To start our second seahorse, we're going to use cool tones as opposed to the warm tones we use in our first illustration. So to do this, I'm going to create a very saturated area of my seahorse and I'll go over most of it. Again, I'm not getting too close to the little spaces on the outlines here, the crown or the back, but I am bringing my water all the way throughout my image. And then we'll mix my color I want this to be a super subtle color. So I'm going to put some water on my palette, and I'm going to take a little of this Ultramarine Blue mix the eat the smallest amount of vermillion hue with that. And now I'm gonna switch to my smaller brush so I'll remove as much pigment as I can And I'm going to switch to my number two brush.
And we're going to pick up a lot of pigment here. And I'm going to work on the outline and letting that color bleed in on the area that we wet on our illustration. So again, I start all on the outline here. I love how it feathers in and bleeds in. work my way on the tail. And I'm working right up to the pencil marks where we created using our template.
And on the areas here that aren't bleeding, or blending, I'll go in there with some clear water on my brush. And just let that blend. deposit a little more pigment here and there on the edges just to create that shape. And then I'll continue over here. depositing that very light color and it will dry even lighter and be very subtle and cool. After I have all these little sections on the back, go in there with some water.
Just help that color to run. Pick up more of the pigment. Go around the outline and continue on the head here. Again, I go in there with my brush with clear water just to help that color move along and blend. Picking up the last of my pigment to finish up the little face area here and the head And once again making sure the color blends. So now we have a very subtle color, we have a little deeper pigment on the exterior of our shape and I can go in there and just deposit a little more color here and there just to make the edges darker and so that way the center will be our lightest color.
And once I'm happy with that, I'll let this layer completely dry. There we go. We'll let this dry.