Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Join art instructor and professional illustrator Amy Shulke as she answers your questions about the Copic Numbering System.
What do the letters mean? What do the numbers mean? There's a lot of confusion and wrong explanations. Amy has used alcohol markers for 30 years and watched them evolve from a standard artist's tool to a crafting medium. She'll share the early history of Copic and how the code was originally intended to be used by illustrators and designers.
The real code gives you the freedom to explore a wider range of color combinations with confidence. Let's jailbrake our Copics and color like artists!
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#alcoholmarkers #copicmarkers #realisticart
Join art instructor and professional illustrator Amy Shulke as she answers your questions about the Copic Numbering System.
What do the letters mean? What do the numbers mean? There's a lot of confusion and wrong explanations. Amy has used alcohol markers for 30 years and watched them evolve from a standard artist's tool to a crafting medium. She'll share the early history of Copic and how the code was originally intended to be used by illustrators and designers.
The real code gives you the freedom to explore a wider range of color combinations with confidence. Let's jailbrake our Copics and color like artists!
SUBSCRIBE FOR WEEKLY COLOR THEORY LESSON + TIPS: vanillaarts.com/subscribe-vanilla-beans
#alcoholmarkers #copicmarkers #realisticart








![Copic Coloring Tips- Color Realistic Glass
Do you struggle to color realistic glass? Its not you, its the coloring tutorials youre using!
We all understand that glass is transparent but that presents a serious challenge for adult colorers... because which Copic Markers or colored pencils make transparency? Thats why so many tutorials recommend blue markers, because blue sounds logical.
But logical doesnt look real! Amy discusses why glass is more than blue markers. She demonstrates a simplified version of her method for coloring glass with moderate realism.
Copic Marker & Prismacolor Colored Pencil speed coloring by Amy Shulke of VanillaArts.com
Cheers!, the digital stamp + supply guide used in this video are FREE to members of the Free Digi Club during June 2018. Subscribe at https://www.vanillaarts.com/free-monthly-printable/
Cheers! online class: Learn how to color yellow realistically without the use of orange or brown markers which never look natural. Workshop breaks down the entire process and shows you how to apply the technique to other yellow objects. http://vanilla-workshops.teachable.com/
#copicmarker #realisticcoloring #vanillaarts
S U P P L I E S (partial list):
• Copic Markers 8-1/2 by 11-Inch Blending Card by X-Press It, 25 Sheets
——— https://amzn.to/2HHtMbA [ Amazon US ]
• Copic Sketch BV20
——— https://amzn.to/2KswtuE [ Amazon US ]
• Copic Sketch Markers-Cool Gray #0
——— https://amzn.to/2Grz99d [ Amazon US ]
——— https://ldli.co/e/me364m [ Blick Art ]
• Caran dAche Luminance - 630 Ultramarine Violet
——— https://ldli.co/e/jrok0o [ Blick Art ]
• Prismacolor PC942 Yellow Ochre
——— https://ldli.co/e/y13zr1 [ Blick Art ]
• Derwent Drawing Pencil - Chinese White
——— https://amzn.to/2KuXLjO [ Amazon US ]
——— https://ldli.co/e/o4q0gl [ Blick Art ]
• Sharpie Poster Paint- ExFine, White (waterbased)
——— https://amzn.to/2KxTSLb [ Amazon US ]
• Amys favorite pencil sharpener
——— https://amzn.to/2FAWuF4 [ Amazon US ]
Music - She Dreams in Blue by Josh Woodward
http://joshwoodward.com/ Copic Coloring Tips- Color Realistic Glass](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YCEMCHFhEL4/mqdefault.jpg)

