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Vanilla Undercover: Underpaint with Copic Markers for Beautiful Realism - Rustic Basket

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Real shade is not darker color…

Real shade is desaturated color.

To create the desaturated colors that Copic 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.

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Rustic Basket

Elena’s Advice:

Many Copic tutorials would add E29 to deepen this color run. So the question is:

Do you want your coloring to be like everyone else’s?

Be brave, use your B66 marker for a more realistic color run!

Brown Workshops

Vanilla Arts Company - Chocolate Box

Vanilla Arts Company - Doughnut Stack

Vanilla Arts Company - Tangerine Basket (Digital Stamp & Retreat Booklet)

Vanilla Arts Company - 2018 Summer Retreat Complete Digital Bundle (includes Tangerine Basket)

Crafts for Paws - Online Coloring Classes.

Further Reading:

Shading : Why Artists Do Not Shade - Part One

Lights & Darks : Why Artists Do Not Shade - Part Two

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Looking for More Blending 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 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.


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