Just a colored image of the original. I printed it out on nice card stock then Le Gasp!!! I used the poor mans colored pencils to achive all the blending and coloring. Yes I used cryola pencils. It is posisble you don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to blend colors and get a really nice result. It takes alot of patients however because because you have to be very light with these pencils and add lots of layers little by little.