Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Ruby Feathers

 
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 R markers for a a lovely series of warm red. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarke…
 
 

A Warm Red for 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 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.

 

Ruby Feathers

Sometimes, I try too hard.

I have the proof right here on my desk… 19 different red swatches… all trying to to find some new, undiscovered red that would make world history…

But that wasn’t necessary.

B12 desaturates the R08 seamlessly. Why mess with a good thing? It’s gorgeous, so who cares if blue under red has been done before?

Sometimes, the old stuff is the good stuff for a reason.

Blue under red. It’s a good thing.

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 R markers for a a lovely series of warm red. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarke…
 
 

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“Ruby Feathers” blending combination for Copic Markers. Underpaint R red markers with B blue for realistic depth and dimension. Red swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Alcohol marker color theory.
 
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