I am still new to Copic markers so this book was super helpful for me! It has sections on coloring faces, clothes, accessories, nature, and backgrounds. There are also tips throughout the book on how to use Copic markers most effectively as well as how to get the most out of your Copic markers. The only thing I didn't find particularly useful is the analog to digital sections as I'm a strictly paper gal. I can't wait to try some of the techniques in this book. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC.

5 stars, Interesting methods

MANGA ARTISTS COPIC MARKER COLORING TECHNIQUES
by Shin, Maripori, Yue, Junko Kitamura, Suzu Kawana, Ramiru Kirisaki

I had never heard of Copic markers, before selecting this book as an ARC. Turns out they are very fancy and exceptional markers that many Manga artists use to color their artwork. I am not at all interested in Manga art. I am on the other hand, interested in art techniques. I am not an artist but am interested in learning all I can about art techniques.

This book takes you on a journey through Manga art, to show you how to color hair, skin, and objects. Highly recommended.

Thankfully, I was selected by #netgalley for this complimentary copy of #mangaartistscopicmarkercoloringtechniques by #shin I was under no obligation to post a review.

Before reading this book I knew nothing about Copic Marker but they can be found on e-commerce sites like Aliexpress or Wish.

And now a completely new world of coloring techniques is in my pocket.

The book was written by professional manga artists who teach all the tricks of the trade, starting from basic techniques, including blending, mixing, and layering color up to create texture when coloring skin, hair, clothing, and scenery and how to fix mistakes!

For each paint you can find the list of color used and a detailed step-by-step instructions with related images.

This book is perfect! I really love it. It has everything you need to know for drawing with copic markers. For beginners and advanced learners. I am using copic markers over 20years and the book is still useful for me.
You can find the basics, advanced knowledge ...example pages. Everything is explained. I am so excited. Pefect! Highly recommend!

Manga Artists' Copic Marker Colouring Techniques is a compilation style guide with tutorials in manga style and with specific combinations and palettes for copic markers. Originally published in Japanese in 2016, this English language translation is due out 25th June 2021 from Zakka Workshop. It's 146 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is a very basic beginner accessible book. The introductory sections begin with the numbering system and different pens in the Copic range and understanding how to lay down color and correct mistakes. There's a short tutorial on other tools and supplies which the beginning artist will find useful (more advanced readers will probably not find much unknown info here).

Following chapters contain step-by-step tutorials showing skin, hair, eyes, and other features as well as clothing and accessories, backgrounds, flowers and nature and composition. There's a useful troubleshooting chapter which contains a number of good fixes for unevenness, removing/covering misplaced color, lighting, and different paper choices for varied effects.

The appendices include marker FAQs and colors, links and resources for supplies, and a short thumbnail gallery of backgrounds for use in drawings. Each of the sections contain some digital resources for transferring and enhancing manually drawn pictures into digital media and enhancements and other uses for artworks such as promotional materials, keychains, cards, and buttons.

This is not a drawing manual, the tutorials are aimed at blending and using the different types of copic markers to color line drawings.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Visually, this book is very nice looking. The colors are bright. Spacing is appropriate. However, the content is severely lacking. Nothing in the book is anything beyond what a novice artist will have figured out on their own in the first setting with alcohol markers. This should be a pamphlet rather than a $25 book. They did address some color combinations for skin tones, showing three marker colors in a square for various skin tones, but not one character has darker skin and none of the techniques address this.

While this might be pretty in a gift basket with artist supplies, I think the money would be better off purchasing more alcohol markers or paper.

Manga Artists' Copic Marker Coloring Techniques is a great resource for amateur marker artists looking to up their game. The book features some excellent tips on blending and shading, colour choices, and creating effects like rain and folds in clothing. Although written with Copic markers in mind, the techniques described in this book are equally valid for other brands of markers, though the successful execution of some effects may depend on the quality of the markers you are using. The book's layout is pleasing to the eye and easy to read, with plenty of accompanying illustrations to demonstrate each point. Some of the tips I have seen described in other books about drawing manga, but often they just encompass a single, brief chapter, whereas this work concentrates fully on colouring technique, rather than drawing figures etc. Recommended for those creating manga with marker pens who wish to take their colouring to the next level.

Very impressed! Love my Copic Markers!! Such lovely illustrations in this book and great step-by-step was instructions! Love the coloring suggestions! A great book on Copics!