Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)
A whole project with only gray Copic Markers?
How boring!
Actually no.
In the coloring world, grayscale is presented as a fun novelty technique. Something to try just for the heck of it.
But in the art world, gray is serious. Gray is how artists train.
Grayscale projects improve your coloring by teaching you to focus on value rather than color.
But oh, gray markers are so… uh… well… they’re gray.
Gray is drab and ho-hum.
Meh times 10.
Pssstt… gray is only boring if you color it boring.
My spooky Nevermore Manor online class project is anything but drab. You can get the same beautiful effects from your gray markers on a wide variety of projects!
Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
How To Color White Flowers?
White flowers are white. Your paper is white and they don’t make white Copic Markers…
Do you color white flowers by not coloring them at all?
Or do you pull out gray markers, hoping to add a bit of shade and dimension.
Pssstttt… that’s why your white flowers are flat and lifeless.
Let’s look up-close at beautiful white flowers that are everything but white.
Colorful whites are easier than you think. You can do this!
Learn to Capture Accurate details for Realism (coloring Classes vs. demonstrations)
Do you want to play a game? “Okay class, pick up your R35 and we will color the tail of this ribbon.” That’s how Copic and even some colored pencil classes work, right? If you do exactly what the teacher does, you’ll end up with something amazing. And it works… Kinda. You walk away with a very pretty project. Your Christmas scene looks just as cute as the instructor’s. Your ribbon is smooth, your ornaments look shiny and the box looks perfectly dimensional… maybe even realistic.
Copic Marker + Colored Pencil: Shading Complex Objects (Online coloring lesson)
Wow, that is so complicated!
What did you think when you first saw the Indian Maize project here?
All those Copic Markers on each little kernel? And then she added colored pencil over the top of each one? 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?