hey guys what's up it is itchy nose
welcome back to my channel now these my
friends don't even need an introduction
we all know
these are copic markers these are an
alcohol-based
professional artist grade marker
and these things are absolutely
incredible the blendability of these
babies
is just out of this world and in general
that's a trait with alcohol markers is
that you can just blend them and blend
them and blend them like nobody's
business
and you know for as great as they are i
mean the price
just doesn't match the price of these
six markers alone for example
was fifty four dollars which when you
break it down is about
nine dollars almost per marker now on
the flip side
we have crayola
literally i feel everybody who is
watching this has
worked with or played around with or
draw with or literally
anything with these markers crayola is a
water-based marker i got ten of them for
two dollars and eighty cents at my local
walmart
which when you break that down comes
down to 28 cents per marker which is
i mean just night and day with the
prices of these two you know now i don't
know if it's because
alcohol takes longer to dry i don't know
if it breaks down differently
in with pigments but alcohol just does
something different when it comes to
markers you know
what if we could convert these crayola
ordinary
everyday water-based markers into
alcohol based markers like copics
and credit where credit is due my good
friend jackie aka nerdy crafter here on
youtube
about a year ago she did a video very
similar to this where she had gotten
diy make your own marker by crayola kit
and she had replaced the water portion
with
alcohol and got some pretty interesting
results so i will link her video down
below since it was the inspiration to
this video
and yeah i truly believe that if this
works guys it'll be a game changer
because it'll save so much money
it'll revive so many markers that could
have just been tossed out
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we got some good ones coming up that i'm
really excited for and yeah with that
being said let's get this art experiment
started shall we
so the very first place that we are
going to go to get this art experiment
started
is walmart to pick up the essentials
first thing i'm going to get is three
different crayola 10 count markers and
the reason i'm getting three is because
i'm gonna try to do this experiment in a
few different ways
i'm also gonna get the fine tipped
markers because you never know they
might work better for this experiment
and the last thing you'll get that's
probably the most important
is the rubbing alcohol now at my local
walmart this is all they had
and i do want to say there is kind of a
disclaimer during my research i was
watching a bailey j
video and i stumbled across this comment
that basically says that the ink that
copic uses
is drastically different than everyday
cheap synthetic rubbing alcohol and to
not
put rubbing alcohol in your copics
because
it might break down your pigment so
class if you are gonna do this i highly
recommend using cheap markers or markers
that you don't really care about
all right so the very first way that i'm
gonna try to accomplish this is
something
i'm calling the pouring method i know i
sound so franchie
so basically with a pair of pliers or
pretty much anything that has a good
grip on it
i am carefully carefully taking out the
bullet nib or whatever nib crayola has
and i'm gonna have just basically an
empty little tube left over
as so and bro you gotta be careful when
you do this because
it is so easy to accidentally rip off
one of your markers and just completely
waste it entirely
so be very very careful when you do this
and that's all the prep work
for step one you'll basically end up
with a bunch of barrels like that
now on to the second method which is the
official name of
the drip drop method again self name i'm
very proud of it
uh for this one it's very simple all i'm
gonna do is
literally just let all of these markers
dry out
and that includes some of my sweet tiny
babies
the fine tipped markers just let them
all dry out
and now to just let these dry overnight
isn't that right bowie my lab assistant
tomorrow
so this is where the alcohol comes into
play so with an eyedropper that i had
lying around the house i'm gonna fill
that bad boy up with my alcohol and
completely make a mess all over my desk
you know this wouldn't be a super
radizzle video without a mess
and from there i'm going to fill each
and every
barrel slash chamber full of rubbing
alcohol
and you know i just kind of eyeballed it
i didn't want to put too little or put
too much
alcohol in it but when i put the what i
felt was the right amount i then
replaced and put back the sponge nib
back into the chamber now onto
the drip drop method which is a lot
slower it's very time consuming but it's
a lot more cleaner
so what i'm gonna do is i am going to
drip
one by one every bit of alcohol into the
dried sponge
to basically mix with the dried ink
inside
and revitalize my marker with rubbing
alcohol
and if you are ever considering doing
this project less
is not more like add as much alcohol as
you can because you'll be surprised with
how much
alcohol can be absorbed into the little
sponges
the time is now so i went ahead and
bought some copics that are kind of
similar to the same color scheme
as uh the crayola markers and the two
colors i'm gonna be swatching
are green and blue because they are next
to each other on the color wheel
and that's basically what you want
because they'll fade into each other
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oh yeah that's what i love i love love
love copics because like you can just
get such a beautiful
transition from like one color to the
other i'm gonna let my dog out because
she is acting a full today
so yeah all right boy let's go outside
not well not outside let's go find zach
let's go sit somewhere okay because
you're acting a pool today
next up will be regular crayolas that i
have done absolutely
nothing to these are straight out of the
store
all right so the first one that i'm
going to try out will be the dripped
crayolas okay here we go let's see if
this works
whoa that is so crazy honestly i was
expecting this one to work the least
but i mean that transition cannot be
ignored and it kind of makes me wonder
if maybe if i just dripped a little bit
more
alcohol i wonder if i would have gotten
like a smooth
transition that was opaque all right so
next up will be the manually filled ones
oh oh oh my god oh my god
this one is like way filled up okay i
gotta work real oh
what dude the ink is like really coming
out for this one
oh my god gotta work fast gotta work
fast me
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okay let me just breathe i need a
breather i am genuinely shocked right
now because this gradient
is so dark it's so opaque it's so smooth
it's literally a perfect transition
oh my god that is nuts i'm genuinely so
shocked right now that i'm going to
compare it to
some cheap oh huhu markers
so yeah the oh who is clearly the winner
as far as like
the marker goes but i mean i am still
currently in disbelief of how well that
gradient
is and this brings us to the next one
which will be the dripped
fine point
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yeah this one's not gonna work at all
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yep nope nope nope nope nope
whole lot of nope
now onto in my opinion what is the most
important test and that's the drawing
test
now i want to explain the weird
background in the weird lighting in this
segment
i had filmed one in my studio of me
drawing with these markers
but i came to my mom's house to visit
for a few days and i lost
all the footage i don't know where it's
at so i'm improving here at my mom's
house and thank god i bring my camera
because that's what's making it possible
but yeah i honestly am truly enjoying
these markers i am
genuinely surprised with how well they
work when it comes to drawing
and the paper that i'm using this isn't
even like good
drawing paper this is like some random i
want to say poster board
from my mom's back room
okay so here is the final alcohol
crayola
now at one point you do see some warping
right here and that is 100 my fault
because at one point i got too
crazy with the marker and pressed really
hard and all kinds of alcohol came out
of the marker
so yeah that part is my error i am so
impressed with how well this blended how
smooth everything was how easy i was
to be able to build up color especially
when you put it right next to copic
drawing
pretty crazy how well it works and it
gets even crazier
when you consider this is the untouched
straight out of the store nothing done
to it crayola
and by the way these two images what
you're seeing here
these are the ones i did at my studio
the day before
and these ones came out even better with
the right
equipment and i truly truly truly
consider this a win and if you are gonna
do this i recommend
the pouring method because it works so
much better
but it is a little bit more risky
because you could potentially tear off
the nib
but with that being said i can't believe
i am saying this i
truly truly do consider this a winning
success
and truly if you have some dried out
alcohol markers laying around
why not try it you know anyway guys
thank you so much again for watching and
turning in for this art experiment if
there's an art experiment you want me to
do
next let me know and i will try it and
yeah i will link some more videos down
below as well as my merchandise
and uh yeah with that being said i will
uh see you guys next video
bye