Artist Tests..YOUTUBE SHORTS ART HACKS?! Part 1...

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OK Y'all, I am an artist, but, more importantly, I was a pro painter for years (that means a house painter) and I worked in the paint dept of Home Depot for two years. The "secret" to painter's tape is to remove it when the paint is still wet. If you wait til it dries the paint is essentially chipping off and you won't get a smooth edge. If you wait til it's kinda dry it is even worse cuz the paint is, like, stretchy and elastic so you can end up ripping even bigger pieces off, like trying to rip a piece pf plastic wrap in half. But yeah, with textured walls, it is almost impossible to get the tape to wrap around all the little bumps and valleys.

The boiling water for fixing a frayed paint brush probably works best with nylon bristles because they're plastic.

19:27 Ayeee it’s me! Thanks for the shoutout, your blend came our awesome!!❤️

I learned how to draw as a kid with the activity pages where they give you 1/2 of a picture and you had to draw the other 1/2. It was really helpful in free handing and creating symmetry in faces.

the hack with the horse/bear drawing seems like they took redlining (an actual method used to study shapes and forms) and kinda simplified it for kids/beginners, so that’s cool

A small tip! (my bad if someone already commented this lmao-) When blending coloured pencils, I find it helps to colour in small circular motions instead of scribbling in lines :-) It gives you a much broader, even coverage in a shorter amount of time

I've seen that another way to get clean tape lines is to just take the tape off before the paint is fully dry. No need for additional paint.

the olddd pinterest art hacks videos are actually how i found and got into this channel so i love this! chloe’s really the person who tries what we’re too unbothered to try…

Art educator here- To be real though, figuring out the basic shapes of a thing is HUGE for beginning artists. I used to trace over shapes like this all the time. Grid method didn't do great for me as an artist with ADHD. Also- tracing has its place in learning too.

The sarcasm about the balloon eraser hack at 3:00 had me cry laughing 😂 this video was so good Chloe!!!!!

For fixing brushes: masters brush cleaner and preserver, it can fix brushes, and clean out even dried paint. Works with all types of paint and a little goes a very long way. Smells wonderful as well!

the first bear looked fine, if you'd have added the nose, eyes and fur it would have looked as good as the 2nd one. The main problem was that was just an awkward reference picture but it's still a good way to train your hands and eyes to see shapes-it's basically the grid method without the grid.

The thing with straight lines with tape is that the video is using green masking tape, which is Frog Tape. It creates a seal when moisture first hits it. If you go over it with water first and wait a few minutes, it will create that clean edge. I use it exclusively for my art (mainly watercolor but sometimes acrylic) because it also is less likely to damage the paper when removed.

Who saw the title and immediately knew chloe's hands (or desk) would be covered in some art supply or another?

I’ve used a hair straightener on my natural bristle brushes. Doesn’t affect the glue because you don’t put it on the metal. For tiny brushes and synthetic ones I lay the brush so it’s flat and heat a metal chopstick and run it over the brush. It isn’t perfect but it gives you a little bit of extra life on your brushes.

I've actually learned the boiling water method from one of my first How to Draw Manga books. My secret is to not dip the brush all the way in (Get only the bristles wet to prevent the glue from melting), then shape it, carefully drying it with a paper towel, and then using either a bit of conditioner as a brush shaper to really smooth down the bristles with your fingers, then let dry overnight. Works beautifully! ♥ Also, there may be a couple of stray bristles that I carefully trim off with tiny scissors.

"I basically found a couple of tips and tricks from a couple of..." A couple of what chloe?!

Hey Chloe, I think it's really cool how you express how challenging coloured pencil art is as a lot of people hear coloured pencils and think of a kids colouring book rather than "real art". I've been practicing with coloured pencils for years and am still nowhere near the league Rae and others are in, they're amazing so it's great to see other artists and influencers speaking out in praise of their skills. Thank you! Can't wait to see what you do with your walls in the next video! Lots of love from back home in Blighty! 😊🇬🇧

Tip for blending color pencils: If you want a smoother gradient, you have to bring up the colors into each other instead of just holding the pencil lighter. For example if you mix 2 colors (like red and yellow) then you need 3 color areas (red, orange, yellow) — in that middle area you blend while gradually shifting the amount of color, so the first color becomes weaker and the next becomes stronger. This should happen with the colors being layered on top of each other, not in separate. That's also how you can get blended colors (in this case orange) even without using a pencil that was originally that color.