![]() ![]() ![]() She’ll fix it four times, ruining the magic that was originally there. Or maybe her blend has depth and texture but in her head, it’s not smooth so it must be bad. A student makes a gorgeous series of strokes but her coloring doesn’t look exactly like my coloring, so she attacks it with an eraser or colorless blender. Which you then quickly erase because it doesn’t look exactly like the sample project? When we color, we use pretty stamps, right?Īnd we make pretty little marks on the paper. Coloring while standing makes a difference. I stood up for most of the Spring Rain project featured in this article. Move your chair back from the table and even consider standing up. Move your grip away from the nib let the marker bounce a bit. Relax your hand and color from the elbow and shoulder. You can’t make carefree looking projects if you’re hunched down, gritting your teeth, and white-knuckling the life out of your marker. We can read the tension in your hand by the marks you make on the paper. Loose coloring looks loose because the hand and fingers are loose. Not only do most colorers hold their marker or colored pencil in writing position, they also tend to grip the marker or pencil too tight as well. There’s a difference between writing position and coloring position. Online learning has a major drawback: the tutorial author or YouTube demonstrator can’t see your weird marker grip and show you how to correct it. One of the biggest mistakes I routinely see with marker colorers: they hold their markers wrong. One of the problems with teaching yourself to color is that you don’t know what you don’t know.Īnd the problem with letting a self-taught instructor teach you is you’re getting the same problem, but compounded. Tutorials are fine if you use them as inspiration. ![]() You can’t see see it… in fact, you won’t see it until you stop comparing your work to the tutorial. We’ll get to this more in tip number four but for right now, understand that most of the time, when you make a mistake? Nobody notices but you! That’s because you’re comparing your work to the tutorial. Here’s the other drawback to constantly relying on tutorials: When you follow a step by step tutorial, you worry more about getting the steps right than about capturing beauty. Why would you want to regurgitate how a random Copic instructor three states away sees a flower? This constant show-me-the-best-way-before-I-even-try attitude? Go to any beginner Copic or colored pencil discussion board and you’ll see people asking “What’s the best green combo for leaves?” or “What’s a good tutorial for leaves?” ![]()
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