Coloring Tip: How to Color a Smooth Background (why Copic Markers leave stripes and streaks)
Do your Copic Marker backgrounds look streaky or striped?
You’re not alone. It’s hard to create a smooth colorful background with Copic Markers.
I see the streaky-background question posted on beginner marker groups at Facebook a lot. The sad thing is, the answers from the community are almost never correct. Today let’s look at how to color beautifully smooth backgrounds.
Color Palette: Copic Marker + Colored Pencil Combination (Green, Red, Pink)
Warm green, vivid red, and earthy pink Copic Markers make a tropical color palette for your next coloring project.
Today’s color palette pairs YG, R, and E Copic Markers to make a beautiful color scheme for your next project.
Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Red Rocks
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 using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend. Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.
Use What You Learn: Color Realistic Strawberries with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color sweet strawberries.
You can color these strawberries, your own strawberry drawing, or any other strawberry stamp you encounter.
Good technique isn’t just good for one project.
Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!