Universal Underpainting Color?

Add dimension and realism by underpainting with Copic Markers! Use C6 underneath your V blending combination to create all purpose shade.

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.

Grape Jellybeans

Elena’s Advice:

If you want to color something with a natural yet versatile shade color, stop looking through your V markers. Instead, grab a C marker!

Why?

Because more V will not make shade. The combination of the C and V marker families blends together to create the natural shade that you’re looking for!

Though the mixing of these colors may scare you at first, don’t worry! As long as you use a good coat of the second (V28), third (V25), and forth (V22) markers you will be fine. Give the Copic ink time to blend.

Remember, it’s always good practice to swatch your colors. It’s a great warm up for your coloring session and builds color confidence.

Violet Workshops

Vanilla Arts Company - Flutterby

Vanilla Arts Company - Ink & Hydrangea

Crafts for Paws - Online Coloring Classes (Water Lily).

Further Reading:

Stop Guessing Where the Shade Goes!

Do You Make Coloring Harder Than It Has To Be?

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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 CraftsForPaws.com, a 501(c)(3) non profit animal rescue. C4P’s donates 100% of their profits to rescue and care for worst-case stray dogs and cats in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Shop to benefit Crafts for Paws at their sister site - Violeta Ink. Join Elena’s Copic Coloring Club here for online class announcements and catch her YouTube cardmaking series here.