Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Carrot Juice

 
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t just darker, real shade is murky and desaturated. Blue cools off hot oranges and yellow adds sunshine. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker #real…
 
 

A Warm Orange, Full of Sunshine

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.

 

Carrot Juice

Elena’s Advice:

I know that a carrot is supposed to be bright orange . . . but upon closer look it is so much more. To recreate the colors in this carrot required a little more experimentation.

If you put the B01 marker down before the YR07 you will end up with a tiny hint of green, which is perfect for an organic object such as my carrot.

Then, I’ve really done something unusual, I end this combination with a Y35 marker. It really brightens up the orange at the top of the carrot.

Amy’s also a fan of ending her orange combinations with a yellow. The yellow has a bonus effect, helping to blend orange ink which is otherwise a bit stubborn.

Give it a try! You’ll like this combo.

“Carrot Juice” blending combination for Copic Markers. Underpaint YR yellow-red markers with B blue for realistic depth and dimension. Orange swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Alcohol marker color theory.
 
 

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and a budding online instructor with beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive creative energy.

Elena runs Violeta-Ink.com, an online boutique shop specializing in Copic Markers and coloring accessories.

Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for news and updates. Watch her YouTube cardmaking series here.

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Elena Cazares

Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and online instructor with a beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive, creative energy.

Elena runs CraftsForPaws.com, an online shop for Copic Markers and Copic supplies. C4P donates 100% of profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Shop at Crafts for Paws here. Join Elena’s C4P Copic Coloring Club here.