I’ve been using Copic Markers for almost 14 years. When I tell someone that they automatically say, you must have all of them, then. Nope, I don’t because I don’t need them all and here’s why. I don’t like using bright, neon-ish colors. Most colors have a few different color combos where the color is just too neon for me and it’s really hard to get a deeper shadow for those colors without changing the color by adding gray.

Here’s a list of my favorite go to Pink Copic Marker Color Combos:

• R81, R83, R85
• RV32, RV34
• R20, R22
• R30, R32
• RV11, RV13, RV14 and RV21, RV23, RV25 (these are more neon-ish colors but if I need a change from the above colors I’ve used these color combos.)

So, as you can see there is just a handful of pinks that I use and most of the color combos have only 2 shades. How to get a Deeper Shadow when Coloring with Pink Copics is simple, use a brown. In the card I’m sharing with you today I used E33 to deepen my pink shade. You can use whatever medium brown color you have — or are already using in your image.

Step by Step: Deepening your Pink Shade by coloring from dark to light.

• Step 1: I start in the shadowed area with my darkest pink.
• Step 2: Come out a little more with the next lightest color. Still leaving white where you want it to be the lightest pink.
• Step 3: Now, go back over the darkest pink area with the medium brown.
• Step 4: Then, take the darkest pink and go over the brown. We don’t want it to be brown — we are making the pink a deeper shade so we want to cover the brown up. This mixes the 2 shades together.
• Step 5: Come out a little more with the lighter pink. Flick the lighter pink into the white space and then do one swipe over the white space.

I use this same rule for shadowing with browns when coloring with Pinks, Yellows and Oranges.