 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here to play with alcohol markers. Oh, whoo-whoo I Think that's how you pronounce it. If it's not. I'm sorry. I don't mean to butcher the name, but it's OHUHU Anyway, they're not a supply company. They sent me alcohol markers. I Think they sent me every single one they make I expected Like 12 maybe. I got a lot more than that. So I have had alcohol markers before and As I told them They're not my favorite and I don't use them much, but I Do have a black Wide Copic marker that I do use and I have the refill That actually I really like that one I also have Recently acquired back from my daughter because my daughter didn't have them And she's about to have a baby and she's got to clear out a bunch of stuff at her house to make room for the baby So a few arts applies that she never used some of what she got from me are some of them and these I'm gonna probably hang on to the Ohuhu marker. Well, I'm gonna hang on to the Ohuhu markers in the black Copic The rest of these are probably gonna go But anyway, I have some pro marker Markers by Letraset. I have a few of those. I have some Prismacolor markers and I have some Artist loft markers now these particular ones. I don't think they make anymore. They weren't super expensive They were more affordable certainly than Copics The Letraset and the Prismacolor. They're all expensive One of the more affordable brands that'll come in a whole set for you is Ohuhu I'm gonna get some prices for you right now. Let me do that. I'll be right back Okay so Ohuhu makes a lot of art supplies including water soluble stuff alcohol markers and a lot more these that they sent me or the Kaala for The Kaala series and there's four different sets. There is a skin tone. I need this I need these. There's a basic tone a skin tone and illustrate Tones and landscape tones. They sent me all four of them They do also have a Honolulu series pastel series gray tones And they have a lot more All of them are very Affordable now the series they sent me and the price comparison which is if they work the way I think they're going to this might renew my interest in these kind of markers because they're very affordable Copics generally most of these prices are from the Dick Lick website. Some of them are from Amazon The Ohuhu ones are from their website So that being said the Copics in general are five eighty five each for your standard Copic Not the wide one just the regular Copic a pro marker 405 for a single pen Prismacolor 420 The artist loft pens Now they don't make this one anymore. They have a different one. This is old But the new ones are 479 each The Ohuhu markers The smaller sets they they only sold in sets for the most part from what I can tell I don't know that they have that each is pens So you have we would have to buy a set of pens that being said these smaller sets which contain 24 pens which would be the skin tones and Basics there's 24 markers in those and they're a sell for 1999 which makes the Pen about 83 cents each 83.29 The larger sets which are the illustration sets and the landscape set They're 3499 a set for 60 pens which makes them about 58 cents each 583.5831 cents each That's a big difference So, yeah, that would renew my interest very affordable if you want to try them I would stick with getting you know, just you don't need all of these pens stick with getting the one set that really speaks to you And I think you'd be good there. I'm gonna clear a few things out of my way Now when you do get the sets or at least when they sent them to me the sets came Just grab this one because it's easy the sets came in their own box nice, huh and They sent me a booklet about the pens and the booklet is in a bunch of different languages not not just English So that's actually very nice They sent me this Swatch thing which I taped to the back of the blank card. They also sent me to swatch the pens myself They also wait, they also sent a blender pen and If you've used alcohol markers, you know And this is one of the reasons why I never really got into them because it just drove me nuts In the beginning days at least it drove me crazy. I don't know that it wouldn't anymore But anyway, they sent you a piece of plastic to put between your pages Because alcohol markers will bleed. They'll just they'll bleed through most of your kinds of paper They're gonna bleed but they sent you a little protective barrier between the page you're working on and the one underneath it So you can just stick this in your book. I love that I use those anyway. I have a habit of I Don't really have any like handy in front of me at the moment, but I use like hard Plastic from packaging and stuff. I just use garbage plastic But they send you little sheets and it says if you are coloring on sin paper Please put this between your coloring sheets to prevent any bleed through right on the sheet So you know what what this is for How nice is that? All right, so the first thing that we're gonna do and by the way, this is rough draft calculations Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is swatch all the pens. I did do some experiments last night with the Random older pens that I had to try some techniques Which we'll talk about but first let's get everything swatched shall we I'll be back Okay, now that we've swatched all the markers and I do recommend you swatch them all because They're gonna look different on paper Then they do on the caps and there are some names and colors like Me let me find one that don't actually look like what you think they're gonna look like Okay, this one says WG 140 warm gray Whoops, here we go. So warm gray and the cap looks just like almost white And yet when you swatch it It's this fleshy peach color. So I do recommend that you swatch them There are a lot of markers in the sets that are similar like burnt orange e6 45 and This one e7 61. I'm not gonna even try to pronounce the name. They're pretty close. They're a little bit different But they're pretty close The thing is when you are coloring with these kind of markers, you know, you can't mix a custom color like you can with paint So you're gonna have a lot of markers that are one tone or shade different from the other You're gonna be able to blend them out a little bit, but you're not going to be able to really change the tone too much anyway Yeah, there's a lot of colors here. Holy cow each box seems to have black in it and a few shades of gray Which is great because you have a lot of neutrals But all the boxes I think except the skin tone box doesn't have black in it. The other dupe the other boxes do though All right, so the next thing I want to do is put the color card somewhere where I'm not going to lose them And they're not going to be separated from the box so Okay, so I have these clear adhesive pockets I Don't remember where I got them from probably Amazon and probably if you Google clear these of pockets probably gonna come up I'm gonna stick one to the back of the box. I Have two sizes a bigger one and a smaller one Try to get all the air bubbles out If it pops off, then I'll glue it on but for right now We're gonna just stick it on with the tape and then the color card is Right there Just watches. I love that. So and it's this paper. These are scraps of 70 pound drawing paper It's nothing special and Or and or mix media paper, I've got a big bin of just scrap paper now I did some experiments with the old alcohol markers because I was a little more than a little rusty and Of course, they're alcohol markers, right? So they do bleed through and I'll explain what these swatches and experiments are in just a second first. Let's take a fresh piece of paper and Let's just use the basic set for right now. Gonna want this watch Okay So the first thing I want to do which I didn't do with the old random markers But I do want to do with these I have all these colorless blunders now the colored markers and the blenders are all dual Tips so you've got a flat chisel tip on one end. Oops. Sorry flat chisel tip on one end and a Pointy tip on the other end. So the first thing I want to do is pick a couple of colors Move everything so you can actually see it. There we go and I want to see how well the blender pen does or doesn't work I'm going to pick our 295 which is this pink color and Let's see, let's do pink and let's do the sky blue Let's just see what happens. I have also found that with these markers You really like most alcohol markers. You really want to make sure the lids go on early. Well, okay, I know We'll see if that does anything but at first glance, it's not really doing too much Okay, how I got Sorry geez Louise, okay, so this was done with some of the markers other random markers And as was this It wasn't done with a blender pen and I'll show you how and we're gonna do it with Oh whoo-hoo's and see what happens in the meantime. This may change a little bit as it dries, but but we'll see Also, let me do this. Let me Do that and let me do them closer together Kind of on top of each other You don't know if they blend as much as just smear Okay, so let's This is rubbing alcohol 90% Sorry, 91% isopropyl alcohol So I'm going to take Same to we're gonna just stick with the same two colors for the moment And we're gonna just saturate the paper with the alcohol and it forces the pens to bleed into each other Which is how you will get One of these depending on how much marker you've put on there and this one was done that way and then also dropped on And so you got these drop marks the other thing you can do is pre-wet the paper with alcohol Which is what that was in that spray bottle and that will give you a different look all together We're gonna let these dry for a second and I'll be right back I almost forgot to tell you while we're waiting for things to dry The other thing you can do is you can get your plastic sheet out your page protector that comes with your set of markers or another piece of plastic you could even use a porcelain plate something not absorbent and You could get one of your colors and Draw it on the plastic then dip a brush in alcohol and It will activate the ink from the marker and You're going to be able to use it like a paint, but granted you have to work quickly Because it's alcohol so it's going to dry pretty quick You can grab some more alcohol and blend it out If you have your colors all ready to go before you get started Right, it will obviously it's going to bleed through but I mean I Also did one more experiment where I tested different black pens with alcohol marker over it and Then rubbing alcohol to see which one would bleed The only one that did bleed with was my bit crystal the rest of them stayed fairly stable the one that was the most stable was the Othographic liner so I want I think I want to do a drawing and having experimented with all of the markers and Techniques for how to use them. I think we're going to do a little drawing. Are you ready? Okay, I'll be back spritz the paper with alcohol. This is out rubbing alcohol I'm gonna grab some markers Interesting let's see this one is I Don't know what all my glasses on Turquoise green light Okay I'm gonna just grab some colors. I need to make some backgrounds for something else that I want to do and I want to I really want to try this. So how about yellow green how about Barium yellow that sounds Like a medical test and I spritz it some more and just set it aside And that ink should run and blend into each other. Well, theoretically speaking Well, this one had some other colors at the bottom. They're bleeding through which is totally fine And that before I do two more that gives me the idea So the one thing you can do is put marker on here. Oh, let's do Turquoise green light This one, let's do alcohol markers not gonna absorb into the plastic of this sheet So we're gonna spray that with alcohol. We got a face down I'm gonna try to see what happens this one. We don't have to do because look It's already doing that All right, two more Let's let's start out by putting some marker on here We're gonna stick with the landscape colors because I'm really digging those colors bright parrot green Names are interesting. So bright parrot green Chartreuse green Okay, if you do this last thing with your alcohol markers you can get backgrounds like this one How cool is that there we go better light? How cool is that and then we have some of the other ones that aren't dry yet? But they're turning out really well and as they dry that ink will spread more if it's not spreading enough Spray it with more alcohol And it's it's a great way to get some backgrounds. I need to do some inspirational things for my wall over there those four clipboards I need to take the mood boards off and do some inspirational things for the year for myself So that's what these are going to be for anyway. Have fun play with your markers Experiment and if you want to add alcohol markers to your stash of supplies I think the Ohuhu are a good marker for a good price. Check them out. All right. Oh, that's it for the minute I'll be back This might be for the alcohol marker video I will say journaling with the alcohol markers in my little journals, especially This one with the colored paper where bleed-through is not an issue because there's so much paper on each page That's really nice. You know why they dry really fast not like a paint pen So I really had a lot of fun with that. I can see using them in this journal You don't have to be Picasso you don't have to do anything fancy. I forgot how much fun They can be so Kind of glad they sent me them. Did I say that out loud? I think I did All right, I'll be back Okay, the first drawing I want to do is in this journal this mold skin that I took and I put colored paper on All the paint well I ripped out a bunch of pages first to thin down the journal and then I put colored paper on All the pages. I usually use paint markers on this But I want to do a page and I want to see how the alcohol markers will work. I am going to Put this back here There's two pieces okay as I was saying before the phone rang I want to try doing a Drawing here in this journal They kind of clean up with baby wipes, but not super good. Well, that's fine So and I want to see how the alcohol markers work on this colored paper as Compared to these paint markers. I'm assuming they'll probably and probably rightly so Depending on the color I use it's going to be fairly transparent and these are just random organic Doodle pages. So let me do that. Let me fast forward through it and I'll be back Okay, that turned out pretty cute and actually better than I expected it didn't bleed through on that side Or this side now there are three pieces of thin paper That's what makes up each page. So this purple drawing paper, which is just printer weight Paper copy paper. It's not anything special and then pink copy paper and then the thin mold skin paper in between But it didn't bleed through I Would recommend if you're gonna do something like this you probably are gonna want a white gel pen or a white paint pen to add highlights That being said I think that turned out really cute and it's an interesting challenge to Pull a color out of the box and see what color it's actually gonna be on the colored paper these markers are gonna look and act differently depending on what paper you use and Some you may find they bleed and blend better than others and also with some techniques like the blender pen This is again. This is just drawing paper. So the blender pen might work better on like watercolor paper Which I'm gonna try in the next video because I have another drawing I want to do but anyway Yeah, I would give them a try. They're a nice affordable alternative for a marker and as an addition To your stash of stuff if you're looking for alcohol markers This is a nice affordable way to do it and you can get a lot of colors in one set You don't have to have every single color they make but one of these sets even just the basic one You get a lot of colors in there There's a lot. That's a good variety of colors. Check them out I will link their website in the video description down below if you Are in the market for alcohol markers. I think these might be a good one for you This video is not traditionally sponsored because they're not paying me to say that they did send me the markers for free But that being said I wouldn't steer you guys the wrong way alcohol markers are not my favorite I'm a watercolorist. I do love my watercolor paints but if I was gonna play with and buy some alcohol markers these would probably be the ones I would try because they're Affordable they seem to work really well, and I love the color selection. So give it a shot see what you think and Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys