Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)

October 26, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Details in Focus, Marker Painting Workshops

Details in Focus: Add Beautiful Color to Gray Copic Marker Projects (Grayscale Coloring Paper Recommendations)

A whole project with only gray Copic Markers?

How boring!

Actually no.

In the coloring world, grayscale is presented as a fun novelty technique. Something to try just for the heck of it.

But in the art world, gray is serious. Gray is how artists train.

Grayscale projects improve your coloring by teaching you to focus on value rather than color.

But oh, gray markers are so… uh… well… they’re gray.

Gray is drab and ho-hum.

Meh times 10.

Pssstt… gray is only boring if you color it boring.

My spooky Nevermore Manor online class project is anything but drab. You can get the same beautiful effects from your gray markers on a wide variety of projects!

September 15, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Combine Techniques, Realism

Use What You Learn: Color a Realistic Apple with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

September 15, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Combine Techniques, Realism

Use What You Learn: Color a Realistic Apple with Copic Marker & Colored Pencil

You can use techniques borrowed from other Vanilla Arts classes to color apples.

You can color this apple, your own apple drawing, or any other apple stamp you encounter.

Good technique isn’t just good for one project.

Good technique is good for a lifetime of coloring!

September 1, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Power Poppy, Tips

Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy

September 1, 2020

Amy Shulke

Copic Marker, Colored Pencil, Improve your Coloring, Power Poppy, Tips

Coloring Tip: Traditional Copic Marker Blending Techniques Limit Vibrancy

Have you ever noticed how the most vibrant Copic Marker inks look duller when applied to white paper? It’s not the ink, it’s your blending technique! Natural vibrancy comes from layers, not blends. It’s an easy technique to learn. Learn to create glowing colors that look lit from within.