For my latest video over on the Sasayaki Glitter YouTube channel I decided to recreate a card I’d made a little while before I joined the team. I thought it would be fun to play around with cast light, and see how to colour up an image with a specific light source in mind. Usually I colour my images as if there is ambient light, primarily coming from the right hand side. Colouring with a fixed, specific light source is more of a challenge to me, but it’s definitely a fun one!
I started by printing the Baby Elly’s Birthday image onto some alcohol marker friendly paper. I used Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers and Yosoo alcohol markers to colour up the image, starting by laying in the highlights with yellow, then adding my shadows and blending through. You can see the colouring in detail in the video above.
Once I was happy with the colouring I carefully fussy cut the image out and set it aside whilst I worked on my card base.
I picked a dark brown card base to go with my image. The cast light technique looks best with a dark background, as it enhances the idea of the candle being the sole source of light. I white heat embossed a sentiment from Heffy Doodle’s Elephant of Surprise stamp set onto the card base. I then adhered a die cut circle of yellow vellum to be my focal panel behind the elephant. Finally I attached the little elephant into place.
I didn’t look back at my previous iteration of this card until after I had finished colouring it. I didn’t want to be influenced by it, and I felt it would be easier to see how much (or whether!) my colouring has improved if I wasn’t trying to directly copy the other card. On this version of the card I was definitely a lot bolder with my cast light! I also think I have more depth to the shadows on this one. I do feel that I have improved.
Love,
Lady Joyful
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Challenges included:
Allsorts Challenge – Something Beginning With B (I have brown, birthday, bow)
CASology – Pun
HLS Anything Goes With Dies – Use Dies
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
Mod Squad – Animal Fun
TCP Tuesday – Animals
Uniko 6th Birthday Linky Party – Birthday
I love the glow of the candle on your elephant! Thanks for sharing with us at CASology this week!
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Such cool colouring – and fun pun. So happy you could join in the fun at CASology this week.
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Love this adorable elephant, your punny sentiment, and the fabulous dark background. Thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.
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Adorable card! Awesome coloring – the glow on the elephant is so cool! Thanks for joining us at CASology!
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So adorable!!! I love the whole card so much! So happy you could share this with us at Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes w/ Dies Challenge and good luck!
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This card is adorable. Thank you so much for playing along with us at the Mod Squad Challenge.
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Hi Charlotte, what a spectacular job you did on the colouring the light coming from the birthday candle. Love the fun sentiment you added. Thank you for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, good luck in the prize draw… Megan DT LPoCF
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Thank you Megan!
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Lovely card and an adorable image.
Thank you for sharing at Allsorts ‘I Spy B’ challenge this week and good luck x Susan x
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Thank you Susan 😊
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Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining Allsorts challenge, good luck.
Happy crafting
Tracy x
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Thank you Tracy!
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What a cute card…love the fun image!Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers!
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Simply adorable and I love how you have coloured the elephant. Thanks so much for joining in on the Uniko 6th Birthday fun. Hugs Bev x
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Thank you Bev 🙂
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Another sweet birthday card! This adorable little elephant got a great coloring! Love it!
Thanks for celebrating the “Uniko 6th Birthday Party” with us!
Best wishes from Wiebke (DT)
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Thanks 😊
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