You want to color with more realism— improving your skill and artistry with colored pencils or Copic Markers. All the classes on realism say you need to look closer at photo references or study real life objects.
But holy shinola! When you look closely, you see tons of teeny-tiny flakes, freckles, bumps, cracks, crumbs, and itty-bitty specks of color.
How are you supposed to color all that detail?
Maybe you strayed a bit too far outside the lines? Perhaps you selected the wrong the color? And there’s always the accidents— dropping your pencil and leaving a big ‘ol mark in the most inconvenient place possible.
Today, let’s look at my favorite erasers for colored pencil and how I erase mistakes.
Uh ohhhh…
Backgrounds are far more important than most colorers realize.
You’ve just spent hours coloring a beautiful image with your very best Copic Marker techniques. You added lots of amazing details with colored pencils.
Do you really want to mess it up now with a bad background?
