About the Marco pencil set I talked about in the video: after making my video, I noticed a comment from a colouring book artist on a recent @TheArtGearGuide video. They mentioned that the Marco pencils apparently don’t work very well on colouring book paper. I wanted to share this with you because I am not a colouring book artist myself, so I was not aware that the texture of colouring paper can be that different from that of sketching or art paper. I really enjoy using these pencils on sketching paper, but I haven't tried them on colouring books myself, so I thought it was important to let you know! If you decide to use these and they don’t perform well on colouring book pages, you might try scanning and printing the images you want to colour onto sketch paper instead, or you could skip the Marco pencils for colouring books altogether. Another option is to choose a colouring book that has paper with a little more texture, if these are available, or prime the page with some transparent pastel/drawing ground.
Ah, I am sorry that was disappointing! I am planning separate videos for some of them - that's why I don't go too in-depth here. I don't like to unbox things until I need to use them as I don't want things to spoil (I like to keep them sealed until I start using them as these are all bought with my own money), and also this video would be incredibly long otherwise! I have however recorded some video already for some of the items shown here - e.g. the Holbein opaque cakes which was the following video on my channel, and the Fuumuui paper which was after that, if you want to check that out. That paper is great and I really recommend it if you are after cheap 100% cotton paper, BTW!! I take your point though - I really should have explained that better in the video - sorry!!! Maybe I should come back and add link boxes to the video, linking to the individual reviews of each product after I have uploaded them. So then future viewers will be able to click on the link to see what each product is like. For some of these items I had recorded video of me swatching and painting, but I have decided to scrap those videos for the time being because of some drama happening re certain companies' marketing departments being awful to another UA-camr, and that left a bitter taste in my mouth so I personally don't feel good indirectly promoting their products (I will use them up as I paid for them out of my own pocket and they are good products, but I don't want to do separate videos specifically on them any more right now). Though others may feel differently and that's perfectly fine (and anyway those companies have plenty of people extolling their virtues already) - that's just how I personally feel, and I hope that won't be a disappointment. But do watch out for future videos as I will be showing many of these items in them. The Haul video is more of a "preview". I am on a hiatus for a little bit because I am studying on a postgrad course and have a bunch of assignments due in at the moment, but after that I have planned more videos and one of the first is going to be with the Marie's Chinese pigment paints I showed here (which are wonderful) and I also started filming the Marco pencils (swatching & drawing), but first I want to revisit Viceversa paper (my first video the channel and what started this all) as I have bought more sketchbooks and paper from them and really want to showcase these. In general right now I kind of feel like I want to showcase products by smaller or less promoted companies in the future. Oh, I have also planned a comparison video with one of the products shown in this video and some very well-known products by a Big Company that I think are literally the same product but ten times more expensive. I suspected as much and I bit the bullet and bought their product specifically to investigate, and I feel my suspicions were confirmed. I have done quite a bit of swatching on camera too but want to do some painting and drawing to go with it as I don't want my videos to just end up being infomercials! I am not paid for any of this and don;t really plan on having a huge viewership (I think that would stress me out, frankly) - I am doing it because I love to paint and draw and because I love to have a place where I can be nerdy about art materials and art supplies without driving my IRL friends crazy with my info-dumping, haha. So my rate of uploading may not be super-fast, but there will be more on these art materials, I promise. Thank you so much for watching & for leaving a comment - it's really appreciated!!!❤!
@@TheStrangeConnectorArt Hahaha, no worries! I completely understand wanting to keep your art materials in pristine condition. But as a viewer, seeing boxes upon boxes of gorgeous art materials but not the materials themselves feels like being brought close to climax, and then other person goes, "welp, I'm done." I am so, sorry for the crassness of that, but that's exactly how it felt 😂 Thank you for being so gracious about my comment! I wish you all the best! 💟
@@VerucaS9lt your feedback is very appreciated! I do want to keep the actual unboxing/demos for separate videos, but you make very good points so in the future I will try and figure out a way to address that. It would be helpful if I had more time to make more videos so the wait to see what's actually in the box wasn't so long. argh! I find that part frustrating too, because I have to wait my end as well, and it's torture, haha! Or maybe I can select a few things to open and show (and keep the others for their own dedicated videos). Food for thought!! Thank you so much 😊
Just want to add the Maries' Chinese traditional "museum grade" set of paints is the highest grade among the three you mentioned. The "masters" grade (I assume it is in a blue box), that's the second grade, while the brown set is the student set. I have used traditional Chinese paints on watercolour paper, I think they act somewhat similar to Gansai Paints. So if you have experiences with those, maybe you will like Chinese Traditional paints too.
also TMI, I really DON'T recommend making Chinese traditional paints into pans, they will dry and crumble up REAL bad. I did that once, and they literally will crumble into small pieces and fall out of the pan. (not that easy to rewet as well)
Thank you so much for the info re the Marie's paints!!! I suspected this was the case but was not sure, so I really appreciate you taking the time to explain! I use Chinese and Japanese paints and absolutely love them, but I use them in a Western way so I am no expert and am yet to try them on rice paper (I do have a stack of rice paper and a collection of Chinese brushes that I use for ink). I follow a few Chinese artists both on UA-cam and instagram and am aware how much goes into every aspect of creating a painting, from totally different ways of holding the brush, breathing, moving one's body even! I will never be able to truly know what it all entails as that's another lifetime's worth of practice but I appreciate Chinese artists' skills so, so much!
I own two more sets of Marie's (student grade) paints as well as the Paul Rubens Guçai (not the glitter ones) in both pan and tube form. I have many sets of gansai, too (my favorite is Kissho). It's truly beautiful stuff
@@summer12371 A very good point! Yes, I did find that this was an issue when I got my first set of Chinese tube paints and excitedly tried pouring them into pans.😆 It makes perfect sense it should be so - gouache is of similar consistency and will go brittle too, if dried in pans. But to clarify re my comment above: I meant I have Chinese paints that were sold as sets in pans (like the Marie's four seasons set I show in the video), so they have some kind of honey or glycerin in them (not sure what but I presume one or the other? Maybe you know what it is?) to keep them softer like gansai and prevent them from crumbling. Easily misunderstood as I have noticed that the Paul Rubens Chinese paints in pans are strangely not generally available for sale in the West from Paul Rubens - though I think they are listed on the Chinese-language version of their website, if I remember correctly. I found mine on Amazon listed as generic paints, but I recognised the branding immediately and snapped them up and they are genuine Paul Rubens Chinese paints in pans. Maybe I should do a video about all my Chinese paints but I feel like such a non-expert about Chinese painting ! I can do it from a Western perspective (not that I am an expert in that style of painting either - just a person with opinions sharing them and their art on the internet 😆). EDIT: just realised you posted your second comment before mine so you probably were not responding to that; I have a tendency to be overly chatty (I forget to rein in my enthusiasm), so I hope I did not just completely overwhelm you with my maaaaassive responses. Oops. Hahaha. Either way, I appreciate you taking the time to comment very much !!!
@@TheStrangeConnectorArt Regarding the comment of pouring Chinese tube paints into pans, I don't have a definite answer why it crumbles when it dries. However, one reason could be it the "glue" aka binder they use in Chinese traditional tube paints are different from gum arabic. It can be plant based or animal based, depending on what the brand decides to use. I have looked up on Chinese forums, it seems like no matter what you do to these dried paints, they will not return to the original consistency and vibrancy (disregarding the pans versions), therefore it is always recommended to squeeze and use while you paint. Regarding Paul Rubens though, this brand is such a mess to me cause it seems like they don't synchronise theirs listings (?) / products in the Western and Chinese market. I have always bought their tubes paints on Taobao and their fifth generation have some interesting and affordable colours (including potter's pink and Zirconium blue, aka same pigment as Kusakabe's). However, it does not seem like they are selling this at in the West, very strange to me. In additional, I have heard not so good reviews about their pan paints (traditional Chinese paints / watercolours ) on the Chinese market, so I stayed away from them. I would love to see your perspective on their paints. I appreciate you recognise these paints have their own properties and can be different from Watercolours / Gansai. I have seen many videos calling these non-western traditional paints as watercolour and am quite frustrated by it (Pet peeve of mine). Nonetheless, I hope to see your art with these paints and opinions as well. P.S: don't worry about the long responses, I love artists getting all chatty and enthusiastic, maybe some other random viewer can enjoy these comments of ours as well in the future.
I will def see if I can get more in the future when I visit my family in Italy as it's really nice. I started with natural and mixed hair brushes (I feel conflicted because I am not a meat eater, though I am not vegan either) so I find synthetic hard to get used to but these are beautiful and feel great in the hand too and for the quality they are very reasonably priced.
non hai aperto nulla, ma cosa dobbiamo vedere, scatole? dove hai mai visto un "art hall" cosi! le scatole si possono vedere anche su amazon, non c'era bisogno che perdessi il tempo facendo un video lungo e inutile
Ciao Manuela e grazie mille per aver lasciato un commento e del feedback! Mi dispiace tanto che tu sia rimasto delusa, lo prendo davvero a cuore. 😞 Non sono un grande canale UA-cam, sono solo una persona sola in una stanza disordinata con una telecamera e questo è stata la mia prima Haul. Ho appena iniziato e sto ancora cercando di capire come funzionino le cose, quindi non è decisamente un video perfetto, hai ragione! Mi dispiace tanto. Non ho piani di espandere il mio canale in maniera esagerata o utilizzarlo per guadagnare, e pago tutto di tasca mia, sono solo una persona che condivide con gli altri la mia passione e il mio amore per l'arte e i materiali artistici. Uno dei motivi per cui non ho dimostrato i materiali in questo video, come ho spiegato ad un altra commenter, è che li volevo preservare per video specifici dedicati ad un solo prodotto, quindi non volevo che si rovinassero prima di allora. Ma capisco la frustrazione e ci penserò su per il prossimo video Haul! Non sono una UA-camr professionista, sono una principiante, ma detto questo, mi dispiace tanto che siate rimasti delusi e penso che tutti voi abbiate delle osservazioni molto valide. Grazie! ❤ Vedrò se riesco a cambiare un po' le cose in futuro e mostrare i prodotti meglio, o spiegare meglio perché non li mostro immediatamente in modo che le persone sappiano che ho pianificato video futuri: questo video riguardava più la presentazione dei prodotti e poi li approfondirò nei video futuri(tranne per due marche che ho deciso di non presentare anche se avevo già filmato video, perchè hanno maltrattato un’altra UA-camr, e non voglio promuoverle). C'erano così tanti prodotti che altrimenti il video sarebbe stato troppo lungo, e volevo dare attenzione particolare ad alcuni prodotti, per cui volevo creare video separati! Dopo questo haul, ho già fatto un video con gli acquerelli Holbein Opaque e uno con la carta Fuumuui (entrambi ottimi prodotti!) che ho mostrato nello Haul. Farò anche un video sugli acquerelli tradizionali cinesi di Marie’s perché sono favolosi e ne ho presi altri. E le matite Marco. Purtroppo come anticipato sul canale, potrebbe volerci un po' di tempo perché ho un lavoro e sto facendo un corso postgraduate molto impegnativo allo stesso tempo, per cui ora ho esami e diversi compiti in arrivo! Comunque grazie mille per il feedback e per avere guardato il video anche se lo hai trovato frustrante. 🙏 PS - spero che il mio Italiano sia passabile - vivo nel Regno Unito da molto tempo e non mi capita di scrivere in Italiano spesso!
About the Marco pencil set I talked about in the video: after making my video, I noticed a comment from a colouring book artist on a recent @TheArtGearGuide video. They mentioned that the Marco pencils apparently don’t work very well on colouring book paper. I wanted to share this with you because I am not a colouring book artist myself, so I was not aware that the texture of colouring paper can be that different from that of sketching or art paper. I really enjoy using these pencils on sketching paper, but I haven't tried them on colouring books myself, so I thought it was important to let you know! If you decide to use these and they don’t perform well on colouring book pages, you might try scanning and printing the images you want to colour onto sketch paper instead, or you could skip the Marco pencils for colouring books altogether. Another option is to choose a colouring book that has paper with a little more texture, if these are available, or prime the page with some transparent pastel/drawing ground.
It's a little frustrating that we weren't shown the art materials (they weren't taken out of the boxes). You show the box, but don't open them, WHY.😩
Ah, I am sorry that was disappointing! I am planning separate videos for some of them - that's why I don't go too in-depth here. I don't like to unbox things until I need to use them as I don't want things to spoil (I like to keep them sealed until I start using them as these are all bought with my own money), and also this video would be incredibly long otherwise! I have however recorded some video already for some of the items shown here - e.g. the Holbein opaque cakes which was the following video on my channel, and the Fuumuui paper which was after that, if you want to check that out. That paper is great and I really recommend it if you are after cheap 100% cotton paper, BTW!!
I take your point though - I really should have explained that better in the video - sorry!!! Maybe I should come back and add link boxes to the video, linking to the individual reviews of each product after I have uploaded them. So then future viewers will be able to click on the link to see what each product is like.
For some of these items I had recorded video of me swatching and painting, but I have decided to scrap those videos for the time being because of some drama happening re certain companies' marketing departments being awful to another UA-camr, and that left a bitter taste in my mouth so I personally don't feel good indirectly promoting their products (I will use them up as I paid for them out of my own pocket and they are good products, but I don't want to do separate videos specifically on them any more right now). Though others may feel differently and that's perfectly fine (and anyway those companies have plenty of people extolling their virtues already) - that's just how I personally feel, and I hope that won't be a disappointment.
But do watch out for future videos as I will be showing many of these items in them. The Haul video is more of a "preview". I am on a hiatus for a little bit because I am studying on a postgrad course and have a bunch of assignments due in at the moment, but after that I have planned more videos and one of the first is going to be with the Marie's Chinese pigment paints I showed here (which are wonderful) and I also started filming the Marco pencils (swatching & drawing), but first I want to revisit Viceversa paper (my first video the channel and what started this all) as I have bought more sketchbooks and paper from them and really want to showcase these. In general right now I kind of feel like I want to showcase products by smaller or less promoted companies in the future.
Oh, I have also planned a comparison video with one of the products shown in this video and some very well-known products by a Big Company that I think are literally the same product but ten times more expensive. I suspected as much and I bit the bullet and bought their product specifically to investigate, and I feel my suspicions were confirmed.
I have done quite a bit of swatching on camera too but want to do some painting and drawing to go with it as I don't want my videos to just end up being infomercials! I am not paid for any of this and don;t really plan on having a huge viewership (I think that would stress me out, frankly) - I am doing it because I love to paint and draw and because I love to have a place where I can be nerdy about art materials and art supplies without driving my IRL friends crazy with my info-dumping, haha. So my rate of uploading may not be super-fast, but there will be more on these art materials, I promise. Thank you so much for watching & for leaving a comment - it's really appreciated!!!❤!
PS - sorry for the very long response. I am *very* chatty, haha
@@TheStrangeConnectorArt Hahaha, no worries! I completely understand wanting to keep your art materials in pristine condition. But as a viewer, seeing boxes upon boxes of gorgeous art materials but not the materials themselves feels like being brought close to climax, and then other person goes, "welp, I'm done." I am so, sorry for the crassness of that, but that's exactly how it felt 😂 Thank you for being so gracious about my comment! I wish you all the best! 💟
@@VerucaS9lt your feedback is very appreciated! I do want to keep the actual unboxing/demos for separate videos, but you make very good points so in the future I will try and figure out a way to address that.
It would be helpful if I had more time to make more videos so the wait to see what's actually in the box wasn't so long. argh! I find that part frustrating too, because I have to wait my end as well, and it's torture, haha!
Or maybe I can select a few things to open and show (and keep the others for their own dedicated videos). Food for thought!! Thank you so much 😊
@@VerucaS9lt PPS - I love your username!
Just want to add the Maries' Chinese traditional "museum grade" set of paints is the highest grade among the three you mentioned. The "masters" grade (I assume it is in a blue box), that's the second grade, while the brown set is the student set. I have used traditional Chinese paints on watercolour paper, I think they act somewhat similar to Gansai Paints. So if you have experiences with those, maybe you will like Chinese Traditional paints too.
also TMI, I really DON'T recommend making Chinese traditional paints into pans, they will dry and crumble up REAL bad. I did that once, and they literally will crumble into small pieces and fall out of the pan. (not that easy to rewet as well)
Thank you so much for the info re the Marie's paints!!! I suspected this was the case but was not sure, so I really appreciate you taking the time to explain! I use Chinese and Japanese paints and absolutely love them, but I use them in a Western way so I am no expert and am yet to try them on rice paper (I do have a stack of rice paper and a collection of Chinese brushes that I use for ink). I follow a few Chinese artists both on UA-cam and instagram and am aware how much goes into every aspect of creating a painting, from totally different ways of holding the brush, breathing, moving one's body even! I will never be able to truly know what it all entails as that's another lifetime's worth of practice but I appreciate Chinese artists' skills so, so much!
I own two more sets of Marie's (student grade) paints as well as the Paul Rubens Guçai (not the glitter ones) in both pan and tube form. I have many sets of gansai, too (my favorite is Kissho). It's truly beautiful stuff
@@summer12371 A very good point! Yes, I did find that this was an issue when I got my first set of Chinese tube paints and excitedly tried pouring them into pans.😆 It makes perfect sense it should be so - gouache is of similar consistency and will go brittle too, if dried in pans.
But to clarify re my comment above: I meant I have Chinese paints that were sold as sets in pans (like the Marie's four seasons set I show in the video), so they have some kind of honey or glycerin in them (not sure what but I presume one or the other? Maybe you know what it is?) to keep them softer like gansai and prevent them from crumbling.
Easily misunderstood as I have noticed that the Paul Rubens Chinese paints in pans are strangely not generally available for sale in the West from Paul Rubens - though I think they are listed on the Chinese-language version of their website, if I remember correctly. I found mine on Amazon listed as generic paints, but I recognised the branding immediately and snapped them up and they are genuine Paul Rubens Chinese paints in pans.
Maybe I should do a video about all my Chinese paints but I feel like such a non-expert about Chinese painting ! I can do it from a Western perspective (not that I am an expert in that style of painting either - just a person with opinions sharing them and their art on the internet 😆).
EDIT: just realised you posted your second comment before mine so you probably were not responding to that; I have a tendency to be overly chatty (I forget to rein in my enthusiasm), so I hope I did not just completely overwhelm you with my maaaaassive responses. Oops. Hahaha. Either way, I appreciate you taking the time to comment very much !!!
@@TheStrangeConnectorArt Regarding the comment of pouring Chinese tube paints into pans, I don't have a definite answer why it crumbles when it dries. However, one reason could be it the "glue" aka binder they use in Chinese traditional tube paints are different from gum arabic. It can be plant based or animal based, depending on what the brand decides to use. I have looked up on Chinese forums, it seems like no matter what you do to these dried paints, they will not return to the original consistency and vibrancy (disregarding the pans versions), therefore it is always recommended to squeeze and use while you paint.
Regarding Paul Rubens though, this brand is such a mess to me cause it seems like they don't synchronise theirs listings (?) / products in the Western and Chinese market. I have always bought their tubes paints on Taobao and their fifth generation have some interesting and affordable colours (including potter's pink and Zirconium blue, aka same pigment as Kusakabe's). However, it does not seem like they are selling this at in the West, very strange to me. In additional, I have heard not so good reviews about their pan paints (traditional Chinese paints / watercolours ) on the Chinese market, so I stayed away from them.
I would love to see your perspective on their paints. I appreciate you recognise these paints have their own properties and can be different from Watercolours / Gansai. I have seen many videos calling these non-western traditional paints as watercolour and am quite frustrated by it (Pet peeve of mine). Nonetheless, I hope to see your art with these paints and opinions as well.
P.S: don't worry about the long responses, I love artists getting all chatty and enthusiastic, maybe some other random viewer can enjoy these comments of ours as well in the future.
I like visually this brush because I didn't buy , I live in Brasil , I call dragon scale brush!!!!!
I will def see if I can get more in the future when I visit my family in Italy as it's really nice. I started with natural and mixed hair brushes (I feel conflicted because I am not a meat eater, though I am not vegan either) so I find synthetic hard to get used to but these are beautiful and feel great in the hand too and for the quality they are very reasonably priced.
no timestamps for this one as I want to avoid spoilers (though I do show *most* of the supplies at the beginning)
non hai aperto nulla, ma cosa dobbiamo vedere, scatole? dove hai mai visto un "art hall" cosi! le scatole si possono vedere anche su amazon, non c'era bisogno che perdessi il tempo facendo un video lungo e inutile
Ciao Manuela e grazie mille per aver lasciato un commento e del feedback!
Mi dispiace tanto che tu sia rimasto delusa, lo prendo davvero a cuore. 😞
Non sono un grande canale UA-cam, sono solo una persona sola in una stanza disordinata con una telecamera e questo è stata la mia prima Haul. Ho appena iniziato e sto ancora cercando di capire come funzionino le cose, quindi non è decisamente un video perfetto, hai ragione! Mi dispiace tanto.
Non ho piani di espandere il mio canale in maniera esagerata o utilizzarlo per guadagnare, e pago tutto di tasca mia, sono solo una persona che condivide con gli altri la mia passione e il mio amore per l'arte e i materiali artistici. Uno dei motivi per cui non ho dimostrato i materiali in questo video, come ho spiegato ad un altra commenter, è che li volevo preservare per video specifici dedicati ad un solo prodotto, quindi non volevo che si rovinassero prima di allora. Ma capisco la frustrazione e ci penserò su per il prossimo video Haul!
Non sono una UA-camr professionista, sono una principiante, ma detto questo, mi dispiace tanto che siate rimasti delusi e penso che tutti voi abbiate delle osservazioni molto valide. Grazie! ❤
Vedrò se riesco a cambiare un po' le cose in futuro e mostrare i prodotti meglio, o spiegare meglio perché non li mostro immediatamente in modo che le persone sappiano che ho pianificato video futuri: questo video riguardava più la presentazione dei prodotti e poi li approfondirò nei video futuri(tranne per due marche che ho deciso di non presentare anche se avevo già filmato video, perchè hanno maltrattato un’altra UA-camr, e non voglio promuoverle).
C'erano così tanti prodotti che altrimenti il video sarebbe stato troppo lungo, e volevo dare attenzione particolare ad alcuni prodotti, per cui volevo creare video separati! Dopo questo haul, ho già fatto un video con gli acquerelli Holbein Opaque e uno con la carta Fuumuui (entrambi ottimi prodotti!) che ho mostrato nello Haul. Farò anche un video sugli acquerelli tradizionali cinesi di Marie’s perché sono favolosi e ne ho presi altri. E le matite Marco. Purtroppo come anticipato sul canale, potrebbe volerci un po' di tempo perché ho un lavoro e sto facendo un corso postgraduate molto impegnativo allo stesso tempo, per cui ora ho esami e diversi compiti in arrivo!
Comunque grazie mille per il feedback e per avere guardato il video anche se lo hai trovato frustrante. 🙏
PS - spero che il mio Italiano sia passabile - vivo nel Regno Unito da molto tempo e non mi capita di scrivere in Italiano spesso!