The flowery hare featured here is my first completed work of Hanna Karlzon’s coloring book Daydreams. I am especially happy with how I colored the fur of the hare and would like to share my technique with you. I decided that this hare is going to be a greyish-brown color with some orange color accents. In…
Articles from March 2017
Using watercolor on coloring books
Watercolor is my favorite art medium. I especially like the beautiful effect of dropping different colors into wet paper. This is how I colored the background of this gorgeous illustration by Daria Song in the book Time Chamber. Daria Song described in her Instagram posts that she likes to apply watercolor on her background and then…
Creating bokeh effect using colored pencils
Bokeh is a special effect in photography. It is an out of focus blur. For the March coloring card that I designed for the Creative Scrapbooker magazine, I created this bokeh effect using colored pencils in the background and I would like to show you how I did it. Bokeh as background I remembered being fascinated when I…