As I was finishing up my last coloring (the all graphite pencil picture) I was also doing a lot of sketchpad drawing. And in the middle of all of the gray tones on my sketchbook pages, all of a sudden little dabs of color started to sneak in. Part of that color play was with [...]
All of these colors and textures were from a single soft leaded graphite pencil. No blending or smudging this time, just variations in coloring pressure. Today's coloring progress slideshow: Today's book: Nifty (A Coloring Journal) Colored with: Mitsubishi Hi-Uni graphite pencil (10b hardness) I finished this coloring picture just in the nick [...]
Today's coloring progress slideshow: Today's book: Nifty (A Coloring Journal) Colored with: Sakura Gelly Roll metallic gel pens. Colored with these Sakura Gelly Roll metallic gel pens
Coloring with a single soft graphite pencil today. :) Today's coloring progress slideshow: Today's book: Nifty (A Coloring Journal) Colored with: Mitsubishi Hi-Uni graphite pencil (10b hardness) __________ From this morning's Facebook post: Good morning everyone! My sketchbook work tends to go through cycles. Sometimes everything is drawn with neat, smooth lines and [...]
I'm journal coloring today, or more accurately - coloring a really sparklie and motivating "to do" list page for myself. Over the next few days the lined part of this journal page is going to fill up with scrawled notes, cross outs and other messy markings as assorted trivia of daily life gets figured out [...]
All done, and I'm entirely pleased with this one. But this is probably a really good time to flip through my books and find a page or two that color a bit quicker, or I'm never going to get my Christmas cards sent out in time! Today's coloring progress slideshow: Today's book: Baubles [...]
Intense red shades add a lovely Christmas feel to a coloring. I think that combining lighter and darker shades of red on the jewels in this design really added a lot to the overall mood. They hint at sparkle and glimmer and remind me of the look of decorative lights on a tree. As a [...]
Today's coloring pictures show you the two tone shading that I used for the dark chocolate and mint candy chips on my frosted gingerbread cookie. Adding candy after candy color to this page starts to make the eye and mind expect to see candy everywhere - so it's fine if things aren't exactly true to [...]
Whoopsie! Flashback time. I've been trying to get a little ahead with my coloring photos, and yesterday assembled two photo slide shows. I know that a lot of you are used to me spacing out and forgetting what day of the week it is - but this time I'd like to present coloring progress day [...]
Gingerbread cookie coloring still. In today's slideshow you can see more of the "white" frosting that was colored using two extremely pale beige tones to give the white some frosted contour. Today's coloring progress slideshow: Today's book: Baubles (Angie's Patterns - Volume 4) Colored with: Copic Sketch Markers. ____________ From my Facebook post: [...]