How to Color a Cartoon Santa Claus

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm gonna show you today how to draw a Santa Clause cartoon. Moving on into coloring, I'm gonna quickly cover the main areas, basically the main shades you are going to use. The first of course, is like the skin color on the face. You are gonna have to watch you don't necessarily want to be too dark but at the same time you don't want to be too light either. Yeah, I mean Santa; he's out there getting some sun at the North Pole. So, it's O.K to go, you know a medium to maybe just a touch dark shade. Now, for coloring definitely kind of lightly almost tap in the color. You don't necessarily want to be like resting a pen over everything for ever. That will result in a lot of really deep splotches that you don't like. You want to have a big brilliant red for all of Santa's clothes area, his hat, coat, I mean every, every, almost everything that is not going to be white or black on Santa's person is going to be this nice red color, big big brilliant color. We're also gonna have blue on his bag which some people actually like to draw on this end brown. I like, I like the blue it's something a little different. It's also kind of cold like the North. Sometimes what people will do is draw in the stretch marks in a darker blue and will actually draw in on the main bag in a lighter blue. You can kind of choose yourself. There's definitely a lot of options available to you. You can also throw in some smatterings of green, which I think they are a lot, a lot of fun. Because you know again like green Christmas color. So, sometimes you can maybe even have like toy that is peeking out be a green bear. Maybe he is ready for St. Patties Day this year or something. You can also have the patches if you'd also like being green. Lastly, there are the areas in black and these areas are gonna be Santa's gloves and as well as Santa's boots. Now on the gloves optionally, but definitely on the boots you can have lighter regions like kind of like to show some shine and for that you basically kind of pick out a rectangular region and have a little bit of have one of the sides of it not be perfectly straight like so and that will basically represent like a nice sheen that this is shiny material on Santa. "