hey everybody welcome back to a video that literally nobody asked for today i'm going
to be testing out art supplies from everybody's favorite discount store and when i say everybody i
mean especially my mom i know you're watching ross dress for less now if you're not from the united
states or maybe you've never heard of ross dress for less before it's basically whenever a regular
department store they either overstock items or they can't sell a bunch of items instead of
just tossing it out they sell the items very very cheaply to discount stores like tj maxx marshall's
ross dress for less and from there the discount stores proceed to sell the items very cheaply and
i'm not gonna lie okay ross does have a reputation for having some very strange items like for
example there was this peak fashion backpack that i found oh my god look at this backpack
before we get into it if you could please help me out and do the three holy grails
of youtube to appease our overlords that would be amazing and now let's get this party started
money
okay so i am back from my ross trip
i would say that my trip was pretty successful i think it's just a universal experience that
every time you go to ross you just expect them to be completely wiped out but this time not
surprisingly i got a very large selection of items which i am probably way too hyped for right now
the art supplies that i got it basically can be split up into two separate categories the
first category of art supplies we'll we'll go over fairly quickly they're basically just art supplies
that i know are just gonna knock it out of the park when it comes to the actual drawing process
and i just so happen to get them at an incredible price and the second type of art supplies that i
got from ross um i don't even know how to describe them properly they're basically disturbingly cheap
even though i've been around the block when it comes to art supplies they're brands that i've
personally never heard of in some of the cases the packaging is incredibly weird and looking at
some of these products i'm very curious to find out why were they in a discount store like what
what's wrong with these art supplies that nobody wanted to buy them you know so we'll start on a
high note and i'll go ahead and show you quickly the art supplies that i am beyond hyped to have
um we'll go ahead and start off with this these are a giant case of premium hb pencils they're by
the brand staedtler i hope i'm saying that right i have a feeling i'm not saying it right but
i'm just gonna go with studdler there's 36 pencils two bonus erasers supposedly they're
pretty resistant to breaking and you guys know as an artist the number one art supply that i
am literally always in need of is pencils these were estimated to have a value of 15 and i got
these bad boys for only 6.99 such a great deal as soon as i saw these on the rack i was like
mine now for the second foolproof thing that i got at ross this is probably the best deal
besides the cheese grater of course i'm not gonna lie i got too excited and as soon as i got home i
literally couldn't wait and i opened them up this is a 25 piece brush set from the brand
wonder and weiss these brushes are very large they have an awesome little zip case this is a
pure wood handle which is very rare when it comes to art supplies even though these only have an
estimated value of fourteen dollars i got them for only ten dollars hobby lobby michaels they would
never sell something this cheap they would never offer these high quality brushes for this price
as you're gonna see later in the video i have some paint that i can use with this so if the paint is
a total flop at least my brushes will be straight fire and for the last two things that i got that i
know are gonna be like really really nice i got a giant four piece canvas set these are one foot by
one foot already primed ready to go for only bro you're not gonna believe how much i got these for
they were estimated to be worth twelve dollars but i got these giant four pack of canvases for only
seven dollars and for the last thing this is actually an art supply that i have paid full
price for many many many times this is a name brand strathmore mixed media notebook which is
good for someone like me because i'm constantly switching between like the mediums that i use
sometimes i'll do watercolor sometimes i'll do charcoal sometimes i'm crying in acrylic markers
colored pencils literally all over the place and this guys is estimated at an eight dollar value
which i'm pretty sure it's way more than that at a craft store and i only got it for 4.99
consider what you just saw the calm before the storm the following art supplies that what you're
seeing they might be the best thing ever they might be the worst thing ever i have absolutely
zero idea so let's just take a second let's vibe out for a second let's manifest that everything
is gonna go smoothly from this point forward but i doubt it starting off with this 13 piece
watercolor set from the brand pinelli now i do got to say that this one is kind of concerning because
when you turn it around you can see that it's been discounted not once not twice but three
different discount stickers are located on it but let me try to peel it off and see how much
it originally sold for i don't know if this is common or not but i just peeled off the sticker
thinking that they discounted it from a higher price but they actually discounted it from a
lower price it says that it was originally on sale for 3.99 but i bought it for 5.99
oh so right off the bat we have a pretty decent variety of colors which is always a good sign but
i do have to say what's not a good sign is this type of brush right here these are like the worst
brushes in the whole entire world first of all they're so bendy and usually you find these with
like the absolute cheapest art supplies around they're made out of actual hard wire plastic so
right off the bat that is not a good sign 3.99 for watercolor god that is like insanely cheap
before i get into it i just really want to put the disclaimer that i love me some ross
when i was growing up that was pretty much exclusively the only place that
my mom took me to shop okay but with that being said um just from these
swatches alone i've noticed three things that are i guess kind of off the first thing that
i noticed that was off is that the dark blue and the light blue are literally the exact same color
the second thing that was kind of weird that i noticed is that whenever i would swatch
something and then like clean the brush off in the paint water there was all kinds of like
floaty paint like the paint didn't really break down it was just kind of like swirling all in the
cup hey editing me here so at this point i've already created the painting these watercolors
man they gave me such a difficult time basically whatever the filler is inside of them it was not
breaking down in water which is the whole point of watercolor to break down in water whenever
you look at the artwork you can see the different layers on top because it was just like stacking
on top of each other if anything i was getting more like gouache vibes than watercolor vibes
you know so obviously these are not made for artists like myself these are i would say are
definitely more for like students and children i would say these watercolors are worth two dollars
all right so for this next art supply i know i've been going on and on about like oh this is cheap
no this is cheap but this one is probably on the territory of disturbingly cheap and not only did
i get it at like a crazy crazy good price but the packaging on this one is absolutely wild i'm just
gonna show you because i think you're gonna be just as shocked as i am by the packaging design
your eyes are not playing tricks on you these are alcohol-based markers in the
form of a fan i guess if your artwork is getting too intense and you need to cool off a little bit
the fact that this is actually kind of effective as a working fan
do you see my hair moving from the wind these are dual tipped alcohol-based markers there's 18
pieces they come in a very large variety of colors the original estimated value of these is 12
which already is insanely cheap for markers but i got these for only 6.99 and i know to a lot of
people that might not seem very cheap like seven dollars for 18 markers crayolas doing the same
thing but hear me out um usually alcohol-based markers are very expensive for example this one
singular copic marker costs the exact same price as this thing usually alcohol-based
markers they're pretty hard to mess up so i actually have pretty decent expectations for this
so i'm gonna open this up see some swatches and we'll see if my seven dollars were well spent
three
these markers are actually phenomenal and i don't think i've ever called anything in
my life phenomenal but girl these markers are it first of all there's a very nice color selection
some of the colors are a little streaky but most of the colors are perfect and while i
was testing out like the blending portion to see how well they layer on top of each other
i don't know if you can tell but the ross one is actually way better than the ohupu one
and each individual marker is only 38 cents
my god hey editing me once again i'm just popping in to say that now that i've created the artwork
i stand by what i said and if you gave me these markers and asked me how much i think
they're worth i wouldn't have said seven dollars i think these markers are worth at least 15 to 20.
i'm about to put this marker back where it belongs and listen to how loud it is
okay this brings us to the last and final item back in the day um do you remember how
you could buy those giant subway sandwiches you can still buy them today but i don't think they
come in that special packaging anymore and the item you're about to see it's literally
the exact same energy while i was at frost i found this gigantic thing of acrylic paint
it's so giant i'm having trouble maneuvering it so this is the same brand as earlier wondering why
this is the create collection and clearly it has a giant color selection so at this point you're
probably wondering how much all of these paints cost and take a second i just want you to guess
how much do you think these paint cost go ahead i'll give you a second i'll give you a second
all 40 of these paints only cost me a whopping 20
the main reason that i have very high hopes for this is because the brushes that are
pretty much badass they're the same brand so hopefully these paints are just as good you know
hey everybody
me all right so i went ahead and just finished swatching these paints
and immediately within using them just the one time 20 dollars for 40 different paints it's
just too good to be true first of all they're so unpigmented they're almost transparent
no no they're not almost transparent they are transparent some of the paints you can
literally see right through it and onto the canvas underneath
and if you did have like a high quality paint that's not something that you would normally see
the paint kind of reminds me of like regular paint mixed with 50 water and then they tubed it up into
a little thing like this hey again this is the last time i'm gonna pop in but i figured out why
the paints are so incredibly cheap most paints use pigment which is usually a little bit more
expensive these paints i don't think use a pigment they actually use dye which is usually only found
in the absolute cheapest art supplies and how i found out that it's dye and not pigment is this
if it was regular acrylic in the shower it would just flake off but it actually
dyed my skin and as if that wasn't tragic enough it also dyed my brand new brushes
i got pulled so hard by the packaging if i had to guess how much these paints are worth
i think i'm going to go ahead and agree that the 20 is actually very reasonable for these paints
okay so now this brings me to part three of the video and i'm gonna have to do this in a very
very specific way even though i really love the notebook i ultimately decided to go with
the canvas and even though it's bigger it's going to be a lot more challenging to use the canvas
because basically i'm using two art supplies marker and watercolor that are literally not
designed just for like normal canvases and even though the easiest route for all of these mediums
would be like a color block illustration you guys know me i love to make things hard on myself
so i've decided to recreate this very famous art piece that's been floating around on tiktok for
a while as you can see it has a lot of realism a lot of blending and i'm going to be creating
it with art supplies that doesn't even break down properly in water so we'll see how that turns out
give me some energy
let yourself be free be the best that you can be settled for the best
well there you guys go the main takeaway is that you can only trust ross for
cheese graters but anyway guys if you haven't subscribed with notifications please be sure
to do that because it's my livelihood and with that being said i will see you guys next video