Use red (or any color you choose) and fill in the top of the letters and fade them out
half way down the letters. Then use your color and go around the bottom edge of the
letters staying a little bit away from the black line. You don’t have to do this but I think
it gives it a nice effect. It’s time to color the bricks. I first make a half circle above the
bricks to give it a border. Then I mist over the whole area with the red and add more
solid color randomly to each brick to give it some shadows and make it look more
3D.
We’re almost done with the stencil but
first we need to use dark brown to fill
in the eyes and eyebrow, side burn and
goatee. After you’re finished with the
brown use the black to fill in the re-
mainder of the openings in the stencil.
Before I remove the stencil I use the
white and add highlights to the brick
and the letters. I add the highlight to
the upper right and side of the letters.
While I have the white I add highlights
to the cracks on the road too.Pictured
to the left is what it should look like
after you remove the stencil.
I decide to make his cap red
also to go with the black and
red theme. Again the color
choice is yours or your cus-
tomers. I don’t just fill it in
solid I go around the lines
and border of the hat and
leave some of the white of the
felt, or shirt, show through. I
try to do this whenever pos-
sible so I don’t have to use as
much white for highlights at
the end. I also did this in the
pants earlier.
You want to continue with the black and fill in the
It’s time to do his skin tone. I
lines of the cartoon. I use the black for shading the
made him have light skin so I
shoes and the shirt. I also made the pants black but
used my light brown and just
you can make them any color you like. I also give
added it to where the shadows
him black checkered boxers. Around here black and
would be on his skin. Then I
red are what most people want so I try and make my
lightly misted the light brown
designs in colors that my customers like. I almost for-
over all his skin. If you wanted to make him have dark skin you can use dark
got the other eyebrow, use the dark brown for that.
brown instead.
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