Hello busy bees !

Today by browsing through my files of confined artist (but nonetheless still in the creative process 😁),

I found this postcard that I had made for my mom and sent her a few years ago in a nice envelope, also created by hand ...

Fortunately I always photograph the creation steps and I will show you the creation tutorial,
which I'm thrilled to share on our new Hive place ! 😁^_

I started with a pencil sketch in my notebook

Then I draw the lines with a fineliner Pigma Micron (0.005)

and erase the pencil lines

I go on with now the colorization of my drawing

with my polychromos pencils from Faber-Castell, first using the color "light flesh" which will be my base for the skin, and with a line which remains light at first.

then I accentuate this same color to create shadows on the face

and after that, I continue with a slightly darker cinnamon tone,
the idea being to give relief to the face and create the volumes with the shades

Each time the lightest shade is applied first, then a darker shade to give relief to a color that would otherwise be flat and uniform

in the same way, the hair receives two shades of blue,
and two of green for the eyes,
and the same thing in pink for the lips ...

adding the eyelashes with the finefelt pen....

a girl need some long eyelashes...😊

Now I want to create my background

I take a blank postcard ready to paint that you can easily find in a creative hobby supplies,

I make these three blocks of colour using my water soluble waxs pencils Neocolor II from Caran d'Ache, and I unfortunately didn't make shots of that step, but next,
using a stencil, I wipe the color before it is completely dry,
in order to let appear the white background under the patterns ... here plant motifs which I emphasize contours with an ultra -fine liner (0.005)

I add round shapes with my Gesso that I paint with Neocolor II and emphasize with my liner
I draw lines and strokes wherever fantasy takes me to add details...