Sweet Prayers

I've showed ya'll one card using a digital art from Mo Manning and now I have another one. If you remember from my last mention of her, I told you that she is an illustrator for several children's books. She gives the same quality of work to her digital art as she does to her book illustrations. They really are little works of art and I highly recommend checking them out.

This image I was able to get while it was still in pencil form (not the inked image you see in the store). It is perfect for those who like to watercolor and even use prisma pencils (both of which I have yet to get comfortable with). I have seen a couple of cards with this image using soft copic colors. I would have like it to be a little softer, but I can only work with what I have. The sketch is from Lord Have Mercy. Overall I am very pleased with this card. Details will follow the close up of his pj bottoms.

I tried a new color combo for his hair. I used Yoo, Y11, Y21, Y23, & E31. I used light feather strokes (if you even can call it that as I barely touched the paper cause I was afraid to mess up what I already colored). Really, I just played with the placement until I was good with how it looked so here's hoping that I can do it again cause I like it. For the PJ bottoms I added the dots with the colorless blender after I colored it. This was the first time I did this technqiue too and I discovered that it is easy and fun to do. I like how it gives the bottoms just a touch of personality. The images (both background and the boy) are popped up with pop dots to give the card depth (and to lay flat as the bow isn't all the way through the card). I'm still toying with the idea of adding a sentiment to the right edge of the image. Something like "praying" or "blessings". All of the colors I used are below.