Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Gentle Green

 
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 gentle, more natural green. | VanillaArts.com | #copic…
 
 

Organic Greens

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.

 

Gentle Green

Elena’s Advice:

I love to color flowers— everything from a single tulip to something exotic like Bird of Paradise. But with flowers come leaves and stems and all the odd shades of green.

It’s really important to find the right color for greenery. Don’t just grab any green marker combo, really think about it first.

This flower here has such a natural and soft green. You’ll be surprised at how I recreated this green, but try it! I am sure you will enjoy how a pinkish red under a muted green makes it even more gentle.

Start with a base layer of your R85 marker (don’t be afraid of this strong marker) and add a coat of YG67. Top that with a layer of YG25, and finish with YG63.

You need enough generous layers of ink for the blend to happen! And patience too. It is important to give the Copic ink time to blend.

“Gentile Green” 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.
 
 

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Elena Cazares is a Vanilla Arts student and a budding online instructor 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 news and updates. Watch her YouTube cardmaking series here.

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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.