hello everyone welcome back to my
channel I'm brushes and bunnies and i'm
here today with another product review
so today i'm going to be reviewing the
Winsor & Newton brush markers these were
markers that were highly recommended to
me in some of my videos
many of the viewers have actually
recommended this product to me either
they own the product themselves and/or
we're happy with them and wanted me to
check it out so I ended up buying a pack
of 6 from amazon in late november and i
think either early december i can't
remember one but that's besides the
point i spent a few months actually
using them practicing with them and
getting familiar with them before
committing to a product review and
that's something i'll be doing in the
near future i think i need really to
have some time with the the product
itself to get a very nice review set up
and ready for you
so we're going to start off here with
the website i just want to get into some
of the colors that are available as well
as descriptions of what the product is
and then i'm going to be showing you an
actual test product past so you guys can
see and judge based on what you guys see
how it works and how it blends we're
gonna have some fun with it so let's get
started with the actual website so
here's the Winsor & Newton website they
have a page specifically for brush
markers so it's very important is
actually the price i think in terms of
German price because I do live in
Germany we can get these markers for two
euros and fifty two cents approximately
so this is the price that is given on
the website now whether that rings true
for your local store you can also get
stuff on amazon or online shopping you
might find some good deals out there but
already the price is cheaper than the
regular copic ciaos and the touch twin tip
markers which I often prais so this is
a good price for one marker I think it's
definitely worth it Winsor & Newton themselves as a company is very
high quality i do buy their watercolor
paints and i have never really had an
issue or complain about it is very
high-quality it's a very old company and
they really put a lot of I think for me
its high expectations whenever i buy
their product so i went into buying this
product with a little bit of a higher
expectation but it definitely paid off
just a bit of a description here these
brush markers are double twin
tip so they have a brush tip and
they also have a chisel nib for more
broader coverage there are 72 colors so
if we scroll down you can see the amount
of colors 72 but there's a good choice
we have a lot of really nice colors here
so something I like to bring your
attention to is actually the skin colors
we do have a good selection of the more
lighter skin values with the pinkish
hues and we also have the sandy colors
and the darker skin tone so there is a
good variety just with the possibilities
in terms of skin creation that I think
is especially nice
there's also a set of cool greys and a
set of warm greys and there's also an available
blender which is really really sweet
in total if you're paying for 72 markers
eventually I think it comes to
approximately a 180 euros which is a
pretty good deal i think in terms of if
you're comparing it to copics for
example with the colors they range from
different of subtle pastels too bold and
vibrant hues and on the website's really
neat you can actually click on it and
get more information about the actual
color and I think that these swatches
that they present on their website is
pretty darn close to the actual ink
that you will see on the paper so it's
actually something that I i found was
really nice
now if you switch over to Amazon very
quickly i just want to show you this is
exactly what i had bought here the
pastel collection or the pastel set so
it's six packs on markers in one little
packaging and here you can see that you
can get approximately eighteen dollars
this is american dollars and euros i
think i paid 15 euros you can also
get it on sale sometimes which is why i
recommend shopping on Amazon because i
can get everything that i need these
markers themselves i have a hard time
getting in my berlin art stores here so
i think that Amazon really offers good
opportunities or good choices so one
thing that I did notice and i kind of
want to just throw it into this video is
depending on whether you're from the US
market or the European market it seems
that the packages that are available on
Amazon differ they are both for
example this one is called the pastel
tones and if you switch to the german
one this is also be pastel tone
however the colors
are a little bit different and if we
compare here you can see the Buttercup
color in which the european one doesn't
have it has a putty color instead i
think that overall the ink colors do not
change on the global market but i think
that the the actual sets that are
available to buy might be different
based on the market location so that's
just something that sounds something I
guess not to watch out for but just for
you for your information
alright so now that we've discussed the
colors and the prices and whatnot let's
get to the actual product test which is
gonna be the most fun part for the
purpose of the test I chose two colors that
were pretty close together and I think
that they will be able to blend very
nicely together so I just be pink pearl
and I also chose the rose pink and what I'm gonna
do is I'm going to break it down to
three different test so we're going to
just do a color test sort of like a
swatch color test you guys can see how
this looks like they were going to do a
blending test with just one marker and
then we're going to add combine both
colors together to blend one of a kind
of little section with two colors so
let's begin with the actual review
we're going to use the rose pink because it is one of my
favorites
we're going to just do like a little
square or circle here this is going to
be just being one color swatch test
we're going to wait until that dries and we are
going to test the pink pearl
side-by-side
so immediately right off the bat what I
noticed with using these markers is that
there's a beautiful coverage in terms of
the paper there's a really nice ink ratio that is coming out that's flowing
onto the paper and you can see how
streak-free that really ends its really
really wonderful
it's a nice flat color and you basically
have to wait till it dries a little bit
for it to become streak-free I'm like
this one here is a little bit more you
can see where I uplifted my pressure in
the center definitely a nice coverage i
think that's the tip goes very smoothly
on the paper and there's a nice sort of
movement to it that's the one color
swatch test now we're going to do
another one here and we're going to add
another layer we're going to try to do
some sort of gradient work here with
using just one color that was a bad
coloring job i will admit that so let's
just add another layer and let's try to
blend it a lot of ink coming out but you
can see you can achieve a nice gradient
so as you loosen your pressure as you
continue you can already see that
there's a nice gradient happening of
course you have to wait till it dries in
between so let's just wait for that and
go ahead with the pink pearl once more
this one might be a little bit more
harder to see in terms of gradient
creation but you can see the values
darkening a little bit on the left side
and if you keep adding a layer on top of
the layer you can get a nice ingredient
here i'll just do one more because this is rather
dark here I kind of want to get that
gradient so here very very nice & smooth
now let's combine both so we did the
swatch tests on you guys can see the
color you can see how it dries with one
layer and we did the basically
the gradient test I don't know how to call
it adding multiple layers on top of each
other to get some sort of soft gradient
happening here now what we're going to
do is we're going to combine both colors
together i'm going to start off to be
lighter one which is the purplish or the
pink pearl color
we're just going to make another square
and we're going to start to add the rose
color onto it
we're going to try to blend both colors
together this is the goal to see how the
blendable they really are now again I
don't have the proper colors i only have
a set of six so I don't have all of the
colors that I can really use for this
test you can also do it vertically or
horizontally with the flick motion they
also don't have a blender either i
haven't used the or haven't tried the
blender yet for this color or for this
brand
but you can definitely see that once you
keep working it in there is a
possibility of blending colors together
and it's a beautiful job they're very
very versatile in that aspect i find and
they're very easy to blend is a nice
amount of ink coming out so you can see
it is a very smooth texture and there's a nice gradient
happening and you can definitely blend
two colors together now just kind of
further emphasize my point here let's
give it a try with the blue ones so these
are definitely different colored but you
let's test it again so we got the cool
aqua and the pebble blue so the pebble
blue is a bit more of a grey tone, its a very
nice blue actually
the reason why this one might not work
as well is because the cool aqua is very
vibrant in color but nevertheless lets
add a touch of the vibrant you can see
extended it extending the color past the
actual square here you can see the
differences in terms of the color shade but i think that we can maybe
make it work
we're going to go over again with the
pebble blue so this side here is
already establishing a nice smooth
blend we can do the same on this side
I think that you can see I am so
impressed with this marker i'm really
really impressed with it that I think that you
can create some beautiful things with it
you can definitely see based on the test
that I've done how smooth it is how
vibrant the colors are how valuable they
are so you can really work with them and
and blend in and create some very nice
soft textures so something that's Winsor &
Newton
prides themeselves and pretty much
describes the brush markers that are
part of the description of the brush
markers is that they are highly
blendable and they offer print quality
and streak-free coverage now based on
this test alone i have to say one
hundred percent i definitely agree with
that aspect you can definitely see how
highly blendable they are even with
tones that don't necessarily go together
and they also say that there's a
translucent ink so it's very easy to
apply different layers on top of each
other it's not as heavy heavy ink its not a
heavy value either which is why you're
able to blend two different tones
together very nicely basically a summary
these markers are alcohol-based theyre none
refillable unfortunately which is why
they're a little bit cheaper but i would
definitely recommend it on the aspect of
the amount of ink coverage that you get
the fact that they're easy to use and
they work so nice together and they're
very smooth very smooth and they have a
beautiful assortment of colors there
hasn't been really a flawed i found
regarding these markers the price is
good the quality is good
the inks coverage is really good and I
haven't had any point to complain really
i think that's uh these are all around
really nice i would only say that the
fact that you cannot refill them this is
a little bit of downside but if you can
get them for two years and fifty cents
each
I think it's still a very nice bargain so
thank you guys so much for watching I
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