Coloring Tip: Add Bold & Beautiful Color to Shadows (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
What color are real shadows?
It’s time to color the cast shadow… Hold on while I grab my gray Copic Markers!
Noooooooo! You can do better!
Realistic Coloring: The Danger of Black Copic Markers & Black Colored pencils
Do you use black markers and colored pencils?
Would you be surprised to find out that I almost never use black?
My latest Copic Coloring Tips video at YouTube tells you the story about how I started not-using black. There are a lot of benefits to tucking your black Copics and colored pencils into the back of your deepest desk drawer.
I’m a better artist today because I don’t use black!
Today, let’s talk about the traps you can fall into when you uncap that black marker.
5 Tips for Realistic cast shadows with Copic Marker, colored pencil, or even watercolor
Do your shadows look fake?
Depth & Dimension are buzz words in the Copic Marker and colored pencil communities. Everyone wants more depth, we all want more dimension.
What we’re really saying is that we want to color with greater realism. And in our wildest dreams, we want people to mistake our coloring for a photograph…
