In this next step, we will be putting the base color down on our fashion and figures. So get out your watercolor set or squash whatever you want to use. I have pre wet my paints like so, just putting a little water in each dish and that's going to help those colors be ready. When you go to use them. The colors will already have seeped into the water. Okay, so I'm going to mix a skin tone.

I want this to be kind of a tan color. I will be using kind of orangey shades but in the end we want it to look more like a tan less peach orange, so that's about good. And I'm mixed enough to cover all of my ladies. Just lay down a gym idea of skin tone doesn't have to be precise. And anything that might have a highlight I'm going to leave the white of the paper to show through. So for instance, where her nose would be.

I'm going to leave that and really just highlight around her lip area around the edges of the her face and her ear. I will color in her whole neck because that's going to be sort of in the shadows of her chin. This area under the feathers we don't have to color into darkly in a paint around them a little bit here. Keep enough water on your paintbrush so that it works fairly easily. You shouldn't have to labor to put the color down. If you put color in an area you don't want it and pick it up with your finger or a watercolor or a paper towel to blend up the watercolor like so.

That's just fine. All right, anytime you're working with transparencies, kind of lay in a little bit of skin tone, just lightly underneath where you might see it through sheer fabric just an indication I think that's plenty. Okay hair color. I'm going to use almost a platinum blonde. Can you use a light blue so it should be almost gray looking just a little bit good. And then I have a tear here that I like for color.

So this Louis by color inspiration Feel free to do the same or use mine. I'm going to lay in some soft yellows in the beginning with these shades for the feathers working into these kind of hibiscus lilacs towards the end and working in the extra colors for the feathers. So let's use maybe this soft pink on our First Lady. Going to mix up that color which is very soft and almost peach That's good, but you can see it's a lot too dark. So I'm just going to use a lot of water with it as I go. So my brush is filled with water I just picked up a little bit.

I'm going to lay that down here. Basically a solid coat over the whole dress. And then for the next figure I'll use these two kind of yellowy colors here. light yellow on top and this burnt yellow on the bottom. Every once in a while you'll get a color that looks one way on your mixing area and a different way on paper. So if you're not sure, test it in advance, see if it's about what you want and then you can start working with it.

Especially when I have these root areas, I'm going to leave a little bit of weight of the paper showing through just so we know that she's kind of a satiny material and we get those big highlights. Going to use that same monster that's still on my brush to be the base color of these feathers. Just soft and leave a lot of white showing through like so. And then I'm going to flip flop that pink to be these feathers. Again, soft, really use the tip of your brush. lifting it up off the page as you get to the tip of the feathers and don't fill them in completely.

Just get The idea of where they are like so. Okay, and now I'm going to use a slightly darker pink here on the next dress. That's kind of a terracotta undertone. Again, leave some little areas for those wrinkles in the dress She's going to have some really light pink feathers. But kind of go back in because some of these areas are too choppy for what I want, which is to illustrate something kind of silky. So I'm just going to make sure the edges are not too rough.

That's better. And we'll come back in later with a pen and refine these edge pieces anywhere it gets a little too Jagat Okay, and then maybe she is more of a lilac. I'm gonna grab a little bit of blue. Good. Okay, I'm going to use a lot of water on my brush with this color. As I go into illustrate the areas that have a little transparency And I'm just kind of dry brushing over those areas, so you can still see the skin tone.

And then for parts that are completely covered, maybe it's a double layer of fabric or the belts. I'm going to use more paint. So we completely cover those areas like so. And I've left just a little bit of whitespace between anything I want to highlight like where the one layer of her trench tucks into the other there In that sense, we're painting around some of these areas as much as we are painting them in the feathers here, let's use kind of a darker magenta color. All right, at this point, let everything dry and we'll come back to do our color shading