Part tuh-woo! I went ahead and chose black colored pencil to line my badges (oops... 9-Spot joins the party?). Most of my pens either bled or didn't give me the right look. Colored pencil had just the right amount of freedom and forgiveness!
I erased most of my base pencil until there were faint guidelines. Then once I had my lineart, I got to coloring with watercolors. This took about 2 hours to fill in both badges completely on one side.
When I was finished, I took a break to let them dry and I went over a few spots with some more black colored pencil. Afterwards, I made large cuts to free them from their notebook prison and I traced the pattern on the other side with my lightboard. (Highly recommend finding even a small one to use for art! It's a handy tool!)
Once both were front-n-back complete, I moved onto the paws.
Next time I'll discuss the final steps with vinyl (most tricky!) Hope you're enjoying it so far ;^}