Hand Lettering

The Daily Marker 30 Day - All of the Brush Pens

February 13, 2016Paper crafting, Drawing, Coloring, How to, Supplies, Graphic design, Stamps, Graphic, Color, Hand Lettering, Watercolor, Crafts, Diy, ToolsGabriela SimsComment

I have been coloring quite a bit and working on my hand lettering. This week I crammed in several projects for the challenge, so I am listing them at once, rather than posting daily.

Tombow ink blending on Bristol paper with white gel pen accents, and gold metallic marker accents.

More Tombow on Bristol and some more ink blending.

This was done with Zig Clean Color Brush Pens on Drawing Paper

Also Zig Clean Color on card stock. Background is Distress Ink.

I did several pieces this week, and tried a few different tools. I have to say I loved the Kuretake brush pens right out of the box, fro drawing, coloring, and handlettering. They proved to be extremely versatile and easy to use, I wish I'd ordered them sooner! Next week I will have a post with a tutorial video showcasing some of the 2016 QuickQuotes PowderPuff Chalking Inks, until then, happy crafting!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 4

February 5, 2016How to, Color, Supplies, Paper crafting, Coloring, Graphic, Watercolor, Drawing, Crafts, Hand Lettering, DiyGabriela SimsComment

Cutting it close! I used my new Zig Clean Color Markers for this, they make brush lettering so much easier!

I'll be doing more with these soon and I'll post a video of some techniques for using them! Happy crafting!

Be a Peacock!

January 28, 2016Color, Tutorial, Drawing, Graphic, Crafts, Supplies, How to, Diy, Cards, Coloring, Paper crafting, Hand LetteringGabriela SimsComment

So I have been participating in the #sisterswithheartinart challenge on IG, and every week there's a new prompt, this week was "Peacock", so I took it all the way. I started by drawing on black card stock.

I used Prismacolor pencils.

Then I colored the body in and cut out the outline.

Just the body, but I left the bottom connected.

Then I got my bag of feathers.

Then arranged them behind the body.

Then I attached it all to a distress inked background. I also hand lettered the quote and mounted it on glitter paper.

This did take a while, but It was really fun, next post will be my first post for Quick Quotes! Happy crafting!

More lettering and #muglife

January 16, 2016Crafts, Hand Lettering, Cards, Drawing, Color, Coloring, Graphic design, Graphic, Paper crafting, ToolsGabriela SimsComment

Hi everyone! This post just to capture the last of my cards and artwork for the week. I made this card for a challenge, the prompt was "Cup".

This was done by drawing the cup on watercolor paper, using Tombow brush pens to color and then embossing the #muglife.

i also found the time to do some more hand lettering.

I used a mixture of Pitt artist pens, Sharpie Fine, Le Pen, and Copic markers for this one. Took about 2-2.5 hours from start to finish, hopefully I'll get faster. I'll be starting next week with a 10 minute card, until then Happy Crafting!

Gab about practice

January 14, 2016Color, Coloring, Paper crafting, Diy, Crafts, Hand LetteringGabriela SimsComment

So I've been working on my hand lettering and really trying to improve. I'm hoping that by next year I can do freehand with no pencil guides...in the meantime, here's what I made!