Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Tangerines or Oranges with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
Strawberry Tea - a Challenge Level Mixed Media Project (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Realism using color Runs
Coloring high shine objects like strawberries can be difficult. Using color runs can help achieve that realistic shine.
In this intermediate mixed media project you can follow Amy’s step by step strawberry process photos to color beautiful, realistic strawberries. This process can also be used for any berry.
Vanilla Arts Stamps feature wide open areas with minimal texture marks. This makes them suitable for colored pencil, alcohol markers, watercolor... get creative and get coloring!
Copic Marker + Colored Pencil: Vibrancy & Translucency, a Halloween coloring lesson
Bright color on Kraft paper?
It doesn’t have to be so hard!
Folks, I’ve seen a ton of Colored Pencil on kraft paper tutorials and videos. Ugh, they make my heart sink.
It seems like everyone advises you to basecoat the heck out of everything with thick layers of white colored pencil.
Have you ever tried this?
Because seriously, once you spend 15 minutes coloring everything white, you’ve got no tooth left over then to add all the brilliant color!
If you basecoat in white, you’re saying goodbye to any shot you have at realism.
