Color Theory Tip: How to Tame Clashing Complementary Color (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
Color can Get Loud!
You’re coloring a beautiful new stamp with Copic Markers and colored pencils. About halfway into the project you realize, Whoa! These colors are really bright!
Which is weird, because nothing you’re using is florescent. They’re just regular ol’ colors.
But together? Skip the sunglasses, you need protective goggles!
Why do normal colors team up and start to glow like toxic waste?
Artistic Coloring: 3 Mistakes Everyone Makes with Stamps (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
Are your coloring projects pretty but boring? You find a wonderful stamp. You can’t wait to color it with your Copic Markers, colored pencils, or maybe you’ll use watercolor. So you color it really well. And yet the finished project is just a little… Boring? Even worse is when you stumble across sixteen other people who colored the stamp exactly like you did. Why is it so hard to color a jaw-dropping stamp in an eye-popping way? Let’s look closer at why great stamps go mediocre during the coloring process.
Be a Smart Artist: 5 Things to Think About While Coloring (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
What do professional artists think about as they work?
Well, it’s not what you see in the movies.
Turning the stereo up to eleven, chugging whiskey, and waiving a paintbrush around in the air like you’re swatting flies? That’s how artists work on television. It looks romantic on camera.
But in real life?
All that distraction is a good way to make bad art.
If you’re moving from craft-level stamp coloring to artistic coloring with Copic Markers, colored pencils, watercolor… well, it’s easy to feel like a misfit.
Dimensional vs. Realistic Coloring: What's the Difference? (Copic Markers, Colored Pencils)
The downside of dimensional coloring
So you have colored with Copic Markers and colored pencils for a long time now. You’ve got lots of beautiful coloring projects under your belt. You are NOT inexperienced!
And yet when you look at this fox, you are blown away…
Because this is sooooo not the same kind of coloring that you do.
But why not?