The 10 Year Beginner: Coloring Projects & Copic Blending Classes Do not make you a better artist
Do you color a lot?
You’ve heard instructors and your coloring heroes say: “The way to improve your coloring is to practice.” And hooo-baby, you are definitely practicing! You take at least one online Copic Marker or colored pencil class every month. You watch lots of coloring videos. You read the blogs and you follow the tutorials. You’ve done the 30 Day Challenge umpteen times in a row…
Artistic Coloring: 3 Mistakes Everyone Makes with Popular Stamps and Line Art
Are your coloring projects pretty but boring? You find a wonderful stamp. You can’t wait to color it with your Copic Markers, colored pencils, or maybe you’ll use watercolor. So you color it really well. And yet the finished project is just a little… Boring? Even worse is when you stumble across sixteen other people who colored the stamp exactly like you did. Why is it so hard to color a jaw-dropping stamp in an eye-popping way? Let’s look closer at why great stamps go mediocre during the coloring process.
Be a Smart Artist: 5 Things to Think About While Coloring (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
What do professional artists think about as they work?
Well, it’s not what you see in the movies.
Turning the stereo up to eleven, chugging whiskey, and waiving a paintbrush around in the air like you’re swatting flies? That’s how artists work on television. It looks romantic on camera.
But in real life?
All that distraction is a good way to make bad art.
If you’re moving from craft-level stamp coloring to artistic coloring with Copic Markers, colored pencils, watercolor… well, it’s easy to feel like a misfit.
Coloring Critiques: The importance of Project Feedback (Copic Marker & Colored Pencil)
Critiques - the Critical Key to Artistic Growth “I’ve never posted my artwork before and I’m pretty nervous…” Does the thought of posting your Copic Marker projects for critique make you squeamish? Are you nervous about submitting your colored pencil classwork for feedback? Are you afraid of sharing anything you draw or color for fear of someone laughing? Coloring friends, you have NOTHING to be afraid of.