¿Qué tal fashionistas?
What's up fashionistas?
I know I've been a bit missing lately, but I'm back recharged and I brought you one of the best looks I've ever drawn. This look is inspired by one of the guests of the most recent Schiaparelli couture collection, the singer Doja Cat.
In case you don't know, this collection was inspired by Dante Alighieri's book, called "The Divine Comedy". In this work, the author tells us how the circles of hell are "composed", who goes there and how purgatory and paradise look like. For this specific collection, Shiaparelli's creative director wanted to recreate some of the deadly sins (lust, pride and greed) present in Dante's work, but all eyes were focused mainly on the look worn by the aforementioned singer.
BOCETO / SKETCH
For the sketch, I based it on the image above, as you can see, the pose is very similar. This time I drew the whole look from head to toe, including the accessories like the earrings and the shawl.
The next thing I added were some details on the dress and on the skin; you can see a kind of "scales", but what I really wanted to portray was the texture of the Swarovski crystals, because remember that the singer had approximately 30,000 crystals glued by hand, on the skin of her arms and face.
ACUARELA / WATERCOLOR
To give color to the drawing I used red as a base color, some black to deepen and white to give small touches of luminosity.
I started with a first layer of red, not very saturated, because as you know, watercolor is applied in layers and it is usually advisable to apply the first layer very diluted. In this case, we can see some areas darker than others, since I made a small mistake (not wetting the brush well), but, I ask you to trust the process!
When applying the second coat, the color became much more even, as you can see, everything looks a little more uniform.
DETALLES / DETAILS
I started detailing the dress, adding more color to the upper part and a lot of dots to the lower part. The dots you see were made with the same watercolor, but without soaking, in this case I did it this way because my watercolors are liquid, so it was easy for me. In the case of having solid watercolors it is necessary to soak, or if it is too complicated, you can use markers or colored pencils.
I continued adding dots on the face, arms and neck using the same technique.
In some parts I added glitter to imply that the crystals were very shiny; I did this with unsoaked white watercolor and used a double brush (00).
For the dark areas that can be seen I used black pencil and it was the same one I used to outline and to give color to the eyes.
Thanks for reading and watching, I hope you liked it a lot. I will bring you more inspirations very soon!