Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Butterfly Blue
A Vibrant Blue with Copic Markers
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 using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend.
Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Butterfly Blue
One of the things I notice about the color palettes for Vanilla Arts classes is that the same colors get reused throughout the whole image.
So when I saw the creamy golden beiges in the white stripes of the butterfly, I figured it couldn’t hurt to try it under the blue.
And guess what? It worked.
I expected it to make green but Y23 is a dirty yellow. Maybe something like Y13 would have made green but this murky yellow was perfect, exactly what I was looking for. It makes a shady blue but the color isn’t heavy.
Because we can’t have heavy butterfly wings, right?
