foreign if you've been on art YouTube for quite a while now you know that this paint
the jelly paint had art YouTube by an absolute choke hold a couple of years ago almost every
single art YouTuber was testing out the jelly gouache paint including myself oh oh oh God it
just got all over me and in the past three years since my last review they now make
a mega size jelly gouache set back in the day the product only came with 24 colors but now
it has grown to 56 colors look how many slots that is so yeah I saw that it was like a mega
sized one I thought it was the coolest thing in the world it's been a long time since I worked
with jelly paint and I'm not gonna lie I wish I had more time to work with it I just never got
the opportunity to get around to it so yeah that's what today's video is gonna be we're
gonna test out this mega size gouache paint now before we get into it really quickly I'm
going on vacation next week for the first time in a couple of years and because I'm the type
of person who like worries about everything I'm rushing to get everything done before
vacation so this video is gonna be a little bit more chill and less heavily edited because
I ain't got time and yeah with that being said let's go ahead and open this bad boy up foreign
wow this thing is an absolute Beast look at my head and look at the size of this this is
a big boy he's beefy I just realized that I went this whole entire video without truly explaining
what gouache is and I really hope I'm saying that right I feel like I've heard many different ways
to pronounce it but I'm just gonna stick with gouache now if you don't know what gouache is
it's kind of like if acrylic paint and watercolor had a baby but unlike acrylic paint once gouache
dries you can add a little bit of water to it and it'll break down still but unlike watercolor
it's so opaque that you can put like a white directly on top of a black and it'll show up
and it's also known for not being the best when it comes to blending you kind of have to layer
it on top of each other like chunk by chunk the cool thing about gouache is that if all of this
was to dry out you can go in with like a little spray bottle and spray it back to normal and it
would come back alive gouache is definitely unfortunately like the one that's always left
out in conversation when it comes to art supplies people always talk about pastas watercolor acrylic
prismacolor copics oh who who's but unfortunately just not a lot of people talk about gouache and I
think it deserves Justice very first thing that I noticed about this gouache is that this guy
is freaking so heavy look just on the camera you can see it like bending down because the weight
of this is so heavy in the corner it's so heavy that I actually got a scale so we can measure it
okay this guy is 5.8 pounds for one single paint palette the second thing that I must
warn you about about gouache especially this many gouache gouaches this much gouache yeah this much
gouache is that it has a very strong smell to it like the second I popped off that lid it was like
the smell hits you and I can't really describe what the smell is I personally don't think it
smells very nice to me it kind of smells like a weird gym locker body odor it's clean smell
if that makes sense but besides the smell the colors in this are absolutely incredible
from what I can see it looks like it's divided into two separate sections a warm tone and a cool
tone section and even more satisfying the fact that they're all rainbow color-coded love that
and the palette also comes with some non-traditional colors like this Neon
right here we got a lot of pastels and just like a huge variety of a bunch of different
colors they really went hard with the color selection here and also a tip that I never
see people talking about when it comes to gouache is that never work with gouache when
you're hungry because I swear to God this looks like the most delicious pudding that you're
ever gonna find all of these look absolutely delectable my intrusive thoughts are kicking
in right now and it's telling me to give it a taste I'm not going to but my thought is there
do do now as far as these swatches go I don't know if I just forgot I don't know if it's just
been too long to remember how these worked but whenever I started working with the swatches
I was genuinely shocked by the sheer amount of opacity like I can't even describe how shocked
I am especially like the neon Swatch that I tried out usually it's really hard to make neon paint
but no this was super opaque that's the thing about gouache is that it's so weird because it
literally is such a hybrid between acrylic and watercolor it's weird to experience watercolor
that you can layer if that makes sense probably not with gouache you have to be super careful
with the amount of water you mix with these bad boys you have to find a perfect water to paint
ratio because you can get it really thin and it can work kind of like watercolor and you can use
hardly any water at all and get it super thick but and and I think this is the mistake last
time when I made the video if you add water in between those two extremes it makes it
kind of hard to work with for me personally I'm sure there's many artists out there who
you know know how to do the thing but for me personally I find that I'm using either or so
yeah I feel like this paint maybe isn't the most popular paint around because I feel like it just
might take a lot of practice to get the right ratio you know what I'm saying and I ended up
using a palette knife that way I can keep the individual paints clean and not mix them up
because this paint does stick to your paintbrush and it's super easy to get the colors mixed up
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foreign okay so there's been a major development first of all I got my Island
shirt on because it's almost vacation time usually on vacation I like to just sit eat
and sleep as much as I can like that's what I love to do in my free time and the second
development that actually relates to the video is that the white paint was kind
of a letdown if you're paying close attention to the drawing portion of this video I'm sure
you saw that very brief second where you can see how dark the white paint was compared to
the actual paper in fact the white paint was so dark I actually used it as a light gray
but other than that this is one of my favorite artworks that I've done in a while I think now
that I understand gouache a little bit more this one came out way better than the last one that
I drew and for all my fellow spooky [ __ ] out there once I get back from vacation I will turn
this into prints uh but yeah I feel like this one is much more practical for an artist besides
the white I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10. if you want to see more of me I recently filmed a
q a on my second Channel where I dive into some very personal things like my background education
why I don't upload that much what happened to my brother just like really frequently asked
questions if you want to see that I will link that the very first thing down below and with
that being said guys thanks for watching happy drawing and I will see you guys next video bye