Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Blue Buzz

 
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t just darker, real shade is murky and desaturated. Cool gray grounds an electric blue for a calming effect. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker #…
 
 

Blue Sets the Mood

Real shade is not darker color, real shade is desaturated color.

To create the desaturated colors that Copic Marker does not make, Vanilla Arts Company teaches Online Workshops and Livestream Coloring Challenges using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend.

Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.

 

Blue Buzz

Elena’s Advice:

I am not a big fan of things that buzz around me. But look at this dragon fly, who couldn’t be inspired? The colors are incredible! I could not resist recreating this electric blue color with my Copic markers.

It took just a little bit of swatching to find that the addition of B12 in this combination would add the subtle warm hint of aqua I see in the dragonfly.

You can do this too. Start with a layer of C5 and follow it with B14. Next, blend it out with a layer of that magical B12 and finish with the B00 marker.

Don’t forget to give the ink time to blend all on their own.

"Blue Buzz", a color palette for underpainting with Copic Markers. Blending combinations designed to create realism in you next coloring project. | VanillaArts.com | Color theory for alcohol markers.
 
 

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student with beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive creative energy.

Elena runs Violeta-Ink.com, an online boutique shop specializing in Copic Markers, refills, and coloring accessories. Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for news and updates.

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Elena Cazares

Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and online instructor with a beautiful sense of color and style. She is a hurricane of positive, creative energy.

Elena runs CraftsForPaws.com, an online shop for Copic Markers and Copic supplies. C4P donates 100% of profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Shop at Crafts for Paws here. Join Elena’s C4P Copic Coloring Club here.