Citrus Punch

Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Tangerines or Oranges with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Tangerines or Oranges with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color tasty tangerines.

You can color these tangerines, your own orange drawing, or any other fruit stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy

Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy

Have you ever noticed how the most vibrant Copic Marker inks look duller when applied to white paper? It’s not the ink, it’s your blending technique! Natural vibrancy comes from layers, not blends. It’s an easy technique to learn. Learn to create glowing colors that look lit from within.

Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)

Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)

How To Color White Flowers?

White flowers are white. Your paper is white and they don’t make white Copic Markers…

Do you color white flowers by not coloring them at all?

Or do you pull out gray markers, hoping to add a bit of shade and dimension.

Pssstttt… that’s why your white flowers are flat and lifeless.

Let’s look up-close at beautiful white flowers that are everything but white.

Colorful whites are easier than you think. You can do this!