Doodle Art Journals: five tips to stop procrastinating and start Making Art
Stop Stalling!
It’s a common problem in art journaling. Blank white pages… so much potential but you’re afraid to start because you might mess up. Or perhaps you feel creatively stagnated and stuck, like all you are accomplishing is an artistic doggie-paddle.
Your artwork just seems to go in circles and never gets anywhere.
And that’s a problem because you started this art journaling stuff with the idea that it was going to be fun.
The Artist's Notebook: The Secret to Eye-Popping Color Palettes (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Have you ever found yourself half-heartedly scrolling through Pinterest, only to hit upon a coloring project that made you slam on the brakes? Once you look closer at the project, you’re blown away by the Copic Marker technique or maybe the texture created by colored pencils or watercolor…
As coloring fanatics, we’d like to think we're drawn to the technical skill and amazing technique. We know great coloring when we see it.
But honestly, what grabs your attention in the first two seconds has nothing to do with skill, technique, or even artistry.
So what’s the secret to eye popping projects?
Spotlight Cards: Showcase Your Advanced Copic Marker Coloring (Friendship Puzzle)
Elena Cazares teaches bright cheerful images using Copic Markers and colored pencils lessons at CraftsforPaws.com. Like Vanilla Arts classes, Elena’s class projects are too large for cards. Join us for the next episode in her Spotlight series making cards from big bold projects. Spotlight Cards let your coloring take center stage rather than the fancy papers, complex layout, or purchased ephemera normally used in cardmaking.
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?