Tutorial transparent colouring of balloons

Hi Everyone, it's Saskia here.

Because many people are big fans of cutie prints, I have chosen this time an image from Wild Rose Studio.

I want to show you today how to colour transparencies with Copic Markers.

I'll do this with the help of some photos. I chose to use the no-line technique because you get much more effect on transparency.

In advance, I decide what the colours of my balloon should be.  

I chose a blue, pink and green balloons.

 Step 1: Print your stamp with a light ink like Memento Angel Pink. Because you have a light colour, the colours disappear a lot while colouring.
Step 2: Make a small mask of a balloon. 

Step 3: I draw the line with a light colour blue, because this balloon turns blue.

Step 4: This is also repeated with the other balloon that you can not see all outside lines.

 I also did this in a light colour.

 

Step 5: Pull the balloon's outer lines completely into the colour of your balloon.

Now you to decide what order of your balloons are.

NOTE: This is important for your work order.

Step 6: Start the balloon on the back, this colour will be the first one. You only colour the parts that overlap the other balloons.

Step 7: Colouring the surfaces that overlap the other balloons in the corresponding colours.

Step 8: Now you do the same with the front balloon.  Here too you just go over the other colours.

 

 Step 9: Now you slowly shape your balloon. First, take a little shadow with a slightly darker colour.  Step 10: Take care to fill the balloon slightly further with a lighter colour.  

Step 11: Afterwards, you will expand some more colour,

putting the darkest colour on your shadow side.  

Step 12: Now you really start dressing the balloon. By slowly building your colours.
 

 

Step 13: With the one lightest colour you close almost the entire balloon.
Step 14: The last part you colour this with your lightest colour to make it look like light.
Step 15: Then the rear balloon could look like this.
If you are not happy, repeat steps 11 through 14.
Step 16: Actually, we start again from now on, but now for the second balloon.
First, you will apply your shadow a bit with one darkest colour.

Step 17: Carefully build the shape here too. First give shape to your lightest colour.
Step 18: Then you're going to shape your balloon with your middle colour, then your lightest colour. But make sure you leave a light space in the overlap of the balloon.
Step 19: Now you are going to apply the true shadow with the darkest color.
Step 20: Now you're going to colour the rest of the balloon, make sure you open a very big hole for the light effect. These you will create in the next steps.

 Step 21: With the lightest colour you will close almost the entire balloon, But here you leave a gap.  Step 22: Now, you will close the last one.

Step 23: With the outer balloon you will do something else (not much).
Here you first set a shadow with the darkest colour.

Step 24: With the middle colour you will shape your balloon.

But here too you leave a big space in the middle.

 Step 25: With the lightest colour you colour the balloon so that you have a nice light area.

Step 26: Then it might look like this when you're done.

 

 

I stamped a few extra balloons that I coloured the same way.
As a background, I used a technique you learn in Copic Coloring 2.

As a last detail, I have stamped some clouds and added text.

I used the following Copic Markers to colour this print.

Green balloon: YG01 - YG05 - YG07

Blue balloon: B00 - B01 - B02  

Pink balloon: RV52 - RV55 - RV63  

Elephant: C1 - C2 - C4 - C6 and RV52 - RV55 - RV63, Multiliner Warm Gray 0.5mm  

Background: BG0000 - BG000 - BG00 (self made)  

Clouds: C00 - C000 - C1

Balloons Lines: Multiliner Warm Gray 0.5mm

I hope you have read this post with pleasure.

 

Until next time!

Keep calm and Copic doodle on..

Hi all Copic lovers,

It is my turn to show you a Copic creation, 

after a few posts with hand lettering this time 

I have made some doodle tags for you.

As always I start to make a hand drawn design, 

this design was made with my black Copic Multiliners

and the big lines were done with a black sketch (100).

I scan the design and save it on my computer 

and later I  print the design onto Perfect Colouring Paper.

I did several doodle versions, this version was done in black and white only.

I just got my Copic Multiliners out and started to doodle.

I have used different black Copic Multiliners 

for the bigger details a 0.3 tip and 

for the tiny details I have used a smaller  0.1 tip.

It is so relaxing, I can spend hours just drawing away.

This is the finished black and white version.

Another black and white printed version was coloured 

with some of my red Copic and a black Copic Multiliners. 

This is the finished version.

I have also added some red stones on the right side of the tag. 

Possibilities are unlimited.

Why not use more Copic colours and experiment?

That is what I did and so this is my rainbow version! 

I can recommend to doodle, it is great, relaxing and fun to do.

No rules just let your hands do the work, brain on relax mode and enjoy.

These tags can easily be used as bookmarks or be added on gift packaging.

Here are the original designs and the three versions together in a photo.

Underneath you can find the list of the Copic products used.

Hope you will keep calm and doodle on too, thanks for your visit.

Colouring an ivory weddingdress

Hi Copic lovers!

It's Deborah here today with some colouring inspiration and a little tutorial.

If you colour white on a wedding dress with grey, it sometimes gets a dirty look. Like it's already in the laundry for 10 times 😉

And if you don't want it to be the traditional white white dress but more of a crème look, than it's the perfect tutorial for you.

first I started to map out where the darkest colours going to be with my lightest marker (E41).

Try to find the darkest places and think at every spot you colour. Is it in the front? How are the folds going? Is there falling a shadow on it?...

Then we going to darken it up with E44

Then we're going to add the deepest shadows with our darkest colour, E47

And blend things out again with E44 and E43

Now that the deepest shadows are ready, we're going to focus on the lightest parts of the dress. Try to imagine where would be the lightest  places in the dress and keep them white and add some E41 in the other places.

Blend the white part together with the créme one using E40

And this is the finished image. Now you have an ivory dress!

Here are all the colours I've used:

skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000

hair girl: E57, E55, E53, E51, E50

hair boy: E47, E44, E43, E50

ivory: E47, E44, E43, E41, E40

blue: N9, B39, B37, B34

red: R59, R37

Here's the finished card!

Don't forget to share all your Copic colourings in our Copic Marker Europe Facebookgroup!

Thanks for stopping by,

Deborah

Tutorial - Curly Hair

Good morning, I'm Cristina Valenzuela.

This is a simple tutorial to colour curly hair.

Within the curly hair there are many types, I have decided to make a curly hair, because this stamps, from Doodle by Creastamps has no lines in the hair and offers me many possibilities.

For my step by step I have chosen the tones E70, E71, E74, W7 and Blender 0.

You can change the E70, E71 and E74 for W1, W3 and W5 if you want darker hair.

First of all I will colour the higher parts with the lighter colour, E70.

I make curved strokes without much sense to give curved hair appearance.

The second, I frame the parts of more darkness and shadow, I have used E74.

Also, with this same dark colour, E74, I add curved strokes to my hair, without touching the outermost part and more light.

With an intermediate tone, E71, I have been covering this hair, with strokes of curves.

I repeat with the dark tone, E74 to add intensity and more curls.

I also repeat with E71 not to leave big holes and to degrade colours.

For a touch of more intensity of colour I added W7 in the deepest parts, it gives volume and realism.

I unify everything, with E71, try not to see big differences and marks between colours.

And to finish I use Blender 0, I add some points of light to this curly hair. I also like this texture that is created with Blender.

And for today this is it, I hope you liked this simple tutorial on how to colour curly hair.

This is my finished stamp on a card, I have used the following Copic colours:

Skin: E13, E11, E21.

Eyes: YG95, G43.

Hair: E70, E71, W7, E74, Blender 0.

Shoes: C3, C5.

Rose and Dress: RV91, RV93, RV95.

White: W3, W1, Blender 0.

See you soon, thanks for your visits and comments, hugs!

New baby in town - Vicente!

Hello everyone, it's Sandra from Portugal!

So this is happening: I am going to be an auntie, again! J

Vicente will arrive in less than a month and I prepared this postcard as a welcome gift for him and his parents, using a digi from Little Miss Muffet – "baby sent from above".

Because I am remodelling my craft room (again, it’s a never ending story), I couldn’t find any paper that would match the image nicely, so I decided to create a cloudy blackround using Copic Various Ink BG70. It’s really fun and easy to do.

First, I printed the digi on some masking paper from Inkadinkadoo and fussy cut the star and the basket with the baby and teddy. I placed those items over the card’s image to protect it. Then I die cut some clouds using  Kaisercraft’s “Decorative Clouds” die, but you can cut and create your own clouds! 

I then placed some BG70 ink on a craft mat, grabbed it with a makeup sponge and daubed it around a cloud over the card. I repeated along the card using differente sized clouds and different placements. This is the finished background:

This card was really quick to do. I coloured the big star with Y02/04/06/08:

To colour the basket, I used E31/33 and 35.

It’s difficult to properly shade the basket without colouring the stars’ strings as well. No worries, I just coloured it and then I used the “magic” colourless blender to push some ink away and prepare it to be coloured in a different colour. I forgot to take the photo before I started colouring the strings, sorry.

I then coloured the strings with E81/84/87. And the stars using Y02/04/06/08 again.

I added the string's cast shadows with E35, after mapping them with E33:

Vicente is a portuguese boy’s name, my sister-in-law is welcoming a boy so I decided to colour the teddy in blue tones: B41/45. And I coloured the baby’s pyjamas and teddy’s bow in G09/12/14.

For the baby’s skin I chose peachy colours: YR000/01, E01 and E93 (cheeks).

I trimmed the card and framed it using a patterned paper from DCWV’s Nana’s Nursery collection, and some blue cardstock from Bazzill.

Well it looks pretty flat, doesn’t it? Wait, there is still one thing missing: a layered big star to add some dimension to the card. I printed one more image, coloured and fussy cut the star then glued it to the card using foam squares. 

It looks better now, don’t you agree?

Here is a list of all the Copic material used:

Sky: BG70 Various Ink

Stars: Y02/04/06/08

Pajamas: G09/12/14

Teddy: B41/45

Basket: E31/33 and 35

Basket rings: T1/3/5

Strings: E81/84/87

Skin: YR000/01, E01 and E93 (cheeks)

Hugs,

Sandra