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.
This is the final instalment of my tutorials on how to colour Clara.
For
the hat band and umbrella 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 hat band and inside the umbrella.
I then went over those areas and into the white space with orange,
And then with bright orange.
I added depth to the shaded areas using burnt orange.
And blended it using orange.
I added burnt orange to the outer part of the umbrella, thinking about where the darkest parts would be.
Then I went over then coloured parts and into the white space with orange,
and then bright orange.
I then went over with burnt orange followed by organe to darken up the shaded areas. And added bright orange to more of the white space.
Finally I blended everything together with tequila sunrise.
Tomorrow you will see the card I made using Clara ;)
Supplies:
Colouring medium: promarkers
Colours: burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise
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