Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Jalapeño Heat

 
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 and tempers bright yellow greens for jalapeno heat. | VanillaArts.com | #copicma…
 
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A cool case for 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.

 

Jalapeño Heat

Elena’s Advice:

Photo references are so important!

If I ask you what color a jalapeño pepper is, you will probably say green. But If I color it green it will not look very real. When I doubled checked with a photo reference, I saw many different greens— not just light, medium, and dark! Deep green, light green and a lot of golden yellow green. That is why I reached for my YG markers.

For this combination, start with your B marker. Blue markers really intensify the YG and results in a more robust green.

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

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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, refills, and coloring accessories. Join Elena’s Copic Facebook group here for news and 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.