Details in Focus: 6 Tips for Coloring Realistic Birds (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Do you want to color Realistic birds?
Traditional blending techniques teach you to color everything smooth.
It doesn’t matter what animal you’re coloring— furry puppies, spiky porcupines, scaly fish, or feathery flamingos— no problem, just color them all smooth!
So it’s no wonder your animals turn out generic and cartoonish.
Folks, this is nuts. As a professional artist, I can’t imagine ignoring the amazing textures that make birds so interesting and unique.
It’s not hard to add a little bit of realism to your coloring.
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!
Details in Focus: Color White Flowers with a Rainbow (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
How To Color White Flowers?
White flowers are white. Your paper is white and they don’t make white Copic Markers…
Do you color white flowers by not coloring them at all?
Or do you pull out gray markers, hoping to add a bit of shade and dimension.
Pssstttt… that’s why your white flowers are flat and lifeless.
Let’s look up-close at beautiful white flowers that are everything but white.
Colorful whites are easier than you think. You can do this!
