Tria Markers, are they good?

[Crimm]

I just bought some for fun, and because I know I'll be needing them next semester for rendering class. But im wondering if Tria Markers are a good brand. Cuz I've heard of Copic Markers and Prismacolors more.

I wanna do concept design looking pictures, so I wanna mess with them now and practice.

[JonZ_]

They are if you do well with them, they also mostly perform better with Lettraset paper made for that purpose. You will also need a blender pen if you want to spare on extra colors. Tria markers are also refillable.

[egerie]

Just be sure to have appropriate paper to work on :)

[Smarty]

yer i have a set and think they are great, only problem i have is that if i use it on my regular sketchbook or paper it seems to go through about 4 pages because the ink flows so fast from them.

Apart from this if you work fast laying down colours then its always smooth and consistent.

[Storyboard Dave]

Be forewarned. Pantone Trias just switched their packaging on these. It's an entirely new system from the ground up- all the way from how the marker barrels are to the tips. They've even switched out the Pantone Matching System numbering and won't be carrying all of the inks that were once available for Pantone Trias.

I still love mine but I hate it when a brand changes so drastically in mid-stream like that.

As far as bleed-through on your sketchbooks and such, just toss scrap underneath so it doesn't go through. All of my sketchbook always carry a scrap piece of paper there to do that as well as marking off where I left off.

A minor quibble with them has always been their lack of decent earth tones too. Years ago, they offered an Architectural Set of Trias and that was about as close to a caried set of browns & earth tones as they got. But for vibrancy and color adhesion I love them.

[steiner116]

Tria markers seem to pretty much be the industry standard around here most, if not all the studios Ive been in over the past 3-5 years have stocked them in full sets. Ive seen the odd copic and a few generic markers lying about aswell but its mostly trias.

I have a few sets I bought when I was in college and I can certainly back up using a good paper made for markers.

A tip, If you are using a regular sketchpad forget about using both sides of pages and work fast or the paper will bleed your pens dry :(

If you can get them refils will be your best friend, you get about 3-4 refils worth and they dont cost too much more than individual pens.

OOOH!
Make sure you click the caps down when inbetween using them!!
The nibs dry up pretty fast otherwise :(