If you’re looking to move beyond traditional Copic blending technique, Undercover is an excellent training guide PLUS inspiration to experiment on your own.From my perspective, it seems you need to study a bit about colors and how they work. Her underpaint colors selections are always interesting and educational. Every Thursday, Elena gives you photo inspiration plus the Copics she would use to color one area. Undercover is a series of FREE Copic swatches, perfectly sized for storage at Pinterest but they also make a cute printable booklet. The Vanilla Undercover Swatch Series: Undercover is Elena’s pet project for the Vanilla Team, born from her love of the Vanilla Arts Underpainting Technique. Kathy and Amy are both big fans of this deck tool.ģ. The tool also includes red and green Value Finders (see more on this in the tools section below). The back of each card demonstrates analogous, complementary and triads for that hue which make for excellent color palettes. For computer people, the CMYK, RGB, and HEX codes are listed (although I’ve seen debate about the accuracy). The front side also shows a few tones that can be made from a light, medium, and dark value. The front of each color card features a color hue plus that hue broken down into distinct 18 values/saturates. It has since found a following in the graphic arts community as an inexpensive alternative to the Pantone decks. This tool was designed for fabric artists like quilters to make color selections quick and foolproof. Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool:Unlike a traditional color wheel, the Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool is a fan-deck style book of 2-sided color swatch cards. A lot of testing and effort went into this chart and we need to support artists when they create valuable educational material!Ģ. PLEASE purchase directly from Sandy rather than printing a pirated copy. Sandy Allnock’s Hex Chart can be found here. And for fans of traditional Copic blending in trios, one can develop unique combinations by locating your color and skipping one hex space over in any direction.Īmy says this is easily the best money you’ll ever spend on a Copic chart and the whole Vanilla Team uses it frequently. If you’re just beginning your Copic collection, this chart can be used to find similar substitute markers for the colors you are missing. This tool teaches you to focus the actual color of the ink rather than coloring by number. Colors are grouped for their similarity in hue and value which often contradicts marker cap numbers! This chart shows Copic Markers in visual chromatic order – not numerical. Sandy Allnock Copic Hex Chart: The Copic Hex Chart is an excellent aid to colorists and Amy highly recommends it to all her students. The backside of the wheel includes color selections by complements, split complements, triads and tetrads to help create your own project color palette.ġ. It also illustrates tints, tones, and shades of the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colors on the wheel. It shows how to form secondary and tertiary colors from the three primary hues. The CMY Primary Mixing Wheel is used by the entire Vanilla Team. It over-samples orange and doesn’t give enough space to the cool side.Ĭopic Ink, watercolor, and even colored pencil are best calculated with a CMY wheel. If you’re using an RYB color wheel, it’s giving you a warped look at the color wheel. You can mix red ink by combining magenta + yellow. Do you see any red ink cartridges in there? Don’t believe me? Open your computer printer. But that’s an additive color approach which doesn’t work for transparent color like Copics or watercolor. I know, you thought the primary colors were red, blue, and yellow. CMY Primary Mixing Wheel: CMY stands for the three primary colors for coloring- Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. Today, let’s look at the Vanilla Team’s favorite color wheels and color tools- what they use them for and why you might find it handy too.ġ. Because different wheels and tools do different things, and I’m pretty sure you didn’t realize that when you bought your color wheel. We’re making sure you have the correct tool for the task you want it to do. Have you seen color theory books? Whoa baby, that’s some intense reading! I can’t summarize 200 densely packed pages of text and charts into one itty-bitty blog article. Now before you get all excited, THIS IS NOT AN ARTICLE TO TEACH YOU HOW TO USE A COLOR WHEEL OR ANY OTHER COLOR TOOL. Pssstttt… Maybe the reason why your color wheel doesn’t seem useful, is because you’ve got wrong wheel? We all have a couple of color wheels or tools because we think we’re supposed to use them.īut we don’t actually ever use them and to be honest, we don’t understand why anyone would.
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