Well Inked Box unboxing and review-subscription for bujo and art!

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Hello friends!
It's Kat, from MeowMeowKapow!
I'm super excited to introduce you guys to today's topic-Well Inked Box!
Back when Eve Bolt and I swapped our fake subscription boxes, we were both contacted
by a REAL subscription box company, Well Inked Box!
Full disclosure, I was offered this box free of charge in exchange for my honest opinions.
Straight up, this is a box I was already interested in before this offer, so I feel a bit like
the belle of the ball right now!
Rather than listing each of the individual supplies down in the doobly-doo, today you'll
find links to Well Inked box, as well as to Eve's unboxing of the same kit!
Before we get into what's in this box, let's talk a little bit about it because it is definitely
unique compared to other subscription boxes.
Well Inked box is a Canadian company, which means all'y'all Canadians that have had
limited subscription boxes due to location?
Worry no more!
Additionally, they do ship worldwide, so everyone across the globe can rejoice!
This is also a quarterly subscription, meaning they only send out one box every three months.
I don't know about you, but I know when I get subscription boxes every month, I usually
don't even get around to using half the things inside before the next one shows up,
and then I suddenly get a backlog of supplies and things just sort of get forgotten in a
drawer somewhere.
It's also very important to note that this is NOT just any subscription box, it's a
sort of hybrid box.
Primarily, it focuses on both art supplies and journaling supplies, often leaning more
heavily towards one theme with each of these boxes…
But I would say that it is most accurate to call Well Inked Box a creativity box.
They're providing supplies that could be useful in multiple different interests, and
it's up to you to decide how you want to use them.
If you're only going to do journaling forever and ever, then this would be just fine for
you as everything I've seen so far from this company could be used entirely for journaling-even
paint and brushes!
And if you're going to do fine art instead?
Absolutely.
I've never met a piece of paper or a pen that I couldn't put to use somehow.
Also, one of the coolest things Well Inked does is they specifically seek out small,
local artisans and include their products in these boxes.
At least one item in each box has been provided by a small business owner, and that's probably
one of the most totally rad ideas.
Support small business!
So let's see what's inside!
The first thing to greet us is this really cool statement card, quoting Kurt Vonnegut.
I love this quote, because as an artist that fell into a 3 year stretch of creating almost
nothing, I can say firmly that letting that happen weakened my spirit in ways I didn't
know at the time.
As soon as I started to create again?
It was like getting back in touch with myself.
Exploring your creativity is so important, no matter what form speaks to you.
This luchador notebook is freakin' hilarious, but it also supports an individual artist
and their craft-which, again, is super duper cool.
Next up, there's an adorable magnetic bookmark, and mine is of an avocado!!!
I love it!
It's so cute, and super useful!!
For writing implements, we have two Tombow Fudenoskue pens, three Tombow Mono drawing
pens, and one mitsubishi blue and red double-ended pencil.
If you're not familiar with what a fudenoske, or fude pen is, we discussed them in my ultimate
brush pen challenge series!
That pencil is also really interesting to me because I know some of my animator friends
loved them in college, but I never really got into experimenting with using them for
sketching, but I actually bought some a couple of weeks ago to experiment with.
Rather than going into some of the reasons why people may use these, I'm going to put
a link in the doobly-doo for Baylee Jae's video where she goes through a number of reasons
why blue and red pencils are useful!
What I really like about this assortment of supplies, is that it's very clearly well
thought-out.
We have a book to write or draw in, a red and blue pencil to do rough sketching or light
pencil guide in, and we have multiple different line weights and flexibilities of pen.
And a bookmark to help us keep our place!
These were all clearly carefully selected to go together cohesively and I didn't feel
like any one supply was random or out of place or of a lesser quality than any other.
One of the things that bothered me about a previous supply box I had was that it always
seemed like they threw as many inexpensive supplies in the box as they could to make
the volume of options try to make up for the lack of quality in the selection.
For this box, it may seem like there's not a mountain of choices, but while testing these
I firmly came to believe that the options given are more than worth it.
In fact…..
Let's find out.
How much does this box cost?
To purchase, it costs $25, plus shipping.
Purely based on price, let's look at the value for money on this box.
Prices of widely-purchasable items will be based off of Amazon.com, where I do the majority
of my shopping anyway, and artisanal items will have their prices directly taken from
their individual websites.
The Alex Foster luchador notebook is roughly $3 us, and the paper in it is surprisingly
nice.
It's a little bit thicker than standard printer paper, but not as thick as card stock.
Its smooth, bright white surface encourages your pen to glide across the surface with
ease, and the luchador illustrations are delightful!
The only thing I don't like is that the staple binding makes the area near the seam
of the pages a bit difficult to manipulate.
The Tombow fudenoske pens, which come in a pack of two, are $9US.
I love these pens, I can't say enough nice things about them!
I'm really looking forward to exploring them more throughout the month!
Same goes for the three Tombow Mono Drawing pens, which list on Amazon for $10.
The dual-ended mitsubishi pencil retails for about a dollar each, and the only problem
I specifically had was that they wouldn't erase with a kneaded rubber eraser.
I did go in and test it later and they do erase with a white rubber eraser, though not
all the way.
And my super cute avocado bookmark costs $5, and has the bonus advantage of being made
by a company that donates part of their proceeds to charity!
My bookmark planted a tree!
I'm pretty much the worst with numbers, but I'm pretty sure that all adds up to
$28!
Now, there are going to be some differences with currency conversion and all, but that's
an AWESOME value!
Considering the quality of these supplies and the care in making sure that they go together
well, I kind of think that you're actually being undercharged more than the $3 we've
calculated here.
It's a relief to know that we're not only not getting cheated here, the customers may
very well be the ones getting all the advantages!
Now like I said, the supplies that Well Inked box provides are great for a wide variety
of interests, but I'm going to test them for two-writing and drawing.
Nothing that wasn't provided in this box was used, not even an eraser!
All of the pens work really well for writing, and while I'm not winning any penmanship
award with my handwriting, I will say that these pens all felt really nice to use in
the hand.
I also specifically tested the Fude pens by writing with them in Japanese for a little
bit, because that's what they were created for.
This is an incredibly well-timed acquisition because I recently decided to start practicing
Japanese again and having pens that excel at creating subtle, variable, but controlled
strokes is so serendipitous!
These tools were also super great for quick doodling.
I chose to make a piece inspired by the quote card in the box, and doodled out Kurt Vonnegut
himself.
And again, nothing outside of what was provided by the box was used-not even an eraser!
All of the tools built really well on top of one another, and the depths and contrast
in this piece changed considerably as my experiment went on.
The red pencil was great for sketching, and I found myself loving the blue side to add
a bit of shading here and there.
Because the fude pens had nice, flexible tips, they made scribbling out Vonnegut's wild
hair a joyful task that sort of happened organically and without a hint of frustration.
The fude pens were also great for creating larger, darker areas, like the shirt that
I eventually colored in black.
Intentionally, I allowed there to be a bit of a sketchy quality to it since the small
points don't really excel at filling in LARGE areas, but I know that with a bit of
patience it would have been possible.
Also, surprisingly, nothing bled through to the other side of the paper in this notebook-not
even a little!
There is a bit of light ghosting, so you can still sort of see what's on the other side
of the paper, but this is essentially slightly heavy printer paper so I'm not surprised
at that.
Actually, I'm delighted because I fully expected it to be worse.
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So, where can you get one of these fabulous boxes for yourself?
The one I'm using right now has already been sold out, but you can preorder the next
one by going to wellinkedbox.com.
If you use the code MEOW, you'll get 15% off your first box!
Hooray!
Even more savings!
Tell me-what do you think about this box?
I'm really excited and loving everything not only about the supplies, but also about
this wonderful company and their really supportive efforts!
Let me know down in the comments if you've already gotten a well inked box, or if you're
going to!
Until I see you next time, I wish you peace, love, and happy little avocados.
Bye!
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