You’re not alone. It’s hard to create a smooth colorful background with Copic Markers.
I see the streaky-background question posted on beginner marker groups at Facebook a lot. The sad thing is, the answers from the community are almost never correct. Today let’s look at how to color beautifully smooth backgrounds.
Close your eyes and think of a fire. Are you picturing a campfire with burning logs and maybe some kids toasting marshmallows? Which colors do you see in the flames?
Red? Orange? Yellow? Maybe a little bit of blue?
Great! You’ve figured out which colors we will absolutely, positively NOT be using today!
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.
