"Tokyo at Night" 03

The third piece in my new “Tokyo at Night” series that I’m currently painting.
This time I used a photo I took while going shopping late at night with Kana. The bright alcohol shop with a lot of plastic crates and a neon sign caught my eye this time.
Also, I always liked the red (and sometimes green) streets and crossroads that you can find everywhere in Japan and wanted to feature it in this series also.
I used some white, opaque paint for the lighting (window lights, streetlight in the middle etc.) and to add some light blue reflections on the wires.
Technical stuff:
* Paper: HOLBEIN Waterford natural 300g/m cotton paper
* Sketch: Mitsu-bishi Hi-Uni pencil grade HB
* Line: COPIC Multiliner SP 0.5mm
* Colours: my main 48 colour Schmincke set
* White details: Dr. Ph. Martin’s BLEED PROOF WHITE
🎵 Music by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

[@MelvilleG]

Nice watercolor work. I love how confidently you mix color and how responsive the paper is. Cotton paper with its "tooth" certainly goes together well with your style.

[@noodlelicious.]

I really love your work. Thank you for sharing your work process. I'm so looking forward for the third book ☺️

[@lauralyns2245]

I have been wanting to try drawing night scenes. I love the colors you used very much. I also love all of the detail, the wires, everything. Looking forward to more of your night scenes. Thank you for sharing your colors/tools. Great details with the white.

[@Moontess]

Love this so much. Love watching you paint - it's really relaxing for me.

[@thatchsan]

idk but the speedpaint with the music made me emotional. thank u for uploading this

[@jessicabediako621]

offof wolf ikr! It was really weird how emotional I got

[@a1s1pinky]

jessica bediako wow I thought the same thing...

[@sg4030]

the composition! the lining! the atmosphere! the color choice! i love everything about your illustrations, youre such an inspirational artist! than you for sharing your gorgeous work with us! ❤

[@3toryuu]

i just found your channel today and i've watched all your painting process videos. your art is so beautiful and inspires me to take up watercolour painting :)

[@myszowor]

Stunning work! You always make me want to grab my brushes and inks.

[@mattjabbar]

Miło mi to słyszeć :)

[@tartagliasjigglydworshipper]

I am really loving this series. as someone who used to live in a big city, I've always loved to look at cityscapes at night. I just love the lights, and the atmosphere. this is a really beautiful illustration. 💛

[@fapa237]

the music in the background made my day, its so beautiful and it fit so well with the painting !

[@whatfoodsmenu]

Stunning work !!!!!

[@odysseusstudio5187]

Wow! Amazing.

[@Sy-hc8nn]

Your drawings are amazing!!! Would you do some tutorials for light and shadow in watercolour ? It has always been the tough problem for watercolor beginners ! Thanks uuuuu

[@synness]

I second this, I find balancing shadows really challenging and would love some tips on it!

[@michaelmanski8391]

Synne me too please. I need help knowing what colours to mix to get a good shadow xolour

[@cristinareyes2534]

It is just perfect 🖤

[@BrendaAmerind]

Your paintings are so gorgeous! I'm envious you get to work in Japan, the architecture there is so unique, it must be a lot of fun to paint.

[@mattjabbar]

Yes it is really inspiring, every corner is packed with stuff :)

[@BrendaAmerind]

Man, that's so cool. Hope I get to visit Japan someday. Can't wait for your next video! ^^

[@Lorenzo2DI]

Once again, another beautiful Illustration ! The contrast created with the dark and moody background and the "red" part of the road on the front is really interesting. The overall atmosphere of the piece is really intense i love it ! Thanks again for sharing this series with us, keep up the wonderful work :)

[@achikaforum]

So beautiful!

[@Artbytal]

Love the big sapporo sign above the bottleshop! We have one of the hanging above the bar I work at!

[@llc8575]

nice art, and your technique is awesome

[@christophermunoz8871]

beautiful!!! 🙌

[@mila8252]

Beautiful as always :)

[@usagikuma8]

absolutely in love with this one. it really spoke to me :)

[@ffennellmarcial8416]

I love your style. Simple but awsome. I hope you could make a little watercolor tutorial vid. Much love form the Philippines!

[@mattjabbar]

I’m uploading a series of beginner level tutorials to my Gumroad gumroad.com/mateusz_urbanowicz :)

[@wretchedcreator24]

Another fantastic painting. I'm going to use your tips about limiting my pallet next time I go out with my kit!

[@3numa3llis]

Thank you for sharing this amazing artwork!

[@baruchba7503]

I need to change from a A5 sketch book to an A6 to minimize details. Great approach. Thanks for the tip.

[@tio204]

Youre really my inspiration

[@andreapagan5270]

I always learn alot with your videos. Thank you ❤

[@poggly]

Hi Mateusz! I just got back home this morning from my trip to Japan. It was more beautiful and wonderful than I could've imagined. I've been following your work for a while well before I knew I was going on this trip, and being able to physically be there struck a cord with me with all the art and media I admire. I spent a lot of late nights wandering around Tokyo myself, and I am rewatching this after my trip and I'm getting emotional because I miss it so much! I'm recalling that before I went I thought this Tokyo at night series was incredibly gorgeous and dreamy, and wow it turned out to really be like that! I love how the peaceful and mysterious vibes are conveyed. Anyway, I am going to rewatch your cold in Yokohama videos now to reminisce my stay in Yokohama the past week (even though it was pretty warm). Thank you as always for sharing your process with us. I'm going to have to rewatch a lot of your videos to deal with my post-trip gloom haha

[@mattjabbar]

Glad you liked it!! Thank you!

[@safakkoc281]

looks awesome as always :)

[@RedMangabey]

Awesome!

[@man2641]

Amazing,beautiful watercolor pic you made

[@whipitgood1460]

I'm so happy that I found your channel! your paintings are extremely beautiful please upload tips for beginners

[@ablevi5774]

Amazing!!

[@xfranczeskax]

Very nice picture. Also I think you advice is valuable, especially as a beginner too many tools and possiblities are quite overwhelming. I should do those limiting challenges.

[@naotnguyen4551]

I love it

[@xindiz750]

love your art so much！！

[@shalinig1750]

Awesome😍

[@user-ye5jg1id7y]

素敵すぎて禿げます… 投稿者様は日本人なのかしら。日本の景色の絵が多いように感じる(^^) イラストっぽい水彩画で日本の風景を描く人はあんまり見かけないので、すごく嬉しいです😂

[@user-qm7ww2ps9e]

モリ モリ なんとなく日本のかたっぽいですよね！

[@upades]

Piękne, ta szarość jak za PRL-u, nie jest to wadą :D

[@AnnesArt]

I love how you mix the colours on the paper! 🎨

[@bpositivehandmade]

I love this series! ❤️ Beautiful as always :)

[@채연-p9y]

beautiful drawing I love it!! I envious of your drawing talent ㅜㅜ

[@olchusmiraculous]

Ty to masz talent!. Pozdrawiam

[@odadilucredheads3954]

i love this channel

[@mattjabbar]

Glad to hear it :)

[@oreo-sr2pq]

That damn camera view at the end tho, it really looked like I was in the picture

[@sergiuszurbanowicz4454]

Great job, as always!

[@emmamancini5141]

You've inspired me to start watercolour painting! It just a shame that all the good quality products are way too unaffordable for me :'(

[@OrtoInScatola]

Emma Mancini take a look at the work of Nitin Singh on KZbin and online. He is from India and paints with cheap watercolor tubes and inexpensive brushes and paper. Watercolor is not as expensive as you might think

[@mattjabbar]

The good watercolor paints, brushes and paper are a little bit expensive but you don’t have to buy them all to start painting ;) even a set of few good brand watercolors, one brush, and some watercolor paper is enough :) I’m using and have all this stuff you see on this channel because it’s my job and I gathered all of it over few years.

[@jean-claudegermaine1544]

You're so talented it's amazing 😱 !

[@xave72]

Hi ! I just recieved this print from Society6. It's a beautiful piece, bigger but a bit darker than the original, maybe. I wish it was signed somewhere, though.

[@veneracci5556]

for those watching this video on their mobile or tablet, watch the first part on portrait, its much better from that angle.

[@milckywayy]

Mistrz

[@hepianesti5451]

I always love your walls and roads because they're never a single colour. How do you choose the other colours to make beautiful gradients like those?

[@gossipopithecus]

hepi anesti he showed in one of the videos, where he draw the ships. He says that he scans his pictures to computer and uses photoshop to check the colours, change some details. Then he draws live

[@mattjabbar]

I just do it naturally, I guess it’s just the experience of painting animation backgrounds and watercolors for long time. But if I’m in complete loss at what colors should I use because the current picture is difficult I scan only the lines and try different colors in Photoshop. I’m not using this method on this illustration series though.

[@in3321]

Hi, Mateusz! Your watercolor work is stunning and I enjoy a lot these videos where you explain your sketching process. How about experimenting with curvilinear perspective? Have you tried it in your comics? I'd be curious to see something like that from you!

[@mattjabbar]

Yes! I like to draw like this! I did a Patreon sketch with curved perspective recently and use it often in my comics. I will have to paint something like this here too!

[@vfxartds]

Sweet- and a request..: please (if you do) don't feel like you have to get your videos in under a set number of minutes. I think the folks who enjoy what you do and are eager to see your process get it, excellent work simply *takes time*, so even if you feel you only have a couple of minutes of info to pass along, just a little narration, the 'ok, see you at the end' is more than cool... give these the time they need. ;-) (now of course there's a tech side to how much a machine can process etc... so longer vids may just be a technical challenge, but if it just comes down to video length... ;-) )

[@mattjabbar]

I would really like to make longer, more complex and better quality videos but I’m concentrating on my work :) this channel is still a secondary thing for me, just another channel to show you my work and how they are made. Another thing is that I use time-lapse app on my iPhone to film the process to save space and time when I edit the video to put in on KZbin.

[@파론김]

wow.. I respect you.. how do you fast catch color? coloring is really difficult

[@vsuyao]

OMg most of the time i use small pieces of paper to draw/paint and when it comes to exams, when i receive those a3 sized art blocks, i tend to only draw on one side, and when i come to realize how much time have pass, i freak out and quick shade the piece, which resulted in horrible shadding. and then i fail :'(

[@dubreucqaudrey5929]

very nice and interresting but please turn the camera so we can watch like if we were facing the page! :)

[@mattjabbar]

I will try, it’s difficult with my head coming into the frame ;)

[@thanakornhirunonhirunon662]

like.

[@kizz06]

hello Mr.Urbanowicz I been wondering if you use wet on wet technique on your drawing?

[@bojoeeejoh9652]

Do you have preference with that?

[@user-wk8bs3ko5b]

Hello, What size is your kolinsky brush?

[@eugenet2816]

Mateusz, may I ask which size raph kolinsky 8404 brush were u using? I'm thinking of doing of using it to do fine details like you have here (my Rigger Colorpro brush seems a bit hard to control though it can create thin lines). So ya am thinking of getting a size 4 but it seems like yours is a bit smaller?

[@mattjabbar]

The Raphael I use is size 3 but I also recently bought Rosemary &Co Series 33 size 7 and 1 - which sums up to a nice set.

[@eugenet2816]

Hey mateusz. That's cool to know. I've invested in a couple of brushes recently - a raph kolinsky size 10 (I know, mad price) and a raph kolin size 3 too haha (cos they ran out of 4!). But I love the 3. Just did a painting with it. Thanks to you and your videos, I've been painting almost everyday , though I've moved away from pen ink and watercolor style to simply watercolors.

[@AshanaDesu]

I had a hard time watching this. The camera angle makes gave mr a headache. But this is cool.

[@mattjabbar]

It's hard to film vertical pieces, I will think about filming the differently.

[@IsannaIAT]

Did you use hot air gun to dry watercolor?

[@mattjabbar]

I use a Panasonic hair drier, one of the simple ones. It is simple and small but really strong.

[@IsannaIAT]

thank you!

[@kacperwoek6026]

uczęszczałeś do liceum plastycznego, czy jesteś tylko (i aż) po studiach w Polsce i uniwersytecie Kobe?

[@mattjabbar]

Nie byłem w liceum plastycznym, byłem w technikum o profilu komputerowo-elektronicznym ;)

[@kacperwoek6026]

a więc determinacja i marzenia robią swoje. Kiedyś kupione przeze mnie akwarele leżały długo w pudle, zainteresowałem sie filmem i zdjęciami, ale jak zobaczyłem twój kanał i poczytałem trochę o Tobie to postanowiłem wrócić do malowania. Akwarele nie są łatwe do opanowania, ale mam nadzieję, że będę kiedyś malował tak pięknie i uroczo jak Ty :~~D

[@xxmethidxx]

What is the song?

[@mattjabbar]

It’s a CC song from Scott Buckley called "Blood"

[@ealuza3309]

Song name?

[@mattjabbar]

Always on the end screen :)

[@blackcat138]

Nice looking video but I did not learn anything

[@starlord7916]

blackcat138 it's not a tutorial

[@siegfreidx1633]

blackcat138 if you want to learn i think you can buy one of his wayercolor tutorial on gumroad

[@blackcat138]

untrustyou oh, I didn't know about That! Thanks for letting me know.

[@mattjabbar]

I’m sorry but the videos I post here are mainly a method for me to show you the process behind the art I usually do for my projects and commissions. I started posting a beginner's tutorials video series on Gumroad (there will be 10 episodes) check the first one and see if you like it! gumroad.com/mateusz_urbanowicz

[@ToriKo_]

What accent is that?

[@mattjabbar]

Polish - Japanese English I guess ;)

[@idratherstayanonimous7020]

Do you have instagram?

[@mattjabbar]

Yes, instagram.com/mateusz_urbanowicz/

[@RobDraw]

❤