Meditation

Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #12

I have a tendency to end up with a lot of contrast and strong colours when I’m colouring on auto-pilot with my Copic markers: the rabbit in the rain is a good example. Don’t get me wrong, I do love that style of colouring, it’s just that some subjects call for a more subtle approach.

This is one such image — a calm scene with translucent lotus flowers and leaves floating over the top of the meditating girl — so I put down the dark markers and aimed for a more delicate feel. I think it worked quite well.

Copic markers:

skin – E00, E21, V20
hair – E41, E42, E43, YR30
clothes – BV02, BV31
flowers – RV21, RV000, W1, Y04
leaves – YG01, YG03
background – BG10, BG11

Polychromos pencils:

skin – 189 cinnamon
hair – 177 walnut brown, 178 nougat
clothes – 137 blue violet

Supplies:

• digital stamps:
  The East Wind – Aurora what matters
• dies:
  Marianne Design – ATC
• pens & pencils:
  Stabilo All graphite
• embellishments:
  Tim Holtz Idea-ology – metallic stickers – quotations
  Forever in Time glitter foil silhouette stickers – pennant garlands 2
• paper and card:
  Neenah Solar White 216gsm
  black card

This image was coloured for day 12 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge on 26 June 2019