Episode One, what a hall markers. Many people tend to ask, excuse me, what are the difference between alcohol markers and what are calories? Well, the difference is that alcohol markers use alcohol as an element to spread the pigments onto the paper, while watercolor is made from water based solution, which will be used to spread the pigments onto the paper. And next up, we are going to look at the advantages and disadvantages of alcohol markers and watercolor. First of all, the pro alcohol marker is that the color it operates really fast. Therefore, when we paint with them, we don't have to wait until it dry.

This quality make the alcohol marker become permanent color. Therefore, you can use this color to paint it on something like clothes or plastic. Another benefit is to That students alcohol marker doesn't have water based solution. We then can use it on top of the paper many times without making the paper bend or a torn, just like what is shown in the video. But I also have to remind you that the quality of the paper has to be good as well. And I will suggest you the paper suggestions in the paper.

And the last benefit of alcohol marker is that even though it doesn't have control Z as in digital art, you can still fix the mistakes using the techniques that I will teach you later in this course. And that's for watercolor. Can you guess what is the benefit? Of course, it's the fact that this color is way cheaper than alcohol markers. And when you paint it on a paper the color doesn't penetrate to the paper as much as alcohol mockery as well. Another benefit is the fact that his color is quite unique.

So if you want to use other colors to replicate the effect of watercolor on the paper, it would be hard to do so now let's talk about the dis advantageous of this color. Firstly, watercolor takes a lot of time to prepared equipments before painting such as we have to prepare water Brach and painting tray etc. Apart from this water color is also quite difficult to control because you have to estimate the amount of water that is good enough and you will also need to know color dairies to be able to mix and create new color that you want, while alcohol marker will be mixed already and will give you exactly the color that you need. So that's quite easier for beginners to use alcohol markers and in the next episode we are going to explore many brands of alcohol markers and see what are their Benefits and disadvantages.

See you there.