First snowmen, now the Easter Bunny!

[monalsw]

How do you give these white objects some "color" when stamped. I need to learn shading or something!

[wavejumper]

I struggle with this too! There is a lot of white in Art Impressions images and to me they always just look like I didnt color them (which I didnt).

From what i am seeing, people use very pale blues for snowmen and greys for bunnies or objects for minimal shading.

I am sure someone will say something smarter though.

[gregzgurl]

There is an excellent resource on the Stampingbella blog here: Marker Geek Monday: Some Tips for Coloring White | stamping bella

[Oddesigns]

I just use very light shades of grey or tan, either in pencils or copics, and shade the bottoms of the bellies, under the head, and other areas along the edges. Here's some sheep I did using prismacolors. Think of it more as coloring shadows, than coloring a white creature.

[dini]

Something that helps me is using a color picker to really pinpoint the colors in a reference photo - so here's a white bunny... I used the eyedropper tool in my photo editor to find the colors of specific pixel areas in the photo, and this follows Elaine's theory of warm greys for living things.

[jukie]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dini

Something that helps me is using a color picker to really pinpoint the colors in a reference photo - so here's a white bunny... I used the eyedropper tool in my photo editor to find the colors of specific pixel areas in the photo, and this follows Elaine's theory of warm greys for living things.

what a great explanation and a great tip on how to do it!

[PaperCaperCrafting]

I learned from Sandy Allnock on YouTube, she has incredible coloring tutorials and has a few where she teaches about coloring white space, it really helped me!

[ladyhawke]

I don'[t buy any card magazines any longer but I've kept all my old ones and they are such fun to look at every so often or to discover one (as I just did now) that has an article you didn't read because you weren't interested but not seems to apply to you. Anyway, found the article I needed in the Nov. 2011 Cardmaker magazine. It's an interesting article regarding white and copics but basically it says to use warm tones on live subjects and if the object is cool to the touch like ice or snow, one uses cool tones.

[Rebecca Ednie]

I use warm greys for living things (except flowers), fur or some clothes, cool or neutral grey for hard or not alive objects. For snow I use a light Blue-grey and for flowers I use a colour similar to the flower center unless it's brown or black and then I use yellow. There are a few ways to know where to shade. Usually it's the areas closest to the ground or under something. Like the area of a shirt under the arms would be darker. If something has a texture, try using little strokes like for fur or pointillism which is little tiny dots. Or colour it in then apply white (coloured pencil or gel pen) or colourless blender for Copics on top.