the 1990s were some of the best time for art it had some of the best movies massive credentials
certainly music in fashion welcome to my new art decade series where i am going to be going down
the rabbit hole of different art trends throughout the decades and to start this off i thought we
would start off with my personal favorite decade the decade that i spent most of my childhood in
the 1990s for all the trends that you're about to see they were in other decades but i would say
for all these trends they hit their peak in the 1990s and for a lot of these trends if you were
alive during the 1990s through the like 2000s you definitely probably have done some of these things
and if you were not around for the 90s buckle up because you're about to see what we did before
the internet was famous i have everything ready so without further ado let's go ahead and just jump
into it so for this very first art trend i thought we would start off with a bang this very first r
trend out of all the trends that you're gonna see today this one by far i think is the most
popular in fact this trend was so popular that i can guarantee that if you were alive between the
late 80s all the way up until the late 90s there's a high chance that you not only partook in this
trend but you also own an item resulting from this trend and this of course is the trend of tie-dye
and before anybody says it i know that tie-dye is still very popular today and i know that it's been
around since like the 1960s but if you were alive during the 90s you know just how popular tie-dye
truly was i mean it was all over tv movies music videos it was everywhere literally everybody had
tai dye and surprisingly as a child of the 90s i actually never have done tie-dye in my life
so yeah i feel like i can't be a child of the 90s and not have done tie-dye at least once in my life
so let's try it out okay so i went ahead i got my surface prepared i got everything opened and
unboxed and i'm reading through the instructions right now and supposedly it's literally only like
three steps to do this entire process and i'm not gonna lie i'm a little suspicious of that because
i don't know if it's just like the internet or the fact that i've done so many like art hacks
that are supposed to be super easy and then turned out to be a complete flop here we go
oh that's just my paranoia but i don't know supposedly it's only three steps
alright so the first thing that i'm going to do is prepare the water
now that all of the little tubies are filled the next step is by far what i would consider
the most crucial part of this entire process and i think this part is probably the most
artistic element as well and this of course is creating the design of your t-shirt now i
am boring and i just went ahead and i got like just a plain white
t-shirt so all you're gonna do is swirl it up the next step is to i guess just like tie it together
into eight different sections with rubber bands god this is like way harder than i thought
i told you it wasn't gonna be super easy i'm telling you i knew it was gonna be more difficult
okay here it is now apparently all you have to do is literally just pour this on
so
okay so it is not the next day i am actually so excited for this tie-dye to like
work that i stayed up all night and i literally could not wait anymore it's been over 13 hours
since i did this process and just for good measure i went ahead and did not just one but
two different tie-dye shirts with two different kits i have not seen them i just like grabbed
them like this so i know obviously the colors i just haven't seen what they look like full open
and i cannot go to bed until i see these now if you guys remember i tried to go for this
specific design right here the classic 1990s design so here's what this one looks like
oh my god it worked oh my god oh my god i'm so hyped right now it worked dude this looks
literally just like it oh my gosh even down to like the colors and how i mixed them oh my gosh
this looks amazing i can definitely see why everybody and their mom did it back in the
90s i was very skeptical that it wasn't gonna work out but this is legitimately one of the
best things i've ever created on my channel so if i had to rate it i would give it a 10 million
gazillion out of 10. alright so now for the next 1990s this trend just like the other one it did
exist beforehand but it was most popular in the late 90s early 2000s this one for sure i have done
many many many times and to be quite honest with you i still don't understand the point of this
trend but it was so big and this of course is the one the only velvet posters so if you don't
know what a velvet poster is it's literally exactly what it sounds like it's literally a
piece of paper with velvet that is in the shape of different things and basically all you would
do is get the markers that are included and just like color the poster it's very straightforward
now there are two specific things that i remember about making velvet posters the first one is that
the markers were god-awful markers would run out really quickly and the velvet would come off and
like somehow get lodged into the marker and then like the felt would absorb the ink and then the
marker wouldn't work it was so frustrating so i'm 29 now i would say that it's been probably about
22 years since i've done a velvet poster so let's go ahead and open this bad boy up and we'll see
if they've improved over the past 22 years so it's literally exactly how i remember and i thought we
would do a little experiment okay where i would do one velvet drawing poster with the
crappy markers that are included and then one with professional grade art supplies you know what i'm
saying like maybe that'll elevate the experience of using a velvet poster maybe probably not though
do
okay so i just got done and as i was coloring i realized that i definitely came off as a hater of
velvet posters and when i was coloring in the one with the standard markers i still didn't
get it i still didn't understand what the appeal was i kept thinking to myself were we all just
that bored in the 90s probably but whenever i started working with the second one with the
alcohol-based markers let me tell you i get the appeal using the professional markers it was so
satisfying to make this velvet drawing because the ink was almost like pulling in between the velvet
and so it was basically like absorbing and then like coloring itself and like filling into all the
little nooks and crannies it was so satisfying like if tick tock was around back in the 1990s
velvet drawing would have been like a satisfying video and just all around i think what made me get
those bad ideas of velvet drawing wasn't the actual velvet itself but it was actually the
markers they were the true culprit of what made velvet drawing so frustrating and so yeah using
the nice markers it made it very tolerable very satisfying and if i had to rank velvet
drawing i'm gonna give it a six out of ten all right so for this next 1990s art trend this one
is definitely more on like the obscure side of things this trend definitely leaned more towards
like the younger crowd of the 1990s including myself and unfortunately for this trend it took
a quick nose dive downwards in fact the trend that you're about to see it was so hard to find like a
kit for this specific thing that i actually had to go online and this of course is sand art now
if you were not a product of like the 1990s and you have no idea what sand art is it's literally
exactly what it sounds like it's literally like a plastic jar and it has a bunch of different
packets of sand and then you just like layer the sand we didn't have a lot going on in the 90s
and yeah i remember vividly that this was a huge art trend and i thought today we would try it out
so here's all the stuff that it comes with so literally this is the most easiest craft and
i think that's why it was so popular back in the day because literally everybody can do it
all you do is you get your little sand baggie thingy just pour it in and then wait for the
sand to fall in that's literally it and it also comes with like a little tool so you can
like spread it around and do a little bit of like mixing within you know get really creative with it
so
okay so i just got done with my sand art and it wasn't as messy as i thought it was gonna
be each one of these only took eight to ten minutes to complete obviously this kit that
i got is like made for younger people but like if you really wanted to get into sand
art there's some really complex designs that you can do out there and i'm not gonna lie if i had
a kid i don't know if i would necessarily trust them holding up a colored bag of sand
and the entertainment aspect it was like super quick to do this so i feel like you know it
wouldn't keep them distracted very long so yeah i think this was just a fun little activity i would
rate it a five out of ten and this brings us to the final 1990s art trend what you're about to see
isn't necessarily one specific art trend it's more or less like a hodgepodge of a bunch of different
trends from the 90s somehow mashed into one when i saw this kit on ebay i knew that it was so strange
i knew that it was so nice that it absolutely had to be mine and i absolutely have to try it
out i don't even know if you're ready for this i don't know if i'm ready for this but this is
an authentic 1990 roseart sparkling gel candle factory so basically what this is is it's
literally i'm not actually too sure what it is to be honest with you i think it's supposed to just
be like a candle making kit but i don't understand what the gel part is like i have so many questions
first of all what is the gel made of wax isn't normally transparent right second of all it
mentions sparkles and glitter and i don't know if it's necessarily safe to be putting in sparkles
and then breathing in the fumes of burning plastic here's all the stuff that it comes
with i'm not gonna lie we had a glass jar casualty but everything else is still in perfect unopened
condition which is really great so let's open this weird jelly thing up and let's see
oh wow this looks just like jello i'm surprised with how vibrant this color is like look at me
and then look at the color of this the intensity doesn't smell like anything which is weird i
thought they were supposed to have smells well it is over 20 years old so maybe that's why it
doesn't have a smell anymore so yeah i got the yellow got the hot pink and there's also a v
oh god this is so v it's almost like so vibrant that it's almost like glowing
they look almost like edited or something you know that's how bright they are that's
kind of concerning oh it's sticky oh this does not feel right
the next step is to get this vial stuff and cut it up into little pieces
look at this this is vile oh god it like sticks to my hand i'm supposed to be breathing in the
fumes of whatever this is okay now for the pink so now for the purple oh i can smell it now that
i cut into it i can smell it oh my god this smells like lavender it kind of smells like epsom salt
too this smells delicious on second thought i definitely will be inhaling the fumes of this
so here's my completed guy not gonna lie besides the glitter
it literally looks exactly just like the packaging i think i did this literally perfect
so now i'm gonna trim the wick because it's way too big which by the way that was not
on the instructions to cut the wick and if you know anything about candles you know it's very
important to trim the wick because this is what lets off the most soot and gets in your lungs
it's melting the wax super quickly oh this looks pretty cool it's definitely not melting
very evenly the wick is basically just burning straight through and it's like melting everything
in between because normally candles like melt evenly but this one's just like like the wick
is almost done for oh and he's done for this thing is smoking like crazy and i swear to god my smoke
detectors better not go off because it's like two in the damn morning right now okay so that was
interesting it lasted maybe about three minutes of actual flame and i'm not gonna lie this is
one of the weirdest projects that i've ever done on my channel okay the 90s were a weird time but
the product itself looked really cool and it was very easy something this flammable would never
fly nowadays two out of ten well there you go those were art trends of the 1990s i have a video
similar to this where i tried out art supplies from the 1990s you can watch that here let me
know what decade you would like to see next and let me know what trends within the decade that you
would like me to see and with that being said guys happy drawing and i'll see you guys next video bye