Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Bosc Pears

 
Add dimension and realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Real shade isn’t just one step darker than the base color. Real shade is murky and desaturated. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker #realisticcolor…
 
 

Golden Glow

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.

Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.

 

Bosc pears

Elena’s Advice:

Let’s pair some unexpected colors to make great pears.

Yellow is tricky in Copic Marker. When I started to color these pears, I looked through all my YR and Y markers for a perfect gold. I just couldn’t find one.

You know me. This means I’ll be underpainting a golden solution.

This combination is perfect for pears but will work any project where I want a warm brassy glow.

As with all underpainting, be sure you use a good coat of the second (YR24), third (YR23), and forth (YR21) markers to achieve this golden yellow. And be sure to give the Copic ink time to blend.

I recommend that you swatch colors before coloring your image. It’s a great warm up for your coloring session and builds your coloring confidence.

“Bosc Pear” blending combination for Copic Markers. Underpaint YR yellow-red markers with B blue for realistic depth and dimension. Orange swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Alcohol marker color theory.
 
 

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and a budding online instructor 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 and coloring accessories.

Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for news and updates. Watch her YouTube cardmaking series here.

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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.