How to draw skin tone on a lingerie figure
Bit of a curve ball this blog from the usual technical or business ones. Drawing lingerie onto figures is not something I did often when designing for companies but when presenting the mood of the collection to buyers it was an added bonus, and in meetings because it was so quick to do, you could discuss collections and designs and draw them up for them to see.
I only really draw figures when I want to finalise and plan out a collection or for aesthetics. So thought I would share what I do for get the results of making the figures not look flat and in the quickest time.
When it comes to drawing figures, I no longer start from scratch, I have put up on the website the figures that I use, there are nine in total, three front, three back and three side views.
Whether you are drawing light colour skin or dark colour skin or anything in-between the principals stay the same, get three colours, of the same hue, a dark, medium and light.
For this tutorial I have used Windsor and Newton pens, in colours pale pink, dusty pink and almond.
Starting with the darkest colour pen, you have to imagine a light source shining onto the body, there is always a light source from the top, and one from an angle, I have drawn the light source coming from the top and right hand side. There you will draw in the shadow cast by the imaginary light source, so that would be inside top of legs, underneath lingerie, shadow from the head, and then shadow at the sides of the body to make it look 3D.
You need to let the darkest pen dry for a couple of minutes, then you apply the lightest colour all over the body. The reason you apply the darkest first so it doesn’t bleed into lightest colour, you want the definition to stay. After applying the lightest you then apply the medium colour over the darkest and more into the body over the lightest. You don’t wait until the lightest is dry as you want this colour to blend in.
Next I use a finer pen to add in the tiny darker shadows of the body, so under the lingerie, under the face, top of legs, this shadow isn’t much, just a little shading to create depth. On the lighter shades of the bodies, I use a lilac or grey, and on the darker shades of the body I use a darker brown.
Final thing to do is outline the lingerie, I use a 7mm waterproof pen, so the outline doesn’t bleed into the body.
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Next I use the thinner end of the pen in a lilac for pale skin tones or darker brown for the darker skin tones, and put in an intense small shadow under where the lingerie sits directly next to the skin, and under the head.
Then once you’re happy with the finished result, you need to outline the lingerie, I usually use a 7mm waterproof pen, so it doesn’t bleed into the skin tone.
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