Hopefully Canada Post stops striking soon so I can get my package 😂 3:23

That was wonderful. I have seen finished pencil art like this and wondered how it was done. Mystery solved! Thank you

What adhesive did you use to fix the magnet to the piece of angled metal at 19:24? If you mentioned it, then I must have missed it.

Hello newbies! Just use pencil :D

Like my Fude

Do you have recommendations for Modern less expensive flex nibs that offer fine line which can also be put into this pen ?

Just found you on the internet while looking for info on fountain pens. What a wonderfully knowledgeable and talented person you are.

Good review, do you think or know if the FPR #6 EF ultra flex and 6.3mm ebonite flex feed would be compatible with the asvine v126? Or any of the above? Thanks! I’m looking to get that nib for a relatively inexpensive pen with high ink capacity

Great explanation!

When my nibs get bent they then look like these !

I wonder if these inks are new from the time this video was made, but we can get white inks from Octopus Fluids and from Deleter.

I felt so happy when you said drawing clothes is hard even for artists. I struggle so much with it I got a couple of books on drawing drapery even though I’m still learning the basics of anatomy.

This is one of the most useful and informative videos on portable palettes that I’ve ever seen!! Great job! Thank you!!

Hi Marc! Absolutely love your sketch. Do you like going urban sketching with others? 😊

Very nice. Well done!

yooo i made a drawing with the same reference haha, i love how yours came out too!

Man, whenever I watch your videos i always learn bits of knowledge wether its this type or the fountain pen ones lol, amazing work btw😊. Oh and I'm very curious on your thought about this one artist in which i consider a favourite master of mine called Bernie Wrightson especially on his illustrations on Frankenstein his magnum opus, he is a comic artist yet chose to take on a style reminiscent to engravings and masters like Gustave Dóre and Franklin Booth.

This review and the previous were so helpful. My brother-in-law went to Japan on business and I asked him to pick up a Pilot 743 with FA nib. A little higher cost than eBay, but I received it much more quickly than international shipping so I'm thrilled, and still far less than the inflated US price. I was looking at pens with more flex, but your comment about how much flex an artist actually needs really stuck with me. I'm thrilled to have the reliability and engineering of this (to me) high-end pen; my first gold nib! I'd still like to get a metal Falcon but for now I'm really happy! Thanks so much for all the great advice.

Oh wow, so beautifully rendered, so much to learn from this! Thank you for posting! I noticed that you didn't erase your pencil lines. When would you leave the pencil marks? And if you wanted to erase them, would it be after inking? Or after putting down w/c? Would erasure remove some of the ink or wc brightness? Thanks Marc!

kind of curious if you would still recommend Fountain Pen Revolution nib for the noodler?

Considering you as an artist and an art professor, it is great see your way of practical/analitical thinking. I would love to see more palettes and hacks in the future. I don't paint outdoors but I'm still interested in portable and limited palette opitons because the lack of space in my room. I also did some diy plattes, it is really fun. Great video, I will certainly watch it again. By the way, Winsor Newton has some options for portability, they are mostyl plastic though. White sponges (sold as magic-melamine sponge/eraser sometimes I guess) are great for removing stains. Lastly, film canisters and pill bottles can be used as small water containers, for those who are looking for some idea on that.

thank you!

I'm starting this technique but I'm afraid of making mistakes and losing the whole drawing...the trick is to practice a lot.😅😢

Master at work! Thank You!

Very glad I found your channel. Thank you for the tips.

Love it!

Perhaps you can buy a cellphone ring holder and stick them on your palette for more stability.

Excellent work! I absolutely love the rhythm and harmony of the lines in this drawing! :) I’ve noticed from my own experience that when drawing only with a pencil, it’s very easy to fall into simple copying. But when using a pen (or a similar medium), you have no choice but to approach the use of lines creatively, making it look beautiful, with the photo serving only as a reference.

Hmmmm, I have a bit of a collection of palettes. Very interesting to see how you use yours. My most used out and about is an Art Toolkit business card case palette. I have small hands, and arthritic thumbs, its the only comfortable solution I have found. That doesn’t stop me from buying every nifty palette I see though. I dont have a problem with plastic palettes either, they can be made to not bead up with a glue wash (takes off the release agent) and a magic eraser.

I love these real-time, no comment, videos. It really helped reinforce the ideas you presented in the workshop. I have trouble keeping the balance between ink and WC. Loved seeing the transition from the armature to clothed sketch to ink lines to shading to color. Thanks.

Marc, thanks for this. After viewing, I reconfigured my small, also red, Whiskey Painter palette. Wish I could fit half pans in the center row. My hands will not allow holding a palette and a sketch book (joint issues) but with benches for the palette or sometimes a tripod for the surface with palette in hand, I am ready to go with a compact kit.

Have you covered which colors you use on your most used palettes? Im curious to know your preference

Will the water-resistant ink you are using clog the fountain pen over time?

thank you!

Copying a photo not quite the same as doing it from life (which is how I tend to work). Very nice all the same.

That's wonderful to watch - thanks for posting it. You make it look easy but I guess that's the result of many years of study and practice 🙂 I'm working through your tutorial on sketching people in pen and watercolour and there's a lot to learn. Seeing the whole process in real time is really helpful.

hello from Italy. thank you for the 33 minutes and 30 seconds of wonder and awe. so beautifully rendered. stunning work in a timeless medium. it's just so uplifting to see someone draw like this; amazing. so happy to have found this channel.

1. I'm curious why you chose to lighten the pants so much. 2. Impressive how fast you can draw, with basically zero corrections. I wonder if I would ever have become adept if I'd just put in my 10,000 hours. A moot point now, as I eventually lost interest in copying photos (or reality, for that matter). Pretty convenient, I admit.

Very nice! Are you using the original Opus feed with the fpnib?

Well done!

You can get rid of the paint stain using a rubber eraser 😊

Thanks for this quite diverse review. I personally prefer the metal ones (notice the plural form, haha) as my pochades (once again plural) have magnets that they easily attach to. Personal fave is the French brand Stablo because it has a lot of great features and light as air! ❤ Schminke (pronounced shmink-ah btw) has different sized palettes as well and I agree quite gimmicky but adorable. Have you heard of the company Art Toolkit?Their mini palettes come in several sizes and they have magnetic pans that come in different sizes so you can customize it. For the micro palette you showed, I'm guessing the finger wedge is supposed to slide between your fingers unlike the usual finger holes. I also have a mini porcelain mixing tray which I prefer because it's easy to clean and doesn't stain. Love your hacks btw! ❤

Muchas Gracias por la excelente comparación de palettes, muy útil para tomar decisiones sobre cual comprar.

No "house of hoffman" ???🎉🎉🎉 Very helpful... Thank you ii do have a small Santa Fe brass.. and smile when ever I use it... but so much money.

The regular Portable Painter is my favorite! I've added the extra pans and love it so much.

1. Great info, especially the hacks and how-to stuff. Thanks. 2. I'm not convinced of the need for so much miniaturization, but I guess it makes sense if your paper is also quite small. My respect to those who can make something smaller than A5 that is worth looking at. 3. I originally gave up on watercolor field work because I was defeated by the quick drying due to wind and sun, along with the changing light. My respect to those who have overcome these potholes.

Thanks for your great review of a wide variety of options, Marc. After trying a several travel palettes, my current favourite is the Portable Painter Micro. I like it because it's very small, light and includes several useable mixing spaces. With careful colour selection, its 6 half pans can be used to mix most things. It's ample for my travel usage, which is just to add a bit of colour to my sketchbooks and small (max A5) pictures. My problem is always keeping things simple and light. I find that it's all too easy to carry an excess of 'stuff', most of which contributes little to the end result. Thanks again for the video 🙂

Is there any reason these things can't be made of plastic?

Hi Marc ! :) The Holbein palettes no matter of what metal are made off lack a catch on the lid that would allow them to snap close firmly. The Talens one is a very old model and now discontinued. I haven't seen this model in any European store. Where did you get this? :) You can remove the inner lid from the Meeden palette to lighten it up a bit. The way it is attached on the box doesn't serve any mixing purposes either way. The second Meeden palette is a bit heavy. Portable but not actually portable because you don't carry only the watercolor box in your kit. The faux Fraser Price looks decent. Rub the stained enamel with a bit of toothpaste and it will look bright white again! The red little box looks great also but it is a bit overpriced. Same applies for the Schminke with the flask that goes for up to 80 dollars, euros, pounds and the Portable painter that is sold for 30+ euros but is actually an over engineered plastic little box. I'm using a tiny tin ( like the Altoids ones) that holds two full pans and two half pans. I've figured eventually out the ultra minimalistic colour "triad" that is actually made of four colours and can mix 99,9% of hues, which I pair with a light metal pencil case ( generic school one ) that its lid doubles for mixing space too. I've modified it by spraying it in the inside with white enamel paint. As both are made of metal can be attached anywhere ( a drawing board, sketchbook etc) with magnetic clips. And that is the lightest and simpler setup I could get after years of experimentation with different setups, boxes palettes etc. The best small water containers are the plastic or glass jars that come with women's cosmetics. Creams and such things that you can attach them the way you showed on your video. They are available in all possible sizes and they have also a lid. I also use these containers that are used for measuring cat's food. Those that you can take for free from pet stores and are made of very lightweight plastic and also have a lid. The lid is necessary as you don't have to dry the water container before throwing everything back in your bag. And in order to save space I put the tiny metal paint box into the plastic pet food pot along with some paper towels and this way I end up having only three things in my bag. The pencil case, the plastic container and my sketchbook instead of a mess of things clinging inside my bag.

I have the larger brass FP box. It IS heavier and clunkier. Still very cool. My only issue is that the little rivet that the latch grabs to to hold the box closed popped off of mine after about a week. So a rubber band or keeping it in the little velvet bag that it came with are a necessity to keep it closed. This is a clone of the original design that Windsor and Newton later copied for their plastic field box with the integrated water bottle and clip on cup (which is also a phenomenal pocket box, and much lighter than the brass!)