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Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy

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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.

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Coloring Tip: Do Not Base-Coat with White Colored Pencil

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Coloring Tip: Do Not Base-Coat with White Colored Pencil

Colored Pencil Changes As it Ages

I call this natural process “marination” and it happens to every brand of colored pencil ever made.

It has nothing to do with lightfastness. These changes happen to all pencils, all brands…

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

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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!

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Details in Focus: Find the Perfect Balance of Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

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Details in Focus: Find the Perfect Balance of Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Do you struggle to balance Copic Markers and colored pencils?

You love the look of colored pencils over Copic Marker but when you’re coloring on your own with independent, non-tutorial projects, do you start to question “how much pencil should I add?”

How much is too much?

Or is it enough?

 
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