Red Macarons

Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Macarons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Macarons with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color photorealistic macarons.

You can color these macarons, your own macaron drawing, or any other cookie stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

Coloring Tip: Test Background Colors to Prevent Accidental Distractions (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Coloring Tip: Test Background Colors to Prevent Accidental Distractions (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Do you wait until the end of the project to add a background?

Uh ohhhh…

Backgrounds are far more important than most colorers realize.

You’ve just spent hours coloring a beautiful image with your very best Copic Marker techniques. You added lots of amazing details with colored pencils.

Do you really want to mess it up now with a bad background?

Real Color Theory: Skip the Blending Combinations! Layer Color with Realism by Glazing

Real Color Theory: Skip the Blending Combinations! Layer Color with Realism by Glazing

The reason why your Copic Marker or colored pencil projects look flat and cartoonish?

The reason why you never color anything that looks remotely realistic?

It’s because you’re using the blending technique instead of layering colors the way artists do. How to glaze colors for realism…