Frontpage Girl

When I start a new journal, sketchbook or notebook I always skip the first page.  It's intimidating to find something and do it well enough for the first page, you do not want to mess it up, but once you already have some pages filled it doesn't matter that much anymore.  Now that only the last page is left, it's time to tackle the first one!

I worked on this page's background together with the background for the last page. 

So first I added a blue acrylic wash to the top part of the page and stencilled some white circles on top. On the bottom part I added dark green stencilled ovals and a yellow green wash layer I also stencilled some dark purple butterflies, mostly on the top part of the page. They  belong in the sky after all :) On  the bottom part I stencilled some flowers (Classic Flourish Filigree and Stamping gear petals both  from Inkadinkado) with Archival inks. 

I made a bigger version of a simple girl face that I drew on day 10 of the #100dayproject. 

I colored her with copic sketch markers and added some finishing touches with Faber Castell polychromos and a white posca pen. She is glued down with a simple glue stick and the surround shadow is done with a tombow dual brush pen in the color grey (N45).

The quote is written with (the not waterproof) Pilot  V-Signpen And to spice it up I added a shadow with posca pens. 

For  the border I  used a bright pink posca pen and a pink Gelly roll stardust pen.