hi today I'm going to be testing out art supplies from the highly controversial shopping site Teemu
Teemu is kind of like if shein Amazon and wish all had a baby at once every single inch of that
website is designed for you to spend as much as you possibly can while selling items at the
cheapest possible price because the items are so cheap people are doing massive hauls where every
single week they're buying literally hundreds of dollars worth in items and inevitably when
those items go out of fashion or they just break down they all get thrown out to the
dumpster where they probably won't decompose and the cycle of buying starts all over again
but there's another side to that because there's a lot of people out there who can
only afford fashion and brand new clothes at fast fashion prices and unfortunately that's
the only way that they're able to fit into society buy themselves new clothes and experience things
that they otherwise wouldn't be able to experience for myself I have personally chosen not to shop at
fast fashion websites I'm only doing it one time for this video and my second Channel video where
I talked about non-art Supply Teemu items but I think what it all comes down to is just trying
to be more intentional with what we buy check out the reviews do your research it's better for the
environment and of course you don't have to waste your hard-earned cash I encourage everybody who's
watching to maybe watch a couple of video essays on it and now that you're all caught up on the
controversies let's get into teemu's incredibly cheap art supplies as always we're going to start
this off with a bang because this very first item is very intriguing to me this is a beautiful set
of watercolor paint that as you can see has really beautiful like earthy tone skin tones
they look like they're a very well thought out color palette and just to give you an idea of
how much it would normally cost if you were to buy the 12 piece coat men watercolor set it would
run you about 25 bucks but Teemu is selling this 12 piece watercolor for only 6.48 okay first one
okay so here is what they look like and my very first impression is that I'm not gonna
lie they look a little wonky but the actual colors inside of it are just absolutely so
beautiful I love the brown colors the deep blue terracotta colors and it's something
I didn't realize with the palette is that they come out which is cool because you can refill
them you can customize them if you want to take some on the go you can do that you can put them
in your own palette now let me test out some swatches [Music] do you hear how loud that is
that's kind of frustrating the colors are really nice they're breaking down very evenly there's
no weird fillers or powders with them and I'll show you right now what a comparison of like
really nice watercolors look like compared to these as you can see the Teemu ones are a lot
less saturated but my very first impression is that these are not bad at all I mean besides the
annoying these are definitely well worth the price nine out of ten next up we have an art
supply that is one of my personal favorites of all time and that of course is charcoal pencil this
one really caught my eye because it comes with both black and white charcoal and I love like the
black and white design packaging of it I think it looks really cool and the price of this is
shocking okay when I saw this my mouth dropped the charcoal brand that I use generals charcoal their
12 piece set will cost you almost 16 bucks but Teemu is offering it for only four dollars which
is insane apparently they don't come sharpened so I'm gonna have to sharpen them really quick
hold on a second these are not charcoal pencils they're colored pencils which
is a total red flag because on the listing it clearly says charcoal pencils but it's colored
pencils which signals to me they don't even know what they're selling red flag [Music]
there's literally no pigment to it like it's not even showing up on the
paper like are you serious right now maybe if I press really hard
okay that's better that's certainly better but let me show you what it's like compared to a two
dollar Prisma color Premiere pencil like do you see the difference like how starkly white the
prismacolor is compared to these teemu ones it's night and day prismacolor is clearly still that
girl she's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment there's still a black shade
so let me see if maybe this one's a little bit better I don't know how else to explain it and
I've never seen a pencil do this before but this pencil is like crumbly how strange is that I've
never seen that with a colored pencil before and here's the prismacolor premiere already again you
can see there's a vast difference between the pigmentation in fact this Teemu one is so much
lighter than the prismacolor it's almost giving like a dark gray color uh yeah this formulation
this pigmentation is just not not it two out of ten all right this next item is actually not an
item at all it's my merchandise I'm having a 25 percent off sale I sell art prints stickers and of course
the iconic dirty paint water mug so if you want to check it out and help out the channel go to
shopradeizzle.com and use code YT shopping 25 for 25 percent off next up we have an item that I feel
is very hard to make both cheap and good quality but of course Teemu has thrown that whole entire
philosophy away this is a one-piece watercolor paper pad that's 24 sheets it's again almost a
perfect five star normally a Sketchbook would cost you around 12 to 15 bucks and they're selling this
watercolor paper at the cheapest price I have ever seen 4.98 for an entire book so here it is
it's a little smaller than I would prefer but it's not bad in size the paper itself is very
floppy which is kind of annoying because on the actual advertisement it showed how thick it was
and just to give you an idea here's what I'm used to as you can see the paper is much thicker to be
honest with you it kind of feels like printer paper except with like a different treatment to
make it mimic watercolor paper if that makes sense I don't know let me try it out anyway
oh yeah you can tell from this one single layer of paint that it's already warping the paper so
I feel like you've got to be really careful to use this paper or it's just gonna completely
disintegrate oh God the warping is getting worse as I'm talking oh my God okay let's
just end this segment two out of ten all right next up we have an item that I feel like is the
internet's current favorite Art Supply right now it's very trendy these are acrylic paint
markers they come in two different sizes at fine point in a regular point they look like
they can draw on a variety of different surfaces which is something you want with paint markers
and normally if you were to buy the posca version of these it would cost you about
22 bucks but Teemu is offering this item for only five dollars and eight cents [Music]
these are working so well oh my God why are these working so well I'm surprised with how
smooth these are how pigmented these are this is like smoother than a pen what is this and
whenever I compare these cheap Teemu ones to a neighbor and pasca pen it appears that the
Teemu one is a little bit more pigmented and a little bit smoother and a little bit nicer
than the name brand pasca pens and unfortunately the posca pens are dripping all over the place
so I'm gonna put those away these are one of those rare times where it seems that the cheaper version
is a little bit easier to work with than the name brand 1000 out of ten next up we have an
item which is definitely the weirdest one of the group and technically it's not made for artwork
it's made for makeup but I'm gonna use it for artwork this is a brush drying rack so anytime
you clean your paint brushes you have a place for them to perfectly dry and I'm pretty sure
you can get this exact item on Amazon for ten dollars but Teemu is offering it for only 3.98
oh this thing is janky I don't know what else I would be expecting for the price
but yeah this thing is like two seconds away from breaking in on itself but that's
okay whatever let's try it out and see you know if it does what it needs to do
okay tada
oh my God okay yeah no this thing is jank I feel like the idea is there but to use this for every
single time I paint and then have to mess with it and then make sure they're not falling all over
the place and then make sure the structure itself doesn't fall down it's just not it and it seems
like it would get really dirty really easily because of like the paper cardboard packaging
outer layer this little guy is just not it four out of ten and this brings us to the last item
as always I saved the most expensive and the best for last and even though this one has a very high
price range it's still incredibly cheap for what it is when I saw this I could not believe my eyes
this is a 168 piece dual tip alcohol-based Marker set and this thing is an absolute unit you can get
the oh who Who version of this one for 112 bucks but since I'm buying it from temu I'm gonna get
a massive discount and for 168 markers it's only going to cost me 51 which is literally disturbing
how cheap that is and here they are the grand finale oh this is a thick boy it's very heavy
as you can see there are literally every type of color under the sun
and there's even a colorless blender included which is really nice and really important
and to my surprise they blend like an absolute dream I would say that it's very similar to
ohuhu and this item just truly blows my mind because I've been in the art game for quite
a while now and let me tell you just like maybe six years ago if you wanted to buy
markers you had very limited choices all were expensive only serious illustrators really use
alcohol-based markers and so to go from that to like seeing this giant massive good quality for
only 50 bucks is mind-blowing obviously this is not going to be as fancy as other brands
but I would say it's definitely comparable and especially for the price these are a perfect
10 out of 10. I feel like the artwork is going to be a little tough to make because everything
was kind of like 50 50 you know so it's gonna be like half good art supplies versus half not
so with all of these cheap Teemu supplies let me see if I can make some magic happen [Music]
hi there so lightning struck my house yesterday I wish I was lying but it was actually terrifying
and the lightning was so strong that it actually went through the surge protectors and literally
caught things on fire blew things up and broke about a third of all the electronics in my house
including my filming and editing equipment except for this one single Lone Wolf shout out to you
you're the greatest of all time everything's okay everything's fine you know things can get
replaced people can't but I am so happy with how the artwork came out here it is [Music]
my final thoughts on Teemu is buyer beware I feel like you have to be very careful and read the
reviews thoroughly to not waste your money I'm personally not a fan of the art supplies I did
my best if you're an artist who wants some money saving tips I have an entire playlist dedicated
to broke artist tips I will leave it in the description box down below thank you so much again
for watching I hope you have the most wonderful day and I will see you guys next video bye