okay i'm not gonna lie i'm a little afraid for today's video and that's because of my history
with mystery boxes a couple of months ago i bought a 20 ebay mystery art box i started editing the
video i did the intro started the thumbnail and when i went to unbox it this happened
what the ... is this? i got scammed very badly so what does a person do who got scammed one
time before off ebay do? ..they buy another one that's three times the price! with shipping this
art supply mystery box was a little under 60 bucks now i have absolutely zero idea of what is inside
this little box and even more mysteriously the listing really didn't give any information of what
even could be inside of this box all it said is one mystery boxes of art supplies
surprise items condition is new no returns or refunds and in all cap locks the items are sold as
is ...enjoy! doesn't sound very promising does it ? regardless of whatever's inside we'll test
it out see if it's new or if it's been used give my opinions on it and if it does turn
out to be a mega flop at least i'll get to make some art out of it you know but yeah i
am equally nervous as i am excited to unbox this so yeah let's just jump right into it
that's all that's all i'm gonna open it because if i open it anymore i'll see what's inside and
i don't want to just yet alright so before i just jump right into the box i want to go over my hopes
dreams and concerns for this box my first hope for this box is that i get at least three to five
different art supplies i hope it's not just like two art supplies and that's it you know
i hope that i at least get some kind of like little variety of art supplies my next hope for
this box is i hope the quality of the art supplies is at least mid-tier i'm all about walmart i love
cheap art supplies but for 60 dollars i hope i at least get something that's like middle grade
like at least prismacolor level. my next hope for this box i hope that i'm at least
somewhat familiar with it so i don't embarrass myself. and my last hope for this box is i hope
i don't get ripped off. i'm gonna move that one to the top because that's literally all i want
is please *please* don't get ripped off rae not again! so yeah let's go ahead and see what we got
it's kind of hard. oh! they wrapped it up really nicely kind of like a present!
going the extra mile alone like this was worth 60 bucks. okay, moment of truth
yes yes yes yes oh my god yes it's a copic marker in the color blue violet well technically
it's a copic sketch marker meaning that it has a brush nib it also has a chisel nib.
right off the bat it seems to be completely brand new it doesn't look like it has any damages and
these retail for i want to say anywhere from like six to eight dollars here in the united states
oh yeah that's a beautiful color it's kind of like a perfect beautiful deep purple color. i'm happy
i got a copic because these are pretty much like the gucci of all markers even if everything else
in this box is bad at least i got like one really good thing, which is this copic right here. i'm
actually really surprised because it feels like there is a lot of stuff in here! what the heck!
oh it's a face mask ..oh ...okay? oddly enough the next thing is a face mask
like it's a little weird. it's very considerate, it's very considerate but it's a little weird
it's a little strange to put this in like an art supply mystery box it's not like i won't use this
face mask you know. oh dude my makeup already got all over this that took like 0.2 seconds
but yeah a face mask! that's so nice of them very considerate very nice.
the next thing.. oh this is cute! the little clouds!
what is this? what is this ? oh! this is the type of ink for a stamp
and it's cool i like the color but um ...i don't own a stamp. now that i'm looking at
it through the monitor it's a really pretty color wow! i'm just gonna like press it on.
...oh that's bad. let me press one more time except this time a little bit harder.
spread it around a little bit so you can see the color... oh wow this stuff
is like really really pigmented! look at that! according to amazon whenever you
do the math this retails for a little over four dollars. moving on to the next thing,
oh okay nice a paint palette! there are very few art supplies that i am literally
in *constant* need of but a paint palette is always it! i am always buying new palettes,
cleaning out my old ones, accidentally ruining these.. i mean you name it! i am always needing
a paint palette and i'm not gonna lie this is a cheap one from like the dollar store in fact i
get this exact palette at dollar tree six for one dollar. so yeah... next item is a canvas! nice
okay cool so this is a 6x4 inch canvas board. i'm personally not the biggest fan of canvas i don't
know how well this is going to work with this stamp and i definitely don't think it's gonna
work with the copic marker. so hopefully inside this box we get some kind of paint
okay what is this? oh! it's like a little love note!
omg i think this is a coloring page??
i don't understand. i thought this was kind of like a note or something from like the seller so
i got too excited and kind of like ripped it open and now it has a giant chunk missing out of it.
okay i'm guessing that they got some kind of a toy and this came with the toy and they put it in
the box. let me look that up ColorBlocks, color- color- Blanks I sound like my dad. He used to call
pokemon, pokeman. okay yeah, ColorBlanks is a toy by Rose Art. I really like how
they're keeping me on my toes this whole entire time! I have no idea what's going to be next!
what is this? it feels like a block.. it's just like a pure square.
oh! it's a stamp! they gave a stamp with my stamper! okay
cool
i don't know the exact brand of this stamp but based on my local craft store and how
much their stamps go, i would say that this maybe retails for about two to four dollars.
oh, what is that? oh? is this tape? oh! it's tape! it's washi tape! washi tape is really nice
for stationery you can put it on a piece of paper rip it off and it won't tear the paper underneath
and more importantly: it's cute. look at those bunny ears! i can't find the exact retail price
but i would say maybe about one dollar. all right so moving on to the next thing we have
sharpies, i think? i think these are sharpies. so we got three permanent markers
and if you look closely it says ColorBlanks which was from that coloring page earlier
which turned out to be a toy. so i bet the actual color blank keychain is going to be
inside this. i don't know if these are permanent markers *sniff* oh yeah,
these are definitely permanent. we got three permanent markers in red, blue, and lastly green.
i'm not too sure the retail value of this just yet i need to find out if they put the actual
keychain that goes with these inside of this so until then it's just kind of a mystery.
let's see, what's next? i think this might be the colorblank thing. ...moment of truth
bam! there it is. so from what i've gathered this is basically a little like keychain thing
that you designed with the three sharpies that it gave you. according to google you can get this
for about 44 dollars?! now according to google and amazon you can get one of these color block things
for anywhere from like five dollars to seven dollars so i'm gonna give them the benefit of the
doubt and say that this is worth seven dollars. looks like we only have like four things left.
i am so glad that this came with this because i've been needing one of these! so this is a
white uniball gel pen i've talked about these countless times and these are actually very
nice white gel pens! they work beautifully for highlights for drawings if you're an illustrator
if you do realism these things are very very very universal so i am so happy that i was able to find
a white gel pen. and the retail value of this is actually pretty cheap four dollars for a three
pack and if you break it down it comes down to one dollar and thirty cents per jelly roll
um it came with some candy
some crack ups poppin dip candy *sizzling popping sounds from candy*
so at this point the box is empty except for like these four things which by the way so far there's
like WAY more stuff than i expected inside of this little box! i honestly thought there was
going to be like maybe like three copic markers and that was it. you know? next up we got this
little cupcake dude this is spectrum noir marker.. oh? no. this is an artist series
alcohol-based ink personally i've never heard of this brand but i'm willing to give it a shot.
oh yeah that's nice that's some very good stuff right there.
i cannot find the brand for the life of me
i'm assuming they got this at the craft store in a pack and usually craft stores mark up their
stuff. so i'm gonna give this maybe like two dollars and fifty cents per individual marker
and by the way this is a bullet nib
so far i actually really like the individually wrapped ones because
they all seem to be like bangers so hopefully this one is too.
oh, oh! we got a micron! oh heck yeah! so this is a micron fineliner pen it's really good for
illustration, fine details, which i have like the world's shakiest hand so i'm not very good at fine
lining but yeah i really enjoy microns i think they're very nice oh and this is a super thin one
this one seems like it's a little dried out like it's having a hard time
writing.. so that could be a problem when i'm using this for the artwork.
oh yeah, definitely this one definitely has been used you can tell by the cap
like the cap is definitely beat up and the inside also looks kind of beat up too so this one
definitely looks like it might have been used. according to google if you were to buy this in a
pack and divide it by just the one pen it would total one dollar and sixty cents per micron.
okay so this one i don't know. i saw a glimpse of it. whatever it is, it's pink. oh! so this is
interesting this is not a regular sharpie this is a poster paint
sharpie it's water-based instead of oil-based and yeah huh i've never
seen a sharpie in the form of poster paint before that's.... i have so many questions.
oh she is vibrant! she is bright! she is
not playing! with the studio lights and on the screen it's like coming off like neon bright pink,
wow! this is so pretty it's going to add a very very interesting element to whatever i create
*singing nsync* it's tearing up my heart when i'm with you...
according to the walmart app these are kind of expensive coming in at 3.70 per individual marker
which compared to a regular sharpie that's actually kind of expensive
and this brings us to the very last item i hope it's another copic honestly but,
let's see. oh tada! this is actually another art supply that i've never
seen before by this brand elmer's glue like the glue people,
this is apparently like their version of a posca pen it's a bright red paint marker it's oil based
unlike the other one which was water-based. i don't know why but this looks very nostalgic
like even though it's brand new it literally looks like it's straight out from the 90s
i don't know it's just giving me like vintage vibes so let's open this one up
so we might have a problem there's no tip i don't know what else to do besides like go
out and get a new nib or see if maybe there's something inside of this that
we can like dip a brush in, you know? i don't even know if you can open this. *tries to rip open*
yeah okay never mind that is absolutely NOT gonna work. it's all one piece
so i guess i'm gonna go to the craft store get a nib and we'll see if i can somehow make this work
so this was just the cheapest one i could find. as you can see it has not
been activated yet. it's completely brand new and i'm just gonna pull it out, place it in.
oh! it's working! ..that was suspiciously easy. i can't believe that worked.
so far the color selection has been *very* interesting to say the least.
see the problem is i have all these textures that basically don't mix together whatsoever.
so in order to make them all look similar, my plan is to completely melt them down.
so now that it's dry i'm going to do this side. this side is going to be a little bit more
tricky because i'm basically going to be melting sharpies with alcohol so we'll see how this goes
low key, i'm freaking out because that worked out so incredibly well! hopefully
everything else works out as well as that did specifically me and my shaky hands arch nemesis
fine lining. ah, this is so nerve-wracking having to like fine line with a pen.
oh gotta mentally prepare myself *breathes* okay. here we go. i'm just gonna do it.
i feel like this is the weirdest angle i have ever done
in my life unbelievably with all those textures colors markers random assortment of everything you
can think of i was able to create something that i am very happy with here's what it looks like!
one last hair flip! just let me do it in slow-mo! it's my only chance!
oh yeah! okay, do i think buying a random mystery art box off ebay for 60
is worth it? probably not. maybe i should try a third time. i always feel so awkward when i
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