A punchy pink with Copic Markers

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 using the underpainting method. Students learn to layer colors realistically rather than blend.

Underpainting creates natural colors found in everyday life.

Peony Punch

Elena’s Advice:

I love florals and botanical stamps, especially peonies!

This color swatch didn’t come easy to me. I love bright pink but the color I see in the middle zones and the deep parts looks more sophisticated and neutral to me.

A regular RV02-04-06 palette just wasn’t singing for me.

Too bright.

This swatch is tricky because I’m not just using the yellow green to tame wild pink, I’ve also started the neutralization process with RV34. It has an antique feel to it which starts the desaturation process long before I get to the YG06.

Isn’t it cool how RV02 and YG06 are both wild and crazy colors and yet combined, they look sedate?

Pink Workshops

Vanilla Arts Company - Midnight Dahlia

Vanilla Arts Company - Sakura Blossoms

Vanilla Arts - Pretty in Pink

Further Reading:

The Problem of Pink: Why Copic Blending Trios Let You Down

Improve your Coloring: The Color You Use is Not the Color We See (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)

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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.