8 Tips for Coloring Realistic Dogs with Copic Markers & Colored Pencils
Can we color dogs with greater realism?
It’s easy to get realistic looking flowers with Copic Markers. Sometimes it feels like Copics were made for floral images.
But how do we apply the same kind of floral realism to animal stamps?
Specifically how do we color realistic dogs?
Realistic Coloring: How to add authentic texture to your Copic Marker and colored pencil projects
Do you blend everything smooth?
My latest Copic Marker Coloring Tips video at YouTube is all about texture.
As a beginner, most colorers focus on blending skills. After all, the blends are what originally attracted you to markers in the first place.
So you dream about blending, you practice blending, and the color blends are what you notice most when you go online to look at other coloring projects and tutorials.
Blend, blend, blend.
But wait, are you stuck on blending?
Copic Markers: Do you make coloring harder than it has to be?
wow, that is so complicated!
What did you think when you first saw the Indian Maize project here?
All those colors on each little kernel? I’ll bet it took weeks to color!
Weeks? Really?
I’ve noticed over the years, some very experienced Copic Marker fans add lots of extra steps to the coloring process that don’t really pay off in the end.
A lot of people make dimensional coloring harder than it has to be.
Do you?