This is what the doodling technique is all about to show off the beautiful imperfections of drawing and coloring by hand! Notice too how the outlining process isn’t exact, that the white of the paper is still showing through. For example, I outlined all four petals for the pansy, the center of the sunflower and all of its petals, the center of the dahlia and all of its petals, etc. Simply trace over the petal shapes in a single pass, meaning in one stroke or layer. Once the coloring step is complete, the next step is to add the first outline layer using a Black Copic Multiliner pen. They’ll be a huge help in capturing the shape and color direction of the flowers accurately! Similarly to when you were swatching the flower colors, we encourage you to have reference photos nearby while you complete this step as well. For example, the rose was colored in a circular motion from the inside out, the marigold was colored in squiggles from the inside out, the lily colored in a cup shape, and so on. Once your swatching is complete, the next step is to color in a motion that best expresses the shape of the flower. However, you can choose the lighter or darker colors if you want! In the next step, I will choose to focus on the mid-tone color so the flowers aren’t too pale or too dark.
Notice that there are three different colors swatched for each flower: a dark, a mid-tone, and a light.
The first thing you want to do before coloring is to figure out your palette! For each of the flowers I’ll be doodling, I tested out marker colors on a separate sheet of paper to be sure I’ve got an accurate palette.
So, with that being said, let’s grab our Copic markers and get started! Today, we will be expanding on the nature theme, but with flowers instead, showing off an atypical “doodling” coloring technique using both markers and pens. In our previous blog, we showed how to precisely color 6 different leaf shapes.
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