Artist Karen Campbell of Awesome Art School is covering a unit of drawing and the coloring of clothing of the Victorian Era. This tutorial is the "Victorian Morning Gown," in two views: front and side.
The tutorial was meant to teach the technique of alcohol markers, but I really like the look of the drawings in my Strathmore Toned Tan sketch book. Alcohol Markers don't work on toned paper.
In using that sketch book I needed to decide which markers to use after drawing each dress with my Graphgear 1000 Pentel Pencil. I outlined the dresses with a Molotow blackliner. For the front gown I made the mistake of using Ohuhu Dual Tip Brush Pens (non alcohol). They do not work well on toned paper, but in the end the dress came out fine with a lovely fabric like look! The side drawing also came out fine with a lovely fabric look, but using Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens, are much easier to work on the toned paper. I used Prismacolor Pencils to bring out highlights and textural patterns on the dresses. I used a gell pen for brighter highlights.
I'm looking forward to add more Victorian style to my sketch book!
Challenges:
https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/03/march-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html
https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-202603-march-2026-anything.html
https://morgansartworld.blogspot.com/2026/03/morgans-artworld-challenge-98.html
https://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-602-birthday.html
4 comments:
Love the Victorian dresses, beautiful colouring and shading. Thank you for joining us at A Place to Start.
carol DT x
This is so gorgeous, I love it. Thanks for sharing it with us at the 613 Avenue Create Challenge Blog.
Ilonka DT
Beautiful illustrations, Carla! Nicely done! Thanks for accepting the challenge at A Place To Start !
Hugz,
Chana
these sketches are great - thank you for joining the I love promarkers challenge
Post a Comment