Watercolor wash background with KOI Coloring Brush Pen

My dear friend Oyan Lok got me the amazing 24-piece KOI Coloring Brush Pen Set for my birthday earlier this year.

I was super tempted to get it myself when I first saw it. 

But due to budget constraint, I didn't.

So when I opened up my present and saw the Coloring Brush Pen Set, I was super duper touched lar!

Should have recorded down my unwrapping process, cause that girl wrapped it with tons of layers of newspaper!

And of course, it had other stuff in it as well.

I've been playing with it for a while already.

Most of the time, I use water brush together with the coloring brush pens.

I traveled to Thailand with it as well, because is more convenient compared to bringing my entire watercolor set which I did when I went to the Philippines.

Because I use it with water brushes, is fairly difficult to control the amount of water that will be disbursed by the water brush, thus the color kept getting out of line.

Despite that, I really like the wash of it.

I like how it looks very water color although is not our usual watercolor. 

So I thought, it'll make very pretty watercolor wash background and it really does!

Here's how I painted watercolor wash background with my KOI Coloring Brish Pen Set together with my water brush.

You are me and more

Sometimes you need to get through your fear to see the beauty at the other side

You are me and more

If you ain't scared of a croc biting on your face, you ain't alive

You can't get rid of fear, it's like mother nature, you can't beat her or outrun her, but you can get through it, you can find out what you've made of.

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The Good Dinosaur is a movie that I never thought will make me cry. And it did.

Arlo and Spot relationship is simple yet complex. 

Like any of our relationships.

They were each other's companion and comrade.

Though Spot indirectly caused the death of Arlo's dad.

At first, Arlo wants Spot to stay back with him because he got used to his companion.

But later, Arlo wanted Spot to leave because he wanted the best for Spot.

That selflessness that Arlo have for Spot is beautiful.

In the cause of helping Arlo to conquer his fear, Poppa Henry wanted Arlo to kill Spot.

Yet, it was Spot that helped and accompanied Arlo in the journey of overcoming his fear.

Poppa Henry started the journey with Arlo, but Spot was with him until the end.

The complexity of this relationship... is beautiful too.

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I thought of drawing Arlo and Spot just for the fun of it since I have time to spare.

I started sketching and it turned out better than I expected.

I then struggled if I should color it because I was afraid by adding colors, I'll ruin the sketch.

But since the message from the movie that hit my heart was to be fearless, I decided to do it anyway.

And it turned out better than I expected as well.

I wanted to leave it as it is with the same reason of not wanting to ruin it.

Showed to my sister and she encouraged me to color the background. And I did.

And now it looks complete. :)