Copic Tutorial- Blending Across Groups

Hello Friends
I want to share a quick tutorial with you on blending. I'm going to show you how I colored the leaves for this card.If you are working with the Copic color wheel your natural blending groups are those that share the same first numerical. In the photo below those are outlined in red and work their way across in an arch from lightest to darkest. (YG00-YG09). Natural blending groups closer to the gray core are more muted and therefore have more gray tones.

Sometimes when we are coloring we want to use colors not in the natural blending group but rather blend across color groups. For instance I can use a YG03 and YG17 for a leaf and use a dark green- G28 or blue B97 for shadow.

First I lay down the base color- YG03

Next I add YG17 for the leaf color and 'blend' with YG03 by softening the edges where the YG17 stops. As I layer the color, I'm not adding more color over the very edges and tips of the leaf as I want them to remain 'light'.

For the shadowing I use a G28 and blend with the YG17. YG67 also works very well as a shadow color for YG17 as it is a more muted yellow green color.

Lastly, where I want really deep shadows I add just a touch of B97 where the leaf folds over itself. Greens readily accept blue for shadows.

Stamp credit- PSX

I hope this tutorial will be useful! Join us for the Copic Challenge tomorrow!

Kimm

Tutorial- Blended Sky

Hello Friends

I love soft auras around images colored with copic markers. It took me some trial and error and a bit of practice before I was able to get my own looking half decent! I want to share how I achieve the effect without an airbrush. I hope you enjoy the tutorial today!

Stamp credit: Sweet and Sassy Stamps

Copic colors used: BG000, BG10, 0 colorless blender-make sure it is wet!

1. Begin adding your base sky color (BG000) around the image.

2. Add a second layer of the same color this time blend from the edge of the image outward in a feathering (or swooping) motion.

3. With each motion, your brush tip begins fully touching the cardstock and as you feather upwards the brush tip lifts off the cardstock as shown. Keep the direction of your brush strokes parallel to the horizon. Work with an inch or so at a time. Repeat if desired.

4. Add the second, slightly deeper color (BG10) in a thinner line right next to the image edge.

(Sorry for the blurry photos here, my daughter was taking pics as I was working. )

6. Use your wet blender pen to feather INTO the sky color. Begin by touching the brush end flat against the cardstock and feather (or swoop) upward into the sky area. Do not pull the blender all the way to the image edge or close to your second color layer. It is important to begin outside the colored area as the blender pen is removing color as you swoop inward and therefore ‘blending’ it into your first layers of sky color.

7. Feathering upward into the sky with brush tip parallel to the horizon. Repeat this blending process 2 or 3 times until your sky has a smooth transition.

Other color options for creating sky:

B000 and B00- bright blue sky
B91 and B21- duller light blue
C0 and B91- cloudy gray sky
Y000 and Y11- bright sunny
YR000 and Y00 or Y11- peachy warm sky before sunset
(pull the yellow out farther over the YR000)
C0 or C1 and BV20- dusky gray like before a snowstorm

I hope you find this tutorial helpful.... if so let me know with your comment:)

Kimm