Garden Dirt: Copic Marker Blending Combinations for Coloring Realistic Pumpkins
Add realism to Copic Marker blends by underpainting with complementary or opposite colors. Power Poppy’s guest author Amy Shulke from VanillaArts.com offers a fresh perspective on blending combinations. Gray marker neutralizes vibrant orange pencils, perfect for shading heirloom pumpkins.
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!
Garden Dirt: Copic Marker Blending Combinations for Realistic Coloring (Orange)
Let’s Color Realistic Oranges!
Today I’m showing you an up close, tight shot of just one glorious orange. It’s based on a brand new digital stamp from Marcella at PowerPoppy.com.
The entire Oranges and Aloe stamp has a lot more to color. To my eye, this is the best orange in Marcella’s line drawing, it’s a juicy cut-half showing off the cute orange segments which are perfect for fun texture details.
I’ve colored the orange with a combination of Copic Markers and Prismacolor Premier Pencils.
So why would I name this color swatching series after dirt? Take a closer look.
This isn’t just any old Copic color swatch…
Artist’s Notebook: How to Create Rich & Complex Color (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Light, medium, and dark Copic Marker combinations
As a coloring newbie, you didn’t really know what to do, so you colored the center of a daisy with one yellow marker or pencil. The petals were one solid color of pink. The leaves were one green.
It was fun but you quickly noticed it looked flat…