 Hello everybody and welcome back to the average. On Friday we went and took a visit to our local tiger. This place was so amazing but I went there for a specific reason and it was to find these alcohol markers that I had a couple of at home and I wanted more of because I thought they were really good and I wanted to share and test them with you guys. Let's just talk about tiger for a moment can we? If you don't have one in your area I'm really sorry I just think it's such a cool shop and they have so many cheap art supplies and most of the stuff is really good quality. It's really nice to know that there is an alternative out there for people who can't really afford all the expensive stuff and you don't necessarily need expensive stuff. I mean obviously it makes making artwork nicer and the results are probably in some cases nicer but you can work with what you've got and I just really love tiger. They have so many different things as well and I was obsessed. It was quite a small shop because I've been in bigger tigers before but the one near us I didn't know was near us. I was like wait there's a tiger down the road let's go so we went and it was amazing. Obviously this video is not sponsored or anything at all. I used my own money for this and I just wanted to show you guys the alcohol markers because I think they're really good and if you have a tiger near you then definitely go check them out. You'll see now when I show you the hole and what I got and I will test out the pens now. Gigi doesn't like it. Gigi come on. Oh he's a picky boy. He's not fancy enough for him. These two are going to town. There's enough for everyone. I'm sorry Gigi that you did not let your treats I bought especially for you the prince. The game's sulking. Gigi come on. What are these treats you have written to me? Not good enough. Not impressed. They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine but you just can't get into it. Hello everybody so I had to clean my desk to put my brand new tiger items down on the table so I thought I would just go through what I got and do a sort of mini haul and I bought a few more things than I thought so we'll start off with the pens seeing as that's the reason I went to tiger in the first place. I went to find these pens because they are a alcohol marker type pen so there's four packs um they were three euros each and they were a euro so they're like a euro for one and Chris bought these a while ago like a set of them a while ago and I thought those are going to be really rubbish. They don't look great but they are really nice and I've been using them a lot recently because obviously on my comic I used copy markers and pro markers and stuff and a lot of them ran out so as they were running out I was like hmm I'll try you know I'll try out this color or whatever and I was just really blown away I thought it was really good for what it is as well so if you're looking for a cheap alternative to alcohol markers um these bad boys they're really good so if you have a tiger in you I know a lot of people don't um next we'll test those out later by the way um next I just bought this mixing paint palette because I don't have one because I'm a professional as we all know I think this is like a euro or a couple of euros so it's worth it it's just plastic which is not as nice as china or something but you know it's cheap so and I also I got this this isn't from tiger but this is for my acrylics talking about palettes I got this from a shop called Casa and it's just like this little plate and I thought it'd be really good for my acrylics I really like the designs it's got a little like divots in it so I was thinking could hold the paint quite well anyway that's those are the two new palettes that I have I also got this watercolor block from tiger because it was cheap I think it was about three euros and it's got 20 sheets and it doesn't say anything about how much water it can hold but yeah I'm assuming it can hold a bit considering it's calling itself watercolor paper I'm going to put this I'm not good at this this displaying stuff they had a whole bin of washi tapes and then they had a whole bin of washi tapes and they were free for two euros and I felt like I bought six but I think I only got five which is an absolute stupid idiot move I got these llama designs which is so cute or alpaca I'm not sure if they're alpaca or llama and some toucans and a blue llama and some little spots but also I forgot to mention Alfred I've decided to call him Alfred and he is a little blue alpaca I guess or a llama I'm not sure what the difference is maybe I should look that up but he's just gonna sit here because he's a cute boy and Kubo took a bit of a shine to him and then wasn't it wasn't a shine it was he had evil intentions so he had to be taken away from Kubo and this is one of my favorite things that I found it is a rubber with a little handy case and then it's got this little brushy that you can brush away your little your little what are those called the rubber bits that come off I shouldn't say rubber should I because that's rude in your language of America it's an eraser a rubber eraser whatever um yeah it gets rid of the the trash that's left behind well last but not least I got this beautiful pencil case with some I'm gonna assume that alpacas on them and I love it so I'm gonna put all if they fit all these markers in there so I have a little marker pencil case and it's on theme with all the llama slash alpaca things that's my haul I bought a lot of other stuff but they're kind of more for um like around the house so I've got these like napkins and stuff like that you know boring stuff I will show you this though because I think it's cute it's a little eye mask that you put in the fridge and it's like seashells and you can't really see it very well but it's got glitter and pink and it's absolutely girly which is not really me but I love it I'm sort of I'm girly a bit but not shut up okay yeah there we go that's my haul and I hope you guys like that I'm going to test out these pens now okay I think I'll do a different video on the watercolor paper and but maybe that's not that interesting but you'll see me using it I guess let's go hold up guys I found the extra washi tape yeah great day for the washi tape I'm ready to do some doodles and swatches okay this is my sketchbook I forgot the name for sketchbook then really good no I hate when it does that makes me cringe here she comes we're trying to film pesto get out of here get out of here right here if you want you can lie here a bit shush okay first off we have the blues and slightly greens yes brilliant brilliant you're here we know everyone knows that you're here okay and this color they all have um numbers on them so I'm assuming that there must be enough for these numbers so there's 12 here and on these blue ones it says 99 does that mean that they have 99 colors it can't really but it doesn't make sense to me I guess the good thing about test printing for your comic you have a lot of scrap paper pesto you need to calm down okay okay she just fell off the table she sat down and she just fell off oh pesto she's shamed you've got to be a fishery she fell off the table I've put her back lie down just do pesto cam quick pesto lie down yes she just fell off there that was pretty low let's get back to the swatching at hand see it's just nice and they also they do blend quite well because that's the whole point of our cold markers is that you don't have you know when you use a felt tip pen you have all those lines you can see where you've drawn on the paper these ones blend quite well like copics do so that's the whole point of them euro guys a euro so I think like you've got to really consider that when you take into account the how they are look at that that's so nice super pigmented that one is 12 this one is a four like obviously the packaging is not as nice um it does look cheap the plastic key is cheap they don't give you any like indication of what the numbers are they just see a number I think maybe they just put that there randomly and yeah here's the light blue I think I have this one already and I really like it it's kind of like a turquoisey so it looks a little bit green I really like this color let's continue with our green obsession here and open these green ones because these look quite green but I think it might be the paper is a little bit cream so it's probably making it look more green than they are so if I used it on white paper it probably looks bluer does that make sense to everybody is that an acceptable thing it's a bit easier and yeah again same packaging this one's number one hua number one number five and number seven I guess the colors aren't really again another problem with the packaging is that the colors don't really look like what is indicated it's just a vague indication of what the color is so this is like quite a bright luminous green whereas that looks quite olive green to me you get that with um Copics and pro markers anyway it's never going to be a exact match oh this one is a very dark green that one is nice I'm doing this watch is bigger here for some reason good job star let's do the browns before I do these colors um I put on my Instagram that I was using these tiger markers and somebody asked me if I had found a skin color and I was like no not really but I'm gonna look later for colors these three could be considered skin markers if they are these colors that they suggest we'll see with the swatching if they come out a bit of an obscure color then maybe not but they could be you know they are skin colors skin tones and let's try them out yeah that's a that's a nice skin tone that one is good see that is a lot darker though than indicated so these two must be quite dark so that could be your skin tone done and this one and I quite like that color that's a very nice dark brown a euro each not bad I mean they work pretty well you can't really complain unless you need a specific color then I would go with these guys so if you have copics or pro markers you can probably look up what the colors are that you need and write them down and stuff I definitely have one of these in this pack already so this is a light pink see this is quite like an orangey pink I would say um compared to the sort of lilac-y pink that it shows but yeah that's nice I would say that that one is the closest match to what it looks like the color that's very nice very nice and so now we have the dark purple also very nice this is a nice color I'm a sucker for purples and pinks though to be honest I honestly think my favorite colors are these these kind of range they layer quite well too which I think looks really cool and you can have some really nice effects with them let's get drawing something shall we because I think that is the true test of how well these markers work pastel can she's sleeping on the edge even though she just fell off that you know living her life on the edge okay so I have my reference photo here what I've done is just gone and Pinterest and I've looked up Helsinki street fashion because those photos always look quite cool quite distinct style that people have and I found this photo and I really like it so I'm gonna try recreate it just a reference and I'll transfer it in my style a little bit I've got my basic B pencil here I'm gonna start it's probably quite strange to see me sketching because I don't know if I ever show like my sketchy style um style sketchy kind of work that I do but it's very it's strange to show you so I'm trying to concentrate and I think that is probably gonna mess me up when I'm talking to you guys but hey I'll try I'll try to keep talking the thing with hands is that it can be really difficult but I think whenever you have a reference it just makes you feel more confident and I realize that the image won't look exactly as the reference will but that's a good thing because I feel that you should just take inspiration from the reference and make it your own and that's what makes it interesting because otherwise you're just recreating the photo a little bit and that can be cool but that's not really what I'm going for in this image so I'm going to change her earrings up I love this skirt it's very pretty but I don't think I have a yellow so we're gonna have to choose a different color and I think it's going to be maybe that luminous green because that's very similar the tip with sketching is to just look at the basic shapes of what the reference image is and just trying to copy that line and the negative space I always like to see the back of the dress the skirt I just like that in images so she's got these like sandals that are quite hard to draw remember to breathe when drawing folks as well I remember hearing that tip from Bobby Chu like years ago and I was very much like well duh and then I realized that I do hold my breath when I'm trying to draw something and I'm feeling the pressure if you breathe steadily you realize that it makes you calm down and relax and just enjoy what you're doing her legs look stunted oh no well it's time for a handy rubber term I mean a razor what no I'm English I mean rubber sorry and now it's time to test a little brush actually that's really handy it's not quite getting all the things so get off that's nice I like that get off of there okay whoo so here we go and now it's time to draw again over all these dents that I made good job me so I'm just gonna block out the shapes this time sometimes when you start to draw something and it goes wrong and then you try to draw it again and again and again and it just never goes right that's that happens to be sometimes it's good to take break guys just take a break from the thing that you're struggling to draw and come back I'm not going to do that now I'm not going to take my own advice also looking at darks and shadows can help so if you like squint at an image and you can really see the values that can really help to give you a guide of where to draw looking at negative shapes here I think this is fine and then there's like this much room between there but from here to here there's like a lot more room within the looking at the reference image so what I'm going to do is rub it out and put it further over here I rub out the lines softly also when you block out color you get a sense of the proportion and shapes that you've drawn and if they're wrong all right so you'll see if I like what I've done I'll probably look back at this footage and be like what have you done here okay roughly rub that out so it's just gonna be coming through a little bit so we're gonna use the darkest on her hair because her hair is the darkest in the image and I think the bleed is quite strong with these guys with these pens so we have to be quite careful so they're fairing pretty well they're pretty nice they don't bleed that much to be honest because I'm going quite close to the line and they're not going over my pencil lines so that's that's very nice of you pen thank you thank you for not ruining my drawing and I don't know whether to use the light brown or the mid brown I don't know which one is best matching I think she's got quite a nice orange hue to her skin tone so I think I'm gonna use the first one I'm gonna rub that out that hair strand because I don't like it anymore get over here oh I went over the mouth oh pants oh well I really like the way the block shapes of this though to be honest the blocky colors maybe it doesn't need an outline as well you know maybe when I finish this I'm like nah looks good looks good like this now I don't know what color to do her top because it's a dark brown dark brown dark blue maybe I'll do the blue and the purple together and we'll have a little bit of a layering effect oh yeah guys thinking of problems and solving them instantly it's a shame if you don't have a tiger near you because these are really nice but if you do then definitely check them out I think like they're so good for just cheap they they leave a little bit of mark but I think once it's dried up it won't look that bad I think I've just given her like chunkier legs than she has which is very rude and I apologize lady what can you do sometimes you're just bad at drawing feet and legs okay well there's always a way to save it I'm gonna start shading in with the dark mid brown I think will look nice because you know do a bit of shading there to make her feet her legs not look so return as I've made them let's do a little pesto update shall we there's pesto everyone's happy now I'm gonna pesto update if you've seen my channel or been around my channel a while you know that I would maybe put pencil in here as well but I think for this obviously I'm testing out these pens so I'm gonna try and just use the markers so I'm just gonna use the markers obviously I had to use the black for the shoes the micron pen but yeah this should be fine and I'm quite lucky how it's looking anyway it's nearly finished so that's that I'm gonna shade the face slightly okay so I think we're finished here I really like the way that it turned out and I do like the the line less style that I've gone with here obviously can see a little bit of the pencil work underneath but overall I think it works and so that is a little review and example of what you can do with these cheap alcohol markers so if you ever thought oh Copics are so expensive and but I wanted to try them then definitely go with these they are a good alternative and I would say yeah they're they're pretty good they bleed a little bit more than Copic markers maybe but if you're careful with what you're doing then that is not really an issue and that's it guys thanks for watching and I will see you next time bye look at this magnificent buddy desk buddy do you like mr. llama now she looks like she's hugging him cute she's like ugh get this thing off me rude just rude I'd like to give a shout out to all my patrons they are Erica James and Cecile Stephanie Tim Tom Megan and Babbit thank you guys you're the real MVPs if anybody out there would like a shout out at the end of my videos then check out my Patreon down below