Illustration Marker Tutorial- Prismacolor, AD Chartpak, Pantone, Copic Drawing Demo

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Illustration markers are incredible tools for artists! They add color quickly and accurately without a time consuming set up or a messy clean up. They can be used alone or in combination with other artistic media. This tutorial will teach you what you need to know about illustration markers. You will learn how to use them as I demonstrate by drawing a basketball player. Lets Get Started with thos tutorial!

Lets start by giving you some background knowledge.
1a.) Brands- The most popular brands are Prismacolor, Copic , Ad Chartpak and Pantone. I will do a drawing demonstration of Ad Chartpak in this video.
1.) Markers- When you use illustration markers, think of yourself as a watercolor artist. Watercolor artists create their work with beautiful transparent colors. If you choose to try illustration markers, you will definitely be able to apply and make multiple layers of transparent color. But there is a difference......the ability to mix. The colors are pre mixed and they do not blend together like wet paint as you can see in this demonstration.
2.) Special Markers- There are two different types of special illustration markers; Blender markers and gray markers for tones. The blender marker is a little deceptive. It is simply a marker without color in it. It is comprised of the fluid that the marker is mixed in. When it is applied on paper, the colors will bleed together. Notice how the line in between the two colors has disappeared. You will see more examples of how to use the blender in my demonstration. The gray markers are used to build tones. They come is Warm and Cool chromas. The warm gray markers lean towards the warm orange half of the color wheel and the cool ones lean towards the cool blue half. As you saw in the previous section, we cant mix marker colors on a palette like paint, so these gray markers become extremely important. These markers give an illustrator the ability to add tones......and tones make an artwork interesting by giving it depth. As you can see, these markers have a range of tones from one to ten. Ten is the darkest tone and one is the lightest.
3.) Paper- In order to use Illustration Markers to their full capacity, you will need Bleedproof paper. It is specifically made for markers, and it prevents markers from running. Notice the difference in the amount of bleeding of the printer paper on the left, compared to the Bleedproof paper on the right.
4.) As a final point before you see the demonstration, I wanted to make you aware of an article that I wrote that goes in to depth about the nuances of illustration markers. I will recommend color palettes, compare brands and describe techniques for illustrators. It is a good resource for people who wish to learn about illustration or for any person who is in the market for illustration markers. I will leave a link in the video description.

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[boboluvsbananas]

amazing i wish i could draw that goo i could not draw like that in my dream

[gunthergator]

A basketball player? The gentleman? Common, thats mike! Great instructions btw

[MrHovanic]

i have been drawing for sometime now but never felt like it was enough. i am working some with colored pencil and want to start with markers. what i really want is that solid look to the artwork, not the stroke of a pencil. can you recommend a starter set of markers and maybe some pointers?

[chinkapin6810]

Love the way you utilized the different media. Great tutorial.

[MrMfloor]

@TheQueenOfStupidity There is no such thing as a stupid question!!!! If you don't know, you don't know......how else you gonna find out the answer? You could guess or you can ask! Hold your head up

[EdwardP88]

Absolutely amazing work. I just bought some prismacolor markers today to get back into my drawing and didn't know how to actually use them but your tutorial has shown me well. Thanks for this!

[JAI9ER]

hi i just purchased a set of prisma color markers premier and i was wandering can copic markers mix with prisma markers

[lwg1234]

What kind of substrate,Parker do you use. Great video

[SongwindGlobal]

Wow. I have never seen someone use oil glaze over color pencil before. That's a really interesting idea. (I'm an intermediate user of both)

What sort of paper do you have to use to support the paint and such?

[rayford8605]

how do you feel about copic vs prisma?

[WarriorSmurf]

Cool stuff. This video was easier to find than I thought :o)

[TheQueenOfStupidity]

I know it's a stupid question, sorry, but what kind of color pencils are you using? I like using watercolor pencils, but I am looking for a new media/methods and the method you use with markers, then pencils, and oil paint seem really cool, but oil paint or oil pastels dont go with watercolor does it? What mixed media method ywould you reccomend to go with watercolor pencils? :) Btw I only just stumpled upon your videos, so sorry if you have already mentioned what pencils you use.