
Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy
Have you ever noticed how the most vibrant Copic Marker inks look duller when applied to white paper? It’s not the ink, it’s your blending technique! Natural vibrancy comes from layers, not blends. It’s an easy technique to learn. Learn to create glowing colors that look lit from within.

Coloring Tip: Do Not Base-Coat with White Colored Pencil
Colored Pencil Changes As it Ages
I call this natural process “marination” and it happens to every brand of colored pencil ever made.
It has nothing to do with lightfastness. These changes happen to all pencils, all brands…


Artistic Coloring: 10 Tools that Never Leave my Desk (Copic Marker & Colored Pencil)
“What do I need to buy for this class?” The supply lists for your average coloring class or free tutorial, whether it’s with Copic Marker or colored pencil… well, they’re always a little spartan. The list tells you exactly what you’ll need to complete the class project. Nothing more. Nothing less. Meanwhile in art classes, you’ll get a general supply list of things you sorta-kinda-maybe might need at some point. Today, let’s look at the top 10 tools I use every day, things that I grab so often, they never get put away. Some tools are borrowed from my work as an illustrator and may be new to you while others are common in the papercrafting world…