And here is the second tutorial to accompany this weeks challenge!
My equipment is very basic! These are the watercolour pencils (24) that I use and also the brush felt tips (30). The watercolour pencils can be used as ordinary pencils, but they really come to life when a tiny bit of water is added.
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For this tutorial I am colouring Polly Polkadoodle from the
Halloween download. I've started with a light and pale layer of colour.
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I've now added more definition to Polly's hat by dipping the nib of my pencil into water - I can now spread the colour more easily and also choose which areas I want to leave as highlights.
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To build up more intense and darker colours, I've used not only the blues but also greens and purples. I would not use the black at this point as to go too dark too quickly may spoil the overall effect.
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The same technique is then applied to her cape. Colour is built up slowly with greens, browns, blues and reds.
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Other smaller areas are now coloured.
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And only now (below) have I added a tiny bit of black here and there to provide a darker contrast to the colour. However, it is really the colour and it's depth that I want to portray which I feel provides a richer and deeper colour than using black as this can be a very flat tone.
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And here are the two images together that I coloured for these tutorials. Same technique applied to both images but different results due to the medium used.
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And this is the card I made with the Polly Polkadoodle image. Papers are also from the
Halloween download and the little fimo spider is made by me!
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Hope you've enjoyed the tutorials and that you'll be able to join in with the challenge this week!
What a fab tutorial Ruth, I'm sure lots of People will find this really useful!x
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