markers vs colored pencils when stamping

I feel my coloring and blending is better with colored pencils. I like the intense color and brightness of markers but know I do not have the skills to pull that off at this time. Wish I did!

Well, I picked markers because I think the process is faster, but I think it's a tie. I really love the look of both. Last year I used a mix of Prisma and Polychromos pencils for my Christmas cards. I make close to 60 cards and it took FOREVER (I started in July) but I loved the card. This year I have the same number of cards to make and every card has 8 reindeer ... I'm using Copics because colouring close to 500 reindeer with pencils was not something I was looking forward to!

I voted markers. I got bit by the Copic bug two years ago. Since then I hardly ever use my pencils.

I use copics.

I like colored pencils since I can do blending and shading. But then again I don’t have Copics, only some old Zig markers which surprisingly are still good.

I prefer my Copics, but I have had to buy them gradually over time. However, I have friends who come to my home for (no cost) card making once a month, and I don’t mind letting them borrow my colored pencils. The Copics are too expensive to share with the group. They’d need to be replaced in a hurry. The stamped images still look very nice. You get a softer look with the pencils.

Markers (Copics). I’m better with them and my hands get tired with pencils.

I dont have markers, so my vote may be skewed, but I'm still using the small box of Prisma coloring pencils I bought around 2007.

I can't get on the Copic train - I don't know how to use them well, and therefore I can't justify spending all that $ on them.

Like sleepingbooty, I watercolor more than anything else. I use Zig real brush markers, but I use them with a waterbrush, so I'm not sure you can count that as "coloring with markers." Remember when everyone was all about Twinkling H2O painting? I never left that trend behind. I have a palette of metallic watercolors that I just love, even though they're not high-quality.

I dearly love my Prismacolors, and I'd happily take them to a desert isle.

...and I use yet another option not really covered - watercolor pencils. I generally prefer markers for coloring stamped images, but I do use colored pencils, watercolor pencils, or watercolors with a brush (any or all of these), depending on the size and detail level of the stamped image.

And kate, I still use my Twinkling H2Os too - love them!!