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6/7/2025, 5:15:44 PM
>>7599805
No they're really not. The only feasible reason they could be expensive is if you either don't take care of your shit and have to replace it often, are wasting materials through putting excess out and letting it cure or go bad, are making big pieces often, or are for some reason using your nice materials for warmups and observational practice. If you constantly run out of one thing you use often, then that means you should probably buy it in a greater quantity at discount to save money.
Copics are about 5-6 USD a piece. The ink bottles are slightly less, and everyone bitches but even with the shrinkflation a few years ago they cost about the same as other premium alcohol inks per ml (compare to tim holtz shit for example). You don't need that many to do nice work and you can accumulate them over time. Tombow are cheaper, the only real wallet killers are Pantone markers because they're the only lightfast and "Pantone."
Good wood pencils, F-C 9000s and General Kimberly and such, are 1-2$ open stock, less in sets. Mechanical leads in both standard and lead-holder sizes are also silly cheap. And erasers aren't expensive either.
Gamblin oils are only expensive if you want to use the cadmiums and cobalts, the rest are like 10-17 USD per tube, Grumbacher have some below 10$ within the same range and don't cost an arm and a leg for those pigments. You won't go thru these that quick either.
Goache is also in this range on a per-tube basis.
Daniel Smith watercolors are 10-15 USD per tube, and WC lasts a long long time so its even cheaper than oils.
Golden heavy body acrylic are 8-14 USD per tube at series 1-6 and their fluid acrylics max out at 10 USD a bottle. Talens Expert caps out at 15 USD a tube, Liquitex professional only goes over 14 USD for a series 5.
Calligraphy inks cost about 5-10 USD a bottle.
Gel pens are about the same price as pencils.
The only real "expensive" shit is high end papers and canvases, but the midrange on those is fine.
No they're really not. The only feasible reason they could be expensive is if you either don't take care of your shit and have to replace it often, are wasting materials through putting excess out and letting it cure or go bad, are making big pieces often, or are for some reason using your nice materials for warmups and observational practice. If you constantly run out of one thing you use often, then that means you should probably buy it in a greater quantity at discount to save money.
Copics are about 5-6 USD a piece. The ink bottles are slightly less, and everyone bitches but even with the shrinkflation a few years ago they cost about the same as other premium alcohol inks per ml (compare to tim holtz shit for example). You don't need that many to do nice work and you can accumulate them over time. Tombow are cheaper, the only real wallet killers are Pantone markers because they're the only lightfast and "Pantone."
Good wood pencils, F-C 9000s and General Kimberly and such, are 1-2$ open stock, less in sets. Mechanical leads in both standard and lead-holder sizes are also silly cheap. And erasers aren't expensive either.
Gamblin oils are only expensive if you want to use the cadmiums and cobalts, the rest are like 10-17 USD per tube, Grumbacher have some below 10$ within the same range and don't cost an arm and a leg for those pigments. You won't go thru these that quick either.
Goache is also in this range on a per-tube basis.
Daniel Smith watercolors are 10-15 USD per tube, and WC lasts a long long time so its even cheaper than oils.
Golden heavy body acrylic are 8-14 USD per tube at series 1-6 and their fluid acrylics max out at 10 USD a bottle. Talens Expert caps out at 15 USD a tube, Liquitex professional only goes over 14 USD for a series 5.
Calligraphy inks cost about 5-10 USD a bottle.
Gel pens are about the same price as pencils.
The only real "expensive" shit is high end papers and canvases, but the midrange on those is fine.
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