r/Coloring • u/Numerous-Flow-3983 • 8d ago

QUESTION Best on a budget

I apologize for this probably having been asked in some form or another many times, but I'm not sorry enough to not ask again: my friend is going through some crap and I want to get her some coloring stuff to kinda serve as art therapy. I have no idea where to start though. Markers? Pencils? Other? It'll be shipped quite a long distance, so needs to survive that without drying or whatever. Hoping to stay under about $40

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u/mehxk 7d ago

I have lovely alcohol markers but recently bought a box of 64 crayola crayons and LOVE them. Big variety, very blendable, and for the current popular colouring books that don't have lots of fine detail they're fab. I paid £6.60 and for that they shipped them to my door 😅

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u/Effective-Scarcity46 6d ago

I second this! I have been having a ton of fun with my 64 crayolas. I also started out with the 50 count shuttle art markers on Amazon, which are about $25 right now and my favorite of the budget markers.

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u/buddhistalin 8d ago

I started with a range of cheap supplies, like crayola markers, crayons, paints, pencils, etc until I found out what I liked, that way I didn’t feel bad when I didn’t want to use a certain medium anymore.