Скачать или смотреть Coloring with metallic colors – the process and materials

In this video I am sharing how I used metallic gel pens to color the magical swan from my previous video (   • Drawing a magical swan, coloring with meta...  ).

I used metallic colors and a brown kraft paper, because I like that contrast between the gloss of metallic colors and the natural look of brown kraft paper. This combination goes also well with the theme in my picture.

Metallic colors go also well with the simple forms in this picture as I didn't have to draw any shadings. Gel pens in general are easy to work with, as long as your pictures are small. They settle well on paper, it's easy to draw small details with them, and it's easy to correct mistakes. They are 100 % opaque so you just draw over the details you don't like.

The good thing about using the colored paper is that you don't need to color the background. The paper I used has 220 gsm, and it's something to consider because gel pens has some humidity that makes the paper with less weight warp a lot.

The process of coloring goes in summary like this:
Step 1: Drawing the outline.
Step 2: Coloring the area.
Step 3: Drawing the outline again to make it more even. You don't need to do this step if you were very carefull while coloring the area in step 2.
Step 4: Decorating the outline with glitter.
Small areas like the crown and the flowers are drawn without the main outline, that means no steps 1 and 3.

I used SAKURA Gelly Roll Metallic pens, SAKURA Gelly Roll Stardust pens, and MITSUBISHI uni-ball Signo Broad pens. The video doesn't show, but I used SAKURA Metallic color 554 for the feet of the swan, and later I also made the outline for the crown with SAKURA Stardust color 703.

Instructions for how to draw the swan are in my previous video (   • Drawing a magical swan, coloring with meta...  ). You can also download different outlines in the channels community section. You can choose the outline of just the swan, or the outline of the swan with the lotus flower and with the quote. In the same post there is also a printable dot grid available to download.

I hope you'll be inspired to draw or to color your own swan. It's actually very relaxing : )

Have fun being creative!
– JoRR


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