While that's drying, let's go back through and shade our skin tones. So a peachy tan color you probably still have some mixed on your palate maybe in these corners here and with not too much water, I'm just going in to indicate where the shadows are keeping it consistent with the rest of the group so the shadows are on the left hand side. You can choose your own light source, just make sure it's consistent. Anytime there's an overhanging edge like that, it'll cast a shadow. Also, the neck is always shadowed by the head and I'm touching just underneath the eyebrow, underneath the hair and the bottom of Which is shadowed by the top lip. Especially for the face, make sure this color is not too much darker and your original color.

Technically you could use the same color and because you're working in watercolor and it's kind of like stack layers of color, it will it will create that shadow you need. Here with the side view, I'm only shadowing like her ear and up to where her cheekbone would be. Grab a little of this black with your brush, which is easy to do. Just blot it off before you move on, or you'll carry that grayish tone all through the next thing you you work on. All right back to our first box for we want to make this black so I'm going to move to a smaller brush. Any any teeny tiny brush would do.

This has some nice, really fine hairs. It's Windsor noon, I think it's squirrel hair. Whatever you have around us fine, but the finer the better for for. So I'm reaching directly into my black. And you can see there's very little water on my brush so that it'll give us these really delicate little flower lines. And we're looking to kind of cover up most of this with the black and just leave some space to make it really looks shiny and we want the first sheet to be kind of rounded around her body.

It's what foxes do. And then maybe it's completely black where it's wrapping around her neck. Because that's the shadow area. Just delicate little first back there. Maybe just a few pop up and out before it starts to round around her neck. The first should be pointing generally downward to make sure you get it a little variance.

All these tiny little lines. Okay, I work together. Good. There we have that. While I had this small brush out and the black on my brush. I'm going to paint the dots of the leopard.

Again with fairly little water. It's going to go in and paint over the tops of those shapes we already laid out for ourselves. Keep in mind When you're painting shapes, don't be afraid of coming right to the edge. And I'm working in kind of straight brushstrokes, but when I need to cover more ground, a circular motion helps with that. And a fun thing to do after you've done this lesson if you want to try working with colored furs or you know there are some really fun, like bright red or hot teal. For colors, you can try different combinations and really have a fun time experimenting Okay, so there we have our leopard, I'm going to move on to this next shearling, I'm going to grab my big brush again and take a total darker to what we already have on that paper.

And then I'm going to come in especially around the edges, just a dotting and curling those lines around. A little more on the left then what we'll do on the right and if this back arm is shadowed are going to pretty much cover her all the way and then it really starts feeling like for The darker you go on this top layer, the more dramatic it will feel. Just really make sure you've nailed your technique. Once you go dark, it's kind of hard to remove it but I am using it in these creases or areas where I need a little definition from one place to the next. Good we'll also do another layer on top with our pen for finishing and that will help us really come alive. Next, I am going to grab my small brush with my black again and do this whole fox fur just like we did over here.

Yes teeny tiny little fine lines. We're going to make it look really full and shiny by leaving down the center area here. The most light tones come over the buckle a little bit there. And then underneath the buckles pretty much all black. Just take your time. I really like what's happening here at the bottom so I'm not going to completely fill that in.

That's going to give the inclination that for draping down I'd be the light catches it and it gets lighter there. And then back here will be black. Underneath the shade of that fox fur on the front Now as we come out to the edge, maybe see a little further detail. Good. Going back to my bigger brush here I'm going to mix the color that's a little bit darker than the tan. We already have that I'm going to keep very little water on my brush.

If you have to blot it off, please do. And you can even stretch it out with your fingers like this. And I'm just going to brush on those top furs. The more unruly the fur, the easier it is to paint it. See how fast that was. And then while I have this tan color, I'm going to do a little bit of shading, just where we need it around that lapel.

It's going to catch a little the shadow where it crosses over the fur and where the back of the neck is. And maybe underneath where the crease would be. Okay. also getting a little bit of shadow to these dresses and then also to these booties right I'm going to make this belt brown here, kind of a darker brown to go with her neutral palette. Going to make her eyes blue, just a little.in the center. Not a lot, you should barely see this.

Alright, almost there. Last step, I'm going to take a darker brown than our hair tone and lay in some shadows. Not a lot. Just a few Concentrate on making whole shapes rather than teeny tiny little hairs. The more you do that the less real it will look. Just because from this distance you don't really see all the little hairs you might see a couple highlights but you're generally seeing shapes from this distance.

So I catch myself All the time wanting to do these teeny tiny little hairs and then to go back and wipe them out okay?