Thursday, June 28, 2012

Coloring Inky Faces with Copic Markers

Good morning friends! It's Lesa, here with a coloring tutorial for you today!  I have been working very hard on my coloring lately, especially on faces of images.  The Inky Impressions images are PERFECT for coloring and shading.  I learned a lesson or two from several of my stamping friends and fellow Inkettes and I wanted to share those lessons with you.

First, you choose your image and stamp it in your choice of ink.  I tend to use Memento Tuxedo Black for almost all my stamping. And today,  I chose Lili's Cleaning Day as my image.

Lili stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Use E50 for all the skin and E21 for shading
Now I used to just take my skin colored marker and color in her face.  But, I recently learned that by using E50 and shading with E21 - it looks more natural. . .

I start by coloring in all the skin with E50. . .

All colored in. . .

Then, I take E21 and add a thin line around the edges where a shadow would fall. . .

See how the darker line adds shading to her face, arms and neck

Then I brush a bit of R20 directly on the tip of E50 and add her cheek glow


Just a dab on her cheeks - then you gently shade over everything with E50

Her finished face!
Ready for a project!

The key is not to be afraid of color. For practice, I simply stamp a bunch of different Inky images on scraps of white cardstock and start coloring.  While I know I'm not perfect in this, we all have to start somewhere and I hope this little tutorial will prove helpful!  Remember, practice makes perfect! Enjoy your coloring!



6 comments:

  1. Lesa, your coloring is really improving nicely! Thank you so much for sharing this great tutorial with us!

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  2. Your coloring looks wonderful. Thank you for the wonderful tutorial.

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  3. I really like that effect using those colors and will have to try this on my stamped images...thanks

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  4. fabulous must try this thank you Hugs Elaine

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  5. Thank you for a great tutorial. Its lovely to see how others colour and mix skin tones which I find quite difficult to do. Hugs Sheila.x

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