Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
PROJECT RESOURCES: vanillaarts.com/blog/yr24-video-resources
LEARN WITH AMY: colorwonk.com
MORE ABOUT COPIC YR24: markernovice.com/uncapped/yr24
Have you tried using colored pencil with alcohol markers?
Join me, illustrator and art instructor, Amy Shulke as we explore Copic Marker YR24 "Pale Sepia" plus how I enhance this ordinary golden orange marker with colored pencils. I've used colored pencil over marker illustrations for almost 30 years and I've got lots of tips and tricks to share.
If you're matching your pencils to the markers, you're missing an amazing opportunity to create new and unique colors, to express yourself artistically, and to develop your own personal style. Let's move beyond a literal interpretation of color to mix markers and pencils the way classically trained painters use paint. This is a fine arts approach to coloring and very different than the average coloring class.
This is an applied color theory exercise. This is not a coloring lesson and it is not intended as an alcohol marker blending tutorial.
#alcoholmarkers #copicmarkers #realisticart
PROJECT RESOURCES: vanillaarts.com/blog/yr24-video-resources
LEARN WITH AMY: colorwonk.com
MORE ABOUT COPIC YR24: markernovice.com/uncapped/yr24
Have you tried using colored pencil with alcohol markers?
Join me, illustrator and art instructor, Amy Shulke as we explore Copic Marker YR24 "Pale Sepia" plus how I enhance this ordinary golden orange marker with colored pencils. I've used colored pencil over marker illustrations for almost 30 years and I've got lots of tips and tricks to share.
If you're matching your pencils to the markers, you're missing an amazing opportunity to create new and unique colors, to express yourself artistically, and to develop your own personal style. Let's move beyond a literal interpretation of color to mix markers and pencils the way classically trained painters use paint. This is a fine arts approach to coloring and very different than the average coloring class.
This is an applied color theory exercise. This is not a coloring lesson and it is not intended as an alcohol marker blending tutorial.
#alcoholmarkers #copicmarkers #realisticart







![Copic Coloring Tips: Improve Your Artistry & Style (show your true colors!)
Do you want to color with more realism or more artistry? Immediately improve the depth and dimension in your Copic Marker or Colored Pencil projects by breaking free of standard color blending rules. Setting yourself free is the first step to coloring like the artist you were born to be, with style, self expression, and a unique voice.
Coloring by the rules and heavy reliance upon tutorials and published marker/pencil recipes is a way of hiding what makes you special and important.
Youll never find your own artistic style if you always mimic, duplicate, and copy.
In this video we discuss how people see color differently and the importance of adding your own sense of color to your adult coloring projects.
Learn to color Ink & Hydrangea in my latest online coloring workshop! The 3.5 hour video course is a challenge level project for intermediate to advanced adult colorers.
The Ink & Hydrangea project teaches you how to shift your color temperatures to enhance depth. We also practice several other Vanilla Arts techniques including Pushing & Pulling for dimension, Sgraffito for fine details, and how to create realistic transparent glass.
Ink & Hydrangea is an original mixed media drawing and lesson by Amy Shulke of VanillaArts.com. Supplies include Copic Markers, Staedtler Triplus Pens, and Prismacolor Soft Core Colored Pencils.
For more original digital stamp + supply guide: https://www.vanillaarts.com/shop/
Ink & Hydrangea online class: http://vanilla-workshops.teachable.com/
#copicmarker #realisticcoloring #howtocolor
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• Sticky Tack (for erasing colored pencil)
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• Post-it Tape, 1 wide
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