Colouring skin with Promarkers

Today's video is all about colouring skin - white and dark. There is a list of the colours I use most for skin at the end of the post. For the card, the scalloped border is a series of punched circles that I stuck onto the edge of the card (cut away 1" from the edge before doing this)

The video shows the basic colouring technique I use, remember that the dark spots are beneath the hairline, or the fringe (bangs) on this little image, under the chin, and beneath the nose. You will see in the video that the dark skinned little girl looks an absolute mess on the video, the ink is very wet, I blended a lot because of the dark colours, but you can see from the photo at the top of this post that she looked okay when the ink dried.
Look at the photo of little Monty on my sidebar, that really shows the light and shadows on his face, get into the habit of doing this when you look at photos, and you will find it becomes second nature to work out where the light spots should be

Skin colours

Blush with Soft Peach for shading

Ivory with Blush for shading

Dark skin Putty, Tan, Cinnamon, Cocoa in that order, light to dark

Don't forget that the colours will look quite strong when you first apply them, don't worry, you will get the desired effect when the inks are blended and have dried

For Promarker stockists in the USA, follow the links at the bottom of the giveaway post above - if you are in the UK, well, we all know where to find them don't we :)

Yesterday I had a bit of an outing -Hobby Lobby has opened locally and of course, armed with online coupons I had to go on the first day, together with most of the local population. I was a bit bemused when my friend and I were walking across the car park and a guy in a truck drew up - a macho looking guy who looked as if he would be able to fix any of those projects in your house that need fixing. He slowed the truck as he approached us, leaned out of the window and said 'hey, have you been to the new store? Hobby Lobby? Is it good?

I think he might have got mixed up with Lowes or Home Depot, not a lot of power tools in there mate, although if he was looking for a few flowers for his autumn arrangements, they had loads. It just shows, you should never judge by appearances, he probably spends his evenings doing crochet!

Come back tomorrow for my tips on colouring hair