Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Cucumber

 
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. Blue cools off warm YG markers for a vintage green. | VanillaArts.com | #copicmarker #reali…
 
 

Refreshing Yellow Green

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.

 

Cucumber

Elena’s Advice:

Sometimes, I surprise myself!

I tried to replicate the color inside a crisp and juicy cucumber. I tried one G combination after another but none were quite right. Who would have guessed I’d end up with a red, a yellow green, a green, and a yellow? So weird!

Start with a very generous base layer of R0000 followed by very light coats of YG, G, and Y.

Remember that these are all pale markers and these ink formulas contain a lot of solvent— if you over-work the blend or get it too wet, the hidden colorless blender will cause mottling or erase previous layers.

Work fast and confidently. Stay cool as a cucumber!

“Cucumber” blending combination for Copic Markers. Underpaint YG yellow-green markers with R red for realistic depth and dimension. Green swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Alcohol marker color theory.
 

Green Workshops & Digital Stamps

Vanilla Arts Company - Verdant Spring

Vanilla Arts Company - Tree Frog

Violeta Ink - Online Coloring Classes

 

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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.

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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.