New Art Supplies - February

This weekend, I went and picked up a few art supplies:

I picked up a Pigma Micron 005 in blue because I wanted a blue pen for inking, and I also wanted a thicker black, so I got a Pigma Micron 05 in black.  

I've been wanting the R27 Copic for Spider-Man. I already had R20, R22, R24, and R29, so the new marker helped to round out that blending group.

I also picked up a couple of blue Copics - B23 and B26 to blend with B24.

Since I had new blue and red markers, I decided to draw Captain Britain:

Copics used: E00, E11, B23, B24, B26, R24, R27, R29, and black (100)

I needed a few pencils. Here's what I drew with them (as well as some pencils I already had):

I drew this from a Ucan Draw tutorial on YouTube.

 I drew this from a Ucan Draw tutorial on YouTube.

Copic Collection

I haven't posted much to my blog lately. I've been busy making art and I need to make more of an effort to post it here.

If you want to see what I've been drawing, my Twitter feed has lots of pictures.

I thought that I would show you my current collection of Copic Markers. Of course, there are many more that I want, but it takes time to grow a collection.

Here's what I currently have:

 

 

 

 

Video Game Birthday Party

Last year, we had an awesome Minecraft birthday party. This year, we had a video game themed party.

Here is the invitation that my mom made in Photoshop: 

We had the party at Re-Play Games. The party room had systems for Wii Us, PS4s, XBox Ones, and XBox 360s.  

Our cupcakes were simple: bright icing and video game characters and icons taped to pop cake sticks. 

We enjoyed putting together the goodie bags. Everyone got a Death of Wolverine comic, and then we found some Marvel pencils and erasers. We added some candy - Mario candy, gold coins, and hearts (for Legend of Zelda).  

My mom also designed a bookmark in Photoshop after seeing something similar on Pinterest.

I also drew an ATC of a comic book or video game character for each of my friends.