I wanted a complete change with this envelope, so I dug out my watercolour pencils from the bottom of the drawer. They worked really well (with white gelly-roll pen highlights) for the lettering, and I used regular blue pencil for the background in the hope it gave a 3D effect.
I don’t draw Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh very often, so it’s about time he had an envelope all to himself!
I do think I need to work on my yellow colouring though – it looks fine when the ink is still wet, but once it dries there’s clear areas I’ve missed!
Time for Pinocchio and some fireworks I think!
I was aiming for fiery lines swirling around the letters…
…do you think it worked?
I was quite pleased to find the umbrella didn’t fit on the envelope – umbrellas aren’t my favourite thing to draw!
I decided to just do the address in neat capital letters, as the space I’d left wasn’t really large enough for clear calligraphy.
Not the best of envelopes to use – this looks like it was handmade paper, which was quite hard to get my pens to work on.
I want to work on my brush pen calligraphy skills, just to see if I can get those upstrokes evenly thin and the downstrokes nice and wide!
Rather than sticking with Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, I thought this envelope needed a change…. so I flicked through my book of how to draw dragons until I found some inspiration.
This one was coloured with fine liners, but I also added in some random dots of metallic gel pen just to give the colours a little lift when the light catches it.
Tigger was nice for a change, but Winnie the Pooh is a little easier to draw…. or maybe there’s just more pictures online of Pooh, so it’s easier to get inspiration?
Either way, this envelope was coloured with some glitter gel pens I bought from Hobbycraft (unfortunately they don’t have them online), so Pooh catches the light really well.
I started drawing this birthday card, but struggled to get the candle to look right…. then I realised the candle looked quite like a “1”, and as the recipient was celebrating her 31st birthday, I added a “3”, and made the original candle look even more like a “1” – problem solved!
Admittedly the colouring looks rather sketchy, but it does look a lot better from a distance (and I think it also gives Pooh more of a furry texture).
Ok, I will start by saying I made this card after the one that’s scheduled to appear on my blog in a couple of day’s time, , but this birthday just happened to come first!
This was for a “young at heart” relative, who loves handmade cards – I couldn’t resist drawing Winnie the Pooh with a giant cake for her!