I am sick of prismacolor markers, they bleed through everything, they smell like russian vodka and they're too opaque to blend with.
I want some "water color looking" markers, do you guys have any recommendations?
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What's wrong with Russian vodka? :D
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the Ape
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Have you tried Copic?
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haha, russian vodka is great, just not for markers.
I forgot about copics, how are they? I always thought they were just cheap prismacolor knockoffs? was I wrong???
Ha, I knew somebody was going to say that eventually. I actually enjoy watercolor a lot, especially the ones that come in those little tubes, but it's not very portable where I can just whip it out while riding on the bus. You've peaked my interest in colored drawing ink though, do they come in a wide variety of colors, and can you mix colors like with paint?
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That is really cool, because I have a hard time controlling the quantity of paint required to reproduce certain colors.
I dug around yesterday and found my old crayola watercolor cakes from highschool. They actually look surprisingly good and gave me the look I wanted from my markers. I had been using tube watercolors for so long, I forgot how convenient those little cakes are.
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When I used Prismacolor markers I loved them. I would ink my drawing then color the photocopy. I found for some reason they didn't bleed as much on photocopied paper. Another marker I used with Prismacolor was Panatone. Don't know if they still make it.