like a rubbish brush but they have surprised me in the past. That's kind of nice kind of nice. That looks weird underneath so I'm just gonna keep that on there. But yeah let's get into it. I don't know what that is. Oh what's this? You caught me. Yeah these are some character design for my newest comic that I'm working on in case you guys are following along with that. You might be interested in this page but if you're not I guess you're not. But also my comics my old ones are available as you can see down below just in case you're interested. Enough of that enough. Sorry about that. Don't know who she was. She came in. But yeah I want to do some sketches for this painting before I do it because I feel like I always dive into paintings and I don't necessarily plan them out very well and they don't always turn out how I want. I decided I want to do like a woman in like water and yeah just the idea of that is kind of cool. Sorry about the train again I'm so sorry I live in a flat by the train and I hate it. But yeah I just want to have like you know that studio uh studio jibby film what am I saying the Ponyo film where the woman is in the water and she has like the hair like flowing out and stuff and it looks so cool. I want to kind of emulate that but then also like make it mine do like a different thing with it if that makes sense not just like studio jibby uh so I'm just I'm looking at a lot of references of women in water which sounds strange but there's lots of if you go on Pinterest there's so many nice like beautiful photography work of women just like submerged in like green water and it always looks so cool. I don't know why it just does. So I'm just looking at lots of images like I said and just kind of collating them. I really love I don't know why like lily pads and the way that they just kind of grow over each other and I think it's really interesting and I really like the idea of having like really really really dark areas. So it's sort of more spooky. I didn't I did not just say spooky. Please don't leave the video. So it's sort of more spooky than you might imagine. Yeah like who is she she looks pretty but maybe she'll bite your head off you don't know. That's the vibe I want to create. And I think that's kind of a sketch dark. I don't know if I should do more than that. Quite lazy with this I guess. It appears to be the truth and we're acknowledging it and yeah I think I'm going with that. Sorry if you couldn't really see that I was planning to do more. I have my behemoth of water. Cool. All right I'm a little bit nervous because I haven't like painted the watercolor for a long time so I'm a bit like anxious to see how these are as well like if they're any good. Let's just do like a light wash but you can just like block out the shapes I guess. Yeah I'm gonna approach this how I would approach doing something with alcohol markers but yeah yeah why not. Not messed up yet. Yeah Being the operative word of course. A little bit darker for her. Right so I really wanted to do green kind of color and so these paints are not too bad so far. They're not chalky as I thought they would be and being really really careful with like the lightness of this painting because basically what happens when I do watercolor is I always go in too dark straight away and it always does not work out for me and it kind of put me off watercolors for a while and I liked you guys if you've seen my stuff you know that I like what I'm saying wash a bit more. So I'm trying to be really light with these washes just to block out like shapes first of all. Yeah I really want some dark values just around her face to like really highlight these areas and then spread into like a light green of this like bog that she's in. I don't know if it's a bog but you know it's probably not a bog because it does have lily pads. Is that how that works? Is it a bog if it's like mud and nothing grows in it except like gross things or is it a bog just curves? Who knows? Who knows the answers to these questions? Comment down below. These are nice I'm liking this. I feel like I've given it a real shot as well because I'm giving them I'm using the arches paper which is actually like quite expensive and good watercolor paper. I do see some like pooling and I don't know if that's like chalkiness I think it might be so it's not like the best paint but for 15 pounds which is what like 20 dollars I don't know maybe less maybe more. I am not a bank. All right I'm going darker because I'm tired of it. I'm like I need to do light washes but now I'm like no going in. Okay not bad not bad. Uh yes I am an artist. I want to just quickly sketch out this hand because I feel like I was just bored of sketching. Is he sketching? It's kind of not really sketching is it? Ooh a hair came off. Oh I've got to try the um other brush haven't I? This little brush. I feel like I'm jumping around too much in this painting and I'm just not focusing on certain areas but whatever. Yeah the brush is good. I like it it's pretty decent it's not like flaking off any hairs and it's picking up water really well it's it's a nice brush. I thought it was going to be a bit crappier especially considering it is like a free brush you usually expect like the add-on stuff. I don't know I feel like I'm always always dubious of like paint sets that are like here is a free brush because it's just it is something that you would use when you're a kid in like art school and art school in like art class so that would never be like that good because obviously schools are underfunded. Yeah this is nice I like it. Let's block out the areas of her face. I feel like her head looks weird but we can fix that because it's like a bit you know what's going on with her head. We can fix it. So a bit of peachiness. Yeah the reference image I'm using she does have a bit of like red yellowy undertones of her skin. Yeah it's coming together I'm just building up layers of paint basically and trying to figure out where everything is going to be so it's kind of like just a step by step process at the moment. Also I'm really impatient with watercolor and I need to wait for like the paint to dry a little bit before I go in and I just I can't do that I don't know what's wrong with me I'm like no I need to I need paint I need paint I'm like come on man have some patience. Oh yeah see over here it's looking a little bit chalky. So I can't say that they're the best paints ever because if they're giving me chalkiness then that's not great is it? I'm gonna wait for these layers to dry and then I'm gonna continue. Okay may or may not have helped it a little bit along with some hair drying action. I was like I'm too impatient for this I need it done but yeah this I've realized her cone head here is like really bothering me so I'm just trying to I'm gonna fix that a little bit. Cone head is never a good you know thing to have. I said cone heads are never a good thing to have and then I was like oh my god the people in the comments are going to be like well I have a cone head and you like that is my YouTube anxiety I was like oh no have I offended someone by saying that? Well actually I think you'll find that cone heads exist and you're in trouble now. Yeah I shouldn't get carried away trying to do all the details because I need to rough out the areas first and I feel like I'm just being super like distracted with each part of the painting like trying to do thing over here and then something over there and it's like well that ain't it. I feel like her face is too long oh no I think I've made her chin too small. Wouldn't a lily pads to be really really bright green? A tip if you do have like chalky paints a tip that a teacher taught me once was actually kind of clever so what you do is you get the paints and you you just like keep mixing water into them unless like getting a really thick layer and then you can get like you know if you want to be more opaque with it you can just use like loads of pigment pigment on your brush like load it up and sometimes that really helps because I think with chalky paints you can never get like enough pigment um so it really helped when I was a kid using chalky paints in school it was a clever idea from her actually as a teacher and I think that's really clever like using what you have in front of you rather than like complaining just like okay let's try this out and uh yeah cool as to her don't know where she is now was friends with her daughter. I remember I won like an art competition at school and her daughter was like how could you win over me like she got really bitter about it and it was like whoa that's your reaction it was bad and when I was a kid I was like I'm sorry because you know I was a stupid kid but now I'd be like bah you suck like be happy for your friend weirdo but yeah we were children so you know fair you know coming to terms with life being cruel and your mom's an art teacher but guess what your friend who doesn't have as much privilege as you beat you in an art competition and I know yeah I remember like getting up to get the award like because it was like done in an assembly and she was just like wasn't talking to me eh wow can you not hiss at each other that would be so splendid and nice can you not walk on my pain figure yeah cheers but yeah I felt like shame for getting this award and I was like I can't show that I'm too happy oh mean was that and then afterwards she was like oh no I'm really happy for you I think her mom probably spoke to her like you can't you can't be annoyed it's subjective like anyway that's my life and now I'm an art YouTuber sort of kind of well I do do art for a living like I am a graphic designer so maybe I'll go back in time and be like guess what be I deserve this because I followed it did you I don't think she did I don't I wonder if I've ever on Facebook probably do in the depths of Facebook somewhere just don't let people steal your shine I guess is the point of the story there I think I was probably about how old was I probably like 11 so you know let her off the hook for that I wonder like it would be so funny to look at that now that post her and be like maybe she was right maybe she did do a better thing that would be so funny maybe like she was right to be like why did they pick you yeah it's so strange I've always been like quite insecure about my art probably you can tell by the way I've named myself and I remember I won another competition like it was like an outside painting competition and I think it must have been about I don't know 15 and I won like I don't remember what it was it might have been like Kylie commended or something not even the main prize or anything um but it was like whoa really okay I guess you like that weird style I'm doing it's weird to think oh I won like stuff when I was a kid and then I didn't really think art was for me which is strange because obviously it is but yeah don't let people uh tell you what you can or cannot do you don't need to win competition either because I won a couple stuff obviously wasn't that like wow but I'm like in I just realized what I was saying I was like when I was in middle school I won an art competition isn't that impressive guys oh dear you know what I mean I just I got given confidence about art when I was younger is what I'm trying to say so why am you know why was I always like insecure about it I guess that's just the way it is with artists personal please don't walk on my stuff please no this water is paint water thank you goodbye yep thanks for your time you know what that nonsense rant was that was just going on but yeah okay so the problem is here the finger it comes down like this I have completely buffed this up oh well you win some you lose some that hand it's much smaller than that hand mistakes are made it doesn't matter it's just we just live in our lives here guys it's just a painting it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be fun and it just needs to express ourselves you know it doesn't need to be the best thing we've ever seen it can just be for fun and for learning and practice okay okay guys you got that okay go for it be free everyone's like yeah thanks Steph I know that already listen to me everyone I won a middle school art competition okay so I win at life I won an art competition when I was 11 years old so I know everything um that's sarcasm for those who don't understand sarcasm just to let you know that I'm not a horrible person so please leave me alone in the comments I'm just kidding everyone's like well just doing like some deeper values I guess on a face to just kind of bring it together I kind of like the idea of this um you can see that it's just kind of like shapes and I kind of like the idea of that with watercolor rather than having like this whole um completed and super pigmented area but just like different areas of texture and interest points I really like that so I'm just gonna build those up for now and we'll see where we'll see where it goes basically this is supposed to be you're supposed to enjoy this is why you like have a career in this like hello otherwise what's the point just go get any old job like hello everyone's like what are you talking about just my life my life okay so we're sort of starting to get the pieces together we're building it up slowly just going in not liking her face that much just need some like shadows I think I was like weird over here well it doesn't matter not painting the sistine chapel we are just learning yeah I'm kind of liking how it's coming out it is like yeah the paint is slightly chalky but you know what I kind of like the texture it gives oh my god I made a mistake horrible to say god who knows that well that's my nose now I think I'm just I'm but maybe I'm liking them mostly because I'm enjoying the process rather than the paints themselves I don't know they are super nice to paint with they're just like a little bit chalky that's all gonna forgive some chalkiness right for a cheaper price I think I might have gone a bit too dark I knew I was gonna do that I was like go slowly with the lights and then go dark and what's happened is I've just completely done the darkness first and I'm sorry for it to be honest because I I like it I think what I'm gonna do is like bring out some white wash just to highlight areas of like where the water is kind of super bright and I think that will like make it look huge so I've just got um some normal uh wash because I have like this pot to hand it's kind of handy sometimes use a beautiful decision that I just made compulsively so was that I'm not sure about this white wash now like maybe this wasn't a good decision but who knows that's what we're gonna find out I'm not quite like sure what I'm doing but I'm just looking at my reference image and seeing where the light kind of hits the water and trying to see if I can like emulate these like ripples that are coming from her hands um it's not looking terrible but it's not looking great but I'm enjoying it I think it's working to kind of signify like this movement in the water I don't know what you guys think it's ripples okay um yeah this was a good experiment I yeah definitely still don't love watercolors as much as I like gouache because even in the end I resorted to using a little bit of gouache and was like oh I like it now um so for me in particular I was like I realized that gouache is my thing a bit more but yeah I think these paints are a really nice palette I think it looks pretty and I think yeah it does the job they're not the best paints in the world but they're relatively cheap and you get all the colors so maybe they're good for like a beginner or someone like me who can just experiment with using watercolor again after a long hiatus or whatever um yeah let me know what you guys think because I think like this is probably the final thing for me I really enjoyed experimenting with this watercolor palette and I think yeah um it is cool it's very nice it's quite chunky uh quite sturdy so overall I think it's a good palette for the price point it's not the best palette but it's not the worst that's for sure and here's the finished painting it's not finished it's um deliberately unfinished that's the term we can use because I kind of like the way that it looks and I don't want to go too much with it but yeah let me know what you guys think and thanks for watching and uh see you 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