Details in Focus: 6 Tips for Coloring Realistic Birds (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Do you want to color Realistic birds?
Traditional blending techniques teach you to color everything smooth.
It doesn’t matter what animal you’re coloring— furry puppies, spiky porcupines, scaly fish, or feathery flamingos— no problem, just color them all smooth!
So it’s no wonder your animals turn out generic and cartoonish.
Folks, this is nuts. As a professional artist, I can’t imagine ignoring the amazing textures that make birds so interesting and unique.
It’s not hard to add a little bit of realism to your coloring.
Grayscale Coloring: Depth & Dimension + Tips for success (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Why is Your Coloring Flat?
In the coloring world, grayscale projects are presented as novelties.
“You’ve got a bunch of gray Copic Markers and a ton of gray colored pencils, so let’s color a bunch of funny penguins!”
But in the art world? Monochromatic is how we train!
So as a colorer, when you wonder why your projects look cartoonish or lacking in depth and dimension, you assume it’s because you’re not using the best blending combination.
Hold on…
Vanilla Arts Rewind: Improve your Copic Marker Coloring Today - Size Matters
January is a Time to Reflect…..
So we decided to bring back some tried and true tips and tricks from the Vanilla Arts archives!
This week we look at why size matters…..are we too hard on ourselves because we are trying to color too small?
There are no magic shortcuts to better coloring...
But there are small…
