Cheap vs Expensive watercolor🎨 || Goku drawing

Описание: Cheap vs Expensive watercolor🎨 || Goku drawing


Description;

🎨 Cheap (Student-Grade) Watercolor
These paints are designed for beginners, practice, and hobby use where cost is a major consideration.

Characteristic Description
Pigment Concentration Low. The paint contains a smaller amount of actual color pigment.
Fillers/Additives High. Manufacturers use more binders (like lower-grade gum arabic) and cheap fillers (extenders) to bulk up the volume and keep the cost down.
Vibrancy & Saturation Lower. Colors often appear duller, weaker, or chalky because of the high filler content.
Handling/Flow Can be difficult to blend smoothly; colors may get muddy quickly when mixed or layered. They may be more opaque (less transparent) or feel gritty.
Lightfastness Lower/Unreliable. They are more likely to fade, dull, or change color significantly over time when exposed to light. Not recommended for artwork you intend to sell or hang.
Rewetting Can be harder to rewet from a dried pan or palette, sometimes becoming brittle or taking a long time to activate.
Color Composition Often uses pigment mixes or "hues" (e.g., "Cadmium Yellow Hue") to imitate more expensive, genuine pigments.
Cost Significantly lower.
✨ Expensive (Artist/Professional-Grade) Watercolor
These paints are designed for serious artists who need superior performance, archival quality, and the best results.

Characteristic Description
Pigment Concentration High. Contains a very high concentration of finely ground, pure pigment.
Fillers/Additives Low to None. Contains high-quality binders (like pure gum arabic) and minimal to no fillers, allowing the true pigment to shine.
Vibrancy & Saturation Higher. Colors are rich, intense, and brilliant. A little paint goes a long way, which can make them more economical over time.
Handling/Flow Excellent transparency and smooth flow. They mix and layer cleanly, allowing you to build depth without creating muddy colors. They handle techniques like blending and lifting much better.
Lightfastness High/Archival. They use high-quality, permanent pigments that resist fading and color shifting, making them suitable for fine art that will be preserved.
Rewetting Excellent. They rewet almost instantly and smoothly from a dried pan or palette.
Color Composition Features a larger range of colors, including many single-pigment paints, which results in cleaner, more predictable color mixes.
Cost Significantly higher.
Key Takeaway for Beginners
Many experienced artists recommend that serious beginners start with a small, high-quality set, or at least invest in a few artist-grade tubes/pans of primary colors.

Why? Using cheap paints can be frustrating—you may think you are bad at watercolor when it's actually the materials fighting you. Better quality materials allow you to learn proper techniques with less struggle.