The truth is that there isn’t one best marker friendly paper or card stock for everyone. Smart artists match their style of coloring to the paper they use. To help you find your ideal paper without buying and testing every paper on the market, I’ve talked with 3 instructors, asking them which papers they use, what they teach with, and their best beginner recommendation…
Maybe you strayed a bit too far outside the lines? Perhaps you selected the wrong the color? And there’s always the accidents— dropping your pencil and leaving a big ‘ol mark in the most inconvenient place possible.
Today, let’s look at my favorite erasers for colored pencil and how I erase mistakes.
It sounds like a good idea. You’re blending with Copic Markers. You don’t want them to bleed-though and leave ink on the table below, so you slide a sheet of scrap paper underneath your paper.
It’s supposed to absorb the excess ink right? Except that’s the exact opposite of what you should be doing.
The Vanilla Team shares their favorite non-porous coloring surfaces that will help make blending a breeze!
Underpainting eliminates single-use markers, allowing you to buy 2-marker blending combinations instead of trios.
By using the same gray, violet, or even blue marker to shade everything from yellow to purple, you save money by eliminating the darkest marker from every trio!
Today, let’s look at the Vanilla Team’s favorite all-purpose underpainting markers— what they use them for and why you might find it handy too.
