The Color of Midnight: How to Create a Spooky Mood and a Realistic Glow (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
We simply cannot see clean, clear color at night. Hues do not exist in the dark. At night, the whole world is deep, dark, murky, and blackened. We call this “desaturated” but the truth is that because of our terrible eyesight, night time is extreme desaturation.
Well, at least technically.
My projects do not look like the typical mixed media. I don’t glue photographs to a board and drizzle paint everywhere… but that’s the point. This is subtle mixed media.
I use a combination of Copic Marker and Prismacolor Soft Core Colored Pencils but I use them in a way that’s cohesive and seamless.
"I don't have very many Copic markers yet, so I can't color much"
I hear this a lot from beginners and I always wonder what the magic number is. How many markers does it take to get started?
It's a common situation, you want to learn Copics but it takes a while to build up a collection, especially if money is tight. So you're stuck in limbo where you have a few but not enough to get anything done.
But how many is enough? Ten? Twenty? Seventy?
At what point do you graduate from "not enough to do anything" to "enough to do everything"?
