Depth & Dimension are buzz words in the Copic Marker and colored pencil communities. Everyone wants more depth, we all want more dimension.
What we’re really saying is that we want to color with greater realism. And in our wildest dreams, we want people to mistake our coloring for a photograph…
I’ve got a brand new video out this morning, a coloring demonstration with Copic Markers, Staedtler Triplus Pens, and Prismacolor Soft Core Colored Pencils.
It was a darling stamp until I got ahold of it with my creepy coloring!
This is “New Heights” by Santoro London Gorjuss. This cling stamp comes in two different sizes, I’m using the large version so that I can add lots of fun details.
I’ve stamped it onto XPress It Blending Card using Memento’s London Fog gray ink.
I really love XPress It and highly recommend it for beginners! XPI prevents a lot of blending problems by allowing the inks to stay wet longer. The longer your inks stay wet, the better the blends!
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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?
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?
