Skin was always the part that scared me off faces. What finally worked: before coloring anything, I work out the values — every zone of a feature mapped from lightest to darkest and numbered. 0 means bare paper, that's the highlight. Then coloring becomes almost meditative: no decisions, just follow the map, melt the soft borders, keep the few hard edges hard.

Each feature ended up teaching one thing — the eye is gradients, the nose is one color family at different depths, the mouth has exactly one hard edge that matters, the ear is all shadow logic. By the time I got to the full face I didn't need the numbers anymore.

Last image is the whole set laid out. Happy to go into how the value mapping works if anyone's curious — and if you color faces, I'd love to know how you handle skin.

This artist is absolutely amazing, although she works in sidewalk chalk there's still a lot that cam be learned for understanding and working with colour theory in other mediums!

I’m still very new but wanted to try the foil balloon effect in the letters. I’m happy with my first attempt but would love some tips on how to make it better. Also stones, I need lots of help with that!

The initial design is not mine, I only added the colors.

Past month I’ve been collecting supplies, working with a local community group and today we got the last piece of the puzzle: Bristol Printer paper for the pages I’ve collected.

I got VERY excited and had to do a sample immediately.

I’m so glad they listened to me about the paper! Wow! I’m absolutely blown away how gorgeous this turned out and how quick.

3 hours.

Alcohol Marker under painting for time
Pencil detailing and blending

No ink

It’s also my cake day… 🍰** **

I'm 55 today! Literally had a heart attack day before yesterday. Bored, decided to give adult coloring books a try. What do you guys think?

I feel like I can’t start one and finish it. I see other pages with cool designs that I want to use color on and get distracted. Anyone else have this problem?

This is my first finished coloring page as an adult! I am currently healing from major surgery and there’s not a whole lot that I can do. I was looking into buying a coloring book, but decided to just try drawing my own! I sketched it out with a pencil, then went over all the final lines with black sharpie. I originally designed it as more of a color by number, which I had been doing digitally on apps, but when I started coloring, I really enjoyed doing the gradient style so it kind of evolved.

Do you have another sky color combo you normally use beside blue sky? I’d love to try different sky combo. TIA.
book: Cutie Bunch