How to Color Realistic Night Scenes with Markers and Colored Pencils
HOW TO COLOR A REALISTIC NIGHT SCENE
Every year around Halloween, you find a stamp or line art that would look perfect with a midnight background.
Trick or Treaters, Jack o’ Lanterns, spooky ghosts or a haunted house. Or maybe it’s not Halloween. Perhaps it’s a campfire setting or a snowy Christmas Eve.
No matter what the project, your solution is usually the same.
You pull out the black background paper— either coloring directly on the black or you color on white and glue the cut-out image on black paper later.
The problem is, black paper doesn’t look like a realistic night scene.
It’s cute but it’s not convincing.
Do you need stars in the sky? A big full moon?
Suddenly this starts to get complicated and nothing you try looks very real.
What’s the secret to coloring a dark night setting?
“Flamin’ S’mores”. Copic Marker + Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencil on Strathmore 300 Smooth Bristol. 12×12” by the author, Amy Shulke.
WATCH: THE TRICK TO COLORING NIGHT SCENES
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SUPPLY LIST FOR “FLAMIN’ S’MORES”
