observing details

Os presento a Muxin, uno de mis gatos. Mi gatos son tremendamente guapos pero incrediblemente peresozos... Normalmente, cuando se mira a esta foto, solo se nota sus ojos azul, y no se ve los detalles. Por eso, tomo muchas fotos -decir mucho es poco- para estudiar luego los detalles, es un ejercicio para fijarme en lo menos obvio...

This is Muxin, one of my two lazy but gorgeous cats. Have you notice his big blues eyes? Well, I guess that the one thing you notice, when you look at this picture. One of the reason, I take a lot of pictures, and I do mean a L-O-T, it's to study them to see the little details that I didn't notice, that's an exercise that I do regularly, it helps me when I have to draw....

My first copics

I 've never been a fan of markers until recently. I always thought it was limited , that you couldn't do to much with, I know it's silly but for me markers always been a thing for been for pre-school.. Until I discover few month ago, the website of Mary Engelbreit, I was amazed to learn that she uses marker, at one point in her blog she talks about copics , so I decided that I will give a go. But in my town, there's no shops selling those copics, but I did buy some promarkers . And boy, was I wrong, there are endless ways to use markers, I just love it. Last month for my birthday , my hubby offered me some copics that he bought in the States, I was very happy but I was in middle of big project and there were absolutely no time to grab a marker and doodle. It's only almost 1 month later that I've been able to use it, I was getting desperate! But I must admit there were worth the wait, using them it's delightful, between the copic and the copic sketch, I prefer the last one, it seems to be smoother. And Ilike the fact that I can mix up the copics with the promarkers, even the blender pen.

Working with pens

Lately, I've been working a lot with pens, which is medium that I barely use. I'm using Faber Castell , I love using those pens, but I'm probably going to have to retouch it digitally, as in the big areas it looks more like dark grey rather than black. I may borrow the Rotring of my lovely hubby, to give it a try...

Baby blue card

The great thing with digital card background , beside being cheap and being able able to print as much as you want, is that you can do it the way you want, with any kind of paper -that your printer allowed-. Here an example, made with the design, that made few month ago ,  blue baby card , I cut the edge round so it will look softer.