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Copic Marker Tutorial
Published: 2006-08-14 00:43:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 165989; 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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Comments: 350
Ohhh so i put the blender marker down first???
ok ok. it always looked really bad when i put the blender marker on top of the skin. THANX!~!
BTW how many copic markerd do u have?
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cool the skin looks very
thanks for the little tutorial!
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I just got my first copics a few days ago and I was so angry I couldn't blend well. I can't believe I didn't think to put the blender down before the color, I feel so dumb! Thank you!
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Sounds very useful, I think I'm gonna need it since I just got my first set of markers... Thanks for making it!
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this is really helpful
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wow! that was a great marker tutorial!
This will really help, thanks!
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X3 Thanks for sharing some insight on markering - this was really helpful!
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Still trying to learn with copics
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Thanks so much for making this tutorial! ^.^ I just got me some copics and I dont want to mess up...lol.
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honostly this is my first ever marker tutorial i ever read. And its fantastic.
Where do you purchase your markers from?
holidays are coming O__o lol
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Ooh, thank you so much for the tutorial! ^_^ Its really help.
I'm just wondering, I like to draw in my sketchbook and keep my drawings in there (instead of ripping them out etc) but I see a lot of people like to rip them out / or draw on seperate sheet. Should I do that too? XD Is it better, I mean?
Is Copic better then Prismacolor? I read somewhere said that Copic are very expensive and only for experts, and Prismacolor is not very expensive but arent very good |D
And then theres the low cost Letraset markers... @_@
I'm really confused. I want to get some sets for Xmas XD
And does it really matter what ink pen you use? I use this -
[link] (Sorry! XDDDDD)
They seem ok, but just sometimes they bleed and smudge little.
Sorry for the long long comment... 
By the way, very nice drawing! 
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Woah! This looks really helpful- I'll definitely come back to this if&when I get my markers for christmas!
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Hmm, so Prisma's and Copics work together?
Do you know if the Prisma blender works with Copics? My Sketch colorless blender died on me (may it rest in peace -_- ), and I can't seem to find another one anywhere...
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All I can say is, thanks for taking the time to make a Copic tutorial for beginner artists such as myself who have recently started using Copics as a medium.
I really appreciate this. I'll be faving this, incase I could really use a useful reference. =]
As for lineart. Are the Copic Multiliners more preferable? Or regular inking tools?
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wow cool thanks im gonna do that i always wanted to get copic markers but i never tried since i was afraid of getting a bunch of colors ill never use but thank that helps out a lot.
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nice tut i enjoyed reading it but i got a question how did you start off with your markers set (purchasing) did you buy a certain amount then build up or just bought a crap load all together
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I started off with just 8 markers, then slowly built up a collection after that. What I did was every time I was coloring, there would be a color I wish I had, so I wrote it down on a little paper and then kept that in mind the next time I was able to purchase a few markers. Pretty much, I bought colors as I needed them. I highly discourage buying sets... because there's always markers in there that you won't use, and the price offset, in my opinion, isn't worth it for colors you'll never use.
Hope that helps!
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I don't quite get the colorless blender, how it works. Would you like to explain me a little bit about that? =/
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Have you ever used watercolors before? In watercolor, to make a wash, you put down some water with your brush first, then apply color. The same concept is used here: put down the colorless blender to wet the paper, and then add the colors on lightly, which will allow the colors to seep into each other and blend. I hope that helps, if not, try looking at some watercolor tutorials to understand the concept. : )
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lol lol lol, "boobshine" nice phrase hahahah
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You're amazing! Thank you for this wonderful Tutorial!
How many shades do you usually use for the base coloring and the shadowing? I'm new to using copics and I only have 25 Ciao shades. The usual 2 shades of one color, some skin tones, blender, black and 5 of them I had to order seperatedly. Really I know hardly anything about useing copics. Before now I have been using color pencils.
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Hey, do you think this tutorial would work for promarkers?
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So that's how the colorless blender works!!! D8 I always thought you did the colors first, then the blender...and then my art was always messed up and faded looking...so yes, I'm very glad you made this!
That, and I love all the tips and information. It's one of the only marker tutorials I can follow! Thanks for making this for us all!
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Awww that's such a sweet comment, thank you for taking the time out of your day to post that! 
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hi really great tutorial! verry helpfull
so you use copic paper too so i wanted to ask
copic paper is marker paper right? so bleed proof
is it still good for bleding?
i bought normal marker paper but i cant blend my colors because the ink dries up too fast.
is copic paper better for blending?
thanks!
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I just simply have to draw really really fast. The ink drying really fast is going to happen pretty much on all papers, and using a better paper quality will probably give you an extra second or two. If your ink is drying really fast, try putting more ink onto the paper (mine always bleeds all the way through on the back side, that's how much ink there is) and it's a little easier to blend. Otherwise, having that extra layer of colorless blender is really helpful.
Just work quickly!! The colors are mutable only for a short period of time so it really depends on sleight of hand.
Hope that helps!
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this really helps! 
thank you for replying on my question
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It's no problem! I try very hard to respond to comments that contain questions, even though a lot of people think that I don't even read my comments, hahahahah. Glad I was of some help!
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i think your doing a really great job
but its true a lot of populair artists dont respond on questions
thanks again!
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Well, even when I have also Copic paper I would like to add that since I usually do use normal print paper it's not the smarter idea to use it as tester under the original... because the colors under soaks through and then I got the blue smudge on Naruto's face! DX
Lol whatever. Nice tutorial
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I wish I had those markers.... T__T xD i really like your work. AWESOME!
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So~ helpful. I TOTALLY appriciate the 4 hrs. of work that you put into this. THANK YOU SO MUCH~
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Faving this. I bought markers although they aren't Copic, I hope the tutorial still works for me.
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How many copic markers did you use on this and how many do you regularly use?
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ZOMG this is so awsome I almost forgot to fav it
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i enjoyed read this tut, i am a complete idiot with markers
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Gahhh. I have Prisma colors, are they basically the same thing?
And I'm very glad I actually know what to do with the colorless blender now. xD; Thank you!
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See the reply I made to a previous comment here: [link]
Basically, Copics and Prismas are nearly the same in terms of marker ink (alcohol-based) but differ vastly on application and thus coloring method. The soft brush-tip characteristic of Copic markers allows the user to control how much ink is to be placed on the page, like a real brush, and makes blending colors far easier than with Prismacolor markers, which has the normal felt marker tip. However, the Prisma marker is good at laying down solid colors because of its soft broad brush, whereas Copic uses a chisel tip for that end. So if you like to do marker work where the colors are distinct and shading looks like cel-shading, then by all means there is not much advantage to Copic markers except color selection and saturation. But if you're like me and enjoy blending colors together, Copics work a lot better.
Hope that helps a little!
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ZMG! (TigerLily502 language for Zo My God! Which is also from TigerLily502 language lol) I so need copic markers. All I have are those stupid Crayola Crap markers. *glares at Crayola's* I wish they would die and run out of ink so I can have an excuse for my paranoid mom to go buy copic markers. lol
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HEY! you have the same keyboard as me lol ^^ nice tutorial
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thanks for the tutorial- I had no idea about putting colorless blender down beforehand, I know another commenter did the same thing I did, and tried to put it on top xD Copics are so expensive though.. /sob Will probably increase my collection one at a time..
could I possibly ask your opinion on the Prismacolor/Copic debate? What I've heard (and seems most true to me) is Prismas have more colors? But Copics have better skin tones.. I just know I'm really fond of the Copic brush tip now :>
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In terms of color selection I think Copics and Prismas a pretty evenly matched. I'm not too sure though, so that could just be from what I've seen for sale. Copics do have a large array of skin tones but the main difference between their inks is Prismas tend to be bolder, more vibrant while Copics are a bit duller and lighter. For me, I prefer the lighter look of Copics, since it allows me to work with my canvas color (white) a lot better. Of course there's the difference of the tips (which I love dearly and it's pretty much the main reason I choose Copics over Prismas), allowing Copics to have more versitality but Prismas winning overall, for me, in terms of laying down large areas of flat colors. Unfortunately there's also thte cost to consider, being that Copics are vastly more expensive than Prismas, which makes my wallet very sad. : (
Eep, I hope that wasn't too lengthy!
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