Some finished pages

I have finished my double spread of the brights Letraset promarkers as well as the back bleedthru page so here are my pages and I will post a review of the product soon.

Multiple Organisms - Orgasmic:



Cell Division:



I have also finished this page using some foam stickies that say Love and titled it 'Love Hurts':



And here is the front of a new bleedthrumanade titled 'Anger Riptide':

Cellular

Some of you may remember my first Elements post for July's Sketchbook Challenge, well here is the bleedthru now titled Cellular, finished today:

Elemental

I have finished one of my newest manades. Here is the front: Elemental which is also my first page for this month's Sketchbook Challenge theme Elements.

More Bleedthrumanade

Here is my latest Bleedthru page that I have just started today. I have doodled since this picture was taken but thought I would ask how you would doodle them...

Bleedthrumanade updates

Here are some more updates for my manades #3 back, #6 front and back and #8 front.

Progression

I have been working hard on my manades and they are progressing well, almost completed at least one side each of manade #6 and #8 so will post you pics of those soon...

Bleedthrumanade #3 front

I have finished this but really do no like it and am at a loss of how to save it...

Before and after, unfortunately no pic of just the colouring:

I think...

This may be finished...

Here is the front of Bleedthrumanade #7 before and after:



I think it is finished so it needs a name... Growth...

Bleedthrumanade #7 back - Turtle Play

I have finished another manade! Following the theme Pathways for the Sketchbook Challenge I went back to some pages from last month when I tried some new equipment, Letraset ProMarkers. I felt as though I had 'failed' my first attempts with a bleedthrumanade as shown beautifully by Molossus, so for this month my path led me back and I retried working with bleedthru. Here are the stages for Turtle Play, which used the promarker bleedthru from the previous page, fineliner 0.1, berol fine black pen, white stabilo gel pen.

Pictures are all clickable.

Before:


During:


After:


I was a little worried that the bubbles wouldn't show up very well but I like the faded appearance of some of them so to me it looks great! Thanks for the tutorial on bubbles Molossus! I didn't add any other colour to them but did use kidney bean shapes for the reflections.

Bleedthrumanade

Here is an update on one of my manades. When I turned the page sideways this is what I saw so I rounded off the bubbles and now I'm thinking I need to use my white gel pen to make them more bubble-like 'If I can' and then tangle in the background to make it look like water.

Bleedthrumanade WIP #6, #7, #8

Thought I would show you some of the pages I've coloured ready for tangling. I'm not sure about the stripey pages but I'm looking forward to the grey pages. Pictures on the left are the fronts and pictures on the right are the backs.





Here are a couple I've already started but am unsure how to complete/continue with as yet.



How would you tangle them???

More Bleedthrumanade #2

OK I previously posted my first attempts at using the bleedthrough from ProMarker pens by Letraset and today I have completed the back of my Summer page so here are front and back, you will notice that for the back I have turned the book up the wrong way.



What do you think???

Bleedthrumanade #1, #2, #5

Some of you may be familiar with Molossus and her Bleedthrumanade taken from the fact that letraset promarkers bleed through paper and provide a second page of colour to work on. She produces some fantastic images and after seeing a couple I wanted to have ago with my markers too. My first few attempts cosisted of 4 pages each one using a different seasonal set of promarkers, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Unfortunately I was unhappy with my results and have not as yet finished all of Summer, Autumn and Winter however after some guidance from Molossus here are the 3 manade pages I have completed. 2 for Spring and 1 for Summer using promarkers and a berol fine tip pen.


As I was unhappy with my attempt at dragonflies I found some pretty silver peel-off ones to cover them up a bit which made me feel a little better about the page.

Since these attempts I have seen more work my Molossus and have bought more pens to play with. This next manade I created today uses Comic art pack 3 Letraset promarkers, the fine-tip pen that comes with it and a berol fine tip pen. I love how the colours are very similar in tone but still provide contrast in colour.

Before and after - 'Inter-Gallatic':


I forgot to take a picture of the bleedthru before tangling so here is the finished page 'Book-marked' as it looks like a large ribbon is hanging down to bookmark the page.


I don't think my sketchbook is as big as Molossus' although I do appreciate the smaller fine tip pen to add finer details. These two pages also come under the sketchbook challenge as the theme this month is pathways, I used a previous pathway 'bleedthrumanade' but tried it again differently.
What do you think??? All pictures are clickable. Don't forget to check out Molossus' page!

Inspiration block???

Sandra has created a post of ways to break up bleedthru pages as a response to a comment I left on one of her amazing bleedthrumanade pages. It's a great way of avoiding artist's block as it's called and gives you some new things to try with your work.

Read more here.