Today I worked on all the painted areas. I started as I usually do, with the face, using gouache. Then the hair, layering browns before adding the black over the top.
Next, I used acrylics to paint the pants. I mixed an off-white (mostly white, with the slightest touch of gray and red) for the light stripes, and crimson for the red stripes. To get the thin lined stripes, I used a colored pencil. With both stripes covered and shaded, I then used a white acrylic in the airbrush for the highlights over all. I finished the pants with some colored pencils, refining the shadows as well as deepening some of the color.
I painted the belt and shoes with gouache, starting with a bright red base, then adding some black to it to blend the shading, followed by white for the highlights…











































