Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Placid Lake

Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Placid Lake

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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Tips for Coloring Realistic Glass (Lemonade tutorial; Colored Pencil Magazine)

Tips for Coloring Realistic Glass (Lemonade tutorial; Colored Pencil Magazine)

Do You Struggle with capturing realistic glass?

You’ve tried it a few times and man, glass is just not your thing!

You’re pretty good with colored pencils, Copic Markers, or even watercolor. You can breeze through any tutorial. If someone’s guiding you, everything’s easy-breezy.

But coloring glass on your own? What a headache! It looks flat. It looks fake.

Feeling hopeless?

Hold on, there’s help!

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

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

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Tools On My Desk: Color Wheels and Useful Color Tools (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Tools On My Desk: Color Wheels and Useful Color Tools (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

You have a color wheel, right?

Yeah, we all have one or two of they lying around… somewhere.

We all have a couple of color wheels or tools because we think we’re supposed to use them. But we don’t actually ever use them and to be honest, we don’t understand why anyone would.

Pssstttt…

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