 Hi there, it's Sandy on Lock and today I'm going to color a huge yellow moon in addition to showing you some cards that I did for the Colorado Craft Company release that is out right now. And I'm going to talk about each of those cards individually later in the video, but I thought I'd try doing the coloring first instead of the reveal first of all of the other cards. So stay tuned for that or you could skip ahead if you don't want to see the coloring. I decided since this stamp set with these sweet little foxes has a giant moon sentiment in it, then I would put a giant moon on my card. Notice that the stamp doesn't reach all the way to the outside edges, so I'm going to have to add a little bit as I do my coloring. And I'm going to try to keep this really simple because I want the focus to be on the moon and the very bare highlights that are going to be hitting a few of the elements that I want to stand out. I started by putting some blues around the moon itself, a B24, B26, and B28, so I get a little graduated edge and it looks kind of like a glow when I put the B39 next to it because that's going to be a nice dark blue and it'll make it look like the moon is actually glowing in the sky. I do have to go back in with some of the other blues sometimes to get that blending to go right with the B39 that I added, but with Copics you can just keep layering so that's all to the good. Next up is going to be coloring the other objects in the picture and I didn't draw anything in. I'm just filling in color here to put a bigger tree in there, give it more of a tree trunk, and then just color in the grass and I'm going with a dark color. Right now you don't see much until I put a really, really dark number 10 gray. It doesn't matter which number 10 gray that you use, but use something really dark and then it's going to make those highlights stand out on the top of the grass and on the right side of the tree. The color that I used initially for the tree and the grass looked really dark, but they start to look a little lighter as there's just a slight glow in the moonlight and then I can extend the branches a little bit higher. I'm going to add more over the moon once I get the moon coloring done. I can go back in with a green if I want to brighten up some of the grass a little bit and I decided I didn't like it being quite that bright. I wanted it to be darker so I went back in two parts of it with the gray again so that I could just knock that down so that it's not as important. Then the fox. I'm going to use another dark color, often I'll start with a really bright orange when I'm doing a red fox, but this time I'm just going to leave only the highlights that are facing the moon. That's where the moon is going to shine and where it's going to hit the fox. That tail, the tip of the tail in the back is not going to be white. It's going to be gray because there's no light hitting it because it's hanging down and behind him. As I add more grays to dull down that reddish color and then this really dark one is going to start pulling the fox away from the background and make the fox darker so that it's more in the foreground of the picture and separated from that blue. You can go back in with a little bit of the red if you want to pull some of the redness back into the fox but don't go too crazy with it. Then there's the leaves. With each one of these I'm going to use the same dark green that I used for the grasses but I'm going to just leave some tips the same way I did on the fox. I just want to leave a few white edges and let the rest of it just merge into that sky behind. Then for the moon I decided this time to do a yellow moon. I've done other moons before and usually have focused on using blues or whites but this time I decided to see what would happen if I did a yellow moon. I found a gorgeous picture online of a yellow moon. You can just Google for it and find whatever kind of colors you want in the moon and then I'm just kind of making some mushy lines and using a slightly darker color than the color I gave to the whole moon and I'm also leaving the lighter color as the edge color. So I'm not coloring with a dark color all the way out to the edge of the moon so that it looks like there's an additional glow on that outside edge. And then go back in with the initial color to soften up some of those blended edges. I didn't capture the footage but I did put some yellow in all those white highlights on the fox and the leaves and that brought them into the yellow glow of the moon. And the last thing to do is to just add in more leaves and branches so that the tree continues in front of the moon and gives it a little more depth so that those objects look like they're very much in the foreground. So that is my card for this particular video but I want to show you all the rest as I focused in this particular grouping of cards on contrast and I want you to just look for the contrast in these. So I had somebody online give me some suggestions. Two people gave me suggestions. One gave me a lumber mill and the other gave me a waterfall so I had to combine it but notice that I put all the dark colors around the two featured animals so that they would really stand out and I used a white pen to bring out the detail in the flower so that that would stand out. I used a white pen to add the whiskers back in that sort of thing. This stamp set I was trying to picture what would make this mouse so happy to have sugar cubes and be juggling them. And I decided that this was going to be a successful fevery. So this little guy stole the bowl from the house and brought it outside and he's standing by the steps. That gave me a nice dark area around the featured image so that they look really white compared to everything else and then I could put just a really simple sky in the background, throw in a few little bits of grass. I covered up the motion lines where he's juggling. There were lines in the stamp and then just made it more of like little fairy dust that he's using to do his juggling. This one was really fun. I only colored this image at the bottom with the hammock and I wanted to make something kind of really stunning and spectacular with a lot of contrast. So I started by coloring in the whole background scene first, the sky with lots of gorgeous colors. I added more trees. There's only two trees in the stamp set. So I just kind of drew in some more. They're really dark so it doesn't matter if they're perfect. I did the same thing with the grass again so I could have just the tips of the grass in the middle showing and create that glow around the hammock. The creature in the hammock, which happens to be a cat, doesn't have to be really well colored. It can just be a gray shadow because that's going to really help to make all of that stand out. Next up is these two smaller stamps and I didn't continue them on to make big scenes on cards because sometimes that's just too much and there would be a lot of drawing to continue, say this backsplash or something and didn't feel like doing that. So I created instead a shaft of light coming in from the front and darkened everything around and I left the mice, the things that could pop forward out of that darkness and I put some shadows behind them behind the couple of foreground and stuff. I did this one with the light shaft coming in from the right hand side so that I could create shadows going off to the left and again darkened everything behind them and around them. So they stood out and then I put glossy accents on all the shiny stuff because it's shiny stuff and doing makeup. So it's awesome. And then we have one of my favorite stamps in this collection this month and this has an artist in it and there are three things that this bunny could be painting that you could stamp onto the canvas or you can make your own scene. I did this thing twice. One of them I show you how to do the stamping of the rabbit in full strength ink and then in a lighter ink on the canvas so it looks like a work in progress but I created again strong light coming from the right hand side trees that are slowly going back into the distance by having darker ones in the front lighter ones in the back. I drew my rocks so I'd have a really nice horizon and then some implied trees coming in that like the shadows from them are implied that there's more trees off to the right hand side so that you get all of that and that leaves me with the rabbit being darker because the highlight is on the right hand side so I had to put gray on the belly instead of having it be a white belly and highlights on the right side of each one of those bunnies. And then this one was super spectacular fun and this one is going to be a real over on social media so check my social media for that later on I think in a day or two I haven't scheduled and the light from this one is coming from the windows so it's highlighting around the outside edges of the creatures and the centers of them are darker so that it looks like it's backlit this way and just creating this whole artist loft studio was a blast to give it lots of really strong shadows coming out from the window and really dramatic kind of lighting. And then of course this is the set with the foxes and the car that I just finished with again the really nice yellow moon surrounded by all these really dark colors makes the contrast in it tell a story so make sure you focus on contrast now this is the other stamp in that set and I didn't film this but it was probably my favorite one to color the stamp only has this much in it just a few rocks around the foxes and a few seashells and things so I had to draw in extra seashells I didn't you know draw every shell carefully I just did blobs and allowed some light to come through lots of dark shadows behind them and really dark rich colors in the water and then a nice bright sunset off in the distance there's one more stamp set in the Colorado Craft Company release and it's a wedding set I don't have this card physically in my presence anymore because I sent it out to a friend who just got married and I use one of the backgrounds from the Copic Enchantment class and I'll have a link to that class down below because this is a perfect image to use with the backgrounds in that class I also have a collection that I just posted on my blog of all of my night skies and I pulled all of them together different seasons but lots of them have great ideas on how to color night skies and make really dramatic types of backgrounds using watercolors popics colored pencils all different kinds of stuff so go over there and check that out link in the doobly-doo to that as well it's been so much fun putting together all those compilations of older videos and giving them new life it's almost like getting a free class and I'm going to that blog post and that is it for me I will see you later take care and go check out the Colorado Craft Company release the link is in the doobly-doo see you guys bye