roseart is the most hated art brand in existence
in fact they're so hated that even though they don't even exist anymore when i was doing research
for this video it was easier for me to find people dunking on roseart crayons than it was to find
actual information about roseart and i feel like if you are in that group that i am that was born
between the late 80s all the way up until the early 2000s we deserve financial compensation
for using roseart nobody wanted roseart crayons everybody wanted the 64-count crayola crayon set
with the sharpener on the back but i feel like as i get older i see things a lot more clearer
and it got me thinking were we all just really dramatic kids or was rosar really the bane of
our existence so i went ahead and took the initiative and i bought literally so much
vintage rose art current day crazy art and of course current day crayola and today i'm
finally gonna answer that age-old question was rose art really as bad as we thought it was
so the first rosar item that i tried out were these rose art 10 count markers and these are
from the year 2012. and the first thing that i gotta say is that the packaging looks exactly like
crayolas except for one key element and that's located right here on the top now if you were a
kid growing up literally in the past 30 years you know that the best part of having crayola markers
is being able to stack them in a sword and being able to hit your classmates with it that was the
whole appeal but the problem with these roseart ones first of all is the fact that you can't do
that because they have a notch that prevents it from happening look at this you can't snap
them together so already i'm like uh-uh no in the trash they go so to test out the markers i of
course tested them against crazy art which is like the modern day version of rose art and of course
crayola crayon but let me tell you guys that when i tested them out they pretty much worked
almost the exact same as the crayola one like if you look up close it looks pretty much just like
the crayola ones just slightly muted but what was really dramatic was whenever i compared them to
the crazy art now if you look up close to these it's a mess like an actual mess now remember these
rose art markers are literally from 2012 a decade old and i just bought these crazy art markers
literally last week from walmart and the crazy art markers if you look at the comparisons they're
pretty much all completely dried out the rose art marker quality it is slightly worse quality but
only buy like a tiny micro bit if both of them were free i would pick the crayola but if i was
on a budget or just wanted to save some money the roseart ones would get the job done fine
now the next item that i tested out from the infamous rose arts was an item that i 1000
percent had like i specifically remember having this one and as much as i loved crayons this one
was my art supply of choice back in the day and this of course is rose arts water now this one
is straight up all the way from 2009 so it is 12 years old i don't know if there's like a shortage
going on or something but i literally could not find the eight-count crayola watercolor literally
anywhere nowhere and i searched two different walmarts i searched target dollar tree online well
i didn't search that hard online but regardless i couldn't find it anywhere in my town so ultimately
i ended up just using this like really janky 16 pack that i have from like years ago
it's like missing two colors and the paintbrush and the entire case and just compared it to that
my very first impression whenever i opened up these rose art watercolor paint thingies is that i
was very impressed with this brush and the reason i was so impressed with it is because if you look
closely it's an actual real watercolor brush like this is something that i would literally use in my
paintings and if you compare that to modern day's knockoff watercolor this brush is the bane to my
existence the bristles are made out of this weird wire the paintbrush itself is completely bendable
and then it like breaks and then you have like this wonky little paintbrush even if you're like
a toddler or something like i imagine that this paint brush wouldn't do anything for anybody you
know what i'm saying now as far as like the actual swatches of the crayola rosar and crazy art go i
was quite taken back because if you look close enough and i'll insert a video now the crayola and
roseart both of the paints they like did exactly what watercolor is supposed to do which is paint
that's broken down by water these are both really really nice and the colors were both very vibrant
the paint was breaking down very nice i was very pleasantly surprised up until this point and what
actually shocked me was not from the rose art but from the crazy art this paints guys is literally
some of the worst paint that i've ever used if you look closely you can see that the paint it doesn't
even look like a swatch of watercolor it kind of looks like if i mixed food coloring with like
water and flour and like combined it all together and then like rub that concoction on a page crazy
art also left like this weird like film texture down whenever it dried down so like if i was
to close my eyes i know exactly where i painted because it has like this weird crusty feel to it
and another weird thing that i found is that the paint didn't get broken down by water it kind of
like kept its form if that makes sense like it was like a layer of watercolor paint and then
like the water on top of it was just floating and then whenever i dip my paint brush into it
it left like this weird indentation in the paint which i've never seen before and it was almost
like i was dipping my paint brush into like mud or something the quality of the rose art watercolor
it is just a little bit ever so tacky like it does feel like it has a little bit more like a
filler in it that makes it a little bit more like thick instead of like watercolory if that makes
sense but other than that it's pretty much the exact same quality as crayola in every single way
if i had to choose between the two i wouldn't care which one because they're so similar
next up on the list of things that i tested out from roseart of course were colored pencils and
these specific rose art pencils are all the way from 2010 so these colored pencils are 11 years
old and again not to bring it up but i really do think there's like a crayola shortage or something
going on because along with the watercolor i could not find any crayola colored pencils anywhere so
ultimately i ended up just using this like really old 24 pack of crayola colored pencils that i have
it's like and you thought the last one was janky this one is like 10 times worse like the box is
like breaking in half and then like and then like the actual colors like half of them are missing
and to make it even worse whenever i was testing these out half of these colors aren't even crayola
they're literally prismacolor colored pencils so i had to be very tactical when it came to
testing out the colored pencils first thing that i noticed about these colored pencils is that they
definitely look like a straight up knockoff to the crayola ones like have you ever seen euphoria you
know like maddie like her best friend cassie tries to copy her and it's just it doesn't work out
this is the exact same situation here now i think this one is definitely the underdog of all the
art supplies that i'm testing out today because when i tested these out i was actually taken back
if you will because the roseart colored pencils in my opinion as somebody who's worked with plenty
of colored pencils just from like testing them out and doing a couple of swatches
they actually worked much better than the crayola like it's very subtle but you can definitely see
it like if you look close enough you can see that the rose art just went down a little bit more
smooth you can see that the color is just a little bit more creamier a little less waxier so not only
is it creamier and work better but it didn't have any scratches and on top of that i feel like some
of the color was even better than the crayola and as far as the crazy art colored pencils
go these pencils they were so scratchy it kind of reminded me of like rubbing nails on a chalkboard
whenever i was testing these out if you look close enough to the swatches it kind of looks like i
got like a needle or something and just like went over it on top of it and like scratched the paper
i mean these the crazy art were just so scratchy the quality of the rose art colored pencils
coming in as a total surprise to me i i did not expect this to be happening at all the roseart
colored pencils they seem to be a little bit better quality i would pick them over crayola
and for the final item that i just know everybody has been absolutely waiting for me to talk about
hold on i need to take a second let me just breathe
because i have a lot to say with this one i feel like this art supply is so bad that it's not even
famous it's infamous that everybody knows about it and this of course is the one the only drum
roll please roseart crayons okay as far as like the roseart crayons go i for sure for sure have
used these in the past and i specifically have very very very vivid memories of using this
and what i specifically remember about these crayons is the fact that they were so waxy that
you couldn't even draw i hated the fact that i couldn't get really detailed with my coloring
books because i don't know they would just like smear and break all the time i hated the way they
smelled i hated the wrapper around them i mean just all around these crayons from what i remember
were just absolutely just atrocious you know what i mean like the whole experience of using roseart
crayons it just like made you depressed as a child these are all the way straight from 2006 these are
the 24 count rose art crayons first of all we need to do a smell test because i know for sure these
are not gonna smell like crayola i just i just know it in my heart like i just i just know it
yeah no i don't smell anything but on the other hand we have the crayolas which i mean everybody
knows if i say the smell of crayons this is what it oh god ah it smells so good this is
what everybody knows oh my god it smells like childhood there's literally no better scent in
the world than crayola crayons let's see if the crazy art passes the smell test
oh it smells like wet cardboard it smells kind of like dirt on cardboard like that is
not a pleasant smell at all now as far as testing out the crayons went first
i decided to test out the initial textures of it all and what my findings found is that rose art
again is very similar to the crayola i do have to say that i did notice that the formula was a lot
more like waxy and so if you look at the swatches i have a couple of areas that are like really dark
compared to the rest of the swatch and my theory for that is that i think roseart has a really soft
wax to it and the friction of drawing with it i think heats up the wax and then it has this weird
buildup that we've all experienced with roseart and then because it was a lot chunkier i noticed
that a lot more like pieces of the wax would like get attached to the sides of the paper but unlike
a pencil you can't just blow it off because it's like wax and so when i was testing out
the crayons i had to like flick off the individual rogue crayon pieces but yeah the formula wasn't
as horrendous as i remember but what absolutely was horrendous was no shocker the crazy art oh my
god like i thought the watercolor and the markers were bad wait till you see the crayons oh my gosh
where do i even begin so if you look at the green swatch of the crazy art you'll notice that there's
like one area where it's kind of like missing color and i don't know what happened but as i
was swatching like the crayon just like stopped working like i don't know if that makes sense or
not but it was like i ran into like an area that was just pure wax that didn't have any color in it
and so i was like just rubbing this pure clear wax on to a piece of paper before i put these away
oh my god oh god and then the last thing about the crazy art that like really freaked me out
that the other two did not have is that the crazy art were really they were like sticky
from this point forward i think it's pretty clear that the crazy art are just like absolute
garbage garbage quality compared to the other two which is saying a lot because we're dealing
with the most notoriously bad crayon of all time so for the color section i didn't even bother
including crazy art just because i feel like it would have wasted everybody's time so i just
wanted to do one last comparison between crayola and rose art and i decided to use printer paper
for this because it's super slippery and as you can see like from afar they're pretty identical
there's nothing really super dramatic from afar at all and something really specifically
that i remember about rose art crayons is that you would get like one specific color
and as you were coloring there would be like little bits of another color in it and that
weird phenomenon of finding different colors in my crayons that happened today you can see
that there's like weird bits of blue or black or green i can't really tell but there's like other
colors in it oh and apparently the rose art smears because now my hand is all black and the paper is
black as well so that's great the rose art crayon quality it's obviously worse but now that i've
tested out crazy art i feel like crazy art has truly shown me what terrible quality crayon is
i feel like on a scale of crayola to crazy art it's definitely floating somewhere in the middle
so in retrospect i feel like roseart as a whole i'm just gonna say it now it truly wasn't the
worst thing in the world back in like the early 2000s you could get rose art stuff for literally
half the price of crayola and just the fact that some of these rose arts art supplies worked almost
identical as their counterpart you heard it here first besides the crayons justice for rose art
so anyway guys that's my personal opinion on roseart 20 years later
this is what i found if you want to see more art reviews i'll put a playlist here i recently did
a video where i tested out 1200 watercolor don't forget to subscribe like the video i hope that you
have the most wonderful day today and with that being said i will see you guys next video bye