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1. Welcome: Hi everyone. Have you ever wanting
to illustrate fashion? But they'll know where to begin. Wanting to use watercolor, but thinking is too hard. In this lesson, I'll go over the supplies, the
watercolor techniques. Then we will learn how to render the frontal view of
the fashion finger. Going over the face details. And finally put the dress
on the model and finish painting this final project from start to finish together. After this class,
you will be able to begin your fashion
illustration journey. Now without further ado, that's star, this
beautiful project.
2. Supplies: Hello everyone.
And let's lesson. We're going to go over
the supplies together. I have to mechanical
pencils here. One is 0.5 and the other is 0.3, both in the Tooby and lead, I use the 0.5 for the
initial sketch and the 0.3 for details
and precise line. The Tombow Mono eraser
for erasing the details. A kneadable eraser,
and a unipolar signal, white gel pen for highlights
to watercolor brushes. I'm using the da
Vinci B35 in size 37. I also have two
jars of water here. One is for rinsing the
brushes in-between colors. The other one, I'll keep
it clean at all time. I'll show you why when
we start to paint. Also Iraq to take excess
water out of the brush. And I will also
keep a paper towel in my hand while I'm painting. Now, let's talk about
the watercolor. I'm using this analogy, a 24 professional
watercolors set inside. I replaced some of the colors with my personal
favorites and add up more colors from Holbein
and Daniel Smith watercolors. You have never used
watercolor before. I will suggest that you use
whatever you have on hand. War I get the student grade
watercolor to play with first after you tried it
and decide you like it, then you invest on the
professional-grade watercolors. I also prepared some
gold watercolor. This is completely optional. So if you don't have
the gold watercolor, you can use the gold
postcard marker instead. However, if you don't
have either of them, don't worry about it. You don't need to have them. Now let's talk about
the watercolor paper. There are three different
kinds of watercolor papers, hot pressed, which we are
going to use in this class. Cold pressed and the rough, hot pressed watercolor paper
has a very smooth surface. Cold pressed paper
has some texture, and the rough, it's
very textured. I normally use hot pressed
or cold pressed paper, depends on my mood. In this class, I'll be
using the arches nine by 12 hot pressed
watercolor paper block. I have been using the Arches watercolor
paper for a while now, I love their paper
quality very much, but it is very expensive. However, I found this bow home watercolor
paper block recently. It is also £140.100%
cotton paper. The paper quality is very good and the price
is very friendly. So if you're on a budget, I think this is a very
good paper to get. And I'm sure you can find it on Amazon or any other
art supply stores. Okay? These are all the supplies we are going to
use in this class. Then next lesson,
we are going to go over some basic
watercolor techniques. See you there.
3. Watercolor Techniques: Hi everyone. Today we're going to talk about some basic watercolor
techniques. First, let's wake up
the watercolor cakes. I forgot to mention one supply
in the previous lesson, which is the water bottle. I used to spray my watercolor cakes and let
it sit for a little bit. What I'm going to do
right now as to pick up the pigment and mixing
it with clean water. The mixture is about 70%
water and 30% paint. We need a lot of water and watercolor as the water
that do the magic. Now, I will mix a
different color. I'll do the same 7030 ratio. I have a piece of £140 Arches watercolor paper here and a piece of paper towel. The first technique
I would like to go over as the backwash. I'll load my brush
first and come over to the papers to create a
layer with evil. I'm sure. You move your brush back and
forth to create even color. You want it to be wet, but you don't want
it to be too wet. Let blood your paper. The next one, I call it a while. It's wet on wet. Some people call it wet and wet. I will apply a layer
of clean water first. Basically for watercolor, the paint will go
where the water is. So if you use the water
to create a boundary, the paint will only stay
within the boundary. I don't know if
you can see this, but I'm creating a box
for my watercolor to go. I hope you can see the shine
when I took the paper. Now, I'll pick on my first color and drop it in like when we
were doing the flat wash. If you think you
have too much water, you can dry your brush and
gently picked up the water. Next, let's pick up the blue and drop it
into the wet paint. Look at that first. Just like fireworks. This is the magic of watercolor. You can create beautiful
texture with those techniques. Next is the graded
wash. We want to create a smooth transition
with two different colors. You want to start with
flat wash or with green. And then you want to add a little bit of blue
into the green, drop it into the bottom
of the wet layer, overlapping it a little. Continued to pick them
more blue and keep going until you complete the
wash with just the blue. If you feel like you have too
much water on your brush, you can use a paper towel to
take the excess water out. Now we have the very
smooth gradient wash. The next technique we're gonna go over as the blotting what Bosch and tissue paper
That's create a flat wash. Water is very important
in watercolor. When it's wet, you can create
all kinds of magic to it. Before your watercolor
dry completely. You will be able to lift it
and correct some mistake. I'm using the thirsty brush to lift up the
watercolor right now. You can see that I'm able to live there color pretty easily. I can also use the tissue to lift the color and
create texture. Because I have my studio
lights on right now. So the watercolor dry
faster than I expected. I can't really looked at
when it's dry, but no worry. I can drop in more paint. And then I can show you
the lifting with a tissue. For this technique,
you want to do it before the watercolor is dry. The next technique
I want to show you as the bonding with water. So same thing. We'll create a flat wash. And now I'll drop
in the clean water. And you can see that the
clean water just push the pigment away and created
this interesting texture. You can also use the tissue to dab it and make it more obvious. The next technique
is the dry brush. The dry brush effect, or show more on the
cold press paper, but we can still use it
on the hot pressed paper. The key for Dr. Walsh is you don't want your
brush to be too wet, so I will pick up the color and then block my brush
on the paper towel. Then I'll use the belly of
my brush to quickly do this. You see the beautiful
texture right here. That's what we want. You can go back again to
adjust how you like it. The tip is not going
back to many times. Otherwise you will lose that
lovely dry brush texture. The next one is glazing. We will create the
first layer of watercolor and let
it dry completely. And then we'll layer
another color on top of it to create shadow
or another color. So same thing. We will create a flat wash and wait for it to
dry completely. Let me show you the
final technique. While we wait. Soften the edge comes in very handy when
we're painting the skin. So that's saying that you don't want to have
the hard edge right here. We can use the clean water but not too wet and
you come in white against the edge
to soften the tip is not to go over
it too many times. See how the edge,
it's softer now, okay, and now this layer is dry. I can use the blue color
to go on top of that. You see in the middle here, we created another color. These are all the basic
watercolor techniques we'll be using in the class. Play with all of them as
many times as you need. I know a lot of people think
that watercolor as hard, but if you keep an open mind and play with this charming
medium enough times, I'm sure you will be able to enjoy the magic of watercolor. We'll go over to fashion
figure in the next lesson. I'll see you there.
4. Standing Pose: Hi everybody. We're
going to talk about the standing pose into my head
fashion figure today, from the top of the head to the bottom of the
chin, It's one hat. First, I will mark the distance from the
head to the ankles, leaving some space on
the top and the bottom, draw a vertical line
down the middle. This is the balance line and also the central line for the
front facing standing pose. Then I will have this do another half on the
top portion here, and another half on
the bottom portion. Do the same thing here, here, here, and here. You can use a ruler to help you, but I normally just
eyeballing it. Now we have eight heads, will add another head
for the fee later. That's star from the head. I will draw a circle first from the bottom of the
circle to the chin. It's about half of the circle
along our jaw to taper and wines like this with their jaw bone and then
connect them to the chin. And then I'll draw the muscles connecting to the pit of the neck like a
triangle like this. I'll mark the pit of the
neck about 1 third of the second hat here is
also our shoulder line, the width of the shoulder. It's about two heads wide, or also indicate
the trapezius here. Now we draw the breast. The bottom of the second head is the middle of the breasts. The third head is at the waist. The width of the waste. It's a little bit smaller
than the trapezius. The hip as a line with armpit. I'll use tiny marks
to indicate them. Those landmarks don't
need to be exact because some people might prefer
a bigger waste or hip. So we can adjust as we go. Now. That's connect the upper
torso now onto the lakes, the bottom of the knee
or at the six headline, that's indicate the
bottom of the torso. Then connect the inner thigh
to the need for health, or go out a little bit and then taper it and to connect
to the ankle bone. Do the same on the other side. Okay. That's jaw, the feet, the inside as longer than the outside because our
big toes are the longest. That's connected. The neck, shoulder, and the arm. Elbow is at the waistline. And breast, It's located
around the end of the torso. Fingers are at about the
middle of the thigh. Now do the same on
the other side. I'll show you how to draw fashion fingers when we're
doing our final project. Let me write down all
the important landmarks of the body and we
are all finished. I'll put the link
to this drawing in the projects and
resources area for you. We're going to talk
about how to draw the fashion phase in the
next lesson. See you there.
5. Face Map: Hello everyone. We're going to talk
about the face Today. We are learning the
night head figure in this lesson using
live by 12 paper. So the face is now going
to be too detailed, but it's still important to know how to construct a
basic frontal face. So first, let's draw, or so-called and a vertical
line down the middle, the distance of half a circle as the distance from the bottom
of the circle to the chin. I'll draw to taper inward. Like this. You will stop at, around midway between the bottom of the circle to the chin. I will then draw two
lines to connect them at about 45-degree angle, halfway from the
top of the head to the chin as where our eyes are. Our inner corner of the eye is lower than the outer corner. I used a slightly curved
line to show that there should be a one-eyed of the distance in-between
the two eyes. And about half of the
distance on each side. We'll draw two lines to indicate the eyes are
eyeball as a circle. But because it is
covered by the eyelid, so we will only draw
half of the circle that's not close the shape
of our bottom eyelids, the start of our eyebrow has a 30 degree angle to the inner corner of
our eye, like this. The bottom of our nose. It's about at the
bottom of the circle. The side of our nose is aligned with the inner
corner of the eye, the middle line of our lives as halfway between the bottom of the nose and the
chin, the corner. Our lives are aligned with. The inner side of the iris is right underneath our
nose as the philtrum, I'll use a tiny bees
to indicate that. Now we'll draw the middle
line of our lips and jaw. The shadow of the lower lip. Don't online the entire shape or use watercolor to finish it. Yours start at the eye and the ear lobe is aligned with
the bottom of the nose. The muscles of our neck, alignment with the outer
corners of the eyes. The hairline is a little
bit down from the top of our head and her hair will be a little bit higher than
the top of our head. Okay. Now we are done. I will put this finished drawing in the
resource area for you. We will talk about the walking
pose and the next lesson. See you in the next one.
6. Walking Pose: Hi everybody. In this video, we are going to go over it, a walking pose, and we will also address our model to save time. I already finished
drawing the face. The way we draw the walking pose is the
same as standing pose. The differences are
the central line will move along with our body. Also, when the
model is watching, the shoulder would drop a little bit and the hip bone will naturally swinging up
on her wayfaring signs, creating the contrapposto pose. The easy way to
remember shortage down because I use this dotted line to show the Central
Illinois action. Let me explain the
difference between balanced and centered
and balanced line. It's a straight line from
the center of our head to the ground to ensure
the model with jaw doesn't look like
it's about to tip over. The center line is the
middle of our body. It will move when we move
to different places. Okay, now that's connected body from like as
the waves there. So we'll draw it on
the balance sheet. The cow up the back leg, open lab with a knee a little
bit because I'll for sure the length of the palms as the
same as the middle finger. Now, that's dress. The upper part of
the dress as tight. So we'll draw it
close to the body. Draw the belt following
the body control or jaw waiting at the
bottom of the dress. Okay, now onto the
flower on the belt, you can draw any kind
of flowers you like. Now, let's finish the
other arm. And for hair. That's what her shoe on. Erase all the unnecessary
lines and we're all done. Your homework for this
lesson is to redraw this watercolor paper using a light pressure because we don't want to damage
the watercolor paper. I will put the link for this finished drawing in
the resources area. We'll be painting
in the next lesson. See you in the next one.
7. Final Project: Hi everyone. I'm
excited to pink today. I finished my sketch
on the arches and I buy 12 watercolor
paper mark already. That's wake up our
watercolor cakes first. All next, skin color first. Normally, if I have
a reference picture, I'll mix the color
based on the reference. In this lesson, I'm mixing the skin color based
on my personal liking, basically in mixed
yellow plus red plus a little bit of purple and plus a
little bit of brown. Or adding some blue or green
to change it up a bit. In the future classes, I will show you more skin
tone recipes. Today. Let's use yellow
ocher plus opera, pink plus a little bit of purple plus a little
bit of warm sepia. I normally mixed
more than I need. So I don't have to mix more and have their color
difference problem. Rinse your brush after
mixing the color. Testing it on a piece
of watercolor paper, make sure you like the color before you
put it on your drawing. Now, that's begin. We normally start from light
to dark and watercolor. But since the face
is quite small, we will start from the shadow. After I put down the color, I'll rinse the brush
and soften the edge. Push the color to
the other side. You can go over to
here directly because their hair color is going to be darker than the skin tone. So we don't have
to worry about it. Now onto the arms. Put down the color, rinse the
brush and soften the edge. B might fall off the
light and shadow. This part of the thigh
as under the dress. So it will be darker. Let's go back to do
the second layer. Emphasize on the eyes, bottom of the nose,
philtrum, and eyebrows. Now, that's due to heroin. Use yellow ocher for
the first layer. Remember to leave
some whitespace. The inner part of the hair is
darker than the outer part. This part is lighter, so I'll use the brush
to remove some color. Now, I'm mixing
some burnt sienna with a little bit of brown
to do the second layer. Going back. What? Dark
brown for the details. Okay, now the hair is done. I'll switch to my size seven round brush because we are going to
paint the dress now. Makes sure to mix a
lot of blue and green. Because we are painting
the much bigger area. I'll use the wet on wet
for the upper body. That's put a layer of
clean water first. Now, dropping the blue
color on the shadow side. That's soften the
edge a little bit because I don't want
too much texture here. Now that's dropping the green. Make sure not to use the
back-and-forth motion. Just drop the color. And gentlemen. Now, I
will leave it to dry. Let's do the lower part of
their dress while we wait. The light coming
from the left side. So I put a layer of clean water. There was some wet
on wet effect. I'll start from the right. I want to add some green here. So I lightly dab in some clean water and then
drop the green color. Now I'm mixing a darker blue for the shadow
part of the dress. Be careful not to
touch the skin part. Now, let's do a second layer on the upper body and add
shadow under the breast. Now, let's paint the piece
on the back of her shoulder. I'm using the dry
brush technique here. That's move on to the shoe. That's pink to Belt Green. Add a shadow on the shoe. Now, that's used the
color of the hair to add another layer on
the eyebrows and eyes. Also add the same
color on the bridge of the nose and
bottom of the nose. Use the skin color
plus a little bit of the paint to paint the left upper lip as darker
than the bottom left. I use the blue
color on the iris. And then I'll use Payne's gray for the pupils and eyebrows. Add a second layer on the list. That's paying the flower. Now. I'll use the
green and the metal. And then I'll soften the color. Be aware of the light source, and leave the whitespace. I use two brushes too, because I have ACR. So the watercolor dries
faster than I like. I kept one brush
with clean water at all times to help me
soften the edges. Using blue right now. You can use any color you like
for the dress and flower. The way you apply the
watercolor is the same. Now, I'm going to use the gold watercolor for
the veins of the flower. You don't have to do this
if you don't feel like it. I'll put the goal color
in the middle too. That's add some dark brown in the middle of the
list for shadow. Now, we'll add a shadow on the ground using the
wet on wet technique. I'm using paints grade for this. And a little bit of green because the color of
the shoe has green. Normally, I'll use
watercolor for the blush, but today I'll use
pastel instead. You can use watercolor
for this step. If you don't have this, they'll just use the wet on wet technique and
also soften the edge. Apply the pastel on
the cheekbone gently, and also the same
color on the body. So the whole painting
looks harmonious. Last, that's used
a white gel pen for the highlights of the eyes. And we're all finished. Thank you so much for
taking this class with me. I hope you enjoy it. Happy painting everyone.