#ohuhus

Tried imitating a different style. I think it went okay.

My daughter has been obsessed with Zelda lately, and I’ve been mildly obsessed with it since... 

*checks release date for A Link to the Past*

Never mind since when.

Anyway, we’ve both been coloring Zelda stuff a fair bit. Her more than me. I’ll probably post more of hers too because she’s very insistent that I do, but here are two of mine in the meantime!

As seen on the pictures themselves, I got the art from DragoArt.com and Timykids.com. More precisely, I got it from googling, but that’s where the source was. I don’t know if there is a more original source for them... if you know of any, please tell me and I’ll update the credit.

I colored them with Ohuhus, and tried to so cell shading style rather than blending everything as much as I could. I’m really happy with how they turned out. Done on copy paper again, which I think is why it looks like wet paper in spots. I really need to get some cardstock.

These are the close ups from the other day! I'm pretty happy with all of them. This was a fun little experiment!

I did the three markers challenge, but cheated a bit. Instead of drawing the picture, I picked one drawn by someone else... specifically, it’s from Steampunk Design, a coloring book in the Creative Haven collection, drawn by Marty Noble.

I picked the picture before I randomly picked the colors, which are from a 72 Ohuhu set. I did remove the colorless blender and the black but otherwise picked randomly. I got an easy set, I think: very distinct color that offered a good array of mixes and weren’t too dark to layer well.

And for the picture, I decided right off the bat they were aliens given I wouldn’t be able to give them human skin tones, and also decided the woman wasn’t going to be pink because... I’m contrary, I guess? :P

And here’s the result! I’m pretty happy with it, and I’ll probably do it again, or maybe do some limited palette colorings next.

Finished! Hard to believe I actually finished this one, it took quite a while. Really happy with it, I'm glad I tried out color palettes and pencils on top of markers. The metal isn't perfect, the clock is not as smooth as I wished, but overall? I'm happy.

The image is from Steampunk Designs by Marty Noble, in the Creative Haven Collection. I used Ohuhus Brush Tip markers and Faber Castell Polychromos, with a tiny bit of white gelly roll for a couple of highlights.

This is a free page by Jennifer Stay from Coloring Bliss on youtube. She has really good videos (and a very cute dog, just sayin') so I recommend checking her out!

I went conceptual with this one: the girl seemed serious to my own eyes compared to the masquerade mask and confetti background so I turned that up to 11 in my head and decided to color her sad.

For that, I aimed at using blues for her, but keeping a natural if pale skin tone, put some red around her eyes, and then I figured she was at a party, and probably trying to be festive or look like it, so she's wearing a mask that tries to look like it belongs, except it doesn't quite because it's very desaturated.

Yeah, I kind of went a bit weird here. LOL. But, I'm pretty happy with the results. This was speed coloring with Ohuhus, with cell shading but I can't resist a gradient so she has a gradient in her hair. I used a gel pen to lighten up and texture the yellow of the background, and I used a white pencil to make her paler than my marker set allows.

Oh, lesson learned! Shading with grey works even better than I thought because it doesn't desaturate nearly as much as I expected. I had to go over with grey a few times and finally use complimentary colors to desaturate the mask, flower and grapes. And the hair which was just TOO bright.