Well, today was a great and happy Saturday for me and my family. We spent 8 hours at the movie theater. That is 4 movies back to back. The little one wanted to see “Night at the museum”, the one in charge (aka DW) wanted to see “Angels& Demons”, and the one without opinion (Me) wanted to see “Star Trek”. So we arrive too early for any of those movies, so we settled it like good human beings and watched “Terminator Salvation” first, then the ones they wanted to see (Kid first of course), and lastly (as usual) my choice…
Funny thing, the little one enjoyed the A&D movie the most, go figure…
It was nice to be away from my computer and my studio, finally I was able to see the “real” world with my own eyes, not just thru a computer screen.
OK with Anime Expo just around the corner I have been organizing my sample books. What is a sample book? Well, a sample book is where I keep all my illustrations and technique samples, it is just a medium to showcase and protect my work. Since I don’t really make cards or other kind of giveaways, I kind of keep all my drawings.
Keeping a sample book is fun and also helpful to see your improvements over time; I just saw some of my first images and got amazed on how awful they are. So here are a few images of my sample book.
This post is my 6th consecutive, a first since I started my blog. I had this project ready and typed since yesterday, but because of the award from Yuki it was moved for today.
Continuing with the stamps that I just recently bought at the outdoor market place, here is another one named Buttercup made by Stamps Happen. Unfortunately I made a big mistake and didn’t write the colors used for this image. The elements that I liked more are her wings, not just because of the color combination, but because I used my clear Spica pen on them and the look like pixie dust.
Here are the photos I took, hope you like it.
Today I’m a happy camper as my humble blog has received another wonderful Award. This time from Yuki at http://xiumaiyuki.blogspot.com/, please visit her blog as she has some wonderful cards, and she is a designer for My cute Stamps. Thank You! Very much Yuki.
The award is “The Lemonade Award”.
And here I will pass the award to the following 5 bloggers, and members of the Paper Craft Society.
Joni - http://astickysituation.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://adornmentsbylisa.blogspot.com/
Barbara - http://www.grandmatograndma.blogspot.com/
Laura - http://www.lauraoshea.typepad.com/
Jennifer - http://jennifersstamppad.blogspot.com/
The reason why I was working only with digital stamps and my own drawings was because I just couldn’t stamp really well (or so I thought). One of my problems was that no matter how I placed my stamp, I just couldn’t get a good impression, and when I was able to get a good image, my ink would smear. No hope for me and stamping.
This past weekend I went to an outdoor marketplace, and found out a booth with a nice lady who was selling stamps, and inkpads. I was expecting her to just ignore me (the ugly guy), and focus on her female customers. But instead, she was really nice and we spoke about my Copic addiction and of course my problem with stamping. She gave me a few pointers on how to stamp correctly, and in her booth I was finally able to find a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad. So basically I solved my two main problems in just one day, Thank You So much Lady (sorry but her name is hard to spell).
Today’s project is one of the stamps that I bought on Sunday, stamped in Georgia Pacific cardstock, with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. This is the second time I have used my original stamped image directly, and I think I love it. The name of the stamp is: Proud Mother Rabbit, by Stamps Happen.
These are the Copic colors used: B00, E31, BG93, BG94, G17, RV29, RV42, and R20. To compliment the image I only used two PrismaColor pencils: Dark Green, and Violet Blue. I hope you like it.
Final Image:
First order of business here, I just added a permanent link to Dustin Pike’s blog. Dustin has some beautiful Digital stamps for sale, and every Wednesday he’s so generous as to give away one digital stamp for free. His work is very clean and professional, I would advise you to visit him o regular basis.
Dustin Pike’s site http://dustinpike.blogspot.com/
Today’s project is indeed one of those free stamps. For this truck I used the following Copic Markers: E35, E33, T7, T9, R24, R29, BV23, BV25, Y17, and B000. For shades I used this PrismaColor pencils: Sky Blue, Light Cerulean Blue, Pink Umber, Tuscan Red, and Burnt Ochre.
I don’t know, but now that I think about, I’m pretty close to make a card with one of these stamps.
OK here is something different today. By browsing other people’s blogs I found out about a nice Giveaway from www.penaddict.com. Marianne from Copic sent them a bunch of Copic products and instead of keeping the products, they are giving them away (Cool stuff). One of the requirements to enter is to post about why we want those Copics.
So, why do I want them? Simple answer, I want them for a blog candy. I still don’t know exactly how I will do it, but I’m planning on collecting different Art mediums (Copics and PrismaColor pencils) and implementing giveaways for my readers. More importantly, since I know that the chances of winning are slim, my other motivation is to promote Penaddict.com, since they do have interesting information, and giveaways for you all.
I have scheduled a new project for tomorrow, another digital stamp.
Today (yesterday actually) I have planned another series of post for my latest project. But a free invitation to a soccer game (late) made me postpone it until tomorrow.
Well, this time I don’t quite have any in between image for this project. Why? Because when I was taking the progress images my regular Olympus was without charge (The missing charger issue), so I used my Kodak instead, and to my dismay I found out that it wasn’t designed for close range pictures, and they all came blurry.
So here is the scanned image of a digital Stamp that I got from one of Joni’s posts.
Finally the final steps for the Girl & Boy Digital Stamp project. I was able to squeeze the last bit of charge of my Digital Camera to get the last steps of this image, and for the finished image I scanned the drawing. This morning I went hunting for a new Camera, but the one I liked was out of stock, so I came back home decided to use my old Kodak for the time being. Well, I remembered that this camera came with a small tripod, so I searched for it, and what was my surprise to find the charger I was looking for sitting next to the tripod. So that means no new digital camera will be needed.
The final element to color was the heart. My base colors were RV21-R24 Copic, and for the shades I selected the following PrismaColor pencils: Pink, Poppy Red, and Tuscan Red.
And here is the scanned image of the project, I hope you like it.
