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Are the W&N Pigment Markers the biggest art supply scam currently around or just "too ahead of its time"?
>Due to the ingredients, doesn't blend so well with any other markers (water-based, alcohol, acrylic)
>Needs its own specific paper, or things like Yupo to fully utilize the gimmick
>Soaks through any other types of paper, blending is completely fucked because of that
>"100 years of lightfastness" slogan to justify the price (on par, sometimes surpassing, higher end markers such as Copic)
>Currently without a refill system, must buy duplicate pens (such as their white blender)
>Due to the way they suggest to people RE: cleaning off the nibs, product runs out at a faster rate
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They're a step on the right direction at least, being lightfast unlike those expensive dye-based makers. I only have 3 grays but I like them well enough. They bleed less than Copics, but also tend to ruin the surface of normal paper if you layer more than a couple of coats. You don't really need their fancy paper, they actually work really well on the back side of regular marker paper.
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their white marker is cool, but yeah. trying to clean off white nib any time after mixing wound up to a lot of the paint being lost. could try to do extra stuff to lessen the paint loss.
i've also seen a review vid of someone attempting to use them with a brush as a bootleg watercolour. ended up pretty awkward
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Are these better than alcohol markers ? What are the differences beetween them ? Could we youse the two for the same kind of drawing ?
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best way i can describe the consistency is like a thinned down paint marker mixed with an alcohol marker
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