hey guys it's right here welcome back and happy new year so i just want to start off
by saying this video was not supposed to happen literally whatsoever the dramatic and borderline
unbelievable backstory is this week i was gonna do a video on an art supply mystery box from ebay
i got the introduction started i had gotten the thumbnail ready i got my fancy b-roll shots and
finally wednesday night it came the time for me to unbox said ebay box and this is what happened but
like you guys saw it was wrapped up like a present so i'm sure the four art supplies are inside the
what box flip is this so needless to say that the seller sent the wrong item
and if it was literally any other week this year i would have just been like
i'll just skip this week and work on a video for next friday but i can't upload next week
because i'm moving and i don't want to just disappear from the internet for
half a month so i put my last two brain cells to use and today i'm putting together what is
probably one of the most chaotic videos i have ever made a 300 art supply haul
but on a real note i've decided to start buying in bulk and an extra that way i can try to stay
home as much as humanly possible and luckily i work from home so if that's just something that i
can do to like reduce going out and putting people at risk hey i'm cool with that you know everything
that i got i would say is mostly pretty affordable the most expensive thing that i got was a
guillotine coming in at 26.84 i wish i was kidding but yeah pretty much everything else except for
like maybe two things is ten dollars in under so yeah let's go ahead and start off with walmart
now walmart has really stepped up their art supply game like i was genuinely surprised with it
starting off with these three piece art brushes these royal and langnickel brushes are
so bomb i've used them in so many different videos and plus at least in my area it's kind
of hard to find like large flat brushes in a pack like this usually they come in a pack
like this and you have to spend like a lot of extra money so yeah i bought two of them
these are what's it now if you've been watching my channel for a long time you know that
no if you've been watching my channel for a long time you know that i use
these palettes all the time for like swatches and videos and things like that
but this year i decided to invest in a better palette a more permanent palette
a bigger palette and a palette that i can wash out and use over and over and over again
oh girl we're only on the second thing and i already need a water break
now for this next item i literally only bought it because tiktok convinced me
that i need it prepare yourselves my friend because this pen is supposed to
be like god tear this my friends is sharpie's brand new s-gel metal pen
this pen apparently glides across the paper like i saw somebody say like kristy yamaguchi
apparently it has really good quality ink so everything is like bold and black smooth
lettering dude this pen is amazing i can't stop sliding it around because it just slides so easily
so yeah i really want to make a tiktok on this try it out i don't know
but i will keep you guys updated on this pen now if you guys don't know
walmart is one of the cheapest places where you can buy bulk canvas and so for a future video
where i'm going to try out paint pouring i got six of these nine by 12 canvases
if you're painting on a budget and you like canvas panel i recommend these these are so cheap and so
good okay so do you remember when earlier when i said that walmart is really stepping up their
art supply section now walmart has really stepped up their art supply game i didn't
know this but apparently walmart has recently started selling the jelly roll white fineliners
and when i found this three pack that included three different sizes my brain exploded
these are so great for your pen drawings watercolor drawings marker drawings these pens
work so incredible for highlighting if you're looking for a budget friendly white highlight
gel pen i highly recommend the jelly rolls i've used these for pretty much years at this point
and even better anything that you can't put this jelly roll on walmart recently started
selling an oil-based paint marker and these are an absolute staple for anybody who does
oil painting like for example instead of plopping on a giant blob of white
oil paint for like the highlight of your eyeball you can just use this bad boy and it'll dry within
a few minutes and not just that but it's more precise because it's in the form of a pen
and that alone is a godsend for someone like me who's like incredibly shaky
so i have been needing one of these for the dawn of time at this point
in fact i would argue that most artists should maybe try one
of these out at least once in their lifetime this is an artist mannequin
you can move it in any way that you want you can get any pose that you want
especially if you need something for your oc's you're studying the human figure you
need a unique reference pose this bad boy got you covered and between you and me the aesthetics so
amazing nothing screams art hoe aesthetic more than this guy and the last two things that i got
from walmart are just like refills of things that i'm always using as an artist on youtube
10-piece tortillons and an eraser set need i say more so yeah my total at walmart was 100
i forgot the guillotine by far the most expensive thing that i got coming in at 26
is a paper cutter aka a paper guillotine
like i said i have the world's shakiest hand and even when i cut stuff with scissors it still comes
out all wonky well this is the solution now i never have to worry about wonky paper ever again
and plus the asmr of it cutting paper is just so satisfying so yeah my total at walmart was 107.53
all right so the next store that i have gone to i try to only go there when i'm
desperate so if you don't know i live actually in the middle of nowhere in a really small town
and the only craft store in my area is hobby lobby now i'm just gonna say it i've been trying
to distance myself as much as i can throughout this whole entire year and away from their brand
during the start of the virus they did a lot of sketchy stuff that i don't really agree with and
obviously it's kind of hard because sometimes i'm filming videos and i need something like
right then and there so i'll just like go to hobby lobby or whatever but i've been trying to distance
so yeah at hobby lobby i picked up mostly just like the absolute essentials that i need
starting with this 18 piece brush set now i was actually mildly impressed
because pretty much every type of brush that i use it's located within this pack
like sometimes i get brush packs and i only use like half the brushes or whatever but no this
one has literally every single type of brush that i use it's nothing too fancy but it'll
definitely get the job done over the next four to six months the next thing that i picked up
is an absolute staple in my art supply collection if you're an artist and you've never used one of
these let me tell you it's a game changer these my friends are faber castell's eraser pencils
and they are exactly what it sounds like it's an eraser that you can sharpen been
to a very fine point just like a pencil when it comes to fine details
getting individual hairs eyelashes off this thing is so good and it's so incredibly useful
i also picked up some charcoal pencils in medium hardness
this was actually the first time that i've seen the medium pencils by themselves
usually it comes with like a pack of like soft hard medium
and to be quite honest with you i only end up using the medium because that's like my preferred
charcoal hardness and at this point i have a large collection of soft and hard charcoal pencils
that i don't really get to use that much because i focus so much on the medium pencils i also picked
up some microns in the smallest sizes possible i don't know if any of you other artists can
relate but it seems like whenever i get the pack of microns the smallest one is never quite small
enough like i want it so small that it's invisible and plus when you have really shaky hands like
myself i'm sure a lot of you guys know when the line is thicker you can easily see mistakes so
the smaller the line is the more you can go over it and fix a mistake and the less obvious it is
now speaking of absolute staples i picked up three sketchbooks and if you've been a long time viewer
of my channel you know that i cannot live without these sketchbooks in fact when people ask me what
my personal preference for sketchbooks are it's these two specifically my all-time favorite my og
toned gray strathmore paper how many videos have i made with this how many colored pencil
drawings have i done with this i absolutely love gray paper especially for realism you can pull
out dark shadows and pull out the whitest of whites it just gives you so much value
the second one is also by strathmore this is their visual journal mixed media paper
oh my god i literally love that so basically when you flip it around it gives you this
massive list of art supplies that you can use with this paper like for example this paper
is too thin to hold acrylic to hold watercolor to hold markers but with mixed media paper you
can literally use all of those things and more and i've only ever been able to find
the small size like do you see how small it is compared to my head maybe i just have a big head
i don't know so yeah if you're just starting artwork you're looking for a sketchbook you
don't know what kind to get i highly recommend strathmore's visual journal mixed media paper
and by the way i actually got two one is for like my everyday studio stuff when i film videos and
the other one is for a secret project and the last thing that i picked up at hobby lobby was actually
three things you guys know i absolutely love doing oil paintings but for me personally i'm just not
really a fan of canvas i'm not really a fan of how bouncy it is i'm not really a fan of the texture
so yeah every single time that i oil paint i like to use gesso board
i love painting on gesso board i love how hard it is
i love the way you can be a little bit more rough with it i love the fact that it's 100 smooth
unlike canvas it doesn't really absorb your paint if you have not tried painting on gesso board i
highly highly highly recommend it and the last thing that i got from hobby lobby was
five by seven canvas panels in a five pack and my total for hobby lobby was 136 bucks
and the last place that i went where i got by far the most items
was dollar tree so like i said i'm actually moving next week and what i haven't told you is at my new
place not only do i have one art studio i have two yes i have two here's a peek of my new studio
okay that's it that's it that's all that's all but anyway the reason why i'm bringing
that up is because at dollar tree i got so much cleaning supplies art organization sets
baskets just thanks for my art studio so i can get everything set up and nice and pristine
hi so it's currently like seven in the morning
i stayed up all night and i've decided to re-film this last part because i literally
spent the last 20 minutes of the original video talking about plastic dollar tree baskets
but anyway you might have noticed that all the art supplies that i've shown so
far they don't equal up to 300 so instead of explaining everything one by one consider this
a speed round starting off with a variety of crayola products you guys know that crayola is
the gold standard for cheap art supplies i got uniball's version of the s gel pens a buttload
of tortillons because i'm always using them and here's everything condensed down into one image
so dub this oh god the freaking light cover just like fell off and just gave me a heart attack i
need to go to bed so for the very last time say goodbye to the studio because it'll be the last
time you see it thank you guys so much again for watching and i will see you next video bye