Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Bumble Gold
As Good as Gold
Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color.
To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Soft Gold
One of the universal rules in Copic coloring is that you use three markers in order from the highest to the lowest value. Everyone works those last numbers 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, right?
But you know I’m a rule breaker. I’m using a mix of YR and Y markers AND I’m messing with the last number rule.
This works because Y is wimpy (my technical term) but when combined with YR, the yellow gets a bold boost, perfect for the color I see across this bumble bee’s stripe.
To create this blend, start with a layer of BV00, top that with the YR23, then Y26 and finish it all with the Y13.
You’ve just put down a good amount of ink and you need to be sure to give it time to dry. That’s when the blending magic happens.
