Coloring Tip: Do Not Base-Coat with White Colored Pencil
Inspire Me Monday: Home Run Depth & Dimension (Copic Marker, colored pencil)
Don’t color a Stereotype
Copic Marker coloring classes can be misleading! Many students walk away from classes and tutorials thinking that mystical magical color selection is the key to coloring with depth, dimension, and ultimately realism.
But it’s not a magical marker recipe that makes your coloring look real and dimensional…
You need to stop coloring stereotypes.
Stereotypes?
Yes. In your mind, you assume a baseball is white.
In your head, you think that grass is a whole bunch of stringy strands.
And if you fall for the stereotype, leaving the baseball pure white and coloring the grass like it’s some kind of crazy fur…
Well, you’ll get a flat baseball and a field full of fur.
Join me over at the Power Poppy Blog today as I break down the steps to my latest project, Vintage Home Run.
Each step is an exercise in coloring what’s real, not the stereotype in my head.
About the Coloring:
Vintage Home Run is a Marker Painting Workshop and is designed to teach you the art beyond coloring. Vintage Home Run is a lesson on using values rather than color to develop realism in all your artistic coloring projects.
More Coloring Tips for You!
Follow Amy’s Work in Progress posts for all her class projects at Instagram. It’s a great way to watch projects as they develop. You’ll also get handy tips and thought-provoking insight into the artistic process.
Artistic Coloring: 10 Tools that Never Leave my Desk (Copic Marker & Colored Pencil)
“What do I need to buy for this class?” The supply lists for your average coloring class or free tutorial, whether it’s with Copic Marker or colored pencil… well, they’re always a little spartan. The list tells you exactly what you’ll need to complete the class project. Nothing more. Nothing less. Meanwhile in art classes, you’ll get a general supply list of things you sorta-kinda-maybe might need at some point. Today, let’s look at the top 10 tools I use every day, things that I grab so often, they never get put away. Some tools are borrowed from my work as an illustrator and may be new to you while others are common in the papercrafting world…
