Use What You Learn: Color Fabulous Feathers with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

Use What You Learn: Color Fabulous Feathers with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color a wide-eyed owl.

You can color this owl, your own owl drawing, or any other owl stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

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Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Beary Brown

Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Beary Brown

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.

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Blending with Colored Pencils: Are You Using Too Many Colors? (More Realism with Fewer Pencils)

Blending with Colored Pencils: Are You Using Too Many Colors? (More Realism with Fewer Pencils)

Are you frustrated with your colored pencil blends?

You’re not alone. You wanted to learn to color with realism and artistry. Instead, you’re getting artificial candy colors and strange blends which don’t turn out the way you expected.

Today, let’s look at the most common issue I see with current pencil instruction and why it doesn’t work well for realistic coloring

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