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FAVOURITE ART SUPPLIES 2025

Fiona Stabler Art

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my favourite art supplies this year! I think it'll be interesting to look back at this in a few years and see what's changed. What are your favourite art supplies?

everything mentioned in this video:

SKETCHBOOKS ~
Nina Cosford sketchbook
Pith sketchbook
Royal talens art creation sketchbook (my enemy)

PENS ~
Muji gel pen
Uni ball one pen
Copic markers
Winsor and newton promarkers
Mildliners
Tombow markers
Lamy safari
TWSBI eco

PENCILS ~
Pilot frixion
Pilot color eno
Prismacolors
Winsor and newton studio collection coloured pencils

PAINT ~
Holbein gouache
Arteza gouache

PRINTMAKING ~
Pfeil lino cutter
Speedball brayer
Speedball relief ink
Essdee block printing ink
Japanese bamboo baren
Daler Downey smooth cartridge paper 130gsm

MY SHOP ~
etsy.com/shop/fionastablermakes

MY INSTA ~
instagram.com/fiona_stabler

Thanks for watching! 💜

20 Comments

@tabbyzap3747 1 year ago

I love seeing what other artists love using because we all have different preferences! This was very informative thank you 😁🩷

@izaaks 1 year ago

weird when my YT recommend videos in the same zip code as me but the art is incredible

@saschascorner 4 months ago

I'm a royal talens hater too for how badly the paper holds even the thinnest amount of water and how like you said weirdly the colors turn out

Pith is my favourite as a watercolor colored pencil artist

@WeirdIsTheBest 1 year ago

I love that you have a “vintage” Kristyna Baczynski sticker on your sketchbook cover. I got a bunch ages ago and they’re so fun!

@whyserkan 1 month ago

Hi I use and like talens but alcohol markers stains other page a lot. I would like to try Nina, where do you buy that? Thanks

@dreamingdayys 1 year ago

As someone getting into sketching, this was very helpful! Your sketchbook videos are really what inspired me to pick up my abandoned one. I would love a fountain pen video, but I look forward to whatever you post, thanks!!

@ChenyeTripp 1 year ago

Thank you so much for all of this great information!

@DB0702 1 year ago

I love watching your videos. Looking forward to a fountain pen demonstration with sketching video ! Lamy Safari is my favorite too! ❤

@Melsartventures 1 year ago

Just found your account and love your videos. ❤😊

@LauraIsabelGonzalezArt 1 year ago

And of course I subscribed! 😅

@lucys1584 1 year ago

The pencils from pilot seem to be very cool! I'll look more kn to it bc of this Video. Thx❤

@Allison-- 1 year ago

I LOVE Prismacolor pencils! I bought the 150 set pretty cheap on Amazon nearly a decade ago and the only colors I've had to replace are black and white haha! Their colors are so vibrant and very accurate when I'm drawing some of my favorite animated characters. I also will vouch that Procreate is an art supply. Its so much better than Photoshop. It feels as if your drawing in a digital sketchbook. I've been thinking of trying gouche paints for a while, so I might check out Arteza. Thanks for all the great art supply suggestions!

@kindmeanbristol808 1 year ago

Love your enthusiasm Fiona & what a wonderful way to while away a little time on a Sunday morning 🥰 PS I would love a drawing with fountain pen vid if you fancy making one

@LauraIsabelGonzalezArt 1 year ago

Fiona, I don't like the Royal Talens sketchbooks either! You're in good company!

@wims_diary 1 year ago

I didnt know royal talens has sketchbook with white paper. Mine have yellow tint

@HH-zb5ul 1 year ago

Looks like a nice video

@Bloomkyaaa 1 year ago

I wasn't a fan of the royal talens sketchbook, but mine was ivory looking! 😅

My favorite sketchbook is the stillman and birn alpha.

@phanieartsy515 1 year ago (edited)

You're a pretty artist sis hihi.. kept looking at you HAHA I'm straight ok? just appreciate beauty I see and a fellow artist yourself.. :)

@robsven-dr 1 year ago

I love this, thanks 😍 You are such a great artist! I personally like watercolour pencils, especially the Caran D'Ache Supracolor, the colours are beautiful and they can also be used as regular colour pencils.

@annaarts23 1 year ago

Loved your enthusiasm! Art supplies are always so fun to geek out about. 💛
Personally I'm a watercolour girl (Daniel Smith and Jackson's Art brand are my favourite) and also Faber Castell Polychromos Coloured pencils. Tombows and mildliners are my favourite also - have you tried out the brush tip version of the mildliners? I find them the most fun for my sketching, it's just a shame they don't have all the colours the more traditional ones have (I think they have 15 of the colours available as brush pens?) For fountain pens, I love a really thin line, and the Platinum Preppy in EF has that crispness for me.