Cicci makes a Cup-cake

 Hi copic Lovers 

Cicci here posting from Sweden. Today Im going to make a cup-cake. 

First Im going to talk about some great things I learned from my father who was an full time artist. He died 2019 and its a big hole without him of course!! 

The little things I know about painting and coloring I have learned from him. Two things he always said about painting was:

-Never use Black!! Its a dead color and it makes your coloring look dirty- so never black!! Use instead dark blue or dark brown. Thats a great thing to know and I always think of him when I do colorings that looks like black. But I never use it. 

The next thing was...

-Always use white in your coloring!! Where you but the white its not the most important-Just use it. 

He also show me how to make paintings with dots. Im going to do this dots when I color the cake so its not so much blending in that part.

Step 1

Draw a Cup-cake

Step 2

Here I use greys and browns for the colors 

thats make the depth in the candy

C3 and E25

Step 3

Add R14 over the brown 

And add E21 over the grey

Step 4

Add R24 for the brown

and now it looks like red instead of brown ;0)

So for the depth using red colors you can use brown

And

YR31 and C0 for the grey one

The grey colors works at the same way 

for this skin and lighter colors

 as the brown working good with red colors

Step 5

Add a dark E47 in the edges of 

the brown candy

Step 6

Add E233 and blend a little

Step 7

Add Y26 for the other one

Step 8

Add Y28

Step 9

Blend with Y21 

Use Y21 for both

Step 10

I just colors the lines for the 

creme with R30

You can use grey if you 

like-think thats better but to late 

for me to change:)

Step 11

Now I starts to make lots of dots with lots of colors 

Nr 1 is my favorite Copic markers

Y21

Step 12 

Continue with Y28 and Y21 again

Step 13

Dots with E99

Step 14

Dots with E95 and blend a little

 with this one 

Step 15

Dots and blend with Y28

Step 16

Add E11 and I added some Y02 as well

Step 17

Blend and make dots with Y21

Step 18

Dots with E37

Step 19

Add and blend with E23

Step 20

Add More of Y02 in the middle

Step 21 

Add more dots and blend with Y26

Step 22

Add E27 at the same way 

Step 23

Add some C0 for the cream

Step 24

R02 

Step 25

Add R14

Leave some white here for highligts

Step 26

Add R24

Step 27

YR04

Step 28

R14

Step 29

Add Y02

Step 30

YR15 I also used R14 R24 R39 

for the orange

R39 is the darkerst of this 3 markers 

DONE!!

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Cicci 

Eye, Grey and Mulitliner Cicci

Hi Copic Lovers!!

Cicci here today posting.

I hope you are all having a great time this summer!! 

Here in Sweden we can colour a lot because there has been a few rainy days over here.

Today I'm going to make an eye using Copics from the Grey family and then I'm going to use a multi-liner, so for this you need:

Copic Combo

C10, C7, C5, C3, C2 

Multiliner 0.5 Black

Step 1

I start to make a circle for the eye

 Step 2

I just follow the circle with C7

Step 3 

I draw some lines to remind myself to leave some space for highlights, so I do not colour this area

Step 4 

I'm using the big side of the marker this time to make a thicker line around the circle using C7 again

Step 5

I add C3 and blend a little at the same time 

Step 6

Here I add C5 and blend a lot between the edge of C7 C5 and C3  I want as little edges as possible

Step 7

I add more and blend with C3 

Step 8

I added B39 around the circle 

Step 9

I add C7 in the middle

 Step 10

I make a few lines with C5

 Step 11

I add lines in the middle circle with C7

Step 12

I make lines the same way at the outer circle with C7 

 Step 13 

Here I start to use the multi-liner SP 0.5 Black. I start to make a lot of little lines 

 Step 14

Now I add some C2 almost over the hole eye

 Step 15

I add more of C5

 Step 16

Add more of C7

 Step 17

This is a fun part!

Blend a lot at the area that needs to be blended with C5 and C3

 Step 18

I add more with C7 in the edges of the circle

Step 19

Time for more colouring with the same multi-liner I used before 

Step 20

I blend and make some more lines with C5 

 Step 21

Here I use C7, C3, and the multi-liner

Add and blend

 Step 22

Blend with C2 over the eye. Remember to leave some area for the highlights

Step 23

Here I add some highlights with a white Posca pen

Step 24

Now the eye is ready and I start with a background. I colour around the eye with C5

 Step 25

I repeat this again and this time I use C7 C5 C3

Add and blend

Step 26

Here I add the darkest of the C-family, C10

Step 27

I colour the edges with C10  

Step 28

Now I add C7 C5 C3 C2 and blend a lot

Step 29

I made some details in the end with the white Posca and the black multi-liner 

DONE!!

Thank you for sticking with me to the end ;0)

It was a long one today!

Have a wonderful day everyone, and see you in August!!

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Cicci