Vanilla Voices: Growing from Intermediate to Advanced level coloring with Copic Markers
One Class, Two Levels-
What happens when a long time Copic Marker student finally stops following the teacher? Coloring lessons can only take you so far, the real growth and the authentic artistry come when you put down the…
Vanilla Voices: Coloring Jellybeans with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
Coloring Jelly Beans with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
Frankie and Pam from VanillaArts.com share their tips for coloring without a recipe or class. | VanillaArts.com |
Realistic Coloring: How to add authentic texture to your Copic Marker and colored pencil projects
Do you blend everything smooth?
My latest Copic Marker Coloring Tips video at YouTube is all about texture.
As a beginner, most colorers focus on blending skills. After all, the blends are what originally attracted you to markers in the first place.
So you dream about blending, you practice blending, and the color blends are what you notice most when you go online to look at other coloring projects and tutorials.
Blend, blend, blend.
But wait, are you stuck on blending?
Mixed Media! Five reasons to add colored pencils to your Copic Marker projects
Do you fly solo?
Most colorers learn to color from other colorers, and this leads to a lot of segregated thinking in the coloring world.
"Today's tutorial demonstrates how to color magical unicorns with Copic Markers. Tune in tomorrow when we color tropical fish with Distress Ink. Next week, I'll show you how to color a landscape with Polychromos pencils!"
That's flying solo. Using one product per project. Using one brand per project.
I never fly solo.
Never.
And it makes a gigantic difference