Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Rustic Basket
Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color. To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Artistic Coloring: 3 Mistakes Everyone Makes with Stamps (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
Are your coloring projects pretty but boring? You find a wonderful stamp. You can’t wait to color it with your Copic Markers, colored pencils, or maybe you’ll use watercolor. So you color it really well. And yet the finished project is just a little… Boring? Even worse is when you stumble across sixteen other people who colored the stamp exactly like you did. Why is it so hard to color a jaw-dropping stamp in an eye-popping way? Let’s look closer at why great stamps go mediocre during the coloring process.
The Artist's Notebook: What is Artistic Coloring? (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Confession time…
I spend a lot of time doing something without a name. Yep, I spend hours coloring highly detailed projects with Copic Markers and colored pencils. They’re little paintings. Lots of other people do it too— some working with digital stamps and others with their own original line art.
You’d think there’d be a name for this… Hobby? Pastime? Obsession? For want of a better name, I call it: Artistic Coloring.
Artistic Coloring… It’s a sub-niche of something fine-artsy, almost like watercolor but crossed with illustration, the step-child of paper crafting, and cousins to card makers and art journaling… whew!
See? We’re the Duckbilled Platypus of the coloring world…
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Storm Clouds
Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color. To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life. This week, explore how a deep yellow underneath blue results in the perfect stormy clouds…