Colouring Clara from Visible Image Stamps 1

 I am absolutely in love with Clara, the latest character stamp from Visible Image Stamps.

How gorgeous is she, all sassy and steampunky :)

We were having a conversation in the DT group about coluring her and I offered to do a tutorial to show how I coloured her hat, as larger white spaces can be scary.  Since I was doing the hat, I also did photos for how I colourd all of her so over the next few days I am going to share with you how I coloured Clara. I am no expert by the way!!

I like to colour from darkest to lightest, its personal preference, but I find I get a better effect this way.  My preferred cardstock is Diamond White from the Paperterie, and for my stamped images I use 300msg.

The first thing I do is decide where the light source is coming from, and I usually either go for top left or right as I find this easiest. 
So for this image the light is coming from the top left hand corner as I look at it.

OK for the hat I used aubergine, plum and amethyst promarkers.

Starting with the aubergine I coloured in a section of the hat that would be in the darkest shade.

Then I went over the aubergine and into the white space with the plum.

Then I went back in with the aubergine and darkened up the shaded area more.

 Next I went over the coloured area and into the white space using plum.

Finally I went over all the coloured area and the white space with amethyst.  I needed to work the amethyst into the plum quite well to make sure it was blended properly.

 Having done the top of the hat I coloured the band.  I like to work in small sections, the ink stays wetter and blends better I think.

I repeated the process - starting with the aubergine and going into the darkest parts of the band.

 

Then going over the aubergine and into the white space with the plum.

Then I reapplied the aubergine in the darkest parts ...

before adding more plum.

Finally I blended it all together using the amethyst.

Tomorrow I will be back with how I coloured her coat.

Supplies: 

Image:  Visible Image Clara

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Colours: aubergine, plum and amethyst