Tag Drawing

In a recent post, I described my creative journey and showed some kawaii doodles that I did around 2015 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…