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1. Introduction: Hi, lovely and creative people. And welcome to my class. I'm Kane, a super
passionate individual who just enjoys creating
beautiful things together. In this class, we'll create an amazing fashion illustration
with watercolor pencils. We'll learn how to
sketch the model, how to design the dress, how to color the painting. Of course, we'll
learn how to add water to our pencil sketch. And as a final touch, we'll play with some
metallic glitter to make our painting even
fancier and glamorous. The goal of this
class is for you to create a beautiful
wall art in less than 30 seconds
with little to no technical skills
and some bravery. Without further ado.
Let's jump straight into our first lesson
and prepare our desks
2. Supplies: First things first, we'll need a regular black pencil
and watercolor papers. Watercolor papers are
like thicker papers, just like canvases, so that they can absorb water and
not tear apart easily. The next item that we'll use
would be watercolor pencils. In my case, I'll be using the Fabri Castle
watercolor pencils. If you don't know,
watercolor pencils look like regular pencils, but as soon as you add
water to the sketch, it blends really well and
looks like watercolor. Next we'll need a glass of water and a couple
of tiny brushes. Of course, for the final
stage of our painting, we'll need some
metallic litter paints. Usually they come in
various different colors, but you can use them as
per your preferences. Once your desk is all set, we can move to the next lesson.
3. Inspiration: To start, the most
important thing you need is a good source
of inspiration. And it can be anything
ranging from, I don't know, nature elements to
maybe celebrity photos or just your own clothing. Or maybe just a color palette, the combination of colors. That's just really
appealing to you. Because you can make
fashion illustrations with anything in this world. You just need to follow your imagination and
trust your hands. Because sometimes all
you have to do is just start and trust the process
and the rest will follow.
4. Sketching: Face & Body: Hi and welcome back. In this lesson, we'll begin by sketching our models
face and body. For this, trust me, you don't need to be an expert
in human anatomy. You don't even have to
be a joder professor to figure out the
proportions perfectly. Let's start from the middle of the paper and draw the face. Remember, it's just
an illustration. Nothing is scary. It's not a realistic portrait of a human. We can create our own
model however we want. She can have a small face, a really long neck, collar
bones as big as you wish. Nice little shoulders,
long arms, and so on. It's important to
remember that your model can have flaws and you
can show some features, emphasize the outer
features and hide others. We don't have to draw
every single detail. As long as our drawing
somewhat resembles a body, will you? Small and gentle movements? No special techniques. We just gradually add
features to our drawing. She got a jaw line, a neck. Let's give her a heart
shaped neck line and a small little corset. If you notice, I didn't
give her a complete face. She doesn't even have
eyes, just lips. And that's completely normal. It all depends on what
you're trying to highlight. In my case, it's going
to be her dress. Just like our legend, Bob Rose loved to
say, it's your world. And in your world,
you can be whoever you want and create
whatever you want.
5. Sketching: Dress: Hi and welcome back. In this lesson, we'll try to design a dress for our model. Now this is where you need to forget all the boundaries of your imagination and just
design however you want. For my girl, I gave her
nice hips and curves. I added some ruffles
to her dress, and I'm trying to add like an extra layer to make it even fancier and ready
for the red carpet look. Now this part, this
lower part of the dress, it's easy like whatever you do, it's going to work and it's going to look like
a masterpiece. It can be a tight skirt, it can be a Rmi skirt, it can be this big roughly
skirt that I'm drawing. It doesn't matter. Whatever
you do in the lower part, it's going to look good. Just follow your imagination. Let your hand draw
whatever it wants. The dress will create
itself as long as you're creative and as long as you're not
scared of anything.
6. Coloring: Face & Body: Hi and welcome back. Now in this lesson, this is where the fun
part begins because we'll start to
color our drawing. We'll start by coloring
her face and her skin. We'll use a dark
brown color first, we'll try to color
the shadowed areas. I'll use a darker brown shade. And by the way, for the skin, you can
choose any color you want, ranging from the
lightest possible page to the darkest possible brown. It all depends on what
look you're going for. In my case, I'm
usually going with a dark brown to start
coloring the shadowed areas. Usually I do the shadows on the left side and the
highlights on the right side. Gradually, I'll start
picking lighter colors and filling the gaps
next to the shadows. Don't worry about
the blending part. You can just like add the colors on top of each
other or next to each other. It doesn't matter
because as soon as we add the water
to the sketch, it's going to blend
really nicely. Also, don't worry about having white spots because
white space is our best friend when
it comes to coloring a sketch for the highlights, we're not even going to put any color on the
highlighted areas. We're just going to
leave it white and it's going to look
so good at the end. Now with this
orangey brown color, I'm just coloring her
corset in hips area just in case because we haven't
decided what color is our dress going
to be in case. It turns out to be see through. We want to make
sure that we have some skin color showing
from underneath the dress. That's that. Then by pressing
the pencil a bit harder, I'm trying to darken the
shadow areas even more. We want to make sure
that all of the details, especially the ones
that we want to emphasize, are really showing. Then I'm going to pick a red color just to
give her some lipstick. And notice that I didn't even give her
a distinct lip line. It's just a resemblance of
lips and it's really nice. In the next lesson, we're
going to color her dress, and that's the real fun
part. I'll see you there.
7. Coloring: Dress: Hi and welcome back. In this lesson, we're
going to color the dress. In our illustration, the dress is the key element
in our drawing. We want to make sure to
choose amazing colors for it. There are countless and endless
options to choose from. When it comes to coloring
the dress for this project, I will go with the blue shades, but you are free to pick
any color you want. Just make sure you have a few
variations of that color. As you can see, I've
chosen blue shades, lighter blues, darker blues, blues, neighboring color
are lovely purple. Again, we will use the darkest shades for
the shadowed areas, for emphasizing any lines,
fabric overlays details. In this particular case, I use this dark blue for the
left side of the corset and I'm going over the outlines and coloring some parts
of the ruffles. I'm basically drawing
the same pattern and shapes that I drew
with the black pencils. And the only
difference is that I'm putting different blues
next to each other. I'm trying to fill the dress with the same tactic that
we used for the skin. We'll swap the colors and
keep filling the dress. We can color it fully, or we can leave
some parts white. And it's also okay to not blend the lines and
have distinct patterns, because in our next lesson, we'll blend the parts
we want using water. And trust me, it is the
fun part in all of this. Now I'm choosing this
lighter color of blue and doing the same thing that I did with the darker shades. And we'll be doing
this over and over again until you're
satisfied with the looks. I'm trying to mix the
colors together or just filling any empty gaps
that I find necessary. But I'm not like pressing
the pencils and trying to cover everything Again, I go back with a darker color. I'm just adding layer on top of layer and layer on
top of layer just to make sure that I have
this distinction between the darker areas
and the lighter areas. Again, I'm emphasizing the parts that are in between the
layers of the ruffles. It means these areas are
darker because the ruffles are overlapping together and there is no light in those areas. That's why I'm making
sure that those areas are covered in
dark purple color. With this purple color, again, on the left side, I'm pressing a bit harder just
to get this darker color. These pencils are really,
really pigmented. But again, for this differentiation
between highlights and shadows, sometimes we need to
press a bit harder and sometimes we need
to go a bit lighter. I'm giving some night
blues to her head piece. They look like flowers. And I'm also adding
a nice earring. Looks good. The next lesson, we'll add water to
our sketch and it will tie everything
together. See you there.
8. Add H2O: Hi and welcome back. Now that we have our
illustration almost completed, it's time to add water to it. I'll be using this tiny brush
to blend the small details. First, I'll dip the
brush in water, squeeze it a little bit, and start going over
the darker lines first. It's good to know
that the more water you use on the brush, the lighter the color
will be because it will blend more
with the water. In this case, for the shadows, I'll make sure that we have really little water
on our brush. The lines will turn out darker. Of course, for the lighter areas will not squeeze
the brush too hard, it contains more water, and the water will distribute
the color more and evenly, and it will result in a
nice and lighter shade. But if by any chance
your drawing turns out, if the face turns
out not the way you were expecting or
something goes wrong, just don't be afraid because there's always
a way to fix it. You can make the
highlights a bit darker to balance the difference between the shadows and highlights. No matter what you
do, the outcome is going to be amazing. Don't be scared. I'll use a tiny brush to go
over the details. The small details, Now I'm
blending this head piece, you can see I'm
going slightly over the outline to give
it some more volume. As you can notice, once we
added the water to our sketch, it looks drastically different and that's the fun part of it. Once we finish coloring the
upper part of the dress, I'm going to switch my brush to a slightly thicker
and bigger brush. That way it will
be easier to blend the big ruffles
something like this. You can choose any
brush you want, whatever you have
available with you. First of all, I'm going to
blend the darker spots. I'm going over this
darker purple first, making sure that I have
all the shadows covered. Then I will bring the color
more to the right side. But again, I'm going to leave the very right part white because I want to make sure that the highlights are
really showing. We don't want to cover every
single inch of the dress, so it's based on preference. But you can either blend it really well and mix
the colors together, or you can just
blend it slightly. I usually leave some pencil
marks when I try to blend it, but it's really up to you. Like if I added more
water and went over the pencil lines more like
a few times on one line, it would have blended
really, really well. And it would mix the
colors together. Once you are satisfied
with the result, you can go the extra mile and make your illustration
even better. We're going to
cover that topic in our next lesson. See you there.
9. Add glitter: Hi, and welcome back. We're almost done
with our illustration as an extra touch to it. I always recommend using metallic litter
paints to emphasize some details and make the painting even more
visually appealing. The reason I always do that is because the watercolor
will dry soon. It looks shiny right now, but it will dry soon and the painting will have
a matted surface. But since we're striving for a more glamorous look
and a fancy look, adding metallic
glitter will make the chosen areas shine
in certain angles. When we're done
with the painting and we hold it in
certain angles, the light will hit those areas. And the metallic is going
to shine so brightly. And it's going to
look just stunning. And our painting will get
a dynamic feel to it. And, you know, sometimes when
I add this metallic paint, I like to add like
big chunks of it. I don't really blend it, I just put a lot of it on my brush and I just
put it on a dress. It just gives the painting like a three D feel to it and
it's just really nice. In this particular project, I'm using silver
for the highlights in the dress because
I feel like silver is a colder tone and blue
is also a colder tone. That two shades go well together for this
particular dress. But then later we're going to
use the golden glitter for the skin highlights as
like a warmer shade. We can also add some more
details that weren't initially in the sketch. In the pencil sketch
like you saw here, I use the lines to her earring
and to her head piece. This creative
decisions just make your illustration more unique and you can add whatever
you want to it, it's just going to
make it even prettier. The fun part with this glitter is that you can add
as much as you want, like there is no right
or wrong with it. You usually have fun with it. You add it to the
areas that you want. I especially like to add
it to the highlight areas, but you can do
whatever you want. It's just going to make it prettier and prettier
the more you do it. Now I'm going to move forward
with the golden glitter. But you can also
have fun and use a green glitter, bronze glitter. There are so many different
shades of metallic paint. I'll use this golden shade
for the skin highlights. You can add detail, or
you can just blend it on the highlighted areas or you don't even have to use
it on the highlights. You can just go over
the dark spots and make it like even emphasized, it's just up to you making an
illustration or making any. It's just a chain of creative decisions that you
make every step of the way. But the fun part
is that you always have to just start and
trust the process. That's the correct formula
of making any kind of art. And the end result will always make you feel proud of yourself. And you show it
to your relatives and you show it to
your friends and you feel confident, it's
just really nice. And you feel like you
accomplish something. Like literally by the
end of this course, you will have a ready wall
art that you can hang in your room or you can gift
it to someone special. It's taking less than
30 minutes from you. Once you make the first one, it's going to become
like an addiction. And you can keep making other illustrations with so
many different combinations, both for the dress design or
for the color combinations, for the hairstyles
you can make so many. And even you can make
collections like you can make a few and then frame them together and
hang them together. It's going to look so nice. As you can see, I added big chunks of gold
glitter to the dress. I initially wasn't prepared
to add gold to the dress, but like I said, I was just having
fun and I decided to add gold to the dress,
along with the silver. And I feel like the end
result is really nice. As you can see, I'm not
putting the brush down, I just keep adding details
with a gold glitter. I'm adding this thoughts, some more strokes and lines. That's the fun part when creating an illustration
is that you're not limited and you don't
have boundaries of realism. And you can just ignite your imagination and
do whatever you want. Once you're satisfied,
congratulations, you have completed
your illustration.
10. Frame it: Okay, so as a finishing touch, and by the way this is optional, you don't have to, but I suggest we frame
our illustration, because eventually we
just created a wall art. So a nice wooden frame will give our masterpiece a polished
and completed look. And we can hang it in our room, or we can gift it
to someone special. And we will feel so accomplished and so proud of ourselves. For this class, I will
not use the glass in the frame because the
paints are still wet. But for your illustration, you can wait until it dries
and then put it in the frame, and once you're done, just enjoy and admire your illustration.
11. Project: Now that you know how to create your own well art
fashion illustration with watercolor pencils, your homework assignment
will be to submit a photo of your version
of a similar project. If you don't have all the supplies mentioned
in this class, you're free to use any alternatives that
are available to you. Just the most important
thing to remember is to be as creative as you can. And don't be scared and just
follow your imagination, press your hands, the
wrist will follow. I look forward to seeing
your amazing illustrations.
12. Congratulations!: So congratulations.
We've reached the end of this and I hope I was able to inspire you and share some of my knowledge
and experience with you. The important thing
to remember is that we all have a hidden
artist inside us. And it's just our
job to discover it. Thank you so much for completing this journey with me and
have a pleas day. Bye.
Gayane Khachikyan
