Adding Detail with Brown Alcohol Markers
Do you love to try novelty techniques in your coloring projects?
Maybe you dab a wet cloth soaked in colorless blender over your coloring to create texture or maybe you draw a brick pattern with a chisel nib.
Sure, it's fun to create special effects but you're also kinda hoping that this new technique will add more realism to the objects you color. Maybe you've even spent money on texture classes?
Psssttt... If techniques created realism, we'd all color like photographs.
Have you ever noticed, the more details you add, the less realistic your project looks?
Let me help you add the right kind of detail.
Draw & Color: Gingerbread Man
Adding Details with Copic Markers & Prismacolor Pencils
Livestream was recorded on Tuesday, December 12th, 2023.
The recorded version is now available and readky for viewing.
(click the play button below to view at YouTube)
Last Month’s Livestream
If you’ve ever wondered why the techniques for coloring with depth and dimension still leave you with flat objects and lifeless coloring…
It’s because DEPTH and DIMENSION are not the same thing!
If you’re using one technique to do two things, you’re only getting 50% of each.
In this live session, I draw and color a dimensional red poinsettia from scratch, taking your dimension questions and offering tips.
No digital stamp, just me, some markers, my bare wits, and a few pencils!
RESOURCES FOR GINGERBREAD MAN LIVESTREAM:
Photo Reference Worksheet
Get your copy of the primary photo reference for the Gingerbread Man project. Worksheet includes the photo plus color and texture prompts.
FREE Worksheet now available inside the Vanilla Beans Library
All subscribers to my Saturday newsletter have password access to the library where I keep several nifty downloads plus an exclusive blending video.
Subscribe, then take the link to the latest issue of Vanilla Beans. Every issue lists the current Library password.
Tips for Coloring Details
TIP: What’s the number one rule for adding details in coloring but also in every other form of drawing or painting?
Amy will share several lessons she learned in art school and over her career as a professional illustrator.
TIP: How do the professionals decide which details to add and which to skip?
It varies by the artist but Amy shares her technique for finding the most important details which simply can not be ignored.
TIP: Which details should you add with marker and which with pencil?
Watch the livestream because Amy explains this in detail!
Gingerbread Man Digital Stamp
Color along with me!
After the livestream, I re-created the original sketch of the gingerbread man, drawn live during the video.
Now he’s all ready for you to color with your favorite gingerbread marker recipe!
My digital line art is always clean and minimalist. I want your added details to give the stamp personality and character.
What story will you tell?
Color Inspiration
Vanilla Undercover is my series of underpaint blending combinations, creating realistic color with unusual markers.
I’ll be using this blend during the livestream.
Kinda obvious as to why, eh?
Related Reading
Supply List
(This is an estimate of what I expect to use during the livestream. This list will be updated after the livestream with actual supplies used)
