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Her description says she coloured it with Prisma pencil crayons and oms. The "highlighting" would have been blended out quite a bit with the oms. You can also achieve this using chalk. Actually, I thought it was chalk before I read her description. If you have copics and the copic blender pen, I would imaging you could also get this look when them.
If you outline the image with a heavier pencil line and then blend around the image you get a nice halo effect.
If you look closely at the card you can see a little darker line of color right on the outline of the image. Don' make little cicrles or pull away from the image, just go around and each time you go around go a litltle farther away from the image. HTH
I do that with Copics. I don't use my pencils that often. I love using the new light colours and blending with the colorless blender pen to fade the colour away.
There are some wonderful classes going on at My Creative Classroom that teach all kinds of coloring techniques. I am taking 4 right now So many techniques.....so little time....
I do that with Copics. I don't use my pencils that often. I love using the new light colours and blending with the colorless blender pen to fade the colour away.
If you outline the image with a heavier pencil line and then blend around the image you get a nice halo effect.
If you look closely at the card you can see a little darker line of color right on the outline of the image. Don' make little cicrles or pull away from the image, just go around and each time you go around go a litltle farther away from the image. HTH
thanks that helps i was doing circles i will try that tomorrow.
I have found that the paper you stamp on makes quite a bit of difference. I have found to my personal preference that the heavier and smoother paper works great for the pencil and oms technique. The smoothness of the paper would ensure a good blend and 'fade' into the white of the paper.
Hey Julie! Judi Maddigan told me about this thread.
I use Prisma Pencils for my *highlighting* or *halo effect*
For this card that you linked, I did use a LITTLE bit of Gamsol to blend. Like the other girls said, just trace around the lines of the stamped image with the Prisma pencil and then run the stump along the pencil line rather than making circles, pinch or squeeze the end of the stub with your pointer finger and thumb to *dry* the stub a bit, and then start pulling the color out and away from the image with the stub.
Most of the time though, I don't use Gamsol for the highlighting. I use a totally dry stump. Just trace some VERY light shading (not so much a line) around the stamped image, and as close to the stamped line as possible, and then you can pull the color with a stump, and move the stump in circles. You can always go back in then and add some more color, and darker color, to certain areas.
That's what I do anyway.
Oh, and another thing that helps is to do the shading/highlighting BEFORE you color the inside of the image.....a tip I saw Cammie post on her blog.
Hope that all made sense.
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