Some night scene

I wanted to practices some night scenery and how the shadows look at night. So I took this page in "Vinterdrömmar" by Hanna Karlzon and got to work.

• Firstly I colored the whole thing with a blue Chameleon Pen (BV4 Blue Violet Pen). I left a small strip of white on everything that was facing the moon to make it look like it was moon reflection.

• Then I started to color everything with the color I wanted it to have. Keep in mind when doing this that orange and yellow on blue will become green and red will become a sort of brownish purple and so on.

• I wasn't very careful keeping inside the lines when coloring as this was just a practices page. However the final result look pretty soft at the end I think. probably because there wasn't so many strict lines :)

• The shading was then done with the same blue marker (BV4) and I shaded mostly on the parts that was furthest away from the moon and those parts that was hidden or obscured.

• The snow and stars where made lastly with my UinBall White pen.

Hope you like it! :)

More from "vinterdrommar" (winterdreams) coloring book

 

Here is a ginger bread house before and after shading. Even though I like them both I always prefer a pic with shadows. It makes the pic more interesting I think. I used Chameleon pens for the most part and the some Faber Castel brush pens for the shadows. I dont know if you can se the structure on the house to the right? I made that with just one color of Chameleon pens. First just a cuple of smoth layers and then added a third layer with the same pen (BR2 Hot Cocoa) just makeing dots.

I also made this quick Christmas card. I wanted to give the feel of gold and silver without using gold and silver pens. It turned out quite well :) This one is made with chameleons as well.

As you can see I am a fan of traditional colors. I do admire those who can use whatever color they like and still make the picture look fantastic I am just not one of them :) Not yet anyway. I will work on it :D

Vinterdrömmar

I bought the adult coloring book "Vinterdrömmar" (winter dreams) by Hanna Karlzon just five days ago and I have already colored six of the pages :)

This is the first one I made. I know I sad it before but I just LOVE the gradations and blending you can make with the Chameleon pens!
And of course I had to make some details and bling whit my white pen.

This is what the book looks like:

Pens pens pens!

I thought I would show you the pens I use when i color

First of we have the ones from Faber Castell (my favorites). There is also a bigger pack of these ones that I am hoping santa will bring to me :)



Secondly, my newest pens. Chameleon pens. I wrote about them in a previous entry here. They are along with the brush pens above, impossible for me to live with out :D



And here it is! The white uniball pen! I have equal parts of love and hate for this pen.
When it works; awesome! When i dosen't work; I want to crawl down in a hole and die



And oifcourse I have hundreds of thousends of black pens and pencils in differnet shapes and sizes (no, I am not exaggerating...)






And from time to time when i draw I also use paints. Watercolor, acrylics and gouache.

Pirate ship

I wanted to make a night picture with a sunset. I like the sky but the sunset looks like crap. Need to practis on that :)

Anyway. Here is a pirateship. It is about 12cm x 17cm. Made with Faber Castell Pitt brush pens and Chameleon pens. And of course my beloved white UniBall pen :

Christmas card

Made this little piece as a Christmas card. It is only about 12cm x 12cm big.
I used the chameleon pens and a gold pen to color it. The pic I found on pinterest. There was only the pic no link to where to find it. So if anyone knows where I can find this one and similar ones pleas let me know.

Treasure chest

There is this group on facebook that I recently became a member of.
It is called "Målarböcker för vuxna. UTMANING" witch translates to "Coloring for adults. CHALLENGE"
In this group there is a new challenge every Monday. It can be about everything from use specific colors to patterns and techniques,
This week the challenge was called "Autumn nights". You where suppose to use only fall colors and color the background black or dark blue.

Here is my piece.
The coloring page originally comes from kidscoloring.com

Chameleon Pens!!

Hi again!

I got these Chameleon Markers from my boyfriend the other day (been wanting them like crazy) and I absolutley love them! They are so different from all the other pens I have got.

Below you can se the first picture I made with these markers. During the process I discovered various pros and con about these pens. They are

Cons:

1. Even though you can blen the markes with each other there isnt a wide range of  colors. However, I sam on there homepage that they are relesing 30!! more colors this spring. Awesome!
2. There are only a brush nib and a thick nib in each color. Sometimes when I made finer details I wished for a thin nib in the same color as I was working with. 
3. The blender is more of a highlighter when working on dark areas. Would have liked to be able to lend dark color with dark color.

Pros:

1. They blend beautifully!! I mean, look and the clouds, castle and moon! Lovely
2. You can blend two colors to get a new color. I blended to get a bigger varaity of browns and greens.
3. The flow of the brush nib is almost like an accrual brush. 
4. You can color big areas without having any brushstrokes showing. Like the grass and sky. 
5. Love the detial marker and the fact that it has two differnet sizes of nibs. 
6. The blender can "take away" any misstakes you made outside the lines (as long as they are not black or to big)

Here is my first art piece made with these markers. I worked on a scrapbook cardstock paper.

 I have entered this one in Chameleons Marker contest! :D Here is the link:
https://chameleonpens.wishpond.com/marker-artists-make-your-mark/

Sketched

Inked

Colored (look at that moon and sky!!)
It looks good like this to but since it is night time I want to cast some shadows, turn on the lights and wake up the stars :)

Finished! What do you think? Dont the colors  look amazing!

Here are some closeups.

Ig you want this like line art to color your self just send me an email and I will send you the pic.
mrssandman@spray.se

Love Jessika