You might not like these but I do! Ohuhu Molokai Extra Wide Alcohol Marker review
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- These markers are big and beautiful! I was sent the new release of Ohuhu Molokai markers the other day and I can't stop drawing with them! They come in 4 sets of 6 alcohol markers and they feature a 3/4" nib on one end. You can pul the nib out (I tried it and show it at the end of the video) and refill with an alcohol ink of your choice (Ohuhu does not offer ink refills at this time but they plan to in the future for their most popular colors to start) making this an economical alternative to the empty wide marker Copic sells. You can see the marker here: shrsl.com/3vo3h at Ohuhu and now on amazon: amzn.to/3QW9kE9
The Molokai wide markers use the same color names and numbers as the Honnalulu series (brush) markers. They would be a nice addition to that range.
Pros:
Price
Good color selection of colors you would want in a large format (landscape, architecture, basics, greys)
Comfortable to hold
Nice amount of line width variation.
Fun to Use
Color name and number are printed on the marker body
Come with indexing stickers to color and put on the caps for accurate color identification
Nice reusable packaging with acts as a marker stand/storage and protects them.
Cons:
Only available in 6 color sets, no open stock options
No refill ink or replacements nibs available as of 1/17/23 (and it looks like the Copic wide nibs are not a match but you can use Copic or any other ink to refill them)
*This is a nitpick but I don't link the one neutral grey in the grey set as the others are cool grey, I think they should have given us a darker cool grey instead of the random neutral grey.
Bottom line: I really enjoy using these! I hope they come out with a skintone or earth tone set because I would like to have these for large figure drawings. I think the sets are well thought out tho (except for the one neutral grey) and I plan to use them with my other markers. I am keeping them handy on my table so I do. I'd recommend starting with the Haycion oasis set if you want to try these out as there are some good landscape colors in there and that is where I think you would want to use wide-fill colors and see how you like them. I can't wait to see what colors they have next, I hope they expand the line but they are off to a wonderful start! Or at least offer packs of empties or clears so we can make our own at a lower cost than Copic.
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I have not historically been an alcohol marker person, mainly for budgetary and space constraints, and I've learned about myself that having too many color choices in anything/any medium is distracting and makes it hard to focus on choosing effective colors to layer/glaze. These sets seem to alleviate that problem, plus I love how quickly one can block in a background so you can move on and focus on building up your details; I loved your realistic shadows on the couch around Penny and the combo of colors in the water of your landscape. Definitely a page to bookmark on Amazon!
I agree with everything you said, especially the part about having too much color choices
The markers are beautiful colors. The swatching labels are a great idea. Thank you for the video.
Those markers seem like a really cool addition to regular sets for artists who do a lot of larger backgrounds or artworks. I love the way they made it possible to create a drybrush effect.
I am not a marker fan, but enjoyed seeing you using them and trying different things. Markers fans would be happy to see so many options :-)
I totally agree!
I was so hoping you'd create a landscape and you exceeded my expectations. Your skill and talent always blows my mind! And your pup came out beautiful too 🥰🥰
Thank you so much 😀
Ditto for me, Shady. Not to mention, Lindsay is a set of encyclopedias of everything crafty/artistry.
They look like cool markers. I love your landscape/seascape, and especially love your drawing of Penny! Fantastic!
Thank you so much 😀
The caps are tighter because the pen is larger! Better to have tight than loose. I have just purchased all sets! Great for backgrounds for cardmaking!
My friend got two full sets and offered a few of our friends one of the extra sets. Thanfully most of them wanted the blue tones because i wanted the oasis set. I think the color palette seems more useful. I still havent opened it so i appreciate the swatches. I do wish it included a lighter base green, maybe a linden green (winsor gouache shade) but the colors included are still really nice.
What a nice thorough review. It’s nice to watch one without any desire to go buy it myself! (Cant deal with odors, huffed too much alcohol in the lab)
It was so nice to hear you get excited with the markers! Your art work using them is wonderful! Have fun coloring ! We certainly benefit from your thoughts and reviews! Thank you so much Lindsay. 😉🤗
Thank you, I will
I love the stick on labels so you get the accurate look of the color
Hullo Lindsay, excellent use of these markers and your landscapes are wonderful! Your details are amazing on your Puppy's Pic! I think if I needed a wide marker these would now be a first choice for me! This is saying something too! I did not see a need for the Copic wides when they were available, yet you made such an amazing demonstrations with these markers and you were not setting out to do a demonstration video! To get the entire set of under $100.00 is typical of Ohuhu! Wonderful video Lindsay, thanks for showing everyone the good and better of these markers!
It's good to "see" Penny and that lovely landscape. The water in the landscape is spectacular. Hope you filmed your process there and will offer a video! It's also fun to watch videos for products that don't tempt me at all -- it's relaxing without feeding the want-monster. I bought a ton of markers when I started my art journey and now I mostly use them to blend pencils. I'm clearly not a marker person at all, wish I could trade them for more pencils....but it's good to see that companies like Ohuhu are getting creative for those who do like markers. Creative companies offer promise for everyone, because they probably spur competitors to get creative too. Along with the colors you mentioned, these kits are also missing the pinks, purples and baby yellows, so I suspect those will be coming out this spring for Easter or something. Enjoy your new markers!
I think they went with colors people would want to fill a big area with.
Love pic of your dog.
I do like how the colors are organized for each set. Thanks Lindsay! I think your demonstrations made these markers less scary! I am real new to using markers. ( and taking your class !). It’s like any art material, you have to learn how to use them to the fullest degree to feel comfortable with them. I love how you used them for fine detail work and big broad strokes too. Abstract artists will love these also! ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the great review! Those are so interesting. My "want monster" is tempted, but since I'm not creating any art at all right now, I can resist...for now. 😏 They do look like they would be really fun to play with though.
You have good willpower. My want monster has been running amok lately 😆
I can hear the difference in each side when you swatch them.
I always love you sniffing the supplies
I love me a wide chisel marker. These might have to be the markers I start collecting.
I love that dog drawing! ❤
Thank you so much 😀
Hello, Nice to meet you soon, Dear Lindsay! I thank you for your detail crafts and beautiful color, and videos! And I love your many crafts and colors! To Dear Lindsay!🧡!❤!
Wow!
$100 total to get the 24 set seems steep, especially for Ohuhu!
For that price I could spend a little more and get refillable Copics. . .
I would love to add these to my artillery but not until the price drops for them. . .
All that said another fantastic review from you!!
Been waiting to hear your thoughts on them ever since I saw them in the Sat Chat video! I was very interested in them for their size.
I’ve had these for a couple of days. (Just one set of them, the Halcyon Oasis.) I didn’t like them at first, but they are growing on me. The textures and effects I can get are pretty cool!
W I d e m a r k e r s for the win
I enjoyed your review. They did more than I expected. Also, I listened to The Silence Patient last year. It was really good.
I loved it!
It's amazing 😳❤️
Thanks 😊
Hmmmm, I love the colors, and it's a very cool idea, definitely something different, but I can't see any time when I would use them. The landscape is great, but for me, I think it would be easier to use watercolors or brush markers. I enjoyed watching you sketch your little mannequin though!
Excellent review Lindsay!
Thanks so much!
Fantastic 😊
I really like my Ohuhu brush markers but I am not sure how I would use the wide ones. I hope Ohuhu comes out with the refill inks soon.
They look really interesting. I think I’ll try a set and check them out. Thanks for the info b
Love the reviews. Must go out to buy some supplies....!!! Thank you.
Once they go on sale I'd love to pick up the primaries set and the oasis set... and maybe the greys...
Love ohuhu markers 😍
These remind me of the COPIC wide markers
Great work. But for me I love my ohuhu brush size.
Thanks Lindsay!
You bet!
So I have a set of 12 Prismacolor brush tip/bullet tip professional markers, but I just can't seem to get them to work. Anytime I try to blend out one color with a lighter color (or any color), the overlap area develops this weird blotchiness and strange looking texture. It's like the pigment in the markers doesn't want to mix or layer, so some is settling out of solution, creating a spotted, blotchy effect. I've tried different papers, but none of them have fixed the issue. I have tried the Strathmore mixed media visual journal (100% cotton vellum), Strathmore drawing visual journal, and Canson Fanboy illustration pad, and they all perform poorly compared to what I would expect from what I see from online tutorials. The Canson illustration paper blended the most, but also had the most pronounced splotchiness, and a lot of bleeding. The drawing paper was a little better in bleeding, but still had issues with the texture. The mixed media vellum paper was basically unusable, because the marker immediately soaked into the paper. When I layer the lighter color over the darker color to blend them together, the lighter color literally just goes on top and doesn't mix, and it's like these little pigment dots slowly building up slight, uneven opacity over the darker color underneath, creating an extremely splotchy and weird effect.
I should mention that the markers and all of the paper I used are many years old, because I quit art for 4-5 years and didnt touch any of my supplies during that time, and only very recently starting getting back into it. Maybe the issues is that the sizing on my paper has gone bad, though I remember that when I first got the prismacolor markers, I barely used them specifically because I could never get them to work right and look good. I used to enjoy using the cheap unbranded alcohol marker set I had, and that's why I bought the prismacolor markers in the first place, so I don't know.
I guess I'm trying to figure out if this could be an issue of technique, or if it's just the markers themselves. Could I have gotten a bad batch?? I think I might try to buy a couple markers from a different brand open stock to compare them with the prismacolor ones and the no name ones, because I used to really like using alcohol markers like 7+ years ago to create abstract designs, and that was something I did in my sketchbooks a lot. Or maybe I should buy an ohuhu marker pad. I'm not sure which is the problem here haha. The cheap set performs better on all papers, but still doesn't perform super well. It's definitely not as splotchy as the prismacolor, but the blends could be smoother. I think the illustration paper is soaking up too much of the marker too quickly. It seems like both the paper and the prismacolor markers themselves are contributing to the problem. I wish I knew how they are supposed to preform, but I can only compare to RUclips videos.
It should like you are taking too big of a jump in color. Try blending with a slightly lighter color, not a really light one.
"Oh yes", I hope *eventually* Ohuhu does the same type of "label maker" system, for their regular marker sets too!!! 😊
-THE END 🤷
I hope so too!
It seems when you use them unmarked side up, you're pulling them toward you. That could be the difference in how smooth they go on. It's hard to use them like that and go left to right.
I think you are probably right!
They will take up some valuable storage space.
Luckily I have plenty if room
Hi Lindsey!!!! I love your videos!! I have just started my own are channel and was wondering if you had any tips on starting??
Be consistent and don't worry about the views.
what I wouldn't do with a set of 48 assorted colors of these- i know they have the little sets, but I'm talking a mix of colors (one gray is enough!) plus pastel versions. Or just a pastel set of 6. *swoon* Would love to do huge landscape drawings with these!
Oh, and gosh, your wrist. That must have hurt and been a little stressful when you got it - so sorry!
I'm sure if these do well they will come out with more.
Clear kindred spirits use wine corks on our exacto knives.
I don't know how i would feel with them being so THICC but I am not good with markers at all so hard to say! Are they actually ergonomic?
Yes, I have small hands and had no trouble drawing with them.
you are so cool
I think the blank ones are for people who are not interested in the numbering system.
Good point!
Just like any other marker ink these aren’t lightfast and I’ve noticed after like a year or so my water based markers that I switched out on the tube have changed in color, so it might be worth keeping the spare to replace the swatches when they get too dull. That’s what I’d use them.
You can swipe another coat on the original sticker.
@@thefrugalcrafter thats true my sticker paper is more like permanent though it has a very heavy adhesive on it.
Also mine are on the barrel so i would have to remove the sticker, the caps weren't flat to put them on top.
Thanks for the review, much appreciated 🙂 I tried to order 2 swts on Amazon & the code doesn’t work…did t know if you had any suggestions? Thank you 🙂
The code us only good on the ohuhu website
@@thefrugalcrafter I tried the code on their site & it didn’t work either…. Ohuhuart10 is what I used. I just wasn’t sure if anybody else had trouble with the code working 🙂
@@beachmama23 oh that is odd, they told me that code would never expire! I just tried it and it didn't work for me either, so sorry!
@@thefrugalcrafter no worries at all…just was seeing if it was an user error on my end 😉 Have a great weekend 🙂
Do you feel like Lindsay that the Larger a marker is the more ink it has ? Or no lol 😅 curious!
Im not sure. The base ofvthe nib is also 3/4" wide so the felt inside has to big enough to encase it so I think it would have to be a bit larger. It might be an oval rather than a circle tho.
Would these be cool for underpaintings for pastels or other media?
They aren't lightfast tho.
These look really cool but I feel like they missed a trick not making a skin tone set 🤔
Maybe that will be next
Lol are you feeding the dog a veggie diet? It looks so skinny in your drawing. Just joking with you☺️ I can’t talk mines overweight
Of course not and the vet said she coyld lose a few pounds 😆
@@thefrugalcrafter wow. I was only kidding because her legs looked skinny. I liked the drawing though.
@@thefrugalcrafter I hope I didn’t offend you with my stupid comment.. you have truly been a blessing to me over the last decade. You got me interested in art and any time I feel blue I watch one of your videos and I feel better because of your cheerful personality and positive outlook. Thank you for being so wonderful ♥️
@@michelleosborne8951 oh no, not at all, were good 😆