Why Wide Markers Are Now on My Wishlist
October 12th, 2008
There are several techniques that Marianne showed us where you touch the tip of one Copic marker to another. You might do this if you need to blend two colors together but have a very small area to work in and you need to blend and color in one motion. Or, if you need a paler version of a color than you have on hand, you can touch it to the tip of the colorless blender and color with your blender instead of your marker. You may have to re-apply the color a few times.
The amazing thing is that it does NOT muddy your marker tips! All you do is “scribble off” the excess color.
As for the wide marker, you can use this technique to get perfect stripes, or even plaid as Marianne demonstrates on her blog. How long of a stripe you can make depends on how much you saturate the wide marker tip with the second marker.
I’m not sure that this video will quite match the ah-ha moment I had of trying this for the first time, but I’ll go ahead and share since I promised a (very quickie) video!
I used a rich minty green with the tan colored wide marker so that you can see the brown does not muddy the applied color whatsoever. The resulting stripe reminds me of an after dinner mint!
The wide markers come in 12 colors but you can buy empty markers and fill it with any of the 322 colors of ink.
Note: I figured out how to use the White Balance feature on my camera and it WORKS with the video feature. Sorry for the boring background music, I’m just not sure about using more fun, but copyrighted music.
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Niki says:
October 12, 2008 at 5:38 pm
very cool. Do you have quite a bit of pressure when touching one marker to the other?
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Niki says:
October 12, 2008 at 5:38 pm
oh, and in doing that, did it make your green marker brown?
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mary jean says:
October 12, 2008 at 6:01 pm
oooohhh ribbond candy! Cant you just see red/white and red/green for this coming holidays!
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hollygtn says:
October 12, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Niki, pressing downward makes the ink “pool” out, whether in this case on the other marker or if you were making a palette to mix colors with. I honestly can’t say I have a feel for how much pressure you really need to apply. But I think the harder you press the more ink will flow. As for the green marker turning brown, no! I don’t know if it is gravity, or what, but in class while doing the tip to tip technique once the wrong tip absorbed the ink. It may also be if one marker is dryer than the other then you might have the unintended consequence of that marker being thirsty?!
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I2bz2w8 says:
October 12, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Thanks for sharing I am doing a word book and you just game me some inspiration. I’ve added these to my list of must haves.