Colored Pencil: Change Your Grip to Solve Coloring Issues (Troubleshooting Part 1)
Do You Struggle with Colored Pencils?
You’re not alone!
Pencils look so easy! You’ve been using them since kindergarten, so it’s almost embarassing to admit that your colored pencil coloring… uhm… it kinda…
Let’s just say it. Sometimes it looks like you’re still back in kindergarten.
Feeling hopeless?
Hold on, there’s help!
Tools On My Desk: Best White Pencils, Pens, and Markers (for Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Best White Pens for Coloring?
Everyone loves a good white gel pen.
C’mon, you know you do. You whip out your white pen at the end of every Copic Marker or colored pencil project, to add realistic highlights and shine to everything.
Hold on there…
Does white gel pen actually look realistic?
But what else is there? What do artists use to color white?
Artistic Coloring: Add Life to Cast Shadows to with Beautiful Color (Copic Marker)
People sign up for Copic Marker classes and read tons of tutorials, desperately wanting to blend better. Smoother blends, easier blends, prettier blends.
They think blending will make their coloring look more realistic. Then when it doesn’t work, they sign up for shading classes. The merry-go-round starts all over again.
Let me ask, how lifelike are my butterflies here? Do they look like they’re fluttering on the page?
Now let me tell you a secret…
