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Step 12Block out with white and simple colour

Block out with white and simple colour
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Once you are happy with the drawing, you can remove the photo. It's probably a good idea to just move it to one side rather than deleting it, because if you think something looks wrong then it is useful to be able to slide the photo back under the illustration at the same size.

Fill most of the shapes with white and make sure that the ones that should be on top are so that ant stay lines are covered up. Add some simple colour to give some shape to the model. In my experience I don't ever colour skin. The main reason for this is that the hands are there as supporting information and so don't need to be too prominent. If you colour them in they always look wrong and they distract from the rest of the image.
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Eldest of five, son of two doctors, 10 years in Graphic Design and marketing, then retrained as a Biomedical Materials Engineer, don't ask me why, I think it was because I had always wanted to design ...
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