The two newest digital stamps sets in the Angels Landing Nature Series have just been released: Bunny & Violets 2 and Chipmunk & Vinca 2. The grayscale, high-resolution illustrations include shading. The new chipmunk set has the full view of a chipmunk’s entire body, and it is a companion to the close-up set, Chipmunk & [...]

The second digital stamps set in the Angels Landing Nature Series has just been released: Chipmunk & Vinca 1. The grayscale, high-resolution illustrations include shading. They are done in the same style as the first set in this series, Bunny & Violets 1.
The enlarged diagram below shows the Copic color numbers used on this Chipmunk [...]

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have been illustrating a new Nature series of digital stamps. The first release is Nature Bunny & Violets 1. I’ve been resisting Copic markers for a couple of years, but I finally caved in and ordered some a few weeks ago. My first attempts at coloring this image didn’t [...]

An earlier post showed before and after versions of a sugar glider done with colored pencils. The “after” image wasn’t complete, though, because it was still floating in space. It wasn’t grounded. There are many different ways to ground an image, and the step-by-step photos below show one of the easiest, using chalks or pastels.
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Jennifer commented yesterday that she was doing some research on how to color her Aussie Animals images. That reminded me that I hadn’t uploaded a colored version of the sugar glider yet. What a perfect opportunity to revisit a new-to-me technique, blending Prismacolor pencils with baby oil instead of Gamsol odorless mineral spirits.
There has been [...]

Some of the new Angels Landing™ digital stamping images combine printed elements with piercing. The process is simple, but the order of the steps can make a difference.
1. Print. With any digital image, the obvious first step is to print it on cardstock or other paper. Select the “Best” print quality setting. When possible, [...]