Application of heat= no dust. I think you friction burned the wax. I noticed you pressed harder as you went not a at consistent pressure even with your fine tip pen.
I'm not colorblind but I do 100% agree! Every brand needs to label their art supplies. Honestly, I get annoyed when they don't label their art supplies.
As a young child I was always given crayola, but was jealous of the kids with cheaper brands like play day and rose art because they had that really waxy transparent feel… they colored smoother, and didn’t make sound when you colored. I remember this one girl gave me one of her cheap red crayons and I cherished that thing. 🤣 I had very specific taste in pencils too….
@@sleepygriffin6027 I can't remember the brand... but the wood was really light colored and dense... the lead was also dense and very translucent and wrote extremely smooth and didn't smudge.... it was like a waxy pencil. It also didn't make a lot of sound when you wrote....lol I was a weird kid.
@@carahamelie this may seem odd, but did you grow up to have any sensory issues? I only ask because I had a similar taste in "silent" supplies and grew up to have auditory sensory issues..
@@witchghost7324 my nephew is high-functioning autistic and he has similar sensory issues (particularly with auditory stimuli). Weirdly enough we busted out some air dry clay the other weekend to make Christmas ornaments and I was fully expecting him to try for a few minutes and then bow out because of the slimy texture when you add water to it but he really got stuck in! I mentioned my initial reservations to him and he said it's definitely not his favourite sensation but he was enjoying the craft so much that it made it less noticeable. I work with polymer clay and he has thoroughly enjoyed doing that with me before which is why I gave the air dry one a try.
Those creatology crayons are real outliers; vibrant colors, low dust, low smearing, and one of the cheapest in price. I'd say for a kid's crayon (or if you're into adult coloring books), they're probably your best option.
I think most crayons arent too soft considering they're marketed towards children who press a lot, so they would probably break under so much pressure if they were softer.
My daughter is the opposite, she does not press hat enough for either crayons or color pencils. I got her the Stocmar because that’s mainly the brand used in the Waldorf community because they are made from beeswax which I think is what makes them more expensive.
The Stockmar crayon blocks are actually not really for artists. They are used in kindergartens and schools a lot, especially in more alternative forms of those (like Montessori nusery school or Waldorf school). The block shape makes it especially easy for smaller children to grab them. The base is made from beeswax and all art supplies by Stockmar are, to my knowledge, non-toxic and ecologically friendly :) In Germany you can get the set of 8 blocks for about 9,50 $.
Yes! I used these throughout elementary with the stockmar stick crayons and their pencils!! :) I remember figuring out how to use the blocks in kindergarten and getting really excited
Stockmar are my childhoodXD yes they are exclusively used for kids and yes they are non-toxic. Definitely not speaking from experience as a waldorf kindergarten child that couldn't be left alone with the blocks and def not did take bites out of them because they looked like giant pieces of candy....
@@HariboWormPlsSaveMe I am also a Waldorf kid- I completely relate (but for some reason I also decided it was a good idea to take a bite out of the beeswax sticks) tehe this is bad advertising people already think us waldorfians are weird enough
My parents and grandparents always bought Crayola, thank goodness. I had the 64-pack with the sharpener. That’s one of the only places my parents weren’t total cheapskates, although come to think of it my grandparents may have bought them because when my favorite colors would get really small my dad would just tell me, “Use the other colors until the whole box is gone, then you can have new ones.” 🤬
I think it just comes from the French word for "pencil". In Canada they call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" which might come from the fact that coloured pencils would have pencil and crayon on the packages because of the bilingual packaging. Funnily enough I did wonder what the French did in regards to tampons and pads because the word for tampon literally means "pad" in French - like, you can get "tampon pour aquarelle" which is a pad of watercolour paper, so I wondered what they called pads if the word tampon already means pad - turns out it's something like "serviettes hygienique." And tampon is "tampon" but you know from the context.
Crayon (from what I’ve learned) was coined by Binney and Smith (which were the precursor to crayola). I work at crayola and this is what we’re taught so there may be bias but that’s the info I have.
I think this could be a good resource for parents buying their kids art supplies. I grew up poor, so we couldn’t afford Crayola, but I always got the crappy crayons like the dollar store ones, and was frustrated that the colors were so light. Nice to know there are cheap options that still color well.
With all your crayon vids, you're going to have the companies rethink their formula to decrease their dust and adjust the color accuracy for better representation. Similar to how Jazza's marker and liner videos had their makers redo some of their manufacturing like Spectrum Noir did for their alcohol marker's brush nib. Always nice to see your enthusiasm on making art with what some might think as "kid's supplies" or "cheap supplies" as with several other art content creators have done. I need to get my watercolors and marker back out and make some traditional pieces. I've haven't touched them in a few months.
The stockmar crayons in block form are toddler crayons for me 😅 we had the stick form in primary school. It was so fun to put down coloured pencil rainbows layer a black crayon on top and then use the tool to scratch our messages or art. (I do think they are much cheaper in Germany though)
Crayola also came out with a box that has all of the skin tone colors from all over the world. I really want to get. They have it at Dollar General and Wal-Mart. I think it's like $2 maybe $3 at Wal-Mart.
Maped is a massive brand in Europe ! They specialize in school supplies. Here in France, back when I was a kid, they branded as the fun and ingenious brand making cool and colorfull supplies. If you had Maped stuff in primary school, everybody thought you were the coolest (or rich). However, french people don't pronounce it the english way, they say "mapèd" or "mapaid"
Venezuelan right here. I remember using Maped products a lot during my school days (And seeing their cute color names again after so long brought me a lot of memories)
creatology has a wind-up crayon pack as well thats just Lovely to draw with! Gonna miss the year of the crayon, really helped me get motivated by playin’ around with a super nostalgic medium :’) you should try other unusual supplies!! personally i LOVE coloring a piece with highlighters, so bright and fluorescent and they always layer in really interesting ways!
That sounds like a good idea with the highlighters! I do that sometimes when I'm bored, but I think I should actually continue adding this to my traditional artwork.
As a youngster, I always loved using the CraZArt crayons. I went to a daycare center before and after school, and I guess they just bought the cheapest they could find. Regardless, I loved them because in the larger packs you'd get these wildly fun and vibrant colors, and it was a blast to use them all in one drawing. My parents always bought Crayola though, and I liked those too I guess.
Crayola and Creatology are the clear winners in my book. Creatology is the cheaper option, but what makes crayola stand out to me is the insane shade range. There's hundreds of different crayola colors. I have glitter crayola, confetti crayola, neon, metalic, etc. I also have a set of crayola called "colors of the world" which is specifically meant for being able to color all different skin tones ❤️
These tests are so satisfying!! I've watched your erasers ones way too many times lol. Crayons are not common at all where I live, so I've never tested any of these brands, but just by watching this, If I had to pick only one brand, I'd go with Creatology, they seem so vibrant and smooth and have a pretty reasonable price.
Idk about Daisō but I do know that MINISO has an art section + they aren't in packages (atleast where I bought it) but they're really cute and good!! (except for the alcohol markers, they do not blend)
BIC makes crayons now. They have a 24 pack, paperless, so no color names. I think they're rather nice, they seem less waxy and dusty than other crayons. Haven't really blended them so can't compare to these others. BIC also has a pack of markers and there's supposed to also be colored pencils, but I haven't found those. Also have to agree with others that the Caran d'ache Neocolor 1s are definitely the best artist crayons (the Neocolor 2s are the watercolor ones, love those as well).
The 'Layer' column turned into the 'Bleed/Smear' column. haha Those "Creatology" brand crayons were a pleasure to spectate, and for being so inexpensive, I'm stocking up (and thanks for wasting your own money, so we don't have to) 🤙🏽
The Mellissa and Doug crayons were literally my childhood, but they were super bad. I purposely avoided the pink and purple because I knew that the pigment was basically nonexistent. Lol 😆
Thank you! I use Ooly for my collages and I love them. They do go on sale. They also have beeswax in them and they are super chunky so the cost isn't bad considering that many of the crayons have NO pigment!
I got a Creatology kit from the thrift store mainly for the wood box and ended up keeping ALL of the art supplies for my granddaughter. I don't share my artist supplies with her but I do try to keep a student version of everything I have available for her. Creatology art supplies are great to work with.
Honestly, I go for the Cra-Z-Art every time we color in the Lisa Frank book.. they blend the best of any crayons we have lol perfect for rainbow cheetahs!
I always preferred crayola because they seemed to put more wax down with a lighter hand so you could avoid the dust. I also found that if you colored with your crayon properly, you never had to sharpen them!
Hey Kasey,Maped is a pretty good brand,they sell pretty well here in Brazil,I have the 36 pack colored pencil and the 12 felt tip pen,they are super pigmented,the colored pencils are smooth and creamy,they are very good to sharpen and are pretty cheap,they are better then many student grade pencils and is of course an excellent kid's grade material. Try and buy some products and see for yourself,they are AMAZING
Oh! those last ones you used!!! I used very similar ones once, what's cool about those is using harder crayons to create a background rainbow and then using those softer crayons to draw a thick black layer on top! then you can scratch the black layer and create really cool looking pieces!
Here in Uruguay maped is a well known school suplies brand, you should try their color pencils! my sister and i used to buy those for school because you don't need to press hard on the paper or do multiple layers to get a smoth bright color :) also, they are not expensive at all and they have that triangular shape as well! i could send you a picture if you'd like so you can have an idea on how they work without buying them!
@@rio8529 nope French, had to checked because the way she was pronouncing it was SO bothering me, and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t the one who had it wrong.
The name of the IKEA crayons is “Måla” it basically means ‘to paint’ or ‘colour in’. Å is pronounced similarly to the O-sound in ‘born’. And the A is sort of pronounced like the ‘ah’ sounds in the sound staying alive. Random explanations for the pronunciation but it’s the first things that came to my mind.
Caran D’ache Neocolor I are, hands down, the best wax crayon on the market! Please review those when you get a chance. They are about $2 each open stock but worth every penny! And the water soluble Neocolor II are even better.
Fun fact about the Melissa and Doug brand of crayons, one day my dad was on a work trip and saw the Melissa and Doug brand for me (just a smaller pack) but my mom said “oh those don’t break as easily, be gentle they are pricey” so to this day I still have them in perfect condition.
I've always stubbornly refused to use any crayon brand aside from crayola. It's because of the weight in my hand. any other brand has never felt right in my hand.
I grew up with the Stockmar Crayons. Part of the reason they are so expensive is because Stockmar uses beeswax for the crayons. The crayons easily get dirty from the other crayons in the set, and when you draw with them, the little bits of the other crayon colors will smear on the paper, so I use the black tool to clean the crayons. Also-the crayons (both block and stick) do not break, no matter how hard you push, because they are very thick.
The best set of crayons I ever had was some random brand at a gas station for $2, and I swear they were so smooth they almost worked like oil pastel sticks. I'd kill to get ahold of more
This was so fascinating to see the differences! I’m from germany and when I was in elementary school I had the stockmar crayon sticks and here they are not so expensive. I loved to make colorful pages and cover them with the black crayon to then scratch the black away to reveal the colors underneath
I am a profesional artist and you are right, I am going to buy those Stockmar because I am sure I can create amazing backgrounds with them! Also Crayola is a must because despite the dust the vibrance is something that for the price most brands can't offer. Ooly seems to me the winner in your list! I think the tool is to scratch the crayons from your artwork to create amazing textures and details!
Colour names and durability should also have spaces on the testing chart 😌 If a crayon has a fun name is the make or break for me And how easily it breaks, my heart shatters every time a crayon snaps in my hand
Hullo Kasey, sweet lil testing video! I did see a lot of comments about CaranD’ache brand, they are more famous for the neocolor II’s which are basically watercolors! They do have original Neocolor sticks that are a regular wax crayon, I have never tried them. I hope you have a chance before the end of year of the crayon ends! You might have a good video just grabbing footage from your crayon videos this year a “best of” clips video rather showing the crayons in real world use! Actually creating Art! You are truly inspirational and such a gifted young lady. I have enjoyed watching your videos for quite some time. Thank you for sharing your art journey with everyone.
Nice video! Caran D’ache has some amazing wax crayons that you missed. They are Neocolor I. The Neocolor II are the water soluble version. Maybe you can get some of the wax ones to try. I’m going to have to try the Michael’s brand.
The only reason why Crayola crayons were so dusty is because you pushed too hard on the crayon. If you used less pressure, there will be little to no dusting. Crayola is the only brand of crayons I'll use now because it has the best pigmentation and even with lighter pressure, it has less dusting and it doesn't leave heavy wax blots either. Crayola is also very easy to blend with when using lighter pressure and I can also easily build up multiple layers with lighter pressure. Crayola was my go-to brand for crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. when I was a kid. I used to Cra-Z-Art but honestly, they're crayons just suck due to less pigmentation and heavy wax blots even with lighter pressure so I ended up giving the Cra-Z-Art crayons to people who are less fortunate in my town. As an adult artist now, I still like Crayola (literally anything with Crayola) if I'm making stuff with kids and I also use more professional art brands like Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, etc. for my own artwork. I've never had regrets from Crayola.
Creatology (hope I spelled that right) seemed to be the highest quality for it's price range, I might have to look into them. I'm no artist though, I just like crayons more than most other art media (clay is my favorite though).
I’m not a crafty person. I’m not an artist. I’m a mom of two little ones and I have often thought about which crayons I prefer for coloring with them. This video popped up in my feed and I LOVE it. 😂
hey kasey! i made a crayon drawing today but i snapped so many in the process.. was so sad. i used manley which feels really really good but weirdly has different textures depending on the color. pink and lilac were definetly stronger and softer! given that and the fact that i likely lost red 4 years ago, i do wanna take a look into some cool crayons because that was really fun to make. thanks for the dope video!
This was a neat little experiment. Idk why it was so interesting to me, I’m not an artist, I don’t draw, and haven’t used crayons since I was a kid. It’s still good to know though next time I buy my daughter a set of crayons. Somebody needed to do this sort of research, thanks for getting to the bottom of this once and for all
So I looked for RoseArt crayons here in the UK and discovered this announcement from January 2021- Cra-Z-Art's Rosen brings RoseArt brand back under family control in deal with Mattel. The Cra-Z-Art brand of arts and crafts supplies, owned by Randolph-based LaRose Industries LLC, has acquired Mattel's Arts, Crafts, Stationery business, including its RoseArt brand, it announced Thursday. So it looks like Cra-Z-Art *is* RoseArt? Or they are owned by the same company at least 🤷🏻♀️
I definitely am a fan of Staedtler products. While I grew up using Crayola and Laurentien (which Laurentien I sadly miss to this day), as an adult, I love Staedtler art supplies and they are worth the price.
First of all I really enjoy your testing videos! Secondly you unlocked a memory for me when you tried the Stockmar crayons, they are kindergarten type crayons and I vividly remember them now. I think they are so expensive because its an imported product? here you can buy them for half the price (same with the staedler and faber-castell tbh)
Omg I had the Melissa and Doug crayons when I was little! I don’t remember what the store was but it had a lot of their products. I remember getting a magnetic dress up doll too, and a puppet show thingy.
Maybe Target? I buy a lot of Melissa and Doug toys for my little cousins there. I always thought they were a Target brand because of this, but I’ve seen their products on Amazon and here Kasey said Whole Foods.
I always appreciate a YTer when I'm seventy percent through the video, realize the content is not relevant to my life in any way, and keep watching because it's just that nice :)
I love this so much! The boyfriend and I had a ton of fun watching this and laughing at how pitiful some of the crayons are, especially compared to the incredible value of the cray-z-art crayons. Keep up the great work! Would love to see more of these types of videos for... Well, any type of art supplies you would be willing to round up for a huge comparison!
Weeee renmember when I asked you about the stockmar beeswax blocks? They are my absolute favorite drawing material for the last few years! So- am here! Exciting! I am TWO YEARS LATE - So with that said I now have comment, you use them a little differently than stick crayons(they have them in chubby sticks shape too), you use them super gently and they would be transparent and will blend super smoothly. It feels technically a bit like using chalk pastel in a block waxy form, while being on the transparent side (similar opacity to watercolor, you would work in layers. I only have shades of red, yellow and blue and I make everything with those.), look up what some people do with it- the technique is super weird to memorize at first but it gets really satisfying when you get into a flow.
I grew up playing with Maped crayons - we didn't have Crayola where I was from and the Maped pack I got was a gift from my cousin who lived in the capital (I lived in another city). They were definitely one of the first art supplies I used (along with coloured pencils). Good to know they're faring well over the years. Year of the Crayon made me extremely nostalgic for those days scribbling on paper as a kid, even though I don't use crayons anymore (and not even that often as a kid). Gonna miss it.
Hi there! I think, Stockmayr is a German or Austrian brand. The scraper is for special effects. You do it like this: put down a very light color. Yellow would be great. Than layer orange on top of it. I mean, DIRECTLY on top. Same spot. Then red, blue, green, purple...and then there hopefully is a black one in the set. That is the last layer. Then you scrape shapes or outlines with a different amount of pressure and reveal the different colors laying underneath. Like these scrape pads that are allblsck and you have to follow the lines... Have fun!!! ...now I have to get these myself...had mine about 35 years ago🤣👍🏻
The cheap crayons from Aldi (I think trader Joe's called in the US?) or Lidl in Germany always came with this scraping tool. We even had art projects in school where we had to use them.
I was waiting for it but you missed one famous art brand... Caran d'Ache also makes crayons! Water resistent and water soluble versions. They are supposed to be very nice. (Okay as I know you are not into coloured pencils so much, I guess you are not familiar with the brand.) If you can get hold of those, you could try them at the end of the "year of crayon". And an addition to this test: you could have make a column for "how many colours are available in total". I'm sure some of them have also bigger packs. Just a thought.
Now come on! You tested all these wax crayons and you did not finish the test with the Neocolors? No! They are amazing. But kids crayons can be great fun, too. I have a set of Faber Castell crayons, not the erasable ones that you tested but just their regular triangular ones, and they are pretty good and smell amazingly beeswaxy, even though I have no clue whether they actually contain any of that. When I feel unable to really do anything, but still really want to get something done, I like grabbing my crayons and it is like *the* most motivating thing. It's so easy to just flow along wit crayons and create whatever, particularly with just regular kids crayons because they just feel playful and so not serious. Everyone who loves to do art should have a set of crayons for these moments where it's just so difficult to get into the flow.
Not me… watching as you write your 8’s and FINALLY realizing that someone writes them the same way! People never believe me when I write my eights like that. When I was younger my teachers told me not to write them like that but guess who still does.
What I learned: Creatology is cheap and high quality That none of them could make a good green that isn't dusty And only Ooly made a good dust free Blue
Maped's Color Peps come in the form of crayons, colored pencils and markers. I had their colored pencils during my school days and worked pretty well. And seeing the color names again after so many years brings back so many memories.
i remember i used to be so jealous of the kids who got crayola crayons because of the chonky feel you got when you used them, cos i only ever got crayzart and is was so pale and waxy and i hated itjhjskzjk
I love creating artworks using crayons! Honestly crayola is the only brand I use because the quality is so high compared to the price, and they have a wide variety of colors, which is not necessary, but a bonus. They also are really solid and not too oily or waxy, so layering is smooth and the different layers dont fight eachother lol
Melissa and Doug crayons are shaped like triangles and extra hard to prompts proper grip in toddlers of pens and pencils later in development! My baby sisters use them all the time. They’re meant to be a firm wax so they don’t break easily like a more soft wax so they can survive toddlers. Artist grade? Nope. Baby grade? Yup!
I think that most crayons aren't that soft (*except for Crayola because they are very smooth*) since they are considered for kids, but this was so satisfying to watch and to really see the difference in the pricing of the crayons 🖍🖍🖍😁😁😁❣❣❣
I got to the Amazon ones and was suddenly reminded of the coloring pencils at this social center I frequent. It's a giant pack of, like, 30 of each color, and I was expecting them to be pretty bad, as many such sets are... but they're amazing! Some of the best coloring pencils I've ever used! You can achieve such a wide variety of saturation, and they blend impressively well... it's kinda spooky how good they are, especially for the price...
Staedler, Faber-Castell and Stockmar are pretty popular in Germany. Where as the block crayons are often used in kindergartens, Staedler and Fabers are common for primary-school kids. Staedlers aren’t that exspensive if you consider that they last for years.
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Application of heat= no dust. I think you friction burned the wax.
I noticed you pressed harder as you went not a at consistent pressure even with your fine tip pen.
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As someone who is colourblind, any crayon brand that doesn't label their crayons is a no from me
Oh no! I never realized how important that is for others! What a bummer.
BIG SAME, honestly any art supplies that isn’t labelled is un-useable to me, and it always sucks to find out after you’ve already bought them 😅
@@xxbeinaxx and whatever supplies that I do get that are not labeled, I ask my fiance what color they are, and make a note of it
I’m partially color blind and I gets worse over time, so I’m scared now 😖
I'm not colorblind but I do 100% agree! Every brand needs to label their art supplies. Honestly, I get annoyed when they don't label their art supplies.
As a young child I was always given crayola, but was jealous of the kids with cheaper brands like play day and rose art because they had that really waxy transparent feel… they colored smoother, and didn’t make sound when you colored. I remember this one girl gave me one of her cheap red crayons and I cherished that thing. 🤣 I had very specific taste in pencils too….
Do tell, I’m interested… what was your taste in pencil?
@@sleepygriffin6027 I can't remember the brand... but the wood was really light colored and dense... the lead was also dense and very translucent and wrote extremely smooth and didn't smudge.... it was like a waxy pencil. It also didn't make a lot of sound when you wrote....lol I was a weird kid.
@@carahamelie this may seem odd, but did you grow up to have any sensory issues?
I only ask because I had a similar taste in "silent" supplies and grew up to have auditory sensory issues..
@@witchghost7324 no… I only recall hating loud noises as a child but that’s it. 🤷🏻♀️
@@witchghost7324 my nephew is high-functioning autistic and he has similar sensory issues (particularly with auditory stimuli). Weirdly enough we busted out some air dry clay the other weekend to make Christmas ornaments and I was fully expecting him to try for a few minutes and then bow out because of the slimy texture when you add water to it but he really got stuck in! I mentioned my initial reservations to him and he said it's definitely not his favourite sensation but he was enjoying the craft so much that it made it less noticeable.
I work with polymer clay and he has thoroughly enjoyed doing that with me before which is why I gave the air dry one a try.
Those creatology crayons are real outliers; vibrant colors, low dust, low smearing, and one of the cheapest in price. I'd say for a kid's crayon (or if you're into adult coloring books), they're probably your best option.
That's definitely what I was thinking
I think most crayons arent too soft considering they're marketed towards children who press a lot, so they would probably break under so much pressure if they were softer.
Yes, which is why I was shook to find soft ones. =P
That's why there are also jumbo crayons like micador softies tri grip crayons honestly they are my favourite to use with my nephews and neice
My daughter is the opposite, she does not press hat enough for either crayons or color pencils. I got her the Stocmar because that’s mainly the brand used in the Waldorf community because they are made from beeswax which I think is what makes them more expensive.
I think the same, and when I had my child I bought him paint sticks and they were a win! Go on so smooth.
I didn’t even know there were these many brands of crayons out there 😅
And there’s so many I didn’t try I’m sure! It’s hard to find them all, haha.
Same
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Me too I think i have to try those
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The Stockmar crayon blocks are actually not really for artists. They are used in kindergartens and schools a lot, especially in more alternative forms of those (like Montessori nusery school or Waldorf school). The block shape makes it especially easy for smaller children to grab them. The base is made from beeswax and all art supplies by Stockmar are, to my knowledge, non-toxic and ecologically friendly :) In Germany you can get the set of 8 blocks for about 9,50 $.
Yes! I used these throughout elementary with the stockmar stick crayons and their pencils!! :) I remember figuring out how to use the blocks in kindergarten and getting really excited
ah, so painful import costs
Stockmar are my childhoodXD yes they are exclusively used for kids and yes they are non-toxic. Definitely not speaking from experience as a waldorf kindergarten child that couldn't be left alone with the blocks and def not did take bites out of them because they looked like giant pieces of candy....
We use stockman with my child and I love the fact that there is no dusting!
@@HariboWormPlsSaveMe I am also a Waldorf kid- I completely relate (but for some reason I also decided it was a good idea to take a bite out of the beeswax sticks) tehe this is bad advertising people already think us waldorfians are weird enough
Crayola vs RoseArt was where I first learned about “brand name” vs “knock off” … I was so jealous of the Crayola kids lmao
I couldn’t find RoseArt anywhere! 😭
@@KaseyTheGolden good riddance! Haha
RoseArt was the bane of my existence, I remember using them while coloring in pictures at church.
My parents and grandparents always bought Crayola, thank goodness. I had the 64-pack with the sharpener. That’s one of the only places my parents weren’t total cheapskates, although come to think of it my grandparents may have bought them because when my favorite colors would get really small my dad would just tell me, “Use the other colors until the whole box is gone, then you can have new ones.” 🤬
RoseArt absolutely sucks. They’re impossible to sharpen and break so easily!
I’m honestly surprised that “crayon” isn’t one of those brand specific names like “Saran wrap” or “Kleenex” cause it just gives those vibes
I think it just comes from the French word for "pencil". In Canada they call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" which might come from the fact that coloured pencils would have pencil and crayon on the packages because of the bilingual packaging. Funnily enough I did wonder what the French did in regards to tampons and pads because the word for tampon literally means "pad" in French - like, you can get "tampon pour aquarelle" which is a pad of watercolour paper, so I wondered what they called pads if the word tampon already means pad - turns out it's something like "serviettes hygienique." And tampon is "tampon" but you know from the context.
In Puerto Rico we called all crayons “Crayola”
Crayon (from what I’ve learned) was coined by Binney and Smith (which were the precursor to crayola). I work at crayola and this is what we’re taught so there may be bias but that’s the info I have.
The word your lookingfor is *generalized trademark 😉
@@Stuartette I always wanted to make my own line of crayons.
The Honey Sticks are meant for toddlers. They're easy to grip and safe to eat. But don't eat them. But you could.
Don't tempt me
@@justperpetuallybothered3474 You must not eat the child's crayons.
(But you could.)
[insert joke about the diet of US Marines here]
I have some they're my little sisters. I'm planning to taste them im sure she wont mind heheh
@@Rain_HH LMAO PLS DONT EAT THEM (but you could..)
I think this could be a good resource for parents buying their kids art supplies. I grew up poor, so we couldn’t afford Crayola, but I always got the crappy crayons like the dollar store ones, and was frustrated that the colors were so light. Nice to know there are cheap options that still color well.
With all your crayon vids, you're going to have the companies rethink their formula to decrease their dust and adjust the color accuracy for better representation. Similar to how Jazza's marker and liner videos had their makers redo some of their manufacturing like Spectrum Noir did for their alcohol marker's brush nib. Always nice to see your enthusiasm on making art with what some might think as "kid's supplies" or "cheap supplies" as with several other art content creators have done. I need to get my watercolors and marker back out and make some traditional pieces. I've haven't touched them in a few months.
Expensive crayon brands with little color payout should be ashamed of themselves
The stockmar crayons in block form are toddler crayons for me 😅 we had the stick form in primary school. It was so fun to put down coloured pencil rainbows layer a black crayon on top and then use the tool to scratch our messages or art. (I do think they are much cheaper in Germany though)
"Dusting, crumbly stuff that is left behind"
Thanos: This...does put a smile on my face
That is a disturbing thought. Turning people’s ashes into crayons… 🤢
@@KaseyTheGolden i mean, you're the one who beheaded a teddy bear
Crayons are incredibly fun to draw with. The fact that they're reasonably cheap as a whole make up for a great art supply
Right?! Amazing.
Exactly
Crayola also came out with a box that has all of the skin tone colors from all over the world. I really want to get. They have it at Dollar General and Wal-Mart. I think it's like $2 maybe $3 at Wal-Mart.
@@marymiller941 i have it but I haven't used it yet
Maped is a massive brand in Europe ! They specialize in school supplies. Here in France, back when I was a kid, they branded as the fun and ingenious brand making cool and colorfull supplies. If you had Maped stuff in primary school, everybody thought you were the coolest (or rich). However, french people don't pronounce it the english way, they say "mapèd" or "mapaid"
In india too we pronounce it is may-paid. Its one of the popular brands here too
In Germany too i had so many Maped items in primary school
Venezuelan right here. I remember using Maped products a lot during my school days (And seeing their cute color names again after so long brought me a lot of memories)
creatology has a wind-up crayon pack as well thats just Lovely to draw with! Gonna miss the year of the crayon, really helped me get motivated by playin’ around with a super nostalgic medium :’) you should try other unusual supplies!! personally i LOVE coloring a piece with highlighters, so bright and fluorescent and they always layer in really interesting ways!
yessss i love drawing with highlighters! there’s a brand that makes highlighter brush pens and they are so fun to play with
That sounds like a good idea with the highlighters! I do that sometimes when I'm bored, but I think I should actually continue adding this to my traditional artwork.
As a youngster, I always loved using the CraZArt crayons. I went to a daycare center before and after school, and I guess they just bought the cheapest they could find. Regardless, I loved them because in the larger packs you'd get these wildly fun and vibrant colors, and it was a blast to use them all in one drawing. My parents always bought Crayola though, and I liked those too I guess.
I always hear people say the cra-z-art crayons were bad, but I was shocked how pigmented they were when I tried them. Lol
Crayola and Creatology are the clear winners in my book. Creatology is the cheaper option, but what makes crayola stand out to me is the insane shade range. There's hundreds of different crayola colors. I have glitter crayola, confetti crayola, neon, metalic, etc. I also have a set of crayola called "colors of the world" which is specifically meant for being able to color all different skin tones ❤️
These tests are so satisfying!! I've watched your erasers ones way too many times lol. Crayons are not common at all where I live, so I've never tested any of these brands, but just by watching this, If I had to pick only one brand, I'd go with Creatology, they seem so vibrant and smooth and have a pretty reasonable price.
I believe Daiso and Miniso have their own crayons too. Do try them, Kasey!
Idk about Daisō but I do know that MINISO has an art section + they aren't in packages (atleast where I bought it) but they're really cute and good!! (except for the alcohol markers, they do not blend)
@@emmangst Daiso has a pretty decent art selection! I loveee Daiso it has so many cool things for really cheap
I have playdough crayons
Daiso oil pastels were good
BIC makes crayons now. They have a 24 pack, paperless, so no color names. I think they're rather nice, they seem less waxy and dusty than other crayons. Haven't really blended them so can't compare to these others. BIC also has a pack of markers and there's supposed to also be colored pencils, but I haven't found those.
Also have to agree with others that the Caran d'ache Neocolor 1s are definitely the best artist crayons (the Neocolor 2s are the watercolor ones, love those as well).
I have some of the bic water based brush markers, and they're reallly nice. They were super cheap, too!
The 'Layer' column turned into the 'Bleed/Smear' column. haha Those "Creatology" brand crayons were a pleasure to spectate, and for being so inexpensive, I'm stocking up (and thanks for wasting your own money, so we don't have to) 🤙🏽
The Mellissa and Doug crayons were literally my childhood, but they were super bad. I purposely avoided the pink and purple because I knew that the pigment was basically nonexistent. Lol 😆
Their wooden toys are awful too, colour runs and stains surfaces. I bought few things for my kiddo and neither was well made or durable.
Thank you! I use Ooly for my collages and I love them. They do go on sale. They also have beeswax in them and they are super chunky so the cost isn't bad considering that many of the crayons have NO pigment!
I got a Creatology kit from the thrift store mainly for the wood box and ended up keeping ALL of the art supplies for my granddaughter. I don't share my artist supplies with her but I do try to keep a student version of everything I have available for her. Creatology art supplies are great to work with.
Honestly, I go for the Cra-Z-Art every time we color in the Lisa Frank book.. they blend the best of any crayons we have lol perfect for rainbow cheetahs!
🙄 it don't exist
I always preferred crayola because they seemed to put more wax down with a lighter hand so you could avoid the dust. I also found that if you colored with your crayon properly, you never had to sharpen them!
Hey Kasey,Maped is a pretty good brand,they sell pretty well here in Brazil,I have the 36 pack colored pencil and the 12 felt tip pen,they are super pigmented,the colored pencils are smooth and creamy,they are very good to sharpen and are pretty cheap,they are better then many student grade pencils and is of course an excellent kid's grade material.
Try and buy some products and see for yourself,they are AMAZING
Oh! those last ones you used!!! I used very similar ones once, what's cool about those is using harder crayons to create a background rainbow and then using those softer crayons to draw a thick black layer on top! then you can scratch the black layer and create really cool looking pieces!
Here in Uruguay maped is a well known school suplies brand, you should try their color pencils! my sister and i used to buy those for school because you don't need to press hard on the paper or do multiple layers to get a smoth bright color :) also, they are not expensive at all and they have that triangular shape as well! i could send you a picture if you'd like so you can have an idea on how they work without buying them!
They're actually quite popular in Europe too :) I really loved their non-alcohol markers as a child
Here in Brazil too! I love how smooth to sharpen they are
Ayyy in india, it's quite popular
i love how you write your numbers and do these organized charts. i love organization even though my apartment says otherwise
I LOVE organizing things. I suck at staying organized XD
Maped is the brand we get more easily where I live and I love them. They feel so nice to color with.
Yeah its a german brand isn’t it
@@rio8529 nope French, had to checked because the way she was pronouncing it was SO bothering me, and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t the one who had it wrong.
The name of the IKEA crayons is “Måla” it basically means ‘to paint’ or ‘colour in’.
Å is pronounced similarly to the O-sound in ‘born’.
And the A is sort of pronounced like the ‘ah’ sounds in the sound staying alive.
Random explanations for the pronunciation but it’s the first things that came to my mind.
Caran D’ache Neocolor I are, hands down, the best wax crayon on the market! Please review those when you get a chance. They are about $2 each open stock but worth every penny! And the water soluble Neocolor II are even better.
Caran D'ache is such got quality! I didn't know they had crayons tho, thanks, I will look them up.
I use neocolor II like watercolor and I love it sooo much
The neocolor II is definitely where it's at
Are those considered crayons or pastels?
@@margingains2937 I think it’s Closer to crayons, I don’t use it directly on paper, I water it on a plate
Fun fact about the Melissa and Doug brand of crayons, one day my dad was on a work trip and saw the Melissa and Doug brand for me (just a smaller pack) but my mom said “oh those don’t break as easily, be gentle they are pricey” so to this day I still have them in perfect condition.
I've always stubbornly refused to use any crayon brand aside from crayola. It's because of the weight in my hand. any other brand has never felt right in my hand.
I can't believe we're almost at the end of Year of the Crayon. It feels like it started six weeks ago!
I grew up with the Stockmar Crayons. Part of the reason they are so expensive is because Stockmar uses beeswax for the crayons. The crayons easily get dirty from the other crayons in the set, and when you draw with them, the little bits of the other crayon colors will smear on the paper, so I use the black tool to clean the crayons. Also-the crayons (both block and stick) do not break, no matter how hard you push, because they are very thick.
The best set of crayons I ever had was some random brand at a gas station for $2, and I swear they were so smooth they almost worked like oil pastel sticks. I'd kill to get ahold of more
This was so fascinating to see the differences!
I’m from germany and when I was in elementary school I had the stockmar crayon sticks and here they are not so expensive. I loved to make colorful pages and cover them with the black crayon to then scratch the black away to reveal the colors underneath
Ah! I wondered if importing made them so expensive! Interesting!
And I think that's what the black plastic tool is for. At least that's what I always used it for
I’m surprised the Caran d’Ache Neocolors aren’t part of your test!
I was looking for that comment! I wonder where the Caran would stand to see if any of these crayons could be a nice dupe!
Same
I think it would’ve been interesting to see price/weight as well since the sizes differe
Weight?! Do you weigh your art supplies? 😂
@@KaseyTheGolden I do 😭✋
@@KaseyTheGolden lol
I am a profesional artist and you are right, I am going to buy those Stockmar because I am sure I can create amazing backgrounds with them! Also Crayola is a must because despite the dust the vibrance is something that for the price most brands can't offer. Ooly seems to me the winner in your list! I think the tool is to scratch the crayons from your artwork to create amazing textures and details!
Colour names and durability should also have spaces on the testing chart 😌
If a crayon has a fun name is the make or break for me
And how easily it breaks, my heart shatters every time a crayon snaps in my hand
Only one brand broke while I tested it, I think it was “Jot”. They were breaking right and left, hahahaha.
Starters?
You choose the crayons by name? Pretty superficial xD
I LOVE that the Stockmar crayons are exactly the same as when I was a kid (the 70s), even the box is exactly the same. It’s so nostalgic!
Hullo Kasey, sweet lil testing video! I did see a lot of comments about CaranD’ache brand, they are more famous for the neocolor II’s which are basically watercolors! They do have original Neocolor sticks that are a regular wax crayon, I have never tried them. I hope you have a chance before the end of year of the crayon ends! You might have a good video just grabbing footage from your crayon videos this year a “best of” clips video rather showing the crayons in real world use! Actually creating Art! You are truly inspirational and such a gifted young lady. I have enjoyed watching your videos for quite some time. Thank you for sharing your art journey with everyone.
Nice video! Caran D’ache has some amazing wax crayons that you missed. They are Neocolor I. The Neocolor II are the water soluble version. Maybe you can get some of the wax ones to try. I’m going to have to try the Michael’s brand.
"I'm going to put down red, then we'll go across with a blue"
My grandpa designing the DPRK's flag, probably
The only reason why Crayola crayons were so dusty is because you pushed too hard on the crayon. If you used less pressure, there will be little to no dusting. Crayola is the only brand of crayons I'll use now because it has the best pigmentation and even with lighter pressure, it has less dusting and it doesn't leave heavy wax blots either. Crayola is also very easy to blend with when using lighter pressure and I can also easily build up multiple layers with lighter pressure. Crayola was my go-to brand for crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. when I was a kid. I used to Cra-Z-Art but honestly, they're crayons just suck due to less pigmentation and heavy wax blots even with lighter pressure so I ended up giving the Cra-Z-Art crayons to people who are less fortunate in my town. As an adult artist now, I still like Crayola (literally anything with Crayola) if I'm making stuff with kids and I also use more professional art brands like Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, etc. for my own artwork. I've never had regrets from Crayola.
You had a shout-out from reddit with the Creatology crayons. Watched the entire video and think I will pick those up. Thank you. 🖍️
Creatology (hope I spelled that right) seemed to be the highest quality for it's price range, I might have to look into them. I'm no artist though, I just like crayons more than most other art media (clay is my favorite though).
I’m not a crafty person. I’m not an artist. I’m a mom of two little ones and I have often thought about which crayons I prefer for coloring with them. This video popped up in my feed and I LOVE it. 😂
Maped is a pretty cool « kinda expensive but not too much » brand here in France, you were definitely a kool kid if you had some Maped products.
hey kasey! i made a crayon drawing today but i snapped so many in the process.. was so sad. i used manley which feels really really good but weirdly has different textures depending on the color. pink and lilac were definetly stronger and softer! given that and the fact that i likely lost red 4 years ago, i do wanna take a look into some cool crayons because that was really fun to make. thanks for the dope video!
This was a neat little experiment. Idk why it was so interesting to me, I’m not an artist, I don’t draw, and haven’t used crayons since I was a kid. It’s still good to know though next time I buy my daughter a set of crayons. Somebody needed to do this sort of research, thanks for getting to the bottom of this once and for all
ooly is for sure my favorite! that red-orange blending is GORGEOUS
So I looked for RoseArt crayons here in the UK and discovered this announcement from January 2021-
Cra-Z-Art's Rosen brings RoseArt brand back under family control in deal with Mattel. The Cra-Z-Art brand of arts and crafts supplies, owned by Randolph-based LaRose Industries LLC, has acquired Mattel's Arts, Crafts, Stationery business, including its RoseArt brand, it announced Thursday.
So it looks like Cra-Z-Art *is* RoseArt? Or they are owned by the same company at least 🤷🏻♀️
Oh wow!! Interesting, haha, thanks for that!!
I definitely am a fan of Staedtler products. While I grew up using Crayola and Laurentien (which Laurentien I sadly miss to this day), as an adult, I love Staedtler art supplies and they are worth the price.
Carandache neocolor crayons are my favorites. Both the water soluble and the resistant ones
Have you done a coloured pencil tier list or recommendations video, like you did for the crayons? 🥺
First of all I really enjoy your testing videos! Secondly you unlocked a memory for me when you tried the Stockmar crayons, they are kindergarten type crayons and I vividly remember them now. I think they are so expensive because its an imported product? here you can buy them for half the price (same with the staedler and faber-castell tbh)
Omg I had the Melissa and Doug crayons when I was little! I don’t remember what the store was but it had a lot of their products. I remember getting a magnetic dress up doll too, and a puppet show thingy.
Maybe Target? I buy a lot of Melissa and Doug toys for my little cousins there. I always thought they were a Target brand because of this, but I’ve seen their products on Amazon and here Kasey said Whole Foods.
You should look into the different crayola packs! The Michael's I work at has metallic, pearl, and neon crayons!
Creatology won by a landslide in my opinion. That blending and pigment got that price? Amazing
I really like this comparison series, I would love to see more of this
I always appreciate a YTer when I'm seventy percent through the video, realize the content is not relevant to my life in any way, and keep watching because it's just that nice :)
I love this so much! The boyfriend and I had a ton of fun watching this and laughing at how pitiful some of the crayons are, especially compared to the incredible value of the cray-z-art crayons. Keep up the great work! Would love to see more of these types of videos for... Well, any type of art supplies you would be willing to round up for a huge comparison!
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Weeee renmember when I asked you about the stockmar beeswax blocks? They are my absolute favorite drawing material for the last few years! So- am here! Exciting! I am TWO YEARS LATE
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So with that said I now have comment, you use them a little differently than stick crayons(they have them in chubby sticks shape too), you use them super gently and they would be transparent and will blend super smoothly. It feels technically a bit like using chalk pastel in a block waxy form, while being on the transparent side (similar opacity to watercolor, you would work in layers. I only have shades of red, yellow and blue and I make everything with those.), look up what some people do with it- the technique is super weird to memorize at first but it gets really satisfying when you get into a flow.
Kasey continues to make some of the most satisfying art content on youtube. This made my autistic brain HUM with excitement haha
I love videos like this! Super informative and entertaining to watch
Yes! I was just rewatching some of your older videos :)
Love you Kasey but the smearing under the layer category is actually a good thing when it comes to crayons. Means it blends better.
That may be true… but… personally I don’t do a lot of blending so when they smudge I don’t like it. 😅
I'd really want to see you try out the carandache neocolor II !
They are water-soluble pastels!
I grew up playing with Maped crayons - we didn't have Crayola where I was from and the Maped pack I got was a gift from my cousin who lived in the capital (I lived in another city). They were definitely one of the first art supplies I used (along with coloured pencils). Good to know they're faring well over the years. Year of the Crayon made me extremely nostalgic for those days scribbling on paper as a kid, even though I don't use crayons anymore (and not even that often as a kid). Gonna miss it.
Hi there! I think, Stockmayr is a German or Austrian brand. The scraper is for special effects. You do it like this: put down a very light color. Yellow would be great. Than layer orange on top of it. I mean, DIRECTLY on top. Same spot. Then red, blue, green, purple...and then there hopefully is a black one in the set. That is the last layer. Then you scrape shapes or outlines with a different amount of pressure and reveal the different colors laying underneath. Like these scrape pads that are allblsck and you have to follow the lines...
Have fun!!! ...now I have to get these myself...had mine about 35 years ago🤣👍🏻
does the band roseart still exist? Those were the ones I remember hating as a kid. Also I love this type of video so, so much!
Same, but I couldn’t find them! Someone told me Cra-Z-Art is RoseArt though??
That black tool you used at 16:15 is called a scraping tool. It can make patterns of your choice on the crayon marks
Most underrated art supply if I say so myself
I agree! We tend to think crayons are just for kids!
The cheap crayons from Aldi (I think trader Joe's called in the US?) or Lidl in Germany always came with this scraping tool. We even had art projects in school where we had to use them.
We actually have Aldi in America!
Trader Joe’s and Aldi are completely different. We also do have both Aldi and Lidl in the states
@@confuzedgraphite Nope, Trader Joe’s is owned by Aldi Nord (the north German Aldi) while US Aldi stores are Aldi Süd.
@@tookitogo Regardless we have both and they’re entirely different stores.
@@confuzedgraphite Yes and no. In USA, yes. But an Aldi in northern Germany literally carries some Trader Joe’s products.
I was waiting for it but you missed one famous art brand... Caran d'Ache also makes crayons! Water resistent and water soluble versions. They are supposed to be very nice. (Okay as I know you are not into coloured pencils so much, I guess you are not familiar with the brand.) If you can get hold of those, you could try them at the end of the "year of crayon". And an addition to this test: you could have make a column for "how many colours are available in total". I'm sure some of them have also bigger packs. Just a thought.
I didn’t include Carson d’Ache because this video is about wax crayons, not watercolor crayons. :)
@@KaseyTheGolden as I said, they have a wax crayon set too 😁 I just wanted to mention for next time maybe 😉
@@KaseyTheGolden neocolor II is the watercolor crayon and neocolor I is the normal crayon that is not watersoluable
The way you write your zeros is scratching an itch in my brain, and I *love* the rainbow blending tests
Now come on! You tested all these wax crayons and you did not finish the test with the Neocolors? No! They are amazing. But kids crayons can be great fun, too. I have a set of Faber Castell crayons, not the erasable ones that you tested but just their regular triangular ones, and they are pretty good and smell amazingly beeswaxy, even though I have no clue whether they actually contain any of that. When I feel unable to really do anything, but still really want to get something done, I like grabbing my crayons and it is like *the* most motivating thing. It's so easy to just flow along wit crayons and create whatever, particularly with just regular kids crayons because they just feel playful and so not serious. Everyone who loves to do art should have a set of crayons for these moments where it's just so difficult to get into the flow.
Not me… watching as you write your 8’s and FINALLY realizing that someone writes them the same way! People never believe me when I write my eights like that. When I was younger my teachers told me not to write them like that but guess who still does.
What I learned:
Creatology is cheap and high quality
That none of them could make a good green that isn't dusty
And only Ooly made a good dust free Blue
Maped's Color Peps come in the form of crayons, colored pencils and markers. I had their colored pencils during my school days and worked pretty well. And seeing the color names again after so many years brings back so many memories.
"Where's the dust? Where's the dust... Okay there's a little but where's the dust?! PASS "
7 hours ago? im guessing this is a patreon perk or something similar?
i remember i used to be so jealous of the kids who got crayola crayons because of the chonky feel you got when you used them, cos i only ever got crayzart and is was so pale and waxy and i hated itjhjskzjk
Creatology looks great.
I love creating artworks using crayons! Honestly crayola is the only brand I use because the quality is so high compared to the price, and they have a wide variety of colors, which is not necessary, but a bonus. They also are really solid and not too oily or waxy, so layering is smooth and the different layers dont fight eachother lol
Oohhhh would be interesting to see something like this with colored pencils!
Oh gosh, a little more expensive, but maybe I could buy a few penciled individually…
You should really try Giotto ones! I use the bigger line tho, as i think they have a better formula. I really like em!
Melissa and Doug crayons are shaped like triangles and extra hard to prompts proper grip in toddlers of pens and pencils later in development! My baby sisters use them all the time. They’re meant to be a firm wax so they don’t break easily like a more soft wax so they can survive toddlers.
Artist grade? Nope.
Baby grade? Yup!
I like how the blending part makes a beautiful rainbow!
I think that most crayons aren't that soft (*except for Crayola because they are very smooth*) since they are considered for kids, but this was so satisfying to watch and to really see the difference in the pricing of the crayons 🖍🖍🖍😁😁😁❣❣❣
I got to the Amazon ones and was suddenly reminded of the coloring pencils at this social center I frequent. It's a giant pack of, like, 30 of each color, and I was expecting them to be pretty bad, as many such sets are... but they're amazing! Some of the best coloring pencils I've ever used! You can achieve such a wide variety of saturation, and they blend impressively well... it's kinda spooky how good they are, especially for the price...
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Staedler, Faber-Castell and Stockmar are pretty popular in Germany. Where as the block crayons are often used in kindergartens, Staedler and Fabers are common for primary-school kids. Staedlers aren’t that exspensive if you consider that they last for years.