Kawaii Q Doodle

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In a recent post, I described my creative journey and showed some kawaii doodles that I did around 2015/2016. What have I been doing lately?

I wanted to do another one with the doodles as an illuminated letter. Naturally, I chose to use a Q. If you didn’t know my name is Quanita, everyone just calls me Q. It’s not as unusual as even I thought; one place I worked at they had to call me Q2 because there was already a Q that worked there; and this also happened in a social circle I joined a while back because they also already had a Q. With me this started because nobody would say my name correctly, eventually someone called me Q and it stuck.

Here is the pencil sketch, with some of the inking commenced and the completed inked doodle. I use uni pin fine liners (usually 0.2) and ironlak fine liners for inking and my favourite pencil (I have 1 using HB and one using 4H graphite) is the Uni Kuru Toga

I thought it would be fun if I used 3 different methods to colour in the Kawaii doodle monogram.

Doodle Coloured Digitally

I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to do the colouring for the version below.

Doodle Coloured in Coloured Pencils

The materials I used for colouring this version are listed below. I love the Qili coloured pencils, I bought them from someone who orders Chinese products online and sells them locally here on Facebook marketplace, I got mine for $30AUD, which is cheaper then ordering a single item from an ebay seller. It is also cheaper than the 100 colour Crayola set which is about $35 here in Australia. I have had a look online and have seen some 150 sets but the numbering is different mine and they do not have colour-names on them. (what I mean is number 97 in my set is not the same as 97 in the 150 set). For this reason I am not linking to the Qili option below.

Materials used:

Doodle Coloured with Alcohol Markers

This one I did with alcohol markers, I don’t have a full set of any specific type I have collected second-hand ironlak, Copic design (bullet tips) and new Copic Sketch, Copic Ciao and I also have Mepxy markers (both bullet tip and brush tip). I created a combined swatch chart using all my markers so I use this when I select markers for blending. I also used X-press It blending card for this, so either my markers don’t play nicely with each other or I suck at blending alcohol markers. I will not be providing prizes for guessing which one applies.

Materials used:

Doodle Coloured by Astrid (age 4)

She used a limited Palette and I think it looks amazing, don’t you?

At the moment I am most comfortable with colouring with colour pencils and least comfortable with digital colouring. I am not overly enamoured with my attempt with alcohol markers either, but happy to show all the versions.

Which one is your favourite?

What would your preferred method be?