Well I've decided to finally go out and buy a ton of copis, but what to get? What colours are necessary, I have a few shadows I purchased a skin tone that's a bit too yellow. . . and a cool shadow, not much at all so far ^^;;

I'm using the copic sketch I think it's lovely stuff, I love the nibs that come with them so I don't have to go buy new nibs, that makes my life a little bit easier.

Are there any colors in particular you recommend? Any techniques on using them that I should understand, any tutorials that you feel are necessary for me to read?

The main thing I need help with is what colors to chose D : I have no idea they all seem spiffy, but what are some common colours most of you guys use? o 3o

Here's a list of markers I think would look rather decent just investigating certain hues.
Colors:
E00
E02
R20
B41
E11
C2
B02
R24
R29
R00

All that coding is making me see the matrix, yo. Dunno' what colours to recommend, but I got a friend who's completely obsessed with copic markers as well, iirc, she recommends... er.

Well, first off, what do you draw most often? (iirc, she draws robots and whatnot so there's a huge range of C, N, T and W; with a splash of the basics, like G07, R29 etc etc). Because that could impact on the range of palettes you might have to fork out a shitload of dough on.

Can't be too much of a help, sorry. I'm not big on traditional mediums.

Thanks Nyx! I'm a huge traditional person, I love watercolors too much to go completely digital, that and I just like the labor of it, the feel of stuff in my hands, it makes me happier to work on traditional work.

Yeah the coding of markers is just Bleargh D: It gets rather annoying real quick. But they made their color coding simpler, anything that starts with an R is a red, what starts with a YR is a yellow red etc.

But as for what I do. . . recently I've done a lot of lighthearted illustration work. Lots of color, but not too vibrant. Mainly people in my illustrations, lots of people actually, but I wish I could do robots better. . . *going to work on that*. (One of the latest things I worked on was a faun)

I also need to know what papers to work with, I became a huge paper dork last year and I always have the right paper for the job. Smooth bristol was alright, I attempted watercolour paper, that was suckish the tooth of the paper was just making the iink in the markers lay down horribly D :

Bah so many noobish questions.

Oh and I just went to hob lob to pic up some markers while doing my christmas shopping, I got three copics for five dollars, What a steal.

Get your basics.
Some red, blue, yellow, orange, green and violet.
A flesh tone and maybe a brown or sepia; some grays.

Like Nyx said, think o what you draw more.
Almost depends on how you color.
I go dark to light, so I have a mass amount of dark reds and browns, and some light tones and pinks.

If you're the opposite though, I'd suggest more light peaches and the like.

if your just wanting to get a few like suggested get the basics.
and light versions of them. choose pure clean colours. if you need to its easy to dirty them up with a light grey or light brown.

with markers, you can't go lighter easily but you can go darker easily with layering, so keep that in mind.

as for skin tone i actually found the letraset "blush" was nicer than any copic colour ive come across.