Copic Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Beginners

Name: Copic Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Beginners
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Learn over 15 different Tips, Tricks & Techniques for creating with Alcohol Based Copic Markers

Created byCheryl Penner

Last updated 5/2022

English

English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Learn the Basics of using Copic Markers
Learn 3 different ways to blend with Copics
Learn how Copic Markers differ from Dye based markers
Learn over 15 different techniques using Copic Markers

Course content

1 section • 15 lectures • 1h 10m total length

Copic Tips, Tricks & Techniques Introduction2:26
discover essential Copic tips, tricks, and techniques for beginners, practice with a 36-color setup, and learn to fill a blank chart to prevent duplicates while building a starter cart.
Copic 1018:50
Learn the basics of Copic markers for beginners, comparing the white marker, the original square, chow, and sketch, and how ink, paper, and tip choice affect blending and bleed.
About the Colourless Blender...6:25
Discover that the colorless blender removes color, not blends it, and use it to fix mistakes by fading; create textures like clouds and brick patterns with brush and chisel tips.
3 Basic Blending Techniques6:47
Learn three basic blending techniques for copic markers: circle blending with colors two to three numbers apart, opposite-color tip blending, and feathering; plus keep a sample book to track colors.
Blending 3 Colours within the same family6:31
Learn to blend three colors from the same family to shade a bear illustration, using a base coat, light, medium, and dark tones, and circular blending to create fur texture.
Colouring Skin Tones6:42
Build skin-tone coloring skills with a sample book of swatches, layering light, medium, and dark colors. Practice blending using reference palettes and copied color combos on open-space images.
Colouring Hair3:42
Explore coloring hair with layered Copics, practicing light initial coats, building color with darker underlayers near the face, and blending with lighter tones to achieve hair strands and color combinations.
Colouring Glitter4:16
Learn to create glittery, alcohol-based colored images using a blender pen with double-sided tape on cardstock, blending with a brush-side marker and a blender pan for a front-card panel.
Colouring Vellum2:50
Color vellum with copic markers on the backside using a feather blending technique with two colors and stays on ink for a dry finish.
Colouring on White Embossing3:50
Discover a quick white embossing technique on black cardstock to highlight festive text with a marker, applying rapidly to prevent embossing powder from breaking down.
Creating Custom Embellishments2:38
Cubic markers are alcohol based and permanent, letting you create matching embellishments and two tone ribbons, color embellishments and gemstones to fit your project with white starting points.
Adding Liquid Mediums1:17
Add liquid mediums to alcohol-based, permanent inks to create glossy textures without color bleeding. These top-layer mediums won’t move colors, letting you add shine or glitter.
Creating Textures & Patterns4:51
Create textures and patterns by applying blender solution to fabrics—fur, denim, burlap—then use Kopech markers to add dots, flowers, hearts, raindrops, and bricks, with blending and color removal techniques.
Lets make a Card with some of the Techniques you've Learned9:31
Color a hydrangea image using light-to-dark layering, blending with a blender, and feathering techniques, then color leaves, add subtle gray shading, and finish the card with sparkle.
Copic Tips, Tricks & Techniques Thank-you0:19
Thank you for joining the class and making the card; reach out with any questions, and I look forward to seeing you in the next class.

Requirements

No previous requirements

Description

Welcome to Copic Tips, Tricks & Techniques for Beginners Class!

This is the perfect class for you if you are new to using alcohol based markers and would love some guidance with different tips and tricks to get you started as well as a bunch of different but simple techniques you can use to create with your markers.

This class has a Supply List that lets you know a lot of the supplies that I used throughout this class. Those supplies are linked to where you can find the supplies. There are also resource links in that supply list to help you with this journey. Most of the images used are creative commons images which gives you a lot of choice to start practicing on! You can find the Supply List Linked with the Introduction Video.

I have been using copics for 15 years and have completed both their basic cerification as well as their intermediate certification. Copics are my absolute favourite way to colour images and I'm excited to share this knowledge with you!

Here's what we will cover in this class:

1 -Basic information about copics, what they can do and why I love them

2 -Information about the colourless blender, what it does and does NOT do!

3 -3 basic blending techniques

4 -How to blend 3 different colours within the same colour family

5 -Colouring Skin tones and Hair

6 -Colouring with copics on top of glitter

7 -How to colour on Vellum

8 -Colouring on top of White embossing

9 -Creating Custom Embellishments

10 -Applying liquid mediums over copics

11 -Different techniques for creating patterns and Textures

*note* Colouring with Alcohol Markers requires a different technique than the dye based markers we all grew up with. There is a learning curve to it, so expect the learning curve and enjoy the process of discovering this new medium! I share with you many of the different colour choices I am using but you do not need the EXACT ones I am using to learn and discover colouring with Copics.

Who this course is for:

Beginners new to Copic Markers wanting to learn some Tips, Tricks and Techniques to start out