Colored Pencil: Do You Have Time & Patience for Slow Coloring? (plus Tips for Efficient Coloring)
Colored pencil is slow!
The sharp point on a colored pencil is teeny-tiny. If that’s not bad enough, colored pencil painting requires many layers for vibrancy. It takes forever to complete even a small pencil project!
Do you have the time for colored pencil? Do you have the patience?
I picked up my first artist grade colored pencil in the fall of 1984 and I’m still working with them today. That’s decades of working at a turtle’s pace.
How have I survived this long without going crazy?
Hmmmm… How about if I share some efficiency tips that I’ve picked up over the years?
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Pencil Shavings
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.
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Vintage 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.
Tools On My Desk: Stretch Your Copic Marker Budget by Shading with Underpaint Colors
Underpaint to Save Money?
Underpainting eliminates single-use markers, allowing you to buy 2-marker blending combinations instead of trios.
By using the same gray, violet, or even blue marker to shade everything from yellow to purple, you save money by eliminating the darkest marker from every trio!
Today, let’s look at the Vanilla Team’s favorite all-purpose underpainting markers— what they use them for and why you might find it handy too.