YG17 Grass Green is a warm golden green Copic Marker which resembles Green Gold watercolor. Ideal perfect for florals and spring landscapes. We highly recommend this easy-blending marker for beginners. YG17 is available in Copic Sketch, Ciao, and Classic marker styles.
Every Copic Marker has unique characteristics based on its unique ink formula.
Knowing how a color behaves will help you blend effectively and make art with confidence.
YG17 Grass Green
Let’s take a closer look at this Copic Marker and its ink characteristics.
Temperature: A warm golden green.
Resemblance: Green Gold watercolor.
Actual Value: N5.5 This marker is lighter than would be predicted from the value “7” listed on the marker cap number.
All Copics are measured on a Neutral Gray value scale. The last number on the cap is supposed to indicate value but we’ve found discrepancies where the actual ink value is different than cap designation.
Cap Accuracy: The cap is much darker than the ink. The colored plastic on the Sketch cap resembles more than 4 layers of YG17 ink.
Buildup: YG17 started to look oily at 3 layers. It reaches maximum value at 4 layers.
Shattering: Shatters into green with yellow seeping out at the margins.
Chromatography testing shows this ink’s behavior when it comes in contact with #0 Colorless Blender (solvent). High shattering colors may leak unexpected color when you make corrections or attempt to blend with any color that has a high solvent to colorant ratio. Shattering is not bad, it’s just something to be aware of.
Staining: YG17 mildly stains the paper leaving behind a bluish color.
Lift: The green aspects of this color can be shifted a bit but the paper remains stained with an odd bluish color with tinges of olive..
See staining swatch. Sample was given 6 stripes of #0 Colorless Blender, drying between each stripe. Results indicate how much lifting you can expect.
Lightfast: YG17 faded by about 10% during the testing period.
Samples were swatched on X-Press It Blending Card. 1 layer of ink was exposed to windowsill sunlight for 21 days. Approximately 10 hours of sun per day based on weather conditions. Note: we do not recommend displaying original Copic art under these conditions.
Natural Ink Family: YG17 is a at the darkest end of the YG-Teen family.
Family Members: YG11, YG13, YG17
Note: YG11 is cooler than both YG13 and YG17. This family seems like a mashup of unrelated inks.
We include this information because many Copic users never think deeper than the letter groupings (R, BV, G, etc.). Every ink has its own temperature variations and underlying flavors. Understanding what an ink looks like in its different dilutions helps when creating your own blending combinations.
Complement: A cool, medium pink like RV55
Underpaint: B34 desaturates YG17 with bright but natural look..
This is simply one suggestion. Many possible colors exist. Test to find a color that pleases you.
Pushing Pencil: Prismacolor 901 Indigo Blue provides a nicely desaturated push for YG11.
VanillaArts.com (our sister site) teaches a Push & Pull technique for dimensional coloring. This is simply one suggestion. Many possible colors exist. Test to find a color that pleases you.
Vanilla Arts Classes using YG17:
Oopsie Daisy, a beginner class on developing and using the flick technique for Copic Markers in both blending and non-blending situations.
Tonic: an intermediate-challenge class on developing realistic texture with Copic Markers and colored pencils.
YG17 is one of the most popular markers on Amy’s class supply lists. Most of her floral images use YG17.
Visit the workshop resource page at our sister site VanillaArts.com for a wide variety of digital stamps.
Celebrate yellow-green with Sketch Garden digital stamps by Amy Shulke:
Visit the stamp shop page at our sister site VanillaArts.com for a wide variety of Copic kits.
Color palettes using YG17:
Visit the color resource page at our sister site VanillaArts.com for a wide variety of Copic palettes and swatches.
Looking for beautiful color palettes?
We absolutely love The Color Catalog 1 & 2 from Sarah Renae Clark. It puts hundreds of Copic friendly color palettes at your fingertips.
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