So today was Secret Santa. Aside from presents, we’d all decided to make each other something and what better opportunity for me to whip out my pencils and color a friend a cute and whimsical bookmark?!
Whimsical bookmark
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Latte Kitty
When I was flipping through Imaginary Friends by Karolina Kubikowska, my eye kept being drawn to this adorable scene, even though I’m positively TERRIFIED of coloring people- I’ve never successfully colored hair or skin before. But as it kept calling to me, I impulsively decided to bite the bullet and tear this page out so I could color it!
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Halloween Ornaments
This originally started as a salvage mission: the page had gotten damaged by some washi tape in the top and bottom left corner, but then became something more!
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Pumpkin Portrait
This gorgeous page comes from Halloween by Hanna Karlzon and was one of the main reasons I had to get this book the minute it came out! I followed a tutorial on neocolor II’s for the background and used my Black Widow and Castle Arts Harmonious colored pencils for the portrait.
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Spring Fawn
This marked my first time working with masking fluid and unfortunately- it wasn’t a huge success. The paper tore quite a bit after trying to gently remove the fluid and that made coloring way harder. Having said that: I’m positively STOKED that I managed to salvage the image and turned it into this lovely colored piece!