Soften Pink to Make it Sweet

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.

Pink Sugar

Elena’s Advice:

Copic RV markers tend to be very bold and bright. The Vanilla Arts team calls them “candy colors”.

You’d think a candy color would be perfect if you’re coloring candy, right?

Not if you want realistic candy.

Shade is always a murky and desaturated color, even when the item is bright, happy, candy.

To create the real and rounded look of this pink sugared truffle, we needed to add something to neutralize the hot pink. Yellow green wasn’t my first choice but once it sat for a few minutes, the swatch was amazing!

Give this one time to blend on it’s own. You give it lots of moisture and then let the ink do the rest. The YG slowly melts into the pink and makes for the perfect shade color.

Pink Workshops & Digital Stamps

Vanilla Arts Company - Pretty in Pink

Vanilla Arts Company - Dahlia

Violeta Ink - Online Coloring Classes

Further Reading:

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

Be More Creative! 4 Tips to Develop Original & Artistic Coloring Ideas

Looking for More Underpainting Combinations?

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.