Enrich Warm Beige with Copic Markers

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 using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend.

Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.

Brass Ring

Elena’s Advice:

This blending combination is all over the map, isn’t it?

I know most people are used to using three markers all in the same series, like B91-93-95 or RV10-12-14.

But honestly, if we only stick to family blending combinations and only color by formula, we might as well be zombies.

The artistic part about art is to not-do the same thing as everyone else.

When I look at this bell, I don’t see three yellows and I don’t see three beiges. I see an interesting combination of yellow, beige, and this weird cool temperature color that I don’t even have a name for.

I started with B000 and then used the most desaturated yellow Copic makes, Y28. Then I jumped to some pale beiges, just like I see as my eye moves from the shady sides of the bell to the highlight zone. To warm everything up at the end, I gave it a final kick of buttery yellow.

Don’t limit your coloring by assuming you need three yellows to color a brass bell. Real bells are far more interesting!

Underpainting with B Workshops

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Vanilla Arts Company - Robin's Nest

Vanilla Arts Company - Doughnut Stack

Further Reading:

Vanilla Undercover: Underpainting with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Deep pearl

Copic Coloring: Artists Do Not Shade- Part 3

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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 and coloring accessories. Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for the latest coloring news and Copic Marker updates.