I used Tria and Prismacolor. Does that count? Well, just in case I can tell you what I think of them.

Personnally I mainly use Prismacolor markers for one main reason: the price. They're much cheaper than the Trias. On the other hand, the color choice is more reduced. When I need a more specific color, I check for Trias.

But as I said before, I never tryed Copics. I would like to but I can't find any here!

As a graphic designer, I often work with markers and I would probably choose Trias is it wasn't for the price. It's just a personnal opinion. I suggest you try to go to you local art material store and try them. There's often paper available to try the markers.

I hope I helped! And sorry for my poor Eglish!

Thanks, your English is fine I'm going to have to order markers, because there are none available in any nearby art stores to "try out".... I was wondering about blending, color quality, what the nibs are like, what folks think of them... Etc.


Thanks though

I use prismacolours because they're cheaper too... my friend uses tria, I think. Hers are nicer, but more expensive. And yes, they have more colour choice. I don't know how they are for blending, etc. I assume fairly similar though. They're all pretty nice!

Copics are nice, but will dry out on you -very- quickly. If you get them, i advise getting re-fill ink bottles for your commonly used colours.

TRIAS. Make all of your staple colors (especially skin tones and base shades) tria markers. They go down MUCH smoother than Prismas and last MUCH longer than copics. They blend fabulously with other types of marker (even crayolas, highlighters, etc.) as well as paint and colored pencil. The wide color range allows you to make much more subtal effects.

Use cheaper markers (prismas) or colored pencils for things like shading, which you may need a larger amount of markers for, but will be using for smaller areas. (ex: you can shade a peachy color with brown or orange or reddish. You will use the peach 3x's more than the other three colors.)

Hope this helps!

Thank you for the warning! I'll look into the re-fill bottles...in case any copic colors jump out at me

Thank you so much...your advice sounds good...and yes it's helped me a lot ~_^

No prob, always happy to help.

to that drying out thing
well, someone gave me the advise that I should use a special marker block for copics, cause then they won't dry out so quickly...the ony disadvantage is, that the paper of the marker blocks is very crappy and thin...

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