Good technique works for more than just one coloring project. To color these festive candy canes with Copic Markers and colored pencils, I combined my intermediate ribbon lesson with my intermediate stripe class. Together, easy techniques add up to advanced realistic and artistic coloring.

Color Amazing Projects Without a Specialized Class

It would be impossible to create a Copic Marker or colored pencil class for everything everyone wants to color.

Even if I devoted all my time to producing classes, 24 hours a day, non-stop, I still couldn’t please everyone.

The good news is that you don’t need a dedicated class to color this festive set of candy canes with a rippling ribbon.

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color candy canes and ribbons.

Let’s start applying the techniques you’ve learned in other classes.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

Borrow & Combine Techniques to Create Original Coloring Projects

Make the most out of every coloring class you take!

To color this cute little image with Copic and colored pencils, I used techniques from two Vanilla Arts classes.

Satin Gift + Cool Peppermint = a fast & festive Christmas still life

In the Satin Gift coloring workshop, students learn to create complex and flowing ribbons with touchable realism. This is a beginner’s challenge level lesson.

Learn the Universal Shading concept in the Cool Peppermint workshop, simplifying your coloring process while enhancing realism. This is an intermediate level lesson.

Candy Canes, an original digital stamp from VanillaArts.com. Amy’s stamps are full of wide open spaces with no texture marks, allowing your coloring to shine though with realism & artistry.

A simple still-life without the Christmas clutter…

Tired of cartoonish stamps which always look like a stamp and never like YOUR art?

Vanilla Arts digital stamps are designed for advanced, realistic, and artistic coloring

Candy Canes

Minimally drawn stamps with wide open spaces and no annoying texture marks.

Festive Christmas candy with a rippling ribbon— perfect for framing large or tiny tags.

Let your skill & creativity be the star of the image, not the stamp art.

Ideal for large-scale projects in Copic Marker, colored pencil, or watercolor