Hello, and welcome back to Jenna Gets Creative! Today I got another SketchBox. I know I did
cancel this "for the foreseeable future" when I stopped at the end of last year. I got just
the July box. I'm not continuing on with it yet. But I heard that it was a Copic box,
and they had a deal on shipping, so I thought why not. Just the one box! The post wasn't
very kind kind to it, but let's find out what's in it! This is the July 2019 Premium SketchBox,
and they gave us several markers from 3 different brands, plus a pen and a pad of marker paper,
which is really cool. I'm going to read out the details on the card in just a sec, but
of course, the featured print is from Janice Rago. (Trying to pronouce Rago.) It says she's
Hawaiian, so that's cool. You can pause on the part where I showed it and check her out.
She's got an instagram and a whole website, so check her out. Cool print. For the supplies
that were included in this box, there are two Copic Sketch markers. They gave us lavender
and violet. And of course the card says "staff favorite." Of course it is! It's Copic! The
suggested retail price is $7.99 USD each. Of course that's extremely variable, depending
on where you buy it. I will have the converted prices down below in the description. I'll
list the USD prices on the card, but I will also have Canadian dollars and British pounds
sterling. The blurb on the card says "This month is all about illustration markers! Copic
Sketch markers are by far our most requested item. They're the gold standard in illustration
for a reason. The brush nib is soft, buttery, and lays down color with ease." I must agree.
I do love my Copics! Next they gave us three SketchBox Signature Brush Markers 2.0. You
did see, if you've watched my older SketchBox videos, the last SketchBox I got before this
one, the final one I had on my first three month Premium subscription was when they sent
out the very first 2.0 SketchBox Signature marker. That was in the shade Neutral Grey
8. At the time that was the only colour you could get in the new SketchBox Signature markers.
They're slowly starting to bring out markers. And if you watched my review of all of my
different marker brands that I had at that point at the end of last year, I'm not sure
if I put it out in December or January, but if you watched that one, when I was rating
the SketchBox Signature I said I would have rated it on parr with Spectra AD / Blick Studio,
because they really are that good, they really are second to Copic, but at that point I couldn't
rate it equal because there was only one. Well, now there's more than one! So this time
we have R2 Blush, which is a very nice soft pink. Definitely not pale enough to be a skin
tone, but as the name suggests, you could add blushies with it. Definitely good for
florals. We have R6 Coral Reef, which is a very nice coral pink. And we have YR15 Tangerine,
which is almost a neon orange. Almost a highlighter colour, not quite. Very nice, I do like it.
The card says that the retail price for these markers is $6.99 USD each. That's $1 cheaper
than the Copic Sketch. I can't really tell by the shape of the barrels if there would
be the same amount of ink in them, but knowing about Ohuhu markers now, that's not a whole
lot cheaper than Copic. So I would hope that there is at least as much ink in there, and
I would also hope that at some point if they're going to continue this line and try to actually
sell this line of products that they would start to have replacement nibs and refill
inks. Until then I still can't rate it as high as Spectra AD and Blick Studio just because
of that, but really, they are that good, and if they had a full colour range, if they were
cheaper, if you could buy them in sets in addition to individually from their site,
that would be great. I really like them. The blurb on the card says "We developed this
product last year wanting to improve the nib from our first round of brush markers. We
spent a lot of time sourcing the perfect brush nib and were really proud of the result. Compare
them to the Copic Sketch markers in your box this month. We included three brand new floral
colors: Coral Reef, Blush, and Tangerine." And the final alcohol marker they sent us,
I was really excited to see this. I've never even heard of this! I've heard of the brand,
but not this line. This is the Spectrum Noir TriBlend light green marker. First of all,
I was excited to get this because I know that there are Spectrum Noir alcohol markers coming
in the Jazza's Jazzy Art Box that I don't have yet (and I'm getting really impatient,
because I'm starting to see everybody else unboxing theirs!) This one is not a brush
marker. The thing that's unique about the TriBlend is it's actually three different
markers in one. It opens at three different points. You only have one nib per shade. They're
just bullet nibs, which is a little bit tedious, and a little bit harder to blend, but that's
okay. But the three tips are three different shades of a compatible spectrum of colour,
so the light green is shades LG1, 3 and 5. So Light Green shade 1, shade 3, and shade
5. Theoretically then you can use this "one" (in air quotes) marker to create quite a nice...
blend... gradient! Gradient's the word I'm looking for. This retails for $4.95 USD each,
and the card says that this is new. It's the first time this product has been included
in a SketchBox. "A new release from Spectrum Noir, this marker has three separate ink reservoirs
in adjacent colors for blending. We included this to add some greens to your floral palette
this month." So yeah, that's cool. I'll talk about that again when I start to talk about
the piece I am doing in this video. Finally for actual marking supplies, we have a pen.
This is the KingArt Inkline Brush Pen. It retails for $2.99 USD, and the blurb says
"This is a great brush pen. The fiber nib is resilient yet responsive. Use it to add
illustrative outlines to your at this month." So it is a nice flexible brush nib. It's a
very thin brush tip. Much thinner than say the typical sized Faber-Castell PITT brush
pens that these boxes like to include. There's at least two different brush sizes in those,
and this is smaller than both of them, so you can get really fine details easily, even
if you're not used to brush nib on a liner pen like this. I do like it. I can't remember
now if I checked whether or not this is waterproof. I believe it is supposed to be permanent,
archival, but I haven't tested that so don't quote me on it! And the paper they included.
They gave us a 4x6 inch Strathmore Marker pad. It's 12 sheets. This is exactly the same
but smaller as the Strathmore marker paper I've been using a lot lately, particularly
on my Pokemon Card art challenge series. I really love it. I happened upon it at Michaels.
It was on sale half off in the 6x9" size, which I love. That's my go-to size when I'm
buying pre-cut paper, really. But it's cool to have it in the smaller one. I have noticed
in the smaller sheet, there just seems to be a little too much glue along the glue edge,
and it kind of mucks up that one edge when you pull it out. But that's okay. Overall
it's a really good marker paper. It's very similar to X-PressIt Blending Card. It's a
heavy weight paper that is also coated so it works particularly well specifically with
alcohol inks. It retails for $3.99 USD, so that makes it about half the price of the
step up larger 6x9 pad. "Odeal for all marker types, the paper in Strathmore Marker Pads
has a silky smooth surface. Markers glide easily for seamless blending, and colors retain
their vibrancy or subtle hue. We love this paper, it's perfect for alcohol and water-based
inks. It allows blending and doesn't bleed." Really good marker paper, I do love it. By
the way, that is the brown cover, so it's Strathmore's 400 series, which is their professional
artist papers. I know they have a 500, but a lot of stores the 400 is the highest you're
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the weekend I forget and then I come back and I reply when I'm uploading the next Tuesday's
video. But I will see it, I will reply, I promise. So I was just looking at pixabay,
browsing through looking for something that inspired me, and I saw a cool picture of a
bird at sunset. Originally I thought it was a loon, and then I looked closer and realized
it had this interesting feather thing going on that kind of reminds me of a cocker spaniel's
ears. It turns out it is a Great Crested Grebe. I hope that's how you pronounce that, G-r-e-b-e,
"greeb." It looked really cool. I decided to use the TriBlend marker for the background.
I wanted to test out using this to make a gradient. I found that the Spectrum Noir TriBlend
marker went down really easy. Quite quickly, surprisingly, for the bullet nibs. Every time
I went back over spots though to try and create a seamless blend, I would end up getting parts
that very clearly had more ink than others. On the final piece I do have a 2.5, 3 inch
tall spot on the far left that looks like when you're doing a galaxy effect watercolour
piece and you use too much water and paper warps a bit, you end up with a bit of a puddle,
and when it dries you've got that coffee cup ring happening, that happened with this marker.
I think that's just because I used too much ink all at once, really trying to get a smooth
blend. Looking at it now afterwards, now that it's completely dried and had a couple days
to sit, it's more obvious than when I did it. I don't know if I'm going to use this
piece for anything, like on my online portfolio at all, but if I do I'll probably cheat a
little bit. Smooth that out in photoshop when I scan it. But I do love the shades. There
is definitely a shade progression from top to bottom when I'm done with the gradient.
As I was doing it though, I didn't really see a whole lot of shade difference between
the 3 and the 5. While they were wet, I didn't see a huge difference. Now that I'm looking
at it dry and a week later, it's... yeah, there's a significant difference in shades.
I did successfully create a nice gradient. So yeah, very cool tool. I'd love to see this
done again, but with either a chisel or a brush nib, because that bullet nib is slow
going. It's really small! And of course the SketchBox Signature and the Copic markers
do play very nicely together. Those are what I used on the bird itself, and I did a lot
of blending with them. I used the SketchBox markers for the body of the bird, and then
I used the purples, the Copics, where the bird would be darker, significantly darker.
On the beak, on the crest, the head crest, the edges of the "cocker spaniel ear thingies,"
and on the wings. I used Blush where the actual bird is white. I used Tangerine in that transition
shade on the fancy headdress plumage, and I used Coral on the eye, because the eye is
qutite bright. Kind of in the red range on the real bird. Overall I like it. I used the
pen at the very end and went for very illustrative, varying line weight outline on it. And I feel
like I'm rambling. But yeah, I like it. Anyway guys, thanks for watching! I will see you
on Thursday with this month's ScrawlrBox.