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@carolbatchelor5855

Жыл бұрын

I just got mine yesterday. They are beautiful! I was so excited to receive them before Christmas! Thank you so much, Sarah!!

@Narra0002

Жыл бұрын

I’d get it if I colored more

@FAY3YT

Жыл бұрын

OMG hi I love your videos

@irisdries9429

Жыл бұрын

Do you ship to belgium? 🙈

@EmmaEnvy_1992

Жыл бұрын

Did you really want to give me something?

Blue is such a great color for monochromatic drawing because it works for dark contrasts and crisp edges, but also offers a huge range of tints and shades. Thanks for touching on the ethical issues with use and interpretation of images- that is something every artist needs to think about! So glad we got another great video from this channel before the weekend!

I may be obsessed with the 80s, so I really appreciate the fashion choice of the coloring page paired with the fitting background music. 💙

I really liked how you talked about AI. I know someone who is an artist, and they post their work online. Many people steal their art and AI generated photos have elements of their style without their consent. Also, I am so excited for your coloring book, I’ve bought your 2023 planner already!

@laureendavis2369

Жыл бұрын

I've seen award winning artists have their artwork scraped from internet images and the AI program actually attempted to mangle the artists signature in order to hide it. You could still see it though. 😕

As an 80s baby, with curly hair, and loves Blue I enjoyed the concept and coloring of this one. That’s a lot of blue pencils. I guess not putting away everything has its benefits. If you put all your swatches in a binder you can utilize them down the road by color, without having to take that time again. So, while it didn’t benefit you now, it’s not perzactly time wasted. People; drawing people is so difficult. Give me a puppy, a kitten, an elephant and I can eventually work it out, but I just can’t get people well. I have some anatomy courses to try to attempt to get better. I’m pleased you are keeping the conversation about AI going and openly spoke about certain points that need said and some of what we discussed; about copyright, using it for a reference tool not creating the final piece, and legalities catching up with the moral and ethical values and giving that respect to artists and photographers. As someone who has had both art and photos on a bunch of those sites you mentioned, and many more friends that do as as well, I don’t at all appreciate not being asked permission. Many of those sites we post images to sell products; licensing for that use only not resell of the image. I also sell reference photos for artists, so this doubly awful. I do think it’s not fair to put the more sophisticated AI systems with the lesser systems into one group, even though I think they all overstep ethical boundaries. Not all AI image generators are created the same, nor do they work the same, nor create the same kind of output. The more intricate and complicated systems, which I believe is what you reference, input information. Some have users input the information, choose the images to input or generate a selection of images that the system should pull in to “learn” from the internet, and then output a chosen or random thing that may resemble another’s art and may not. Much of it just looks like a blurry adaptation. Particularly those designing the algorithms scientifically. I believe only a few of these may use images only in the public domain. Their final result is still debatable on whether the AI used actually came up with the image after “learning” or if it is compiled. It’s not drawing nor painting like a human nor any other animal really, but there is much more to these. I’ll explain findings later that delve into this more. AI is not comparable to a human drawing the art nor even a human inputting coding and algorithms as they’ve done and used to do in the 60s to the 90s in particular: using codes to create colors, shapes, patterns, and so forth. As you said they take lifetimes of experience from dozens to millions of artists and photographers, billions to trillions of images, in a short time span; something no single human could do even if they spent a lifetime learning and drawing. Even more of a difference are the simpler systems which heavily rely on others’ work and simply mesh two or more images together. At it’s most basic that is what they are doing. These are more obvious, possibly because their algorithms are less complex or due to reverse-engineering another’s work not quite the same or resources. Their output/final image so clearly is a compilation of other images it should be non-debatable, especially if other artists’/photographers’ watermarks and signatures are visible. It’s happening and there more of these than the sophisticated versions. Some even argue that it shouldn’t be referred to the same, but they do also go by AI. It’s undeniably obvious when its output barely alters a well known film photo or artwork. Unfortunately, I’ve seen some of these even used for covers. I know I typed this in our previous discussion, but it just is so fitting for this AI image generation and writing generation conversation: To paraphrase Jurassic Park, “They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” So much of the whole AI process is negating ethics and morals and other human beings essentially. This is why every science fiction story that ventures into AI goes into these issues. As LAION states on their site, as you use this example, they DID download images and use them to compute before (allegedly) deleting them. This appears to be a general practice, although some retain screenshots or thumbnails for reference to their datasets. Once the AI has images stored in it’s own system in its own way it might be difficult to fight copyright infringement… the developers use this as a loophole. This gives the impression they know it’s wrong and are finding way to avoid getting trouble for it. Not asking for permission, and so far not apologizing after either. Rather than seeking permission and even supporting the artists they trained their AI with by paying for licensing to use, they chose to “steal” others’ work. By their own explanations of how their system outputs, as well as other separate systems, is that AI generally has very poor results for specifics. The images are often blurry and only show patterns that were frequently repeated in the images they sourced from. This seems to add to the argument, based on their own FAQs, about using multiple images in a work that gives a result far more complex with the final result being a compilation not a “drawn” piece from “learning.” AND they are in turn making their data sets of images they “borrowed without permission” (art theft) available for others to use. So even if their particular AI does not do this, they make it available for others to do so without the time to acquire all that information themselves. I find it ironic that they claim their data sets of others’ work falls under creative commons which states: “Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.” How precisely can they license work they are neither authorized nor licensed to use? Generally a license does not grant resell. Those that do are VERY specified. This is too close to going to a gallery, taking pictures of all the images, and then trying to sell the pictures and claiming its original. I learned A LOT prior to this one, but I must admit researching this LAION does not negate any of my prior thoughts. On the contrary this supports all my qualms, concerns, and worries. One MIT site broke it down as being like the AI seeing an image, breaking the patterns down into blocks (which I imagine means pixels), and then trying to reconstruct the image with blocks (pixels) from that image and others. “They can find patterns in art that people have made, but it’s much harder for these models to actually generate creative photos on their own.” I agree with you about what it should be used for and I agree wholeheartedly that something needs to be done soon and that these companies need to be more responsible and held accountable. By the way, art you still dreaming of blue pencils and swatching after all that. ;0)

Before Covid, I was in colouring groups (which I avoid now). A girl posted a picture she had coloured and I just KNEW I had to have a go at it too. I asked where she got it. "A friend sent it to me." Oh, well, that can usually easily be solved. I saved it into my files and asked Google Images. Oh, it came up right away! The WHOLE picture, that is. On the bottom was two lines asking people not to colour this in as it was her drawing in black ink pen (gorgeous, BTW). She wanted it left as it was. Her name was there, and I think it was posted on Deviant. I saved it to my files and posted it, covered so it couldn't be copied, and told her that her 'so-called friend' had cut off the bottom. She replied: "I don't care." I have had quite a few photos stolen because I didn't know you could do that! Very novice of me. They have been sold on Ebay and I run across them on Google Images and in various online articles. Very disheartening. If an artist (drawing or photographing) 'sees' an image in B&W, it should be left that way. This colouring, in my favourite colour...blue (actually green-blue, not blue-green)...is gorgeous! It doesn't look like she is an alien, but that she is walking down a dark alley at night. Gorgeous capture! This would make me buy the book! And I do judge books by their cover, many times.

Never be embarrassed about your earlier works, they are an important step in your journey as an artist

You can tell how well of a job an artist does by taking all the color saturation out of the image and seeing the values in greyscale. I tried that with the close ups of this coloring page at the end of the video and it is absolutely stunning she really did an excellent job with her choices.

I’m not an artist myself, just enjoy watching art videos, however, my younger sister just started college as a graphic design major, so I’m curious what the art world will look like in 3 years when she graduates. My hope is that AI doesn’t alter the landscape do much that art related jobs become scarce Btw, love how your blue coloring page came out!!! 😁

Blue is my favourite colour since I was 5 years old. When I knew other people chose blue for this challenge I was looking forward to this video. The result is awesome!

My gosh! I just noticed you hit over 200K subscribers! You didn't get 100K by last year, but you more than doubled it before next year! Congrats Sarah! Have a merry xmas and an amazing new year!

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

Your coloring page before you colored it gave me 80's Barbie vibe and I love it. Your coloring was incredible though and on the end looked nothing like barbie and it was stunning

The drawing is gorgeous and brings back memories of the 80s 😃

And can you do all WHITE pencils you have

@artemisfn5848

Жыл бұрын

No

@MoonyxxArt

Жыл бұрын

@@artemisfn5848 bruh why do you even reply even if your gonna say no

@MoonyxxArt

Жыл бұрын

Also YESSS I want to see black paper too ooooooh

I wonder if you have ever thought of coloring in the wallpaper in your room. Whenever I see it, it kinda makes me want to color it cos it's gonna be fun! Of course the wallpaper now is pretty enough. In fact, I'm amazed by it.

I’m glad you talked about AI. I completely agree with you. And congrats on the new coloring book and getting 200k subscribers! You def deserve it and more and I’m so happy for you. Happy holidays

What I love about the color blue is that it can cover a whole range of emotions. You have a happy bright blue but then you can get a more mopey blue but THEN you can get a powerful regal blue.

You do amazing coloring and it really shows in these one color videos!! 😍 I hope this one didn't leave you feeling a bit blue, but it turned out bluetiful!! 💙 I remember having hair like that!! But one tip with hair like that is don't go out in the wind with out a lot of hair gel or spray. The results look more like Albert Einstein!! 😂🤣

Love the result! It almost has a "Blue Room" si-fi vibe to it.

You are such a fabulous colorist! I have been watching your videos since July of this year and I have learned so much from you. Thank you for all that you do. I really appreciated the megatesting of coloring pencils that you did and found that I have most of your top recommendations, mostly based on your previous videos. Your insights are so logical and the fact you give both sides of the issues a fair amount of time is fabulous. I like your artistic style for your coloring books and your planners because they are not so filled with fiddling details and I can enjoy the simple process of coloring without a thousand lines per centimeter in the drawing. You have inspired me to do a single color page sometime soon. I will share it on your Facebook group. Happy Christmas!

@Narra0002

Жыл бұрын

That’s great. Happy holidays!

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

I absolutely love your finished peace! I would love to see more monochromatic challenges mixed into your regular content! Suggestion: Would you consider using a set number of pencils? For instance, do a full coloring page with 100 blue pencils? (Or 50? 20?) I think that would allow you to revisit these challenges more often, not to mention it might be helpful to your sanity xD

I love this series!!!!!!!!

Wow!!!!! This is gorgeous

Did not expect the AI art discussion but I certainly enjoyed hearing your opinion! I also have mixed feelings and currently my main concerns are: profiting off AI art with no compensation to the original artists that were used to train the AI and also the fact that AI art is impossible to tell from actual human made art and therefore NEEDS to be somehow marked as AI art, otherwise it's rife for exploitation by people who will claim to be "artists" but the only work they put into their art was coming up with a clever prompt and rerendering the image until they got something they liked, which I think objectively doesnt deserve as much respect as people who put years into perfecting their craft. But I'm also not entirely against AI art because I want art to be accessible and I always found it very sad that people who could not draw/paint/specialize in some rendering software were unable to visualize their ideas. The way I see it is as a more advanced picrew (tool where you can make your own avatar online in different styles) except with a much broader spectrum of possibilities, which in its current form is unfortunately very exploitable, especially in a capitalist society. I think AI art could be ethical but there are some very bad incentive structures currently that make it not so.

@Narra0002

Жыл бұрын

Amen

@scipunkdollstudios4081

Жыл бұрын

There are already plenty of artist drawn bases and sites made by real people (think Dolldivine) who have more than happily created software for people to use to visualize design. The Sad thing is that art takes hard work and isn't a natural born talent like many claim it is. The best way to learn is to put the work in yourself or find a safe and ethical way to bring your ideas to life that DOESN'T involve cheating people because you don't want to put the time or money into it.

@BlueCoolOla

Жыл бұрын

@@scipunkdollstudios4081 Of course, art is not a naturally born talent, but it is a fact of life that (especially in a capitalist society) most people will never have the time/money to perfect the skills necessary for art, and being able to do that has been a massive sign of privilege. Personally, if let's say, a single mom of three kids who works two jobs just to stay afloat wants to generate some pretty art because it brings her joy, I don't feel comfortable telling her that's wrong. And I also don't find it fair to call it "cheating" as long as you don't pretend you made the art yourself and you don't try to make money off it. Sometimes people want to look at pretty images based on ideas they come up with and there's nothing inherently unethical about that.

@scipunkdollstudios4081

Жыл бұрын

@@BlueCoolOla The problem with it, hence what makes it unethical, is that it's being used for capitalism off of stolen art. A single mom using it for a hobby is *one* thing the bulk of the problem ISN'T hypothetical hobbiest who want to have fun. It's those who have come to conventions, built up shops, and are attacking artists who don't want their work stolen.

This is my favorite out of art projects you've done, and I love that it's a portrait 😍

All three of your color challenge videos are gorgeous! It is amazing to see you put so much depth into a page using one color. I just wish I was there when you were done so I could have reorganized all the supplies for you. Sorting things is my absolute favorite stress reliever. I always volunteered to put things away and do inventory at my retail jobs. 😄

Blue has always been magical for me. Years ago when I would sketch, I'd use only shades of blue for some of my art. There were several sketchbooks filled with only blue drawings. Never did that with any other color, just blue.

You killed it again with the artwork, my favourite one out of the the 3 videos yet

Sometimes when coloring in coloring books I like to have more simple pages so I can have more freedom when coloring.

Sarah, this is absolutely stunning!!! Wow... just, ... "Wow!!!!" My major concern with AI is the amount of power that's needed when using it. At a point in our planet's life where we are in crisis, the thought of AI in the hands of 'just anyone'... Sorry - but as the example closest at hand at this moment is art, and because artists are using it, when artists of any level don't actually *need* it to create beautiful art, absolutely scares me. While we're experiencing rolling power cuts to conserve energy, and we're removing lightbulbs out of multiple-bulb fittings, or using an LED lamp when a fully lighted room isn't needed, or, for a great many people, not turning on heating, but using hot water bottles and extra clothing because they can't afford to pay for basics because of soaring prices, someone else is busy using huge amounts of power for something that is a crazy luxury... (not just artists!) Sarah, please understand that I'm not singling you out. It's just that you've talked about it here. Part of me says, "Well, you watch art-tubers make videos with all their energy consuming gadgets. Aren't you being a hypocrite?" And that part of me says, "Yes, I guess I am." But I make up for it with other changes in lifestyle - eg like sweeping the floors instead of hoovering, not having a tumble dryer, not using the central heating, only using the car for essentials now - things that are needed these days because of my low budget, but which more than make up for my laptop use, and they are things that I've done since before this major crisis. It's why my fuel bills are far lower than average for my type of house. I took Prince Charles and David Bellamy seriously way back in the day, when so many people were laughing at them. I'm lucky, really, because, having been brought up in a situation where 'frugal' was the norm, I've never been extravagant, so the extra changes I've made recently aren't really difficult. Anyway, I feel so much better without the heating, and the baby hot-water-bottles in the pockets of my gilet are fantastic at keeping me warm as toast! Even so, yes, I do feel I'm being a hypocrite so I'm trying to cut back on my laptop use for watching TV and art tube... This hypocrite's signing off now to continue the debate in my head, though knowing that I'm not going to find the answers. I love your work, and a few others' too, so it really would be *very* tough to turn you off! 😊

This is gorgeous, but you forgot to write the artists and songs on the cassette tape labels. Remember it should be regular handwriting and not like professional printing 😊 Can’t wait to see who you pick. My last homemade cassette tapes were “I Want You” by Savage Garden and “Your Woman” by White Town.

The finished piece is amazing! I’m loving how your one color challenges are turning out, I should definitely try it out someday but it’s also so intimidating!

I'm blown away with your creative abilities. You are truly very talented Sarah. Love your art work. Thanks for the many hours of hard work for us to enjoy 😉 👍🏽❤

Totally agree with you on AI... it's such a delicate subject and there is no black & white. People love to polarize and pick sides but it's just not that simple. Also, lovely piece 😊

Astonishing creativity Sarah - well done!

This drawing is amazing, I recently had started my own monochromatic drawing challenge. The girl reminds me of the combination of the two characters in the episode of Black Mirror San Junipero. This is amazing and outstanding.

You're amazing at art!

Beautiful! I'd love to see the full rainbow when done!

Absolutely love how this turned out, my 5 yr old daughter and I use your colouring pages to colour and she’s been learning a great deal, plus it’s really nice quality time together 😊 I applaude you on the amount of work you put into everything you do, so thanks!

How cute you look in colored with blue tones 💙✨ I think that painting a range of colors or another variation awakens creativity 👍✨ I hope you continue with your coloring book project 😃 A happy 2023 🥂✨ Blessings! 💖

I absolutely love how your all blue coloring page turned out! You're an amazing artist and inspiration.

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

SRC: gorgeous! And happy holidays!! I'd love to hear a little bit about how you choose where to put the creases and the light/shade in fabric.

Watercolor coloring books would be nice too. Can you aim for thick paper, please?

I want to see green. This is both exciting and inspiring.

Since you pulled all the teal, why not an all-teal challenge - one you will reeeeally love doing!!

I really want that colour cube😍😍😍

Wow!!! Beautiful coloring.

Thank you for your thoughts on the AI artwork as a reference only. Thank you! You are 100% correct.

The blue colering is amazing!

Your videos are so wonderful. I feel more inclined to continue my pen colouring this holiday

Putting all those back in their boxes must be insane! As I watched, I was reminded of a huge pack of Very narrow Washi Tapes that I got off Amazon, recently. What if....you assigned each brand/box it's own colour and wrapped a piece of Washi around each pencil. Then when you're done, it would be somewhat easier/faster returning them to their proper place?! Love the '80s page. Would really love to see you revisit this one but with actual '80s colours, i.e. neons- pink, green, yellow, purple, electric blue and maybe some metallic gold or silver thrown in for Bling !! The Pink video is still my favorite :)

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

These challenges are definitely helping me to identify different brands at a glance from the “putting away” phase!

i would love to see grey next but that will probably a less popular color choice =D

These challenges are really inspiring. Thanks too for talking about the ai art. I’m an artist myself but not up to date on this stuff so really good to be educated. Thanks for all!!

I think that just as AI cannot replace drivers it cannot replace artists either, but in both cases it can be used to improve the jobs of drivers and artists

I love it. Beautiful and perfect art. I love the one color challenges.

Wow , just wow. Your talent is amazing, and Percy Jackson would approve the colour.

@MistyWater-lt3ss

2 ай бұрын

I love that series lol

Wow! This is gorgeous!

I got the color planner as a Xmas gift. Really didn’t expect that one and I’m so excited to use it. The funny thing about it is I completely forgot I sent your video about it to my mom like a “Heyy this looks sooo cool! I’d love one of these” I figured she’d forget about it so I forgot about it. And the second I ripped the wrapper and saw those colorful squiggles I was soo excited! Not only is it awesome but it meant a lot my mom listened and remembered even when I didn’t. I had a very nice Xmas this yr bc of that.

I’m excited for green!!!! Good job!

I'm no painter of coloring books. I hated it as child not to draw my own ideas. but to watch your one-color challange was very interesting. I own about 60 to 70 colorpencils. only 48 are artist quality. I think I will go into colorpencil painting. it's really magic what possibilities they offer.

This is absolutely stunning!

Great conversation on AI. I too hope there can be a way to benefit from the technology as a tool without the ‘shady’ aspect of it. Love the 1 color series!

@Narra0002

Жыл бұрын

Me too

Yaaaaay my favorite color! This is gonna be good! Edit: I'm not an expert on digital art or vectors or anything like that, but I find it easier and less time-consuming to turn the pencil sketches themselves into vectors by using the "extract line drawing from image" tool, cranking up both the white and black values, then erasing any mistakes and rough edges and tweaking the features. Edit2: regarding AI, since the robots are eventually gonna own us anyway, we might as well cash in on their not-so-hard-work before they grow sentient enough to start the robopocalypse. (jk) But seriously, art sites and competitions can just put rules banning pure 100% AI generated art, and only allow use of AI art as references or even small photoshopped pieces of them as long as most of the work was done by human hands. Maybe even make this a worldwide law or something just like copyright laws. Solves most of the problems, no?

The result is actually really pretty!! You brang in many variations and styles and tried a new technique, I love it!❤️💕👍

I'm really liking the subjects you're talking about lately

Thx Sarah. I've been waiting for this.

All your videos made it so easy to find the perfect color pencils for me and they are prismacolor

Your art turned out gorgeous! I absolutely love how the hair and the skin came out.

Wow ! Amazing artwork !

Stunning photo & great conversation. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The blue is the prettiest of the one color challenges you’ve done. They are all impressive though! Of course blues are my favorite colors out of the 3 you’ve done 😉

Love this one

This turned out amazing!

Amazing work, I love it!❤

Challenge: if you make it to 1 million subscribers by 2024, how about you have to do a drawing with every colored pencil you own *It would definitely be a pretty big drawing but it would be super entertaining to watch* Edit: in addition I mean all of the colored pencils/brands you use on a regular basis, not all of the ones that you own- I’m not entirely sure that would even be possible 😅

Slay Queen 👑!

Really gorgeous. Could you use all those swatches to help expand the color companions?

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

It’s easier to do it a brand at a time, but I like the way you think!

I love my color cubes! What a brilliant idea 💡

Love color themes!

Blue is my favorite color, so I really enjoyed this video.

the page tuned out so vibrant! and thats a lot of blue pencils 😯 which means you have a lot of green (fav colour) pencils too, so I am jealous lol

Stunning!!!!!!🦋🦋

Oh my gosh i really wanted to tell you this and i hope see this but before my school let out for the holidays and the new year, my teacher printed out your ornament making templet! and i told my teacher " i know her she's a really amazing artist on you tube" 😂😂

Thanks for the video. You’re very talented desr

the blue lady ♥

Hi! Your vids really inspired me to improve my art skills!

💙 is a perfect color because it reminds me of the sky 😍

Lovin it 🥰

The drawing is gorgeous 😍

Suggestion: put together a whole bunch of sets of colors and give them to 1) school children 2) kids of the homeless 3) underprivileged kids 4) seniors; maybe they are taking a class or maybe they are in a home of some sort. Don't worry about brands, just pick good colors. Maybe give them some of your old coloring books, too. And I'm waiting for your new coloring book to come out...!

I appreciated your thoughts on AI art.

Love it ❤️

Looks so good! Blue is my favourite colour :)

This coloring page is bringing me back to my childhood of listening to cassette tapes. The leather jackets on the rockstars. This page looks a lot like Whitney Houston and with the movie just being released in the US, its perfect style to that. Blue 💙💙💙 Vote yellow next 🟡

Imagine buying the coloring book and doing the same challenge but with different colors :0

Lmao you nailed the aesthetic so well - the first thing I thought of when seeing the page was Black Mirror's San Junipero, which is very much set in the 80's...kinda (hard to explain if you haven't seen it). And as for the vector art, I didn't realize there was strong apps now for ipads for creating vector- I'm used to doing commissions on my computer with Illustrator, which yeah... that hair had to be such a pain to do. Ironically it was vector art that started draining my passion for art, which then made me switch up and go back to traditional art, and now I've done mostly watercolor in the past few years. Vector is such a great tool for making art but it can be.... annoying.

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

This is Adobe’s Illustrator for iPad! It’s actually more intuitive to draw with than using a tablet on the computer, in my experience. Although I usually switch to a computer for final touch ups (the files are the same format)

Sarah could you do a colouring book for watercolour with coldpressed paper I’ve wanted one for such a long time but no one‘s been able to create one Kristy Rice did but it’s hot press. I would also love a marker colouring book that has marker paper would you be able to create one of those? I just learnt a new hack that if you put clear just so either on top of the colouring page or behind it it stops barking from going through the other side.

Wow 🤩😍😍😍 amazing!!

@SarahRenaeClark

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

I love this. It gives me vibes of Billy from stranger things

Wonderful video. And I love the color blue haven't been chosen coincidentally while I am in the midst of a cold snap in my area. Congratulations on creating a new coloring book. I love the '80s theme in this picture and the hairstyle especially. Blessings to you and yours and Merry Christmas. PS absolutely love the new calendar! I use inktense on the name page and they went down like butter. they are still one of my favorite tools to use especially when I have the fun of seeing how the colors change once they are activated.😉😃