How to Blend Marker

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If you’re wondering how to blend alcohol markers, you’re in the right place. This post covers the main steps involved in blending alcohol markers so that you can create a smooth transition and improve your artwork. 

Making Your Marker Blending Smooth

To achieve a smooth blend with alcohol-based markers, you need to use various shades of the same colour. If you just use two shades to blend alcohol markers, you’ll find that the transition isn’t smooth.

Therefore, adding a third and fourth marker, or more can make a tremendous difference and enhance the quality of your artwork for a soft transition with your alcohol-based marker.

Colorless Blenders

Using a colorless blender allows you to continue blending your art without having to add pigments to it. Some people find that using colorless blenders can cause the colors to become diluted. Therefore, make sure that your ink isn’t too wet on the page. 

Marker Blending Methods

• The order of shading that you follow when blending markers is important. You should start with the lightest shade and gradually move your way along until you get to the darkest tone of the same color.
• In addition to this, blending markers work best when the ink is wet. So, be sure to blend your markers in stages.
• Start by coloring in the area with a light color. Go one shade up and color over the top of the existing color whilst still leaving some areas for the lighter color to come through.
• Continue like this until you’ve achieved the color that you want. You can also go back to the lighter colors and shade in the area where you see fit. 
• You may want to leave a little bit of space around the area that you want to be filled with color. This is because the ink from markers tend to bleed. Leaving some space allows for this bleeding to ensure that you don’t go over the lines. 
• To enhance how well your colors have blended, you can add a background and highlights to your artwork. 

Conclusion

After reading through this post on how to blend markers smoothly, we hope that you’re feeling more confident about it. 

You should keep in mind that this may be a process. So, even if it doesn’t look great the first few times, keep practising and you’ll notice that your blending gets better and better each time. 

FAQs

Which ink is best for blending markers?

There’s no one best type of ink for this type of artwork. If you want convenience, however, Copic markers may be a good option due to how the ink is refillable.

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