WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?! | Cheap Vs. Expensive Markers | Side-by-Side Demo | Ohuhu v. Copic

on my channel you've heard me talk a lot about two different brands of alcohol based markers, the Copic Sketch, creme de la creme, professional get-a-mortgage-out-on-your-cat markers, *hehe I Ohuhu, one of the knock-offs I've praised them both in their own way but today we're finally gonna learn WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? I mean besides the obvious price difference and instead of swatching them endlessly for a whole video I thought I'd test them out the best way possible which is by actually drawing something with them ♪ I thought the best way to compare them would be to draw something and then color that same something twice; once with the Copic, and once with the Ohuhh, so here I am just drawing out something..hehe - I draw a lot of people so I definitely wanted to draw a person in this comparison video so that you can kind of see how the different colors will work together and if they're patchy or not for you know skin purposes because I like to have a nice smooth even coat for skin because I think a lot of you guys as well draw people so you're not gonna want to see me draw two buildings and see which of the markers colors a better building when you're gonna be drawing people in your own time so I definitely wanted to draw a person so that's what I'm doing today and I really-I've seen on Pinterest a bunch of these women with these beautiful scarves in their hair so I was very inspired by that and so that is why there's not a lot of hair here and I usually draw a lot of hair so if you want to see how these markers work with hair you can probably watch literally any other video that I've done but today it's not gonna be that day I wanted to use a lot more like I wanted to use a variation of colors in this and by adding a scarf in where like hair would be I'm able to use a bit more of a saturated crazy color that I might not have been able to do if I had done hair unless I liked wanted to do dyed hair which is obviously always an option but it's not what I did today and once I had drawn the scarf all I really wanted to do is draw it like these big poofy folds so I gave her this like over the shoulder shawl and then that made me start thinking maybe someone who possessed some kind of magic like a fortune-teller or a witch or something and then I gave her this like fringe at the bottom of the shawl and I was really really happy with it so I inked it and then I scanned it into the computer, printed it out twice, and it was time to color it! Roll the split-screen! so on the Left I will be using Copic markers and on the right I'll be using my Ohuhu markers, I started off with the skin it's just what I always do I don't know why...? I think maybe because the face is made up of skin and if you mess up the face you kind of mess up the whole drawing so I like to start with that a very important note I should mention for comparison purposes is that I colored the Copic one first so I picked out all my colors that way I chose what Copic colors I had and worked from there because I have less Copic markers than I have Ohuhu, I have about 70 Copic markers, I think, and then with Ohuhu I have a hundred pack so there's a few more color options there so I thought I better start with the Copic colors that way I can just match them with the Ohuhu so I think it's very important to know that the Copic is kind of the colors that I was choosing and the ones that I really wanted to go with this particular illustration whereas on the right with the Ohuhu markers that's me trying my best to imitate the colors that I owned of Copic markers so you'll notice like with Ohuhu they're a lot more saturated whereas on the left with the Copic markers they're less saturated and I own every single Ohuhu marker and there isn't one that matches that Copic marker I don't own every Copic marker so there is a possibility that there's a Copic marker that matches this Ohuhu marker but I don't own that one - so I think that's just important for me to mention that I chose the colors on the Left first and then on the right I'm trying to match those colors so if you're looking at markers and you prefer the colors on the Left, Copic is probably a better option for you to invest in; whereas if you're cool with the colors on the right then Ohuhu are still a very good option as well so I did make a pretty big goof that I need to mention because it's going to be kind of obvious in the appearance of this illustration for a little bit this is the Copic marker one, I used a mix of the color e15 and e18 and blended them out so I could get a nice mid-tone between those two colors for the skin and unfortunately I mentioned this like awhile ago when I did my bullet journal video and it specifically said that I need to refill my E15 and purchase a refill but I guess I just spewd it out of my mouth and didn't make any sort of mental note of it at all so when I came to drawing this 'ah hmm' it's a little low and that is why it looks so patchy near the end of this illustration I go over the entire skin with another base tone and try to like blend out the colors to remove that patchiness but I needed to mention it because it's gonna look patchy for a little while and that's not really a representation of the Copic markers it's just an empty marker so yeah anyway back to the comparison --> as the picture progresses I'll be showing you more differences with color but I should also mention the cosmetic differences between these two markers so the Copic Sketch markers the one on the left has a brush nib on one end and a chisel nib on the other the color name is labeled on both caps and the barrel and then on the ohoooo markers the ones on the right it is a white - it's a little bit more round of a marker so it can roll away a little easier it has the colors only labeled on the two ends oh the caps color of the marker is not labeled on the barrel so make sure you put the caps on the right ones I've messed that up a few times and of course Ohuhu is currently only sold as a bullet nib and a chisel nib so you don't get that wonderful soft brush nib that helps you blend out colors easier and give the you those nice soft gradients that a Copic Sketch markers would moving onto the red color of the drawing I was able to find a pretty good match to the Copic with the Ohuhu so I used those on both of the illustrations and colored in the entire shawl section of the drawing these markers were both markers that I hadn't used very much so you'll notice the difference with patchiness compared to like the skin it's a much more even coat so the more you use the marker the drier it's gonna be and the more patchy things are gonna be which is why you're gonna need to buy refills and when it comes to refills Ohuhu does not sell refills so that's not even an option if marker goes dead you'd have to buy a whole new pack, with Copic markers they sell refills for I think about $8. I saw on dickblick.com for like five I think and you can refill the marker like eight to ten times it says I just bought my first refills and they're coming in the mail especially e15 hehe so I'm excited to refill marker and see how well it works when it's like brand spanking new because I purchased my Copic markers secondhand because they are so expensive so a lot of my markers have received a lot of love and need a little bit more attention to get back into their prime whereas with the Ohuhu I'm actually using a brand new set for this drawing so those are all brand new markers sometimes Ohuhu does send a marker and they're a bit on the dry side like I don't know if they're just old or something they're a bit hit or miss but that kind of comes with the territory of paying like 1/10th the price - if you're watching this video to hear me tell you which ones to buy I'm not going to do that I'm trying to do a very even comparison so that you as the viewer can make your own assertions and decisions and figure out which of these is best for you because depending on what stage of life you're at or your involvement in art the one that's best for you might be different so I just wanted to lay this out here and I give everyone the information they need to make their own decision I will go over my final thoughts at the end though - if you're new to alcohol-based markers one of the coolest things about them is the way that you can layer them so you'll notice I'm actually shading the red part of the shawl with the same blue color that I'm using to color in her scarf that's in her hair so it's really cool the way they layer and you can see them blend so it creates this almost grey color by layering the blue on top of the red and I did that on both of the Ohuhu and the Copic one - an interesting thing I noticed after doing these drawings back-to-back is that when it came to the Copic marker I used just the brush nib and almost never switched to the chisel except when it came to e15 and I was running out of ink and I was just switching to hopefully find some ink in there whereas with the Ohuhu marker I was constantly switching between the bullet nib and the chisel nib depending on what size of area I'm trying to fill in or if I'm trying to make those detailed shading cell shading sections or trying to create little sections of color I needed the bullet nib and if I wanted to fill in larger sections I was switching to the chisel nib and I also noticed which I've mentioned in a previous video that the bullet nib tends to be on the drier side and the chisel nib tends to have a lot more ink so if I want it like blend things out I'm switching to the chisel nib even if it's a smaller section of the drawing and if I'm adding in tiny blocks of color that I don't want to blend too much I can use the bullet nib and I can even blend with the bullet nib if I don't want it to blend out quite as smoothly as it would with the chisel nib that might not make a whole lot of sense but if you've ever used markers and you've blended these things out I think it does the difference is that with Copic markers I was basically just using the brush nib the entire time so I was using it to block down colors and I was also using it to blend out these colors and it might have saved like a tiny bit of time between switching between the one nib and the other but it really wasn't a significant difference I think I filled in sections a lot faster just because I was using a brush nib which is a lot wider than the bullet nib is with the ohoo this doesn't really have anything to do with comparing the two markers but it's a tip that like once I learned it like absolutely saved my life so thank you Renee Violet ♥ I'll have a link in the description to her, she told me about this so if you want to color something and you don't want it to look yellow or orange you want it to look 'gold' try and shade it with the color green oh my gosh look at the difference that makes instead of her just having like bright yellow jewelry now it has that sort of gold shine to it isn't that pretty cool? anyway I think it's cool - now I'm finally fixing the skin on the Copic one going over the entire thing with another color I don't remember which one this was it was probably like E16 or something and I'm just creating a soft layer over the whole thing to basically fill in any of the patches of white that were still showing through that I didn't want to be there there are some sections that I kind of messed up earlier because I used that basically the shading color on like the tips of her fingers and I got a little too dark there and especially with beginners I think the darker colors can be a little scary because you can't you know you can only lift so much Copic and I tried my best and I really wasn't able to lift any more than that so I have a little bit of those patchy mistakes but going over the entire skin with just another marker that actually had ink in it really helped even out the skin tone and I like it a lot better now I think that was the biggest like major mistake that was my-that was on my part instead of just the markers and I wanted to point that out because like if not you might like look at the two and like say oh well I think the Ohuhu just looks cleaner so I'm going buy Ohuhu and honestly I think I just did a better job shading the face on the Ohuhu one, so the one on the right um I just I think I put like the shadows in the right spots where is with the Copic one I went a little too crazy in the center of her face with the shading but that probably comes down to the fact that I wasn't able to draw these at the exact same time so I learned stuff that I when I was drawing the Copic one that I applied to the one with the Ohuhu markers which I mean that kinda there's a lesson in there somewhere look at the progress I made from left to right like that seems pretty good don't you think? like my improvement I'm drawing the exact same picture the second time huh see there's always a bright side then with that it was just coming down to adding in the final little details since this was printed out because I scanned it in and printed out the line art so that I would have two identical line arts the colors were a little bit off like they weren't a very solid black line art so I went over like the eyes which I'd like to be big and bold so I went over that with a fineliner on both of the drawings and added some like eyelashes and things like that just kind of like added a little bit more pizazz I also used a white gel pen in this case the Sakura Decorese pen and added little highlights here and there to add a little pop and a little fresh Boop's of white, I don't know... I just remember this was like a thing that like every artist did on deviantART back in the day and I still haven't given it up maybe I need to grow up and stop doing it but it's fun I just like going 'boop!' with little white gel pen it's just I don't know it's one of my favorite things - one day, one day I'll stop but not today! oh my gosh I totally forgot that I did this but I used the white gel pen after doing the little highlights on the skin I used to add details to both the shawl and her veil scarf thing so I added polka dots to her shawl and I don't know what to call it and I added stripes to her scarf and I really like the way and the texture that that adds and I just I think that drawing just has a lot more character to it when you add some kind of texture it's not just those flat colors there's a little something extra and I'm really happy with that and I love adding patterns especially simple ones that don't take too much brainpower you know so these are the two finished drawings for the Copic on the left and the Ohuhu on the right I think the biggest difference comes down to whether or not you're willing just take the little extra time to blend out the colors with Ohuhu and switching to the chisel nib and it takes a little bit more extra effort to blend and create smooth gradients whereas with the Copic markers you just use that brush nib all the time and like everything just blends pretty smoothly unless you're trying to not make it blend smoothly and then the color option so with Ohuhu you're limited to the colors that they have and with Copic there's a lot of colors I don't really know how many I'm gonna guess that there's over I don't know 400 colors maybe but there's a lot of colors to pick and it can be a little overwhelming picking your color so that's another cool thing about Ohuhu that it's just a mix of colors you pick it up and that's what you got you got to work with it - I actually filmed this video once before this one and you can see the results that I had and I thought I just didn't do a good job picking the colors with the Ohuhu because for the longest time I was just trying to copy the colors that I had picked with the Copic and I just wasn't able to find the ones that were very similar with the Ohuhu so my first attempt didn't turn out as well which is why I gave it another go and I decided to do them both over again just because I really wanted to redo the Copic one as well I wasn't happy with it so these are the two second ones I think it's pretty important to show both of them just that you can see the differences that you can get with the exact same markers and like what happens when your markers not dried out and what happens when you pick the wrong colors so like those are the two Ohuhu ones and those are the two Copic marker ones and I think the most frustrating thing with the Ohuhu markers is that I wasn't able to find a color that closely matched the Copic marker that I used for the skintone and you'll see with you who those two skin tones are very different from each other but those were the two closest colors I could find that were similar to the one that I used for the Copic marker and you can see how different on which side of the spectrum these two are and it's kind of annoying that I wasn't able to find the color that I was looking for so yeah color choices is definitely the biggest setback with Ohuhu markers while I love love my Copic markers I really thankful that there's an option like Ohuhu out there that you can make very similar results for a tenth of the price and maybe it's not as convenient but that price is pretty darn convenient so I think we can all make some pretty good exceptions for that and I I'm gonna stand by what I've said in most of my Ohuhu review and that is that Ohuhu is just a really good stepping stone to see if alcohol-based markers are something that you want to pursue and at the price that they come in like it's really not you can't really mess up I don't think and if you learn that you love them then you can start slowly investing in the colors that you use the most with Copic markers and I think that's what I'm gonna stand by it's pretty much right down the middle answer I suppose it's not gonna pick which one's the best but I think that they each have their benefits and I've said that through the whole video since I went through all the trouble to scan in the lineart for this I'm gonna have it available for you to color if you'd like to I'll have it linked in the description and you can check it out for yourself and color it with whatever colors you want maybe you want her to wear a bright pink that's up to you you can do whatever you want! and yeah I want to just thank you guys for watching and I hope you all have a delicious evening full of WAFFLES! ♪ ♪ BYE! ♪ ♪

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Length: 17min 4sec (1024 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 15 2018