We all love coloring fairy creature. That's the reason why I decided to show you a step by step coloring tutorial on how to create a transparent fairy wings and make your image much more realistic.
I choose this very detail digital stamp by Sara Burrier because it's perfect to show you how to do a transparent wings. You'll notice that artist draw the wings looks like they are transparent too.
First of all, you have to color your image and leave the wings completely blank.
The most important rule that you need to follow when you are coloring something transparent especially wings is that you only color inside the transparent area and have to leave a white gap close to the border of it because the white line will make it looks like it's shining and the transparent objects always have some kind of the sheen to them.
I mark with a pencil the imaginary lines of the fairy hair which is behind because if my wings are transparent I have to see the hair too. I need to add some details to the hair to match with other side of the image so I'm going to use lighter hair colors - GB2, Blender and darker ones - GB8, BG4 to define the hair a little bit more. Remember this part of the hair must be lighter then the other one.
Once the hair is ready it's time to start with the wings- the one that's over the hair and do over the area that want to looks like a transparent and do not color all the way to the border of the wing. I add some details like I did with the hair and gently blend the wing colors and hair ones.
I do the same thing with the other one but now I have two wings which are overlapping each other so I need to
differentiate which one is standing in front of the other. The overlapping part of my fairy wings have to be darker just because they are transparent and the other thing that I can do is to add a shadow around the front one.
The here is the complete color list:
Skin: TN3, TN7, FS2, FS4, FS6, FS9, BG4
Hair: GB2, GB4, GB8, GB9, GB10, EB6, BG4
Dress: BG2, BG3, BT6, BT7, GT1, GT2, GT3, DG3, CG3, CG4
Hearts: PP3, CR4, CR6, BG2, BG4
Wings: BG1, BG2, BG4, GT1, GT3, BT7, Blender
I hope you enjoyed this fairy coloring tutorial !
´the part of the frontal one that overlap the back one is .
To make it clear which oare overlapping each other
make it clear /
Now the two are already colored.
I need to make it clear which one is frontal because they are two wings overlapping each other.
We
are losing a little bit of definition because we have two wings which
are overlapping each other so we have to workout which wing is standing
in front of the other s owe can do a shadow around the wing.
We all love coloring fairy creature. That’s the reason why I
decided to show you a step by step coloring tutorial on how to make a
transparent fairy wings and your image will become much more realistic.
I
choose this very detail digital stamp by Sara Burrier because it
perfectly fits to my idea. You’ll notice that artist draw very detailеd
wings that look like they are transparent.
First of all, you have to color your image and leave the wings completely blank.
The
most important rule that you need to follow when you are coloring
something transparent especially wings is that you only color inside the
transparent area and have to leave a white gap close to the border of
it because the white line will make it looks like it’s shining and the
transparent objects always have some kind of the sheen to them.
I mark with a pencil the imaginary lines of the fairy hair which is
behind because if my wings are transparent I have to see the hair too. I
need to add some details to the hair to match with other side of the
image so I’m going to use lighter hair colors – GB2, Blender and darker
ones – GB8, BG4 to define the hair a little bit more. Remember this part
of the hair must be lighter then the other one.
Once
the hair is ready it’s time to start with the wings- the one that’s
over the hair and do over the area that want to looks like a
transparent. I do not color again all the way to the border of the wing
and add some details like I did with the hair, gently blend the wing
colors and hair ones.
I
do the same thing with the other one but now I have two wings which are
overlapping each other so I need to differentiate which one is standing
in front of the other. The overlapping part of my fairy wings have to
be darker just because they are transparent and the other thing that I
can do is to add a shadow around the front one.
Finally, my image is ready and I can put it on a card or another paper project!
