Re-learning Watercolours || Paul Rubens MeiLiang Watercolours

Watercolour artist here!! Quick tips to help anyone struggling with watercolours!! 1. It’s easier to line your piece after painting it but be wary. The paint sometimes scratches off onto your pen if it’s too thick or too chalky (if this happens it doesn’t kill the pen, just scribble on a loose sheet and it fixes it. It’s annoying if anything). Better materials for lining is lining with the paint itself with a thinner brush, pencils of any kind and especially ballpoint pens. Goes down easier and if it does scratch off paint again, scribble on a piece of paper. 2. Don’t use too much water in your paint. Ironically enough, you drown the page this way. For your first experiments you used too much water and the colours ended up drying with a darker line around the paint. That’s from the over use of paint. 3. Be patient. Build slowly. Go from light to dark and layering is your best friend. Some paints reactivate (especially on the cheaper side) so be wary when layering with them. 4. Most importantly, learn your materials and practice. Play around with what you have, learn different techniques and styles to find what you like be it lineless or not. Clean gradients of textured. Like any material, the final look and the process is dependent on you and what you like. (Ok didn’t mean to ramble, if this helped at all your welcome now go have fun!!)

absolutely love how the final piece turned out! the water colours look really nice! i always worry theyre gonna dry dry kind of grainy. Love this character too, o'd love to see more of him!

Yes to hearing more about your world-building. And you did a great job with this main painting. I love the “camels” eyes.

I wasn’t expecting for the colours to be so vibrant and clear when I saw the pans. 😮 Also super surprised by the paper!! The artwork looks amazing and it was certainly worth the sweat!! You made it look so effortless and the way you simply draw a big piece like that is just amazing. 🙌

I always love seeing you draw figures. You’re so talented!

Your skills are so impressive 😩 I'm really rooting for this channel to grow quickly! You deserve it.

It's really hard to be patient with watercolour, that's why I always keep a hairdryer handy 🥰

I love the way you use color. I especially like how the warm gradient you put down affected the colors of the peice.

The artwork tuned out wonderfully! Plus, watching this has made me want to take another crack at using watercolours, so I’d greatly appreciate any advice anyone has for using them or suggestions for what to paint 💙💙

Your art is so satisfying to watch! I love the way you draw humanoid anatomy.

Gorgeous. I’m in utter awe at your work

I love everything you are doing! Thank you for the inspiration!

The colours that you chose for the painting are spectacular!

Those were very nice blues, greens and oranges with cool accents. Nice drawings 👍

you are a very very very very very very very very very goooooooooooood artist

Gonna get the paint soon. I'm very impressed ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵🤍

Just found your channel, live the effet that first wash of color had on the final painting. Great colors ❤️ And the characters is beautiful, i find myself intrigued by his story

Hi! I love your art and style so much its so pretty :) would you ever do a tutorial on how you draw?

Beautiful 😍

Your final piece came out so beautiful and warm, I really love it! I'm also impatient with waiting for paint to dry so I have a love/hate relationship with watercolours haha, but seeing how saturated these are makes me very tempted to try again 🤔 thank you for sharing!