Unicorn 18-Poster Colour Set Review

Just recently, I have bought a Unicorn set of poster colour. It has been a long time since I have used poster colour for my painting. The last time I used poster colour was around 8 years ago, while I was still a secondary student. Remember the years when we all had drawing competition in the school? Poster colour was our best buddy. After all these years, the urge of painting using poster colour filled my heart, and that's it- I paid around RM27 for the full box set of poster colour.

I was looking for Buncho's poster colour at first because I had a very good experience using Buncho's poster colour for my work. But this time, I couldn't find Buncho at the bookstore that I was hanging around, eventhough Buncho was quite a common brand in the stationary section of all bookstores. That was the time I decided to try out Unicorn Poster Colour. I had heard of this brand before but never get to try the colour by myself.

I have bought the largest set of 18 colours. The 12-colours set is actually quite enough for normal use but I was attracted to the 6 additional colours of 18-set which you can't find in 12-set. The additional colours are Gold, Silver, Metallic Blue, Metallic Green, Fluorescent Orange, and Fluorescent Yellow. Who wouldn't want to try out all these cool colours when you see it!?

Also, besides the stunning colours, the set also comes with palette & water tray. The box of the set is actually carefully designed to serve these two pusposes. The cover which has few shallow partitions can be used as water palette while the tray which contains the colours is deep enough to be our water bottle. One of the reasons I have chosen this set over Buncho is because of the convenient box, just so that I don't have to mix my water colour palette and poster colour palette. I am a lazy person, I never wash my palette until I have no space to mix new colour. Perhaps this Unicorn set saves my water colour palette.

Check this out, these are the 18 colours of Unicorn Poster Colour!

The 6 unique colours (Gold, Silver, Metallic Blue, Metallic Green, Fluorescent Orange, and Fluorescent Yellow) of Unicorn Poster Colour are pretty worth to try out. They are very special. If I were to work in an advertising industry or to draw a poster, I guess I will use these colours a lot. This is my first time using metallic blue and green colour, so I cannot make any comparison. Nevertheless, they are both very beautiful for me.

The silver colour is striking! One couldn't find this thicknest and the shiny feature in any water colour or oil painting. The ancient artist would have jaw-drop if they ever get a chance to see this colour. While all these metallic and shiny silver colours are magnificient, they give me a feeling of modern and graphic. It seems weird to paint all these colours to the traditional quiet scenery or any portrait. I guess these modern colours are more of commercial use. Also, like any other poster colour, it is hard to make the colour flat and balance on the paper, very much harder.

The fluorescent colours, orange and yellow, surprisingly are not thick at all.

I tried to paint them on the paper.

They are shiny, just like the fluorescent lights we have seen at the night street and electric advertising board, but they do not have the thick characteristic of poster colour. The colours are dilute, much more like water colour, but they certainly stand out in the poster with their gleaming feature.

Just in case if you wonder how much different between fluorescent colour and normal colour, picture on the right shows the comparison of yellow (left) and fluorescent yellow (right). If the yellow on the left has appeared slightly orange to you, I have to stress that the yellow on the left is really very YELLOW yellow. That's jusy how sparkling the fluorescent yellow is.

When I was doing the hands-on review on the Unicorn Poster Colour, I found that the colours were not so concentracted like what I had imagined. I was surprised to find it quite dilute despite of being poster colour even without mixing with water. I could only get the "poster-colour-feeling" when I mix the colours with white. So, I can already foreseen my white will be gone very fast with compares to other colours.

This is the product of using Unicorn Poster Colour with the black marker outline. By the way, I just quit my job to travel around and this is the reaction of people around me when they know I quit my job.

Anyway, using this Unicorn Poster Colour is a good experience in exploring new medium for my arts. I would still prefer Buncho Poster Colour for its more concentrated and thick colours. Perhaps, this is my last time buying Unicorn Poster Colour... since I already got its magical box of palette and water container.