Best Copic Marker Colors for Beginners
Which Copic Marker Set is Best for Beginners?
New to Copic coloring? Never bought markers before? It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the many Copic Marker sets. You’re ready to play but you’re also nervous. Copics are a big investment! Unless you’re a long lost Rockefeller, most people can’t buy all 358 markers at once.
How do you make the most of your initial investment and what’s the best way to build your way up to a full collection?
Let’s make sure your first purchase is a smart purchase!
Color Theory Tip: How to Tame Clashing Complementary Color (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
Color can Get Loud!
You’re coloring a beautiful new stamp with Copic Markers and colored pencils. About halfway into the project you realize, Whoa! These colors are really bright!
Which is weird, because nothing you’re using is florescent. They’re just regular ol’ colors.
But together? Skip the sunglasses, you need protective goggles!
Why do normal colors team up and start to glow like toxic waste?
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Bonsai Green
Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color. To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Color Theory: Are you blinded by color? Value vs. Hue (Alcohol Marker, Colored Pencil)
Confused by hues?
As a Copic Marker beginner, you follow marker recipes given to you by instructors or bloggers. Many colored pencil beginners do the same, using tried & true color combinations.
When you grow and improve, you try to invent your own color palettes. Sadly, this is where a lot of colorers decide they don’t really like independence.
A lot of intermediate colorers pretend to be beginners again!
They go back to using someone else’s color palettes even though they’re very capable of making their own.
Why?