Practical, testable techniques for colored pencils, markers and crayons.
White specks, streaks and flat colors are almost always about pressure and layering, not the pencils. A beginner’s walkthrough of sharp points, light layers, burnishing and fixing mistakes — on ordinary printer paper.
Markers bleed through because solvent carries dye into the paper fibers — thin paper, alcohol ink and slow passes make it worse. Here’s what actually stops it, from a backing sheet to the right cardstock, and how to tell bleed-through from show-through.
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