https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/crafterella-timelapse • Posted by Cat Morley
I usually colour Crafterella on the computer, but when Chameleon Pens sent me a set of their new colour changing pens, I couldn't resist trying to colour her by hand. It took me a little time to get used to working from light to dark, but I was so impressed with the finished result.
I usually colour Crafterella on the computer, but when Chameleon Pens sent me a set of their new colour changing pens, I couldn't resist trying to colour her by hand. It took me a little time to get used to working from light to dark, but I was so impressed with the finished result.
Here's a timelapse video of my entire drawing, feel free to ask any questions!
I started by lightly and roughly pencilling in the idea for my drawing with a 2H pencil.
When I was happy with my drawing, I used a 2B pencil to draw my sketch properly, adding the lines more boldly.
When you're happy with your sketch, ink the design in with a fine liner pen. Leave the ink to dry for a few minutes.
Use an eraser to remove your pencil sketches and get a nice clean sheet of paper.
I then started colouring my drawing with the Chameleon Colour Changing pens, starting with dark brown on Crafterella's hair. I started by outlining her hair with the original colour of the pen.
I then lightening the colour of the pen for a few seconds with the alcohol tip before filling in the hair, starting in the very middle and working my way out towards the edges as the pen darkened, creating a gradient.
I also used the colourless blending pen to help smooth out my gradients.
I then started outlining the highlights of her hair with a lighter brown, in the same way I did in step 6.
I also blended a little of the light brown's original colour into the lighter parts of the dark brown strands.
I continued working between the highlights and lowlights of the hair with the two colours.
Fill in the lighter parts of the highlights by lightening the light brown with the alcohol and creating gradients like we did in step 9.
I then started working on the costume with a light blue and dark blue pen. Draw thick lines with the original colour of the pen to create shadows.
I then started working on the skin using a pale orange pen. I really carefully outlined my shadows as the key for the skin was to keep it as light as possible.
I then used the blending pen to blend the skin outlines into the white of the page, working my way towards the middle of her skin.
Slowly build up the colour of the skin, going over the shadows and blending inwards to build up the shade.
Keep building up the drawing until your happy with it, careful not to go to heavy on the colour - you can always add more later.
I then started tracing the outlines of the lips with red.
I also added a lightened shade of green pen to the eyes.
Fill in the lips, making the top lips much darker than the bottom lip.
I then started working on the dark grey / black areas of the drawing such as her mask, collar and gloves. Outlining them with a grey pen.
I shaded in these with grey, creating a gradient across the middle.
I then started adding bold shadows to the outline with a black pen.
I slowly built up dark shadows and gradients on these areas, similar to how I did the skin, alternating between grey and black.
As my drawing began to look more complete, I added black to the pupils of the eyes and dark brown to the eyebrows.
I then started adding really definite shadows with black.
Once I was happy with the colouring, I added a thick black outline to my drawing with the details pen.
Finally I used the blending pen to touch up the drawing.