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Hi, my name is
Colleen Schaan and I'm a Copic Regional
Certification Instructor and co-
author of the Copic Coloring Guide.
In this video, I would like to
explain to you a little bit about the copic
numbering system, or what I like to
call the secret code.
The copic numbering system is made up
of three parts. Let's take a
closer look.
The first part of the code
is the letter. The letter
stands for what color family the marker
is from. For example,
this marker is R; it's
from the red color family. This
marker is B and it's from the blue color
family. Now sometimes
there's more than just one letter.
For example here I've got YR
and this is from the yellow red
family. The second
part of the copic numbering system
is the saturation. Saturation
basically tells you how vibrant a marker
is. Let's take a look.
Saturation is
represented by that first number.
All of our numbers go from 0
to 9. The lower the number
the higher the saturation
or the more vibrant that marker's going to be.
The higher that first number,
the lower the saturation
or the less vibrant the marker will be.
Let's take a look at some
examples.
I have two red markers
here; the saturation is different
on both markers. For example, on
this marker the saturation is a 2
so it's almost fully saturated.
So it's going to be very vibrant and
bright. This marker has
a saturation of 8
so it's going to be much less vibrant.
The last part of the copic numbering system
is the shade, and
that's represented by that last number.
Again, all of our numbers go from
0 to 9 with
shade the lower that number
the lighter the shade.
The higher that number the darker the
shade. For example,
I have two
blue markers;
this marker has a 1 for the shade
it's a very low number so it's going to be
a very light blue.
This marker has a 9 for the shade
so it's a much higher number so it's
going to be a much darker shade.
Now there's always exceptions to the rules
and the copic numbering system is no different.
Sometimes you have a marker
that has multiple zeros;
basically that tells you the shade.
The more zeros, the lighter that marker
is. Now that you understand
how to read the copic numbering system,
let's put it together to help
you pick good blending groups.
There are just a few basic rules
for putting it together to pick
markers that will blend well together
The basic rules are: Always
pick markers from the same
color family so they have the same letter.
Pick markers from
the same saturation so they have
the same first number.
And then pick two or three
markers with two or three digits
difference in the last number.
So you'll have a light, a medium
and a dark marker
in the same saturation same
family. If you do that you're going
to have markers that blend really well
together. For more information about
the copic numbering system and how to
pick good blending groups you can refer
to The Coloring Guide pages
5 and 6. Thanks
for stopping in today. Go out and
color your world.