What are the POSCA PC-5M 8-Marker Sets Portrait Range?

The Portrait Range from POSCA is meticulously selected for artists and creatives specializing in the human figure, character design, and facial illustration. This set offers the essential palette to recreate a wide variety of skin tones, highlights, and shadows, allowing for realistic or stylized finishes with the professional quality characteristic of the brand.Technical Specifications (PC-5M Model)

• Versatile Medium Tip: Its conical tip, ranging from 1.8 mm to 2.5 mm, is the most versatile in the POSCA family, ideal for both precise lines and filling small to medium-sized color areas.
• Superior Pigmentation Ink: Formulated with a water base, this marker offers opaque, matte, and extremely dense paint that ensures total coverage even over dark backgrounds.
• Safety and Comfort: It is a non-toxic, odorless, and alcohol/solvent-free product, making it safe for indoor use and suitable for all ages.

Ideal Artistic Effects for Portraits

• Blendable and Watercolorable: While the paint is wet, colors can be blended together to create custom skin gradations or diluted with water for soft shading effects.
• Layerable: Once dry, the paint is completely opaque, allowing for the addition of light details (such as highlights in the eyes) or correction of lines without underlying colors showing through or bleeding.

Durability on Multiple Surfaces

POSCA markers are “all-terrain” and adhere to almost any material, allowing you to take your portraits beyond paper:

• Permanent: On porous surfaces such as paper (minimum 300g recommended), cardstock, wood, and clay.
• Fixation on Textiles: Ideal for customizing cotton garments; the design becomes wash-resistant after being heat-set with an iron (no steam) on the reverse side.
• Removable on Smooth Surfaces: On glass, metal, or plastic, the paint is resistant but can be removed. For long-lasting fixation, it is recommended to apply a water-based spray varnish.