Abstract Cityscape - digitally colored with Gimp

 Before I discovered Color Pop AI as an AI Generator specialised on creating coloring pages I tried to create coloring pages with other AI Art generators. I still thought about coloring these pages manually - with my markers for example - and I was not too happy about the results. Then I decided to refresh my knowledge about coloring digitally with Gimp. There are quite a few videos on YouTube teaching you how to do it, and I decided to give Gimp a try.

Here is my first colored in image. The image itself was created with Leonardo AI. I learnt two things during the process of coloring:

1. It takes more time than coloring something manually. My graphic tablet is not working properly anymore, and I work on a laptop. That means that my right index finger is doing the work. 

2. With coloring an image digitally you can endlessly change the colors, try out new combinations and such. On one side this is okay; on the other side one is tempted to overwork the image.

With all that said I love the process! 

Cute Elephant - colored version

I mentioned in one of my latest blogpost that there is a AI Art Generator which is specialised on creating coloring pages. Its name is Color Pop AI. I created three coloring pages: a cute little elephant, a koi fish and an image showing a shoal of fish.

Now it was time to do the coloring. I gripped my alcoholbased markers and the sheet with the cute elephant. I've mentioned before in one of my posts that for me there is quite a difference between doing digital art and painting / coloring with a marker or a paintbrush: Whereas both for me are enjoyable activities, doing art digitally is less relaxing than painting the traditional way.  And: traditional painting/ coloring definitely takes more time! 

So I decided to throw in now and then something which needs a marker or a paintbrush.

The medium I used here are alcohol based markers. However, I plan to also use my waterbased markers without adding water. Actually I got many, many waterbased markers, and I am looking forward to my next coloring project.

Another cute owl

 This was a colouring exercise - I used my gouache paints with this cute little owl. I found this owl as  colouring page on the internet, so I could totally focus on the colours. I once watched a video where the artist recommended doing that for getting better with watercolours - but why not doing the same thing with gouache paints?

Cute owl

Owl, colored with Gouache

I found this cute owl coloring page on the Internet, used it as a drawing reference and coloured it with Gouache.