Tutorial Copic anti-stress colouring

Hello Copic lovers,

Today I am sharing a photo tutorial which I have made for the Italian Copic Blog.

This is also Copic colouring..but a bit different!

Perhaps you are interested too?

I call it anti - stress colouring, 

sometimes you need those moments to relax yourself, don't you?

And what is better than to get out some of your fab Copic colours?

It is important that you let your emotions and mind free,

do the colouring without programming or thinking about it.

How?

Okay I will explain how to do it, 

please have the following products ready to start;

 Copic markers of your choice , 

a Copic Gasenfude pen , 

Copic  Multiliners ( black and / or coloured ones )

a white gel pen or Copic Opaque White.

a sheet of white paper and / or a sheet of Perfect Colouring Paper 

a pencil ( and a rubber )

Please take a white sheet of paper and a "hard" pencil,

do not use a "soft" one as it leaves too much graphite on the paper 

which might damage your Copic tip.

You can design directly on a sheet of Copic Perfect Colouring Paper,

but personally I start on a simple white sheet 

which I  scan and print out onto a PCP sheet afterwards.

In this way you can always re-use the original design.

Now "switch off your brain" 

and start designing lines without thinking.

My lines are rounded and they cross each other.

This will become your original design to start with,

 later you can always add more lines while colouring.

Now start colouring on the sheet of PCP,

 the one you have made with the lines or the copy printed out onto PCP.

Pick a colour group which you like and start colouring between the lines.

I have made a multi coloured design with lot of colour groups

 but if you like you can also use only one colour group .

After colouring

 I have accentuated the lines which divide the coloured spaces

  with a Copic Gasenfude pen, this pen is very suitable as the tip is long and flexible.

When you add some pressure to the tip the line will become thicker

and if you use the pen in a straight position without pressing, 

 the line will become very thin.

Love how this creates fun wavy lines.

Afterwards just get out another group of Copic colours to finish the design as you like it,

and the Gasenfude to accentuate the lines.

 If you like you can also add small white dots on the black lines as I did.

Some of the spaces in the design  I have filled up with some black Copic Multiliners doodles

but of course you can also use your coloured Multiliners .

I have used  full A4 sheet, 

but you can also start with some smaller pieces of paper first.

Basing it on how much time you will have to finish it.

You could use your smaller anti- stress designs to create cards. In case you have done a big size it could become a cover.

But the most important thing is to relax while colouring!

Who knows what the psychologists will say?

Ha ha, anyway I did relax myself and I am happy to have this design too.

What are you waiting for?

Please try it yourself!

Copic:

I have used these colours ( see photo above ) 

Copic Gasenfude , Copic Multiliner black 0.3 

Thank you for visiting my post,
Hugs Blankina

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Italian Copic blog

Rose

Hello Copic fans

I am Juanita, the newest member in the Copic Marker Europe team.

Like Diny already told you, I am a dutch girl and live in Switzerland for over 25 years.
I am married and almost 47 years old.
I love to color with my Copics but also paint with Aquarell, Acryl, pencils
 and also like scrapbooking.

I hope that I will inspire you with my work.

  Today I will show you a rose that I have drawn.
If you would like to colour it also, just become a follower of this blog and
write an e-mail to this address: copiceurope@gmail.com

I will show you step by step how I coloured it.

First I start with B63 and make the shadow.
I start flicking at the pencil line in the direction to the end of the rose leaf.

You put your point straight down and sweep away quickly.

Then I take V01 and colour the whole rose with it.
Also in the same direction.

Now it looks like this.

With BV29 I do the darkest shadow.

Then I take the B69 and go over the BV29 and a little bit further.

Go on with B66.
Just take a little bit of B69 and go a little bit further again.

Do the same thing with B63.

As you can see it doesn't blend very well. Start at the beginning again, and it will look better.

The best thing is to do one leaf at the time.

Then I go with V01 over the B63 and a step further again.
Then blend it with V000.

The next photo shows you how I flick the end of the leaf with RV13.

After I have done all the petals, it looks like this.

Then I take a white gel pencil and the Copic glitter pen "Blossom"
and made some highlights.

After that I take the Copic Gasenfude and doodle some lines.
The circles I did with a Pronty mask.

I made gemstones of it, the same way as the rose, using B66, B63, V01 and V000.

For the shadow under the rose and gemstones I used

 C3, C2, C1, C0 and C00.

I just made a simple card with my rose.

The digi looks like this, I would love it if you coloured it too.
So become a member and write a e-mail!

One more time the colours I've used:

Rose and gemstones: BV29, B69, B66, B63, V01, V000, RV13

Shadow: C3, C2, C01, C0, C00

I hope that I inspired you to get colouring.

Have a great day!

Hugs Juanita

Lettering with Copics

Copic has some great products for lettering like the Copic Markers,  Copic Multiliners and the new Copic Gasenfude.

 I've tested the gasenfude and I just love this new brushmarker.

The gasenfude has a wonderful brush and can be used in combination with all your copic markers. 

The nylon brush makes lettering easy

The gasenfude is perfect for doodling too.

From left to right I increased the pressure on the brush and as you can see, you can make either a very thin line or very thick one. This is very convenient with lettering also.

Some more doodles, just playing with thick and thin lines.

Because I love playing with different markers I decided to play some more and make this little card. I used the gasenfude, copic markers and copic multiliners. And a wonderful quote by Katherine Hepburn.

I added a few thin pencil lines to guide me a little and wrote down the words using different kind of markers. 

I coloured some of the words with Copic Markers.

used the  BG05, YG06, FRV1, FY1 andY38 for colouring the words.

Thought it needed a little extra so I added some flowers and swirls too.

For the background I used some aquamarkers and because all the Copic Makers, Multiliners and the 

Gasenfude are waterproof you don't need to worry about smudging your project. 

have a creative day

see you next time

Miranda