Research

Coloring Tip: How to Color a Smooth Background (why Copic Markers leave stripes and streaks)

Coloring Tip: How to Color a Smooth Background (why Copic Markers leave stripes and streaks)

Do your Copic Marker backgrounds look streaky or striped?

You’re not alone. It’s hard to create a smooth colorful background with Copic Markers.

I see the streaky-background question posted on beginner marker groups at Facebook a lot. The sad thing is, the answers from the community are almost never correct. Today let’s look at how to color beautifully smooth backgrounds.

Coloring Tip: Time of Day Changes the Color of Everyday Objects (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Coloring Tip: Time of Day Changes the Color of Everyday Objects (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Which Copic Markers should you use to color fire?

Close your eyes and think of a fire. Are you picturing a campfire with burning logs and maybe some kids toasting marshmallows? Which colors do you see in the flames?

Red? Orange? Yellow? Maybe a little bit of blue?

Great! You’ve figured out which colors we will absolutely, positively NOT be using today!