Copic Marker Europe: Let yourself sparkle...

Good Morning everyone.

It's Sue here today.

I have written a tutorial which I hope will help you colour your Christmas images as I have used Copic Colourless Blender to create a festive glow!

I have chosen an image which I think is perfect for practicing this technique as it has a lot of light bulbs!
Sassy String Lights by Kirsten Winkelbauer for Whimsy Stamps.

First I coloured the background around the image with
B34 - it doesn't need to be too neat.

Then I coloured more of the background with B37 - I am working with my Copics light to dark here.

Next I added B39.

I then coloured the background again with the same colours to smooth out the blending transitions.
I was finally happy when the image looked like this and I was then able to start creating the glow around the lights using Colourless Blender and a Cotton Bud.

I dipped the end of the bud in colourless blender and pressed the end down on top of each bulb, the effect will look like this.

It is important to keep the bud still and just place it down once on each light to begin with.

I then carried on placing Colourless Blender on every bulb. I let the blender dry and then went round again repeating the same process, I did this three times as it helped to really bleach the centre of each bulb.

You can see that some of the blue colour has run into the image. Don't panic! This can easily be pushed out with a Colourless Blender Marker.

I then coloured the rest of this gorgeous image.
Skin - E71, E51, E50, YR32.

Hair - E42, E43, E44, E59.

T Shirt -RV69, R39, R35, R35, R32.

Once I had finished this, I went round again with the colourless blender and the Cotton Bud so that the same glow could be created in her hair and on her shirt.