Colored Pencil: Are you Heavy-Handed and Burnishing? Improve Your Coloring by Mastering Pressure Control

Colored Pencil: Are you Heavy-Handed and Burnishing? Improve Your Coloring by Mastering Pressure Control

Do you always press hard with colored pencils?

And you just can’t lighten up? Or maybe you feel like you have to automatically burnish everything you color?

You’re not alone. Many colorers have issues controlling their pencil pressure, not just beginners…

Coloring Tip: The Secret to Beautiful Colored Backgrounds (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Distress Ink)

Coloring Tip: The Secret to Beautiful Colored Backgrounds (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Distress Ink)

Are you a fan of simple backgrounds?

I am too. If I’ve spent hours coloring with my best Copic Marker and colored pencil skills, I want people to see the coloring.

But simple doesn’t have to be boring. Let’s look at how to create dynamic simple backgrounds.

Sketch Garden: Digital Line Art for Realistic & Artistic Coloring

Sketch Garden: Digital Line Art for Realistic & Artistic Coloring

Coloring classes and kits are fun but sometimes you don’t want another art lesson, you need more realistic digital stamps for blending and technique practice. Amy Shulke launches a new home for her line art and sketches. Sketch-Garden.com images are perfect for your independent artistic coloring projects.

Coloring Tip: How to Color Realistic Highlights (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Coloring Tip: How to Color Realistic Highlights (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

You want to get more depth, dimension, and realism from your Copic Markers and colored pencils.

So you spend a ton of time picking just the right colors…

And you labor over getting all the right shade colors into just the right spots…

You work hard to get all the details just right…

Then you grab a white gel pen and decorate the heck out of it. Sound about right?

Stop! There’s a better way!