I've been playing

I make no secret of the fact that I love working with pencil....

primarily because I've been using them since I was a tot, they suit my style of drawing - I'm fussy & pernickity and I just love adding detail!

Yeah I know I should loosen my style, believe me I've tried. 

So I struggle with markers, yes you heard that right peeps...I STRUGGLE 

 to achieve the same level of detail.

Lets face it the point on a Copic Sketch is chubby in comparison to the point of a good pencil & some of the stamps we choose to colour are darned fiddly.........and then I wonder why I am sometimes pulling my hair out!!

And then of course we have the annoying phenomena that is "sticky Copics" - yes I am sure my detailed technique does not help but it's the same colours that go gloopy. I've heard & tried ny on all the tricks!  Sometimes I can rescue my artwork, other times my bin gets rather full!

Anyway, post migraine (not my smartest idea, I admit) I decided enough was enough - 

flesh tones and hair were not going to beat me!

Well that's where the Magnolia marathon began.......I am not joking when I say this gal got coloured & abandoned over 30 times!!  

With my sanity in shreds and suffering from a very stiff shoulder & neck 

(should have stopped when my neck started to seize & not soldiered on!)

I persevered and here is the finished card

(she says with a sigh of relief)

......and yes Tilda has features.....I know the stamp doesn't and last time I added a face I got a lot of grief & some very nasty comments.

I spent a small fortune on Maggies & they've sat in a box unused ever since - what a waste.

So I've finally put my big girl pants on, coloured my heart out to improve my skin and hair techniques and blooming well given Tilda some blue eyes.

Hugs