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All right, our next step will be to put in shadows on the hair. And also in the eyes. I'm going to mix just a brownish, yellowish color here should be darker than what we've already used on the hair. No way to go in and just shadow in large areas around the hair we've already placed. Make sure you leave some of the color you've already laid down. This is really just in the under portions of our fun and on the sides of her hair.

Do your best to use your small brush for this Good. Once that's done, I'm going to grab a little bit of bright blue, and I'm just going to dot around where her eyes are. Make sure you don't cover up the whole space of her pupils. Leave a little room for a white glare. doesn't have to be perfect just to get some color in the right neighborhood. I'm also going to take a color slightly darker than her skin tone and go back in and just paint her lips, just the top lip and a little bit underneath the bottom left.

That's all we need. At this point Her face is essentially done. We will go back in and add some pen over the top. But let's move to illustrating the swimsuits. I'm going to use a sharpie, you could also use a papermate flair. For this sort of a job.

I think the broader tip of a marker is good. And I'm basically going to Sharpie around the areas that I want to highlight hovering in the majority of our bikini. So think of where the light would hit. I'm imagining a light source from the top left corner. So you could see here where hip bone becomes highlighted, but anything that's rolling underneath or around the sides of her should be completely black. And also with the bows.

Give them a nice outline and maybe highlight some of those ripples like so. We have a little spot at the Center for where the knot is. You can do this with your paintbrush if you prefer. I find it a little straightforward and faster to do with marker. But do what works best for you. Still leaving a little bit of space around that bow and my marker is running out of ink.

So I will show you how to do this with a paintbrush and you'll have all the tools To decide what's right for you. Alright, so this is pure black, it's fairly saturated as you can see when I drag a little bit of it out and I'm with my 10 round brush. Same general motions as what I was doing before, just coloring it in with the black. If something doesn't work for you just cover it up totally fine. Same idea with the bow paint around the edges. Leave a little center not And leave some white area in the middle.

Perfect. I'm also going to go back with A finer pen just to color in her sunglasses. Today I'm using a Prismacolor 005 marker, it has a very fine tip. You could also use a ballpoint pen. Alright, and I'm going to just outline the edge, give it a nice crisp roundness. And then I'm going to illustrate an inner circle where the lens would be and colored in all but that little highlight, we've left That's it for the sunglasses.

I'm going to leave the lips nose everything soft as it is. But for the eyes, I will give her a little bit of definition on her eyelashes and her brows and just a flatline right underneath her pupils. I would say don't color in completely the eyes. You don't need to add any black into the iris. It doesn't need to be to define defined there. Just the outer edges just to indicate where her eye is.

Okay, see with these sunglasses around the outer edge and then inner rim for the lens. color that in except for your highlight. To find the bridge, same thing over here. Great. Last step we are almost done. My favorite tool for this is a Paper Mate flare pen medium.

It's just a fine tip marker. It's a nice size, but you can experiment you could use a fine point Sharpie you can use a ballpoint pen as well. I'm going to go around the outer edges, not all of them just to really make it pop and give it some definition. So definitely around the left side of her legs. Anywhere the swimsuit outer line is sloppy I'm going to highlight, make it nice and crisp and even. This is a great tool because it allows us to not worry too much as we go in the watercolor.

This is the last step that will really make it crisp and even. So anything you need to highlight, if it's good, it's good. And if you don't have to go over it, it's fine. I'm not going to focus too much on her arms. If you get a little bit of watercolor on yourself, make sure you clean it off, because you can stamp it around the page if you're not careful. I'm going to go around just the left edge of her face and highlight her.

Again, just on the left side. You don't have to do at all. I think that's good. And then for the bows outline them a little bit just to give it a crisp clean edge. This is a good opportunity to highlight anything you're particularly proud of. So you have these fingers here, you really want to show them off.

Get them a little outline. If you like the way her neck turned out anything you want to draw the eye to. Now you'll see I left a little white around the outside, that's an organic shape so it doesn't have to be too perfect. Just kind of get a little added interest there. really lightly on the face it's easy to overdo it. If you're not exactly in line with your original drawing, that's fine.

Fashion illustrations are meant to be quick and easy. The more you practice, the quicker they'll be. Alright, that's it. I hope you've enjoyed the class. Please join me for my other fashion illustration courses and we'll see you next time.

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