#it’s over $100 but for that many markers compared to copics? worth it

[smilesrobotlover]

ohuhu markers are really really good; ive had a set for years and they’re really nice. they really give copic markers a run for their money and I’d say they’re equally good tbh. I recommend getting the ones with the brush tip and chisel tip and not the one with the bullet and chisel tip bc the brush tips are really nice for coloring 👍

That seems to be the main consensus, which I figured was the case but it’s nice having some people back it up. I used to watch DrawingwithWaffles on YouTube and she said the same thing. Honestly, I’d like to invest in Ohuhu markers, especially since they’re WAAAYYYY cheaper than Copic markers

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TRDL 2017 - Bots and Bugaboos Update 001

Here's the first set of Bots and Bugaboos done in 2017...

1. CityTortoisebugga: drawn for my in-laws' fridge, something I add to often when over for dinner. The concept was to play up the long lifespan of great tortoises by building a town with some topography on the shell... complete with evergreens and an elevated roadway. My daughter did a variant of this that actually put it to shame. This was Pilot pen on Post-It, no pencils, no do-overs...

2. Owlbugga: a (wrong) interpretation of a sketch my son did... I added the owl and the falling leaves to give it an autumn vibe and to add the organic to the otherwise mechanical.

3. Skibugga: Another completely incorrect interpretation of his sketch; I mean... I like the scarf though.

4. Ghostbugga: My son drew what i thought was a ghost holding a megaphone. I was amused, in my version, of the wispy old timey ghosts flying out of it... recursive!

5. Unicatbugga: This was an exercise I like to do, where the kid chooses features (round/skinny, tall/short, hairy/scaly, etc) and I improvise. This was my daughter's creation. She loved it, and then did improv sketches for me for awhile thereafter. The human hands and feet were weird features she demanded. The best part of this process is that they don't see it until it's done. 

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I assembled the two Wrongrobot art books from about a decade's worth of sketches, mostly done on Post-Its originally, and often with simple pens. After experimenting with the process at the Alternative press Expo 2015, I decided to convert all those disparate sketches into a common rendered format, for publication, specifically using Copic markers to shade them in grayscale. Simple, classy, sweet-as! It involved the processing of hundreds of photographs and scans, converting to vector on many of them, printing, hand washing with marker, rescanning, compiling, etc. You'd think after two volumes I'd be done! But oh no... lately, what I've been doing mostly is drawing my interpretation of things my kids draw (ages 5 and 7)... often I'm completely wrong about what they were trying to convey, but it's fun to compare them and laugh about it. 

The first two volumes are available here:

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