2012 Promarker Tutorials - Jeans

Evening all!  We're looking at Jeans tonight!  If you missed the tutorial on RED HAIR then check it out here!  When colouring images you just need to be able to identify light and shade then as you get more experienced you'll become bolder and more fluent.  You'll still make mistakes, we ALL do but it a case of just understanding the foundations of how light moves.  Look at objects, clothes, peoples hair, look how the light catches it, identify the direction of the light source and try to transfer this to your design.  There are however different styles such as manga which had a much more pronounced shadow with light and dark points meeting in a straight severe line whereas in the kind of images we tend to favour its much more blended.

By the way did you notice there's going to be some NEW PROMARKER COLOURS? *Grabs card, sells kidney....* hehe cant wait!


Onto the jeans now.  I'm again using IZZY by Di's Digi Downloads and again I've done 2 versions as as recomended the other night in my promarker tips post HERE have a play around and keep a note of specific colour combos you favour.  Like red hair, jeans has such a huge range of shades so I favoured this particular combo. 


PROMARKERS USED

1. POWDER BLUE
2. DENIM BLUE
3. COOL GREY 4



STEP 1 - Looking at Izzy's jeans, identify the highlight points, her left leg is in front of the right, there is a bump on the bottom of the jeans on the right leg, her bum, zip and around the pockets are all going to be a little more raised.  Colour in with POWDER BLUE leaving some white coming up from the raised point on the right leg, the bumps on the back of the left leg and the front of the left leg, pockets and zip as shown.



STEP 2 - Same as the hair tutorial, add in your mid colour in this case DENIM BLUE and colour over most of your powder blue 

STEP 3 - Add in your darkest colour, COOL GREY 4 - If you dont have greys you could use a darker shade of blue such as China Blue, make sure they're of a similar shade, e.g. denim is in the blue/greys

Add this in the shadow points so you'll see her top overhangs so that will be a shadow, inside of the pockets, down the stiching of the leg, inside the right leg and bottom of the turn ups.

STEP 4 - Go back to your POWDER BLUE and colour over all of the image leaving a small amount of white to blend in your colours.

STEP 5 - Repeat Step 2 and 3 going a little further into the lighter shade this time

STEP 6 - Blend over it with your POWDER BLUE covering over your white this time (Remember when you get to the bits you left white to just do 1 or 2 strokes over it.  If you feel you put too much colour over you can give it a swipe with a blender pen to take some colour off.

INTERMEDIATE

Right guys and gals you happy with that?  This one will show you how to add a little bit more depth and an extra fold.  You'll start very similar to the previous image but be a bit braver leaving some white space.  Using your POWDER BLUE, leave a lot more white this time and a little extra bit on the bottom of the right leg, more on the back of the jeans, more on the left leg extending up to the top and below the pockets.

STEP 2 - As before adding in your DENIM BLUE covering most of the POWDER BLUE

STEP 3 - Compare the pics of Step 3 from 1st tutorial and you'll see theres lots more lines of shadow, using your COOL GREY 4, go underneath those folds on the back of the leg, inbetween the 2 white patches on the right leg and add a bit more shape to the turn ups.

STEP 4 - As before use your POWDER BLUE to blend the colours and go over most of the white leaving part of the highest points untouched (back of jeans, front of left leg and the 2 on right leg)

STEP 5 - Add in more of your DENIM as before pushing in over the previous layer leaving some of the powder blue showing.

STEP 6 - Give a 2nd layer of your COOL GREY 4 but a little narrower than the 1st layer in some parts.

STEP 7 - Go over the lot with your POWDER BLUE leaving the whitest points until last then youre done!

Have fun and remember to play around with colours, make a note of ones you like or ones that didnt blend well together.  This one below uses turquoise, marine and petrol (coloured in about 3 minutes lol!)



End of the week news

Good evening all!  Its Friday hooray!!!  I can have a bit of a lie in tomorrow, not much but better than getting up in the dark!  Been a good week, have bought some new stash :D  Got some birthday pennies so got the classical instruments stamp sheet from The Stampman as its the only one of the collection I dont have and Ive always oohed and ahhhed over the samples I've seen and want to catch up on some birthday cards as I was really lax last year so making more of an effort this year!  BTW if you sent me a card recently I'll be mailling you personally in the next day or two.
I'm also waiting on some new Tildas, havent had any for ages so thought I'd go for them, waiting for Sir Stampalot to re-open after xmas so should come next week sometime.

Also got Queen Annes lace squares as I'm thinking alcohol inks :)  Got the flowers at the back from a LCS (Caroles craft) loved the look of the spirals, they would be easy to make with wire, tape and glamour dust.


Onto my shout out for tutorials - Yes Sheila we can do Teddy Bo's lol!  I have a few of them I havent used yet either *blush*

For jeans and grounding I'm going to use an image by Di's digi downloads called Izzy because she's cute. wears jeans, has a little dog, I can ground her and we'll cover red hair, I'd like to cover blonde through to black too over next couple of weeks.  She's only $2 (approx £1.29) so if you did want her to practice on she's easily available and wont break the bank though you can use any image you like.  We'll start these on Monday.

Well going to skidaddle, got to clean the fish tank again tomorrow uuurgh, if you ever think of getting a goldfish dont bother lol!  We won one at a fair and got it friends and they've cost a fortune getting bigger tanks and they constantly need cleaning as they produce a lot of waste so the nitrogen levels get high quick and the filter sponges and carbons don't last long.  Just had to move my 2 red capped orandas into their own tank in Staci's room as the original goldfish is nipping them and bullying them so they needed separating as orandas are very gentle.  Staci wanted red and black gravel so their tank looks quite funky now!  Next week will be a LED bubble curtain as it needs more lighting and the orandas love bubbles, see what I mean kerching!!


Oh before I go just interested if any of my followers are in the international mixed media postcard swap on Musings on realities?  I think there's over 100 playing so this could be interesting!  Dont panic you only make 10 lol but check it out!