Improve Your Coloring: How to Keep Green soft & Delicate (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Improve Your Coloring: How to Keep Green soft & Delicate (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Do your soft greens grow into loud green Monsters?

You started out with a G0000 Copic Marker. That’s the lightest green Copic makes! That green is so pale and whispery, it’s barely there. All your colored pencils were soft and delicate too. So why does…

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Improve your Coloring: The Color You Use is Not the Color We See (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Improve your Coloring: The Color You Use is Not the Color We See (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Do your pale pastel colors usually end up vibrant & bold?

So, you’ve been coloring with Copic Markers, colored pencils, or you’re using watercolor of some kind. But now at the finish line, you’re beginning to see the final colors in place and they’re not quite what you expected. Your pale pink flower isn’t as soft and delicate as you envisioned…

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Improve your Copic Marker Coloring with Photo References & Observation

Improve your Copic Marker Coloring with Photo References & Observation

Realistic flowers & botanicals

Do you dream about coloring beautiful botanicals with Copic Markers or colored pencils? Are you striving to create more depth and dimension? Do you want to color with more realism?

A great coloring project starts before you ever pick up a Copic Marker or colored pencil. You must understand what you are coloring before you begin the coloring process!

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Depth & Dimension: Why pretty Copic Markers make your coloring look flat

Depth & Dimension: Why pretty Copic Markers make your coloring look flat

Cursed by a Rainbow?

Yep. All the pretty markers you own? They’re killing your ability to color dimensionally. Copic doesn’t make ugly markers because you won’t buy ugly markers. And that’s a problem because ugly color is essential for realism. It’s pretty darned hard to color real without real colored markers…

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