As temperamental as Copic markers can be when used as markers, they’re even worse when used with their airbrush tool. It seems like such a good idea in principle: the effect of an airbrush without extensive cleanup between colors. But alas, there’s no reliable way to predict which colors will work and which won’t (even Copic itself admits that results vary). So combinations depend entirely on what markers actually do something when inserted into the brush tool.
But wait, it gets better. After running tests, I settled on Cool Grey 3 for the lighter background color. But once everything was masked up and ready to go, the marker refused to work in the brush tool. So I switched to Neutral Grey 8, with a lighter (and apparently more spattering) application to keep it from being too dark.
I was also hoping to use Spring Orange for the foreground, figuring that overfilling it for #168 would at least mean that it would have plenty of ink for airbrush use. And yet it didn’t work at all.
Plus Cool Grey 3 started working again, so I used it for the drop shadow.
Despite the chaos in the production, the result was good. The one lesson I took away (other than what I already knew about Copics) was that I need to develop a lighter touch with the Xacto when cutting masks. I ended up digging some deep trenches in the board.
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