Marker Painting Foundations
Learn to Color with Copic Markers. 12 weeks from beginner to challenge level coloring.
New to Copic Markers?
Join Amy Shulke, a professional illustrator and marker enthusiast for an introduction to painting with markers- Vanilla Arts style!
Coloring blogs and internet tutorials have a major drawback- they're almost always demonstrations rather than education. Copy-cat or "follow me" style videos teach you to mimic the demonstrator. Sure, you can color an apple by following along with an apple demonstration, but what happens when you want to color a banana or a baseball?
Uh oh... now you're stuck.
Marker Painting is a new approach to coloring with markers. Amy teaches students basic rendering techniques and color theory based upon the way artists use paint.
Instead of focusing on how to color an apple, Amy shows you the why behind color selection, shade, layering, and depth. This provides you with the necessary knowledge and instincts to color an endless variety of images for the rest of your life.
Marker Painting Foundations is the first step towards coloring independently and with more accurate realism.
In this twelve week beginner level course, Amy covers basic marker techniques and general know-how, helping you understand both how markers work and how to work the markers.
Are you looking for depth and dimension in your coloring?
Marker Painting is a completely different approach to coloring.
Well, actually it's the classic approach to creating art, learning to use your Copic Markers the way an artist uses paint.
Marker Painting breaks all the crafty coloring laws and the copy-cat approach to instruction. Art based painting technique sets you free from marker tutorials, recipes, and all the supposed rules that actually lock you into flat and simplistic coloring.
You can learn to color independently.
You can get realism and amazing depth from your Copics.
This Course is Ideal for:
- Complete Beginners who have never touched a marker before
- Self Taught Colorers who feel as if they've missed the big secret to amazing coloring
- Unconfident Colorers who still encounter problems with blending, shading, or developing convincing depth
- Frustrated Colorers who struggle when coloring unfamiliar stamps
- Habitual Colorers stuck in a rut where every project looks the same
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Dreaming Colorers who want to push beyond craft level coloring into creative and artistic self-expression
Twelve Week Course includes:
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12 weeks of coloring lessons-
- 30 to 60 minutes of clear technique instruction every week
- guided coloring video for every project
- mid-week supplementals to spark further thought
- 16 PNG digital stamps (also JPG and PDF alternate formats)
- bonus supplementals and consumer information
- multiple instructional handouts, designed to complement each week's video lesson
- discussion board for instructor guidance, help, Q&A
PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
Many courses hand you a pile of printables and videos, leaving you to figure out why your coloring looks worse than the sample project.
This method is terrible for beginners!
Every week, Amy reviews your latest project-- giving you personalized advice, encouragement, and troubleshooting suggestions based upon your individual strengths and weaknesses. Lesson by lesson, Amy works with you to improve your unique skills. Marker Painting Foundations is an interactive course allowing you to ask questions and think deeper about the coloring process.
Curriculum Overview:
- marker ink- understanding how ink works
- marker care and maintenance
- marker papers and cardstocks
- basic marker strokes
- color blending fundamentals
- troubleshooting and correcting mistakes
- introduction to coloring for depth
- introduction to coloring for shape
- introduction to coloring for balance
- marker limitations
Should you take The Blend or Marker Painting Foundations? A comparison here.
Required Supplies:
- X-Press It Blending Card or similar high-quality marker cardstock
- Copic Markers - downloadable master supply list here
- Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils
- Uniball Signo White
- Uni Posca Paint Pen Extra Fine, White
This course includes exclusive access to Marker Painting Foundations Forums:
Use and participation of the forum is optional, however instructor feedback is exclusively provided in the forum. Students may submit completed assignments via the designated forum for assessment and assistance. Instructor to student and student to student interaction is encouraged to maximize the feedback and support you need to improve your coloring skills.
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.
Marker Painting Foundations is 26 lessons
Marker Painting Foundations is closing.
I'll be running one last session starting in January 2024, by invitation only. Course must be completed by April 30th, 2024
This special session is only open to those who are already taking other Vanilla Workshops and classes. For more info or to be added to the last-session request list, email [email protected].
The Blend is my replacement course for Marker Painting Foundations. More info here.
Note: Access to your purchased course remains active and ongoing.
Work at your own pace but all feedback on MPF projects ends April 30, 2024
This course is closed for enrollment.
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.
Course Curriculum
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StartGeneral Information Page & Supply Shopping List
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StartClass Materials FAQ
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StartPLEASE READ - Marker Painting Foundations Forums
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StartPLEASE READ - Critiques & Feedback
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StartVideo: Starting Over (11:02)
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StartRead: Measuring Growth
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StartAssignment: Popsicle Trio (digi stamps here)
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StartRead & Print: Workbook Pages
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StartA Note on Video Downloads
"I have used Copic markers for years and considered myself a pretty good 'colorer'. That was, until I found Amy Shulke's Marker Painting Foundations course. As I went through the course, I learned how to create dimension and realism in my projects. I LOVE how Amy gives you the 'why's' instead of the 'follow what I do's'. Marker Painting Foundations has changed the way I 'see' color and taken me from 'colorer' to 'artist'.
THANK YOU Amy!"
~Colleen D.
"The MPF course exceeded my expectations. Amy demonstrates the how of colouring with Copic markers but you get so much more out of the 12 week course. You learn colour theory, you learn about the Copic marker, i.e the numbering system, how to clean them, you learn about shading and highlighting. I just named a few things. You learn so much more and get constructive critiques all the while turning out pieces of art you can be proud of. Amy leaves you yearning for the next art class."
~Gillian T.
"I warn people when they sign up for your classes-- it's not just Copic, it's sooooooooo much more."
Frequently Asked Questions
Marker Painting Foundations is closing.
I'll be running one last session starting in January 2024, by invitation only. Course must be completed by April 30th, 2024
This special session is only open to those who are already taking other Vanilla Workshops and classes. For more info or to be added to the last-session request list, email [email protected].
The Blend is my replacement course for Marker Painting Foundations. More info here.
Note: Access to your purchased course remains active and ongoing.
Work at your own pace but all feedback on MPF projects ends April 30, 2024