Vanilla Artist Retreat: Break Your Addiction to Coloring Tutorials
So, you’re getting pretty good at coloring?
You make smooth and beautiful blends with your Copic Markers.
You’re layering colored pencils with ease.
You ace every coloring tutorial thrown at you.
And when you post your project photos to Facebook and Instagram, people ohh and ahh over your coloring.
“Oh, my! You are such a talented artist!”
But are you really an artist?
8 Tips for Coloring Realistic Dogs with Copic Markers & Colored Pencils
Can we color dogs with greater realism?
It’s easy to get realistic looking flowers with Copic Markers. Sometimes it feels like Copics were made for floral images.
But how do we apply the same kind of floral realism to animal stamps?
Specifically how do we color realistic dogs?
Copic Markers: Do you make coloring harder than it has to be?
wow, that is so complicated!
What did you think when you first saw the Indian Maize project here?
All those colors on each little kernel? I’ll bet it took weeks to color!
Weeks? Really?
I’ve noticed over the years, some very experienced Copic Marker fans add lots of extra steps to the coloring process that don’t really pay off in the end.
A lot of people make dimensional coloring harder than it has to be.
Do you?
Copic Markers: Is blending the key to dimension or realism? (plus, coloring with chisel nibs!)
I want lots of dimension in my Copic coloring!
"So I must blend, blend, blend!
Right?
Hmmm...
Do you really think so?
I mean, I know that's what you've been told or at least it's what you've….