In this lettering review I am going to be talking about the one and only Crayola Signature markers aka crayola brush pens or crayola markers (whatever you want to call it)

If you just came here wondering should I buy these or not here is the brief short answer.

I would not recommend these brush pens for beginners or in general anyone for the bad quality. Especially if you want to start lettering with these brush pens I just don’t recommend it.

Any way if you want the full explanation and still don’t believe this is just a short little summary of what you are going to be learning today.

(I’m here to make sure you don’t buy these markers)

• The Actual Review
• How To use Crayola Brush Pens
• Actual nice Beginner Lettering Brush Pens

Let’s get started 

The Actual Review

Very first thing that I want to say is neat packaging love the tin that it comes with to be honest. 

Let us step away from the packaging and start moving onto the brush pens themselves. 

I am going to be breaking up this review into many other sections. 

If you do want to skip everything at the end of this section I am going to be giving you guys a whole table to explain the different things about these brush pens.

DURABILITY

These brush pens are not that durable. Instantly even while using smooth paper they started to fray.

If you are wondering what fraying is here is a link to one of my articles about it.

Another thing that goes with this is when starting lettering with these brush pens I notice that it wasn’t the most flexible felt tip.

It was very stiff and couldn’t exactly make the thickest lines even though the tip is as big as regular tombows.

This then leads to the bending of the very tip of the tip. That might not make sense so here is a picture.

Since this was happening it became even harder to create my thin upstrokes witch is not good.

Leads to the second part

USAGE

Look it was not that easy to use because of what you have just read above.

Since it is quite hard to use it this is not the best pen for beginners. 

Let me just say that the pen became very wonky because of me trying to put pressure to get the thick lines. Which is not exactly supposed to happen.

But anyway I must move on.

COST 

Well right now you can find the pack of 32 for about $13.99

Comparing that to tombows is not that bad and is quite a cheap price.

But other factors show why these markers might be priced this low. So either you can get cheap quality markers or just get the regular crayolas.

Look if you want to start lettering just get some regular Crayola markers witch is going to be better than these ones.

But you may be asking yourself can you do lettering with regular markers.

Here is the link to my tutorial all about it.

WATERCOLOR

Since these were also being marketed as watercolor pens that you would use for watercolor I had to try them out.

Like usual I am going to be trying out two different things ( I usually do these with my regular tombows).

One is the plastic bag technique. 

So I would write on the plastic bag then grab a brush and water to see if it collects up the ink.

Then I basically start seeing if you can do water brush calligraphy.

Well this technique has easily passed.

For number two we are going to be writing on actual paper with two different colors.

Then see if we could blend those colors with water.

Again easily passed.

So you could say that these are good watercolor brush pens but again you have to take into consideration all of the other factors from above.

Which will also be giving you a rough time if you were using these pens for watercolor.

I mean you could do all of the exact same things with any other crayola marker so I don’t see the point at all.

Anyway, here is the table you have been waiting for.

Out of 10

How To Use Crayola Brush Pens

There are probably people out there still wanting to learn how to use these Crayola Brush Pens even though I won’t recommend it here is a short little tutorial.

First thing is how exactly are you going to hold the brush pen.

Well with any brush pen you should always be holding it at a 45 degree angle like this.

Once you have that down you are going to want to start learning the basic strokes of Calligraphy.

Here are the basic strokes.

Once you have finished that you are going to want to start forming letters with the different strokes.

Like this…

Honestly, if you keep on practicing that you should be able to learn somewhat to control this brush tip.

Again I don’t recommend this for beginners.

Good Cheap Brush Pens For Beginners

One of the best beginner brush pens that are very affordable and easy to use (is not even considered a brush pen) is any type of regular Crayola markers.

I have linked up above to my tutorial on these markers.

They can be super tips or washable crayola markers.

The rest of this section I am going to be just listing out links of good brush pens for beginners.

• Crayola Super Tips
• Crayola Markers
• Tombow Fudenosuke 
• Tombow Dual Brush Pens
• Pentel Touch Sign Pen
• Artline Stix Brush Pens

Final Thoughts

Look, these Crayola brush pens are not the best but they are very affordable. Durability not that good neither is the Usage of the actual pen.

For whatever reason you still want to try these brush pens out for yourself or you’re not even going to be using them for calligraphy at all. Try them out for yourself.

Again I would not recommend these brush pens if you are wanting to start doing brush lettering.

If you just want to give these brush pens as a gift to a young child not wanting to get into calligraphy it would be a good gift.