The Year of the Crayon. Welcome to the Artist star sign! 😸

How about we have a decade of crayon? Or better yet, A Lifetime of Crayons 🖍

I was gonna say...you skipped over the actual crayon crayon of Neocolor! They are fun to use together, textural and blended.

I have those, the neocolor 1, yay!

More crayons! YES!!!

Everyone and their mom. 😂 Yes I know! But I wanted to mix it up and try water soluble crayons. 😊

@@KaseyTheGolden I getcha! I’m glad you did, I’ve been curious about them for a while but didn’t wanna make the investment til I knew they were good and knew I could use them, so this was super helpful!

Off topic but ur super cute :)

Yes, I love neocolor I! They are the best!

Yayyyy

I think that is a good point. It's also something that makes a lot of people (myself included) almost hoard the more expensive or better quality supplies they have and continue to use the old, cheaper stuff so you don't "ruin" that nice canvas/canvas board/piece of wood/expensive sketchbook etc and you don't use up the expensive art mediums you spent ages saving up for and get left with nothing to show for it because you don't have any "finished" pieces, just a lot of "practice" pieces and experimentation etc. For me I do it most often with supplies I am not comfortable with/new at regardless of the price because I have an idea in my head, get the stuff to do it with and then am too scared of messing it up to start! 😂 I love the whole 'customising shoes' thing on KZfaq so I decided to treat myself to a set of fabric paints and a cheap pair of white canvas shoes/trainers 👟. They have now been sitting in my room for several months because I am too scared of messing them up by choosing a design I'm not good enough to reproduce on shoes or in paint or just being unfamiliar with the materials. Every time I see a new shoe customisation video I get all excited by the end and think "yeah I'm going to do mine, they'll be amazing!" but I will go to get the paints and basically think myself out of it with all the ways I could easily f**k it up! 😂 😂

I also face a similar problem with my sketchbook, wanting to make each page a full illustration or finished piece instead of using a sketchbook for its intended purpose 😂

Money's only wasted if you don't use the supplies. (Says the person who has spent an embarrassing amount of money on art supplies, many of which are still unused.)

Wow, lucky kids!!

In my country there are regional and national drawing competitions for elementary and junior. A lot of them using caran d'ache. I'm so envy 😅

same! i also had them in elementary, we never had crayola. I remember my teacher droped mine while shoing how to use them in project we did but they're great! really expensive tho

What kind of bougie private school experience is that 😂

@@happyjellycatsquid Thats the thing! I went to public school😂🤣🤣

It’s an interesting process for sure!

h- how did you comment 2 days ago

It looks like Nyan cat

@@Veronica-ry2qc i thought the same!

@@Luiza247 I'm a patreon! We get early access ✨

Oh, thank god, someone else said it!

I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought of nyan cat too 😭

Omg I literally commented about nyan cat too lmao I’m so glad I’m not the only one

same

I love how passionate you are about crayons:)

@@foolishmint9618 Honestly they’re so versatile and satisfying to work with, a very inspiring medium if you will. So easy to just pop out and use, every day few times a day even. You don’t need to use an expensive paper every time, you can just use your print paper and get a beautiful outcome. You can just work at them for a long time and get great details, shades and tones, or swipe a few swipes and get a beautiful abstract picture with a sense of movement, you can layer and layer and layer and get a masterpiece made. Very affordable and very beautiful to work with. How can one not be obsessed with them? They’re so good 🤩

@@GuyG.KTalesOfAnimals please give me a piece of advice on what crayons I should get

Honestly I don't know who needs so many different crayons when mixing them is so easy... The best thing about professional materials is you can buy them individually, only the colors you actually need - and replacing the ones you use up.

@@NelaDunato that's what I was thinking but, sometimes you just want one colour without spending extra resources: time, effort to blend or mix, 2 sticks instead of 1. You're right about the convenience of more variety-- I went crazy with prismacolor double sided markers or individual oil paints for a while so I will be saving for these and then resuming being frugal 🤡

@@NelaDunato This is true. I bought the 15 tin and have filled it out buying open stock of what I wanted - mostly neutrals to counteract the insane vibrancy! I definitely prefer to work with a more limited palette because it forces me to be more creative. And Nail, yes - I've had these for a while and done quite a few pieces with them, and they're almost as long as when they were new!

@@ritawilbur7343 Love their neutral and muted shades! I bought mine individually over the years a few at a time, and have about 20 in total now. I literally have 4 different reds and 3 different peachy tones (useful for portraits), but no bright blues or greens whatsoever. Having a defined favorite color palette can sure save you a lot of money :)

righttt, i loved them so much in school! i miss these times

Aw damn. I wish I lived in Switzerland now T-T

They’re so expensive though lol to compare them to crayola is crazy to me. These are good quality made good enough for professional use crayola are only made with children in mind lol. Guess I’m moving there if the children get these haha

@UCn_mkJXSEmww1zJbn7cMXVgthey are a swiss brand, you can just buy them at the grocery store they're not that expensive here 😅 Caran d'Ache is all we had in school

Omg yes you're right! But my biggest memory is about their pencils ahah

@@Justaperson354 I've always wanted crayola though! You get so many colours while Caran d'Ache had a very limited pallette especially in their crayons and pastels/oil pastels. They do have a great selection of pencils though!

@@Helvetica09 well crayola has a lot because they’re for children lol kids are learning colors and don’t know how to mix them at that age it also is because you can’t really layer crayola to make new colors lol

Same, the smaller sets are usually "rainbow" colors, and I prefer to buy more useful colors individually. It's also a great way to try out a few to see how you like them before getting more. Lots of online art shops in Europe sell them by piece. I think Amazon does as well.

Finally!

Are they toots or paint?! 😂

They are!!

They are expensive but in my opinion they are totally worth it. BTW if anybody needs an entry-level set at a lower price point the faber-castell ones are good. They are technically for children but you wouldn't know it based on how they perform. I don't know about lightfastness though

Anything can be used by professional artists if you ask me!!

@@KaseyTheGolden I totally agree. I found out that I had this silly prejudice.