Strawberry Tea - a Challenge Level Mixed Media Project (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Realism using color Runs
Coloring high shine objects like strawberries can be difficult. Using color runs can help achieve that realistic shine.
In this intermediate mixed media project you can follow Amy’s step by step strawberry process photos to color beautiful, realistic strawberries. This process can also be used for any berry.
Vanilla Arts Stamps feature wide open areas with minimal texture marks. This makes them suitable for colored pencil, alcohol markers, watercolor... get creative and get coloring!
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Grape Jellybeans
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.
Coloring Vibrant Reds Without Pink (A Copic & Prismacolor Coloring Project)
Bold Red using pink? No!
Too many Copic instructors feed students the same old recipe for coloring reds. It always makes me scratch my head, how do you expect to color bold red images using pink markers?Let me say this loud and clear: Pink is not, Not, NOT light red!!!!Red is red and as soon as you introduce a pink marker to the mix, you kill your reds!So how do you color red that remains red?
Tools On My Desk: Favorite Colored Pencils for Creating Depth, Shade, & Realism
Looking for realistic shade color?
The problem with traditional Copic blending technique and a lot of craft based colored pencil instruction is that they teach students to shade with a more saturated version of the same color
Shade pink with light red, shade yellow with orange, shade sky blue with royal blue, etc.
Which is why your coloring looks childish and fake.
This crafty rule is the exact opposite of what happens in real life.