 Hey guys, how are you? I hope you're doing good We're here with another video for my creative year. This is my review for the month My review is going to be about the Bible gel high glider crayons now There's lots of other gel crayons out there on the market And there's even other highlighter gel crayons on the market. I prefer this particular brand Because of the color range So you can get them in a set of six or you can get them in a set of ten and I believe the extra four colors and the set of ten are These four colors and these brighter ones are in the set of six I I like the full color range. I use these for my daily sketches. I use them all the time This is my daily sketch custom keeper Which is made by Shannon green. I'll put a link for that and the gel crayons in the description below And I have a set of ten of the gel crayons in here a water brush a stabilo pencil Two white gel pens which drive me up the wall and I just have an issue with white gel pens It's just me not them anyway off subject a pilot varsity disposable fountain pen and two big ballpoint pens just plain old old big crystal ballpoint pens with them I do daily sketches I sometimes do random word sketches, which is in a different journal This particular one are prompted sketches Currently, I'm working with prompts from draw riot Daily I'll include their website in the description below and they have monthly lists like this of prompts this particular month of January is all colors, which has been super challenging and I Like these gel highlighters because the sketches become all about the sketches and the highlighter crayon Just adds a little bit of oomph to the sketches a little bit of pop But because they're a highlighter and they're translucent rather than opaque like other gel crayons I can use them on top of the pen and And get really interesting results and highlight my sketch without overpowering said sketch. Yeah So here are some examples of what I've done with the ballpoint pen The gray blue gray color you see is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen and the colored parts are the gel highlighters with the exception of some of the gray, which is the gray highlighter crayon and I really am loving the results that we get so Today, I wanted to give you a little review on them and show you a couple of things Put this back in here so I can remember where I was Let's set this aside These are cell phone terms by the way from the Japanese dollar store Okay, so I love these I want to review them and show you a few techniques I also want to try to recreate a Problem a friend of mine had with them recently when she was working in a composition notebook And she put some of this on the page and then closed the book and then when she went back to it a couple hours later The pages stuck together. I've never had that problem with them. I know my friend Lisa Swank has done her Some experiments. I don't think she posted them on YouTube, but she did do some experiments Experiments and she did not have a problem with them so we're gonna see if we can recreate what happened and figure out why it happened and what's different about how I use them and she uses them and I'll show you how I use them now I get these on Amazon the only other place I've ever seen them in real life Is at my local Christian bookstore? They do have them They don't always have all the colors in stock. So I usually just get the 10 pack from Amazon. It's easier Okay Set those aside because those I pulled out of something else, but I have a whole set of them here these are The same crayon But they're fatter and I have not found the set of ten yet in these fatter ones I only have the set of six that way. So I'm gonna keep researching that and if I find something different I'll put it in the description and let y'all know Those aren't them. Okay. So here we go so My friend used composition notebooks. So it's similar paper to this notepad from Office Mac. So we're gonna try as something on that one and Then I have a piece of just plain old printer paper I have a piece of like Manila folder paper. This is actually a page out of a delusions journal and then I have a piece of 70 pound sketchbook paper, which is similar to the paper I use in my daily sketchbooks We're gonna try all of these. I'm gonna just Put that in half We're gonna first thing we're gonna do is fold all these in half and we're gonna need a paintbrush I'm gonna start with the drawing paper paintbrush Okay so I used just a plain old dick pen and I'm going to just Do I'm just gonna scribble. This is the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen Line those up. So I'm gonna actually write. Let's see Bic let's not use this one because they don't even make that pen anymore This is a Uniball Signo gel pen in brown You can it doesn't just come in black. I mean in white it comes in black brown on a bunch of other colors Okay, and this is a sharpie a Sharpie pen fine point sharpie pen Which is a really great pen by the way. It's waterproof. Okay Then let's do I Want it to be bright because I want you to be able to see it It's not even a gel crayon let's do the purple and You can see what that you can see the pen Underneath the gel highlighter now when it first goes on It's a little sticky One thing I do is I take a damp brush and I use out on the couch. I have the Pentel water brush and right away. I'll get it wet and It'll smear the gel highlighter just a little bit It doesn't always get rid of it all the way, but it does do a decent job and then I Also do it dry switch colors I'll know although the color shouldn't make a difference and Let's use This one Although these are all made by the same company. They're all Bible High Gliders Yeah, they're all exactly the same They're not light fast So this one is sticky these others are that one's kind of sticky. This one's dry So really quick what I'm going to do is fold it back push down on it and Set it aside. I'm going to do the same thing to all these other pieces of paper and By the way, you'll notice that I I drew on there. I got water on it. I Didn't activate the pilot varsity pen, but let's do that a little bit see it's this this one and It'll blend with the Bible High Glider Anyway You can see on the 70 pound drawing paper it didn't really go snow. It is drawing paper. So It'll ghost a little bit But you can't scrub at it too much like you would a watercolor paper, but it does do a decent job It's my favorite drawing paper. There's evidently something on that paper and I'm just going to mark them all now these two first papers should do pretty well with the Bible crayons and getting wet these next two probably They probably won't do very well They're pretty thin paper. I generally don't oops don't use these on that thin of paper And we're going to get some of it wet. I just use a damp brush nothing too wet. You can see the pilot pen So we're going to right away. We're going to close that set it aside All right, let's try the what is this printer paper? Forgot what pen I was writing with there for a minute Now I know she had writing on there and she was highlighting some of the writing and drawing that she did I don't know what kind of pen she used. I think it was a Sharpie and actually on these two pieces of paper I'm going to let go heavy Because I think she put a lot of it on there and I don't know if that makes a difference I don't generally put that much. I did I do generally like I did with the first two Okay, and then we're going to get some of it wet When you can see how it just moves around The pigment and makes it into something that's kind of like paint So that's interesting. This is printer paper though. So it's bled through push on that And then this is the one that's just the regular Kind of note paper that's I think kind of like the paper that she used in her composition notebook And this will be a good test of what you can and can't do with these I do prefer to carry these around rather than other things in my daily sketchbook because They're easy to take You don't necessarily have to have a water brush with you to use them I Like the fact that I don't have lots of colors that I have a limited color choice I find it challenging and I like the fact that they're transparent It's really all about the sketch then and these are just an accent to the sketch Those are all things that I really like. I've tried putting other things in my sketch book daily sketch bag And I just keep going back to just these things So that's all done and I got all of those ones wet. So we'll see what happens. I'm gonna Stack all these up. I'm gonna put them under something heavy and we will come back to that. All right, I'll be back Hey guys, all right, it's been a couple hours. I had my little tray of weights here sitting on top of it Sorry, that was a little noisy Here we go. So we're gonna start with the first one that I did. This is the 70 pound drawing paper Did you hear that it's stuck a little bit? But not too bad This is the delusions journal paper. No sticking at all This is the printer paper It was sticky That's stuck This is The notepad paper like the composition notebook. I can tell you right now. It's already sticking So it did stick It didn't stick hers actually did damage when she pulled it apart while I didn't have that It does seem like the thinner papers had some sticking issues While the thicker papers did not that may be the difference between what she did and what I usually do I never used this kind of thin paper with these crayons So just be aware of that and I would say that if you use them on thinner like composition book paper Leave it open until it dries Put a piece of wax paper in between or something like that So that you don't have any issues with it sticking or ruining your work once it does dry You might want to give it a coat of wax. All right So here's that other half of that drawing paper And I'm going to just show you a quick sketch of what I normally do with the crayons I'm just gonna fold it because I usually work small and I like that better to be honest with you I put everything away, which I probably shouldn't have done. I probably should have left it out So that's okay and I'm gonna get my big pen and my pilot varsity pen and a Let's zoom in There we go. All right, so I usually start with the big pen. I usually keep my lines very light I barely touch it to the paper What to draw what to draw? I Think we're gonna keep it easy. It is February. It's the month of Valentine's Day So I think we're gonna use that We're gonna use that so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep the lines light until I have the design firm I do not start with pencil that I then erase. I always just do it in pen Of course, if you're doing this you could start in pencil until you get lines You like go over it with pen and then do some erasing. Of course you can I don't do that but you can this is a design that is in My Etsy shop or something similar anyway Just wondering if I'm zoomed in enough. There we go. That's a little better. I try to give it some dimension Gonna add some sketchy lines for shadow now the big pen is not water soluble So it's gonna stay wherever I put it again. I'm keeping the lines light and sketchy Until I'm sure Of where I have them If you've been following my daily drawings for a while, you've seen we sketch something similar not long ago So once I have the basic design down the basic shapes Then I'll go back with the same pen and I darken up some of the lines I don't generally darken up all the lines, but I do some Again, this is 70 pound drawing paper. This is from a ream of paper. I got at Amazon But you can get pads of 70 pound drawing paper at most places that sell art papers Okay, so then I always go in then with the pilot varsity fountain pen, which is water soluble and basically, I use the pilot varsity pen as my gray as my Shadow color so I go in anywhere where I want to add those shadows And I add a little bit of this pen. It won't dissolve completely when I am activating it, but it will a little bit and The ink will move around and Give me that little accent that I want then I go in with the water brush Damp not Super Drippy or anything And this is actually this brush is the wrong shape. So hang on Let's get around one. You don't want to wait too long because you don't want it to dry So I'm going to go in with our round brushes better. Yeah, that's better So I push the ink around and I let it help me create the shadows and Depths to the little sketch that I'm doing. Okay, then I will go in with some Colors of highlighter crayon. I stopped buying these big huge ones because not only did they not come in as many colors as the Skinny ones, but it's hard to do this kind of coloring with the big crayons Which I didn't like so I know one of you is going to ask and They're all made by the same company. So I like the color range in the 10 pack I add just a little bit of the red Okay, and before that dries too much I'm going to go in with my water brush and move that pigment from the crayon around You don't have to get it wet. I've done plenty of these sketches where I just leave it and Don't move it around at all that works fine, too So there you go. You get the idea. So it is really my pick for the month I think it's a great tool to have in your art room There are other companies that make a gel highlighter crayons Including Sharpie. So if you have some of those and you want to try those do that I will say one more thing that you can do with the crayons is you can go in here with your finger And move it around and more so that's kind of wet. So it's not really showing but let's do a little swatch down here So one of the things I like to do with them as I like to oh, I'm off camera. There we go I like to go in onto a dry page with the the crayons and Sometimes I do this on the sketches And I'll put a couple of colors down and then I'll go in with my finger And you can move them around and blend them with your finger You do have to work pretty quickly because they will dry And they won't blend completely, but they just give you something like I said loose sketchy interesting Which I love so there you go Bell Bible gel high gliders Think about adding a highlighter crayon to your collection of supplies or something similar You can achieve similar results with other gel crayons, but they're not transparent So a gel Highlighter crayon is going to be transparent. You won't lose your sketchy lines once you have this on here It's your last layer. You can't write over it or anything not easily So that's it for this month. Think about it. I'll put some links in the description below Give it a try and see what you think above all Be so besides join the Facebook group if you're watching this on YouTube You know we do daily Art encouragement support camaraderie friendship We post all these classes materials lists and everything else over in the Facebook group so check out the Facebook group think about joining and Above all go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself. Do a few sketches practice with your gel crayons and Enjoy life. That's it for today. I'll talk to you soon. Bye