Finished Delilah the Koi - Coloring Techniques Included

Meet Delilah, the koi fish. This beautiful drawing comes from the coloring book, "Coloring on the Go," artist unspecified. I named the fish "Delilah" for no particular reason. I used only six mediums on this - two staedtler triplus fineliners, two sargent brushtip markers, & for the background, a blend of baked eyeshadows (blue & green.)

I've had several people comment positively in the past on my use of eyeshadows in my colorings & art. It is an easy to use medium as I only use my right index finger or pinky. I found this baked eye shadow some time ago at kmart for a good price. Compared to the other background choices like chalk, art stix, etc, etc, with eye shadow you have a more diverse range of colors to chose from. Not to mention it's a great way to use up eye shadow remnants or eye shadow you don't wear. Waste not, want not, right?

Here are a few work in progress pictures:

^ Had just started in with the orange fineliner.

^ More work complete with the orange fineliner.

^ Began with the hot pink fineliner.

^ Finished with the hot pink fineliner.

After the fineliner work orange marker work began. Then I added in the yellow marker where needed for bold effect and also used the yellow to blend the ink of the fineliners on the tail & other places.

The eyeshadow background was done last. This coloring took close to three hours & not completed in one sit down but over three days. The initial fineliner work was the most tedious tedious & my hand got crampy.

Thanks for visiting & I would love to hear from you in the comments section. I almost used an only blue background but appreciate the green tonality, suggested by my boyfriend, acheived by mixing the two colors.