A Vibrant Blue 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.

Butterfly Blue

Elena’s Advice:

One of the things I notice about the color palettes for Vanilla Arts classes is that the same colors get reused throughout the whole image.

So when I saw the creamy golden beiges in the white stripes of the butterfly, I figured it couldn’t hurt to try it under the blue.

And guess what? It worked.

I expected it to make green but Y23 is a dirty yellow. Maybe something like Y13 would have made green but this murky yellow was perfect, exactly what I was looking for. It makes a shady blue but the color isn’t heavy.

Because we can’t have heavy butterfly wings, right?

Vibrant Blue Workshops

Vanilla Arts Company - Butterfly Shadows

Vanilla Arts Company - Blue Reflection

Vanilla Arts - Online Coloring Classes

Further Reading:

Loud & Vibrant Color: Finding Balance for Outrageous Colors

Color Palettes: A Beginner's Guide to Coloring with Maturity & Sophistication

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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.