The #1 Colored Pencil Every Purple Marker Fan Needs 

FINALLY someone puts it on words that make sense and don’t make me sound like I’m just a crazy artist lol. ALL of my watercolor “purples” never give purple justice and it’s so frustrating 😭

That flower ball you're making is soooo 3-D! Gorgeous!

I've got to say I really appreciate your videos. The first one I saw was you ripping into Ohuhu's bleedproof paper and then their markers. and that almost threw me off, since I'd already bought both, but you had some good points in that vid. I've since been making my way backwards through a bunch of your other videos and this has been a treasure trove! You bring up things I've never heard anyone else mention, like filling copics by weight. I bought a jeweler scale and went through all my Copics and sure enough they ones that were way underweight were super dead. I bought replacements and refills and likely extended the lives of my markers. Your videos on pink and this one on purple both address issues with those colors that I'd noticed but never really thought about. Your videos really do provide a valuable perspective.

You are SO RIGHT !! I just bought a kit of dual tip 60 brush pens. 60 COLORS... and 3 non-purple purples! I've never thought about this before but you are so right on!

Omg, it’s not me! Forever I was thinking where is the good real purple marker? Thank you for this video.

“Someone is sleeping with the Amazon delivery guy” hahaha

A very useful video!❤ Really, I love purple and even after trying markers from different brands, I have always the impression that none of them is THE purple I need for my projects! I thought that the problem was me for I feel myself a beginner but after your video I'm really glad that I'm not alone😅❤

Oh yes, the 'purple problem' ... I keep buying small groups of other brands of alcohol markers to try to find purple. Trying to mix & match & get that color and a good blend ... ugh. Time to dig out the colored pencils ! Thanks Amy 🙂

I am a beginner who started with Mondo Llama markers from Target. The purples don’t look purple to me. I am visually disabled. In all your videos that I have just started watching you have explained problems that I thought were my fault because I am on the blindness spectrum. So far I’ve only watched a few of your videos, but what they have given me in accessibility as an artist on the blindness spectrum has been valuable. Thank you so much!

Markers are new to me. Great as underlayer. Your tutorials on RU-vid are a great help.

Natural purple / violet pigments are very fugitive; they fade to nothing exposed to light. Quinacridone red is a chemically developed magenta-ish pigment that can be mixed with violets and blues to achieve stable purple shades. I add quinacridone magenta watercolor to my gouache for a permanent purple. Same properties as pencils, but harder to mix.

It’s refreshing to see this issue addressed. 💜💜💜

Fantastic video! Thank you!

Wow so beautiful And so nicely explained

So now, it's " Amy and the Purple Marker. " ( I was a big fan of Harold and the Purple Crayon, by the way ).

Your wealth of knowledge just amazes me! Thank you for continuing to share with the rest of us!

This is a great video. I love purple and always struggle to find the right blend to make it work. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

Thank you! I didn't know this is a problem. Purple is simply not the color I want to use. 😅 But now I knew if I came ever to this issue

Amy, I’m going to go out on a limb here; but, I don’t think that those of us who are dabbling in art have really thought about the difference. Before taking any classes with you, violet was just another shade of purple. Not our fault really. We were all taught the primary colors are, secondary…no where did it list violet. The CMY wheel breaks down color families. In my small, ignorant brain, violet was just a different shade of purple. Quite honestly, I have to remind myself all the time that they are different categories and retrain my brain to the CMY wheel.

🙂😂😂🤣 "Someone's sleeping with the Amazon driver."😂😂🫠

Thank you for this video. This is super useful information. And your allium is gorgeous!

I literally clicked on this video because purple is my favorite color LOL

This was a very helpful video honestly I felt a bit similar to when it came to yellow my ohuhu and copic line up is lacking on that color to tbh so thanks for the work around with this vid!!

I'm guessing that a true, natural purple (which is kind of a reddish-brownish-violet to my eye but I could be totally off :)) is difficult to dilute to create a blending spectrum in markers. When you start to dilute it, either too much red or too much brown or too much blue starts to come through and the diluted shade no longer looks "purple" to our eye. "Purple" (I think) is what our eye makes of that red/brown/violet kind of mix. I also think true, natural purple is almost impossible to create as a dye that's also reasonably lightfast and will dissolve in the alcohol carrier necessary for alcohol markers. Historically, purple came from snails (Tyrian purple) but that's not sustainable (or ethical :)) in modern times and it also fades when exposed to sunlight. The main component of Tyrian Purple is 6,6-dibromoindigo but they've only developed an efficient lab synthesis for that compound in 2010. Thioindigo is a modern substitute for indigo-based dyes and when I look at the structure for thioindigo dyes, I don't know how soluble they would be in the alcohol carrier necessary for alcohol markers. So we're kind of stuck no matter which way we turn when it comes to a true purple dye that's easily synthesized in a lab and will also dissolve in an alcohol (or water-based) carrier. My apologies if that was WAY too much info or WAY too nerdy. :)

Teal is another color I really struggle with and need to use colored pencils with. I enjoy mixing them but still am waiting for the perfect bold teal marker or pen

For me it’s the greens. I’m VERY picky about greens. I pretty much stick to olives, mints, and mosses in various shades, but I’ve been looking for the perfect pale greyish mint for years! I begin to think they don’t make it. 😭

I colored some purple pants on an anime character yesterday and let me tell you... this is a great tip even for cartoons lol.

I agree. Where are the Purple Copics. I love Purple!!!!❤❤❤

Oh, prismacolor process red, my baby. When I was in high school, the upper level drawing classes were small enough that they held the upper level and upper-upper level classes in one classroom at the same time, just doing different things. In fact, my class was the pioneer for giving the upper-upper level students each a set of prismacolor premier pencils (because there were about five of us), with the caveat that at the end of the school year, we had to give them back. If there was any pencil I was going to be clutching to my chest begging them to let me leave with just this one, please, it would have been that process red. There were a couple others in the set I loved, but process red is the only one whose name I remember and the first one that comes to mind. As for the purple issue… that one has driven me nuts since approximately second grade. It’s Roy G Biv, not Roy G Bp. Why are we condensing two distinct colors into one messy catch all?? Indigo, purple, and violet, especially the latter two, are a complete conundrum that make me want to rip my hair out. I am of the strong opinion that the language we use for color is important and the more specific (and agreed) we can be, the better. I’ve read at least one study about how the language we use for color affects our ability to perceive it. English speakers can discern more subtleties in orange because we think about orange and brown as two separate concepts rather than shades and tints of one color. Russians are the best at differentiating blues because the Russian language defines light blue and dark blue as two different categories. Languages in remote areas that lack words for certain colors have trouble differentiating between shades we find easy to separate. By wrapping three colors under one umbrella, I feel like we’re shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to purple. We can’t even agree on what purple is! Personally, I’d define the color you’re talking about lacking in this video, the shade closer to magenta, as violet, and the cooler, in between hue as purple, because I see purple as bridging the gap between indigo and violet. But if I google purple, or violet, or comparisons, I get all sorts of answers about which color is the shade that the markers are deficient in. As far as I can tell there’s no concrete, agreed definition for purple or violet like there is for red or blue. Unfortunately there’s literally nothing I can do except hope that eventually the art world will get its act together when it comes to the color purple. I do imagine the marker shortage comes from ink/pigment difficulties (after all, wasn’t purple considered the color of royalty because it was notoriously difficult to make?) but I don’t think it helps that the attitude when it comes to purple seems to be something along the lines of ‘good enough.’

I have noticed for a long time that purple is under-represented in all media: markers, acrylic paints, watercolor paints, pencils, inks, etc. Incidentally, the reason that the Romans loved purple and saved it only for those of high status, was because it was, in fact, very expensive to make. It came from tiny sea shells that came from only a handful of places in the Mediterranean and which had to be crushed and processed to create the dye. As the Roman Empire evolved into the Byzantine, the color became so associated with the imperial line that it actually became crystalized into the honorifc "porphyrogennetos" which, in Greek, literally means "purple born" and thus the modern phrase "born to the purple".

I noticed this issue pretty early on When I tried drawing purple hair

You see i have never found this to be a problem for me as I hate red purples and always tended to lean to the blue purple ranges (aka indigos and violets) and find i can never seem to find many of them as they are all to pink for my liking lol

It’s thought that humans can see about twice as many colors as we can reproduce. I use watercolors so I can mix my own colors. Purple… I assume you studied a lot of color theory but we all keep getting stuck because the spectrum is a straight line, not a circle. And purple is a non-spectral color, which makes it really dicey to work with. I personally blame anthocyanins. My sympathies, though. One of my favorite colors is that blurple-violet you can’t really say for sure what color it is. I call it violet but it’s also blue.

That is gorgeous! But please can you tell me how you add the white?

very beautiful ❤ new friend

Do you think you will ever teach us here on RU-vid to colour a picture step-by-step in its entirety?

When I watch you draw/color the copic you are using seems to have a brush tip but the classis copics have more of a nub. It seems like the copic sketch have a brush tip... am I crazy or just missing sonething?

Do you find OLO markers filing the purple markers need?

I used to color on paper but now I switched over to digital because it’s cheaper..😅

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-syqB1JbRQOA.htmlsi=NwdCQn2uxmS1WjCH Good morning, Amy- I love purple, too! The ones who don't, we pray for. Very eloquent narrative. Good job. You explained & then demonstrated. And then you explained & demonstrated, again. This was very thought out, personalized. Very niched. My understanding of color mixing has improved. So, after this video, the one I copied above to you was next on my list. I love synchronicity, as well. The technique that Karen is demonstrating here amazes me. Because when I use her video data & yours, my mind wants to go play with multi media & PURPLE!!! I am, however, wondering if the above info is something for you to incorporate into your creations of more shades of purple. Just wondering. Thank you.

Oye vey you lost me at Derwent purplerer...😅

I don't think any brand makes a good line of purples