Ghostly White...

Hello everyone!

It's Sue here today with a fiendish tutorial!

As it is now the time of year when we all love colouring ghosts, snowmen, polar bears I thought I would show you how I colour white with my Copics!

The items I have used for this colouring technique are - 
The ghost stamp from Halloweeners Clear Stamp Set by Whimsy Stamps
Copic Markers
W3, W1, W0
C3, C1, C0
BV00, B000, B0000
and 0 Colourless Blender

I decided to colour three ghosts each in different shades to represent white,
Ghost number 1!

 I coloured the areas where the darkest part of my image would be in W00 to provide a base for the darkest colour I'll be using.
It helps to remember that when you're colouring something to look white you are not colouring the white areas you are colouring the shaded areas.  My light source is coming from the top right hand side.

Then I coloured on top of the W00 with W3,

...then blended out the W3 with W1,

...then blended out the W1 with W00

...finally I used the Colourless Blender to push back the W00 so there is a smooth blend between the marker and the parts of the image I am leaving as a white space.

Ghost Number 2

 I coloured the areas where the darkest part of my image would be in C0 to provide a base for the darkest colour I'll be using.
Again, my light source is coming from the top right hand side.

Then I coloured on top of the C0 with C3,

...then blended out the C3 with C1,

...then blended out the C1 with C0,

...finally I used the Colourless Blender to push back the C0 so there is a smooth blend between the marker and the parts of the image I am leaving as a white space.

Ghost Number 3
(Thank you to Elaine Hughes - Marker Geek for the colour combination for this one)!
I coloured the areas where the darkest part of my image would be in B0000 to provide a base for the darkest colour I'll be using.
Again, my light source is coming from the top right hand side.

Then I coloured on top of the B0000 with BV00,

...then blended out the BV00 with B000 and blend out the B000 with B0000,

 ...finally I used the Colourless Blender to push back the B0000 so there is a smooth blend between the marker and the parts of the image I am leaving as a white space.

I repeated all the above steps to give a real depth of colour.
Here are my three ghosts so far!  What do you think?  Do you have a favourite?

I finished the ghosts off by colouring their shoes and adding white highlights with a gel pen.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, colouring white is so useful, not only can you colour ghosts, snow, animals, you can also use exactly the same technique for colouring white clothes and flowers!

It would be great to see your white colouring, please share your cards with us at Copic marker Europe by following the link 

HERE

This is the project I made once I had finished my ghostly colouring!

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Copic colouring

from Sue...xxx