Literally Everything I Know About Gouache Paint!

Literally Everything I Know About Gouache Paint!
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[Soulcrash]

"Doodle" For god's sake Scott that's a full piece it only took you 90 minutes because of the medium and techniques and the literal decades of experience you carry around.

[artsy_dragon_creations]

Gouache is so much fun to play with. Being able to lay down opaque layers, blend, and lay down transparent washes with the same medium is really user friendly. It’s like oil paint and watercolor had a baby, and gave us the best of both worlds

[Mrfnaf]

Hey Scott, I’m drawing Travis Scott right now

[ct]

Thanks scott! I tried picking up gouache a few months ago and did 1 piece but got scared off from people online talking about how hard it is. It’s refreshing to hear your positive attitude

[random_sword]

I love gouache, its gotten me out of art block multiple times, because you dont need to think too much, and its actually fun. It reminds me all the reasons i love drawing!!

[lukekartavov]

It’s very unique and interesting (in a good way) how you paint/layer mediums. I find it cool how you layer different colors that don’t seem like that they are there and it turns out so good.

[TofuBoy]

There’s something implicitly satisfying about your brilliant line work and brush work…

You make lovely art :D

[anthgabriel]

Scott, you've become my art hero. Listening to your stories, seeing you embrace your autism, and how you approach art, it's really inspiring. I hope to be as comfortable with myself and my art as you are.

[shoconutdank]

loving the contrast between cool and warm tones!!

definitely inspires me to experiment more :)

[spamhands]

I also am not a fan of the texture of acrylic. Even though it dries fast, I have trouble seeing if it's still wet, since it's still shiny when dried.
Also, may I suggest a video on how to properly dispose paint water? I feel like it's a topic that isn't talked about much, since it's not a very glamorous topic.

[Awusa]

this inspired me even more to start with gouache. Beautiful color choices! Thank you for this video.

[linguine]

I just wanted to say that after seeing your short where you said how you see skin tones and colors others don’t, that even though I can’t see all the blues and greens you do I think it’s so beautiful that you can see all these colors in people. ❤️ Thank you so much for sharing your worldview in your art and inspiring people. I’ve been following you for the last few years and my art has immensely improved, so thank you for everything.

[shydill]

I have never mixed mediums! I'll have too try it foreal... I use alot of greens in portraits

[panda_queen]

These "everything I know about..."videos are so helpful to me! They really give some helpful pointers for my art so that you sm🐼💜

[batt_luvs]

I GOT GOUACHE YESTERDAY SCOTT HOW DID YOU KNOW??

[tessarudolph]

Hi Scott!! I’m a high school artist hoping to be an illustrator one day. It’s my goal this summer to try out as many new art supplies as possible, and gouache and oil paints are at the top of my list!! I’m definitely going to be referencing this video a lot when I first attempt gouache, so thanks so much!!

[EZ-A]

A 90 minute doodle is an understatement you truly know what art means, art is something unique there is no perfect and the amazing thing is that it's far from accurate skin color but you can see how it comes together to have that imperfect touch is quite a wonderful skill to have

[Neelloc]

Let go and show no fear should be every artist's motto.

[rampagegage]

A few things that have helped me in the past, not just for gouache but painting in general:
1. If you're using a reference, and it's in color, I'd recommend putting it in greyscale. This way you're focusing on the values and not just what colors you "should use"
2. Test your color palette on a scrap piece of paper, take a picture of it, and then put that into grayscale. I like to pick a shadow, midtone, and highlight as my 3 colors. I often find it hard to tell what inherent value a color has, obviously blue is darker than yellow but still. This way before I start painting I know how dark my darks are and vice versa.
3. This one's random but to preface, everytime I start a painting I want to try something different and I'm always scared to try it out. So just make a few thumbnail sketches and try out a few things and if you don't like it then just don't do it when you do the final piece. This might just be me but I'm weird like that lol.

[WilliamM]

Hey Scott! I tried Himmi Gouache a while back and really struggled to use it correctly. i sort of just painted it like it was a watercolour and it ended up looking just wrong. i kept it and retried it but am still practising and this helped a lot, thank you!