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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

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

Sunday, July 28, 2024

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