I have been watching a few illustrators oworking on You Tube and they were using Copic markers; never heard of them but thought they were fabulous.  After a little research I thought the price was extreme, 40.00 to over 200. Per set.   (Wow)

So I went back to playing with my sharpies but what I don't like is that they bleed through the paper.  ( these illustrators would probably agree.
What I did was check out some other markers I had, generics called Cra Z art and some Crayola water base markers and neither bleed through the paper.  By the way the CraZarts are water based too.  I had both in my box of face paints, since they are water based they clean off fairly easy.

Just in case anyone is interested in which markers that don't bleed.