Marker Underpainting: Copic Blends for Realistic Color - Black Swatch (Tuxedo Blue)

“Tuxedo Blue” is a black Copic Marker blending combination. Underpaint with alcohol markers to create realistic depth and dimension.
 

“Tuxedo Blue” a black Copic Marker blending combination

Add sophisticated depth to a black blending combination with 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 the natural colors found in everyday life.

 

Scroll down for the Copic Underpaint recipe.

 

BLACK WORKSHOP

BLACK COLORING KIT

WE TEST COPIC INK

 

MAKE BLACK BEAUTIFUL

UNDERPAINT ARCHIVE

 
 
 

Underpaint Blue and Gray Markers with Black

 
“Tuxedo Blue” underpaint recipe for Copic alcohol markers. The black marker underneath black mimics this penguin photo reference.