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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2009-01-23 04:13 pm

Art ref!

There's a fashion illustration textbook about drawing which contains a DVD with demos of drawing and coloring fashion illustrations, which are posted here at YouTube.

I found them through a design site that linked to them, and watched the Anime Influence ones (second page, bottom row), which show how the artist colors an illustration with strong lighting contrasts in the color loosely based on cel shading. It's a multimedia piece for which she uses Copic and Prisma markers, Prisma colored pencils, Micron pens, a milky gel pen, white goache, and something on a Q-tip to color in a soft base (might be Copic ink? She uses markers to add shadows to it, so it's probably not a pastel-type medium*). Interesting.

(The outfit? Hideous. The coloring? Nice. XD)



* Aha! The skin tones tutorial starts off with her doing the same thing, and you can see her touching the Q-tip to her Copic marker to gather the color! I must try that!