Tolo the Mushroom Fairy

Hello Copic fans, Rosi here! I'm here today with a sweet little girl .

This image is from Mos Digital Pencil. One of thousand images I own for a loooong time but never colored .

My skin color combo is E50, E51, E11, R20 . I always start with E50 all over the skin.

I go over my E51 with E11 in order to darken my shadows. I do the same twice. With R20 I colored the cheeks.

The mushrooms are colored with BV0000, 31, 34, 17.

Her dress is colored with YR00, 02, 04, 07, R00

Her wings are colored with RV91, 93, 95

Isn't she cute? I love her.

That's all from me for today.

Rosi

Mummu Dance

Hi there!

Helen here again, and guess what!
I will show you yet another Mo Manning image today.



The stamp is called Mummu Dance and you can get it as a digistamp here.
I have it as a clear stamp so I´ve stamped the image on Perfect Colouring Paper,
used Memento Ink pad.

Sketched in my background with C0.

I needed her to come alive! 

Skin: E000 - BV20 - E11 - E50
Birch: C1 - E41 - C3

Sometimes I just loose myself in my colouring and forget to take photos.
I´m working on the background first.
If something is going wrong here, I haven´t spent the time colouring the stamped image.

Sky:YR000 - B000 - B91 - BV0000
Trees: Y21 - YR21 - YR23 - YR24 - R05 - YG21 - BV20 - YG91 - YG93 - YG95 - YG63
Grass: YG91

Added more trees on her left side, some green in that area, YG61 - YG63.
Got some leaves on the birch, and added darker grays to it, C5 - C7.

Road: E81 - E31 - E33 - E35 - E37

Hair: C1 - C3 -C5
Cardigan: RV91 -RV93 - RV95 - RV99

Grass: YG97 - YG99.

Dance out in the autumn until next time.
I can almost promise that I will not use Mo Manning for my next post.
Love
Helen

Tall Cake

Hi there!
Helen here today showing you yet antother image from Mo Manning.
I can´t help it, I love her images.

The image is called Tall cake and it´s a digital stamp, so this time I printed it on Perfect Colouring Paper to be able to colour it.

I love to see the character become alive, so I often start with the skin, to make the image pop.

Skin: E000 - BV20 - E11 - E50.

This time I just wanted some shadows and highlights in this areas,
so I got a cold gray shade instead of a light blue on as I did here.

Cheeks: R00
Apron and bakers hat: C00 - C0 - C1 - C3 - Blender 0

I use to start moisturizing the part I´m going to colour with a light shade.
You can´t see a light area as E30, but it´s my first layer here.
Some might think it´s a waste of ink, but I got my ink to use,
and I believe it makes the transitions easier to create.

Cake: E30 -E31 - E33 - E35 - E37

Dress: BV10 - BV11 - BV15 - BV34

Hair: Y32 - E13 - E15

Icing: RV0000 - RV000 - RV02 - RV13
Tray: YR21 -YR23 - YR24
Outer glow from candles: Y00

Shoes: C3 - C5 - RV10 - RV13
Apron: RV13
Ground: W00 - W0 - W1 - W3 - W5

I finished my colouring  by making some bokeh effect,
to add some festivity to the image.

Bokeh:Y0000 - Y00, BV000 - BV00, BV0000 - BV10

Happy colouring till next time.
Love
Helen

 

End of Summer??!

Hi!
Helen here showing you a card (one image, two different scenes).
I used "End of Summer" by Mo Manning. I have it as a clear stamp through Stampavie.
And as you will see, it can be in the middle of Summer as well depending on how you color it.



I started by stamping my image on Perfect Coloring Paper with Memento ink.

Sketched in my background with C1.

Started with the sky, B0000.

I wanted a bright, colorful sky, so I went in with B24, which was a mistake.

Tried to get some shape, roundness in the cloud.
I used C00 - C0 - C1 - C3
For her skin I used E000 - BV20 - E11 - E50 - E04

The grass: YG03 - YG17 - T5
The sand: E31 - E33 - E35

Water: B32 - B41 - B45 - Gelly Roll Dark White

Hair: E07 - E19 - E29
Top: V0000 - V000 - V01 - C1
Jeans: B41 - B97 - B95 - B91
Flip flops: V000 - V1, C1 - C3
Flowers: Y17 - C1 - C3

This time I made a card out of my image because
I wasn´t pleased with the outcome of my coloring.
It was the color, B24, for the sky that I didn´t like.
But by cutting it down, I´m very pleased.

I started of with this background, this was what I had in mind.
But I struggled a bit and, when I did, I forgot to take photos.

Skin: E000 - BV20 - E50 - E11 - R00
Hair: Y00 - E53 - W3
Jeans; B91 - B93 - B95
Fence: C1 - C0 - Blender , and I have many layers with C1
Grass: YG21 - YG01 - YG17 - YG67
Background: YG21 - E30 - YG91 - YG93, Blender, Gelly Roll Dark White

So, does it feels like the end of the summer in the images?
I think not.

Happy colouring til next time!
Helen

Snow Fairy

Hello, hello, hello!
Helen here today.
Hope you all have had a nice time since last month.
Up here, in the north, the light is beginning to come back, and that is what has inspired me for my coloring today. A cold, frosty morning in the middle of February. Even if I myself prefer the darkness...

The image is from a clear stamp set called Snow Fairies from Penny Black, by Mo Manning.

As always, I stamped my image with Memento Ink on Perfect Coloring Paper.

I sketched in the background with C0.

I wanted a dreamy look, right there, when the first sunlight strikes you in the morning, when the color in the sky turns, so I started with R0000 - BV0000 along the edges and in the middle I put in Y0000 - B0000.
C5 defines the bottom of the snow brink, the snow got some B0000 - B000 - Y0000 and the water got some Y0000 - R0000. The snowball got B0000 - B91 - B000.

I wanted more depth in the sky so in the bottom of the red I went in with R00 and yet another layer of the other colors in the sky.

Shadows in the right C2.
Shadows to the left BV20.
The birches got the first layer E40.
The water got B41.

Next layer for the birches are E42.

Then I went in with Y0000 - R0000.
C2 for branches, and I wanted the trees on the right to be soft.

To make the birches to the left pop and come closer to the front I went in with C3 - C5, just scribbled. I outlined the trees and on the right side of them I left a part that didn´t got the outline because I wanted it to look like the sunlight hits the stem there.
To the right the ground/snow got some BV0000 - BG000.

Made some shadow for the fairy and footprints with B41 - B45 - B95.
The water got some B45.

I struggled with the water. 
The shades is: B41 - B45 - B93 - B95 - B97.

The skin color I used is E000 - R00.

Shadows BV20.

On top of that BV20 I layered E33, blended it with E11 and blendet that with E00.

Made some smaller trees to the left and scribbled in some grass with C5.
And I wanted a harder, darker shadow to the left so I went in  with B45.

The first layer for the pants is E81.

Went in with my darkest (I thought) color for the pants, E87.
And as the sun doesn´t hit the pants in the front, they will be dark.

Blended it with E84 - E81 and for some details I used E89.
The buttons got Y20 - YR23.
The hat got the same colors as the pants.
And the wings got the same as the background and I added B72 for some parts.

Used some Gelly  Roller Dark White to get some snow on the branches and to define some grass.

I asked a friend about my coloring and she came back with "the sky should be lined horizontal and not vertical". But that´s exactly what makes it look dreamy. And - in real life there are no fairies so I guess we could color a sky vertical as well as horizontal...
What do you think?

Love
Helen