This Isn't Paint-by-iNumber - Change your Marker Blending Philosophy
Back in the 1970’s, if you did crafts, you made them from a boxed kit. We didn’t have the internet for inspiration and instruction. We crafted by the box.
I loved one kind of box more than any other- the paint by number kit. I lived for the moment when all my weird globs of paint on the canvas finally coalesced into a prancing horse or a spray of roses.
The rule in paint by number was to stick to the numbering system. Bad things happened if you went outside the lines, put the wrong color in a spot, tried to blend two sections together, or if you ran out of paint and had to start substituting.
Up close, paint by number paintings are eye-scalding but from 20 feet away? You might be mistaken for Van Gogh… or so the box claimed.
Gee, There are a lot of Copic Marker Coloring Classes Right Now...
You're doing it right…
You did not jump into Copic Markers blindly.
You read the blogs. You researched colors, paper, and storage. And you did all that before you made the big purchase.
Now you're reading every tip and tutorial you can get your hands on. You're watching videos and printing step-by-step guides-- you are eager to learn!
And yet everything you color still looks a little... well... childish?
Defending Prismacolor Soft-Core Colored Pencils - An Artist & Teacher Speaks Out
Colored Pencils are Hot
A few years ago, every crafter had to own alcohol markers. Then watercolor took center stage. Now it’s colored pencils.
There’s a ton of chatter about colored pencil on the internet right now.
And a lot of it is flat-out wrong…
