Colored Pencil: Change Your Grip to Solve Coloring Issues (More Troubleshooting Part 2)

Colored Pencil: Change Your Grip to Solve Coloring Issues (More Troubleshooting Part 2)

Are Colored Pencils Harder Than you Expected?

Yup. We all feel that way.

Every grade school kid in the world uses a pencil, so why is it that coloring with pencils is so much more challenging than writing with pencils?

Feeling like you’ll never get the hang of it?

Hold on, there’s help!

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Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Blueberry Buckle

Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Blueberry Buckle

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.

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Colored Pencil: Change Your Grip to Solve Coloring Issues (Troubleshooting Part 1)

Colored Pencil: Change Your Grip to Solve Coloring Issues (Troubleshooting Part 1)

Do You Struggle with Colored Pencils?

You’re not alone!

Pencils look so easy! You’ve been using them since kindergarten, so it’s almost embarassing to admit that your colored pencil coloring… uhm… it kinda…

Let’s just say it. Sometimes it looks like you’re still back in kindergarten.

Feeling hopeless?

Hold on, there’s help!

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Tools On My Desk: Best White Pencils, Pens, and Markers (for Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Tools On My Desk: Best White Pencils, Pens, and Markers (for Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Best White Pens for Coloring?

Everyone loves a good white gel pen.

C’mon, you know you do. You whip out your white pen at the end of every Copic Marker or colored pencil project, to add realistic highlights and shine to everything.

Hold on there…

Does white gel pen actually look realistic?

But what else is there? What do artists use to color white?

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