Marker Underpainting: Realistic Red Copic Blend (Red Bauble)

 
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t darker, it’s murky and desaturated. Underpaint with B for a murky red. | VanillaArts.com | Realistic blending combinations with alcohol marker
 
 

Red Bauble: A Copic Color Swatch

Add murky depth to a red blending combination by adding one B Copic Marker.

Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color.

To create the murky shade 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.

 
 

Workshops Featuring R Copic Markers:

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Learn more about the Copic Markers in this Marker Novice Uncapped swatch:

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Learn more about your Copic Markers:

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Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t darker, it’s murky and desaturated. Underpaint with B to create a murky red. | VanillaArts.com | Realistic blending combinations with alcohol
 

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.