These ducks are quite ridiculous. But such fun to colour, and those big eyes just begged to have a layer of glossy accents over them.
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Tag Archives: critter
Wolf, fox and bear
It’s always fun to see different styles of images and these forest animals are unlike any others I’ve seen. I kept the colouring simple, adding some basic texturing to the fur and giving them a grassy patch to sit on.
Penguins tag
This blog post is a little bit different from my usual card write-ups. Towards the end of last year Create A Smile put out a call for card tutorials for a winter mini-magazine they were planning. I made a card, wrote it up and sent it in and then, I guess, life happened and the magazine didn’t. But, rather than just do my usual quick blog post for the card, I thought I might as well publish the tutorial in full. So here we go: winter penguins in June.
Elephant & kite
When it comes to interactive cards, the trickiest thing for me is coming up with a design that makes good use of the movement — I don’t want to add moving parts just for the sake of it. Then I had the idea of having a kite floating in the sky.
Clean and simple fox
Like the dragons, this fox was coloured for the critters lesson in Sandy Allnock’s Copic Jumpstart class and I am really happy with the fur texture I managed to create. It is possible to get really fine lines with a Copic marker, but you do need a very light hand to do it…
Meerkats
This was made for my neighbour. Some people like bunnies, some people like cats or dogs, and some people, like my neighbour, love meerkats. In fact, making this card for her was the main reason for picking up this stamp set.
Baby dragons
These baby dragons are just too adorable. They were created as homework for the critters lesson in a Copic course, but it wasn’t fair to leave them languishing in my PHD box for too long. So I created a blended Distress ink background for them (love that wilted violet) and sat them on a sentiment banner.
