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Next we're going to be applying a base layer of paint, to our second subjects clothing.
Now I'm doing the clothing before I'm actually tackling any of the skin pigment because this
is just a base layer, it doesn't necessarily have to be perfectly separated. Now I'm going
to be applying, similar to the purple, up here, a layer of ultra Marine Blue with white
mixed in. Also using media, to keep this layer thinner. We're going to be bring this down
and around the fingers here and what we're really doing is establishing tone. The actual
colors are going to be darker than this but I greatly prefer putting some of the darker
elements, over the lighter ones, in this case with clothing. Another thing is, we are going
to have the collars, and everything here, be blue but they're going to be some black
regions, in the middle here. So get a second flat brush, flat head here and some black
and we'll start putting this on, in here. Lots of medium, very very thin coat here.
Very thin. Some white's going to also be injected, to get some gray tones going on, especially
towards the top here. This is going to make the clothing a little more interesting. This
is actually, somewhat, of what our subject's wearing too. Keep in mind, the first layer
is going to be the closest to our portrait, before we then veer off into some interesting
alternative directions.