Color Theory: Are you blinded by color? Value vs. Hue (Alcohol Marker, Colored Pencil)
Confused by hues?
As a Copic Marker beginner, you follow marker recipes given to you by instructors or bloggers. Many colored pencil beginners do the same, using tried & true color combinations.
When you grow and improve, you try to invent your own color palettes. Sadly, this is where a lot of colorers decide they don’t really like independence.
A lot of intermediate colorers pretend to be beginners again!
They go back to using someone else’s color palettes even though they’re very capable of making their own.
Why?
The Artist's Notebook: Do Not Fear Oversized Coloring Projects (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
I love to color big projects using Copic Markers and colored pencils. This is what I call Artistic Coloring and it’s extremely rewarding.
But what I notice when I first introduce students to oversized projects is oversized nervousness.
“Oh my gosh, it’s gigantic! How am I supposed to color all that space? This will take forever!”
Relax, artistic coloring does require more time than quick and easy card fronts. But that’s not a bad thing!
Tools On My Desk: Best Long-Point Sharpeners for Colored Pencil
Why the fuss over pencil sharpeners?
A pencil sharpener is a pencil sharpener, right?
Oh no, grasshopper.
Colored pencil artists are pretty darned emphatic about the kind of pencil sharpeners they’ll use. Pencils are a tool and tools need to function properly. Your pencil sharpener can make life heaven or hell. A badly sharpened pencil is complete torture. A great pencil sharpener makes drawing or coloring a breeze. Which is why artists and artistic colorers are sticklers about what we’ll use and which sharpeners we treat like glowing toxic ooze.
Today, let’s look at the long point pencil sharpeners recommended by the Vanilla Voices Team.
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Swiss Yellow
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.