Colored Pencil: 6 Easy Tips- Improve your Grip for Better Coloring
Want to improve your colored pencil coloring?
Ok, so you’ve tried a few colored pencil projects and you can’t quite seem to get the hang of it. It looked so simple, it’s a pencil after all. So you buy some of that magic solvent stuff and blend the heck out of your project with a paper stumpy thing. But that just makes a slightly greasy smear and it’s paler than the original. So instead, you try…
Copic Marker Myths: 6 Fake Tips (think before you believe)
Bad Copic Marker advice?
It’s everywhere.
Visit any adult coloring discussion board or Copic Marker fan site, or search How to Color with Copics and you’ll get lots of helpful advice. A lot of the information people volunteer is useful, but that’s not true for everything.
Free flowing knowledge is a good thing, until you get false info. Bad advice makes coloring harder than it has to be.
Some advice is iffy. Some information is misguided. And some tips are flat out wrong.
Improve Your Coloring: How to Keep Green soft & Delicate (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Do your soft greens grow into loud green Monsters?
You started out with a G0000 Copic Marker. That’s the lightest green Copic makes! That green is so pale and whispery, it’s barely there. All your colored pencils were soft and delicate too. So why does…
Improve your Coloring: The Color You Use is Not the Color We See (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Do your pale pastel colors usually end up vibrant & bold?
So, you’ve been coloring with Copic Markers, colored pencils, or you’re using watercolor of some kind. But now at the finish line, you’re beginning to see the final colors in place and they’re not quite what you expected. Your pale pink flower isn’t as soft and delicate as you envisioned…