23

Apr
Tonight on Ustream, at 8pm EDT, I'll be coloring the digi stamp Sway Mae LIVE! You can ask me questions Live as well as chit chat and have some fun! One little caveat, I came down with come sort of chest cold on Monday and my voice has been in and out. Its good now but if its out tonight I'll have to call it off or pull a silent color along. We'll see how the day goes! Here is our Color List...

16

Apr
YAY! We are back! Last week we were off for Spring Break (and crazy children) but this week on Ustream we're back together at 1pm EDT and we'll be coloring the Digi Stamp Boy's Best Friend Tobie. I remember drawing this digi... I was on the plane home from my first CHA (attended, not showed at) and pretty much out of it on dramamine. Turned out pretty well for all of that don't you think? I...

15

Apr
So? How did you fare from our last lesson? I wanted to give you some time to work on the shapes before showing you anything. Thinking and doing gets you further than copying and not understanding :derp: On the shapes homework, you should have ended up with something like this for and upper right Linear Light Source... Not too hard right? Good! In the first lesson I had you look at...

08

Apr
Hey everyone! Spring break is slowing everything down around here but Color Swatch rolls on! If you're just joining in, bi-weekly I have a new color combo and comparison for you in both Copic Markers and Spectrum Noirs. I also have some downloadable swatches so make sure to check them all out and see what you missed. This week I have a second skin color combo to share with you, hop back to...

02

Apr
Its Color Along day! Or should I say night? its our 8pm EDT edition of our Wednesday Live Color Along. Tonight, Live on Ustream, I'll be coloringthe Digi Stamp Kitty Tia from Some Odd Girl stamps. I spiffy'd up the Color Along logo a bit, what do you think? I'm going with a springy ginger kitty tonight so here's our Color List... Hair: YR 20, YR12, E08, E15, E17Skin: YR000, YR00, E11,...

01

Apr
Welcome to Part 2 of my Light Source Basics Series. In the last post I defined some basic terms and challenged you to break down your images into simple shapes.If you're just joining in here, each post is going to build upon the last one so hop back and give a read then come on back. Starting Small For these very basic tutorials I am going to be talking about Linear Linear light, the...

26

Mar
Accept no substitutes or imitations :derp: This week we will be coloring the Digital Stamp, 1920s Gwen, Live on Ustream at 1pm EDT! She's sweetly vintage so that's the look I'm hoping to achieve with her. Here's this weeks Color List: Skin: E50, E51, E21, R00, R01, R12Hair: E40, E41, E42, E43Eyes: BG10, BG11, BG45Clothes: 0, E40, E41, B32, B34, B37Shadows: W2, W3, W5 I will update this...

25

Mar
Welcome to the second edition of Color Swatch! Last time I shared with you a basic light skin combination using both Copic Markers and Spectrum Noirs. This week I'm going to share with you a basic Blonde hair combo For each of these colorings I used Copic XPress It paper and compared colors until I came up with 2, 5 color blends that were really similar. Each has 4 colors and 1 for a shadow...

19

Mar
Hi Everyone! Tonight we have a desert date for our Color Along... well I'm going to assume you'd already had dinner by then. Either way grab a treat and join me at 8pm Live on Ustream while we color the Fox from the Clear Stamp set Hipster Pets from Some Odd Girl! Here's tonights color list: Fur: E40, E41, E43, YR12, YR14, E07, E08, E17, W2, W3, W5Shadows: BV20, BV23 Well we have a lot of...