Pencil shading over markers

A strawberry card on someone else's blog (I was hopping...not sure where I saw it) reminded me I had this stamp from My Heart Stamps for You tucked away and inspired me to pull it out the other day. I miss strawberries here...we are actually able to get them but they are pitiful, small, and expensive, and I just can't bring myself to buy them. So I stamp them. Fair enough!

Here is a close-up on the main image:

I thought it might be fun to at least document my steps in layering Prismacolor pencil over the Neopiko markers, so here is a bit of my process, though probably not a very helpful tutorial...I started off with solid colors like this, imagining the lightest color that might be seen in a highlighted spot...

Next I added a little colored pencil around the image and blended with odorless mineral spirits, using a blending stump.

The next step was adding some shading with a darker green on the leaves, then blending:

Next I added darker red to the strawberries, and blended again. After blending, I shaded again with a darker burgundy, and blended the two shades together.The final step was adding white highlights, first with a pencil and then with a gel pen.Here is the final card. The saying is from Impression Obsession...I love all their "sweet" sayings.