This free time and having books to read thing kinda lead me to the funny idea of “what about making a book marker?”
It’s been a long time since I drew, well, tradicionally, and I was completely void of ideas. So I started doodling and going with the flow, maybe something nice would show. What about Angela on one side and Mikhail on the other, hein? The doodle itself took a long time to get done, especially because since I hadn’t drawn in ages, I had trouble with the faces. Those eyes were killing me.

Inking the lineart was another adventure, I tried some ideas and gave up on others and I couldn’t stop thinking about how I would have many many changes to screw it all up. But it was pleasant in the end, especially Angela’s hair:


I was getting fond of the B&W piece. But it was time for some colors – I added some base ones with these Staedtler colored-pencils, which happened to be a terrible choice. They were making the painting the most horrible task ever. Geez! At least the hair managed to look cool.

I gave up on these pencils and went for my sister’s Caran d’Ache. According to her, a nice effect shows up if you add water, so I had to give it a try. Downside was that I had already painted a bit with the other pencils and it was keeping me from doing all the wonderful things I now know I can. But I came to like the result! Not so bad at all:

OMG COLOR :D
And then it was just a matter of sticking the image to the card and plastify the whole. I added a few nail-cuties-thingies which nobody really uses so it would look more interesting. Deep down, I managed to screw things a lot less than I thought.
