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Copic Marker Tutorial
Published: 2006-08-14 00:43:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 166128; Favourites: 3215; Downloads: 1648
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Made with the image drawn for Kitten on RagnaInfo.net, one of the winners of my auction, which is a very long and complicated story but anyways.I was asked to take in progress photos of my marker work and I decided to just make a tutorial out of the photos. This is the first tutorial I've made like this for deviantART and it took a full 4 hours to put together, so I hope people like it and I would love to have some feedback. The image is of Kitten's huntress Kari Evelyn.
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Are you using the brush tip side? Try working the ink into the paper more if you're having streaking issues, or possibly slow down a little when covering large areas. I'm not sure what other advice I can give for streaking, because the alcohol-based copic markers tend to be very good at blending and I don't see streaking often unless I am using the chisel side or I'm just drawing too fast.
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your advice doesn't work.
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Well then, I'm not sure what else I can do to help over the internet. It's easier to show in person. Did you try doing two layers of ink?
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yes but only for shadow.
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Like I said in the tutorial, if you are only using a single layer or a light layer of ink on the image, you should try putting down the colorless blender first to help the colors blend together, avoiding streaking. Did you try that?
Regardless, you should always use a different color or a mix of different colors for shading, as using just a darker more saturated version of the base color makes for very awkward shadows. If this confuses you, I'd suggest picking up a book on color theory.
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i don't own a colourless blender.
but i'll save up for one.
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yay!
This has helped me a lot!
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so you put the colourless blender on BEFORE you add colour because i always put it on after and it ruined my nibs and made no difference...
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This here is very useful~ Thanks so much for making it~
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Glad it was useful! I wish I was smart like you and looked up tutorials online for my first marker coloring, haha~
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Thnx Soooo much... totally needed this!
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"Boobshine"
Congrats, you created a new word that rocks. XD
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hey i have the same mouse you do!
this helped a lot thanks for posting!
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I'm getting my 72 set A Copic Sketch markers tonight at 7:00 when my dad comes home. Which color set do you use? A, B, or C? or, did you just collect them over time?
I'm a bit nervous to use them for the first time. Do you mind if I show my work to you from time to time for critiqes on my coloring?
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Great guide
<3
I have to say, putting down the colorless blender first really makes a difference.
I shall be referring to this from time to time.
C:
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Beautiful tut....I worked with prisma a few years ago...but wow I am so thrilled to get back into it after seeing this...
Thanks so much!!
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I think this'll help me a lot ^^
But what do you mean with 'the white pen'?
Do yoou mean the colorsless blender, or is it a special copic?
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I think it means a white gel pen, or white out.
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Thanks a lot!
It's so difficult to work when you have only few colours... but I do it better now because of you! thanks!
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I'm glad this tutorial helped! It really is difficult to work with so few colors... but blending colors like this really does save money in the long run since those markers are so expensive. >_<
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I know ^^
Some of my friend gave them to me for my birthday because I cannot buy them... But they're really amazing. I tried also some water colours, but they're more difficult to put on the sheet and to mix togheder... usually the only thing I can do with them is the classical manga shading... no more XD
Thanks again!
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Actually, because the Copic marker tip is so brushlike, I find myself mixing markers with watercolors together to get a unique feel -- it does require me to work on a thicker paper (usually Bristol board), but it allows a little more flexibility for me in terms of color palette.
I'm not sure if you went through the rest of my gallery, but this image [link] was done as a mix of Copic and watercolors, and they blend so well together that it's hard to tell which was used where.
Experiment and see! (:
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I'll for sure!
The most difficult thing, for me, is skin... Pink is so common, and makes all my drawings looking like dools. I like to make it mixing yellow and pink, or better orange, yellow and maron. I know it's strange but I took the idea from cosmetics... Make up, sometimes, is so usefull XD
Then you also draw so good... Mmh, I'll learn and I'll do my best to copy you!
Thanks again for all those tips!
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I just got me some Copics. This was helpful thanks. Any info on nib types and what they are best for? I LOVE the brush nib, but it also has the edge and I have some really pointy ones that I'm not sure how I'm supposed to color with that.lol.
Thank you.
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Thank you for this really helpful and detailed tutorial. I've just started with copics and you mentioned many points that are important to me.
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Glad it was helpful to you. : )
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what kind of copic markers have the brush tip?
because i am getting the copic sketch markers and i have pretty much no idea what kind of tips they have.
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Sketch and Ciao markers are the ones that have the brush tip. 
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OH, what difference is there between the sketch markers and the ciao markers?
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Ciao markers are smaller (circular tube versus oval) and therefore hold less ink, and are incompatible with the Copic airbrush system. Otherwise, they're exactly the same -- same tips and same ink.
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I actually just got my first set of copic markers today and I must say, your tutorial was very helpful! I'm so excited to try them out!
Thank you, thank you.
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Fantastic! I've always wanted to use copic, but I hesitate to spend the monies if I don't know how. The tutorial looks fun, so I just may, now. I have you on favorites for reference!
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Which parts do you put the blender to make a gradient, exactly? Do you just apply the blender to area where it starts to go into a gradient?
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Thanks for this helpful step-by-step! It was definately worth the time, the pic is wonderful. I am fairly new to copics, and my first try was like "whaa- how the hell do they DO this!?!" and now I know ^.^ so, thanks!
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erm,
may i ask a questionοΌ
How to make those copic colour effect by using cs3?
thx~
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Hello! If it is alright with you, I've linked to your tutorial on our website!
[link]
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Thank you very very much for this tutorial! ^_^ Being looking for at least 6 months now for a tutorial where someone creates realistically coloured skin, without the necessity for E000 (Living in the UK sucks)
...Now just to hope that E51 is a good enough substitute for E50... I'm broke
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I have E51, and it works just fine, as good as E50. It's just a little darker, that's all.
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that's excellent! cheers
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I never really understood how to use the colorless blender until now! Thanks for the awesome tutorial!
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Very very good! I want to try that as soon as possible (when I get more than my lousy two markers, that is...)
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when you use the colorless blender
doesn't the other marker colors
get mixed into the blender
and mess everything up??
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You have to be careful with the colorless blender just like with the markering, of course. If you don't color out of the lines, why would you colors out of the blending area with the blender?
But no, the blender won't mess other colors up if you're careful. The same thing goes with all artistic procedures, I think.
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okay :]
i just didn't know if the tip of the blender
would be coated in other colors or not.
i might just stick to colored pencils
but i wanted some future reference for copics ^o^
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Oh, that's what you meant.
Well, if you read the tutorial, the colorless blender is put down on the paper BEFORE the colors, so there's no way that the blender could get other colors on it. Otherwise, yeah, it would probably get some residues.
Hope that helps!
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ohhhh, okay!
so the colors will blend decently
if you use the colorless blender first, i assume?
cause when i used copics from my friend
EVERY color blended and got all messed up lol.
yeah, that helps a lot!
okay, just one more question:
where did you get your copics?
i know we probably don't have the same stores
but i wanna know just in case =3
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