Happy Haunting

 Hello you!

Helen here today.

It´s just a few days til Halloween and this ghost has been lying among my stamps, wanted to be coloured. (it´s actually me who once drew the stamp)

I wanted him to appear in a dusty attic. I added the candelabrum and a spiderweb.
And a BIG, SCARY spider. As you can see, there is a shadow from the candelabrum and the spider,
but not from the ghost. That´s because I think ghosts doesn´t have shadows,

Ghost: B23 - B21 - B000 - B0000 - R0000 - R00 - C1 - Blender
Candelabrum: Y21 - YR23 - YR24 - Y26 - Y28
Flames: R29 - YR07 - Y17 - Y11
Candles: C3
Window: C3 - C5
Attic: W00 - W0 - W1 - W3 - W5 - W7
Spider and web: Copic Multiliner Black 0.3, Sakura Jelly Roll Dark White

Hope this inspired you to make some colouring before Halloween.
Hope you gets a lot of candy and til next time...

H A P P Y   C O L O U R I N G

Idea for Halloween

Hi everyone!

For the October post I colored some stamps of Hello bluebird inspired by Halloween, which I then used to decorate a candy box.

Stamps of Hello bluebird

For bats: B60, C3, C5, BV29, BV13 and RV52.

For ghosts:C1, B60, 0 and RV52

For the pumpkins: Y17, YR68, R05, E37 and YR04

I use a white gel pen

This is the final result

Thank you

Bye bye

Antonella

Forest Gnome

Hi.
Helen here today.
Today I will colour a forest scenery.

Hope you will enjoy this!

Skin:E0000 - E05 - E00 - E21 - R00
Hair: E18 - E08 - YR24
Skirt: R81 - R83 - R8 - R89
Cap: V91 - V93 - V95 - RV99 - T3
Shawl: E70 - E71 - E74
Shoes: C3 - C5 - C7
Leaf: YG25 - YG63 - Y11 - Y15 - E08 - YR07 - YR04

Background:
E08 - E23 - E31 - E33 - E35 - 37 - E41 - E42 - E43 -  E44 - E47 - E70 - E71 - E74 - E79
 G0000 - G21 - G24 - G43
N3 - N6 - N7
T1 - T3 - T5 - T7
YG0 - YG03 - YG17 - YG25 - YG63 - YG67 - YG91 - YG93
YR21 - YR23

Happy colouring
Helen

 

Cicci autumn

Hi COPIC lovers 

Cicci here posting from Sweden. 

Today its all about autumn colors !!

COPIC combo 

E41 

E50 

E23 

E27

E04 

YR31 

R20

Y02 

White gelepen Sakura 

Step 1

I drews I sketch 

Step 2 

First I color all the lines with E 41 

Step 3 

Here I added little E50  

Step 4 

R20 

Step 5 

More of R20 

Step 6

Continue with the lines with E21  and then I osed E23 to go over the lines again 

Step 7

Blend with a lightter  markers and then I added E27 

Step 8 

Here I blend a lot with E21 

Step 9

YR31 

Step 10

Y02 

Step 11 

E08 and blend with YR31 

Step 12 

Go over the face with E50 

Step 13 

Add E04 

Step 14 

Add and blend with E50 

Step 15 

Add E51 

Step 16 

Blend all over the coloring with E51 

Step 17 

If you like you can go over the hole coloring with E23 and blend with a lE50 or E51 

DONE !! 

At the end I added some highlights with a Sakura gelépen. 

HUGS & SMILES 

Cicci

Welcome  to visit us anytime you feel like it 

Harvest Rabbits

Hello!
Hope you are well today.

Finally!
I have wanted to make my own videos when colouring for a long time.
As I lose myself into the colouring I often forget to take photos, and now that's not a problem anymore.

This is my second video so please, have patience with me. When I get the hang of it, I will maybe put in the colours in the video, but for now I list my colours in the end of this post.

Sky: Y000 - Y11 - YR000 - YR00 - B0000 - B000 - C1 - C0
Grain: YR00 - Y32 - YR23 - YR24 - E25
Grass: G20 - G40 - G43 - YG61 - YG67 - YG17 - YG25 - YG63 - T3
Carrot: YR15 - YR07 - E08
Brown rabbit: E31 - E23 -E15 - E25 - E79 -R02 - E35
White rabbit: E40 - E42 -R02 - E00

Hope you enjoyed this video.

Love
Helen

Sneaky Taste

 Hi!
Helen here today.
Hope you have had a great summer. We can now just relax and enjoy some colouring without feeling guilty for not spending the time outside in the sun.

I spent some time colouring this little guy, Sneaky taste by Nellie Snellen. I really don´t have any trouble with older stamps. I don´t need the latest released. If the image is cute and nicely drawn it really doesn´t matter. I colour images that talks to me, touch my heart.

I started by stamping my image on to some Perfect Colouring Paper and used Memento Ink pad.
It´s a clear stamp and it´s not the best quality, it´s little softer and if you press to hard it might end up as it did for me with some thicker lines as in his face but I thought that when I had coloured the whole image it wouldn´t show as much as in the beginning.

My first layer for the skin: E000

The shadows for the skin: BV20

Ontop of the shadow I added a new layer: E11
And for the cheeks, belly botton, knees and elbows I used: R02

To blend everything I went in with: E50 and R00

The cake: E41 - E43 - E44 - E42

The cherry: R24 - R59
Icing: B00 - B000

The cake dish: Y21 - YR21 - YR24 - Y26 - T3

Linen: BG10 - BG11 - BG23
Filling: R81 - R85

Knickers: BG70 - BG72 - BG75
I feel that theese shades are fare from each other so I use tip to tip method when I colour with them.

Flower: R00 - R81 - R85 

Hair: E40 - E42 - E43 - E44

And the most important, the shadows to groud the object: 
W00 - W1 - W3 - W5

Look at the picture abowe and you´ll see how the objects just floats on the paper,

before you put in the shadows your eye doesn´t have anything that tell you anything about how high abowe the gound the object is.

You don´t need to have a perfect shaped shadow, just the illusion will take you far!

Some highlights added with a Gelly Roll White Dark pen.

I hope I have inspired you to make some colouring of your own today.
Have a nice day!
Love
Helen.

Cat's Eye

Good morning everyone!

Welcome back to my August post. I drew my version of anime from my childhood.

Drawing with Copic multi-liner

Complexion: R000, E93, V000 and RV10 .

Eyes: B60, E35, E37, E49 and E43.

Top: B39 and B18.

Hair: C5, C7, C10 and 100.

For the ticket: R17 and C0. For the nails R17.

After using a white gel pen, this is the final result.

Thank you

Bye bye

Antonella

Cupcakes

Hi there.
Helen here today.

A while ago I stumbled over some stamps on Facebook.
It was Whiff of Joy´s Henry Celebrating Mouse Stamp and now I´ve made some cards with the image.

As always, I stamped the image on Perfect Colouring Paper using Memento Ink Pad.

I started with the cheeks and ears, because I wanted to fade the pink and the gray with each other.

Started with the lightest shade for the tummy.

I wanted some shadow from the cupcake on his tummy and
shadow on the lower tummy makes the roundness.

I wanted the light to hit his knees, and darker areas between the legs, under the knees,
under his upper leg/arm, under the jaw and on the underside of the tail.

Started to colour the cupcake by a first layer with the lightest shade.

Wanted the light to hit the front of the cupcake and some shadows from the icing on the cupcake.

Started with the darker shades first for the flame.

Working me trough the flame.

I wanted high contrast in the icing so it feels like the flame light up the icing.
And I added some yellow shades for the highlight areas.

A shadow beneath him will ground him.

Cheeks, ears, tail and nose: R0000 - R00 - R02 - Y000
Tummy: E40 - E41 - E43
Furr: T0 - T1 - T3
Cupcake: E31 - E37 - E35 - E33
Flame: R05 - YR14  - Y15 - B0000
Candle: BG11 - BG15
Icing: RV0000 - RV000 - R81 -R85 - Y000
Sprinkles: BV11 - BV13, Y15 - YR14
Shadow: W0 - W1 - W3

Hope I  inspired you to make some birthday cards today.
Love
Helen