H ello fabulous creative friend! Welcome to Winter Soul Flakes, a wintery snowy sparkly class with me, Tam! :) Hi! In this class I will demonstrate how to create 3 wintery lollipop girls with their whimsical friends in different skin tones. This PDF covers how to shade a dark skinned 'lollipop' girl and her bunny friend! We will also look at how to make a snowy, wintery, layered background and how draw pretty snowfakes. Yay! I hope you have a fabulous time in this class and if you enjoyed the class I hope you'll check out some of my other classes! Keep creating art. It helps create a happier and healthier life! :) Much love, Tam xoxo
Supplies Used for this Class Please note, below are the supplies I used, but you can substitute the supplies if and where needed if you don't have what I've used. Also: for skin tones I do not always the same exact colours. Experiment and play with your supplies and the variety of colours you have available to you. Supplies for a Dark-Skinned Lollipop Girl 1 sheet of 140lbs watercolour paper (16 x 12 ) - Brand: I used: Waterford & Saunders Graphite pencil for sketching (I use a graphgear 1000 by pentel, the lead I use is 2b, the width of the pencil 0.9 you don't need to have this pencil, just sharing what I used) Skin tone supplies and colours I used (substitute with different brands and colours where needed only listing exactly what I used in case you are curious): Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons, in the following colours: ochre + cinnamon + English red + brown + russet (sanguine) + burnt sienna + optional: reddish orange + bordeaux red Dabber (Ranger): hazelnut + cool peri Gold fuid acrylics: quinacridone nickel azo gold (or other deep orange/ brown acrylics) + quinacridone burnt orange Heavy body acrylics (Daler Rowney): burnt umber/ naples yellow Colour Pencils in violet, purples, dark reds, dark browns (the brand I use are prismacolor and luminance (caran d'ache) I also used Derwent inktense pencils in the colours of ink black, aubergine, reds and browns For facial features like eyes and mouth: Tombow Markers/ Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons in colour of choice For fne details: Black marker with fne tip: posca or signo-uniball/ White marker with fne tip: posca or signo-uniball + ivory marker (posca) For hair: tombow markers/ watersoluble crayons & ink in your colours of choice (I mix several different turquoises/ light blues) For the background: collage materials of choice (I use book pages, music scores, tissue papers) Water/ Brushes (I like 'pro arte acrylix' brushes) / Gel Medium (for gluing) Some heavy body and fuid acrylics in colour of choice White gesso + white ink or watered down white acrylics (for splattering) Brayer Stabilo all pencil or watersoluble pencil in black
shading a dark skinned face After you've sketched your girl & whimsical bunny (much like the girl and animals we did in the frst & second lesson refer back to the frst lesson PDF if you need a refresher on how to sketch a front facing girl + whimsical animal), start shading your girl. I start a light-skinned face off with a salmon/ pink type colour, a medium-skinned type face with an ochre type colour and a darker-skinned face with a darker or light brown (depending on how dark you want your face to be). In my particular case today the crayon colour I used was: russet (sanguine) or cinnamon, but any kind of medium to dark reddish brown will be just fne as a base colour. Go darker with your base colour if you want an overall darker skin or choose a lighter brown base colour if you want to go lighter. It's all up to what type of dark skin tone you're trying to achieve. Experiment and play with this.
I use colours from the eyes and mouth to add to the shading also as I do on all skin tones. I used colour pencils in dark purples/ browns and reds for dark shading/ details:
Highlights on a darker skinned face look more realistic if they are done with an off-white colour rather than a bright/ stark white. I used a marker with the colour 'ivory' to do my highlights. I did use some white here and there too though, but used it more sparingly. You can also use: titan buff/ light pale pastel blue or greys for highlights. I also used a naples yellow for highlights that were less prominent.
paying attention to detail when shading A face really comes to live when you pay attention to the little details. Small additional highlights, subtle gradient blending etc will add depth and intrigue to your face. So, adding little details is not something to gloss over! Some important details to include to bring your face to live more: Eyes the eyeball itself is rounded and will have a small shadow cast onto it from the upper lid. Little refective highlights in the eyes add sparkle to your eyes. The tear duct often 'bulges out' a little and therefore catches some light, hence there is often a subtle little highlight on it. The bottom and top eyelids both tend to be lighter in the middle than on both outer parts of the lids. Inside the tear-duct too there are sometimes some tiny small refective highlights.for highlights like this on a darker skin use ivory or titan buff instead of white. Nose Often the bits under the nostrils stick out a little and therefore catch some highlights. Also there can be a highlight right under the tip of the nose which helps with 'shaping the nose', the outer nostrils are darker and sometimes the entire nose casts a shadow onto the part above the upper lip. For highlights like this on a darker skin use ivory or titan buff instead of white.
Mouth Assume the upper lip is darker than the lower one, yet there are variations of darker and lighter segments inside both lips. The two 'bulging out parts' on the upper lip that we all have on our lips can be a tad bit lighter and the bit in between them both darker. The bottom lip is lighter in its entirety but tends to be a bit darker in both corners and the bottom of it too is darker. The bottom lip is the one that has more actual bright highlights. Adding those makes your mouth 'glisten' a bit. White is ok to use a light refection on lips for a darker skin tone. How to achieve smooth shading The way I like creating smooth shading/ blending is by using a semi-damp brush (avoid coarse brushes) and 'scrub' your paint gradually into the area where you want the smooth shading to happen. Flatten the head of your brush against the paper and scrub gently, experimenting with adding or removing water and alternating between using acrylics and watersoluble paints. Finishing the painting Following the same steps we undertook in the frst class, fnish your painting by adding colour/ shape to the hair, clothing/ wolf and background. Here is another basic step by step:
Add darker and lighter hair strands. Remember to make hair closer to neck darker, in this case I also added some ear muffs for extra winter fun, yay! Add collage to your background, overlap the collage into the hair, bunny and clothing, then add shading and detail to your bunny and clothing:
Continue to layer your background, follow the steps we went over in the frst & 2nds lesson. Add fun details to the clothing like big buttons and fower decoration:
add ear muffs & snowy splatter This girl's ears were looked after well with ear muffs. :) I painted them with white gesso and added splatter and sparkle with a white marker and white ink for splatters.
I continued to fnish off the background with stars and splatters. Don't gloss over this part of the painting, it's what pulls it all together at the end! :) And yay, the painting is fnished! :)
Here are some more close up shots:
Thanks for being here and trying out my suggestions. :) I hope you had a great time creating your own dark-skinned wintery lollipop girl with her whimsy friend! I appreciate you! Much love, Tam x Copyright Willowing Arts 2015 - www.willowing.org