Colouring Clara from Visible Image 4

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.

For the top I used burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise promarkers - I love orange and purple as a colour combination.


I started with burnt orange and outlined the darkest areas on the the right hand side of her top as I look at it.

Then I added the orange over the top and into the white space, remembering she is a girly so there is shading elsewhere!

The I worked bright orange over and into the white space, paying attention to where the lightest parts would be - namely on her chest!

I defined the shadows again using burnt orange,

And blended them in using orange.

Bright orange was worked over and into some of the white space left, 

 before I went over the top using tequila sunrise.

Tomorrow I will be back for the final instalment on how I coloured the umbrella and hat band.

Supplies: 

Image:  Visible Image Clara

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Colours: burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise