Use What You Learn: Color a Festive Holiday Door with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color a festive Christmas door.
You can color this holiday welcome image or you can color ANY stamp that has rustic wood.
Good technique isn’t just good for one project.
Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Vineyard 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.
Coloring Tip: Add Bold & Beautiful Color to Shadows (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
What color are real shadows?
It’s time to color the cast shadow… Hold on while I grab my gray Copic Markers!
Noooooooo! You can do better!
Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)
A whole project with only gray Copic Markers?
How boring!
Actually no.
In the coloring world, grayscale is presented as a fun novelty technique. Something to try just for the heck of it.
But in the art world, gray is serious. Gray is how artists train.
Grayscale projects improve your coloring by teaching you to focus on value rather than color.
But oh, gray markers are so… uh… well… they’re gray.
Gray is drab and ho-hum.
Meh times 10.
Pssstt… gray is only boring if you color it boring.
My spooky Nevermore Manor online class project is anything but drab. You can get the same beautiful effects from your gray markers on a wide variety of projects!