Showing posts with label melody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melody. Show all posts

Monday, 6 December 2010

Melody's Beads - A little tutorial

Good Morning! I've been asked a couple of times how I did the beads on Melody's Dress so thought I'd show you how I created some tones and the bead effect.
For this I've used promarkers, the purples I chose were ORCHID, PURPLE & AUBERGINE. For the beads you will need an opaque white pen, preferably ball point such as Inkssentials.

The image is Flapper Girl Melody by Lemon Shortbread which you'll find HERE.

STEP 1 - Colour your face tones in (previous tutorial here) then use the ORCHID promarker and colour most of the dress and hat in. Next take the PURPLE promarker and add some shading as shown below leaving part of the Orchid showing.


Step 2 - Use your Orchid promarker and colour over all of the hat and dress to blend it with the purple then take the AUBERGINE promarker and add darker shading as below. Colour rings of Aubergine underneath the beads to give a shadow effect. Again use your Orchid and blend all the colours together.


Step 3 - Continue to add Aubergine and blend in with the Orchid, you may need to do this a couple of time until you're happy with the tones achieved. I've added a dark patch on the left hand part of the dress now and under her left hand for a deep shadow.



Adding the beads - For the beads I used a ball point type pen rather than my usual sakura souffle whch has a fatter nib. I used a white opaque pen by Inkssentials and if you press hard it leaves a dint rather than a solid white dot on some of them which gives a good effect :) If you press softly you will get a solid white dot.

Detail of the beads.


Finished Card

Hope you like :)

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Wednesday, 24 November 2010

More from Melody

My turn to play with the super cute Melody :D She is going to be starring in her very own new range! Yep that is right the brilliant Teresa is bringing out some gorgeous new stamps. The first set including this one will be available in the Crafts and me store for pre-order from the 23rd of November and for this week newsletter readers will be entitled to 10% off of them. I have decided to colour Melody in a mix of pro markers and sakura pens then mounted her with foam pads her onto this gift card holder (tutorial can be found HERE). Don't forget to check back this week for more previews on Crafts and Me blog of the great stamps to be pre-released on the 23rd.