You want to get more depth, dimension, and realism from your Copic Markers and colored pencils.
So you spend a ton of time picking just the right colors…
And you labor over getting all the right shade colors into just the right spots…
You work hard to get all the details just right…
Then you grab a white gel pen and decorate the heck out of it. Sound about right?
Stop! There’s a better way!
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.
Close your eyes and think of a fire. Are you picturing a campfire with burning logs and maybe some kids toasting marshmallows? Which colors do you see in the flames?
Red? Orange? Yellow? Maybe a little bit of blue?
Great! You’ve figured out which colors we will absolutely, positively NOT be using today!
Uh ohhhh…
Backgrounds are far more important than most colorers realize.
You’ve just spent hours coloring a beautiful image with your very best Copic Marker techniques. You added lots of amazing details with colored pencils.
Do you really want to mess it up now with a bad background?
