so i'm gonna be completely honest here, I actually made a video very similar to
this I think back in 2017. the lowest rated art supplies on amazon that i could find.
and i feel like at this point i've reached that threshold where it's been long enough that i can
redo the video and to give you an idea of just how long 2017 has been. back in 2017
that was when Jake Paul released his "it's everyday bro it's everyday bro".
then Alyssa Violet she clapped back and released it's every night sis
oh my god that was an eternity ago i felt like life was so much simpler back then.
since 2017 our multi-billionaire overlord real life Lex Luthor Jeff Bezos
has added on the feature on the amazon app where you can not only search one star and above but
you can actually search the lowest rated all the way to the highest rated. and so unlike last time
where i only had a few options that were like maybe three stars and above. this time around i
found the worst of the worst with reviews that explain why it was bad and almost all of these are
rated only one star. i don't know why i'm getting so excited over bad art supplies but it is what
it is i got a pretty interesting selection of art supplies. i have yet to see any of these. so for
today's video let's just jump right into it. all right this is how we're gonna do this.
i'm going to read you the reviews give you a description give you the price if there's
any pictures from the review i'll show them. from there i'm going to open it up see what
the real tea is. i'm then going to use all the supplies that i bought today to make a drawing
at the end and i'm going to directly compare it to my normal supplies so we'll see just how drastic
the difference between the two supplies are. all right let me get to let me get off to the
side here. so for this very first art supply the very first thing that i'm obviously going to need
is paper. and while i was looking for paper i just so happened to stumble
across this Sax Sulphite Art Journal. in the description it says the book can handle
all different types of art supplies including some really tricky art supplies like marker and
ink. it only comes with 10 sheets of paper and those 10 sheets of paper cost a whopping $5.44.
out of four different reviews the total rating for this is only 2 out of 5 stars. already i'm
getting some red flags out of this here's what one of the reviewers had to say. "well it's only
10 sheets you could have just stapled 10 pages of printer paper together and made the same thing".
oh oh man right off the bat right off the bat you can see that it's stained she got
some marks on her you can see that it's bent in various places she's all kinds
of messed up and we haven't even turned it around yet this is just the back side.
oh it definitely looks like it's beat up on the front as well. by the looks of this this looks
like it might be designed for public school so let's see what a school version of an art
journal looks like. oh it literally is a journal okay eight nine ten okay so yeah there's only ten
pages as described exactly i mean no tea no shade but it's literally printer paper that's stapled
together. if you're a student who's never done any kind of art before and you try this for the
first time it's gonna rip and then you're gonna think that you're bad at artwork for the rest
of your life you know. i can see why this is two stars it's very much overpriced ay ay ay
the paper itself is like borderline transparent to the point where you can see my hand
moving behind it. and this is supposed to be designed for arts and craft.
so i got some colored pencils let's try it out and see how it works
okay so i just finished drawing up a little eyeball and with this one page alone i'm
very curious to see how much damage it caused to the page directly behind it.
i mean it's not horrible. not only did it print on completely to the back side but it
also imprinted completely on the next page like you can see a perfect outline of the eyeball
and that's with using Prismacolor these are really soft colored pencils.
that is not good my guy i can't even imagine using markers with this
let's see how bad this handled markers
oh that's actually not bad that's not bad at all okay good
oh never mind i skipped a page it's actually a lot worse than i originally thought
so let me get this journal right it's basically 10 pages of printer paper
stapled together it came full of scuff marks it bleeds incredibly easy and they want to be selling
this to students for almost five dollars when you can go to walmart and get an actual sketchbook for
around the same price. so if i was to rate this on amazon i'm gonna rate it a one star
it doesn't even stand up on its own oh my gosh no. this next art supply is an actual art supply and
i am so excited specifically for this one because as you're about to see it is just from the review
alone it is so suspicious. let me give you a backstory target everybody knows target right
in target they sell like a knockoff target brand called up and up and the up and up
brand is only sold at target for target and while i was searching for colored pencils
i stumbled across this up and up 12 count set on amazon for almost seven dollars on the description
of this it nowhere says anything about target it nowhere says anything about the actual up-and-up
brand and to make matters even more dramatic the only review that's available says "don't waste
your money the box looks like it's been chewed up two pencils are broken there's sticky stuff on the
front like someone ripped off a sticker" plus and this is the juicy part "there was a sharpie line
through the brand name super weird". and it has one out of five star total reviews.
looking at the pictures it literally looks like the seller went out to target bought
the actual up and up colored pencils from target sharpied out the logo and now sell it on amazon.
all right so let's see
these don't look that bad but looking at them they are definitely 100
from target like they literally covered up the barcode but unlike the other reviewer mine's
definitely not beat up and they also didn't cover the original target logo. so we know
for a fact that these 100% are straight up from target i don't know if they bought them from the
same supplier i don't know if they bought them from target and are reselling them but i just
oh they're sticky ew oh oh my god there's like some sticky crap on it ew. but i just
looked up the price of these on the target app in actual target they sell these for only $1.49
and again the seller who is not target by the way on amazon is selling these for seven
dollars oh my god that is such a rip-off. all right so we'll just test these out
make sure they're not damaged or anything
yeah see the pencil themselves it works completely fine so it's definitely not
the art supplies themselves that are bad it's just that they're selling the product almost at a 400%
markup which that alone is absolutely insane. i would rate this a two out of five
now for this next one i am super super super stoked for this one out of all of them that
i ordered i think this one will be the best one you know i have high hopes that it will
be. this is a 36 color watercolor palette with three regular brushes two refillable
brushes and it only cost $4.99 and it has a 3 out of 5 star review and i know that sounds
very high compared to all the other stuff that we talked about but here's what one
of the reviews had to say and let me tell you this person went in on it. "cheap and defective
product even if it's for a beginner they deserve better the brushes look like they're made of foil
instead of metal the bristles are ready to come out without use amazon and the seller need to
become better people and sell this junk". i'm getting some strong karen vibes from this uh
review so hopefully when it comes in it's not that bad. all right so let's check out this watercolor
it looks to be in pretty decent condition it looks like we have
the watercolor we have the two brushes and two portable brushes
if you look closer you can definitely see there's a lot of scuff marks all over it. but i would say
nothing too bad nothing that's like damaging it i would say it's more cosmetic than defective
*gasp*
the packaging immediately broke off as soon as i opened it
okay whatever again it's cool as long as the actual product itself works
i mean it's five dollars for all this stuff that's not bad i'm willing to work with it
the brushes themselves they don't look that bad they're just incredibly flimsy like very very bendable
wait a second hold on there's all kinds of like gunk dried up on this one specific brush
like look at this that is so weird look at this i don't know what that is i don't know if it's
i probably shouldn't be breathing it in that is so weird and it's only on this one specific
brush too so i don't know i don't know what's going on there
the actual watercolor itself it definitely does not look that bad it kind of reminds me of tums kind of. even more weird
some of the colors are not mixed completely like for example we have this maroon color
that also has specks of blue and hot pink. so i have absolutely no idea what's going on there
and it kind of looks like the white is not fully glued in right it's kind of coming out
so i'm not gonna lie that's a little weird but i'm willing to still try it out
so let me go refill these and i will be right back
i didn't swatch all of them because there are a lot of colors to swatch but i think
we get the idea. i've worked with tons and tons of dollar store art supplies in the past and of
course as expected they're not always that good. but not to sound shady but they're usually not
this bad. for example there's almost zero pigment in some of the colors this beautiful brown color
right here it looks almost transparent on the page and to make it even weirder some of the
colors are leaving behind little tiny dots. they're not breaking down in the water and
it's leaving behind like this little i guess like dust or something i'm not even too sure what it is
i have no idea what that is so that's new to me. and before i make a full decision
on these watercolors i really want to see what this mystery burgundy color is
oh wow this one's actually really pretty now i am getting some like heavy Karen energy
from the original review i do think these are pretty bad but i don't think they're that bad
especially since it came with all this extra extra stuff and the price
being five dollars with free shipping i'm gonna rate this a three out of five stars
and the very last art supply which it's not really an art supply it's more like an art supply tool
and this my good people is a clear acrylic paint palette oval shaped artist paint mixing palette
with thumb hole for acrylic watercolor and oil paint. from the pictures alone i see absolutely
zero problems with it and the best part is it's only $1.89 with free amazon prime shipping that
sounded like an ad but i swear it wasn't. but when you look into the reviews that's a different story
this review straight up says "haha too small for anything it's a joke it's overpriced"
for the second review they actually whipped out the measuring tape they said "description states that
it's 17 inches i received a tiny seven inch palette". and of course they gave it a one star
oh it's a fly all right i'm just going to smack him up got him well that's lovely there's a dead fly in here
like i'm aware that it's going to be small but i don't know exactly how small it's going to be you know so let's see
wow that is tiny look at it compared to my face it is so small. i also
like the little mixing hole that's really cute. now upon first glance it definitely looks like there
is a lot of scratches all over this palette but i think it's actually a protective film
oh this is so cute look at it it's like perfectly clear too and even though this little palette
is absolutely adorable it is very very very misleading from what you get on the picture
it shows a regular size palette especially the picture where it shows a brush right next to
the palette. it's expectation versus reality and not just that but it also shows a sketchbook in
comparison to the palette. how are you gonna compare the two i mean these two things are
not to scale whatsoever you know what i mean. now i do have to note that somebody on the amazon review
says that they bought this for makeup which if that's the case that makes total sense i mean
you know put a little eyeshadow here put a little foundation there mix it up or whatever
but the description on amazon says it's literally for oil paint so i don't think that's gonna happen
i've only put four colors down and it's already filled up the whole entire
palette. it can barely hold four colors i can't even imagine using it for
oil paint even if it is one dollar you know. so i'm gonna have to rate this one um we're
gonna end it on a nice note and i'm gonna say this one is a three out of five. so even though
i predict i might have a very hard time using these to make something legible i'm going to try
my best. oh god it broke again it literally broke again oh my god okay here's the drawing
are you ready to see the final result bam and this is the exact same drawing except with prismacolors
and by the way these are both the results of about 20 minute drawings
i think with all of the supplies they would work better if i was using them
with like better paper and things like that but because i used just a plethora of very
low rated art supplies it kind of gave me a low rated result. by the way to throw in
one last little shade you can actually hear the difference in like the quality of paper
so loud and crunchy i don't know what i was expecting but there you go before you leave
if you could please do the three holy grails of youtube that would be beyond helpful and
amazing and with that being said i hope you have a good day and i will see you guys next video bye