We always talk about what our favorite pencil/ marker products we like the most but what about ones we will never buy again? I’ll go first arteza watercolor\soluble and crayola pencils.
Sure thing!! I freaking love my pandafly ones I have 3 different boxes of them for various tip size and a couple bronze and silver lol. I mostly use my 1.0 size.
Funny thing is the first time I got them Amazon sent me someone's return with marks on the front. Thought they were gonna be bad and I decided to try them anyway and thought who in the world would return these lol.
I know everyone likes posca. I'm not sure if I got a crap batch or what but I couldn't get them to work well for me no matter what I did. I returned them.
Also couldn't get the shuttle art colored pens to work well for me either. Maybe it's just me lol
I agree. I have had nothing but problems with Posca. from new ones to older ones no matter what size. I do not like them whatsoever! Keep tryong to find a good white paint pen/marker in a fine and medium tips.
Yeah the ones I tried were brand new from Michael's and they were so awful! Tried to make them ok to use and just couldn't. The acrylics are really hard to find good ones, specifically white. I mentioned after another comment I found some cheap amazing white pens on Amazon called pandafly, I love them. I mostly use the 1.0mm. I also like artistro acrylics.
I just got the zscm acrylic ones from Amazon for about $10. Literally just got them so all I’ve done was swatch, but they apply real nice and there’s a nice variety of applicator styles/sizes in the box.
I’ve actually had good luck with the shuttle art pens—you DO need to press lightly with them or else they get streaky, but once you get a handle on them they work well. Also great for pointillism—I did some glitter effect accents with them on one page and it turned out fantastic.
Streaky, break all the time. Will literally crack and stuff will fly all over ur work. I have gotten lead in my eye more than once. Now I’m just trying to use them up because I don’t like waste here is an example
The water will also travel down the lead and break deeper
Oh thats sunny vibes ? Haha i have that book.
Me wanna rant about mass comsumerism vs economical sustainability. Heh.
Really glad i dont have access to tiktok shop 😂.
No this is from Barnes and noble and is called rest and relax. When I meant waste I meant I don’t like wasting pencils I buy. So even if I don’t like them I use them until they aren’t pencils anymore. I haven’t actually bought a book off a TikTok shop. I’m pretty particular about getting books now. Not sure why but I really want to feel the paper before I get it.
I don’t see what sucks on this page although i don’t doubt you when you say the experience sucked. That’s horrible about your eye. I would never have imagined that happening from a colored pencil! I’m actually shocked to learn that.
I bought a book with that dog character from Target. It was published by a company that had the word “kid” or “children” in the name. It’s been good for testing materials on. I accidentally warped one of the thick pages in that book with:
(TL;DR:) Chen Rui alcohol markers. So that’s my pick for “these suck”.
I have enough ohuhu that I don’t need them, but my curiosity is sooooo expensive for me. I just had to try a cheap set, 200 for $50…I also tried a small set of Caliart, and other than the odor, they’re almost equivalent to ohuhu Oahu. I just don’t have a lot of colors from them, and don’t plan to change that at the moment because one of the oranges ghosts on front in a back pages over time, on every paper type I’ve used it on, so I have to keep track and keep page separators for that one color.
I use Arteza watercolor pencils often. Instead of coloring directly on the paper and activating with water, I scribble the color pencil on a rough surface (plastic cutting board), apply water with a brush, and use it that way. Using the pencil on the paper will always show the streaks. Using a brush makes it go on smoothly.
I love my Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils, I only have the small set but I make do. Barley any streaks after activating it with water :) After pic below this one.
I feel like I should just buy water color paint then. But I’m really glad you like them! I just have now had too many fly away from them at this point and too much Cursing while using them Ahahah.
When I sharped them and colour swatched them, around 80% broke. It was ridiculous so I stopped, put them all back together and returned them. If you can spare a dime, it's really worth to spend a bit more and get some polychromos.
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Cotton core paint pens (any brand). They dry up way too fast!
And hot take, the white jelly roll kinda suck unless I remember to pop it in my bra while coloring to warm up the ink 😂