CMN julekalender /advent calendar #21: Tutorial on coloring red

Good morning crafty friends!
Today it's my turn to show some Copic inspiration over at the Copic Marker Norge Advent calendar. Behind door #21 I give a tutoral on how to color a dress in my favorite christmas red combination. Warning- lots of pics and a long post today- hope it's worth your time:)

I dag er det min tur til å inspirere i Copic Marker Norges julekalender, bak luke nr. 21 skuler det seg  en liten trinn for trinn forklaring på hvordan jeg fargelegger med julerødt (min favoritt kombinasjon). Les tutorialen på norsk i CMN bloggen! 

This is what I want to make. The box is very much inspired by a box I found over at Trine's papirkaos.

I used the pretty Fairy Bells image by Make it Crafty. I am using the following colors for the red dress:  E18-E09- E07, R24 og R22

I start by coloring my deepest shadows using E18. I color the in the deepest creases of the skirt and on her dress top.

Next I grab my E09, flicking from the E18 and out.

Next is E07.

Then E24 to get that christmas bright red in the blend. I am keeping a small white space. 

 Then I grab my R22. Filling out the rest of the dress.  

Next repeat the process using all 5 colors. (This is where I noticed I had colored a part of her bow, and decided to give the whole thing a go with all 5 markers. LOL)

 To get a better blend I went over the whole dress a second time with all 5 colors,
I also colored her hat.  

Next I colored the rest of the image using these copic colors: 

Skin: E13-11-00-000, R20, Eyes: E35-37

Hair: E37-35-31-30

Greens: E89-87-84-81

Yellows: E35, YR24-23-21-20

"Whites": W7-3-1-00

Brown: E37-35-33-31-30

Finally I put a shadow around the image to create more depth. 

I used W5-3-1-00 and blender. I added a tiny touch of W7 under her shoes and here and there around the image. 

You can find my tutorial on how to create the shadow around the image HERE.

Here is my finished project using the image. I decorated a chocolate box. 

 With yummy chocolate inside.

Hope my tutorial was useful! 

I would like to enter the following challenges/jeg vil delta i disse utfordringene:

Card and Scrap: Juleller nyttår

Ett Trykk: Julebrett (litt usikker på om dette teller som brett- men prøver meg)

Scrappelyst: Rød

Copic Marker Spain: Add something red

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Have a lovely december day! 

klem, 

Elizabeth