You don’t need a new Copic Marker or colored pencil class for everything you want to color. Good techniques add up! Color this photorealistic strawberry still life using a beginner Vanilla Arts class on coloring cup forms plus the finale project from Marker Painting Foundations. Combine your classes for amazing realism.

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 realistic strawberry illustration.

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to mouthwatering 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!

Borrow & Combine Techniques to Create Original Coloring Projects

Make the most out of every coloring class you take!

To color this realistic line art with Copic and colored pencils, I used techniques from two Vanilla Arts classes:

Cup of Columbine + Strawberry Trio = a heaping cup of ripe tasty strawberries in a sweet still life

In the Cup of Columbine online workshop, students learn to add life and interest to sedate color palettes which lean heavily on neutral colors. Bonus lesson on color sculpting realistic china cups.

In Strawberry Trio from week 12 of Marker Painting Foundations, students learn how to replicate details like sunken seeds and juicy fruit interiors for photorealism with Copic Markers and colored pencils.

Strawberry Tea is an original digital stamp from Amy Shulke here at VanillaArts.com. Amy’s stamps are full of wide open spaces and no texture marks, allowing your coloring to shine though with realism and artistry.

Tasty Summer Fruits

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

Strawberry Tea

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

Photorealistic strawberries in a charming still life

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