19Oct
How to revive a dead alcohol based marker
I’m a huge marker fan; in fact, I have a vast collection of Copic, Ohuhu and ADAXI markers, as you probably already know by now. With so many markers, it’s inevitable that a few of them will run out of ink.
Often when a marker seems to stop working, it’s not the ink inside that has run out, but rather the tip has dried out. Alcohol-based markers tend to dry out more often than their water-based counterparts, since alcohol evaporates faster than water.
How to fix it
- Pour a small amount of rubbing alcohol (the kind you use to disinfect wounds and grazes) into a bowl. If you don’t have rubbing alcohol, you can also use nail polish remover – it’ll work just as well.
- Take the top off the dried-out marker and soak it in the alcohol for 15 minutes. During this time, you may see some ink diffusing into the alcohol – again, this is normal, and just means the ink is flowing.
- Put the top back onto your marker and let it sit – tip up – for about a day or two. After this time, test out the marker on some scrap paper. If it works, it’s just like new!
Besides, try to follow @adaxiarts to draw with simple strokes every day and get connected with people via drawing.
Comments (3)
Just got my alcohol markers back out after a couple years of avoiding them 😬 Obviously quite a few of them dried up, ive just finished drowning the tips in nail varnish remover so im hopeful this will fix them up, thank you.
Great.
Epic. Does the nail varnish remover work?