Hey everyone!
I am back with a new video and this is going to be an art challenge using cheap art supplies.
This was inspired by Baylee Jae’s Crayola Challenge, as well as Jason Rudolph Peña’s
video where he used school supplies to draw a portrait. And both videos are linked in the
down bar so go check them out if you haven’t yet.
So let’s get started!
I really wanted to do another challenge because I have quite a few art materials that I don’t
use as regularly compared to my Copic markers, and I wanted to put them into good use.
So for this one, I am using a black ballpoint pen which is by the brand Faber-Castell. And I
actually got this from the Philippines because unfortunately I haven’t found it here in
Melbourne. It’s not like I’ve looked everywhere, but I haven’t seen them at Officeworks which
is the office and school supply store. So I figured that if they don’t have it, then
I wouldn’t be able to find it here. So every time we visit the Philippines I actually buy
a bulk of these because I love this pen. It’s kind of like a fineliner because it writes
in 0.5mm and it writes pretty smoothly. Anyway, in case you’re wondering, the name
of the pen is Faber-Castell Ball Pen 1419 and it does write in black even though the
barrel and cap colour is purple. With this challenge, I am also using a 24
pack of Crayola Crayons to use for the colouring. I have actually used this before to create
an artwork but I never finished it because I just lost the motivation for it. Anyway
I colour in the same way that I do with pencils, where I press lightly on the first few layers
when laying down all the shades, both light and dark. And then when I’m laying down
the final colour, I press really hard to I guess flattens the other colours so that it
creates a smoother blend. Sometimes, I end up making a mistake with
the colours where it looks really clumpy, so I just use my nails to scrape the colour
and that pretty much fixes it. Actually this could also be a technique with crayons. I
learnt it from my cousin when I was really young.
Pretty much, what you do is you lay down all your colours
and press super hard, and then use some kind of scrape like a ruler, and you basically
scrape the crayons off the page. It leaves this really shiny and smooth surface, which
looks pretty good in my opinion. I didn’t do it for this one though because the technique is
super messy since you're scraping all those like flakes, I suppose.
However, if you’re willing to try the technique, definitely go ahead!
Anyway, this challenge was pretty fun to do since it seemed kind of relaxing to colour
with the crayons. I didn’t have to press so hard to blend the colours together compared
to the 12 Coloured pencil challenge I did
where my hands started hurting halfway as I was colouring the drawing,
For this one, my hand was totally fine
and coming up with the subject matter to draw was alright.
And because of that I actually chose to draw a half body
just to challenge myself with this one
since I am not used to drawing faces
this small with crayons. Usually, whenever I colour with them, it has to be a pretty
big drawing or just a portrait since crayons are not exactly as fine as coloured pencils.
Or their tip isn't as sharp, so
the details are hard to achieve, but overall I’m really happy with the outcome of this drawing
No complaints here. It was a fun challenge and I’d definitely do it again when I get the chance to
And yeah! So, I’ll leave it here. I hope you
enjoyed the video and if you did please give this video a thumbs up. Also comment down
below any challenges you want to see since I kind of want to do more of this.
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