Ecoline pens! Are these the Watercolour pens I've been after?
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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I just used these yesterday on Strathmore 500 Series 100% Cotton watercolor paper and they blended out with water beautifully and I was also able to use a spray bottle after putting the marker down on the paper and it bled and spread quite nicely. Maybe your sketchbook paper was at fault? I don't know; I'm actually doing another piece with them on the same paper here in just a few minutes...
Thats the thing I've used watercolours , gouache and acrylics in here and it's all worked absolutely fine. I though if I tried water it would blend and it didn't at all on mixed media so it could be 100 % the paper ? I just don't understand how everything else works on this paper but these. Maybe I should try these again on watercolour paper ?
@@sophiralou worth a try, and I'll find out today how it goes with my second try and see what happens. I'll let you know. Regardless of how it goes, I'm not all that convinced that I will enjoy these long-term, and already plan on putting them in my Giveaway box.
@@sophiralou I finished my experiment and these did move A LOT on my Strathmore 500 paper. So perhaps the paper is a thing. Anyway, that video will be out tomorrow at 7 a.m. MST. It's not very detailed, but it'll give you an idea of what the brush markers do on that paper at least.
I have these pens. I usually scribble some pigment onto acetate and pick it up with a waterbrush pen. I've found that with 'watercolour' markers such as ecoline and tombow they dry as soon as you lay them down on paper so the water doesn't budge them. I get interesting results this way. You can also apparently dip them in the ecoline ink bottles to get ombre effects.
The sketch is still beautiful, despite the pens not being as good as you wanted them to be! ☺️
Although you didn’t like the pens the artworks looks beautiful!❤️
I don’t use these pens for drawing. I just use them for calligraphy in my bullet journal. And there for I like them very much.
As other folks have said, it must be the paper. I love these markers, I use them on hot press watercolor fabriano paper with 25% cotton, and they bleed and play with water wonderfully. I did try them on bristol, and they eat the paper. 17:02 17:02 17:02
Love this video!!
I honestly think these markers just don't mesh well with the paper you used, I found these markers worked nicely in the canson xl mixed media, it's a smoother paper. And smooth Bristol paper. Maybe try them on different papers before you give up on them, also try scribbling them off onto some plastic or a palette and picking up with a wet brush to try in your mossery sketchbook. Even though the nibs are nice, they react differently to different papers 😊
I have those pens but never knew how to use them till I watched this!✨✨❤️it turned out great!
I only have two of these pens and the only way I used them to it’s watercolor was the water brush to pen tip method haha. I found them great for sketch pages but I have never tried a full piece
Wonderful video!
For the best use, you need to use them on the special Ecoline liquid paper. Ecoline needs smooth paper, not textured. Ecoline is NOT good for mixed media paper ;) These are dye based, but they don’t have real pigments in them. The easiest to blend is to use them on a piece of plastic is you don’t have the smooth ecoline paper. They are good for handlettering, that’s all :)
Ps it’s TOTAL not ink but watercolor paint ! Also the fault of Cult pens for giving the wrong information 🤔
But I loved your illustration ;)
Oh wow that's interesting I honestly did not think that at all. I was like oh cool watercolour pens but they just didn't behave how I thought they would. Was so so disappointed with them. I'll probably try them on hot press watercolour paper cause it will probably work better. What a shame cause I was so excited for them too.
@@sophiralou just took a look at Cultpens, they are totally wrong on their webshop. It says ‘watercolor ink brush pens’ but it’s not an ink just a dye based liquid watercolor. I also have a love/hate relationship with them :)
@@liesbethartlife oh interesting that's very interesting I did wonder as it did behave differently from other waterbased inks I've used thank you so much. I was just so confused XD
so they might work well on Yupo paper then, its pretty much plastic
Haha, the list 😆 the piece ended up very pretty even though you didn’t enjoy the art material as much.
OH the memories!!! mi Husband bring me these as gift and felt so bad when he look at me testing it and it didnt work
The problem is the paper. These markers can eat the paper, and some papers absorb ink faster than others, so you won't be able to reactivate them with water.
The pastel set is the most complicated to work with, but other more intense colors are reactivated easier with water.
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What the heck? I use them for years on various mix media papers, even cheap ones, and they blend like crazy. Maybe pastel ones are weak.
You'll be ready for mermay
I have a different set of these, and mine do blend better with water than this set, but they are still very disappointing compared to actual watercolour. Using them feels more like just using water based markers (like the Tombow brush markers) and not markers that are specifically meant to imitate watercolour, if that makes sense.
Overall they were kind of disappointing for me.
Tldr, no, they're not 😂