Skintone Shading

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When you have all of your fashion illustrations, base skin tone filled in, we're going to go back and lay down their hair color, a little light shading. And for that, leave this color you have out already make it a little bit darker. In this color, I'm just going to add a little bit of brown. Mix it evenly. Just a shade darker is fine. See it didn't change very much, but that's all we need.

Same brush, I'm still using a number 10 round. I'm going to come back in and lay down the shadows around the outer edges of her legs. Really let the brush work for you. These round brushes are great, because as you leave the paper they create this very fine tip. So think about all the shapes on her body around the edges is where you'll have My shadow underneath these shapes and any limbs that are ducking behind, she can be completely shaded in. Same here, it's going to do the left side and the inside around her armpit.

Keep in mind the shapes you're making as you shade. Kind of the bigger and simpler, the better. You don't need to shade every single thing. Even here, I feel like that's not a great shape. I grabbed a little bit of water on my brush, and that's simpler. can just dot where her belly button is left sides of her feet and under her chin.

I'm going to just have little lines here as an indication of where her clavicle would be. And then I'm going to shave the left side of her face and her ears and same for the next figure. As much as you can complete the shape. By that I mean I started shooting this whole piece it is all in the background. I've shaded it all up to the top. Try to resist the urge to shave every single part and not quit Anything on this right side and I'm not going to do anything where her fingers would be going to try and make that recede into the background.

But always say underneath her chin, that will give it a little bit of depth. clavicle line I'm going to shade around where her nose would be and also under her eyebrows. So that will make her give her eyes a little more dimension. These lines don't have to perfect, the quicker the better. When you start thinking about it too much, it will get in your way. I'm going to shade underneath her sunglasses, good apical lines underneath her eyebrows and underneath her head wrap.

Remember to keep believing any weight that you have already left on your face. I'm just going straight to that center. And then I'm stopping about where the nose would be and that's all the shading you need on the face. It doesn't need to be too dark. All right, now I'm going to mix a little bit of color for her hair. I'm going to make her blonde and light.

So there's just a little bit of a yellowish orange color symbol. And that's a little too yellow, I think. So I'm going to add a touch of brown to it. You can remix after you've laid color already, just touch it up on the top and leave a little bit of space for where highlights would be in our hair. So don't completely color it in. Just kind of brush on some color.

See you Ready how this less yellow brownish color looks more natural. That's what we're going for. All right, excellent.

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