Illustration with Schmincke DESIGNERs GOUACHE

Step 1:

You draw a thin pre-sketch with the pencil, here an old-timercar. For exact and straight lines we recommend using a ruler. Think about how the different parts of your illustration shall be filled with colours, which colours you will use purely and which you will mix.

Step 2:

Put a little Bordeaux on your palette, wet the brush and take some colour. Apply an even colour layer.

Step 3:

Do the same with pure Ivory black. For the thin lines, you best use a very thin round brush; thus, you will achieve perfect thin lines.

Good to know: Gouache colours dry to a velvet-mat layer. While drying, they become slightly lighter than freshly applied colours.

Step 4:

Now you mix a lighter and a darker grey with Ivory black and Mixing white. Fill the respective parts with these grey shades.

Step 5:

The lights of the old-timer will be painted with a mixture of Naples yellow light and Mixing white and some last grey partswill be painted.

Step 6:

Lighten the Bordeaux with a little Naples yellow light and paint the remaining car shapes.

Step 7:

Finally, when all colours have been dried, you paint last details: the front shield in a lightened yellow, the lamps get some reflexes in pure Naples yellow as well as a structure painted with light grey. The radiator gets thin black lines and after al lthe car gets its faked-up license plate. If necessary, small faults can easily be corrected with the opaque colours.