Improve Your Coloring: Bad Color Palettes Ruin Good Coloring

Improve Your Coloring: Bad Color Palettes Ruin Good Coloring

Do you wish for Talent?

"I wish I could color like that artist on YouTube!"

All adult colorers have coloring heroes, inspirational Copic Marker or colored pencil geniuses whom we'd gladly trade places with. We love the look of their coloring projects and oh man, if only we had that kind of skill!

We'd give anything to be that talented, to be kissed by the coloring gods.

Talent. We chalk it up to talent. "That person is talented."

But you're wrong. It's not the talent you admire.

It's the color.

What you love in someone else's coloring usually has nothing to do with…

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6 Tips for Left-Handed Colorers: Copic Markers or Colored Pencils
Tips, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke Tips, Improve Your Coloring Amy Shulke

6 Tips for Left-Handed Colorers: Copic Markers or Colored Pencils

Are you a left handed colorer?

No? I'm not surprised. Lefties are a definite minority.

Southpaws like me are the few, the proud, and the backwards.

But hey, even if you are right handed, keep on reading. While I'm aiming these Copic Marker and colored pencil tips at those of us who color counter-clockwise, you righties can totally use these tips too.

You righties can flip the tips cattywampus the way we keck-handers have to do every day!

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Improve your Coloring: How to Keep Copic Marker Projects Lightweight & Delicate

Improve your Coloring: How to Keep Copic Marker Projects Lightweight & Delicate

Do you have a weight problem?

Sorry, not that kind of weight problem. Do you have a Copic weight problem?

You are not alone. You color something like flowers and your blends are flawless. You use your best techniques and all of your skill. Basically, the stars align and it might be the best coloring you've ever done.

And yet your flower blossoms look like they each weigh about 90 pounds. There's nothing light or delicate about your project. It's leaden and heavy….

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