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Hey guys so
I'm back and this video is going to be a tutorial on how I color
using Copic Markers I also just included some shading tips
into this tutorial so it's pretty long and yeah so
I hope you guys like this video and I will see you in my next one
so let's get started
okay first off you have to consider the light source
since coloring with copic markers or with any medium basically is just
like shading
you have to know where the light hits the object and where it doesn't
which allows you to apply tone and create form
in the drawing, so for this tutorial I'm going to show you how I color in the
face
and hair using two techniques to I use one caller in with Copic Markers
so I'm just going to add a small sun
on the left-hand corner to indicate the light source and I still do this
sometimes when I'm doing
light and shadow exercises were I practice shading with various mediums
may it be Copic Markers or just a pencil. This helps me
a lot to keep reminding myself where the light comes from cause I tend to forget
sometimes
and I and I end up with an illustration that looks a bit odd, so
if the light is on the left hand side such as this one, then the area with a high
value is also on the left hand side
this is the light area, the right hand side
will be the dark area or has lower values note that the face
is not flat though so this will differ from how you would normally shade let's
say a sphere
and this is just an example so
this is not how you would normally shade the face
if you are drawing a realistic representation of a human figure
but honestly everything I am saying and everything I will say in this tutorial
as well as many other tutorial swill somewhat be forgotten
once you've got found your own artistic style, however
this is how I shade and this is how I color the face
it is my own artistic style therefore
I am doing it this way and I guess I'm just sharing to you guys
how I do it, but I'm not really going to go into that because
That's a really complicated and broad issue
anyway, so now I'm going to take my pencil and just block in the areas where
most the light hits it. These are mostly on the left hand side
so under the eyebrows
the cheeks, the nose, the chin. Those are kind of like the common
areas where light really hits the face
so then I'm going to block in areas were just
a little bit of light hits it and these are
on the right hand side but they are areas that somehow
protrude such as the cheeks and below the eyebrows
and lastly I'm going to
block in the areas where very little light hits it
which is mainly on the right hand side hey can be on the left hand side as
well
in areas that cave in, such as around the eyes
and the cheekbones, so I don't actually do this for my illustrations but it is great
practice if you're a beginner to just blocking areas that receive more light
and areas that receive less. You can definitely apply this technique for
clothing as well as hair and other objects as long as you know
the form of that object, which areas protrude
and which areas cave in, so
if you're a bit lacking in colors with Copic markers because let's face it
they are expensive this is how I would approach that problem
I would probably invest on a dark grey such as C-7
a colorless blender and two contrasting shades and brown so that's a total of
four
Copic Markers. My first layer will be
the lighter shade of brown which is E33
and I'm going to block in the areas that receive
less light while leaving some areas white
you can color in circular motion but that wastes
ink in my opinion so I don't really fuss on how flat the first layer is
then I usually move to the darker shade of brown which is
E37 and block in areas where very little light hits it
just like we did before and don't worry if it's not really blended these are
only the first two layers
we're going to build it up probably later
so the next thing that I do is I go back to my
E33 and fill in the entire face making sure that it's a smooth and flat
application this way I've created a second shade of brown by adding two
layers and the E33
so then take my grey color which is
C-7 and apply that to areas that are really dark and receive
very little light. This isn't in the brown color family so
it is going to be harder to blend but what I do is I just take my
E37 and put a layer on top of that grey to just kind of disguise the color
into a very dark brown. I actually personally like this style because of the
contrast of the light
tones with the dark tones, so it doesn't really matter if you have a lot of Copic
Markers
or if you only have a few, you can definitely make do with it
i would advice to experiment on the different colors
and see the fact that they can give
so then I add some highlights using the colorless blender
but make sure to apply only a small amount
or just use it very softly because
it pushes the ink aside which creates this really weird effect
somewhat like watercolor and I don't really like that when it comes to coloring in
with Copic Markers
unless I'm trying to achieve that specific kind in style
so I actually made a mistake on the cheek and I'm just going back with my
other colors to fix it and I can actually go back and forth the brown colors to create
layers until I am satisfied with the color of the face
and I also try not to use too much ink
so soft flicking motions are what I use towards the end of the
coloring process
for the hair I basically do the same thing
but instead of blocking in the colors with a somewhat flat surface
I flick the marker to create feathery
brushstrokes using the brush tip of the markers and again I like to start from the
light shade building it up to darker shades
so to minimize the colors for the hair I am using the same brown colors
but I just added a yellow color which is Y21
and they're about very similar color families so
they blend a bit easier than the gray and brown
and I would advised that if you don't have a lot
of shades of brown. You can definitely add in
something from a very similar color family such as yellow maybe
or orange or maybe even red, so
make sure that you color in the direction that the hair is flowing which
is downwards
and that way you emphasize the form of the head and the flow of the
hair
this actually applies to coloring in any object basically
so try to color in relation to the form of the object
I don't usually do this though for the first few layers with the Copic markers
but towards the end when shading I do color in relation to the object's
form
for the second technique it's actually the same concept as the first that I showed
you
it's basically building layers from lightest to dark
except for this one I actually have a range of
shades of the color brown with my Copic markers so
they're all from the same color family
therefore they're a lot easier to blend, so I am actually using the third shade of
brown I
have for the initial layer of the skin just because I have
five Copic markers of
different shades for the skin tone and once again
I'm just blocking in the areas which receive less light
leaving white areas
I then move on to a lighter shade of brown which is actually almost the same
color
and color in the entire face still not fussing about whether it's a flat
surface
or not
then I take the fourth darker shade which
is E37 and color in areas that receive
little light
lastly I take my darkest shade of brown and color in areas that receive
very little light so this is almost kinda like the shadow color
as I said it's basically the same concept
the first few layers are quite thematic where I build layers from light to
dark but once I've kind of laid down all the colors or all the shades
of the brown I can then go back and forth with the colors until I'm
satisfied
I've also just identified the colors on the bottom left corner so you'd know
that you don't really have to stop coloring once you've placed
all the shades and skin tone on the surface
I am almost finished and to blend everything together I am using the
lightest
skin tone I have which is E21 and just coloring in the areas that receive
lots of light. Layering a lighter shade on a darker shade
overall creates a lighter color so
in the end when I want to blend everything else together I usually
go for the lightest shade I have
and lastly I am using the colorless blender for the highlights but making
sure that I don't use too much
ink or else I won't get the desired effect that I want
so I'm just going to speed up the hair coloring process
since it's basically the same concept again except for the hair I am using six
colors, two shades of yellow and four shades of brown
I guess that's about it for this tutorial
I hope this helped a little bit. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you
in the next one