Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Sweet Cyan
A subtle shift in blue!
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: Best Coloring Surfaces (Get better Copic Marker blends using the right board!)
I don’t want to ruin my desk!
It sounds like a good idea. You’re blending with Copic Markers. You don’t want them to bleed-though and leave ink on the table below, so you slide a sheet of scrap paper underneath your paper.
It’s supposed to absorb the excess ink right? Except that’s the exact opposite of what you should be doing.
The Vanilla Team shares their favorite non-porous coloring surfaces that will help make blending a breeze!
Coloring Tip: Do Not Base-Coat with White Colored Pencil
Colored Pencil Changes As it Ages
I call this natural process “marination” and it happens to every brand of colored pencil ever made.
It has nothing to do with lightfastness. These changes happen to all pencils, all brands…
Student Success: Kathy Adds Realism by Coloring Larger Images (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
“I want my coloring to look absolutely realistic!”
You’ve taken lots of coloring classes and you’ve colored tons of stamped images. You’re even being very careful to avoid the cutesy classes— no googley-eyed bunnies or smiling toaster classes for you.
You want to color with realism. So why isn’t it happening? Why does everything you color still look cartoonish?