Colouring Tutorial

Hi everyone, 

A little while there was a conversation on Facebook about the correct colours for Forever Friends Bears.  As you will know i am more of a Promarker user than Copics, although i do use them occasionally.  So i decided to share how i do my Forever Friend Bears with Promarkers.

THIS IS A PICTURE HEAVY POST, SO YOU MAY WANT TO GRAB A CUP OF TEA!! 

The colours i have used are:

Oatmeal

Vanilla

Ivory

Coral

Sunkissed Pink

Cocktail Pink

Pale Pink

Blossom

Cool Grey 1, 2 and 3

I used Rymans 200gsm Bright White Coated Card

The stamp is from the Forever Friends New Arrivals Set

PLEASE NOTE:  I am not trained in anyway and am completely self taught.  I have followed numerous tutorials myself and just thought i would share how i do things.

So lets get started

 Using Oatmeal go around the edge of the head

 Now go over the Oatmeal with Vanilla, dragging the Oatmeal out

 Go around the edge again with Oatmeal

 Over again vanilla dragging it out more

 Keep repeating 

 More vanilla

 Now add in Ivory.  You need to do this TWICE.  I used the chisel end for quickness

 Now do the arms using the same process as the head

 Now the tummy and Feet

 Now the pads and ears.  Using Coral go around the edge as shown

 Then Sunkissed pink over the top of the Coral

 Now with Pale Pink, go over the whole lot.

 I wanted a pinker effect so i went over it again with Sunkissed Pink

 The Blossom 

 Still not what i wanted so i went round the edge with Cocktail pink and coloured the whole thing with Blossom

 Now for the bunny,  I did this grey this time but i would probably do it pink, lemon or blue depending on the recipient of the card.

 Using Cool Grey 3 (above) go around the edge the go over it dragging it out slightly with Cool Grey 2

 Go over it all with Cool Grey 1

 Then repeat the process leaving Cool Grey 2 out.

 Using Cocktail Pink, give the bunny some rosey cheeks ( i noticed i missed this out on the bear, but i would do the same process as with the bunny) and just inside the ears

Then blend in with Pale Pink

And here is the finished bear the morning after, when it is completely dry.  If you feel it hasn't blended enough go over the whole bear with Ivory.

I hope this has been useful for you.  If there is something in particular you would like to see coloured please leave a comment and i will do my best to help!

Thank you for looking x

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