Spectrum Noir Review ♡

 

 

Hi there! *(*´∀｀*)☆

 

 As I told you, I bought the Spectrum Noir markers on friday the 30th May and the first two sets (pastels set and lights set) arrived allready next monday. ♥ The brights and darks set arrived just today. They were shipped separately, because the sets were offered on different amazon stores.

Unfortunately thought the post office, that they'are allowed to throw my first package around, I think. (；￣Д￣) Just look:

creased, ripped package

They weren't protected by a bubble wrap or something else but the contents were undamaged.

(｡´∀｀)ﾉ Lucky me!

The next two packages arrived unharmed, I'm glad. One also in a carton pack and one in a welded plastic foil.

As you can see, there is a difference between the darks set and the others, because it's an older edition.

Let's take a look on the markers

Except of the different forms are the markers pretty much the same inside. The new ones are hexagonal shaped, double ended and have a rubber grip on both sides. Like the Copic Markers they own a broad tip and a small, feltpen similar, pointed tip. But even without the flexible brush tip, you can still colour small areas easily! (｀・ω・´)
The older ones seem to be not as well made as the newer ones. It's hard to open them and their shape is quadratic. Nevertheless they're not bad, even they're an older edition the ink isn't dried up.

I really like them both, through the size and form are the Spectrum Noir markers really handy and comfy. (*´・ｖ・)

Also through their shape they are stackable (￣▽￣*)

The only disadvantage I found is that the colours of the top often isn't the same as inside. But thats no problem, if you make a colour chart. You can download one here!

It is a bit messy because the ink bleeds out on regular copy paper, thats normal.
Please use for your drawings special paper for marker!
Normal paper will suck all the ink out of your pens and they will be faster empty!

Here you can see all shades of the four sets with 24 markers, the spaces are the shades of the remaining twelfe sets with 6 marker in it. Overall Spectrum Noir have 168 colour tones avaiable. They're all really bright and varied, you have nice colours for the skin, even fluorescent neons and many different greyish shades. ♡

The color application on paper is really nice and evenly, it blends with a wet in wet technique very well, except you blend a light and a very dark colour, it turns out a bit "cloudy". You just have to use more shades, for example a light, a middle and a dark one. （　´∀｀）

You are able to store them in their boxes, it's easy to open and close them
But if you need, there are also special bags purchasable ♡

 

Spectrum Noir marker are in my opinion a fantastic cheep alternative to Copics, especially for beginners.
The only thing, that could make it difficult to handle with these, is the hard tip, but myself I'm not dependent on such a brush tip. For me are these markers a good extension for my color spectrum but I love it to use them combined with my Copic Ciao, Graphmaster and crayons.

So, that was my review. Hope it was informative and helped you. (´ω｀★)

Maybe you are thinking of buying them, too! ♡

 

Thanks for reading *(*´∀｀*)☆ 

xoxoxo