Metal

Use What You Learn: Color Shiny Pink Heart Balloons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Use What You Learn: Color Shiny Pink Heart Balloons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color shiny balloons.

You can color these balloons, your own balloon drawing, or any other balloon stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

Coloring Tip: Look Deeper at Shiny Reflections to Add Realism (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Coloring Tip: Look Deeper at Shiny Reflections to Add Realism (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Do you add shiny reflections with a white gel pen?

Oh no. Please don’t tell me that you make them in the shape of a comma or semicolon…

Noooooo! That’s not shine, that’s a punctuation!

Here’s a great tip for coloring lifelike and amazing reflections on metal with Copic Markers and colored pencils.

Coloring Tip: Add Decorations Last. Don’t add details until you’ve created realistic shape & form. (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Coloring Tip: Add Decorations Last. Don’t add details until you’ve created realistic shape & form. (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

We love to color the fun stuff first!

I know… and I don’t blame you either.

Some weeks it feels like we hardly get a chance to touch our Copic Markers and colored pencils. So when we do squeeze a little coloring time in between work and family stuff, we want to color something fun!

Like really cool, super shiny reflections?

Guarded Heart, a Marker Painting Workshop Introducing You to Surface Variety

Guarded Heart, a Marker Painting Workshop Introducing You to Surface Variety

"Guarded Heart" a Marker Painting Workshop where Amy explores incorporating photo references to add inspiration and realism to projects. Also discusses the importance of texture in achieving realism.