Hello, and welcome back to Jenna Gets Creative! Today we're doing February's #ColorsoftheMonth
three marker challenge as set by Marker Universe, and the markers I'm using are Sketchbox Signature
2.0 shade R2 Blush, Copic shade V05 Azalea, and Copic shade Y15 Cadmium Yellow. If you
aren't familiar with the #ColorsoftheMonth challenge, it's a monthly three-marker, or
rather a three-colour challenge issued by Marker Universe, a marker distributing company
selling to the USA and Canada. Their former name was Imagination International, and they
used to be the North American market exclusive distributors of Copic markers, so when this
challenge started back in early 2018 it was called #CopicColors, and they were able to
curate and sell custom three packs of Copic markers to go along with the challenge. Unfortunately
for them, Copic restructured and stopped using middle man distributors, so Imagination International
and the #CopicColors challenge had to change. In 2019 they started encouraging us to colour
match and would list the HEX and pantone codes, even before anyone knew what was going on
with their Copic contract. By mid-year they transitioned to Marker Universe and re-introduced
the challenge as #ColorsoftheMonth. They now sell an ever growing variety of marker brands
and related accessories, and they recommend a colour from each product line for the challenge,
but we're still welcome to match among other brands, other supplies, or even go digital.
The last time you saw me doing the #ColorsoftheMonth challenge was back in December, when I mentioned
that they had announced something new coming, and I hoped it wasn't the end of the marker
challenge. It wasn't, fortunately, but you'll also notice I didn't do the challenge in January.
I sat down to do it multiple times, but the colours they chose really didn't speak to
me, so I decided to wait. February's colours did give me ideas, so here we are! Not sponsored,
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a package from Canada. If you like this video, don't forget to hit
like and leave a comment down below. I love reading your comments, I appreciate the interaction,
and I do reply to everyone. Let me know if you've ever tried the #ColorsoftheMonth challenge,
or any three-marker challenge in general, and if you have, how did it go? The first
time I tried a three marker challenge, I actually did a very late unofficial guest video for
the YouTube Artists Collective. I put on a blind fold, selected three markers at random,
and drew a masquerade mask to fit their prompt, which had been "masquerade." If memory serves
me right, I used Cherimoya Green from Spectra ad, Cadet Blue from Winsor & Newton, and a
brown from Winsor & Newton. Saddle Brown, perhaps? It was back when I was just getting
into markers, and I didn't even own any Copics yet at that point. Actually, my very first
Copics were the August 2018 #CopicColors custom pack of Ciao markers. I got charged a cosmetics
import fee by border security because I guess they looked like lipstick tubes on an xray?
Oddly enough when I then back-ordered some of the previous custom packs, those went straight
to my mail box, no questions asked. Then I found Canadian art stores that carried Copics
and shipped to my province, and my marker case filled quickly.
As per usual with this challenge, I'll read out the suggested colours Marker Universe
sent out now. I'm excluding the hex code because nobody wants that spoken out loud, but it'll
be in the description. For the light pink, the shade I matched with
the SketchBox R2 Blush marker, Marker Universe recommends: Karin Brushmarker Pro Skin 1.200,
Krink Light Pink, Graph'it 4145 Organza, Graph'O 4135 Pale Rose, Sakura Koi Coral Red, Winsor
& Newton Watercolour 461 Pale Rose, Winsor & Newton Promarker 370 Soft Peach, Tombow
Dual Brush Pen 761 Carnation, Chameleon NU2 Light Peach, and Copic R11 Pale Cherry Pink.
For the purple, I used the exact recommended Copic marker, V05 Azalea. The other suggestions
are Karin Brushmarker Pro 358 Red Lilac, Krink Pink, Graph'It 5275 Beaujolais, Graph'O 5180
Margaux, Sakura Koi Iris, Winsor & Newton Watercolour 398 Mauve, Winsor & Newton Promarker
167 Amethyst, Tombow Dual Brush Pen 685 Deep Magenta, and Chameleon PR4 Purple Grape.
For the yellow, the Copic recommendation was Y13 Lemon Yellow, but I don't have that one
so I used the slightly darker Y15 Cadmium Yellow. The other suggestions are Karin Brushmarker
Pro 166 Canary, Krink Yellow, Graph'It 1170 Sun, Graph'O 1170 Sun, Sakura Koi Yellow,
Winsor & Newton Watercolour 119 Cadmium Yellow Hue Pale, Winsor & Newton Promarker 206 Lemon,
Tombow Dual Brush Pen 055 Process Yellow, and Chameleon YL2 Summer Sun.
I decided to use this interesting colour selection to do a draft horse. The horse in my reference
photo was bay, which for the non-horsey folks among you means brown body with black points,
mane, and tail. I used Blush as the body colour, then blended in Azalea for the black points,
and used yellow where the real horse had white markings. If I were to do it again, I think
I would have left the whites white and used the yellow for highlights in the coat. What
do you think? Earlier in the video I mentioned that Marker
Universe had announced something new was coming back in December. Well, you might have already
seen a couple of other YouTubers play around with it, but they've launched a mystery box.
It's a grab bag of different markers brands they carry fitting into a colour theme completely
separate from the #ColorsoftheMonth challenge colours. If you'd like to see me try to recreate
one of those boxes in my No-Box Art Box series, I think it would be interesting to try to
get all the different tones they sent and mix as many marker brands as possible from
within my own collection. It'd also be interesting to pull out my Touch markers that I normally
don't use anymore, so I could be limited to the fine & chisel combination for the markers
they send out without brush nibs.