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Published: 2016-02-18 15:40:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 5725; Favourites: 216; Downloads: 0
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A super cheap and easy solution (aka, perfect for me!) to blending colored pencils WITHOUT crushing the tooth of the paper
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I couldnt find alcohol to get for blending so I bough some colourless alcoholbased markers for blending instead. Works perfectly XD And as far I remember to scribble around to get any pen colour of the tip before going to next colour for blending it works perfectly.
Its a good tutorial,was looking for one
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Nail polish remover might work too, but thanks for letting me know about the marker! I was too nervous about potentially ruining my only one so I didn't want to test it out, haha.
Thanks though! Glad it was helpful
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the markers work 
I was thinking about using nail polish remover lol...hehe >
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Awesome
Good luck with that if you try that one too!
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like I said on Youtube, gonna try it on cheap wally world card stock with my different color pencils..but mainly crayola cause that is what I mostly use. I too look for the cheapest but best materials. I've found crayola products to be fairly good, though a few Dollar General and Dollar Tree brands have impressed me time to time. BTW that cards stock at wally world is about 4.70...forget how many sheets. It's a bit smoother than other papers though.
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There are many different types of wax based colored pencils if you want to try it out again. Oil based might work as well. I use Prismacolor, but there's also Derwent, Polychromos, Polycolor, Cretacolor, etc. They're all gonna be more expensive than Crayola though. If you want to use Crayola, since they're lead, you can try tissues, q-tips, and tortillons. I'd recommend having /several/ layers first before blending for best results.
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I also bought the right type of alcohol this time. They are claiming crayola is wax based but in all honesty it looks like lead to me. It looks like wax would be cheaper? Btw does alcohol have the same effect on crayons?
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It is just lead. Crayola describes it a bit more here . I haven't tried it on crayons, but it'd be an interesting experiment.
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thanks for that link. I was thinking there was lead cause you notice when you drop in alcohol on it, it turns bluish for a bit before it dries. I might goof around with crayons too this weekend...I've never been a fan of crayons because of that awful texture they have, but if you could blend them it would be a lot better.
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Makes me wonder what would happen if you heated up the drawing. If the texture would dissipate and melt together. Oh no, I'm so curious now xD I don't have a blow dryer, but I have a microwave. I just /have/ to test this out now. I'll let you know how it goes
Edit: I tried a lot of layers and different pressures but nothing :/ I had it in there for several minutes, perhaps it didn't get hot enough or the layers are just too thin. I was debating the oven, but then I didn't want to start a fire
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Lol. Imagine a device that melted it as you drew.
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That'd be cool ;o; Didn't try the alcohol though, perhaps I'll give it a shot later
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Thank you for this, as it's certainly right up my alley in terms of tools I typically use. Might help save me from a headache or two in the future. ^_^
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You're so welcome ^^ And I'm glad! Have fun experimenting
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^_^ I will! Hopefully it works well with paper from drawing pads too. But since I do use the same kind of colored pencils you did for the video at least in that regard it should still have the blending effect, so long as I don't use too much at once anyway.
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I'm sure it'll be fine, but it's always safe to do test spots first
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I finally got to try it out. Works pretty well, though I realized I was using paper meant for markers and not technically a regular sketch-pad. So what I learned with that, is so long as the rubbing alcohol isn't over saturated in the q-tip, it'll smooth things out and keep it so you can continue blending. If it is over saturated, then it actually kind of over blends it, and makes an effect on the page similar to actual markers.
Regardless, I had fun experimenting with all of that, and it is indeed a great trick to making things easier blending wise once you get the hang of it.
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Awesome, glad to hear it 
Best of luck with it!
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Aye I thought about a blending stump, but I'd either have to find one or figure out how to make one (never done that before myself). But either way it helps, and I'm probably going to use it the next time I have a bunch of hair to color in just so it blends better overall.
Thank you again for the tutorial!
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They have them at art shops. Either ones like Michaels, Joanns, or more 'art art' ones for professionals. I haven't made one either, but I have the paper I want to try it with. But, as the internet goes, there are looaaddss of tutorials
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Aye, I think out where I'm at we've got a Hobby Lobby, which would work. 
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Aw, oh no 
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This is nice, just wached the video.
I would try this, but I have to go buy some (rubbing) alcohol first.
Living far away from stores is not fun...
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Thanks!
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I never thought of using a Q-tip! That's awesome lol. I use a generic blender stick with some oil, love the sheen after.
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Whatever works, amiright? Haha. A blending stump isn't a bad idea either, I just don't have any clean ones to use for it. Gotta try making some one day
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I like this a lot. Thanks for putting it up.
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Thanks, I'm glad! And you're welcome
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You're welcome! I hope it helps ^^
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really good i dea ^^ it's cool for the beginners to put a tutorial ^^
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