Copic Markers for Card Makers Day 7

Another interesting day.  Sandy showed us different ways of coloring things with white, red and black.  I tried out the white using grays for the shadows on my flower.  The first one I think the darkest gray was too intense, so I did it again with a slightly less deep gray, and liked it much more.  I also had a little trouble with the reds, as my reds tend to be more toward the pinks, but I tried with what I had. 

I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out.  I also experimented with some different greens on the leaf and stem, and I thought that was interesting, too. 

Sandy did a bonus video, and I was really pleased with how she taught the flicking method.  She demonstrated what was meant by sweeping, and I also noticed she uses the side of her marker when she flicks.  I'm going to have to try that later.

Copic Markers for Card Makers Day 6

Today's lessons were really interesting, but I'm not doing as well as I'd like with my coloring today.

We started with Sandy showing different techniques to use on animals, including adding dots to the  dog figure with colorless blender.  My dots either didn't show up at all, or were much bigger than I wanted.  Definitely a technique I'm going to need a lot more practice on.

Kelly Marie illustrated how she colors animals, and also how to add spots and blend them in.  I was a  little more successful with this technique.

Jennifer's video show how to use different colors to add highlights to the fur, I need to practice that some more, although I wasn't totally horrible at it.  I need to try different colors probably.

Sandy also showed us how to make long hair on the fox, and curly hair.  I need to practice these techniques, too.

Very interesting class, lots of helpful information.  Glad it is going to be available in the future for reference!!

Copic Markers for Card Makers Day 5

Another great class from OnlineCardClasses.com, and another great lesson in this class.

In this lesson, we covered skin and hair.  Kristina illustrated the flicking or feathering motion to add colors to hair, while Kelly Marie used the darker markers to add shading. They used different colors of markers for the face, which really made a difference in how it looked.

Then Kathy used the ballerina to illustrate her way of shading, along with using the blender pen to create a graduated color in the dress.  She also add eye shadow and a little Wink of Stella, and also used the Wink of Stella to add sparkle randomly across the dress.  Sandy also used the ballerina to show how she used a little of the BG in the hair to bring the color of the dress in, and also used the RV colors in the lips and on the underskirt.  She used 2 of the BG colors in the eyes.  Very nice!

I'm fairly pleased with how my work turned out, not that there isn't a lot of room for improvement.

Copic Markers for Card Makers Day 4

Today's lesson is about shading flowers.  Sandy explained how to divide the picture up into circles and ovals to determine where the dark and light areas are--and I think I finally get it!! Yay!!

Kristina showed how to add a little texture with your shading, and Jennifer suggested the shading could be added to the things that are in the back or under something else.

I decided to use the same colors for all of the different techniques today, so (to my mind, anyway) it would highlight the different techniques in a better way.  I was pretty amazed how different the flowers looked with the same colors, but different techniques.  They would probably show up even more if I was a little better at the techniques (practice, practice, practice!).

Copic Markers for Card Makers Class Day 3

Today's class was great!  Up first was Sandy, who showed us how to use gray to make the shading really pop.  She suggested using different grays and experiment with the Cs and Ws and Ns.  I think I like the shading with a bit of gray better than just using the darker matching colors.  Sandy starts with the darkest, then the medium and finally the light when she did the color families and with the gray as your dark, coloring over the gray with your medium.

Kristina used the gray to add shading, too, but also showed how different kinds of gray can have different effects on the base color.  She also pointed out that we might have to go to a lighter gray for some colors, even if its on the same image, like with the multicolored umbrellas.  Very nice.

Laura used gray on her umbrellas, too, and her practice sheet showed shading not only along the bottom, but on the sides, and on the top.  Very attractive shading!

The last teacher was Kathy, who used feathering along with the gray.  I really need to work on this technique!

Copic Markers for Card Makers Day 2

The first video was by Jennifer.  She showed us the technique of touching the tip of the lighter marker to the tip of the darker marker to get your own medium shade, which is effective if you're trying to blend to different color families together.

Laura Bassen showed us how to scribble one marker on an acrylic block, and to use another marker to pick up some of the color to get an in-between shade to blend.  The results look to be similar to the tip to tip method.

Kathy Racoosin showed the technique of using feathering to blend two separate colors together.

Here is my practice sheet.  I didn't really care for the colors I used in the last butterfly.  And I didn't do a good job of shading.  I can see I'm really going to have to work on the feathering technique.

Copic Markers for Card Makers Day One

Today the lesson was on basic blending techniques with both two color and three color shading.  The first teacher was Sandy Allnock, who went over basic blending techniques. I spent some time on this to get some practice in.

The next video was by Jennifer McGuire, who saturates the paper with the lightest color before adding the dark color.  She also uses colors from different groups to blend together.

Kelly Marie Alvarez showed her technique for two color blending on the boxes..

The last presentation was by Kristina Werner, who concentrated on showing us her way of doing three color blending.

My practice sheet has each of the teachers' techniques labeled so I'll be able to go back to the correct video in the future if I want to refresh my memory of how to do any of these.

Copic Markers for Card Makers Online Class Pre-class worksheet

I've been looking forward to this class for several weeks, so took the opportunity to practice a little shading, using some of the color combinations the teachers shared with us.

I'm not happy with some of the hearts I colored, but that's part of the learning process.  Here's a look at my first practice sheet.

 

And there are several of the hearts I do like.  

I also printed out a Copic Marker Hand Color Chart and filled it in.  It makes it easy to see where I have natural blending groups, and where I need to fill in.