- Copic 101 - discovering and starting off with Copics
- Copic 201 - skin and hair
- Copic 301 - learning to colour with Kit and Clowder
I sometimes feel like crying when I see my Copic 301 story as I know I can't colour as well as that anymore and I am so far behind with my colouring classes with Kit and Clowder, that I have put them on hold as I have so many to do, I may die before I complete them. I'll keep blogging the ones I do complete so my blog is a complete record of my journey with INK.
Anyhow I thought I would share a fun FREE colouring I just did with Amy Young on Facebook you can watch the replay HERE and also get the free download from Sweet November stamps HERE so you can colour along with her. This will be my Copic 202 class story.
Amy shares some cool tips about working with a limited palate of markers and reminded me about using the "tip to tip" technique which I had forgotten about to help with blending. I'll share some of the key take home messages from the class "for me" below as my scribbles mayn't make sense in the future.
We didn't know what colours she was working with as she didn't want to pigeon hole anyone but some of the blending won't be as smooth as I never knew what was the next marker and my markers are behind me or they could be on the desk so I had to search for a bit between markers. As you will see she deliberately works with markers across different first numbers but increasing in intensity of colour for her blend eg E23/E57/E79. Amy also colours from light > dark > light and I colour the opposite way. I have tried both ways but you work out what works best for you.
Anyhow I thought I would share a fun FREE colouring I just did with Amy Young on Facebook you can watch the replay HERE and also get the free download from Sweet November stamps HERE so you can colour along with her. This will be my Copic 202 class story.
Amy shares some cool tips about working with a limited palate of markers and reminded me about using the "tip to tip" technique which I had forgotten about to help with blending. I'll share some of the key take home messages from the class "for me" below as my scribbles mayn't make sense in the future.
We didn't know what colours she was working with as she didn't want to pigeon hole anyone but some of the blending won't be as smooth as I never knew what was the next marker and my markers are behind me or they could be on the desk so I had to search for a bit between markers. As you will see she deliberately works with markers across different first numbers but increasing in intensity of colour for her blend eg E23/E57/E79. Amy also colours from light > dark > light and I colour the opposite way. I have tried both ways but you work out what works best for you.
We started of with the folds on the dress and the interesting thing was to create a shadow (not a highlight) as I have written with the complementary colour in the valley. So violet for yellow and green for the red on the colour wheel.
So red dress G14 > R14 > R17 > R59 > R17 > R14, leaving white space.
So red dress G14 > R14 > R17 > R59 > R17 > R14, leaving white space.
So yellow dress V12 > V02 > Y15 > Y18 > Y15, also leaving white space. We then used a dirty yellow Y26 to add small speckles in the shadow and a bit of E37 and then Y18 (darkest yellow). Lots of white gel pen dots in highlight area.
Next was the hair. I liked this blend and a new one to me E23 > E57 > E79 > E57 > E23
Eyes she made them watery to start off BG000 around outer edge to make a "(" and a ")" > C2 (or C1) lightly over the top, trying to leave a wee gap > BG0000. You could also use the B series to make them watery. These are cartoonish eyes. Wait a minute to let everything dry before making the eyes green. We then did a thin line of YG03 to circle the whole pupil, leaving a white gap inside > YG17 half circle up top and then the same for G99.
Skin: Amy's favourite skin combo for Caucasian skin is E04/E00/E11/E000, she also said E04 is not one of the first markers people buy and that you could also use BV01 or BV02 which is more realistic as our skin has a blue undertone as the blood is deoxygenated on the peripheries. I like using BV00 so I went for the BV02 today and it did a whoopsie and a big blob. I think I like my BV00 but got to try new things.
Skin: Amy's favourite skin combo for Caucasian skin is E04/E00/E11/E000, she also said E04 is not one of the first markers people buy and that you could also use BV01 or BV02 which is more realistic as our skin has a blue undertone as the blood is deoxygenated on the peripheries. I like using BV00 so I went for the BV02 today and it did a whoopsie and a big blob. I think I like my BV00 but got to try new things.
I was going to cut her out but will now stick this in my notebook for skin and hair combos which is probably a much better use for it. She uses R00 for the cheeks when everything wet and before she blends all over with her E000.
I think that's the main points she also added small lines of C3 to collar and shoes and I was impatient I coloured my hair clip Y18/Y15 but she coloured hers a pink colour just on the bottom and said she would glossy accent it.
I often watch her colouring on my Sunday morning (this class was 8am Sunday morning in NZ) but in the States it is at 11am PST.
Big thanks Amy that was fun. Sweet November/Amy provided us with a PDF file with 4 Simple Bettys on the page so you didn't even have to work out how to print digital images to colour and the image too. You just needed to print the PDF out on the card stock you like to blend on, in my case Xpress IT blending card stock and I use a Canon Pixma desktop printer as my HP ink used to bleed.
I think that's the main points she also added small lines of C3 to collar and shoes and I was impatient I coloured my hair clip Y18/Y15 but she coloured hers a pink colour just on the bottom and said she would glossy accent it.
I often watch her colouring on my Sunday morning (this class was 8am Sunday morning in NZ) but in the States it is at 11am PST.
Big thanks Amy that was fun. Sweet November/Amy provided us with a PDF file with 4 Simple Bettys on the page so you didn't even have to work out how to print digital images to colour and the image too. You just needed to print the PDF out on the card stock you like to blend on, in my case Xpress IT blending card stock and I use a Canon Pixma desktop printer as my HP ink used to bleed.
✿ Karen ✿
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