Now for something REALLY exciting……Bricks!!!!!

Viv July 12, 2012 9

Hi again everyone! Hope your day( or night) is going well wherever you are.

Have you checked out the gorgeous new fairytale images available at MIC yet? I saw the castles and the the dragon and thought it was time i had a play with colouring some brickwork, as so many of the background stamps have some brickwork in them. Sound boring? Well, it was quite a challenge for me as I like to finish things fast and this wasn’t ever going to be fast!

I concentrated on the bricks in this image for the purpose of practice. Unfortunately the light in my room wasn’t brilliant so there is a yellowish tinge to parts of the image, please ignore this! I have used warm greys over the whole area though it doesn’t always look like it!

Starting with WO and W1, I laid down some colour , choosing to have my light source from the top left.

Next was some W2, and W4, dotting the colour .

Here I came in with W6 and dotted the areas where I wanted most of my shading.

I then blended it back in a bit with W2

Some more W6 for shading

Now, laying down W2 and W4 in my shaded areas on the rest of the image.

Dotted in some W4 and W6

Now some heavier shading with W8 in the darker areas and blending in some more with W2.

The dragon I quickly coloured with greens, yellows and yellow greens (See image below) . The sky I dotted with B0000, B000, BV20 and B60. There are some practice bricks to the right of the image that I played with before starting the main image. By dotting the ink, it gives the effect of texture and this is also a useful technique for filling in large areas of background.

I hope you found something useful in this and hope to see you all racing off to colour some BRICKS now ! Yay! LOL!

MIC stamp used is Dragon Ruins Digi stamp

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I live in NZ and spend most of my time either colouring and making cards, or playing with my dogs, and occasionally working. I LOVE to spend on craft stuff and have been in love with Make it Crafty goodies forever!

9 Comments »

Sheila July 12, 2012 at 8:59 pm - Reply

Fantastic Vivvy I love this it’s awesome!!.
Hugs
Shesh xx
Scatty Jan July 12, 2012 at 9:02 pm - Reply

Love the bricks they look sooooo real and the dragon is super sweet
xx
Ruby July 13, 2012 at 6:51 am - Reply

OH SUPER!!!! Viv you rock hun.

Love the scene and thanks for sharing your expertise

XXX
Rube
ForgottenScraps July 15, 2012 at 2:13 pm - Reply

That looks fantastic and the effect on the whole image is stunning! I love the W colors on it and it gives it such an earthly tone that is perfect for it. Fabulous job and I love your new signature too.
ColleenS July 16, 2012 at 12:35 am - Reply

This is wonderful! I love the look you achieved and all of the texture you added!
marykay July 29, 2012 at 3:11 pm - Reply

how awesome. great image and thanks for the tutorial on the bricks.
zehra July 31, 2012 at 8:09 am - Reply

i loved this tutorial, i used it to color some bricks,
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franz August 3, 2012 at 5:11 pm - Reply

Thanks for this great tutorial Viv!

I’d love to try this asap!

Franz.