Vanilla Arts Company- Realistic Coloring, Realistic Advice. Improve your Copic and Colored Pencil projects by adding proven (and easy) artist's techniques. | VanillaArts.com

Realistic coloring. realistic advice.

Tired of banging your head against the wall when the latest free tutorial or marker recipe doesn't turn out the way it looks online?

Looking for something beyond blend, blend, blend?

Frustrated because everything you color looks flat?

Realism isn't difficult... but it is downright impossible if you stick to crafty coloring shortcuts and standard blending techniques.

Real life is full of texture, pattern, contrast, and desaturation. Life is so much more than light-medium-dark blending combinations.

Let's add some life to your coloring!

You can do this!

Studio Journal Articles:

 
Join Amy Shulke of Vanilla Arts Company for a relaxing colored pencil art retreat for intermediate and advanced colorers. | VanillaArts.com

2019 Copic Artist’s retreat

Join Amy for a challenging art retreat in beautiful San Antonio, Texas.

This time of concentration is designed to help you grow in confidence, artistry, and technique; all while enjoying an urban riverside pedestrian mall.

The goal for this 4 day reatrea will be to get you coloring more like an artist- working on large scale Copic Marker + mixed media images with greater realism and detail.

This isn't copy-cat coloring, this is art!

 

Enroll by December 31, 2018 for a special early-bird discount

$700 for four days of instruction when you enroll before 2019.

 

Latest Video:

Amy demonstrates her coloring process of StampingBella’s “Angel Squidgies” stamp.

Learn how to create easy 2 marker blending combinations for hair and skin, a process simple enough for beginners to easily master.

Skin and hair do not have to be difficult!

Latest Livestream:

Santa’s Backup Plan-

Do you want to color realistic fur?

Then you can’t blend it all smooth using traditional Copic blending techniques.

And you certainly can’t draw every single hair… that’d take forever!

Join Amy for a fun lesson on the flow of fur and learn how to capture the cuteness of the legendary Corgi butt.

Friday, December 7th at 11am EST

Replay available for those who can't attend or want to watch it again!

Vanilla Livestream is recommended for intermediate to advanced colorers. Basic techniques are not covered.

"Strawberry Trio" the week 12 project in Marker Painting Foundations

From beginner to wow!

Marker Painting Foundations is a beginner level class and a new approach to adult coloring.

Learn to use your Copic Markers the way artists use paint- with style, originality, and amazing depth & dimension. MPF is a drastic change from adult coloring tutorials which lock you into using specific recipes and follow-the-leader style demonstrations.

No more copy-catting!

You can color independently with confidence. You can get realism and artistic flair from your Copics

You can learn to paint with markers!

 

New Workshop Class:

Forever Access!

Marker Painting Workshops provide challenges for colorers who want to do more than blend!

"Rustic Maple Leaf" is a 2 hour course which helps you develop a sense of accurate shadows and their use in making your projects feel touchably real. 

  • Technique Deep Dive video provides a reality check on the true color and value of shadows

  • extended cut demonstration videos with instructional commentary

  • helpful lesson aids including photo references and color guides

  • technique instructional handouts

FREE Daily coloring Tips on Instagram!

Here's the entire coloring process for ⁣"Santa's Backup Plan". Class is active on my Patreon page until June 2019. This is an intermediate to advanced level project. Details at MarkerPainting.com/Livestream⁣ . ⁣. ⁣Supplies: Super cute Christmas Corgis stamp set available from Powerpoppy.com @PowerPoppy #DistressInk Mask It by @xpressitau #Copicmarkers #Prismacolor #coloredpencils and Cryogen's #CuriousMetallic cardstock⁣ . ⁣. ⁣#markerpaintingworkshops #digitalstamps #cardmakinghobby #ilovetocolor #coloringaddict #papercrafting #christmasstamps #powerpoppy #corgilove #corgiart Coloring Tip of the Day: I shaped the body well with Copics but fur texture always seems to flatten the shapes a bit. I go back with my shady marker and a few gray pencils to hit the deep spots one more time, reestablishing the depth that was lost in the fur process.⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣"Santa's Backup Plan" WIP 6. I'll be demonstrating this project live on December 7th on Patreon. Class active until June 2019. An intermediate to advanced level project. Details at MarkerPainting.com/Livestream⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣Supplies: Super cute Christmas Corgis stamp set available from Powerpoppy.com @PowerPoppy #DistressInk Mask It by @xpressitau #Copicmarkers #Prismacolor #coloredpencils and Cryogen's #CuriousMetallic cardstock⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣#markerpaintingworkshops #digitalstamps #cardmakinghobby #ilovetocolor #coloringaddict #papercrafting #christmasstamps #powerpoppy #corgilove #corgiart Coloring Tip of the Day: I've never met a Corgi, so a photo reference is pretty darned important to capturing the Corgi look. Turns out, if you follow the fur's flow, the rear end fur flows up instead of down. It's a Corgi cowlick! I'd never know that without the photograph. Here's a situation where if I hadn't looked, I would have colored it wrong. There is sooooo much we don't know. So much we'll never remember. Photo references make you seem smarter than you really are!⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣"Santa's Backup Plan" WIP 5. I'll be demonstrating this project live on December 7th on Patreon. An intermediate to advanced level project. Details at MarkerPainting.com/Livestream⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣Supplies: Super cute Christmas Corgis stamp set available from Powerpoppy.com @PowerPoppy #DistressInk Mask It by @xpressitau #Copicmarkers #Prismacolor #coloredpencils and Cryogen's #CuriousMetallic cardstock⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣#markerpaintingworkshops #digitalstamps #cardmakinghobby #ilovetocolor #coloringaddict #papercrafting #christmasstamps #powerpoppy #corgilove #corgiart Coloring Tip of the Day: We buy Copics because they're refillable but so many people fail to refill them! My fur blend wasn't working very well, so I popped the marker on my scale. A full Sketch is about 14g and mine weighed 13.2g. I filled it to about 14.2g and my blending problems disappeared. Now check out the scale AFTER I finished the project. I'm at 13.9g now. So I can only use this marker 2-3 more times before I experience blending problems again. The scary thing is that when I offer refilling services to my students, many of their markers weigh about 12g! I'm convinced that most people don't have blending problems, they have dry marker problems!!!⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣"Santa's Backup Plan" WIP 4. I'll be demonstrating this project live on December 7th on Patreon. An intermediate to advanced level project. Details at MarkerPainting.com/Livestream⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣Supplies: Super cute Christmas Corgis stamp set available from Powerpoppy.com @PowerPoppy #DistressInk Mask It by @xpressitau #Copicmarkers #Prismacolor #coloredpencils and Cryogen's #CuriousMetallic cardstock⁣⁣ .⁣ ⁣.⁣ ⁣#markerpaintingworkshops #digitalstamps #cardmakinghobby #ilovetocolor #coloringaddict #papercrafting #christmasstamps #powerpoppy #corgilove #corgiart

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