Color Theory: Are you blinded by color? Value vs. Hue (Alcohol Marker, Colored Pencil)
Confused by hues?
As a Copic Marker beginner, you follow marker recipes given to you by instructors or bloggers. Many colored pencil beginners do the same, using tried & true color combinations.
When you grow and improve, you try to invent your own color palettes. Sadly, this is where a lot of colorers decide they don’t really like independence.
A lot of intermediate colorers pretend to be beginners again!
They go back to using someone else’s color palettes even though they’re very capable of making their own.
Why?
Tools On My Desk: Best Long-Point Sharpeners for Colored Pencil
Why the fuss over pencil sharpeners?
A pencil sharpener is a pencil sharpener, right?
Oh no, grasshopper.
Colored pencil artists are pretty darned emphatic about the kind of pencil sharpeners they’ll use. Pencils are a tool and tools need to function properly. Your pencil sharpener can make life heaven or hell. A badly sharpened pencil is complete torture. A great pencil sharpener makes drawing or coloring a breeze. Which is why artists and artistic colorers are sticklers about what we’ll use and which sharpeners we treat like glowing toxic ooze.
Today, let’s look at the long point pencil sharpeners recommended by the Vanilla Voices Team.
Advanced Coloring Class? Or is it really beginner level? (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Are you taking advanced copic classes? Are you sure?
There are a lot of Copic Marker classes out there. Some local, most online. Some are straight markers, some add colored pencil over the top. Lot’sa info is getting tossed around. But wow, the classification of these classes sure is a free-for-all. One man’s advanced class is another man’s…
Improve your Coloring: How Research Leads to More Creativity (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
New stamp, no ideas?
Yep, this happens a lot.
You found the cutest digital stamp. You couldn’t wait to color it. Now that you’ve finally found a bit of spare time to sneak off with your Copic Markers and colored pencils… and the house is all quiet with no one bugging you?
You’re just sitting there staring at the stamp.
You have no idea what to do with it.