Chocolate Box
Create Deeper Colors for Developing Realistic Depth
Join Amy Shulke, a professional illustrator and marker enthusiast for a live coloring demonstration. Real coloring in real time.
Are you ready for realistic coloring?
Online video classes are not real, at least not real in the way you assume.
The projects are planned months in advance. The lessons are tested and simplified. The demonstration is rehearsed. The footage is shot multiple times and edited for clarity. The script is….well, it’s a script!
Everything about an online art class is designed to make the project look easy and amazing.
But that's not how real art works
Vanilla Livestream breaks the production barrier, giving you a real look into the real time artistic process.
Do you want to learn to create darker colors than Copic makes, colors that are essential to creating realistic deep dark areas?
We've used the Push & Pull technique to create lifelike depth but how do you Push a dark object when Copic does not make a marker dark enough to push it with?
It's a problem!
Amy's Pseudo-Black process creates the correct color for your pushes without guessing or shopping for new markers.
Join Amy for an advanced level lesson and learn to create realistic depth for dark areas. It's time to conquer the dark.
This lesson also includes a bonus segment on my vibrant silk flourish technique.
Chocolate Box is an advance level demonstration
We welcome colorers of many levels at Vanilla Arts, but basic marker painting techniques are not covered in this class.
Advanced classes assume you’ve mastered basic techniques and are ready for independent work using artistic skills. Read more about Vanilla skill levels here.
Skill Level: Advanced
We do not recommend this course for first time Vanilla students.
Techniques used:
- Distress Inking for temperamental cardstocks
- Flicking
- Overflicking
- Push & Pull
- Underpainting for deeply recessed areas
- Use of photo references for accuracy
- Detail work with technical pens and
- Overpainting with colored pencil
Course includes:
- 12 minute video- a deep-dive look at the dangers of using black in your artwork
- Over 90 minutes of video demonstration. Work at your own pace.
- Chocolate Box digital stamp in three handy formats (PNG, JPG, or quick print PDF)
- Recipe guide
- Printable photo reference, underpainting guide, detailed color map, and full color sample
WARNING:
Basic computer skills are required to access class materials.
If you struggle with websites, video players, downloads, printing digital files, and communicating in discussion forums, this course may not be right for you.
We recommend that you try our FREE More Than Luck course to get a feel for how our site works and the type of computer skills you'll need to make the most of your learning experience here.
Required Supplies: complete printable supply list included in class package
- High-quality Copic friendly marker cardstock (X-Press It Blending Card or Cryogen Curious Metallic White is recommended)
- Classic Distress Ink - Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo
- Life Changing Blending Brushes by Picket Fence
- "Flourish" stencil from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous
- Copic Markers
- Technical pen - Staedtler Triplus (0.3), Posca Paint Pen, Extra Fine, White
- Artist quality colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier colored pencils use for this project)
- Glassine paper
- Mod Podge brush or Hake dusting brush.
- Clipboard or hard surface (glass mat is recommended)
- Drafting tape.
- Pencil, pencil sharpener.
- Erasers - black and white polymer, white sticky tack, Tombow Mono Zero (round).
We recommend this workshop and coloring kit as companions to Chocolate Box:
(this class is an Intermediate skilled class)
(*click image for more information + enroll)
(independent, artistic coloring kit)
Your Instructor
Amy is a professional freelance technical illustrator with 25 years of experience in graphic arts. Amy began using colored pencils in 1985 and she started with DeSign markers in 1989. Colored pencils with a base of either marker or watercolor is her preferred process for portraiture and scientific illustration. She has a special passion for teaching crafters and shy artists to stretch their boundaries by adding established fine art techniques to their coloring projects.
Join Amy for fun and highly informative lessons which will not only change the way you color but the way you see color in the world around you.
"It's the OMG moments. That's why Amy's classes rock. She explains things that you've maybe noticed before but never thought much about. I love it!"
"At 62 years of age I have no illusions about becoming a great artist but. I am so appreciative of the change in my perception since taking classes with Amy at Vanilla Arts Co. Now I see the play of colors, the motion and the grace... It's a great way to view the world around me."
"I just love the things I'm learning and can't wait to start the next project. Your images are challenging for me and I like that. I'll never look at another image and how to color it the same again!"