I stayed up way too late tonight coloring, so let's just enjoy the photos. :) My comfort level with marker shading continues to grow as I slow color this piece, and I keep wondering what I might be able to do in future colorings with all of my other marker shades. It's like there's a [...]
So far I've used 12 different marker shades in this picture, and each little shape has been colored with 3 to 4 shades. I don't like having identical colored shapes side by side. But shaded shapes that are very close in color each have enough difference to them that I don't mind repeating shaded colors [...]
I'm still rather amazed that I've added so much shading to some of my recent colorings. You should see my stack of half finished shade pieces from all of the times I pushed myself beyond my interest and just had to bail out mid-picture. And then all of a sudden it seems like no big [...]
I'm finding it helpful to make a practice of disconnecting from expectations about how long it "should" take for me to color a picture - and that has done so much to increase my comfort with shading. Once there is a comforting foundation of ease, and acceptance of things taking however long they may take, [...]
I don't really have any plan for which colors are going to go where in this piece. One things that's so nice about coloring abstract patterns is that they tend to be perfectly happy with all kinds of color schemes. I'm basically sticking with a few different color pairs right now, but there is quite [...]
My last shaded coloring was so relaxing that I figured I'd shade another one. This time I'll be edging shapes with one shade and then lightly coloring over with a second tone. This kind of shading works best for me when I make a point to enjoy how slow it can be. For me, that [...]
As a fellow colorist, I understand completely how much time and thought and energy goes into coloring a detailed drawing. And I also understand how there may be a time or two that you have to deal with someone who makes it their mission to be unpleasant about your art. It's probably not something that [...]
(A few recycled thoughts from a conversation with my Facebook group yesterday.) It's always refreshing and reassuring to go back and color from one of my earliest books. So many societal influences promote the belief that our beginning efforts hold less value than our more mature efforts. Schooling and workplace cultures focus on progress as [...]
In today's coloring, I'm back to using markers again - this time coloring from Whimsy (Angie's Patterns - Volume 2). Marker coloring is a real comfortable style of coloring for me - so this is really nice after spending the past week working on my colored pencil shading skills. It's always fun to revisit my [...]
All done! Seven hours of coloring over seven days - which was a really great way to spread out all of the shadings. (I tend to lose interest if I go overboard with shading, but spreading things out in such an unhurried manner kept it fun.) I could have left the background white at this [...]