Copic Practice

I joined a site, Make It Crafy,  that someone recommended and have been practicing my coloring with copics.  One of the free images I received was Pipi.  The challenge was to color the image without black lines.  I was pretty happy with how it was going until my copics started to misbehave.  Have any of you had problems with the ink getting sticky, streaky, and shiny on top of the paper while coloring, making it impossible to blend, and basically ruining your image?  I usually only noticed this happening with the darker colors, but am now noticing it will happen with light colors as well.  Here is what someone recommended for cleaning copic nibs.  I gave it a try with one of my nibs last night.  I was surprised how clean it got.  Seems to have made a difference.  I am going to try it with some of my other nibs that aren't working so well.  I would love to hear from you if you have had any of these problems with your copics.

So this is the image I received.  I think it is such a cute image and it was fun to color.  I was going to make her hair darker, and started to do so, but then the ink gave me grief.  I messed up the 3 swirls on the left.  Then I took my colorless blender and tried to clean up the sticky ink.  That made a bigger mess so I tried to lift all the color from that spot.  It didn't all lift but I made due with what I had and recolored those 3 swirls as best I could.  The no black lines is a very unique challenge, in and of itself.

My next image is called sitting Jane and I purchased her here.  I lightened the image in GIMP and printed it onto SU Whisper White cardstock.  I started having difficulty with the sticky ink, so I used my Prismacolor colored pencils to the image to help with some of the shading.  I drew the brick wall and sidewalk to ground the image and am entering it into the Ground Your Subject Challenge at Make It Colourful.com.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and smiles,
Janice