- Hi, my name is Kat Sapene,
and I will be painting the portrait to our Harley
Quinn premium format figure. Let's get started. (upbeat music) I've mixed up all the colors that I'm gonna need to get this done. The goal here is just to make sure that you get a solid coat of paint. I'm just spacing out the skin tone. I'll do a couple of
coats, just to make sure that I have a solid
color on the entire face. I'll go ahead and seal her up. We're gonna start in with some
washes and sponge stippling to add a little bit of
texture to the skin. Usually I'll start with
the blue mostly because it kind of mimics your own body where you've got the blue
underneath in your veins. And then this little moist sponge, but it really does leave a
little bit of a stain, but sometimes if too much comes
off, I'll add a second layer. Mostly what you're just
gonna see is a slight change in the skin tone, where
there's more blues in there. Now that I've got the little
blue speckling sealed, I'm gonna go in with
a little bit of yellow and basically do the same thing. Just take my brush and do a little wash. You want to work kind of quickly so you don't end up
with any pools of color. We've finished off with the
yellow doing the sponge stipple. I'm gonna move on to doing the red and that one I'm gonna
do with the airbrush. So I'm just going to lower
the pressure on the compressor really, really low until I just get little speckles coming out of the airbrush. This is just gonna go
all over to begin with. And then I will go a little
heavier in certain areas, like her ears, around her cheeks. The next step is to
add the white speckles. So this is really what's gonna give her that sort of powdery white skin feel. She has this like really pale white skin. It should feel like it's
an actual skin color, not just that she's like dead. And so you don't want
the grays in the shadows. You really want more of the
skin tones in the shadows. So it's interesting how much the pinks come out once you have
that white on there. So now comes the fun part. We're gonna do the makeup, yay. I'm just gonna start with her eye shadow. She's got kind of a
smokey black eyeshadow, nothing too dark and heavy,
but just a little something that frames the eyes and kinda makes the white of the eye pop. My technique is just to build
up the paint rather than to have to try to figure
out how to remove it later. Probably from here, what I'll do next is just block in the eyebrows. So I have a tiny little brush. You just put in tiny little hairs. Again, because the eyebrows
and the hair really tend to frame the face
and show you kind of what you're you're working with and you know, where you need to go. Okay, so from here, I'm
just gonna paint the blush. Maybe later we'll add a little
bit of blush to the chin, but I'm just gonna leave that off for now. You always want to make sure you step back and take a look at the thing as a whole. Sometimes you get really focused and once you step back, you
realize like, oh geez, like she's got a ton of makeup on. It's always best to just
do a little bit at a time. I'm gonna go ahead and paint
in the white of her eyes. I have my sclera color. It's an odd, very pale gray color. On a figure like this one where
she's got pretty large eyes you don't want to just
look like they're glowing. I'm gonna grab my base
color for Harley's flesh and my blush color, and
I'm gonna mix them together to make that like little
tear duct in the eye, just to add a little
more life to the eyes. I kind of overdo it a little bit. I'll sorta over paint
the area and I'll kind of cut back in with the mascara and eyeliner. She's gonna be pretty well made up. That's all you're looking for. I'm gonna do the lower eyeliner now. And I'm gonna start off with a gray. That's just sort of to block
in where I want the eyeliner. I'll go back in with black later, but this sort of provides me
a little bit of a safety net. I'm gonna go in and paint
those upper lashes in black. I just have to be a little
careful doing the eyeliner cause you can really reshape the
eye from how it was sculpted. So you want to be a little
bit aware of what you're doing and how it's affecting
the shapes of the face. There we go. Now that the eyeliner's done, I'm going to move on to the lips. At the end she's actually gonna have this really dark red, almost black. So I'm gonna airbrush
over this with black. Right now, it's really just about making her lips symmetrical. I'm kind of aiming for
just inside the edge so that the over-spray onto
the skin is really minimal and it just sort of gives a
softer edge to the whole thing. Now I'm gonna add a little
more intensity to the black, but I'm just gonna do it by hand so I don't have to get it all over the face. All right, so now for the
final touch on the lips, it's just sort of glossy clear
red to boost the highlight. The nice thing is, is
that since this is glossy, once it dries, it'll keep that pop to it. So now I'll pencil in the eyes. I always like to have
the head on the figure so I can really get the eye
direction kind of dialed in. So her eyes are blue. I'll start with a darker slate blue. And then I'll go in
with a fine brush and do all the little details
with some lighter colors to really give it a more realistic look. And then now I'll just go in and put a little white dot in there. The last step here is just
gonna be adding a little bit of rosiness to the inner corner of the eye and a little bit on the
outer corner of the eye. Just to simulate just that subtle redness that you have in the eyes. Now that we're finally
done with the face, yay, I'm just gonna go in and
get started airbrushing the hairline, just to keep
it a little softer an edge. And then we'll go in by hand
and do some little hairs. Kind of like the lips, I'm not actually aiming for the edge right here. I'm aiming in a little bit and just letting the over-spray blend it out. That's it. That's all I wanted is just a little blending around the edges. I'm actually gonna go
in with the shadow color for her hair and paint in
some thin little wispies. They don't just stop right
where the sculpt edge is. I'll blend it over. Again, it just helps
to blur the distinction between the sculpted hair and the skin. From here, I'm just gonna go
ahead and base out the hair. Just make sure you're getting
into all those little cracks and crevices with your base color. You don't want to run into
something later on that like, oh shoot, now I've got this
white spot showing through. Now that I have the
hair based out on this, I'm gonna do her pig tails. And again, just like before,
when I was basing stuff out, I'm just looking to really hit all the little cracks and crevices. So the hair is all based out. We're just gonna throw in some highlights. To do that though, I want
to put the head on the body just to make sure that
I'm putting the highlights in where the lighting is hitting her. I'm just gonna take a paper towel and gently mask off her face. So there we go, look at that. Hair in particular is
one that's hard to paint because nice hair has a nice sheen to it, but you can't really just put
a satin finish on the hair because then you end up having
the satin in the crevices and then the light hits
that and sort of blows the whole thing out, it just
doesn't feel quite right. So you want to go in and
essentially fake that hair sheen. So you can see this top one where I've put in the highlights, as opposed to this one where it's
just the base color. Now it's just time for the shadows. So with this part, what
I'm trying to do is create a little bit of volume, so
I'm going a little bit heavier in some of these areas and kind
of following along the hair so that you get more high
and low points mixing it up so that again, it gives the
hair a little bit more body. There we go. I'm just gonna add a
little bit of this kind of platinum blonde metallic
color that I've mixed up. With her hair being so
pale, that little bit of metallic shimmer will
really help bring it to life. Kind of moving the brush
across the grain of the hair, but also kind of sliding
it down a little bit. That way it's just hitting
the tops of the hair. So, now that we have that nice
little shimmer in her hair, it's time to just do the ends of the ponytails with kind of a pink. The nice thing is, is that as
long as I don't go too heavy, it'll keep some of those shadows and highlights that we put in earlier. All right, red is done. I'm gonna move on to the blue. For the most part here, I'm
trying not to go back and forth, I'm just sort of starting out
here and then sort of letting the paint disappear as I
get closer to the ends. That way you get a good fade. If you kind of go back, you end up with kind of a harsh edge. I'm gonna do a little bit of
a wash in the hair in part, just to get into some of these
little areas in here in the little crevices that the airbrush
wasn't quite getting into, it'll sort of darken up
the color a little bit. I want it to look a little disheveled, so I'll have some like
little streaks and stuff. Basically the last thing that's left is she's got a little choker. Let's start with the little heart. Black covers over just about anything, so I'm gonna start with the
red and then I'll probably just use the black last,
starting with the edge, and then I'll fill in the rest. Now I just have to paint her buckle. We're gonna put a little silver on there and we'll be done with the whole thing. So there's your Harley
portrait all wrapped up. (upbeat music)
