What a gorgeous evening it is!  I feel I should be sitting outside enjoying it but alas!  Colouring has yet again taken over so here's an image I coloured yesterday, keeping the tones all similar on this one.  Not sure why but I think it works well.

Again I've used my Spectrum Noir alcohol pens.

Hair: IG1, IG3 & IG5  I saturated the hair area so the darker inks would blend better.  So first colour lay down was the IG1, then I went in with small flicks of the pens IG5, then IG3 before flicking with the lightest colour IG3.

Skin:TN1, TN2 & FS4  Again saturated the face area with TN1 before bringing in the other pens, TN2 and FS4 (cheeks)  I didn't like the cheeks on this image so removed them by simply saturating with the lightest pen TN1.  For the legs and arms I just used TN1 & TN2, laying down the lightest colour first (TN1), then going around the sides of skin on right side of body each time followed by blending the darker colour with TN1 again.

Dress & Crown: GB5 GB6 & GB8  Same technique as above but this time for the dress I used a flicking motion with the darkest pen (GB8), followed by the same movement with GB6 then again with GB5.

Shoes:  GB6 & GB8 Lay the lightest colour GB6 first then added shading with GB8 followed by another layer using GB6 again.

Bow on dress: Or1 & OR3 same technique again laying the lightest colour first OR1.  Added OR3 for shading followed by another layer of OR1 to help blend the darker colour.

I really learnt a lot keeping all the tones similar as it has helped me learn what colours best blend together over the range of pens.