Crayola vs Touch Twin & Copic: confronting marker doubts

After all my marker doubts yesterday, I woke up with my headache lessened and a clear mind/spirit.  Instead of just worrying that I had spent all this money on a medium that may not be best, I decided to test it.  Copic markers vs Crayola markers (with wet brush).  And I decided to gauge the mediums based on what was best _for me_, not based on how other people's processes work. 

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I like drawing girls.  ^_^  It feels much easier, and always has an easier time of ending up looking pretty.  ^__^  Now that I look at it, I think this needs an Alphonse Mucha-like frame.  ^_~    (Now I feel validated in considering emulating Mucha, since I seem to naturally draw this type of thing.)  I'd have to Photoshop it in though, because I'm already at the edges of the paper.  ^^;  A good opportunity to Photoshop-out the unruly water blobs and the pencil smudges from the ShinHan Touch markers.  I tried to go back and erase them, but maybe alcohol inks set-in pencil marks? 

The green/yellow girl is colored with Crayola markers.  Her hair and skin is blended with a wet brush.
The lavender/blue girl is colored with Copic markers and ShinHan Art Touch Twin markers (which both use alcohol-based inks). 

I've found that blending the Crayola markers with a wet brush is very hard to control, as the water is unruly.  But without the water, the water-soluble markers have very precise ink application. 

On the alcohol-inks side, I've found that while the Copic and Touch markers can bleed a little when trying to color very tiny lines/points, it is still easier to control than the water from a wet brush.  And there is more translucency to be achieved with the alcohol-ink markers, without the excessive scrubbing needed with a wet brush on water-based inked areas, which is dangerous to the surrounding areas.  But the alcohol inks smudge pencil marks.  It even stayed on my Copic Colorless Blender's tip and transferred to the next spot where I put down its nib (between the lavender-haired girl's eyebrows). 

In conclusion, I think I could go either way, and maybe I should.  Maybe I should even mix media.  ^.~  But for daily use, ease and convenience do make Copic markers more preferable.  I think I'll stick with them, but still buy frugally, and not forget about the option for watercolors or Crayolas with wet brush, when I have the time/energy to sit down at a desk and draw.