The Artist's Notebook: Blessed with Color (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
This is the most creative time of the year…
When we pull out all our very best art supplies to color cards, decorate our homes, and make special gifts for friends and family. Your Copic Markers, colored pencils, and pretty watercolors get a real work-out in November and December.
Today, let’s pause for a moment to appreciate the art supplies we have.
Are you so focused on building up a full collection of markers and pencils that you’ve forgotten the point is to create beautiful and unique colors?
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Coloring Critiques: The importance of Project Feedback (Copic Marker & Colored Pencil)
Critiques - the Critical Key to Artistic Growth “I’ve never posted my artwork before and I’m pretty nervous…” Does the thought of posting your Copic Marker projects for critique make you squeamish? Are you nervous about submitting your colored pencil classwork for feedback? Are you afraid of sharing anything you draw or color for fear of someone laughing? Coloring friends, you have NOTHING to be afraid of.
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Glazed Beige
Translucent Beige
Did you know that underpainting isn’t just a technique for darker colors?
Surprised?
Well that’s what Vanilla Arts is here for…to teach you those little surprises that will make your Copic coloring projects drip with realism…
Just like these donuts are dripping with glaze!
Good coloring is a combination of good thinking and good observing. Ask the average person on the street what color they think a glazed donut is and not one in a hundred is going to say, “Blue violet!”
But look at those shaded areas in our photo reference. If you try to color them with straight YR31, it will be way too bright…
and unrealistic.
The solution is simple: Tone down those areas with a little BV0000 underpainting.
Dimensional vs. Realistic Coloring: What's the Difference? (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
The downside of dimensional coloring
So you have colored with Copic Markers and colored pencils for a long time now. You’ve got lots of beautiful coloring projects under your belt. You are NOT inexperienced!
And yet when you look at this fox, you are blown away…
Because this is sooooo not the same kind of coloring that you do.
But why not?