Copic Marker Europe

Friday, March 8, 2019

Copic Watercolouring Technique...

Hello everyone!

it's Sue here today with a really easy and pretty technique.

I'm going to show you how to paint with your Copics as if they were watercolours!

I am using a beautiful stamp from Stamping Bella -

Uptown Girl Melanie - The Modern Bride, a paint palette, a paintbrush, Copic Various Ink Refills E00, YR21, YG63, BV08, BG23, B60 and Colourless Blender. I also kept a piece of paper towel handy for wiping my paintbrush.

This is such a lovely technique and it is really simple to achieve lovely results. Here are a few top tips for you!

If you don't have Copic Various Ink Refills you can use Copic Markers by scribbling them onto an acrylic block and using a paintbrush dipped in Colourless Blender to pick up the colour.

Copic Colourless Blender will lighten the colours you are using so you might want to choose darker colours than you usually would and practice on a piece of spare card first to see how the colours come out!

Use the smallest brush you are comfortable with and once you have dipped it into the colour and the blender you might need to just lightly dab the tip of the brush onto the paper towel so it isn't too wet.

Clean your brush each time you have used a different colour and dry it on paper towel.

Replace the Copic Colourless Blender as it becomes dirty.

Put a few drops of E00 and Colourless Blender into the paint palette. Dip the tip of the paintbrush into the E00 and then into the blender and quickly paint the face, starting in the area of the face with the most shade. You can repeat this if you want to, until you have a depth of colour you are happy with. Repeat with the shoulders and arm. Clean the paintbrush with colourless blender and dry on a paper towel.

Put a few drops of YR21 into the paint palette and repeat the same technique with the hair - dip the brush into the YR21 and then the colourless blender and paint the hair, starting in the part of the hair where there is the most shade.

Put a few drops of YG63 into the palette. Dip the brush into YG63 and then into the colourless blender and dab some spots of green onto the leaves.

Put a few drops of BV08 into the palette. Dip the brush into the BV08 and then into the colourless blender and paint the flowers. You can repeat this adding more colour to the petals where you want them to be darkest.

Dip the brush into YG63 again and then into the colourless blender and dab some spots of green onto the centre of the flowers.

Using B60 add some folds to the frock - you only need a light touch here, if the folds look too dark you can smooth them out by painting with some colourless blender.

Put a few drops of BG23 into the palette. Dip the brush into the BG23 and then into the colourless blender and paint the ribbon. You can repeat this adding more colour to the ribbon where you want it to be darkest.

I had nt tried this technique before, I promise it is really easy to do and It would be great if you could have a go and show us at

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Colouring Anime

Hi! Today I am sharing an anime image I coloured. I didn't make a card with it, I will be putting it in a frame and hanging it in my craft room.

The colours I used for the skin are not my usual skin colours, as anime tends to have deeper shading

First I applied a base of E00 and E000 all over the skin areas.

I went back and applied more E00 in the darker areas.

For darker shading I applied R12 and blended it with E000

More R12

For even more depth I used E04

And finally I pulled the E04 out a little with the R12

For her eyes I used B26, B24 and B21, going from the darkest colour at the top of the eye down to the lightest colour at the bottom of the eye.

To colour the hair I started off with B000, a very light blue.

BGO1 is a little darker

Next I applied some B63

My darkest colour is B66. Once I applied that I kept going back in with the other colours until I was happy with the hair.

On the shirt I used R14, R46 and R89.

I also used these reds for the glasses.

Yellows and blacks for the glove -

Y13, Y15, Y17

N3, N5, N7

I used the N3, N5, and N7 again for the straps of her backpack.

At this point I felt the skin shading needed more definition so I applied some BV01, RV32 and laid down some R12 over them.

I colouored the whole background in N7 to give the image more of a pop.

I hope you like today's tutorial and that I've inspired you to take out your markers.

Sandie

xXx

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Copic Markers on Transotype Synthetic Paper

Hello everyone.

Today I will give you another way to use your Copic Markers.

I use the Transotype Synthetic Paper for this.

For this technique I use :

2 colours of Copic Markers

The Activator

A blending tool with felt

half of a sheet Transotype Synthetic Paper

Acrylic stamping block

I use the chisel nib of the Copic marker, so my brush nib isn't going to be damaged.

Put the 2 colours on your acrylic stamping block, I used a large one.

Then you spray the activator on your colors so they get liquid again, work fast because it will evaporate quickly.

You lay your Transotype Synthetic Paper on your acrylic block with the colours and move your paper around in the liquid.

When you are happy with the result, I repeated this 3 times before I was happy with the result

Then I went to my blending tool with felt. Using my chisel nib again I put some colour on the felt, sprayed the Activator on the felt and with circular motion put the colour on my paper.

I repeated this until I was happy with the result.

Here is a collage of the prints i made.

On my finished paper I stamped using a stamping tool and black Stazon ink flowers from Polkadoodles.

I also stamped the flowers on a sheet of Perfect Coloring Paper with Memento ink and coloured the flowers with my Copic Markers, cut them out and glued them on my already stamped paper.

For the background I used several different stamps and a white Molotow one4all acrylic marker.

I hope I have inspired you to use your Copic marker differently and see you next time!

Friday, March 1, 2019

Mazarine Fairy

Hi Everyone, it's Faye here today :)

This month I thought I would take you with me stage by stage as I colour Mazarine Fairy from Whimsy Stamps. This is one of my favourite images and I had an urge to give her some fun hair.

I have coloured each area from dark to light, with the exception of the hair, which I coloured light to dark...