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Copic Marker tips please!!!!
Ok so I have the copic bug, I've bought a few markers with a promise of a 72 set for my upcoming birthday from my husband. I need help from you talented ladies! Where do I begin, how do I get the shading just right, how do I make my images pop like yours, what are some of your favorite color combos???? What are your must have colors? Can anyone please help!!!
Tags: Coloring, Copic, Images, Markers
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Permalink Reply by Cathy on -
I absolutely love my copic markers. They are sooooo easy to shade with. You just need a good image I like flowers to start and start practicing. The secret to copic markers is that you start with a light shade and then add the shading with the next darker shade. You go back over the whole thing with the original color to soften the blend it smoothly. You have to saturate the paper with the color for the color to be moved and blended easily.
I have several examples in my gallery. I have colored all of them with copic markers.
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Permalink Reply by Lynn in St. Louis on -
The very best site to get all the information (and then some) about copics, and all the things you can do with them is Marianne Walker's blog at http://www.ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/
Marianne is the goddess of Copic markers....truly.
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Permalink Reply by Cathy on
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I forgot to mention that I only have about 45 different colors right now and a blender pen which is a must have
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Permalink Reply by Cathy on
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Lynn is absolutely right. I go to Marianne's blog every day myself and I was fortunate enough to get to attend one of her certification classes in Kansas City last month.
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Permalink Reply by nikki on -
YES! Marianne is awesome and I have stalked her blog for the past month. What are your go to colors?
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Permalink Reply by Cathy on
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what colors do you have? I started out with brown, beige, two shades of blue, two shades of green and two shades of pink and red. I tend to lean to warm colors and so these work for me.
What are you planning to color?
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Permalink Reply by nikki on
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My fav stamps to color are my QKD sets of cupcakes, monsters and robots so they can be any color combo. I have a hard time picking color combos that pop.
Here are the markers I have so far...
R37,R30,RV04,RV02,RV09,YR14,YR09,YR07,Y21,Y15,YG13,YG95,G07,G99,BG10,BG15,B01,B32,
B34,V06,V09,E33,E37,100, and a blender
These are just random colors I've picked up when I can scrape a few bucks together and make it to the art store! lol Thank you for any tips, tricks, and wisdom you have!!! I'm soaking it all up! Hugs!!
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Permalink Reply by jazzytobi on -
I would suggest reading blogger's blogs who blog about copic colouring.. (okay, convoluted sentence, much?) And just dive in... When I teach Copic classes I always teach them the basic way of shading first, and that's light-dark-light... fill in an area with the lightest colour first, shade with the dark, then go over the edge of the dark with your light colour again.. light dark light. then add darker shades, take away some of the light with your blender etc....
have fun.. don't just read the tutorials you see, actually do them..
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Permalink Reply by Peggy Moss on -
I have two hints-- 1: use the colorwheel om the Copic site --it's different than a traditional color wheel. 2: use prismacolor pencils & gamsol to fill in for colors you don't have yet. I can also share a color combination I used on a background mosaic stamp last weekend. I think it was---B39, G24, B41, and RV34. RV 34 is a beautiful pink, and I usually don't even like pink!
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Permalink Reply by Scrampingram on -
I have a problem with my colors wicking outside the stamped image. Any suggestions?
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Permalink Reply by Cathrine StClair on -
You might want to try a different cardstock. I've had more wicking with super smooth papers.
A brand new, juicy pen can also sometime deliver more ink and wander outside the lines when you don't expect it. I usually don't start coloring right up against the lines - I leave a hair of space until I see how much the ink will travel.
Too much blending can also cause the ink to wick because the paper gets too saturated with alcohol. Sometimes pausing and waiting for it to evaporate a little helps.
Also - if you get a small amount of wicking (or if you accidently color a smidge over the line) - you can "nudge" the ink back into the area with the colorless blender. Just apply the blender from your "goof" towards the line but not over it. Be careful not to saturate the paper too much.
It won't fix every mistake, but it often helps.
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