Santa rides a bike

 Hi!
Helen here today.

These are busy days for Santa.
He rides a bike today to deliver presents and christmascards for loved ones.
As I have some bikers around me I couldn´t resist this stamp.

I hope you´ll enjoy the video and get some inspiration to get some colouring done yourself today.

You´ll find the stampset here.
Happy colouring til next time!

Santa by the Fireplace

Hi.
Helen here today.
I could colour Santas all year long so now I´m in heaven. I love the ones that are a bit quirky and not perfect. I found this one, Naught or Nice stamp set from Polka Doodles and I wanted to place him by the fireplace as I laid my eyes on him. Hope you´ll enjoy the video.

The colours I used are now included in the movie.

Until next time: Happy colouring!

Helen

Christmas is Coming

Hello everyone

Also this year for the month of December I created a post that represent Christmas.

Tutorial:

Drawing with Copic multi-liner

R000, RV93, RV52 and E02 for the complexion

E41, E43 and BG11 for the hair

R35, R59, YG01, YG23 and YG67 for the plant in your hair

 

Y000, Y02, Y17 and Y28 for the stars.

Y000, YG01 and Y28 for the eyes. C0 for the shadow in the eyes

For the scarf : Y000, Y17, YG23, E41 and E43

YG01, YG23 and YG67 for the sweater

After using a white gel pen, this is the final result

Thanks for watching and merry Christmas to everyone

Bye bye

Antonella

Gnome for Christmas

Hi!
Helen here today!

When I see this little gnome uncoloured, I see an Irish one, with green clothes, read hair and beard.
But I wanted him to fit in to my colour preferences so I made other choices for my colouring.

Moon: Y000 - BV0000 - Y0000 - BV000
Path: B0000

Sky: B91 - B93 - B95 - B97

Pine trees: BG75 - BG09 - BG96 - BG99 - G29 - T7
Snow: B52 - B45 - B41

Skin: E000 - BV20 - E11 - R02
Hair and beard: W1 - W00
Top hat, vest and shoes: R35 - R37 - R89, C3 - C0
Pants: C3 - C5 - C7
Sack: E31 - E35 - E37
Leaves: G24 - YG67
Bell: Y21 - Y26
Snail: E70 - E74, YG91 - YG93
Pitchfork: C3 - E70 - E71 - E74

I didn´t make a blizzard because the moon is up and you can see the stars.

Wish you a bright colourful day!

Love
Helen

Santa's Watching

Hi! Helen here today

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Christmas is coming! Have finished your Christmas cards? I will show you a Santa today. I bought the stamp on Facebook so I don´t know the brand but I love it!!



As I always do, I stamped the image on Perfect Coloring Paper used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad.

I sketched in my background with C0.

House: E23
Fence: E79
Snow: C1

Sky: B93 - B95 - B97
Trying to get it to glow from the house.

House: E29 - E25
Window: Y21 - Y15 - Y17 - YR14
Glow on the roof: Y21 - Y17
Glow on the fence: Y21
Snow: B91

Road: B41
Shadow in snow: C3 - Blender

Road: B45
Snow: C3 - C2 - Blender

Road: C3 - C2
Footprints: B45 - B97
Pine trees: C7
Snow: B70

Skin: E000 - BV20

Skin: E11 - R02

Sweater and woolen cap: R05

Sweater and woolen cap: R35

Sweater and woolen cap: R89 - R37, C3 - C1 - C5, Blender
Glow: Y21

Gloves and boots: C3 - C7 - C5
Pants: E23 - E29 - E25
Socks: C1 - C3 - R37
Beard: W0 - W3 - W1
Lantern: C3 -C7 - C5, Y21 - Y17 - YR14 - YR04

Road: B95 - B97

Here you got some options.
Just leave it as it is.
Make a bright stary night sky.
Or...

Just cover the whole image with snow.
It´s perfect if there are parts in your colouring that didn´t end up as you wanted it. Just remember to break some lines, and in front of your subject. I usually don´t put snow in the face of my image.

I made some snow just because I love when it snows. Snow comes with peace as it never is otherwise.
I made the snow with a Gelly Roll Dark White pen. 

Hope Santa will pay you a visit before we´ll meet again.
I wish you all a Happy Colourful Christmas.

Love
Helen

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Furry Christmas Bears

Hi Everyone, it's Rosi here :) Today, I'm sharing a Tutorial on how I colour Fur.

I've chosen to color a stamp by Lili of the valley Noel Teds

I'm going to show you 3 ways of fur coloring.

First I covered the whole of the image which would be textured fur

with the colorcombo starting with my lightest color to my darkest color and then the opposite - from dark to light.

My color combo for bears 1 and 3 from left to right is E0000, 30, 31, 33, 37.

Color combo for bears 2 and 4 W0, 2, 3 ,5.

Color combo for bear 5 is E50, 51, 53, 55, 57.

At last I alter the coloured teddy's fur: Therefore I need the blender marker and a piece of rough microfiber cloth or some other textured fabric.

I'll do this to bears 2 and 5.

I apply some blender fluid to the cloth and press it onto the coloured fur. Depending on the amount of the blender and long the contact with the paper is you'll reach different effect on the fur's structure. You need some exercise to predict the result.

Second way to color fur is adding dots to the colored image. I made the first one and the third one this way. I'm starting with the darkest colour I've used doing further in the middle of the image from dark to light.

The last one i called longhair bear. Again from dark to light with strokes exactly the way i usually color hair on my images.

The hats are colored with R20, 22, 24, 27 and R29. The holly leaves - G21, 43, 94, 99.

So that's all from me today.

Which furry bear do you like the most?

Until next time

Rosi

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