winter soul flakes with tamara laporte - How to create a medium skinned lollipop girl with her wolf friend -

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2 H ello fabulous creative friend! Welcome to Winter Soul Flakes, a wintery snowy sparkly class with me, Tam! :) Hi! In this class I will demonstrate how to create 3 wintery lollipop girls with their whimsical friends in different skin tones. This PDF covers how to shade a medium skinned 'lollipop' girl and I'll also give you tips on how to create a wolf friend. We will also look at how to make a snowy, wintery, layered background and how draw pretty snowfakes. Yay! I hope you have a fabulous time in this class and if you enjoyed the class I hope you'll check out some of my other classes! Keep creating art. It helps create a happier and healthier life! :) Much love, Tam xoxo

3 Supplies Used for this Class Please note, below are the supplies I used, but you can substitute the supplies if and where needed if you don't have what I've used. Also: for skin tones I do not always the same exact colours. Experiment and play with your supplies and the variety of colours you have available to you. Supplies for a Medium-Skinned Lollipop Girl 1 sheet of 140lbs watercolour paper (16 x 12 ) - Brand: I used: Waterford & Saunders Graphite pencil for sketching (I use a graphgear 1000 by pentel, the lead I use is 2b, the width of the pencil 0.9 you don't need to have this pencil, just sharing what I used) Skin tone supplies and colours I used (substitute with different brands and colours where needed only listing exactly what I used in case you are curious): Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons, in the following colours: ochre + cinnamon + English red + brown + sanguine (russet) + burnt sienna + optional: reddish orange + bordeaux red Dabber (Ranger): hazelnut Gold fuid acrylics: quinacridone nickel azo gold (or other deep orange/ brown acrylics) + quinacridone burnt orange Heavy body acrylics (Daler Rowney): burnt umber Colour Pencils in violet, purples, dark reds, dark browns (the brand I use are prismacolor and luminance (caran d'ache) I also used Derwent inktense pencils in the colours of ink black, aubergine, reds and browns For facial features like eyes and mouth: Tombow Markers/ Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons in colour of choice For fne details: Black marker with fne tip: posca or signo-uniball/ White marker with fne tip: posca or signo-uniball For hair: tombow markers/ watersoluble crayons & ink in your colours of choice (I mix several different turquoises/ light blues) For the background: collage materials of choice (I use book pages, music scores, tissue papers) Water/ Brushes (I like 'pro arte acrylix' brushes) / Gel Medium (for gluing) Some heavy body and fuid acrylics in colour of choice White gesso + white ink or watered down white acrylics (for splattering) Brayer Stabilo all pencil or watersoluble pencil in black

4 sketching your girl + wolf After you've sketched your girl (much like the girl we did in the frst lesson refer back to that lesson & PDF), sketch your wolf:

5 Once you've got your girl and wolf sketched, get ready for shading the girl's face in a medium skin tone. I use the following colours and materials for shading a medium skinned girl; Skin tone supplies and colours I used (substitute with different brands and colours where needed only listing exactly what I used in case you are curious): Caran D'ache Neocolour II watersoluble Crayons, in the following colours: ochre + cinnamon + English red + brown + sanguine (russet) + burnt sienna + optional: reddish orange + bordeaux red Dabber (Ranger): hazelnut Gold fuid acrylics: quinacridone nickel azo gold (or other deep orange/ brown acrylics) + quinacridone burnt orange Heavy body acrylics (Daler Rowney): burnt umber Colour Pencils in violet, purples, dark reds, dark browns (the brand I use are prismacolor and luminance (caran d'ache) I also used Derwent inktense pencils in the colours of ink black, aubergine, reds and browns

6 shading a medium skin Instead of using a salmon/ light fesh tone as a base colour I like using an ochre as a base tone for 'medium skinned' faces. Ochre has a deep yellow/ turmeric/ very light brown tint that works well as a frst base tone for a medium skinned face.

7 Using colours like English Rose/ Cinnamon & Burnt Sienna in the watersoluble crayon series, I then built up the shading. For the much darker parts I used colour pencils and water colour pencils in darker shades like dark purple (aubergine), dark reds (aubergine) and black for the very dark lowlights like the pupils. For highlights I used a white signo uniball pen and white posca marker.

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9 Paying attention to detail when shading A face really comes to live when you pay attention to the little details. Small additional highlights, subtle gradient blending etc will add depth and intrigue to your face. So, adding little details is not something to gloss over! Some important details to include to bring your face to live more: Eyes the eyeball itself is rounded and will have a small shadow cast onto it from the upper lid. Little refective highlights in the eyes add sparkle to your eyes. The tear duct often 'bulges out' a little and therefore catches some light, hence there is often a subtle little highlight on it. The bottom and top eyelids both tend to be lighter in the middle than on both outer parts of the lids. Inside the tear-duct too there are sometimes some tiny small refective highlights. Nose Often the bits under the nostrils stick out a little and therefore catch some highlights. Also there can be a highlight right under the tip of the nose which helps with 'shaping the nose', the outer nostrils are darker and sometimes the entire nose casts a shadow onto the part above the upper lip.

10 Mouth Assume the upper lip is darker than the lower one, yet there are variations of darker and lighter segments inside both lips. The two 'bulging out parts' on the upper lip that we all have on our lips can be a tad bit lighter and the bit in between them both darker. The bottom lip is lighter in its entirety but tends to be a bit darker in both corners and the bottom of it too is darker. The bottom lip is the one that has more actual bright highlights. Adding those makes your mouth 'glisten' a bit. How to achieve smooth shading The way I like creating smooth shading/ blending is by using a semidamp brush (avoid coarse brushes) and 'scrub' your paint gradually into the area where you want the smooth shading to happen. Flatten the head of your brush against the paper and scrub gently, experimenting with adding or removing water and alternating between using acrylics and watersoluble paints. Finishing the painting Following the same steps we undertook in the frst class, fnish your painting by adding colour/ shape to the hair, clothing/ wolf and background. Here is another basic step by step:

11 Add darker and lighter hair strands. Remember to make hair closer to neck darker: Add shading and detail to your wolf:

12 Create a layered background, follow the steps we went over in the frst lesson. Snow crown & snow splatter I added a 'snow crown' to this girl's head by 'dabbing' or 'stamping' white gesso in little leaf like shapes to the girl's forehead. With a purple colour pencil I added shading to give the crown a 3d feel.

13 Snow splatter can really add to the wintery snowy stormy feel of the background mood. I LOVE making splatters. I used a white ink here and banged a marker against my brush while holding the brush over the areas where I wanted the splatter to land. Be careful to protect the face of the girl and your clothes or anything else that you don't want splattered in white paint! :)

14 And yay, the painting is fnished! :) Here are some more close up shots:

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17 Thanks for being here and trying out my suggestions. :) I hope you had a great time creating your own medium-skinned wintery lollipop girl with her wolf friend! I appreciate you! Much love, Tam x Copyright Willowing Arts