I don't draw uncolorable dots or lines into my linework, but that doesn't mean that you can't go dot crazy if you want to. Feel free to embellish your colorings however you like. Sparklies, gel pens and little drawn details can be a lot of fun. I loved the way this coloring turned out so [...]
This picture really wanted to be colored in a wild mix of colors. The bright caterpillar green tones were especially fun to use. Once again, I lost track a bit when it came to taking progress photos, but I did manage to capture a shot that shows where I changed my mind and colored over [...]
Today's coloring started with a big mistake right at the very start. I had it all figured out how I was going to shade the corners of a few of these ribbons with a dark purple - but then I lost track of where I was in the pattern and ended up with shadows in [...]
All done - and I am so totally wowed by how this looks with the marker shading. Yes, I think I may need to keep shading for a while! It's slow, but the results are worth it. You may have noticed that this blog post is a little different. I'm trying out some fun new [...]
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 [...]