You can never have enough brushes - haha. 

I have to admit: I have alot of brushes. They are all nylon brushes. But I do not even use a third of it. I think I do only use around 10 brushes total for a painting. There are so many types and shapes of brushes for every kind of usage. Angled, round, flat, detail, fan brush ... too many. It´s hard to find the right ones. A good brush doesn´t need to be expensive. The important thing is the clamp. It should be tight, so the brush doesn´t loose its hair.

I think there is nothing more annoying than constantly having to peel off single hairs off wet paint or off-standing brush hairs that mess up your clean lines.

Another annoying thing is, when the varnish of the brush is starting to crack and eventually flakes off - right onto your fresh paint of course ... Brushes shouldn´t be varnished if you asked me.

Make sure you keep your brushes clean and wash them immediately after usage. Don´t let them soak in water.

The water will let the varnish flake off.

I am usually starting to make a rough sketch of my paintings, before I eventually paint them for real. Simply because I try to do the major "thinking - part" first. That way I avoid unnecessary cover-ups because I´ve changed my mind about a color. I´ve already mentioned it in "Brainstorming & weird sketching". For my sketches I use normal white paper. Nothing fancy. Same paper you would use for your printer at home. For my sketches on canvas I use a simple  graphite pencil. Pencils have different degrees of hardness. It goes from 9H - which is the hardest - to 9B - super soft. I found out, that "HB" (which is exactly between super hard and super soft) works best for me. It´s neither too hard, nor too soft. It doesn´t leave marks behind when I erase it and also doesn´t smudge. I use my eraser ALOT when I do my sketch on the canvas. I am using a white eraser. I would have doubts about using a colored one to be honest. They usually leave marks. And we don´t want colorful marks on our white canvas - right? Since I use my eraser alot, there is usually alot of eraser chips on my canvas. I used to swipe them away with my hand, but I needed to be careful to not smudge my sketching lines. Instead of my hand, I now use a big brush to swipe the eraser chips away.

Very helpful actually. When it´s about coloring my paper sketch, I use colorful markers, mostly sharpies. They offers a big color variety and the opacity is really good. They aren´t pricey as well.

Good paint is so important. I use acrylic paint for my pictures. I still stick to the same brand I started out with, called "Stylex Creative".

They are pretty cheap. I buy them online. They sell 75ml and 200ml tubes. Always better to buy the big tube.

I´ve tested every color and can now say: there is only a few I constantly use and can absolutely recommend:

Turquoise

          Titanium White

    Lamp Black

   Pale Green

                                                       Orange

The pigmentation is is good and its texture is good to work with as well. I also use Purple, Lemon Yellow, Vermilion, Crimson Red, Yellow Green and Ultra-Marine Blue, but these ones are only good for mixing. The pigmentation is too low and you would have to paint several layers to achieve a good opacity.

You might have noticed, that I use alot of neons for my paintings. I love it, when colors pop and force you to look at the picture.

Unfortunately I am still looking for the perfect neon paints. I´ve tried out many brands already, but still haven´t found a neon, which pigmentation is really good.  I usually mix my neon colors with titanium white, to achieve a higher opacity. Works good for me...

Good neon paints I use:

Lukas Cryl Studio 4602    ( neon yellow )

Lukas Cryl Studio 4603    ( neon orange )

Lukas Cryl Studio 4604    ( neon pink )

Daler Rowney 538

Daler Rowney 544

Daler Rowney 653