Coloring Tutorials // Flat Coloring

June 21, 2025 by Ajey

Basic rundown of how to lay clean and even color with alcohol markers using simply layering. Don’t be a freak with streaks~

Choose your weapons:

• Alcohol markers — any brand will do. Use all the things.
• Paper that is bleedproof or at least marker friendly.
• Lineart. (Yours or mine ;*)
• Scrap sheet of paper that is the same as your lineart page.

  But why?: Because I said so. Trust me you’ll appreciate this step later. This page is our swatch page as well will help us be able to gauge how many layers we can put on our pages before we overwork the paper or bleed through our “canvas”. You also can use it to practice effects, etc.

Into the thick of it

Step 1: Choose your colors.

Pick your colorscheme for your project. You will want a light/medium/dark combo for each color family typically. I personally enjoy a smaller palette so I ain’t doing all that. I’m using 5 main colors — scheme can be found here.

Tiny Tangent: When I say I use a colorscheme I do not include my neutrals into these. Neutrals in my brain are basic colors such as all eye, hair, skin, varieties unless it’s not natural then i make it a focal point. Control your audience. Make sure your art interests you and chances are it will interest someone else too because hey. You’re fucking cool.

Book Used ♥ Markers Used: Ohuhu Art Markers.

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