I have to say, I kept thinking of Zoolander while colouring this image. The Greeting Farm is giving away free digital stamps in a relay-style thing. You get one, make a card with it, and if you post it by the deadline, you get the next image. As my work is crazy, I don’t think I’ll get all of them, but I’ll manage to get the first 3. This is #1, Mer-Ian.

I used another new border punch on this card – it’s bubbles! I didn’t want too much contrast, so I backed it with a pale green, but it looked good with dark blue too. It was a hard choice.

I put some Stickles glitter glue on his tail, to make it look scaly and shiny.

This marks the first time I’ve ever used a digital stamp! It took a few tries to make my printer print it nicely. I wish I’d had the time to take it somewhere to photocopy it – apparently toner doesn’t smudge with Copics. Ink jet (at least my printer) does, but it is only noticeable with very pale colours, like his skin.

I took an in-progress shot of how I coloured his sea weed-y hair:

This picture was taken before I did any blending. You can see the band of white I left for the highlight. I colour over this while blending, but that way it only has one layer of colour, making it lighter than the rest.