Control Freak Tips: How to Color with Loose Artistic Style (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Do you micro-manage your markers?
You’re not alone. There’s something about Copic Marker and especially colored pencil that seems to attract persnickety people. We like control and we want to regulate our colors, so we choose the most controlled version of all art mediums.
Because really, who trusts a drippy paintbrush and all those weird little tubes? That stuff gets messy! Markers and pencils are safe.
And yet we dream of painting. Painting with wild abandon.
Today, let’s look at tips for coloring with passion and freedom.
Copic Marker Highlights: When Dimensional Coloring Technique Fails (Dark Pulling)
Do you use standard Highlighting techniques?
C’mon, most people do.
Every Copic Marker class teaches it. Most beginner colored pencil classes do too.
Let’s use our lightest marker at the end of this petal. Now look at how dimensional our flowers look! Wow!!!
Highlighting for dimension is all over the internet. It’s rare to find a free tutorial that doesn’t use this coloring method.
And it’s wrong. It does’t always work.
What happens when the magic trick stops working?
Coloring in Times of Stress & Sorrow: Tips for Finding Relief Through Art
Can creativity make you feel better?
I think so.
Coloring can be emotionally uplifting.
Spending time focused on things you love, like Copic Markers, colored pencils, cute stamps and coloring images— just being surrounded by color— for many of us, it soothes and calms the mind.
It simply feels good to be creative.
So knowing that coloring can make the best day feel even better… And now, with all this pandemic stuff…
Can we use coloring to help us cope with our emotions and struggles this time of social distancing and isolation?
Artist's Notebook: 4 Tips For No-Line Coloring (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
I love to color Power Poppy digital stamps with Copic Markers and colored pencils. But I’m a coloring instructor so I draw and color daily. Your hobby is my day job.
My hobby? I l bake bread. I’m nerdy, so when I bake bread, I geek-out. Old recipes, odd ingredients... I’ve even cultured my own yeast. I enjoy baking the same way you enjoy coloring. It’s relaxing fun.
But here’s the difference: when I make bread, I don’t staple the recipe to every single slice. I don’t announce with a bullhorn “Hey everybody, before you take a bite of my bread, please note that I used Gold Medal Flour and Morton's Salt!”
But in coloring? You advertise your supplies all the time.
And you don’t even realize it.