Realistic Shine and Reflections: Draw & Color - Caramel Apple

Realistic Coloring

Sep 27

Written By Amy Shulke

Are you still using beginner shortcuts after years of coloring? You can do better than white gel pen highlights! My lastest free video shares how I create realistic reflections with simple pencils. | VanillaArts.com

TIRED OF FAKE, FLAT GEL PEN HIGHLIGHTS?

Sometimes it seems like every marker or colored pencil project MUST end with a few dots or dashes of white gel pen.

Everyone does it, so it must look good, right?

The problem is, real highlights don’t look like painted white commas, semi-colons, and periods.

Are you coloring or punctuating?

In today’s video, we’re drawing and coloring a fun fall Caramel Apple with shiny, drippy, ooey-gooey candy coating.

I’ll show you my exact process and share the reasons for my color choices.

And there’s no white gel pen!

WATCH: REALISTIC SHINE AND REFLECTIONS

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COLOR A TASTY FALL TREAT

Caramel Apple is my latest digital line art.

I design line art especially for marker, colored pencil, watercolor, and mixed media colorists. The spaces are wide open with no texture marks or funky shapes which look cool as a sketch but don’t quite make sense when coloring.

Thoughtfully drawn line art allows YOUR coloring to be the star of the show!

Caramel Apple Digital Stamp package includes both gray lined and black lined PNG files. Celebrate bold black outlines or let them disappear for greater realism.

Purchase Caramel Apple here