Marker Underpainting: Realistic Copic Blending Combinations - Gray Swatch (Bunny Ears)

Amy creates a cuddly gray blend with Copic Markers, inspired by a soft rabbit. Free recipe for “Bunny Ears” plus more gray marker inspiration.
 

“Bunny Ears”: A Copic Blending Combination

Add soft rose and blue violet to a gray blending combination for depth and dimension

RV, BV, and C Copic Markers

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

To create the murky shade 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.

 

Scroll down for the Copic Underpaint recipe.

 

GRAY WORKSHOP

GRAY COLORING KIT

WE TEST GRAY INK

 

MAKE GRAY BEAUTIFUL

UNDERPAINT ARCHIVE

 

Underpaint C gray markers with rosy pink for realistic depth & dimension

 
The “Bunny Ears” blending combination recipe for Copic alcohol markers. Pink under cool grey makes a fuzzy furry underpainting blend.