Vanilla Undercover: Underpainting Blending Combinations for Realistic Color - Antique Gray Swatch

“Dry Bones”, a realistic Copic Marker blending combination. Add realism by underpainting with complementary color. Real shade is desaturated. YR for antique shade. Gray swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Color theory for alcohol markers.
 

Dry Bones: A Copic Color Swatch

Add deathly shade to a gray blending combination by adding one YR Copic Marker.

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.

“Dry Bones”, a realistic Copic Marker blending combination. Add realism by underpainting with complementary color. Real shade is desaturated. YR for antique shade. Gray swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Color theory for alcohol markers.
 

Workshops & Coloring Kits Featuring Gray Copic Markers:

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Learn more about the Copic Markers in this blending combination:

(click the pic to read test results and tips at MarkerNovice.com)

Testing takes time.

We’ll add more test results from the colors in this swatch recipe as they’re published.

 

Learn more about your Copic Markers:

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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.

 
 

 
 
“Dry Bones”, a realistic Copic Marker blending combination. Add realism by underpainting with complementary color. Real shade is desaturated. YR for antique shade. Gray swatch. | VanillaArts.com | Color theory for alcohol markers.
 

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.