on july 7th 2021 the head of instagram announced that it will no longer be a photo sharing app
and i want to start by saying we're no longer a photo sharing app or square footage instead
instagram is now focusing on four key areas specifically with an emphasis in shopping
and as somebody who has never shopped on instagram in my entire life today i'm gonna
let the almighty instagram shop algorithm take the rails and whatever it suggests that i buy
i'm gonna buy it hopefully it's not a disaster and i'm able to make some artwork out of it but
if not and everything turns out to be a total dumpster fire i mean i'm okay with that too
there's only one way to find out so without further ado let's find out alright so it is
currently tuesday february 15th and the reason i'm telling you this is because i want to see
just how long these items take to ship to my house ooh look at robert pattinson doesn't he
look so good right here oh my lord the first thing that i'm going to need is obviously
paper so let's go ahead and see what they suggest for art paper oh okay the first result is from
art snacks you might recognize them from art snacks and apparently they now sell art supplies
individually so i'll go ahead and add this art snack plum chester square sketchbook to my cart
the second thing that i'm going to need when it comes to art supplies is pencils i always need
a good pencil i mean like how could i do anything else without a pencil oh my god art snacks again
really they must be paying for like the top spot because girl ooh tombow usa i know about them
they're a pretty well-known brand and lastly there's also this one it's a mini mechanical
pencil for seven dollars and there's only three left that's really cute a mini pencil like just
how mini is mini so i'll go ahead and add this one to the cart because i want to find out
i have the paper i have the pencil the next thing i'm gonna need is an eraser
what is this what is this uncanny cocktail weiner erasers okay oh that is vile i'm gonna add it to
the cart all right so looking through the art supplies these milo brush tips in the suggestion
box these alcohol-based markers in this like 10 seconds of scrolling alone they showed
up three different times it has free shipping and apparently it's on sale right now from 30
down to 24.50 i've never heard of milo's art supplies before so let's go ahead and see what
the brand is all about see what their instagram looks like uh it looks like their last post was
october 27th last year so i don't know what's the situation with them i don't know if they're
an active shop but since instagram suggested them to me i'll go ahead and add them to my cart
since instagram decided that i'm going to be using alcohol-based markers this means that
i'm going to need a white ink pen looks like we got a glue pen not really in the market for that
it's suggesting eyeliner definitely not in the market for that and it looks like the only result
that i'm getting that's accurate is this brush pen by art snacks it's only 8.65 so we'll go ahead and
add this one to the cart here and lastly this one is so unnecessary and so extra but i just saw this
casually when i was scrolling through everything uh this literally has nothing to do with artwork
but i just want it really bad this is a tortilla art roll pencil holder for only seven dollars
fifty cents and this warms my little mexican heart okay like i really really like it looks like the
tortillas that my mom makes loved it adding it to cart and it looks like i'm ready to check out
and i will see you guys in the future hi so it's about two weeks later everything i think came in
i'm pretty sure everything's in so let's start off with the biggest one and see what's inside
so this first package is from art snacks now if you don't know about art snacks and who they are
and what the vibe is they're basically like a monthly subscription art box type thing i
think i ordered from them one time it was during inktober whenever they had
like that special inktober box which was very expensive but i mean i kind of vibe with it
she indeed did not vibe with it hopefully there's two things inside of this because i ordered two
things from art snacks and there's only one package but i don't know so let's find out
the answer is yes they did put two items in the box we stan an eco-friendly queen
oh i almost just had a heart attack look at the packaging do you see that white blob right there
that white blob is actually a sticker but because the ink inside of this pen is also white i thought
that it spilled out into the packaging i was about to freak out and be so sad but crisis
averted everybody we'll get back to this one in a second right off the bat this seems to be
worth the 18 like this feels like a fancy kind of sketchbook and not to mention this texture is made
out of like a faux vegan leather type deal you know isn't there a harry potter house that's like
yellow and purple hey zach can you come in here for a second i'm recording right now but isn't
there a harry potter house that's purple and yellow like this hufflepuff or something or no
well i think ravenclaw is purple i don't think they're purple and yellow oh they're just purple
okay never mind i thought this was like harry potter but apparently not
oh wow there's a lot of pages in this i was not expecting there to be this many pages
and i'm not gonna lie the pages themselves they're pretty big this is a really good size
can you imagine doing like a whole entire artwork from like this side to this side
so on a random page i'm just gonna blend two markers and we'll see if it
bleeds through the other side because that's kind of a big deal to me so let's find out
obviously it bled through the other side but it didn't soak through the next page which is kind
of nice and i kind of had a feeling it wasn't going to because this is some very thick paper
my very first impression of this is that instagram did not disappoint with this very first one
usually with these kind of videos they usually don't come off to a good start this seems that
it's surprisingly well worth the money for this first item i'm gonna approve it
top 10 favorite things of all time that i could literally do until i die
pop bubble wrap this next art snack item is called cure take zig cartoonist white
brush pen according to the instagram post it looks like it can show up on pretty much any
black paper if that's the case that sounds like something i would really vibe with
look on camera it's like perfectly white i'm gonna be completely honest here usually
with water-based inks specifically colors like this one which are really light they usually
aren't very pigmented and they're usually like transparent it's kind of hard to work with them
you know but this one is like look how much brighter it is compared to this white gel pen
what in tarnation is going on i don't think i would have been able to find this without
instagram shop and i'm obviously i'm not getting paid or anything but i mean if instagram you want
to pay me that would be fine but i don't think i would have found this otherwise
i'm going to give it the stamp of approval tenfold so for these markers i'm very hopeful
because this marker set that i ordered is pretty much the main art supply of this whole entire
gig if the notebook doesn't work out that's fine if the pencil if the pouch doesn't work
out all of that's fine but if these markers don't work out then i'm pretty much sol
this packaging is very very very minimalistic which is something you don't really see at
all when it comes to art supplies kind of looks like there would be like a deodorant
or something inside of this it just looks fun and fresh and even though i know for a
fact that this is indeed 24 markers in my mind it doesn't really look like it i wonder what
could be the reason why i think those markers look small no clue the color selection seems
pretty standard nothing really stands out and these markers are also drum roll please
brush nib which is good because brush nib seems to be in general the more preferred for a lot of
artists so i think that's cool i think that's a good choice that they pick to use the brush nib
i might have spoken a little bit too soon my very first impression is that these markers
are a lot more streakier than what i'm used to in fact while i was swatching
these markers i actually had to smell it to like double check that these actually
are alcohol based markers and i wouldn't say that every single marker is streaky because if
you look there are some good ones there's some good ones in here i don't know i think for my
first impressions i can't really say that i'm digging digging these markers very much is it
janara or ganera i feel like ganera sounds a lot more like panera as in panera bread but
anyway that's what's in the pencil case right now is the little tiny pencil that i ordered
it is so small look at this look how tiny this little pencil is i don't even
know if i'm gonna be able to hold this it's so small here's a regular size pencil right here
as you can see and this this little guy is the pencil that i ordered he is so
incredibly small once the eraser runs out i don't even know where i'd get another one and
it makes me wonder like what a weird item to be featured on the algorithm because what it means
is that so many people are buying miniature pencils that it somehow got picked up by
the algorithm enough to be promoted to be the first top slot for somebody searching pencils
that was a weird experience this pencil because it's so thin and so small it's actually kind
of difficult to have control with what you're writing i feel like at any moment because it's so
thin and fragile i can like break it in half and not only do not have any control over your
pencil but also because it has like this little notch that you like clip it to your
your thing as i was drawing with the pencil it just kind of like kept naturally rotating
and the little clip kept hitting my hand i'm sure there's a reason for this and like why
they specifically made these and if you know i would love to hear it down in the
comments down below or if you have a guess i would love to hear it i don't
know how i would rate this i would say i'm not positive not negative more indifferent
all right so for these last two items these
are the ones as you guys saw that i am most excited about
little wiener erasers love that and then this one should be the tortilla
i have never been happier than i am in this moment
i don't know if this is just like a mexican thing or what but i have eaten
a toasted tortilla with like a cooked hot dog with some mustard on there
it's so good once you put your pencils in all you do is literally just like fold it over
and that's another thing it's like my habit for a tortilla this is how i fold them this is the true
the true mexican way right here but we're gonna ignore it they work okay just like a basic eraser
they're not bad but it's not really amazing to where it completely erases everything off the page
but i think that's exactly what instagram shop is for is to find cool stuff so you can buy it
so i of course am definitely going to give these a thumbs up so now that i've tested
everything i bought everything we've got to see what everything is up close and personal i'm
gonna challenge myself to use every single thing that i bought in one single drawing
so my final advice if you are seriously considering buying something off
instagram is good luck and with that being said you guys know the drill like
subscribe turn on notifications all that good stuff i hope you guys have a good
day happy drawing and with that being said i will see you guys next video bye