illustration of Alice made with Copic ciao set 51 Manga 7

Copic Ciao 5+1 Manga 7 sets

It only takes a few colors to make a design!

illustration by Alice Esculapi

For this illustration, the 5 Copic Ciao markers found in the Copic Ciao 5+1 Manga 7 set were used.

The colors included in the set are:

  • E11 (Bareley Beige): a light beige with a slight warm hue. Perfect for creating skin tones, light hair and other delicate details.
  • E00 ( Cotton Pearl): Perfect for creating light and bright skin tones, ideal for the faces of manga and comic book characters.
  • RV06 ( Cerise): a vibrant pink.
  • B00 ( Frost Blue): an icy blue that evokes a cool feeling. Great for creating backgrounds, cool shadows and light blue details.
Creating a Copic color palette

An important thing to do is to study the colors and see what shades can be achieved by layering one color on top of another. Also useful is to create a palette of the colors in the set.

Application of the

For the background, however, Copic ink taken directly from the marker was thinned with a little alcohol and applied with a brush.

Below is a video that shows you how the background was applied.

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