THE ULTIMATE WAX CRAYON TEST - Which One Is Best?! 

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As someone who is colourblind, any crayon brand that doesn't label their crayons is a no from me

As a young child I was always given crayola, but was jealous of the kids with cheaper brands like play day and rose art because they had that really waxy transparent feel… they colored smoother, and didn’t make sound when you colored. I remember this one girl gave me one of her cheap red crayons and I cherished that thing. 🤣 I had very specific taste in pencils too….

I didn’t even know there were these many brands of crayons out there 😅

Those creatology crayons are real outliers; vibrant colors, low dust, low smearing, and one of the cheapest in price. I'd say for a kid's crayon (or if you're into adult coloring books), they're probably your best option.

I think most crayons arent too soft considering they're marketed towards children who press a lot, so they would probably break under so much pressure if they were softer.

Crayola vs RoseArt was where I first learned about “brand name” vs “knock off” … I was so jealous of the Crayola kids lmao

The Stockmar crayon blocks are actually not really for artists. They are used in kindergartens and schools a lot, especially in more alternative forms of those (like Montessori nusery school or Waldorf school). The block shape makes it especially easy for smaller children to grab them. The base is made from beeswax and all art supplies by Stockmar are, to my knowledge, non-toxic and ecologically friendly :) In Germany you can get the set of 8 blocks for about 9,50 $.

I’m honestly surprised that “crayon” isn’t one of those brand specific names like “Saran wrap” or “Kleenex” cause it just gives those vibes

The Honey Sticks are meant for toddlers. They're easy to grip and safe to eat. But don't eat them. But you could.

Expensive crayon brands with little color payout should be ashamed of themselves

"Dusting, crumbly stuff that is left behind" Thanos: This...does put a smile on my face

Crayons are incredibly fun to draw with. The fact that they're reasonably cheap as a whole make up for a great art supply

I think this could be a good resource for parents buying their kids art supplies. I grew up poor, so we couldn’t afford Crayola, but I always got the crappy crayons like the dollar store ones, and was frustrated that the colors were so light. Nice to know there are cheap options that still color well.

The stockmar crayons in block form are toddler crayons for me 😅 we had the stick form in primary school. It was so fun to put down coloured pencil rainbows layer a black crayon on top and then use the tool to scratch our messages or art. (I do think they are much cheaper in Germany though)

With all your crayon vids, you're going to have the companies rethink their formula to decrease their dust and adjust the color accuracy for better representation. Similar to how Jazza's marker and liner videos had their makers redo some of their manufacturing like Spectrum Noir did for their alcohol marker's brush nib. Always nice to see your enthusiasm on making art with what some might think as "kid's supplies" or "cheap supplies" as with several other art content creators have done. I need to get my watercolors and marker back out and make some traditional pieces. I've haven't touched them in a few months.

As a youngster, I always loved using the CraZArt crayons. I went to a daycare center before and after school, and I guess they just bought the cheapest they could find. Regardless, I loved them because in the larger packs you'd get these wildly fun and vibrant colors, and it was a blast to use them all in one drawing. My parents always bought Crayola though, and I liked those too I guess.

creatology has a wind-up crayon pack as well thats just Lovely to draw with! Gonna miss the year of the crayon, really helped me get motivated by playin’ around with a super nostalgic medium :’) you should try other unusual supplies!! personally i LOVE coloring a piece with highlighters, so bright and fluorescent and they always layer in really interesting ways!

Maped is a massive brand in Europe ! They specialize in school supplies. Here in France, back when I was a kid, they branded as the fun and ingenious brand making cool and colorfull supplies. If you had Maped stuff in primary school, everybody thought you were the coolest (or rich). However, french people don't pronounce it the english way, they say "mapèd" or "mapaid"

I believe Daiso and Miniso have their own crayons too. Do try them, Kasey!

The Mellissa and Doug crayons were literally my childhood, but they were super bad. I purposely avoided the pink and purple because I knew that the pigment was basically nonexistent. Lol 😆

These tests are so satisfying!! I've watched your erasers ones way too many times lol. Crayons are not common at all where I live, so I've never tested any of these brands, but just by watching this, If I had to pick only one brand, I'd go with Creatology, they seem so vibrant and smooth and have a pretty reasonable price.

BIC makes crayons now. They have a 24 pack, paperless, so no color names. I think they're rather nice, they seem less waxy and dusty than other crayons. Haven't really blended them so can't compare to these others. BIC also has a pack of markers and there's supposed to also be colored pencils, but I haven't found those. Also have to agree with others that the Caran d'ache Neocolor 1s are definitely the best artist crayons (the Neocolor 2s are the watercolor ones, love those as well).

The 'Layer' column turned into the 'Bleed/Smear' column. haha Those "Creatology" brand crayons were a pleasure to spectate, and for being so inexpensive, I'm stocking up (and thanks for wasting your own money, so we don't have to) 🤙🏽

Honestly, I go for the Cra-Z-Art every time we color in the Lisa Frank book.. they blend the best of any crayons we have lol perfect for rainbow cheetahs!

I always preferred crayola because they seemed to put more wax down with a lighter hand so you could avoid the dust. I also found that if you colored with your crayon properly, you never had to sharpen them!

I've always stubbornly refused to use any crayon brand aside from crayola. It's because of the weight in my hand. any other brand has never felt right in my hand.

I’m surprised the Caran d’Ache Neocolors aren’t part of your test!

Here in Uruguay maped is a well known school suplies brand, you should try their color pencils! my sister and i used to buy those for school because you don't need to press hard on the paper or do multiple layers to get a smoth bright color :) also, they are not expensive at all and they have that triangular shape as well! i could send you a picture if you'd like so you can have an idea on how they work without buying them!

i love how you write your numbers and do these organized charts. i love organization even though my apartment says otherwise

I can't believe we're almost at the end of Year of the Crayon. It feels like it started six weeks ago!

Caran D’ache Neocolor I are, hands down, the best wax crayon on the market! Please review those when you get a chance. They are about $2 each open stock but worth every penny! And the water soluble Neocolor II are even better.

I think it would’ve been interesting to see price/weight as well since the sizes differe

This was so fascinating to see the differences! I’m from germany and when I was in elementary school I had the stockmar crayon sticks and here they are not so expensive. I loved to make colorful pages and cover them with the black crayon to then scratch the black away to reveal the colors underneath

Fun fact about the Melissa and Doug brand of crayons, one day my dad was on a work trip and saw the Melissa and Doug brand for me (just a smaller pack) but my mom said “oh those don’t break as easily, be gentle they are pricey” so to this day I still have them in perfect condition.

Maped is the brand we get more easily where I live and I love them. They feel so nice to color with.

The best set of crayons I ever had was some random brand at a gas station for $2, and I swear they were so smooth they almost worked like oil pastel sticks. I'd kill to get ahold of more

I grew up with the Stockmar Crayons. Part of the reason they are so expensive is because Stockmar uses beeswax for the crayons. The crayons easily get dirty from the other crayons in the set, and when you draw with them, the little bits of the other crayon colors will smear on the paper, so I use the black tool to clean the crayons. Also-the crayons (both block and stick) do not break, no matter how hard you push, because they are very thick.

Thank you! I use Ooly for my collages and I love them. They do go on sale. They also have beeswax in them and they are super chunky so the cost isn't bad considering that many of the crayons have NO pigment!

Crayola and Creatology are the clear winners in my book. Creatology is the cheaper option, but what makes crayola stand out to me is the insane shade range. There's hundreds of different crayola colors. I have glitter crayola, confetti crayola, neon, metalic, etc. I also have a set of crayola called "colors of the world" which is specifically meant for being able to color all different skin tones ❤️

I got a Creatology kit from the thrift store mainly for the wood box and ended up keeping ALL of the art supplies for my granddaughter. I don't share my artist supplies with her but I do try to keep a student version of everything I have available for her. Creatology art supplies are great to work with.

I LOVE that the Stockmar crayons are exactly the same as when I was a kid (the 70s), even the box is exactly the same. It’s so nostalgic!

Colour names and durability should also have spaces on the testing chart 😌 If a crayon has a fun name is the make or break for me And how easily it breaks, my heart shatters every time a crayon snaps in my hand

Hey Kasey,Maped is a pretty good brand,they sell pretty well here in Brazil,I have the 36 pack colored pencil and the 12 felt tip pen,they are super pigmented,the colored pencils are smooth and creamy,they are very good to sharpen and are pretty cheap,they are better then many student grade pencils and is of course an excellent kid's grade material. Try and buy some products and see for yourself,they are AMAZING

The name of the IKEA crayons is “Måla” it basically means ‘to paint’ or ‘colour in’. Å is pronounced similarly to the O-sound in ‘born’. And the A is sort of pronounced like the ‘ah’ sounds in the sound staying alive. Random explanations for the pronunciation but it’s the first things that came to my mind.

The only reason why Crayola crayons were so dusty is because you pushed too hard on the crayon. If you used less pressure, there will be little to no dusting. Crayola is the only brand of crayons I'll use now because it has the best pigmentation and even with lighter pressure, it has less dusting and it doesn't leave heavy wax blots either. Crayola is also very easy to blend with when using lighter pressure and I can also easily build up multiple layers with lighter pressure. Crayola was my go-to brand for crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc. when I was a kid. I used to Cra-Z-Art but honestly, they're crayons just suck due to less pigmentation and heavy wax blots even with lighter pressure so I ended up giving the Cra-Z-Art crayons to people who are less fortunate in my town. As an adult artist now, I still like Crayola (literally anything with Crayola) if I'm making stuff with kids and I also use more professional art brands like Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, etc. for my own artwork. I've never had regrets from Crayola.

"I'm going to put down red, then we'll go across with a blue" My grandpa designing the DPRK's flag, probably

Most underrated art supply if I say so myself

Creatology (hope I spelled that right) seemed to be the highest quality for it's price range, I might have to look into them. I'm no artist though, I just like crayons more than most other art media (clay is my favorite though).

Maped is a pretty cool « kinda expensive but not too much » brand here in France, you were definitely a kool kid if you had some Maped products.

I am a profesional artist and you are right, I am going to buy those Stockmar because I am sure I can create amazing backgrounds with them! Also Crayola is a must because despite the dust the vibrance is something that for the price most brands can't offer. Ooly seems to me the winner in your list! I think the tool is to scratch the crayons from your artwork to create amazing textures and details!

Oh! those last ones you used!!! I used very similar ones once, what's cool about those is using harder crayons to create a background rainbow and then using those softer crayons to draw a thick black layer on top! then you can scratch the black layer and create really cool looking pieces!

I love videos like this! Super informative and entertaining to watch

Yes! I was just rewatching some of your older videos :)

I’m not a crafty person. I’m not an artist. I’m a mom of two little ones and I have often thought about which crayons I prefer for coloring with them. This video popped up in my feed and I LOVE it. 😂

ooly is for sure my favorite! that red-orange blending is GORGEOUS

I really like this comparison series, I would love to see more of this

This was a neat little experiment. Idk why it was so interesting to me, I’m not an artist, I don’t draw, and haven’t used crayons since I was a kid. It’s still good to know though next time I buy my daughter a set of crayons. Somebody needed to do this sort of research, thanks for getting to the bottom of this once and for all

thank you for making this video! i love to listen along to videos you make

The way you write your zeros is scratching an itch in my brain, and I *love* the rainbow blending tests

Creatology looks great.

Creatology won by a landslide in my opinion. That blending and pigment got that price? Amazing

This is my first time to the channel and I’m like instantly calmed by this video??? I just love it idk I’m overcome with enjoyment 🥺

Kasey continues to make some of the most satisfying art content on youtube. This made my autistic brain HUM with excitement haha

Hullo Kasey, sweet lil testing video! I did see a lot of comments about CaranD’ache brand, they are more famous for the neocolor II’s which are basically watercolors! They do have original Neocolor sticks that are a regular wax crayon, I have never tried them. I hope you have a chance before the end of year of the crayon ends! You might have a good video just grabbing footage from your crayon videos this year a “best of” clips video rather showing the crayons in real world use! Actually creating Art! You are truly inspirational and such a gifted young lady. I have enjoyed watching your videos for quite some time. Thank you for sharing your art journey with everyone.

I love this so much! The boyfriend and I had a ton of fun watching this and laughing at how pitiful some of the crayons are, especially compared to the incredible value of the cray-z-art crayons. Keep up the great work! Would love to see more of these types of videos for... Well, any type of art supplies you would be willing to round up for a huge comparison!

Cool video! It would be cool to see your top choices next to the corresponding tests in the table in the end, to make it more visual, but, overall, this is SCIENCE how it's been done since the dawn of mankind. Respect+

I grew up playing with Maped crayons - we didn't have Crayola where I was from and the Maped pack I got was a gift from my cousin who lived in the capital (I lived in another city). They were definitely one of the first art supplies I used (along with coloured pencils). Good to know they're faring well over the years. Year of the Crayon made me extremely nostalgic for those days scribbling on paper as a kid, even though I don't use crayons anymore (and not even that often as a kid). Gonna miss it.

First of all I really enjoy your testing videos! Secondly you unlocked a memory for me when you tried the Stockmar crayons, they are kindergarten type crayons and I vividly remember them now. I think they are so expensive because its an imported product? here you can buy them for half the price (same with the staedler and faber-castell tbh)

Thanks so much. Extremely helpful!

I was checking your channel every second hoping you will apload a video 😆

Carandache neocolor crayons are my favorites. Both the water soluble and the resistant ones

Nice video! Caran D’ache has some amazing wax crayons that you missed. They are Neocolor I. The Neocolor II are the water soluble version. Maybe you can get some of the wax ones to try. I’m going to have to try the Michael’s brand.

I think that cost performance of IKEA is the strongest ! Thank you for introducing it.

Omg I had the Melissa and Doug crayons when I was little! I don’t remember what the store was but it had a lot of their products. I remember getting a magnetic dress up doll too, and a puppet show thingy.

You should look into the different crayola packs! The Michael's I work at has metallic, pearl, and neon crayons!

What I learned: Creatology is cheap and high quality That none of them could make a good green that isn't dusty And only Ooly made a good dust free Blue

Not me… watching as you write your 8’s and FINALLY realizing that someone writes them the same way! People never believe me when I write my eights like that. When I was younger my teachers told me not to write them like that but guess who still does.

i loveee uuu smmmmmm ur art syle is so fun

"Where's the dust? Where's the dust... Okay there's a little but where's the dust?! PASS "

Now come on! You tested all these wax crayons and you did not finish the test with the Neocolors? No! They are amazing. But kids crayons can be great fun, too. I have a set of Faber Castell crayons, not the erasable ones that you tested but just their regular triangular ones, and they are pretty good and smell amazingly beeswaxy, even though I have no clue whether they actually contain any of that. When I feel unable to really do anything, but still really want to get something done, I like grabbing my crayons and it is like *the* most motivating thing. It's so easy to just flow along wit crayons and create whatever, particularly with just regular kids crayons because they just feel playful and so not serious. Everyone who loves to do art should have a set of crayons for these moments where it's just so difficult to get into the flow.

Weeee renmember when I asked you about the stockmar beeswax blocks? They are my absolute favorite drawing material for the last few years! So- am here! Exciting! I am TWO YEARS LATE - So with that said I now have comment, you use them a little differently than stick crayons(they have them in chubby sticks shape too), you use them super gently and they would be transparent and will blend super smoothly. It feels technically a bit like using chalk pastel in a block waxy form, while being on the transparent side (similar opacity to watercolor, you would work in layers. I only have shades of red, yellow and blue and I make everything with those.), look up what some people do with it- the technique is super weird to memorize at first but it gets really satisfying when you get into a flow.

I always appreciate a YTer when I'm seventy percent through the video, realize the content is not relevant to my life in any way, and keep watching because it's just that nice :)

Oohhhh would be interesting to see something like this with colored pencils!

So I looked for RoseArt crayons here in the UK and discovered this announcement from January 2021- Cra-Z-Art's Rosen brings RoseArt brand back under family control in deal with Mattel. The Cra-Z-Art brand of arts and crafts supplies, owned by Randolph-based LaRose Industries LLC, has acquired Mattel's Arts, Crafts, Stationery business, including its RoseArt brand, it announced Thursday. So it looks like Cra-Z-Art *is* RoseArt? Or they are owned by the same company at least 🤷🏻‍♀️

I got to the Amazon ones and was suddenly reminded of the coloring pencils at this social center I frequent. It's a giant pack of, like, 30 of each color, and I was expecting them to be pretty bad, as many such sets are... but they're amazing! Some of the best coloring pencils I've ever used! You can achieve such a wide variety of saturation, and they blend impressively well... it's kinda spooky how good they are, especially for the price...

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does the band roseart still exist? Those were the ones I remember hating as a kid. Also I love this type of video so, so much!

I was waiting for it but you missed one famous art brand... Caran d'Ache also makes crayons! Water resistent and water soluble versions. They are supposed to be very nice. (Okay as I know you are not into coloured pencils so much, I guess you are not familiar with the brand.) If you can get hold of those, you could try them at the end of the "year of crayon". And an addition to this test: you could have make a column for "how many colours are available in total". I'm sure some of them have also bigger packs. Just a thought.

definitely getting the creatology or maped crayons. thanks for this chart, it really helped!

This is such a satisfying video!! 😍

I think that most crayons aren't that soft (*except for Crayola because they are very smooth*) since they are considered for kids, but this was so satisfying to watch and to really see the difference in the pricing of the crayons 🖍🖍🖍😁😁😁❣❣❣

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You had a shout-out from reddit with the Creatology crayons. Watched the entire video and think I will pick those up. Thank you. 🖍️

I went to a Rudolf Steiner school and we always used Stockmar. They are basically what we learned to write with. I do know the sticky sound from them all too well :D

Melissa and Doug crayons are shaped like triangles and extra hard to prompts proper grip in toddlers of pens and pencils later in development! My baby sisters use them all the time. They’re meant to be a firm wax so they don’t break easily like a more soft wax so they can survive toddlers. Artist grade? Nope. Baby grade? Yup!

Your videos are so beautiful and satisfying. I love all of your videos and it gives me stress relieve by watching it

This video must have been expensive to make 😂😂 love the vid btw 👍❤️

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If anyone would give me any expensive crayons ,, I'll still use them as 5yo 😂😂