CAN WE TURN CHEAP CRAYOLA MARKERS INTO EXPENSIVE COPIC MARKERS?

hey you do you love salt do you find yourself putting it into things that really probably shouldn't have any salt in there do you feel like when people talk to you you get in the salt Dale so then we have the perfect shirt for you to let people know not to mess with you comes in kids adults t-shirts and hoodies and if you're not into clothing it also comes as a mug cuz when you're a grain you come in like a hurricane hey grains Copic markers are pretty expensive at about nine dollars a marker it's far from being a bargain so naturally my EP self was like no I am not paying nine dollars per marker Nick but every amazing artist that I've seen here on YouTube had a set so naturally it was still hanging out in the back of my mind that I needed them fast forward a few years later when I went to Japan I found these markers at three dollars not the American or Canadian nine dollars they were three dollars so you bet your salty butts I splurged and may have bought more than I probably would ever need this is me flexing on you guys I don't need to flex anybody can buy them if there are three dollars in Japan but with that said my cheap self still wants to think of different ways we can actually make our own alcohol ink markers so when last week I did the crayola marker making kit one of the first things that came to my mind is can I turn these into Copic markers let me show you as I'm recording on this side over there have some Copic marker so naturally this was one of the things I really wanted to experiment so that you can have a very cheap alternative of making a marker at about one dollar with materials you already have if you buy this kit so we're going to attempt making these markers into these so in case you haven't seen the video talking about it is this kit that cost me about fifteen dollars Canadian and you can make sixteen markers it is a little less than a dollar per marker and the set comes with empty shells for marker making so it comes with the primary colors and a handy color mixing charts so you can much made colors that you need to color with there are downsides to the color chart which I explained in my other video so I'll link that in the card section so you can check it out after watching this video and this is what the casing that we get looks like we get the cartridge the cotton looking thing the nib which is a hard nib but you can get both wide and narrow lines and then the top part that we just close everything off and we also get this vial where we know that 15 milliliters or up to that 15 area here is exactly what you need to fill the whole little cotton thing up so it is pretty useful so that we don't you know underestimate or overestimate any ink and last but not least we get this thing over here we will you know put our pen thing to stand up so that we can fill it up if you don't know what Copic markers are going to be trying everything on Copic paper just so that we have a cohesive testing space so the idea behind Copic markers is that we can create seamless blending I'm not going to do too much blending but you can get gorgeous colors that go close to each other then go back with your other marker then it just blend them together so that they look really cool and of course it's always better to go in with the middle color experimenting together whereas if I try the same kind of idea with water-based markers the paper might tear it might seize you know all these different terms I'm smart but they don't blend as seamlessly so as you can see the difference between the two here we're getting layers as opposed to here we're getting a kind of blend one is water-based the other one is alcohol-based you see where this is going ah so what I'm going to try and recreate are these two colors with the crayola marker maker closest to that I have is this one here and that one over here and we're going to see if we can get something as close as possible to a Copic marker pray to the art gods all right so let's do a little bit of math since I want this color over here we need 12 blue and 3 yellow what I'm gonna do is do these amounts in half and then supplement it with alcohol I went ahead and bought this pure alcohol bottle it was about 6 bucks about this at the pharmacy and we're gonna fill that gap with the remainder cross their fingers and see if that works if it doesn't work I'm going to be testing so many different options to see which one works best I don't mean some rubbing alcohol yo it smells like the doctor's office at this point I added half the amount of inks that were required from the color chart and as you can see I am adding the remainder up until the 15 with the rubbing alcohol that is 99 percent time for the moment of truth and in goes the cotton swab I didn't think of it float that much but I guess we'll we see for it to absorb there it goes oh my god you can start seeing it absorb into there time for time lapse all right time to get the marker ready we're just going to insert the nib pretty snugly like so and we're going to let it suspend from here as the marker make its mate man make its way down the tip Wow English is so not my first language today this is so exciting so we have our first marker one of the things that I feel I could be wrong is that it might not be juicy enough I really want it to be liquidy so I'm going to go just a little over the 15 mark on the actual tube over here because I like my markers juicy so we're going to go ahead do the other color but this time add just a little more of the alcohol and a little bit more of those inks [Music] in case you're wondering what it smells like because that's always what I think of when I think of supplies what do they smell like this is a mixture of blueberry and the doctor's office you really can't smell it unless you get very close to it so we're going to put these two aside and now I'm going to go on to the next test we're going to test all of them at the end to see which one feels the best result why am i waving these like magic wands alright one thing about the Crayola markers is that they are washable ink so I don't know how they're going to behave with the alcohol so we're going to go and use non washable a I highly don't recommend you to get this brand I bought maybe 10 of those a year ago and they are in the worst clunky gelatin II condition ever two of them survived again half is going to be the ink and the other half we're going to be using the 99% rubbing alcohol oh by the way if this works this is her lessened ink which means that we can actually have a pearlescent alcohol markers which don't exist as far as I know in the Copic or other brand colors so if we can make our own we can make shiny kopecks heck yeah spoiler alert we still don't get any shimmery kopecks all right this is this is pretty gross because as soon as I put in the alcohol what ended up happening is this ink started to turn pretty cakey and gross which kind of sucks because it would have been really neat to be able to get pearlescent these inks waste the money everything so interestingly enough I did some measurements and the 15 line over here is actually approximately 2.5 milliliters this whole time I thought it was 15 milliliters but it is actually 2.5 so I'm going to be squirting some actual Copic marker so I'm going to be making it in to my favorite Browns 11 and a 13 it seems that the 15 in actual Copic ink absorbs way more quickly than the water-based plus alcohol now I'm starting to worry [Music] now for the 813 let's listen to it again oh that didn't work you have filthy Copic why have you forsaken me [Music] and lastly I'm going to try the chameleon alcohol ink refills that way you can see the difference between the Crayola copics and chameleons and I'm pretty sure if you buy any other alcohol ink from any other crafts or you will end up getting the same results but we don't even know if it were like getting ahead of myself so let's just do these two into two other ones and do our swatches and see if they blend or if they layer [Music] because I love experimenting I'm going to do one last batch of colors and it's going to be the exact two over here so we can see the difference so I did try to mimic the Copic colors now I'm going to remake the Crayola colors to do the alcohol swatch underneath you grains know how smart I am right I just made a double of this color can alcohol form too remember I did it at the beginning because I wanted to mimic the color I could have just done the incline t one brilliant this one in it so here is the moment of truth I'm going to make five different swatches one for the original Copic and I tried to get the two colors closest to the ones we're going to swatch the original Crayola which is the water-based non alcohol one and then the Crayola ink mixed with alcohol down here the chameleons inside the cruellest and then the kopecks inside criolla [Music] [Music] all right so just to be very clear I am a complete beginner when it comes to art and kopecks I'm just looking at the kinds of behavior I expect from my Copic markers to be in this version that I'm testing out so the first drawings that we did is the Copic original and this is the Crayola original now with these same color is more or less if I try to do a bit of a blend over here you can see that the ones with the alcohol put inside we're actually a little more cooperative in blending with each other as opposed to being very harsh and if you work it just a little more you can get even more blends just to let you know this is the next day and I am using the Crayolas with the rubbing alcohol in it I got a hang of using it and it's way better than the swatches I did in the ovals so this migraines is the result you're getting I know I colored them all differently so don't don't don't for those of you getting triggered by me saying triggered calm down so here we have the original kopecks here we have the original Crayola as you can see the middle part is a really harsh straight line even though I tried to blend it so that can kind of you know just cooperate and smooth into the other color it didn't want anything to do with it but if we look at the Crayola with the alcohol marker it really did kind of blend a lot more it wasn't just a harsh line so I was able to get this kind of transition and yeah I didn't work it and the colors got darker which is a kind of expected behavior from blending and then the second one which was a pretty cool effect but I don't think it's very Copic marker like but it is still Copic marker ish so I was still able to get a blend and a smoother transition and then with the chameleon Crayolas so the chameleon inks which could be any alcohol ink refills that you could buy at any craft store yes it did work and yes it did give us a pretty smooth transition I probably should have chosen colors closer to each other to make the transition even smoother and then putting a Copic marker ink inside the Crayola yes it did behave very similarly to Copic markers so the question is can we make alcohol markers with the crayola marker maker set and to me as a beginner the answer is absolutely if you're looking for a cheap alternative with gorgeous pigments and a color chart that you can follow more or less I would probably recommend this method especially if you're not sure if you're into copics and you don't want to spend so much money you can spend $20 and pick up a bottle of 99% rubbing alcohol and make yourself about 16 markers that is a great deal so here are the advantages there are six of them number one yes they can be alcohol markers at about a fifty to sixty percent ratio I think you can definitely add a little more rubbing alcohol into the mixture and it wouldn't be so bad it might actually make it a little more juicy the second advantage is that the colors that come with the Crayola kit are really gorgeously pigmented so it's not like you're getting cheaped out on the pigments the colors are just absolutely gorgeous and it's a plus that it smells pretty because we're getting empty casings for markers you can buy any alcohol inks from any craft store and just refill it so if you happen to just have some laying around or if you're an artist they just have refills good you like to use it for other things you can use these casings at about one dollar each or less it is a bargain because if you were to buy just an empty Copic marker like this over here it is about three dollars and it sits completely empty so there's there's nothing inside and you could just custom make your own color whereas you could just buy the actual Crayola ones and you'll be fine I know some of you are probably but Jackie the Copic markers that have a brush nib and that is an absolute must for blending the answer is I hear you however this blend speaks for itself because we have a tip on the side it does work pretty well in my official opinion once you have beat three primary colors you can go to town and have fun with every combination that you can and of course if you want hues in between you might have to look for weight so once you get those colors not only do you have them in the actual chambers over here but you can refill them the issue with a lot of the cheap markers that you can buy online that they don't have refills in the color that you like well guess what can't just buy one color whereas if you have your own color chart and you really like your color you already have the refills just remake it and refill it and you're good to go for a long time to come yes they can be refilled with Copic inks oddly enough even though we're using the 99% alcohol it doesn't smell like alcohol let me know what your grades thought of this method it's just something that really came to me and I was like I need to try this in all its glory and I really think that it is a good method for someone who is absolutely a beginner like me or isn't quite sure how to play around with copics thank you so much for watching if you want to watch a crafting video check it up here and if you want to watch a salty video check it down here salty crafter will be back on Friday so wait until then I will see you in the next video

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Length: 15min 36sec (936 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 07 2018