 Hello, oh my gosh, that's super bright. Welcome back to the average or welcome to average if you're new here I'm Steph. I'm the average artist as I like to say and today we are testing out the Okay, give me a second Karan de ash Karan de ash, I have no idea. Brand of neocolour, aqua oil, water soluble wax pastels because these were the ones that another youtuber recommended and I wanted to try and I accidentally bought oils instead You can see that video up here, but yeah, these are the ones I actually wanted to try They do seem a little bit relatively expensive what they are. There's you. Hello So let's see if they're worth the money. These are like 25 pounds, which is probably about roughly I'm guessing 30 pounds, oh 30 pounds, 30 dollars. So that is a lot of money for a few little Crayons. What's this I have? What's this little stickers? What's that for? They're like see-through stickers So I guess you can paint draw underneath and then like stick these on top But why would you just give me one? I don't understand. There's Is it like collect them all like buy as many things? You can't even see that, but they've got like crayon outlines Can you see that roughly? Um Doesn't really make sense to me if someone can explain that to you, that'd be great Let me know down in the comments. Over 100 years We have been accompanying you an expression of your goal. You haven't been not me because I never tried you before So that's an assumption Look at me already bitter about this before I even started. Okay, we've got this little phone thing to keep the The nibs. I don't want to what are they the tips? Yeah, the tips are nice and Pointy I guess I've already drawn to this fuchsia color because I'm obsessed Oh, it's got a little tab so when you like run down you can tab Pull the tab out. That's pretty cool. Um, so it is water soluble So you can use water with it which I forgot so I need to go get some water now But let's just test it out really quickly. I mean, they should just be like crayons But nicer Yeah Yeah, that's a crayon Great review. Thank you for coming Orange orange you glad you clicked on this video I really like how smooth you can get it because you know with like crayons or whatever Not probably shouldn't refer to these as crayons, but with crayons They get really crumbly and then the texture doesn't quite like even out if that I don't know what I'm trying to explain here But it doesn't really even out. So these ones are nice and smooth Probably very nice to draw with I'm just gonna try a little bit of water Well, they're like super watercoloury, which you know, I should have expected but I didn't Which is very nice I also realized this sketchbook is probably not the best place to try water soluble stuff But I do love the textures that this sketchbook gives me when I use like water colour in it or gouache So this will be really fun to try this brush is awful though Have you seen how separated this brushes because I'm moving that's the only brush I have I have this one and Teeny-tiny tiny one so you can pick up like colour as well and just transfer it slightly So I don't know really what I'm drawing. I just want to do like a sketchbook spread like I said, which I haven't done in a long time because being busy with just doing the comics and more Different pieces for like YouTube and things. I don't really know what I'm doing But I'm just experimenting and that is kind of what a sketchbook is for so I don't feel like It's a problem, but okay. I like these already. I was so like I Really want to like these but a little bit better price, but these are very very nice And I think as well like with art supplies It sucks, but you do most of the time most of the time you get what you pay for There are obviously some exceptions to that rule because sometimes some art supplies are very good like The jelly wash from Artex is pretty good and a hoo-hoo. Those markers are very nice So no mind. I mean, I guess you could call that expensive to be fair It depends like what you think is expensive I mean, I think a hoo-hoo and Artex are like reasonable prices. Anyway, whatever. We're not talking about them today We're talking about correct. Look. Okay guys. How do you say this name? Karana Karan, Karan D'Ach Or Karan D'Eik Or Karan D'Ach How do you say it? Just let me know someone please help me have my little brain. Look what I want to do is just play with These art supplies which is so nice to do so fun to just pick up something new and be like Let's just try them out Oh my goodness and he dropped everything Really like in the textures you can get with it for sure and Let me know if you've tried these before. What do you think of them? So I'm attempting to do skin color here with these colors I have but what I was doing was just laying down color up here And then just using water to just activate them and then maybe pulling them down here to see how that would look And I'm kind of enjoying it having fun with this. It's nice. Not sure it's working, but then again, I'm not like finished yet so We'll see but it's a really nice thing to just have there to just try out I do really enjoy the way that these kind of like melt after you add water to them And they just have this like really like rich Texture and energy to it that something I am enjoying. I think you can get the same with just using water colors So if you did want to use them like this, it's kind of probably more an idea to just For to have on the go and I also really like when you put down Like a wet color and then on top you you use the crayon the crayon The water soluble in the jiggy. It has this like really smooth smoothing effect, which is very fun to use Satisfying to layer down. It's like you can just get some really nice expressive Markings with these which is probably why a lot of artists enjoy using them. I have to say that I am one of them right now I'm enjoying it and I think I'll probably be using these a bit longer Especially like it's easy to just grab them and then add water especially as I'm traveling now because I'm moving surprise everyone if you haven't heard If you care It will be nice to just grab them and be able to just like put water color down without even having to think about it too much Like get the water colors. I'll get the paint around get everything, you know Maybe if I try like this white Because I really want like a lighter color So if I try this white, which you cannot see that I put that down I can barely see that and then like a line of this fuchsia and then maybe I can mix them together Let me just clean my brush a little bit So let's just add a bit more. I know people are probably screaming at me like you've done it wrong But I don't think you can do it wrong Actually, I do you can do it wrong, but can you reactivate it once it's been Okay, I don't know if I reactivated that or if that was just like how it was But it's kind of fun being able to just mix them as well So let's see if I can just because I'm not really sure about this green by itself because it's kind of like too Crazy a bit neon-y So maybe I can dull it down slightly with this light blue, which doesn't really make sense, but it does Just get some like still life of fruit always kind of works out There's something there is something really like fun about these that I can't really describe because It's just the way that they are smooth and you can just Do like rough mark making and it looks fun and it looks energetic and I Think that's so nice And the way that you can just layer them up. Oh, I should have done the green first up here, but oh well She probably should have done that with tissue and too lazy to get up to get tissue I think this green is too light for this red to go over it and It's kind of interesting because we've washed it's like okay I made a mistake I can just go over that color and it will go over it like nicely whereas this is kind of made a bit of a mess and You know each art supply has the different things that you have to be aware of and sometimes It's not good for people who always make mistakes to not have a Art supply where they can just be like yeah, I'll change it later Then I have to be very deliberate with what I'm doing So that's also like something to consider if you're used to using a certain art supply And then you go and you try something different can be really good for the way that you think about approaching something because you have to think slightly differently and It can be difficult, but I think it's a good exercise in four processes and How you will approach an art piece like if you think okay, I'm gonna use this art supply for this drawing Then you can think okay. Well, then what do I need to do first for these for instance? I wouldn't necessarily use pencil underneath, but maybe for like watercolor. I might I mean it depends I haven't really used these very long to know If I would use pencil underneath, but you know what I mean? It's just an example of like how you would approach something so It's always good to get the brain working a little bit differently bring the light into water, which you're probably not supposed to do this but Just to like smooth out these areas in the strawberry where it's white but pink Inside using lots of Inspiration pictures from Pinterest by the way in case you're wondering if I'm just making these up. I'm not it's good to use references guys Don't be ashamed of it That's what we're supposed to do But okay, I really like the way that these look and I think I found the way that I like using These is just to put them down and then go in with the wet brush And maybe pick up some colors here and there as you go Yeah, I like these I Was thinking they're really fun. They look fun, but will I like them? Are they worth investing this money? I nearly like Cancelled my order of them because I was like do I like these or maybe my thing Like other artists say they're good. So they must have something about them but is Our crayons and I am gonna refer to them as crayons. Okay guys our crayons that good and I'm just gonna say yes I'm enjoying them And if you guys are hesitant and thinking about trying these out I would say just go for it because I regret nothing and I'm glad that I got them Because they're fun. All they're giving out. They're fun. I would definitely suggest if you get them to use like paintbrush with them as Well, okay, so now I am actually wondering if I'm missing or if it's just like Had space. I guess I'll find out in a bit. I really really like these They are my favorite thing that I tried in a long time. So I'm super glad that I gave them a whirl And I'm looking forward to seeing what I can make with them next. I mean, this was just like a little test and I already really like the textures and how playful they are and just fun Like I said, that's the point of art supplies, right? So I'll link these down in the description. I got them off Amazon Anyway, that's it for the video. I hope you are having a wonderful holidays time off and stuff if you are celebrating and Hope to see you next time. Please like and subscribe and yeah. Bye