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Fascinated

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I've devoted quite some time to this beautiful cat. (I purchased Tropical World by Millie Marotta and I love it).  I knew as I was doing his face that I was going to have a problem with the inside of his ears. So I thought, ok, just do them now in case it's a disaster. Well, it's a disaster.  Now, I think they might not looktoo bad in the photo but if you zoom in you'll see it. What do I do?  I've already tried to fix it but probably made it worse.  Any ideas?  I don't want to spend many more hours on him if he's not salvageable. And, let's face it, the rest of him so far is pretty gorgeous, IMHO.

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Curious

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I think the ears look ok.  If you have either a white pen or a blender pen or maybe even a blender colored pencil, you might try running that over the dark grey? in the center of the ears.   I don't think it's a bad color necessarily, but a little dark with the rest of the kitty so far.

I am boring and tend to make ear insides pink, so I like that you have gone a different route.

The cat is gorgeous.  I am definitely going to break down and order those books.   I gave my husband the task of cutting all the pages out of my non-perforated books when he's sitting around watching tv or whatever, so I can pick them if I want to.   I have an accordion folder that I use for loose pages (like stuff I've printed etc.)

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withaj

Oh wow! That's gorgeous! Love around the eyes. No clue what to do about the ears... way over my head!

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Fascinated

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Oh, crap, @Curious.  I have none of those items!  Does Michaels carry those types of blending tools?  I haven't seen them there. But, yes, I think that's what I should do. Thanks for the advice!

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I have gotten blender pencils at Michaels.  I've never looked for blender pens there, tbh.   I have a couple blender pens.  I got one from blick when I did my big order and one came with some pack of Sakura pens I bought.

I've never actually tried the pens, but I use a blender pencil regularly.   If you have a white marker or colored pencil you might be able to lighten the ears just by running the white over it a bit.   Or even a lighter shade of pen in some other color.   My first instinct is to try white, though.

Maybe a very light grey would work, as well.

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I like it!  It kind of looks like his ears are turned, listening to something.  I think you should just continue coloring the rest of him. Then again, I know nothing about coloring. But awesome cat!

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Well, here he is, finished.  Not a good photo etc.  His ears are still not great and it was a lot of work. I'm just glad it's over.  I brought him in on fumes.  My good pens are empty so I had to use my crap ones. They are anything but smooth. 

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