Many Copic Marker and colored pencil tutorials make it sound that way. Add contrast for depth and dimension, so you darkened your darks and lightened your lights. Now your coloring looks… uhm… it’s very interesting?
Psst… Contrast doesn’t add dimension. Let’s look at how to control contrast to color with greater realism.
Tell me if this sounds right…
You’ve colored for months or maybe years, and you’re pretty darned good at it. There’s no tutorial that you can’t knock out of the park.
And yet when you go off on your own, picking original color palettes and choosing your own markers or pencils… well… your coloring is still good but, uhm… there’s something missing.
You can’t quite put your finger on it, but something is just… off?
