What you need to make a plaid skirt:
a base, an eight-colour palette and some skills. I've chosen a base by Lena
If you want to you could make the shirt before the skirt like me, I always do this way.
Make the skirt with colour 3 as outline and dark shadow, colour 4 as shadow, colour 5 as base and colour 6 as highlight. Since this isn't a tutorial on how to make skirts I'm not going to show you how to do that. But there's plenty of other tutorials you could try.
Make five copies of your original skirt, we'll get back to them later
Make horizontal lines on your original skirt, I use green for lighter lines, blue for darker, red for really light and yellow for really dark.
a good pattern for the lines is green, green, blue, green, green, blue etc... remember to make them follow the shape of the skirt.
Make vertical lines too. (in the same pattern.)
And at last put small dots of red where the green lines cross and small yellow dots (or submarines if you're in that mood) where the blue lines cross.
Back to the copies
Recolour four of the copies, one with the colours 1, 2, 3 and 4, one with 2, 3, 4 and 5, one with 4, 5, 6 and 7 and one with 5, 6, 7 and 8. Still keep the original in case you make a mistake.
If you don't know how to do the recolouring Xandorra has a great tutorial
Here's the tricky part:
Pick white as your background colour, select your doll (with all the lines on) and put it on top of the second darkest copy, but keep the doll selected, then pick the same green as you have on the lines as your background colour and place the doll there.
If you didn't really get that Ninique has a better way of explaining it.
do the same things with all the colours. remember: Green=light, red=very light, blue=dark, yellow=very dark
This is what you should have now.
Finish your doll with hair, makeup, shoes and such. And you're done!
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Of course you can make a black skirt with a green pattern on or something like that to if you want to, but remember to use very similiar colours, otherwise it ruins the shading. |
