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A cardinal and a betta fish. Buddies!!
Okay so this one.... I made some major technical errors....

This was an experiment with my new copic markers. I used watercolors as the background. Copics and polychromos colored pencils were used for the subjects.
Don't do these things:
First mistake: After transferring the sketch to the paper, I decided it would be a nice idea to go ahead and mostly erase the detail lines, to make it more realistic. Wth was I thinking. I had to completely redo all the detail.
Second mistake: The three copics I used for the majority of this painting are completely ruined. I learned afterwards that using them on watercolor paper is a huge no no. So I had to go buy some more. @.@
Biggest frustration for me in this piece however....
I used liquid frisket in an attempt to cover the subjects as well as I can from the splashing of creating the background.
Unfortunately a lot of the blue came through.
So me and my artistic genius decided in my frustration to just color them over best I could with a Prismacolor (wax based lajdsfljasdjf) colored pencil.
IT IS A WAXED BASE PENCIL and copics are ALCOHOL BASED AHHHHH. I know better.
So, the copics just completely went around all of the spots, and I had to darken many areas far darker than I wanted to for the technique I wanted to try. Shame shame shame.
Last mistake: I was on a roll and decided to just take it with me in the car on the way to a baseball game in Phoenix with Chris. I was distracted the entire time and the very beginning layers of this piece suffered for it.
I'm super proud of myself for salvaging it, and creating something beautiful. Seems to be the theme lately.

Credit to for giving me the idea of painting a cardinal!!!
Enjoy.

Description

A cardinal and a betta fish. Buddies!!
Okay so this one.... I made some major technical errors....

This was an experiment with my new copic markers. I used watercolors as the background. Copics and polychromos colored pencils were used for the subjects.
Don't do these things:
First mistake: After transferring the sketch to the paper, I decided it would be a nice idea to go ahead and mostly erase the detail lines, to make it more realistic. Wth was I thinking. I had to completely redo all the detail.
Second mistake: The three copics I used for the majority of this painting are completely ruined. I learned afterwards that using them on watercolor paper is a huge no no. So I had to go buy some more. @.@
Biggest frustration for me in this piece however....
I used liquid frisket in an attempt to cover the subjects as well as I can from the splashing of creating the background.
Unfortunately a lot of the blue came through.
So me and my artistic genius decided in my frustration to just color them over best I could with a Prismacolor (wax based lajdsfljasdjf) colored pencil.
IT IS A WAXED BASE PENCIL and copics are ALCOHOL BASED AHHHHH. I know better.
So, the copics just completely went around all of the spots, and I had to darken many areas far darker than I wanted to for the technique I wanted to try. Shame shame shame.
Last mistake: I was on a roll and decided to just take it with me in the car on the way to a baseball game in Phoenix with Chris. I was distracted the entire time and the very beginning layers of this piece suffered for it.
I'm super proud of myself for salvaging it, and creating something beautiful. Seems to be the theme lately.

Credit to for giving me the idea of painting a cardinal!!!
Enjoy.