Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Madonna Lily

Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Madonna Lily

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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Do Not Use White Gel Pen for Realistic Highlights (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

Do Not Use White Gel Pen for Realistic Highlights (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

What’s the best white gel pen for Realistic highlights?

I get this question a lot— as if the problem is the brand of pen rather than the white pen technique.

If you’re coloring cranberries with the same technique you also used on a fuzzy brown bear or a prickly pine tree… And if you’re using the white gel pen highlight technique on everything?

You’ve got realism problems.

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