Dreams and Wishes

Hi, I'm Cristina Valenzuela.

Again a card for Copic Blog Europe. This is always an honor, but also a great responsibility ... So when I have to make a card for Copic Europe I try to take the best of me.

Painting with Copic is always constant evolution, I will never stop learning. 

One of the reasons why I colored this stamp of Saturated Canary is to compare with the same stamp, colored by me two years ago.

This will encourage me to many students, it's practice.

The Copic colors I used are:

tail: BG10, BG11, BG23, BG49.

hair: V01, V06, V12, RV66.

skin: E11, E00, E000 and chest: E93.

background: BG10

shell: E93, E97.

I'll be back here soon, thanks for reading ...
Happy weekend!

White dress

Hi everyone,

Åsa here today with a little copic inspiration for you.

I rarely colour white, except for snow on my Christmas cards. So I thought it was about time.

When I colour white I usually use W- or N-grey´s. But you can also use ligt versions of blue, green or pink.

A tip is to remember that no space is actually 'white' in real.

I have used an image from C.C.Design together with gorgeous green papers from Pion Design.

All edges are coloured with distress ink pad.

I have used the following colours:

Skin: E11-21-00-000-R20-11

Hair: E49-74-71-70

Clothes: W3-1-0-Blender

Flowers: RV99-95-93-91

Grass: BG99-82-G24-21-YR03

Sky: BG000-0000-Blender

Have a wonderful summer.

Soul Summoning

Hello dear Copic lovers!

My name is Yunuyei and today I'll present you my first entry here.

This is my interpretation of the Indian death goddess Kali.

She will be a character in my Manga/Doujinshi/Comic Hell's Kitchen.

At first I started with a digital concept sketch.

It helps a lot  because mistakes are difficult to correct when you're working with Copics.

Here you can see some WIP-pictures (Work in process).

In the end I added some glow effects with Photoshop

Copic used:

Skin: E53,E33, E31, Y11, Y00, BV31, BV20

Black: C9, C7, N9, N7, N5,BV25, BV23

Skulls: W5, W3, BV23, Y00

Red: R46,R43, R37, R35, R32, R27,Bv25, BV23

Background: V99, V095, BV25, BV23, W5, E74, E70. E04

Sky: V95, BV23, RV91, RV11,R32, R12, V12, BG000, B000, YR20, YR01, YR00, E51, E00

Jewelry: Y28, BV25, Y00

Scythe: BV24, BV23, C5, C3. E40, E47, E44

Magic: G43,G21, G20, G00, G000 ,YG11, YG03, YG00, YG0000, Y21, Y04, Y00

Multiliners in different colors and opaque white

I hope you like my first entry.

If you interested in drawing skies you can take a look at my tutorials :

Sky, Rain and Snow Tutorial (German)

Sky Tutorials (English)

Regards,

Yunu

A hold fashioned boy

Hi everyone!
 

Franz again here with some copic colouring and a Mo Manning image...I've chosen a little man today:

He's too cute and I love his old fashioned outfit; I thought that a delicate colouring would be perfect for him :)

 

 

Papers are from Maja Design and embellishments from The Ribbon Girl.

 

 Here is the complete list of Copics markers I've used:

 Skin:
 E0000-E000-E00-E11
+R20 for cheecks;
 

 Hair:
 E50-E53-E35;

Outfit:
Grey: W1-W2-W3-W5
Blue: B0000-B91-B93-B95-B97

Floor-Grass:
YG69-YG63-G24-G12;

Background:
Prismacolor Pencils
 

thanks for watching,
 I hope you liked it :)

Franz.

Caligirl

Hi everyone,

It's Deborah from Belgium here and I'm so excited!

Can someone please pinch me???

Today it's my very first post as a Copic Marker Europe DT-member and it feels great!

Last week I fell in love with this beautiful digital stamp from "Hannah Lynn".

I think her style of art is great and I love to color hair, guess I'm not the only one.

I love to use some bright colors and papers in my cards, so here they are.

The papers are from Authentique.

Pink and the turquoises are my favourite Copic colors!

I had so much fun to color her skin and her hair!

Here are the colors that I've used:

Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000

Blush: R22, 20

Lips: R35, 22, 20

Eye's: BG49, 13, 11, W3, 1

Hair: E29, 25, 23, 21

Sky: B00, 000

Pink clothes: RV69, 66, 63

Turquoise: BG49, 13, 11

I hope you enjoyed my first post on this blog. 

 Have a great day!

Deborah

MIAOW......

Hello Copic fans. Here is Sandra and to celebrate this month of July, I propose you a card out of my usual projects. 

For this time I abandoned the romantic scheme , delicate and refined for a project very,very sexy and transgressive .

I must confess that I have a strong passion for cats and for Copic , of course...and I can not decide which of the two passions is the strongest..LOL.

So when I saw this picture of Sureya  a very sexy cat girl ,  I could not resist !!

I could express my two passions together! The picture is called "Patch" because this girl has a dress (very mini) built with many-many patches.

I chose to color the dress with different shades of BG family to not distract attention from the image which , in my opinion , is really beautiful. 

Though I must admit I'm already thinking about a different coloring, a multicolors patches  version.

I let myself be inspired by the magnetism that exudes the character and the color is coming... 

Then I chose the shades of gray from C family  to color the tail and ears and for the hair I opted instead for the strong colors and a little aggressive that in my opinion are a perfect match to all the colors and image.

Finally I colored the little seams that hold together the patches  with grey  Multiliner 0.1, a marker ideal for use with our coloring with Copic. A must-have!

Considering that the cat-girl shows a very strong personality I chose to realize the card in Steampunk style , so as to make it all a bit more aggressive .

The patterns are from Fancy Paints and My Mind's Eye that I die cut with the Go Kreate dies, metal embellishments are from Tim Holtz and Artemio, the sentiment is a stamp of Technique Thusday.

I really enjoyed to make this project very different from the usual standard, and I hope you enjoyed it too!

Copic used:

Skin:E 50-51-11-95

Eye: G00-02

Dress:BG07-05-02-01-000

Hair:E11-13-15-17-19

Fur:C00-1-3-5- R20-22

Bells: YR23-21-20

Copic multiliner Grey 0.1

Earth Colours

Hello there!

Here is Vili from Bulgaria. 

Today I'm gonna show you my first card for Copic Marker Europe. I wanted it to be something really special. I love stamps with clothes with many folds so I chose Mo's Digital Pencil "Wiz". I adore all the earth colours and that's why I coloured the image mostly with "E-colours".

Here's a closer look:

The beard of the wizard looks grey but it is in sand tones.

No matter which colour I paint with I always use W7 or W9 in order to strengthen the folds:

Copic Markers used: 

Skin: E11, E50, E51, E93

Beard: E40, E41, E42, E43, W3

Robe: E81, E84, E87, E89, W7

Hat: E70, E71, E74, E77, E79

Crystal Ball: B60, B63, W3

Background: E50, E51, E53, E55, W3, W5, Colourless blender

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!
Vili xxxx

World of colors from Daria Myagkikh

Hello everybody,

My name is Daria Myagkikh and I was so lucky to be invited to join this fabulous design team.

This is my first entry for our blog and I decided to dedicate it to my absolute passion - coloring. :) 

I created a background with the watercolors (just had fun splashing around).

Than it was time for my adored Copic Markers! The digi stamp "Jo painting" by Mo Maning was one of the best images to implement my idea - simple card with the self-portrait. :)

The key numbers for image are:

            Skin  - E000, E01, E11, E50, R11 (for cheeks)
           Hair  - E53, E44, E47, E49, E79                  
           Jeans - B91, B93, B95, B99                          
           T-short - R32, R35, R46                                    
          Shoes and brushes - E53, E44, E47, E49, E39                                          

           Sketchbook - E53, E34, E37                                                

           Glass and bracelets - Y00, Y21, Y35                                                        
            Water - B0000, B000, C0                              
           Walls and Floor - C0, C3, C5, C8                                                

I cut all details out, add some ranger stickles on T-short + bracelets and glossy accents on glass with water and mason jar.

To change the color of the sentiment I also used copic marker.

The alphabet itself was beige so I colored it with E99 for more brownish effect.

So all details were prepared - the only thing that was left is to gather it all together in one card. :)

Hope you will find it inspiring and we will see your projects soon... for example in our current challenge over here

Wishing you a great day and very creative mood!

Daria M :)

( this post is posted today by mistake, should be here on Saturday 28 June)

airbrushed canvas

Hi Miranda again.

Today I have a canvas to share. 

First I coloured this fabulous image by Aurora Wings. 

Copics I used are:

BV00,17, 25, 29

V17, 15, 05, 09

RV0000, 63,17, 19, 32

B02, 99,95, 93,79

YG03, 17

E000, 01,02,13,17

Then I glued the images on my canvas and started adding a lot of embellies, flowers, leaves , metal items, wooden items  and rhinestones. I also used some stencils with modling paste in the background (e.g. Bubbles by Dutch Doobadoo). I glued everyting down with gel medium and after it dried it I coloured it white with gesso. Had to add two layers to cover alle the colours underneath. So don't worry about matching the colours for your embellies...you are going to paint them white anyway, so a good chance to use all the ones you still have lying around in the wrong colours, isn't it.

When dried I coloured the flowers and other embellies with the airbrush and my copics. Using a few of  colours as I used  for the image. 

For the finishing touch I brushed some inka gold (purple and golden) over de embellies to give them a extra shine. 

have a fabulous day

and if you have any questions about this technique, just pop me an email or leave me a comment

Miranda

Coloring Curls- Tutorial

Hi, I'm Elizabeth. So happy to be here at CME! I want to show you a way to color frizzy curly hair with Copic Markers. I love curly hair, but it can be hard sometimes. I found this is a way to do it. The trick is to use very light moves with the tip of your marker. 

I chose this beautiful image, Mothersday- daughter by Saturated Canary. I colored the skin first to make sure the chosen hair colors matched. 

Copic Markers I will use for the hair is: E49-59-39-35-33

 Start with your darkest marker E49. Use the tip of your maker to make the curls. You can practice on a scrap piece of paper to get the movements right. Make very light swirls, barely touching the paper. I'm careful to follow the artists drawings when coloring, starting near her face and coloring towards the tip of the hair. On the right picture you can se the strokes I made.

 Next, repeat the movements using your second darkest marker E59. As you can see I leave some white space between the strokes, filling it marker by marker, so the strokes have to be very thin.

I repeat the swirling moments over her whole hair. 

 Then I go over again with E39. Filling the white spaces, but make sure you don't cover it all. 

Go over again using E35 and E33. Be sure to leave some white space here and there.

Finally I go over one last time with the darkest marker, E49 to make shadows under her cheeks to make the curls pop. And finally the lightest marker, E33, to fill inn just a little more of the white spaces. Keep using the swirl movements.

Time to finish up the rest of the image and make a card.

Copic Markers used: 

Skin: E13-15- 21-53-50, R20, Eyes: B97-93-91

Daughers hair: E49-59-39-35-33

Mothers hair: Y21-26, YR24, E 23-25-29

Dress: B97-95-93-91

Mothers clothes: W7-3-1-00, V99-95-93-91

Flowers: G82-94, V99-95-91, V06, W7-3-01-00, Y38

Paper: B91-B60, W3
I used Copic Opaque White to make the dots on her skirt. 

 Here' s the finished card. The beautiful papers are by Maja Design, I used a Spellbinder floral oval, swirl by Memorybox and a Martha stewart punch for the butterfly edges. Flowers are WOC, Sentiment by Norsk Stempelblad and postmark stamp is Kort og Godt.

Hope you like my tutorial. Good luck coloring curls!
Crafty hugs, 

 

  

I've Flipped for you!

Hello Hello Copic Lovers!
 

Franz from Italy here again with some copic inspiration...
I've a new Mo Manning funny image to share with you all today:

Really too fun, doesn't she?

 

I realized a cas card for her using some bright papers and strasses here and there:

Papers are from Magnolia and Echo Park;

I used a Dutch Doobadoo mask  (Stars) to create the stars here and there.

 Here is the complete list of Copics markers I've used:

 Skin:
 E0000-E000-E00-E11
+R20 for cheecks;

 Hair:
 E50-E51-E35;

Outfit:
White-Grey: W1-W2-W3-W5
Blue: B0000-B91-B93-B95-B97
Yellow-Orange: E08-Y02-E00-E0000;

Tools:
C1-C3-C5-C7;

Floor:
W1-W3-W5-W7;
 

thanks for stopping by,
 I hope you liked it :)

Franz.