What are some good, cheap, art markers?

Question

What are some good, cheap, professional color markers?

Answer 1

Prismacolor design markers are the cheapest out of the other brands, but still a bit pricey. They could go for about 2 dollars or more, EACH. Of course, if you get a box set of them, they'd be slightly cheaper.

Answer 2

I personally use copic markers, I have only 16 out of the 300 (there are more than 300 but I'm not sure how many exactly and I'm too lazy to look it up), I also have 3 prismacolors, the main difference are the nibs. They both are double sided and have one end that is bigger than the other to color with more range. The main thing that people look for in these type of markers are that the ink is alcohol based that gives it a nice even coloring and are able to blend really well and look like it is printed out. But the main difference is the smaller nib, prismacolors have a fine nib for getting into small places. The copic markers (sketch and ciao) have a brush nib. The copic markers mainly use the brush nib which is why it doesn't have an ordinary fine nib like prismacolors. However the original copic marker (btw there are 4 types of copics: Original, ciao, sketch, and wide) also has a fine nib but the ciao and sketch have brush nibs, wide is just super wide for doing backrounds. I used copics at first because everyone said a lot of good things about it and it was especially for manga which is what I'm practicing. but since your doing fashion design I think that you should use prismacolor.

Answer 3

Cheap off brands (ones you pickup at the Dollar store) run out of their ink really fast. It may pay to invest in the medium range ones instead.

Answer 4

Crayola is a good brand (slightly expensive)

Cheap marks aren't necessarily the best quality mind you.

Answer 5

Did someone just say Crayola? haha. Prismacolour.