Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #26 I’ve reached that point in the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge where the colour-picking bit of my brain is starting to struggle; I am trying hard to avoid falling back on standard colour choices, especially for critters. My first instinct for this was to do a ginger kitty,… Continue reading Horace & Boo
Author: Crafty Rat
Textured flowers
And we were back with Anneliese Bates (Instagram) for the last week of the Wanderlust "floral" theme. I'd seen people mention using glue guns to create stencils before but the technique never made it anywhere near the top of my "things I must try" list. Although I have managed to shake off the worst of… Continue reading Textured flowers
SuperCoffeeGirl
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #25 I took one look at this, the next digi in the pile, and immediately decided that I needed some bright colours. The last few art cards have been quite dark and I wanted to liven things up a bit. It's a scarf around her neck, not a cape,… Continue reading SuperCoffeeGirl
Chinese lanterns
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #24 As with all Power Poppy digis, all you have to do to make them look good is to follow the shading hints on the images. Adding extra highlighting along the edges with coloured pencil really helped emphasise the shaping. The trickiest part of this art card was trying… Continue reading Chinese lanterns
Bunnies in grass
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #23 I've coloured this digi once before, but that time I used my Inktense pencils. I want to like this Copic version more than I do and the really annoying thing is that I'm not quite sure what's wrong with it. Up close, I like it, but from a… Continue reading Bunnies in grass
Night fairy
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #22 Another Faery Ink digi and I thought that I would have a go at making this into a nighttime scene for a change — the last third of the colouring challenge really does make me think about ways to do things a little differently, which is good for… Continue reading Night fairy
Cute bunny
And following quickly on the heels of my brother's birthday comes an easier birthday to make for. Easier because this is one birthday — my other half's sister — where I can repeat the general theme without worrying that it won't be appreciated. Bunnies! And this is a particularly cute bunny. I did the colouring… Continue reading Cute bunny