Saturday, July 11, 2009

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.post signature

13 comments:

  1. I hope you get some good tropical fruits to make up for your lack of strawberries. :)

    Your card is beautiful. I'm looking forward to trying your technique when I add more colors to my alcohol marker collection.

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  2. love this card you did great with the coloring
    Hugs
    Norine

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  3. What a fantastic card!!! Thanks for the step-by-step.....very cool! Wow, the berries look so real! Love the entire design of your card....beautiful!!!

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  4. This is awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing this...I never knew how you could color in such amazing way! :-D

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  5. This is one sweet card! Loved seeing your coloring process, thanks for sharing the pics of how you do your magic!

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  6. Beautiful!!!!!!
    Thank you...

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  7. Dina, this is beautiful. I love strawberries!!!!
    Thanks for the tutorial! I love my Prismacolors, but I think that my mineral spirits have lost their blending ability. Is that possible? They are several years old. There is a stamp show this weekend and I will get some more.

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  8. your coloring & shading with 2 items is truly a work of art; do you practise often?

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  9. I don't think I have ever come across a tutorial that taught how to use markers and pencils blended together. This is fabulous and I will have to give this a try. You've been bookmarked. hehehehe TFS

    Cherie

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  10. Your tutorial is wonderful, and the coloring is absolutely outstanding! I am going to give this a go- God Bless You!!!

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  11. Thank you so much for sharing your technique with us! Your coloring is fabulous!

    Remember~
    He IS Able,
    Traci S.

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  12. Your strawberries and leaves look real! Great tutorial and anxious to get out my very few pencils and try them again.

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