Gift Ideas for Copic Marker Beginners: The Creative’s Gift Guide (coloring and artists)
The Artist's Notebook: What is Artistic Coloring? (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
Confession time…
I spend a lot of time doing something without a name. Yep, I spend hours coloring highly detailed projects with Copic Markers and colored pencils. They’re little paintings. Lots of other people do it too— some working with digital stamps and others with their own original line art.
You’d think there’d be a name for this… Hobby? Pastime? Obsession? For want of a better name, I call it: Artistic Coloring.
Artistic Coloring… It’s a sub-niche of something fine-artsy, almost like watercolor but crossed with illustration, the step-child of paper crafting, and cousins to card makers and art journaling… whew!
See? We’re the Duckbilled Platypus of the coloring world…
Creative's Gift Guide #5 Copic Marker: Ideas from Artists for Artists (art supplies they'll actually use!)
Looking for the perfect gift for an artist or creative person? If you’re not an artsy kind of person; you don’t know much about pencils, paint, paper, and art supplies… you need help! I’m a professional freelance illustrator and an art instructor and over the years, I’ve been given a lot of art materials I simply can’t use. I’ve gathered a list of reasonably priced art supplies below and I’ll give you a bit of info about why it might be a good gift for your special person…
