hi everyone welcome it's a hedgehog
Hollow today I wanted to show you about
the new crafters companion spectrum noir
tri-blend pens and when we did art back
from creative Asian video with Greg you
can take down the top right hand corner
we showed you what try bones were all
about but I thought I'd just do a quick
piece coloring with them they gave me
this little card of pre-printed with
these pretty leaves on and I have two
different colors here I have the purples
and I have the greens so I thought we
just do a quick coloring I can show you
what they're all about and let you know
my thoughts on them so as always these
just my opinions and kind of how I get
on with them so this is the green and I
can open this one up this is the purple
so they did give these to me I didn't
purchase them but let's have a I have
you spectrum Noirs before not alcohol
markers skill builder you can check that
out in the top right hand corner as well
now the idea was to try blends these are
the normal spectrum noir colors but in
one pen you've had three colors you have
a light you have a medium and you have a
dark color this one's kind of stiff so
you can see here I have three shades and
it even tells me it says light it says
mid and it said dark on my piece here
and on the end it says purple blend so
it tells me what I'm working with and
then the same on the green so I have a
dull green blend and then I have my mid
my dark and my light so as always one
coloring with alcohol markers I have a
piece of regular printer paper
underneath so we're gonna start off with
our light color so we're gonna work on
this leaf over here and what I like to
do is to saturate my cardstock
now I'm gonna assume that this is
spectrum noir cardstock this is not
something I've stamped out we'll see how
it goes
now the other thing is if you find a
color blend that you really like you can
buy them in individual markers so say
for instance you love this dull green
and you use it all the time on all your
leaves you could buy these three colors
individually which is great you can't
refill the try blends themselves but you
can get the three colors and then they
would be refillable so I'm making sure
this is well saturated and normally what
I would do is check that I can see that
image on the other side and I kind of
can apart from at the top here so I'm
just gonna make sure that I can do that
they are quite a fact barrel compared to
say a Copic or some of the other pens
then I'm gonna go to the mid shade if
you don't say that I'm noticing is the
cardstock is wobbling and I'm gonna
assume that that is their cardstock as
opposed to the markers themselves so I'm
gonna go back to my light now this is
great because the customer marker I
think reg and I looked up the other day
was around about the seven dollar mark
so cost of kind of one Copic you're
getting three colors in here so I'm just
doing my kind of normal coloring going
through all three shades and then back
again blending them out except a
sculpture the same way I would blend
with any alcohol marker just to make
sure I get that nice blend it's also
great if you're limited on space because
of course one marker slot is going to
store all three colors for you and this
is the regular spectrum noir ink so
you're not having any kind of different
ink in here this is more about the fact
in the convenience that you have three
in there but of course you are getting
less ink you don't have a full market in
here particularly think in the mid and
the dark here in that middle piece you
have kind of two colors in that middle
piece your lights you're gonna have more
in here as well so you can see that I've
got a really nice blend
in that green and that was pretty easy
to use let's try the purple as well so
I'm going to start off with my light I'm
going to color this one in here so I'm
using this bullet nib I know they only
come in a bullet nib as well making sure
I've saturated and then I'm going to go
to my mid they do like that they've
printed on and I like the fact they
chose a bullet over all the different
options I mean I tend to use my copics
which have a brush I think with that
thicker barrel and the shorter kind of
area that you're working with
I think her bullet nib is probably the
better choice and then blending out
nicely as well
so again you can see that I've blended
out my purple and I have a really nice
blend in there so I've got some really
nice shading in there so I do really
like these try lands and I think it's a
really nice idea to have these pens at a
nice price point so you know I like my
new bows because again you get three
pens that blend together perfectly a
good price point so again if you're
looking for something a good price point
a good quality alcohol markers
I think these try brands are really
worth ago so I hope you enjoyed this
quick kind of look at those spectrum
noir tri blends check out the links in
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