I think it's important to show different media you work with. Personally, I don't trust an artist's review of the product if I can't see the type of work they're capable of doing with that medium. I'm not interested in someone like Jazza talking about acrylic paints or colored pencils, because he knows nothing about them.

❤delightful! Always do some art just for yourself. Healthy balance and self care😊

Frankie looks very content. I want to return to my acrylic paints soon. It would be wonderful to see more acrylic tutorials, particularly with acrylic ink involved. Today, before your video popped up, I ordered 2 books on acrylic painting!!! I think I joined your channel when you were creating acrylic paintings and soon afterwards I fell in love with coloured pencils. It's healthy to change mediums and to challenge oneself. Thanks for this video. Take care. ❤

THANK YOU FOR THE LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. AWESOME. I USED INKTENSE PANT POCKET SETS 1&2 ON 140LB WATER COLOR PAPER AND LOVED HOW THEY BEHAVED. I LIKED THAT I WAS ABLE TO CREATE A SMALL SCENE WITH ONE COLOR FOR THE SKY AND WATER EXACTLY THE WAY I WANTED WITHOUT TOO MUCH FUSS AT ALL AND FOR INSTANCE LAYING DOWN SAND FOR A BEACH. I DID NOT HAVE TO CREATE THE SHADOW FOR MY WAVE IT WAS JUST THERE . I ALSO USED THE INKTENSE METALIC SET ON THE SAME PAINTING.I USED THE SILVER METALIC ON THE FOAM OF MY WAVES AND IT MADE THEM STAND OUT JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE. I MUST SAY THOUGH. THE INKTENSE WILL NEED TO BE SEALED. THEY WILL RE-ACTIVATE IF THEY GET WET.

This painting is fantastic, so loved listening to you discussing your creative plans, thoughts and watching Frankie coming to life. Congratulations. Wish there were more in detail paintings on KZbin

Shanna, im here for any & all art you make, regardless of the medium! Great Job👍👍👍👏👏🥰

I would love to see more acrylic!

I’m here for the acrylics! Hope to see more like this! You asked, so, yes, I have a marathon going on in the background, even though all my art is selfish art. It’s a 16” square, with wrap-around edge, photorealistic painting of 3 raccoon kits looking out of their nest in a tree. Started over 3 years ago, with other projects in between, as I learned new techniques needed for this big project. I keep finding things to improve just a bit more.

I’m not surprised this painting took as long as it did, you did such an excellent job. Kudos to you for persevering through the process!

He is stunning! ❤

Hello Franky!!! ❤ I loved watching your process and seeing everything come together. He’s beautiful! I can’t wait to see you talk about acrylics! I usually just use medium body Liquitex or Mont Marte, but I’ve been so curious about acrylic inks.

So cool that you had frogs and turtles on campus to visit. I used to work across from a botanical gardens and we had turtles there too, but i swear out of several hundred visits to the pond, I only spotted the turtles twice. I don't know if they had frogs, they did have the lily pads, but no frogs. It was always the nicest and most relaxing ways to spend my lunch breaks. I love all of the detail on this one. You know that I personally love seeing you do all kinds of paintings. While you say people love your product review videos, I think videos like this, show that you know your stuff and that gives you much more authority and respect with your reviews. Yap all you want! Its nice getting more of you in this video :)

Prince Frankie is amazing and love seeing this different aspect of your work. Are you able to share what your next big project is? Will you be filming it? X

Really enjoying watching you paint your frog! It's fab! Re: brushes - I know not every painter will agree, but brushes are the one place where I believe you can skimp and use cheap or budget brushes and get away with it. Yes, many of the big brand names may be you a better experience and performance, but if you need to cut down costs in some way, you can do it with your brushes with little to no consequence. It can be much riskier to chance your art with a lower grade paper and paints..., unless you're only going to make prints or something like that! I like the Robert simmons white budget brushes and Royal Langnickel are always inexpensive, but good compared to other premium brand names. I have a small amount of the more expensive brushes too. My fave, while not that expensive, is on the higher side for me, and that's Silver Silk 88, a synthetic, I love, love, the Cat's tongue type and use it a lot for watercoloring work. I can go wide or easily make delicate lines. Worth a try..I got mine on Amazon. Thanks!

I adore frogs, and this painting is a masterpiece! I am definitely interested in acrylics. Been trying to master them, but not there yet since I am so used to watercolor.

I love your froggie, and I loved this video - I really enjoy watching the process of art-making. More like this, please!

OMG! That's why I love your channel! I love the way you draw and paint, no matter the media you choose!, and I was thinking in my mind...oh! I will want to see Shana painting with acrylics or oil...and here you are! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 it's very interesting and a fresh idea! Please, do more like this! It's good to see reviews, but I love to see how you can draw or paint ❤ you are an Artist first! That's awesome!❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Well hello there Prince Franklin, aka Frankie! I have no idea how to say I think you are beyond talented without sounding either insincere or like a broken record. However, you are! I have watched so many artists with 30, 40, 50+ years of being an artist and for a fair few of them, I would place you in the spot abov for a few reasons. Your versatility when it comes to a variety of mediums is nothing short of astonishing. You have a mastery of each medium far and above so many who use a single medium, and yet you are still so very young. I intend to watch you here for as long as you have the time, and no matter the medium or subject matter used. One day I hope to hear that you plan to leave KZbin for the most part in order to concentrate on planning and exhibiting on a large scale, painting the things that inspire you as an artist. I felt sad to hear you correct yourself from “Artist” to “KZbin Artist”. It felt as though you somehow see your current works of art as somehow less than, when even though you currently may need to be dictated to by your KZbin audience, your body of work ought to be hanging in galleries far and wide. I understand I am simply a fan of you as an artist regardless of the medium, but I don’t feel I can be alone in this opinion. Please produce more of what YOU as a fully fledged artist feel drawn to at any given time. Use KZbin to showcase your versatility and expertise, rather than have KZbin dictate, or worse, attempt to pigeon hole you. KZbin is simply a rung of the ladder you are currently climbing, not your destination. Collate your details and portfolio, along with your social media presence and send it to all the galleries you can track down, and continue to do so, even contacting the same galleries multiple times. I have a certainty in your future, I don’t even have for my own goal of taking a few steps every day, before ultimately using my electric wheelchair. I know what determination looks like, and you, Shana Rowe Jackson have it in spades! Time for me to leave you in piece, but please have a little more faith in your artistry, and push for the future you both crave and deserve! 🖌️👩🏻‍🎨🎨💜

Make what ever content you want, Frankie is awesome.

I'm really bowled over by this piece. Your great sense for laying contrasting textures next to each other in bigger patterns is so much in play here, in this background. That gorgeous eye of the frog kept making me think of something, more and more as it got close to being complete, and then I realized it reminds me of that intricate black enamel jewelry with gold inlay they make in Toledo (I had a pendant in that work once). But the same question comes up again that often does with watching you or other artists build up a detailed piece like this: how do you know it's finished? More, even: how would you know you might be in danger of overworking it?

I love your frog!!!! ❤

Beautiful work! I enjoy seeing people work in acrylics and oils; it's a shame those videos don't do better for you. I like your pencil work as well, but that's not a medium I work in, as it tends to bother my hands.

Beautiful work with an amazing amount of detail, I literally stopped what I was doing and was transfixed when you were painting his eye and then adding all the tiny details. So important to have something for yourself away from your online work art.

I think I told you on Facebook how much I liked this piece, but I love hearing back stories from other artists, and this was no exception. I have oil & acrylic paintings always going on in the background too. I would absolutely like to see you do paintings on your channel. I'm here for the variety! Take care!

I have a ton of Acrylic paint that I really have not hardy used yet. I would love to see more Acrylic's but not to the point where you burn yourself out. Thanks for this video.

I love your painting!🐸 Honestly I love seeing people create art so I'd be interested in your art in any medium you fancy. 😊

He is so cute!! 🐸 Great photo! 👏 Amazing painting!! 🎨 I'm so glad you do something for yourself!! 🥰 It is very therapeutic!! 🤗 I knew you were an intelligent young lady, but pharmacy tech takes a lot of knowledge and is very detail oriented!! 👍 My husband is a pharmacist, and I know they have the final check, but wow!! 😮 Too much to have to keep in my brain for this gal!! 🤦‍♀️ Plus, you do incredible art and run a KZbin channel!! 🙀 You just blew my mind!! 🤯

Beautiful work! It's so important to challenge ourselves so we don't burn out. I'm glad you made this video to show realistic expectations on how long a piece takes.

Gorgeous! Lady, I am here for you... Doesn't matter what medium you use. I'm here for it!

Wow love the painting, please be carefull not to burn yourself out, take care, great video tfs sylvi 🎉🎉🎉

Beautiful work. I love the colors. And your hat, too!

Loved the Berol prismacolors! Can't wait to use my holbeins. Thanks for the review- your art is gorgeous.

My hat's off to you-bravo!🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

It looks very realistic.

I'm getting a set of Inktense next month and can't wait to use them 😊 thank you for the demo. It really helps a lot 💙

Hate all of those. Why do art historians pretend that art only means paintings, sculpture, architecture, and maybe some Calligraphy? Where is Music, Dance, Decoration, Theatre, Circus, Clothing, Jewellery, Make-up? Heck, even photography and movies are largely ignored.

Beautiful painting! I have these and my only complaints are the lack of clean mixing brighter colors and the caps are incredibly hard and painful to open. I have to use pliers multiple times per painting session. Thanks for reviewing them!

Ruin brushes? My newest brush is 10 yrs, my oldest 24yrs. Simple, just handle them as they were your hair!

Neat way to do your swatches!!

Thanks for the video. I use inktense in backgrounds and wanted to look about getting a set of watercolour.... didn't realise they were closed as water colour thought they were water soluble

More anecdotes and studio vlogs please! (I love that Jupiter was your favorite planet.) And I hope that things are better.

I love my original Prismacolors but my son, who is an artist, said he felt like the watercolor pencils weren't as good as some other brands he's tried and to buy something else. I'm doing my research but I'm leaning toward Faber Castle. I wish I could get behind the Prisma watercolors but I think I'll pass.

Stunning artwork!🫶🇦🇺

The two I liked most are the Koh I Noor Mondeluz which I've never even heard of, and Caran d' Ashe Museum Aquarelle which I ordered earlier today after watching your review. I already have the wooden box Luminance set as well as others. I love pencils and pens...and many other art supplies. Oh Strathmore products cost a fortune in Australia, Strathmore Hardbound Art Journal 400 Toned Grey 8.5 x 11 inch 128 Pages 118gsm Regular price $73.50 AUD $52 USD Great quality product though.

I wish you would’ve done a video with these pencils on the proper paper!

I love this piece, and watching you think it and execute it from the bottom up has made me plan something similar myself. One of the first things I did with colored pencils, learning how to create color blends, was trying to catch the subtle colors and textures and grains of beach stones, trying to get the different kinds recognizable. This is such a big handful of ideas and techniques to do just that! So I took out those rock patches I made and went over them to see how I can rethink it. About your question: I am getting a small (six or twelve) set of Inktense pencils, and I think I will get the smallest set of the blocks too because I like to do big background fills on some things, and my pencil sets get very uneven wear when some get used up that way. No doubt I will be happy for the stick of pigment for other reasons as I go along.

That tin of prismacolor pencils is also available at Walmart.

I really like the texture of these wings. There's two beautifully defined substances, or sets of substances there ( not saying this very well . . . ), the background woods and the "fabric" of the wings, which are not just a milky haze, but have that fine flecking on their own that are part of the figure's identity. But of course she is magical, so you can expect impossible effects from your media. Enjoyed watching this come to life on your commentary. It was a good day for me to find such a cheery excursion. Thinking about getting a little six-tin of Inktense -- you have made me very curious!

Thank you for this. I have never tried watercolor pencils, but have done a lot of work with original Prismacolor pencils.

I'm a little late here but I did subscribe. My favorite watercolor pencil has been the Inktense. Your video has validated my choice. I have been eyeing the Albrecht Durer lately as I love the Polychromos, but for now I think I'll continue as I am. You video was really informative.