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Kthxbye said:
Happy to find this thread!
I've just got back into colouring, and I treated myself to a few sets of Decotime Twinmarkers (they are alcohol markers and really reasonably priced in B&M and The Range!
I love the "bold & easy" style of colouring book, I have loads of them now!
I've been posting sped up colouring videos on tiktok, and love watching other people's ones!
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Snippysnips said:
How do you find the markers? I've been seeing them in our stores
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the markers are great.
there is also something so satisfying about the storage bag holding them all so well!
 
I love colouring and really want to treat myself to the Ohuhu alcohol markers just because I've seen videos of how easy they blend... only issue is that I'm in NI and they won't ship them here so I'd have to fork out a bit for them from the ohuhu website :(

Can anyone recommend similar markers for colouring that will blend well and not leave streaks, especially for larger colouring in areas like skies etc?

I've bought some cheap ones from tik tok shop but they dry out quite quickly and not great for colouring larger areas.

I love the bold and easy colouring books, like fuzzy Hygge so bought a few similar ones on Amazon.
 
Tinkerbell cat said:
I love colouring and really want to treat myself to the Ohuhu alcohol markers just because I've seen videos of how easy they blend... only issue is that I'm in NI and they won't ship them here so I'd have to fork out a bit for them from the ohuhu website :(

Can anyone recommend similar markers for colouring that will blend well and not leave streaks, especially for larger colouring in areas like skies etc?

I've bought some cheap ones from tik tok shop but they dry out quite quickly and not great for colouring larger areas.

I love the bold and easy colouring books, like fuzzy Hygge so bought a few similar ones on Amazon.
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From what I know most alcohol markers will blend more or less the same as the ohuhu, I know there's copic markers but those can be quite expensive, I have winsor an newton promarkers an they blend quite easy but I don't have ohuhu to compare them too, I got mine from Hobbycraft an I think the range has them as well if you have those stores

What I have seen is people using soft pastels for larger areas an using cotton buds to blend, just incase the only reason you want markers is because of the large areas, there's other things out there

Also for books Coco wyo does similar styles to the ones you are talking about if you are interested, I've also seen those videos of colouring being done by ohuhu markers with the cosy patterns an some of them are using those books 😊
 
Snippysnips said:
From what I know most alcohol markers will blend more or less the same as the ohuhu, I know there's copic markers but those can be quite expensive, I have winsor an newton promarkers an they blend quite easy but I don't have ohuhu to compare them too, I got mine from Hobbycraft an I think the range has them as well if you have those stores

What I have seen is people using soft pastels for larger areas an using cotton buds to blend, just incase the only reason you want markers is because of the large areas, there's other things out there

Also for books Coco wyo does similar styles to the ones you are talking about if you are interested, I've also seen those videos of colouring being done by ohuhu markers with the cosy patterns an some of them are using those books 😊
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Great thank you for the tip, will try that with some cotton buds :)

it's more just because the ones I have more or less started to dry out and run done after a few days of using them and I wasn't using them that much. I just thought it might be better to invest in some more expensive ones as to keep replacing the cheaper ones would eventually end up being the same price if you get what I mean. Thank you, I have a hobby craft and the range near me so I will have a nosey for those :)

I have a few of the coco wyo colouring books, love them!
 
Tinkerbell cat said:
Great thank you for the tip, will try that with some cotton buds :)

it's more just because the ones I have more or less started to dry out and run done after a few days of using them and I wasn't using them that much. I just thought it might be better to invest in some more expensive ones as to keep replacing the cheaper ones would eventually end up being the same price if you get what I mean. Thank you, I have a hobby craft and the range near me so I will have a nosey for those :)

I have a few of the coco wyo colouring books, love them!
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Of course 😊 thought it would be nice to give some more ideas on what you can do as I've seen others do that

I've had my winsor an newton a few years now an still are fine, but I prefer pencil over marker so they aren't being used a ton, that's a pity yours have dried out, there's nothing worse than going to use them an they are no longer any good, if you have B&Ms I've seen some markers in there, not sure what they are like though, but am sure they are also alcohol markers
 
Just in case people don't know, Coco Wyo are a company that have been stealing other artists work 😞
There's a few companies like that appearing in the colouring community and its really sad.
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Snippysnips said:
Of course 😊 thought it would be nice to give some more ideas on what you can do as I've seen others do that

I've had my winsor an newton a few years now an still are fine, but I prefer pencil over marker so they aren't being used a ton, that's a pity yours have dried out, there's nothing worse than going to use them an they are no longer any good, if you have B&Ms I've seen some markers in there, not sure what they are like though, but am sure they are also alcohol markers
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I've got the Decotime Twinmarkers from B&M, they are a really really excellent affordable option.
I upgraded to Ohuhu a little while ago, but I still use my Twinmarkers too
 
Kthxbye said:
Just in case people don't know, Coco Wyo are a company that have been stealing other artists work 😞
There's a few companies like that appearing in the colouring community and its really sad.
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Oh no really? That's such a pity to learn that 🙁 I ended up getting one of their books an enjoyed the images for some relaxing colouring but I really don't want to support someone taking images from other people, I try to buy from the artists themselves like Johanna Basford, Kerby Rosanne's, Hannah karlzon etc but all their work can be so heavy at times especially kerbys, its hard trying find more relaxing images an it's sad to learn that the one that does them isn't even their own work
 
Kthxbye said:
Just in case people don't know, Coco Wyo are a company that have been stealing other artists work 😞
There's a few companies like that appearing in the colouring community and its really sad.
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I've got the Decotime Twinmarkers from B&M, they are a really really excellent affordable option.
I upgraded to Ohuhu a little while ago, but I still use my Twinmarkers too
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Omg really I've only has one book of them it was self care book and they follow me on my colouring account thank you for posting this! They went nuts when amazon took them off
 
I ordered Meine Reise durch Asien book by Rita Berman (Travels in Asia) after stumbling on it on a youtube flick through. It was £10 including free postage and the cover price is 12 euros and came from Belgium so really was free postage.
Anyway it arrived this morning and I am very pleased with it and looking forward to starting it although I have 2 others on the go at the moment. She also does a European one which I am going to order which will probably still be in the cupboard in 2 years time. :LOL:
 
rivermonster said:
I ordered Meine Reise durch Asien book by Rita Berman (Travels in Asia) after stumbling on it on a youtube flick through. It was £10 including free postage and the cover price is 12 euros and came from Belgium so really was free postage.
Anyway it arrived this morning and I am very pleased with it and looking forward to starting it although I have 2 others on the go at the moment. She also does a European one which I am going to order which will probably still be in the cupboard in 2 years time. :LOL:
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I think she has an Africa one too
 
New to this thread 👋

I'm a colouring supplies collector who wants to colour but is long term crippled by my fear of not being as good as my favourite colouring people on YT and Instagram. 🤭😆 I'm laughing but it's been preventing me from colouring at all since 2020. I don't want to flat colour but to be able to create beautiful gradients with accurate light and shade sources. The paradox is that this won't happen without practice and making mistakes.

My favourite artists are Johanna Basford, Rita Berman, Hanna Karlzon and I've very luckily been able to collect many of their books and others like Kirby Rosanes, Millie Marotta (all uncoloured) along with beautiful materials like Polychromos, Prismacolors, Albrecht Durer watercolours, Derwent Inktense (all swatched out but otherwise unused).

To get me over the perfectionism issue, I've got some Ohuhu alcohol markers and bought Gabi Wolf's Flowers and Fuzzy Hygge. I'm very proud that I followed a Gabi Wolf YT short today and coloured my first picture in Flowers after matching her Ohuhu Pastel colours as best I could. I quite like the outcome even if it's not perfect.

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