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.
| Manufacturer | Copic Marker |
|---|---|
| Brand | Copic |
| Item Weight | 0.5 ounces |
| Product Dimensions | 5.9 x 0.6 x 0.45 inches |
| Item model number | SM-E11S |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Color | E11 Barley Beige |
| Material Type | Plastic |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Size | 1 Count (Pack of 1) |
| Point Type | Chisel |
| Manufacturer Part Number | SM-E11S |
