Great idea!

D.L. L. How could he part with such treasures. Would be a popular auction!

I do this too~ :)

Yasmin Fonseca now im curious to know what country lol

@@lizziedae91 Brazil. Here most art supplies are imported, the exchange rates plus taxes make the price higher, also it's very hard to find the supplies if you live far from a capital so you need to buy online and the shipping can be very expensive (or they don't even ship it to your city lol)

Yasmin Fonseca ahh I see, thats so unfortunate. Ive learned many places are like that from watching videos like this. I occasionally have the opposite problem where it’s actually cheaper to order supplies from england and patiently wait for them to arrive in the US instead of ordering them here lol Hopefully global shipping gets better in the future

I make my own arches sketchbooks too but gotta say I don’t love their paper. I know everyone else does but colors just aren’t vibrant on it in my opinion. I just ordered a Perfect Sketchbook.

Perhaps “Perfect” refers to the type of binding.

Perfect binding is something else altogether, it is the method used to glue paperback books together and is a cheap method of binding. These note books are stitched and glued into the cover afterwardss which means they are very strong and will never lose any individual pages.

annette fournier lolol

true

THEMAYQUEEN1 what binding method do you use?

@@lizziedae91 i sew them. I make signatures (groups of paper folded in half) then sew them together. There is an excellent channel called sea lemon. She has awesome tutorials. That's where i learned how to do it

THEMAYQUEEN1 thanks I already subscribe to her channel! I have made little scrap paper books but never thought to make a watercolor sketch book. Thanks for the great idea!

It uses signatures and stitching.

@@teohyc I honestly didn't anticipate your reply and I feel slightly star struck. Thank you so much! Also, thank you for saving me a bunch of money.

@@newbietubie Teoh is a great guy who always replies to viewers comments. ☺

it’s not artistico though according to their website

I have a couple of the 100% cotton sketchbooks that were quite pricey...I haven't used them yet...afraid to mess them up!

try Strathmore 500 series mixed media journal, I got it for $10 on Blick (5x8"). It is 100% cotton. The only bad side is that is so tightly bounded that it won't stay open unless you use one of those clamps. I have the hard cover, the soft cover might be better in that case.

Pricey for me too... I recently purchased 2 sheets of Fabriano 300 gsm and will cut it down and make a cheapo faux leather cover for it along with some elastic to pull the pages in and out...

manic angel i agree with you and just always planned on doing what Teoh has done & getting my own sketchbooks bound so i can choose the size and paper

What bothers me is that you have to buy in bundles.

Etchr Sketchbooks are white. Perfect Sketchbook is brown

@@teohyc I hate to sound stupid...duh...but wasn't there a grey covered sketchbook from Etchr too? So white, brown and gray. Which is the grey? Thx...xo

@@myffanwy2 Etchr Sketchbooks are white covers. Perfect Sketchbooks are gray (non-Fabriano) and brown (Fabriano Artistico paper).

@@teohyc Thanks, Teoh! Confusing...

They are still good. The paper is good so the sketchbook is good.

Check out the Strathmore ones

@@teohyc oh? Like on amazon? Local art stores in my area dont sell Strathmore anymore sadly...

@@scribadibdib Strathmore cotton watercolour journals are very new. May take time for it to appear at online stores.

@@teohyc oh! Ok great thank you!

Thanks for sharing

Love your informative videos! :)

"Teoh, you are better than this. Think of your audience & what our needs are"??? I feel like that was a bit harsh and you've missed the point of his video maybe?? He's literally giving an intro overview of available products that people may or may not be interested in. He didn't say the products were *must* buys and even said the products were too pricey for him to buy and gave alternative choices if people were interested in similarish artbooks. Are you suggesting that though he thinks these products are a bit pricey for him he should not feature them at all? Teoh's channel has historically been for show casing possible art supplies people may be interested in as fairly as possible while also providing at the end his thoughts in a non-pushy way even if he does not like the product, as different people will have different needs or financial/criteria requirements (for instance with technology products). This is still the case here in this video. He is very clear that he has yet to try this iteration of the product, though he has had a good experience with past iterations of the products and they are 100% cotton paper, and have linked to another channel's review so that people can be better informed if they deem the price worth it for such a product.

@@snoozleblob I believe Larry was attempting to use a shaming tactic.....it failed.

@@snoozleblob My point IS that if you are going to review a product (and I love most of his product review videos) give your viewers a heads up: I like this product & will tell you why, but it is on the pricey side. That should do it. I wasn't judging him, I think he knows that big boy that he is, a heads up is all I needed

@@x-changex-outx-oner8224 Maybe I did & maybe it came off harshly, but I just jacked up about the price & though Teoh might of considered his audience before reviewing or at least mentioning it being pricey.

Larry Glatt the problem is that some products are cheap in one country and expensive in another and what is cheap for one person may be expensive for another