
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Mallard Green
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.

Copic Marker Highlights: When Dimensional Coloring Technique Fails (Dark Pulling)
Do you use standard Highlighting techniques?
C’mon, most people do.
Every Copic Marker class teaches it. Most beginner colored pencil classes do too.
Let’s use our lightest marker at the end of this petal. Now look at how dimensional our flowers look! Wow!!!
Highlighting for dimension is all over the internet. It’s rare to find a free tutorial that doesn’t use this coloring method.
And it’s wrong. It does’t always work.
What happens when the magic trick stops working?

Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Bosc Pears
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 in Times of Stress & Sorrow: Tips for Finding Relief Through Art
Can creativity make you feel better?
I think so.
Coloring can be emotionally uplifting.
Spending time focused on things you love, like Copic Markers, colored pencils, cute stamps and coloring images— just being surrounded by color— for many of us, it soothes and calms the mind.
It simply feels good to be creative.
So knowing that coloring can make the best day feel even better… And now, with all this pandemic stuff…
Can we use coloring to help us cope with our emotions and struggles this time of social distancing and isolation?