Coloring Tip: How to Color a Smooth Background (why Copic Markers leave stripes and streaks)
Do your Copic Marker backgrounds look streaky or striped?
You’re not alone. It’s hard to create a smooth colorful background with Copic Markers.
I see the streaky-background question posted on beginner marker groups at Facebook a lot. The sad thing is, the answers from the community are almost never correct. Today let’s look at how to color beautifully smooth backgrounds.
Coloring Tip: Time of Day Changes the Color of Everyday Objects (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Which Copic Markers should you use to color fire?
Close your eyes and think of a fire. Are you picturing a campfire with burning logs and maybe some kids toasting marshmallows? Which colors do you see in the flames?
Red? Orange? Yellow? Maybe a little bit of blue?
Great! You’ve figured out which colors we will absolutely, positively NOT be using today!
Colored Pencil: 6 Easy Tips- Improve your Grip for Better Coloring
Want to improve your colored pencil coloring?
Ok, so you’ve tried a few colored pencil projects and you can’t quite seem to get the hang of it. It looked so simple, it’s a pencil after all. So you buy some of that magic solvent stuff and blend the heck out of your project with a paper stumpy thing. But that just makes a slightly greasy smear and it’s paler than the original. So instead, you try…
