All right, we're back and we're ready to lay the base color down on our figures. I have my water, a rag, my paintbrush, and all the paints. What I've done it advanced is I have pre wet them so that when we go to grab the color it'll be much easier to grab it on to our mixing palette. If you don't have a mixing palette, please grab one it could be anything top of a Tupperware, plastic bag wrapped around a piece of cardboard, but the place where we're able to mix color will be important. I am going to start by painting in the lightest color first, which in this case is her skin tone. I'm going to mix a little bit of yellow, a little bit of orange.

We want kind of a peach color in the end. I've grabbed my Windsor yellow, Queen acronym gold Little Red. Any palette you have, just try and mix approximately this color. It should be kind of orange peach. So about there, when you figure it out what combination you need to make that color next kind of a lot of it. We will be using it the whole on all of our figures.

I have got a little too much red. So I'm going to pick it up with my brush, take it out, replace it with more yellow color correct as you need. And feel free to test out the color on a white paper if you don't know exactly how a look. We're going to be combining this with a lot of water so it won't be quite as saturated as this but this is the color tone we're going for. It's kind of a brownish orange. Make sure there is water on your brush already pick up some of your color.

And then you can begin to paint in the legs. Knowing that where there is a light source, it's going to hit the highest part, in this case the top of her thigh, and I'm going to leave that area white. So let the white of the page show through whenever you need to illustrate white and start lighter with this color than darker you can always go back in add more pigment pigment I'm just dotting on to where I've created a wet surface, but it is much harder to take color away. So start light. We will shade later on. This leg is sunken behind the other so I'm not going to illustrate the light source by leaving a spot of white just the leg that would be in front You'll have to paint fairly quickly, don't worry too much about where the edges go.

Just paint in the block of color. watercolor does begin to dry fairly quickly. So just get the color on there. And then move on to your next block. You'll notice I am painting in blocks. So where the clothing separates, that gives me a good stopping point.

So I don't need to cover the whole body with the color and worry about it drying in time. When you hit another block of color, it's okay if that is still wet and they're all still wet. That will create one block. If it is dry already, like the side over here. I'm going to leave a little bit of space between my new wet color and my own Dry color because if they touch, you will have something like this where they run together and they create a bleed mark. When it's still wet, you can erase it just by picking up that extra pigment simple.

But avoid that where possible and leave the blocks of color separate. Try and create an even amount of water as you go. This will create an even color. People a lot more water up here than down here. The area with less water will suck the area with more water and that's when you move the pigment around in a way that makes it blotchy like what's happening here. No problem.

If you see that happening and you bump into an area that's already pretty much dry. Just cover it up. Just bring the pigment all the way to the bottom. That's the best way to keep it from blotching Now, again with the light source, her bottom lip is where the light will hit. I'm going to keep that white. Also where her noses there would be a high point I'm going to leave a little blotch white.

Okay, good. move on to your next figure. Same general idea. This is the leg that's pushed behind Shelby completely painted in. Keep in mind whatever color you lay down will dry much lighter. With time and practice, you'll get a feel for the right shade.

But feel free to start light. You can always build Here's a little area where I forgot to erase my pencil mark. No big deal is not about perfection. This is for fun. I'm going to stop where I hit her chin. Let that dry come back later.

You can go straight up if you want. It's just about identifying how much time do you have before the water begins to dry. Here, we're gonna say a light source hits this part of her arm. We had a little white spot. Great. This is still starting to dry but I'll start at the top.

I'm going to leave her eyes white. So we have a little spot for the whites of our eyes paint around them. The bottom lip white. You could also leave the nose white there if you'd like. Just adding in a little bit of extra pigment and that will kind of disperse. Okay, third figure.

This leg is behind, lined up fully painted in And don't paint anything that's not skin. I know it's tempting to go straight down that line. But keep in mind, you know if that were white, we need to maintain the weight of the page. In our case, we'll make it black. That is the simplest way. Grab more water when you need it.

Whenever your brushes feeling dry, really make the water work for you. It's fast, it's easy. It's one of the reasons I like this medium. This shoulder is pushed back in space. You can start with that color being slightly darker. That's fine.

Same with this little part of her arm. Now I left a little bit of whitespace so they don't touch and the colors don't bleed. You don't need to illustrate every single thing you'll notice this one does not have an illustrated hand. That's fine. We don't need it. Here painting around the sunglasses and around the bottom lip.

Feel you don't have enough pigment Feel free to doubt it back in You'll see as you get to the end, why it's important to mix enough paint upfront and as you go you'll just get a feel for how much is too much and how much is too little I left a little spot of white here. I don't really like it, you can always just cover it in. Again, paint around her eyes just where her pupils would be. And around her bottom lip. Make sure all your edges are clean and even they should be fairly smooth surfaces. You see anything that's a little jagged, go back and fix it now before your water dries.

Okay, that is the first step.