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There's a reason Wite Out works so well as a white paint. The inventor of the original brand Liquid Paper, Bette Nesmith Graham, was a secretary who was also an artist. She realized she could use white paint to fix typing mistakes in her secretarial job and came up with her own formula for the correction fluid. I remember in school Liquid Paper was an absolute must-have school supply! So fun to see it come full circle as an artist supply as well!

For digital artists! You might look at layer options and wonder what the heck is a vector layer. A vector layer is a layer that, when the lines on that layer are resized, keeps the lines smooth! So no more fuzziness when you make your drawing bigger or smaller :D

For watercolor artists, if you wanna paint clouds, make the whole sky a wash of the color you want it (aka blues or sunset colors) and make sure it is a lot of water and the paper is wet. After you let the pain soak in for like 20 seconds use a towel you cramped up to take off some of the paint in some areas. You will be left with beautiful white spots that resemble clouds. Adding gray in some areas over that spot can help it become more life like. Hope this helps other struggling artists like it did for me!

I only paint with makeup brushes! I discovered this a few years ago after I had a party (alcohol was involved) and my friends got into my paint and brushes and left them out to crust all night and they were kinda done for. I wanted to paint something that week and was like dammit! But realized I had a huge cabinet full of unused makeup brushes and was like “Damn, why hadn’t I thought to use these before?” They are so much smoother and more refined than most artist brushes for the price. When you go to buy a high quality artist brush they can get insanely expensive. You can get a pack of Walgreens brand makeup brushes in all different sizes and shapes and they paint like a dream.

Art tip: chalk pastels (especially the lighter shades) get dirty with the dust of the other colors…put cornmeal in a ziplock, toss in your dirty pastels and shake the bag. Your pastels come out nice and clean again! And the best part is you can just zip up the cornmeal bag and keep it with your pastels to use over and over again. I have had my sandwich bag of cornmeal for years and it looks too dirty to clean anything but I tell you at it’s still doing the trick.

My art hack ✏️: Whenever doing drawings with coloured pencils, use a base like paints, markers etc. which will make the process MUCH quicker. You will be able to cover large areas in little time and after that you can use coloured pencils to add details. If you use only coloured pencils, you will take a lot of time and finish through your pencil fairly quickly. Hope this helps :)

I've never heard of anyone doing this...but I tell every artist I meet. I ALWAYS flip my drawing or painting around (through the entore process) and and look at it in a mirror. You can spot your mistakes with proportion, symmetry, weird white space...I do it with all of my work and I can't even express how helpful it is. Especially, when you're like "I know something isn't right...but what?"

Im on an acrylic paint forum for beginners on FB and a lady there told us to use Vit E oil or olive oil and add a little to our acrylic paint and then it would act more like an oil paint and would blend better, dry slower and also bring out the color more. She said she uses it just for certain areas. She said her aunt did this for 40 years and was a great artist. I tried the Vit E and found it too thick and sticky, so then switched to olive oil and it really is amazing!

My art hack: I was once recommended by an art friend to put a sponge (cut to the shape of the cup) at the bottom of the paintbrush water to gently wash the brushes on. I was surprised how well it worked and I've been using the trick ever since.

When you first open a tube of paint, swipe the threads of the cap with a bit of petroleum jelly or wax to help prevent dried paint getting all up in there and making the cap nigh impossible to remove without mangling the tube. Reapply whenever you feel it's wearing thin.

I've found that regular rubbing alcohol removes even dry acrylic paint from your paint brush.i got little ones that always let the paint dry on my brushes

I also love my colored pencils, my preferred brand is prismacolors also. I completely agree with the white being the best for blending anything!! I’ve even used it to blend marker and pencils or even gel pens. I’ll use my pencils till there is nothing left which leads me to another hack for those who can’t afford to get the premium art supplies like me. When my pencils are too short I simply stick them into a soda straw. I cut them down to a length that will hold 2 pencils (1 on each side’. 😊

My art tip: the best way to learn/ practise mixing colors is to pick out ONLY red, yellow, blue and white paint and then mix all the colors you need for your piece YOURSELF. Including black. Even if you own the exact color you need - forget it and make it yourself. Fr it's such a helpful challenge. Edit: as the comments pointed out - yes, the primary subtractive colors (cyan, magenta, yellow) would be better for this challenge. If you can, use these three colors (and white). However if you don't own cyan or magenta paint (almost nobody did at the school we learnt this challenge at), just use red and blue instead. Trust me it still works wonders.

It is usually impossible to color a double sided coloring book with alcohol markers. Art hack: Get clear gesso and spread with a sponge on the part of the paper you want to color let it dry for around ten minutes. The print of your marker will not go on to the other side of the page. It works like magic. (◕ᴗ◕✿)

The technique I use for transferring a reference image onto another sheet of paper, is to place them both up against a window, and use it like a light table. What I do to get clean edges with masking, is to use electrical tape instead of masking tape. Because it's non-porous, it can't absorb paint that would lead to bleeding. Be careful when you overlap it, so that you have tiny gaps where it crosses another piece of tape. When I used to do house painting, I would save money on trim brushes by buying the cheapest one they had at the dollar store, then I'd use a beard trimmer to clean up the ends of the bristles, so that I could nice tight cut lines. If you use OLFA or X-Acto knives a lot, learn how to sharpen and hone them! Blades can now last months or even years. I only replace them when they break now.

Here's one I learned when I was a nail artist. I just sort of figured it out. Use alcohol to remove acrylic paint on just about anything including clothing. The only caveat is that if the acrylic paint is completely set up, you won't be able to remove it completely and you'll need acetone. But in the case of doing nails, if you are doing some art you first any topcoat and let it dry and then do the art over the topcoat then topcoat again. By doing that, if you mess up, you just wipe it off with alcohol and viola! You are all set to go again. Don't forget to topcoat over your masterpiece when you're done. And for the rest of is artists, I always keep rubbing alcohol on the table when I'm painting with acrylic. It helps with clean up and any mistakes. If your brushes are getting a little yucky, soak them for a few minutes and they'll come clean. And because alcohol is drying, if your brushes start getting a bit dry, just give them a little conditioning with hair conditioner or oil. But only use a bit and remember to wash it out before you use it again. I also train my brushes with hair spray.

My art tip: Not all colors have the same tonal value. It’s part of the reason red and green look extremely similar to some people. It helps to occasionally snap a photo of your artwork and edit out the saturation of your colors (y’know grayscale) and seeing the tonal contrast of your piece. It can help to organize your most saturated paints in tonal order. Also, darkening yellow with black can create a muddy green color. Darken with brown instead.

My painting hack : to get a darker shade of any color instead of using black, use just a little amount of the complementary color. Its fricking magic. The most beautiful darks greens just by adding a bit of Magenta or Red. So my second hack is embrace Magenta, the primary "red" for color mixing. And if you want red, just mix yellow with Magenta, magic.

Art hack for helping you learn how to draw portraits. What helped me was learning how to do makeup. Specifically drag and cosplay makeup. It allowed me to figure out dimensions of the face and how they are expressed in a 3-D setting and it was very helpful when I went back to drawing.

Also a perspective/landscape (idk what to describe it as) hack, when drawing a scene with multiple figures, have each figures eyeline line up with the horizon line. This will prevent different figures from looking like they’re floating or sinking, and keeps everything on the same level. (Of course further distanced subjects will be smaller compared to closer ones, but they should still line up with the horizon line!)

For photographing your artwork, do not shoot under bright sunlight; wait for a slightly overcast day, so that there is a thin layer of cloud to diffuse the sunlight. Make certain the the sun is at one side of your artwork, and place a reflector ( a sheet of white poster board or foam core makes a really effective and really inexpensive reflector ) on the other side. You will get a very even lighting effect with no highlights or shadows.

I got so many gems from this video! Never thought to use makeup brushes for blending 😅🔥

I've known about the hairspray fixative hack since 1971 when my mom put me in a summer art camp. The preferred brand was Aqua Net and the only reason I remember that is because it's what my mom used. When I attended college twenty some years later, Aqua Net was still the recommended brand!

Prismacolor’s Colorless blender is also pretty good. But still I get the special blending skills of the white pencil. Nothing compares. And you’re right, it’s specifically Prismacolor brand. It’s magic.

The best art advice that has stuck with me for years was from Neil on "Art Attack" (a tv series geared towards kids - I was a kid at the time) is this: Draw what you see, not what you think you see. It's very "basic" advice and may come automatically to a lot of people, but it has always stuck with me.

My art hack: so during the whole process of drawing anything you should always flip the artwork or look at it through a mirror so you can check if you got the proportions and perspectives right. If it looks wonky and weird you'll know which part you messed up and can fix it quickly. It works because we get used to seeing the work so much we overlook the mistakes and it becomes apparent when it's flipped.( Not upside down like mirror view flipped) i don't know if this can be called an art hack but sure did help me a lot when I was first starting out and didn't know much about perspectives and proportions.

Something I recently discovered while trying to paint one of those block letters from Walmart. It's made of pressed wood, so the edges have some gaps and grooves that remain even after sanding. At first, the paint (I was using acrylic) would just seep into the gaps, so I mixed it with Mod Podge glue and sealer. You could also use paintable wood putty around the edges first, but Mod Podge is a LOT cheaper and more versatile.

I loved the tape hack. I've been so frustrated with (always) not getting a clean line and your tip makes so much sense

One hack I discovered recently: Whenever you are tracing a drawing on another piece of paper pin it together with bobby pins. It is so much more convenient than using tape because you don't risk ripping the paper. Hope that helps ❤️

I love that at almost 2mil followers, her biggest videos at near 7mil views, she just reviewed colored pencils over $1k, but so many of these hacks are perfect for us broke artists. Rae never forgets her broke Dollar Tree Art days and I love her for that because that’s where I’m still at in my art journey.

I am 63 and just started painting with acrylics. I’ve been a frustrated artist my whole life and have tried it all. Painting seems to be my best choice. That said, I’m SO GLAD I watched your videos. Such great information for someone just starting out without access to other painters close by! Thank you ever so much!! Your artistic ability is by fair the best I’ve seen!! You rock!😘

Tip : if your paint brush (dosen’t matter big or small) if it’s frizzy then just dip it in hot/boiling water works like a charm and also gets paint off your brush just a bit faster! 💕

The gray canvas works on digital art too! Either program your default "paper" color or make a layer and fill it with 50% gray. It really makes a difference!

Acrylic paint art hack: do you ever miss using layers in digital art, being able to delete them when you don't like the result? Very high percentage alcohol (like hand sanitizer) will take thin layers of acrylic paint off your canvas, you can easily remove a glaze like this for example. I use a q-tip. And if you wanna make sure you don't remove too much paint underneath, just use any kind of transparent medium, or even a thin coat of vanish before adding a new layer on top of the work you are already happy with. That way the alcohol will definitely not mess it up in case you wanna remove what you paint over it. :)

This is the first time I've seen an art hack video that contained actual useful information of things I honestly did not know before!! Thank you so very much for all of these!!

Just found your channel and watched a bunch lol, and then made my first painting in over a year. Thanks for the inspiration!

My tip: if you use varnish or have hardened paint on paintbrushes, you can use CONDITIONER to get it off after a couple mins of scrubbing!

Add paint to spackle (drywall repair paste). It makes a wonderful 3D effect. It can be applied with a pallet knife or put it in a decorating bag to bring flowers or anything else off the canvas or whatever you are painting on.

I was too lazy to go to the store and pick up some cornstarch to mix in with my acrylic paints so I tried to substituting baking powder. I couldn't believe it worked ! It went on smooth made the paint much brighter and my project only took one coat. Granted it does start drying out so you want to move quickly. I used a pinch of powder to a tablespoon of acrylic paint.

Digital art hack: instead of using the 'blur' tool to blend, use an airbrush brush to blend. Keep overlapping it with both the two colours you are blending. I think it looks much better this way and feels like you are actually doing something because sometimes the blur tool feels like you are doing nothing

If you want a smooth finish with a crayon, you can actually "prime" your paper with a layer of wax before you start drawing. Just take the white crayon or some uncolored paraffin wax and lay down a thin layer on your paper. I don't know about other brands, but Crayola will layer beautifully once it has some wax under it.

I love the whole vibe that you bring to inspire and also share life long quests of “how to” better in the spirit of a collective goal. Keep informing and inspiring!

Brilliant!! My hack for gelly roll pens that dry out (the black ones are the worst) is hot water soak in a tupperware with lid on, 10-15 minutes, shake firmly, and dip the tip/nib in koh-i-noor rapidograph calligraphy pen cleaner, cap it wet, shake,again and draw a few strokes. Something in that solution cleans up the dried pen. Repeat the process as it may need to work into the tip... Also store the pens flat or horizontal if stacking them in a cosmetic bag. This works for watercolor brush pens, just a dab, not a full soak, whether felt, synthetic, and plastic nibs, roller balls, tech pens, dip ink, spray nozzles, droppers, pipettes, etc. Also, to ride on the crayola watercolor idea, is using highlighters (water based, re-wettable), and mildliners (archival/permanent when dry) nd the like as a base layer(s) that's translucent/transparent/neon-ish to mix colors or provide a wash.

Another great spot for good lighting for smaller objects is inside the fridge! I’ve been into nail art for many years and lots of us take hand and swatch pics in the fridge. You can put colored paper or fabric in there for a background. It’s better than most light boxes. 😊

Art hack: I saw a girl using white crayon as a masking fluid for watercolour.And after painting ,she chiped it up and was left pretty white.I found it cool cause usually masking fluids are more expensive than crayons.But they do have more preccision i guess .

I love adding interesting texture with coarse sea salt! I have no idea if the sodium is going to degrade the paint over time but I have some I did 4+ years ago that still look identical to when I finished them, no warping and sometimes a tiny bit of texture can upgrade a painting majorly. liquitex makes a medium that does the same effect but table salt is cheap and we all have it around but kosher or sea salt is best

For miniature painting: disposable liquid eyeliner brushes are excellent detail brushes. They’re super handy and you can buy them in bulk really easily. Hopping back to the paint and cornstarch hack, add a larger amount of cornstarch to your cheap paint to create a thick paint that will hold shape and/or create texture for bases. Way cheaper than buying texture paints

I use this art hack specially for mural painting(I’m sure you can use it on other stuff), but if you mix white acrylic gesso into cheap acrylic paint(like 50 cent apple barrel paint) it makes it similar to thick body paint for WAY cheaper. Makes you use a lot less paint and it drys slower. Been using this trick for awhile now and has not let me down. (Has saved me fortunes on buying thick body paint)

2:49 I just tried this art hack out, but I didn't have cornstarch. So I used baby powder instead, and it works great! So if you don't have cornstarch you can use baby powder too❤️

take a picture of your sketch and use any basic editing application to mirror it or just hold a mirror up to your sketch before you start rendering, it'll help you see parts that might look strange or out of proportion, you can keep looking at the mirror to make sure your corrections worked until you're happy with it, I swear it's helped me so much with noticing lopsided eyes or weird composition :3

you can also use crayons on top of colored pencils for smooth texture or to help with blending or dimension edit: i for dimension i mean like - if you’re coloring water and you want it to also have like a greenish hue to it - lightly go over with a crayon -

If the paper rips whenever you peel off the washi tape, this is a tip for you :) Before placing the tape on the paper you plan to mask off, lightly place the tape on your pants or other clothing to pick up some of the fuzz on the clothing. This takes away some of the stickiness while also having enough to stick onto the paper. Even placing the tape on your arm will pick up some of the oils that will also prevent the tape from ripping the paper. Be careful not to do this too much to the tape or it won’t stick to the paper very well. I don’t know the original source of this tip, but it is not my tip, I just want to share it to those who might need it! Hope this helps some of y’all :)

As an intermediate artist, I only suggest to stay determined... and for an art hack, if your medium is coloured pencils don't be afraid to do an underpainting of watercolor, markers, pastels, etc. At first it would be hard but with time you'll get habitual and it's super timesaving and effective. Hope it helps... 😊

I love this video, and appreciate the comments as well. I'm saving this one for reference. I don't have the money to buy the quality of art supplies I like, plus as you've shown, sometimes a cheap art hack can be useful with expensive supplies, and can improve cheap art supplies. Thank you for all you do! I love your channel, as well as the ones you tend to group with (like the spectacular Chloe Rose!🌹).

I'm an art teacher and all these hacks are giving me life, thank you!!!

*ART HACK✏* When drawing fine hairs or fur, indent the paper with an empty pen or with an indenting stylus to preserve the highlights!😊 The highlights STAY white even if u layer on top!😁 This is a life-saver for artists that draw realistically that HATE drawing little highlights🖊 I hope this helps🎇

I've been using pastels in my college art class and I will say hairspray works just fine for things in your sketchbooks but once you're doing a big piece with lots of detail and layers you'll wanna invest in actual fixative. I'm super cheap and I love saving money, but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and invest in the good stuff. You're not just spending money, you're investing in the quality of your artwork!

The hack using neon paint to lighten a shade singlehandedly made me smash that like button. . . The cornstarch trick had me hovering over the button though!

You can also take old, dried out Crayola markers - soak the same color in a container. ALL the ink will leach out and you get watercolor paint. Usually it's very weak but it great for beginners to do broad washes for backgrounds. I teach elementary art and I never throw markers away until I get the last bit of color out. Then I let my 1st graders have at it.

Have been an artist for 50+ years, not full-time, but regularly throughout the years. This is the first time I’ve watched a KZfaq video you made. Thanks for the tips! I wish I knew some of these back in the day!

Thank you so much for this! I haven't even watched all of this video yet and it's so helpful.

I use Muphy's Oil Soap to clean brushes with dried on paint. It works great on brushes with water based paints as well as oils.

In my broke artist days I couldn't afford sketchbooks (and I couldn't ask my parents for more because I filled them up so fast), so my life hack is that I learned how to make my own with just cardboard, printer paper, and twine. No sewing needed! You just fold your paper & cardboard in half, wrap the twine around the spine of your cover, and slide your paper in. It works surprisingly well :)

Fantastic! Getting ready to head back to school I will share these with my students.

How did I JUST now find you?!? You're amazing! Your energy and attitude are so magnetic, just love it!! I LOVE art, know a lot of hacks myself and these are fantastic! One hack I use is the make up brush one, but also a pumice stone can add really interesting texture😊

If you’re going to use corn starch to make acrylic paint more opaque, you need to use distilled water or mold will form over time. In general when crafting, use distilled water (except when cleaning brushes).

During my time in art school I made myself a light box, which is pretty much a budget light table, so I could trace my art when I was working between mediums. It’s super cheap and easy to make and all you need is two things: a clear box & some stick-on lights. For the box you can pretty much find them at any store where they sell those clear plastic store bins. You can buy whatever size you like, but I bought one that was a medium size so that I could an 8.5x11 paper on it. Then go to your local hardware store, or the lighting section at your local Target or Walmart, and buy yourself a set of pressable lights that you can stick to surfaces. Usually people buy these kinda of lights to stick to walls in their homes, so they’re fairly easy to come across if you look around. I bought mine from Home Depot for like $15. The ones I like are the ones that can stick to things and are turned on and off by pressing down on them. Though I’ve also seen versions of these lights that come with a remote to turn them on and off. Either way, get what you like more and then all you gotta do is stick the lights in the box, turn em on, put the lid on the box, and there you go! Now you’ve got a light box that only cost you like $20 to make and is fairly easy to store :D

Art Hack for Crayons: for even the cheapest ones for kids: You have to prepare the surface of your (acid free) paper, not the crayon itself. Take a cheap water paint kit made for kids. You know, those from the Dollar store. You need the freaky ones that have a salty- sand like feeling on them after drying and if they dry, they get super matte and dull. Just exactly these paint sets are what you need for this Hack. Secure your paper full around on a water absorbing natural wood plate or desk, with painter's masking tape for sensitive surfaces. They don't damage your paper that much after removing them. Put tape around the whole paper, not just the corners. You don't want your paper to go wawy. Take a small glass cup. Decide the base color tone of your artwork (a light pastel colour base) Just like you would do for oil painting. For example, for neutral warm undertone, pick bright yellow or orange. For cold, a blue. For dark, a dark brown or black. Put an oil paint brush (A hard, thick bristle one from the hardware shop) into the chosen colour and mix it in the water long enough to dye the water into that colour. Then, take an empty spray bottle of a cosmetic product (ideally a leave-in hair care liquid). Wash it clean, every part. Put the dyed water in it, shake well, spray on a piece of test paper and let it dry. If the surface feels a bit like sand...or Pastelmat, you are at it. Congrats. Now, spray your artwork paper with it evenly and let it dry. If you want a stronger effect, do it twice or more and let it dry completely between each spraying. You can prepare more pre-mixed spray bottles of colour, just ask your friends around for empty hair care spray bottles. When dry, the paper is ready. Now, draw with the crayon. Depending on the ingredients and the quality, the crayon will transform itself into a strong, bold, beautifully mixable pigment stick. Artist's pigment stick aka something between a soft pastel and an oil pastel. It's colour intensity goes crazy. You have to use a setting spray, a fixative.

You can also wash your brushes used for acrylic paint, with a little bit of vinegar and dish washing liquid... it cleans and leave them soft. A trick to blend pencil colours or graphite smoothly is to apply a thin layer of soft pastel as a base on your paper.

when painting with acrylic use the dark shades first then build up the highlights and detail :)

I think I enjoyed this woman’s personality as much as her art tips. She made me smile today, and I needed that.

When I paint with acrylics… For clouds… clothes pin & cotton… You can form the cotton to whatever size you like. Put one end in the clothes pin (helps keep you clean) and dab, dab on that FaBu cloud. Don’t 4get to dab the shading on very lightly. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 Gurly, so glad I came across your art hacks. Like when I blend chalks, I use a plastic or non latex glove 🧤 to blend & keep my hand clean.

Thanks sooo much! Always appreciate learning something new! Great tips!💜

This is exactly what I needed on this cold and miserable Saturday! Thanks for all the tips Rae, looking forward to using some of them!

For the transfer technique Rae mentioned in the video with chalk pastels! - You can use graphite too! Any old pencil will work! ❤️

Great hacks! Thank you 💜 I like using colored pencils on watercolor paper and then blending with baby oil and q-tips. Very vibrant and smooth.

Thanks for putting this out Rae

For watercolor, do all your line art/drafting with watercolor pencils! Make sure you have similar colors to what you need in the finished painting and the line art disappears, no erasing.

Art tips I find useful, even though they are already known If the tip of the color pencil gets blunt but you don't want to sharpen it because there's still a lot left, use sanded paper and it gets pointy again. Whenever I do that with my charcoals or graphite I save the powder in a container and I can use it to tone paper for a future drawing. With the same clear gesso ( mine is liquitex): If you want to tone your canvas but you have to prime it first, mix gesso with acrylic paint and you can choose whatever color base you want and prime at the same time. Using clear gesso makes any paper into a friendly surface for sofpastels You can practice oilpaint in any paper if you prime it with gesso first.

Happily have used the corn starch tip and loving it, thank you!

Love love your channel! Another thing that looks really cool is if you draw a picture with crayons then go over it with marker of the same color. It gives it a really different look.

Random little thing I've picked up, when blending pencil/graphite, you can use a glasses cleaner over your finger. It works really well to get a smooth finish, and your finger won't get covered in graphite.

Rae, Moriah and Chloe are the holy grails of art KZfaq!

Thank you!! I'm painting on transparency film with my students and my acrylic paint is so thin. Your cornstarch hack did the trick in thickening up and making it more opaque.

Another pencil blending thing I've used is acetone with a cotton-tip. I've heard other things work too, like baby oil, but I've only used Acetone and it blended things beautifully. I presume it works better on some pencils than others (I use wax)

A warning for anyone using hairspray: It will likely yellow over time! If it's just your sketchbook and you're fine with it yellowing, don't worry about it, but if it's a very precious piece of art, you might want to splurge on a can of the more expensive fixative if you can!!

If you're a lefty and use spiral Sketchbooks: put the spiral on the right. Go back to front like a Manga. It helps a LOT. It is so much more comfortable and lets you flow so much easier. Happy drawing all ❤️

Don't add corn starch to any paint, it will become mouldy because it is organic. If you wish to thicken acrylic paint add chalk powder or gesso, mineral will not become mould fodder in your painted pieces.

Hi, I am loving these tips! They are very helpful! Thank you for sharing! 😊

I have used the crayon coloring hack since the late 80's. It really does make the color look smooth and saturated. Just make sure that when you get to the outline, to scrap in towards the colored area. I always used a paperclip to scrape with.

For all you digital artists out there: If you wanna create a patterned cloth like plaid, paisley, etc but you don't wanna deal with the headache of drawing it to align with the folds here's what you do: draw whatever pattern you're using flat (or use an image or brush texture). adjust it to be a bit bigger than the area that you want to cover on all sides. Then use a liquify tool or something similar to make it conform to the shape of the drawing underneath. I use Procreate and I use a mixture of the push, pinch, and expand tools for the best outcome. Then all you do is erase the excess, add your shading, and you're done! This also works well for t shirt graphics, writing on a banner, tattoos, anything you can think of! I've never seen this hack anywhere else and it's saved me sooo much time and frustration

Thank you so much Super Rae. I really appreciate these hacks.

This is awesome love the hair spray fixative. You cracked me up. Thx love 💕

hi Rae! regarding trick with acetone and acrlic paint: be carefull when using this trick on cheap brushes because those sometimes have brisletles glued with glue that is disolvalbe by acetone (may have happened to me few times ^^'). what you can use instead is rubbing alcochol or even ethanol. it's not as fast as acetone but will do the trick

When I used crayons as a kid, I would always employ that color-on-scrape-off technique. I guess i never really considered it an art hack! So here's another one of a similar vein: Color with a colored pencil, then erase for a nice fade effect. You can recolor over it with another color too, if you don't want a heavy saturation in your mix.

Your video is absolutely the best art tips-guidance for me. Thanks 🙏🏻

Most of these I knew, but I am SUPER excited about trying the paint and cornstarch one!!!

I used the crayon hack lots as a kid in art class. I was genuinely surprised to find out that a lot of people didn't know about it.

Added benefit for using Crayola markers as watercolor: the COOLEST part is that you can then paint over the marker with BLEACH! It totally removes all of the pigment from the page, and it only works with marker.