Copic Markers E53-Sketch, Raw Silk

Copic sketch Marker. I like drawing and coloring with these Snapped this up on a sale Great marker, blends well with itself, and other copic markers.

The color of the ink is exactly the same as the color on the cap. I like to know the color I’m reaching for is going to come out as promised. As a pleasant little side-detail, even the name of the colors they choose makes sense! The brush-tip is smooth with a bit of bounce. It releases the ink precisely and according to slight pressure, a predictable flow that gives me exact control of where I want the ink to go. This marker is alcohol based and dries very fast - once the ink is on the paper, blending has to happen right then (you better know your shading-or blending color before this !) to be seamless and smooth. The colorless blending marker doesn’t help with blending so much, it pushes the color I want to blend with away, making it lighter - great for highlites. Until the beginning of 2018, when I discovered you-tube tutorials and realized how much I wanted to learn fashion illustration, I had only dabbled in silk painting and then, later, I squeezed in a few months of old-master-oil-technique. My experience/knowledge of markers (and any graphic art supplies) was limited by felt-tips from childhood and assorted colors from the 99 Cent store - those things and markers like this one are not at all related, not even like a four times removed cousin. I wish it wasn’t true that when it comes to markers, you get what you pay for. But it is true. Believe me, I’ve tried. “How bad can it be?”, I thought when I ordered the first pack of 100 double-ended, guaranteed blend-able in 100 different shades, no bleed, no dry-out, professional quality “Art” Markers for the irresistible price of $19.90. I wish I could tell you this was the only experience I needed to know better. It wasn’t. A shoe-box full with leaky, dried out, explosive ink-spouting things with phantasy color names and caps that have nothing to do with the color that actually comes out on the paper and don’t blend at all, even with those colorless blending-tools I bought separately and three or four sets of more then bizzare skin-tone-sets that nature wouldn’t allow in the worst circumstance on a human skin, and when I made my own color samples, I had to admit that all I really had was maybe ten different colors, at the most tells a very different story. Out of about 250 cheap markers, ten of them still sit on my desk, mixed in with markers like this one. You really really get what you pay for. In the face of 240 pens that will end up at Goodwill, a $7 marker that does exactly what it says it will do is a pretty good deal in my book of deals.

This marker is a beautiful color. The perfect hot pink/neon pink! Being a Copic marker, it is easy to use, blend, and is a great value (as you can refill it once you use the ink up). It was wrapped well and had no issues when I received it. A great way to start your Copic collection!!

Great blue color. Very saturated and not as easy to blend for that reason. But it is true to its swatch on the website.

Exelente!

Too expensive here but will do in a pinch. All you have to do is google there are sites that sell for less.

Everybody wins when using a Copic marker. Highly recommend. Smooth application. Dries quickly. Lots of colors to choose from.

Copic Markers are the best alcohol markers you can buy. They are a little heavy on the price tag, but once you purchase the actual color marker, you never have to throw it away. (At least for a very long time anyway), you buy refills for these, which is a little less than the marker itself but it refills the marker several times.( you can also replace the ends of them if you need to). With these you can blend like no other makers. And what I really love about them, is that you can color over your image as much as you need to, and no matter how much ink you put down, you don’t have to worry about your paper rolling up or taring. That in my opinion, is worth it, because every other marker I have ever had, after I put so much ink on my paper it would start tearing. Feel free to color away with this as much as you’d like, and you don’t have to worry about that. I would recommend getting some good paper. I like the Neenah White solar Cardstock in either the 80 or 110lb. They also make a copic marker paper that I have heard wonderful things about, but haven’t personally ever used it.