#marker tutorial

(This is how I do it, at least)

Alternate tutorial with more explanations - and additional advice - under the cut:

A quick tutorial of how I shade and blend with my alcohol markers! Told ya I’d make one

Step 1 - Base color! Get your base color down and filled in!

Step 2 - More base color? What?

First make sure the area isn’t wet. If it’s still wait, wait a little bit for the ink to settle. Then take your base color again, and fill in the area you’re shading.

Step 3 - Finally, I can grab a different marker

Grab a darker color for the area you’re going to shade, and put that down on top of the part you just shaded. Don’t go as far as you did before.

Step 4 - Dammit I need the base color again?!

Go over with the base color once again, focusing it on the dark color and where the dark color meets the base color. Keep going until blended and then….

Voila! Beautifully shaded

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I’ll be going over anatomy of a Copic marker, what the colour code means, the difference between original/sketch/ciao markers, and different shading methods. Free Zoom only allows 40 minutes to a meeting, so It’ll be whatever I can fit in that time period.

Normally I’d charge a set amount for a class, but everyone’s stuck at home and providing their own materials for now, so it’s pay what you want min $0. You can find me at Ko-fi, Patreon, or Paypal.

Materials if you want to follow along:

How I paint with markers smoothly! hope you enjoy this video tutorial :)

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So I was asked to make a slime tutorial!

1) start with your lines! Remember to be fluid here, keep things organic and rounded. This will help when you start coloring!

2) Now when I color slime I choose to line in color as well as it helps create that “clear” or “jello-like” look later on.

3) I started by picking my color set! I find that having a five color set usually helps me create a smooth, goopy transition with my markers but that’s just me! Now I always start with my darkest color trying to make the centers. Ever have Gushers? Imagine you’re making that. And that’s where all your main bits are going to be. Whether they’re the biggest overlaps in body parts or where your slime’s innards are going to be.

4) Here’s where you start establishing shadows that aren’t primarily due to overlap or innards!

5) Start to round out your shadows and your centers from panel 3.

6) Continue to follow that liquid rounded feeling of your shading. Here is probably where you’ll start to reach the edges of your lines.

7) Finish with your colors and leave your established lighted areas pretty pale.

8) I feel like this could be entirely optional depending on taste but it looks really clean to me. So here I blend from darker colors to lighter colors using my colorless blender. Careful though, depending on how wet your piece is you could have some bleeding really take over your lines here.

9) Fill in any other spaces here! I.E.) clothes, facial details, markings, accessories, etc.

10) I use the Gelly Roll pens for all my high lighting but really a nice gel pen will get the job done. Again, product used is based on artist comfort in my opinion. I also usually clean up my lines in this stage as there was bleeding that occurred in the colorless blending stage!

I hope to do video tutorials in the future, but hopefully this helps out the way it needs to!

NOTES: The colors I used were from the Prismacolor Premier set and were- ☆PM-39 ☆PB-40 ☆PM-48 ☆PB-134 ☆Sky Light Blue (I unfortunately could not find the number for this one) ☆PB-121 (my colorless blender) ☆PM-8 (Pink) ☆ then black

My liners were from the 20 count Triplus Fineliner set (they’re pretty well priced at Michael’s and Target but at Michael’s you can usually use a 40% coupon on them!)