You don’t need a new Copic Marker or colored pencil class for everything you want to color. Good techniques add up! Color these photorealistic balloons using a Vanilla Arts class on color sculpting form and shape plus the reflection and shine concepts from this class on metallic reflections. 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 advanced level winter scene.

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color shiny, realistic balloons.

You can color these balloons, your own balloon drawing, or any other balloon 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:

Jellybeans + Sleigh Bell = photorealistic shiny balloons that look ready to pop!

In the Jellybeans online workshop, students learn how to sculpt objects into 3D forms rather than shading for shape. It’s a step beyond blend-based coloring which immediately boosts the realism of everything you color.

In the Sleigh Bell coloring workshop students explore the difference between highlights and reflections, a process that’s essential to capturing the look of shiny metal objects which look touchably real.

XO Balloons 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.

Celebrate Love!

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

XO Balloons

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

Shiny pink and silver balloons, bursting with warm feelings of love!

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