Hurray for Angel! You are really good for your first attempt! Some of my friends can't get the colors inside the borders.
The supplies are really expensive...I have a 40 piece set. It's Faber Castel brand and they are really of good quality. Just keep on doing it and you'll master the art of it in no time....you have done a very good start!
Take care!
charmagne "As we count our stitches...let us not forget to count our blessings..."
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Faber castel are a very good brand. I keep trying to stock up on their markers but wow are they expensive. But so much better than my 99p set of 60 pens that run out before I've finished one picture
hehe well it was only my second drawing of a lupe (A wolf thing from neopets.com)...my second drawing of any animal really. I apparently pick things up really easily. It scares some people. But I doubt I'll be continuing my experimentation with them. I still prefer pencils for colouring with because I can do a ot more with them with ease, my only problem with pencils is that the colours aren't bright enough like with pastels/pens/markers. So I keep exploring new media and sometimes I stick with it (like CGing) and sometimes I abandon it (Like pastels).
Maybe I'll think about doing it again if I can ever find a very cheap kids colouring book. They're marvelous for practicing colouring in without ruining your own drawings I used to use them a lot but haven't been near anywhere that sells them in years.
Angel wrote:
Maybe I'll think about doing it again if I can ever find a very cheap kids colouring book. They're marvelous for practicing colouring in without ruining your own drawings I used to use them a lot but haven't been near anywhere that sells them in years.
Have you tried printing coloring pages off the internet? (Sorry I just ran across this thread.) There are a lot of sites out there with free coloring pages.
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Angel wrote:
Maybe I'll think about doing it again if I can ever find a very cheap kids colouring book. They're marvelous for practicing colouring in without ruining your own drawings I used to use them a lot but haven't been near anywhere that sells them in years.
Have you tried printing coloring pages off the internet? (Sorry I just ran across this thread.) There are a lot of sites out there with free coloring pages.
Great idea! Free colouring-in pages are known as "printables", if you want to plug it into Google.
Charmagne: lovely work, very atmospheric. I'm no artist at all and am always in awe of those, like you, who have a creative ability .
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Sharon Pope's Gingerbread Cottage
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I have made a new one as a "break" from my WIP Golden Pair...and I entitled it ..."inside the forest"..
...and I dug this one out of my storage...it's a bit old...it's dated way back in 1995...it's a song entitled "I Love You...Goodbye"...I forgot who sang the original version ...I sketched a brookside view at the side and used colored pencils to finish...
I hope you enjoyed them...
charmagne "As we count our stitches...let us not forget to count our blessings..."
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Agi
"The world, as a colourful knot of threads, has turned into a memory, and now you cannot be sure whether it was real." (Géza Ottlik, Hungarian writer)
I love calm, quiet pictoresque scenes, and these look stunning. I love watching Bob Ross (dunno if anyone has heard if him), is it easy to learn? Because I would love to be able to create pieces like those
I think it'd be lovely to do a range of pieces with song lyrics
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...and Jess, the soft oil pastel is easy to use...you just have to control the shading effects as it smudges easily...if you're familiar with pencil shading then you can very much do it! I suggest that you give it a try and pratice often...
charmagne "As we count our stitches...let us not forget to count our blessings..."
@mayneideas on instagram
You are really good for your first attempt! 
Some of my friends can't get the colors inside the borders. 
...I sketched a brookside view at the side and used colored pencils to finish...
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