Grayscale Coloring: Depth & Dimension + Tips for success (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Why is Your Coloring Flat?
In the coloring world, grayscale projects are presented as novelties.
“You’ve got a bunch of gray Copic Markers and a ton of gray colored pencils, so let’s color a bunch of funny penguins!”
But in the art world? Monochromatic is how we train!
So as a colorer, when you wonder why your projects look cartoonish or lacking in depth and dimension, you assume it’s because you’re not using the best blending combination.
Hold on…
Inspire Me Monday: Home Run Depth & Dimension (Copic Marker, colored pencil)
Don’t color a Stereotype
Copic Marker coloring classes can be misleading! Many students walk away from classes and tutorials thinking that mystical magical color selection is the key to coloring with depth, dimension, and ultimately realism.
But it’s not a magical marker recipe that makes your coloring look real and dimensional…
You need to stop coloring stereotypes.
Stereotypes?
Yes. In your mind, you assume a baseball is white.
In your head, you think that grass is a whole bunch of stringy strands.
And if you fall for the stereotype, leaving the baseball pure white and coloring the grass like it’s some kind of crazy fur…
Well, you’ll get a flat baseball and a field full of fur.
Join me over at the Power Poppy Blog today as I break down the steps to my latest project, Vintage Home Run.
Each step is an exercise in coloring what’s real, not the stereotype in my head.
About the Coloring:
Vintage Home Run is a Marker Painting Workshop and is designed to teach you the art beyond coloring. Vintage Home Run is a lesson on using values rather than color to develop realism in all your artistic coloring projects.
More Coloring Tips for You!
Follow Amy’s Work in Progress posts for all her class projects at Instagram. It’s a great way to watch projects as they develop. You’ll also get handy tips and thought-provoking insight into the artistic process.
Realistic Florals: Why Traditional Copic Marker Blending Technique Makes Fake Flowers
Do your flowers look fake?
Do you dream of coloring realistic flowers with Copic Markers, colored pencils, or even watercolor? Do you practice— coloring lots of flower stamps and trying out new tutorials… but you never seem to get the look of a real flower? My latest video at YouTube is a free lesson on why traditional Copic blending techniques fail miserably when it comes to florals. It’s not you. It’s the technique…
