All right, let your fashion illustrations dry. Everything on your page should be dry at this point and we are going to start laying the foundation of swimsuits. I'm going to make the swimsuits black. So the foundation should be slightly lighter than black, just like we did with the skin tone. We'll go back in we'll lay in some shadows and make it a little more interesting than gray. I've mixed up a little bit of a blue gray here so you can see the color is not quite completely black.

It's a little blue. And you want this to be fairly dark. But just go in, in color in your shapes. With this grayish blueish color, you can color them in completely. If it gets too difficult to be precise, you can Switch to a smaller brush at this point. This is where we're going to start doing more detail work.

So that's about the color you want. I'm not leaving any white space like we did before in the skin tone on a black color, you probably wouldn't see a highlight in bright white. The highlight will be this base color and we're going to paint around it. However, on her sunglasses. I will leave a little white because plastics a very shiny material. All the glare would be really bright there more so than on fabric.

So just leave a little bit of white around her, I lost rims, and we will go back to perfect that later that this stage you will probably think to yourself, Wow, this looks terrible. There is a stage at every watercolor painting where you question if it's going to be okay, this is that stage Do not worry. It will all come together. After we completely shade and outline these figures. Nothing to worry about yet. It will look like crap at this stage.

So here where my strong suit is gonna hit the bow. I will leave a little white space. It's not meant to be a highlight. It's just so that you can See where the swimsuit stops and the boat starts. It's kind of a technique just to add interest to the drawing. And I'm going to leave a little bit of space.

Just outline where the, the ripples of the bow would be here. So take your time illustrating those. And here it ran together a little bit. That's okay. Don't worry about it too much. I'm leaving that little whitespace between the bow and the swimsuit as small as possible.

Don't worry if yours looks different, it just takes time and practice. her heels are basically just little triangles. If you do paint into an area you didn't mean to grab a paper towel, dab it off, wait for it to dry and go back over it later. When it's completely dry watercolor is fixable, you just have to get to it before it dries with a paper towel. Meaning a little bit of extra whitespace around where the rim would be and for a glare at the eyeglasses and the bows again, leaving a little bit of whitespace to show where the wrinkles will be. Just make some soft organic shapes, they don't have to be symmetrical.

They don't even have to be completely realistic. Just make some interesting shapes there. Most of the wrinkles of the bow will happen towards the center. So as you get to this outer edge, it should be a solid point of color. All right, you can see here where the water has dried into an area that we didn't really want it to. With a little bit of water on your brush, you can try to kind of blend it in.

If that doesn't work, don't worry. We'll cover it up in the next round. If you've made it this far, great job, stick with it. We'll be right back.