The Benefits of Coloring on Acrylic Paper and Copics vs. Copics + Colored Pencils
- Bailey Ray
- May 10, 2015
- 2 min read
First of all......how amazingly cute is this little monster girl? Lizzy Love's imagination impresses me every time I see her new creations. Now it seems like all of my posts have something about adding colored pencils to Copic-colored images. But this time, I figured I'd show you a side-by-side comparison.
This time, instead of printing the digi on cardstock, I printed it on Acrylic paper, which is textured like a canvas. I must say that I was a little skeptical when I first printed it because it took a little while for the printer ink to dry. I started to color it immediately after it was printed, but my Copic ink smeared the printer ink. So, I put it aside for a couple of hours and sure enough.....it dried completely. This particular paper is made to take acrylic paint. But....it takes alcohol inks beautifully! Although it's textured, it didn't tear up the nibs of my Copics as you would think. It's hard to tell, but it may have sucked up the ink more than other papers, but the blending ability it provides outweighs the potential wasting of ink. See....Copic colorers/colorists know that you have to work quickly when blending your colors so the ink doesn't dry between shades. But on this acrylic paper, it stays wetter longer. I suppose you could say that it gives increased working time. I should warn you though.....you might want to have a scratch piece of paper underneath because the inks bleed through more than cardstock.
Now I won't go into much explanation about the Copics vs. Copics + Colored Pencils part of this post. Click here for a previous post where I explain it all.
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