The colour is purple! I got a lot of suggestions between the comments on my first video in
this series, my Instagram and Twitter posts for it, and my friends over on Amino, and
I'd say about 75% of those suggestions were for purple. A strong second place suggestion
was pink, by the way, so that may be what I do next.
I took notes while I was working this time, so hopefully I can figure out how to turn
this into a better voiceover than my every red art supply video. Yes, by the way, for
those of you who watched that one, I did enjoy the process more this time! It still took
a heck of a long time, and I was getting bored of purple by the end of it, but this was more
fun. I was inspired by a photo I found on Pixabay
of two people dressed for a masquerade event of some sort, but I went a little other worldly
with my interpretation. I hope you like the end result! I think it's fitting for the time
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do appreciate the interaction, and I reply to everyone. If you saw my every red art supply
video, which final piece do you like better? This one or the red one? I'll probably keep
this series going, so which colour would you like me to tackle next?
And of course, credit where credit is due, this challenge was popularized here on YouTube
by Rin of DrawingWiffWaffles, and I've also seen a few others like Chloe Rose, Kasey Golden,
and most recently Jazza do it as well. Jazza actually put out an every red art supply video
a couple weeks after I did, so that's a neat coincidence. Did you see that one?
Let's get on with talking about the supplies, and how I used them. The final swatch sheet
I showed in the beginning there with the supplies is what I ended up using in this challenge,
and it has a whopping 120 swatches on it. This was intimidating, for sure!
Just like last time, I did exclude oil paints due to drying time, and I also excluded my
daughter's wax crayons and finger paints. Every other art supply in my studio / home
office was fair game, and I was looking for purple art supplies that weren't too blue
or too pink. I actually ended up stopping part way through when I got around to using
regular coloured pencils to search again for my PrismaColor metallic purple, because I
realized I didn't have it, and I found it hanging out in the wrong pencil case. My metallic
Prismacolors are over 15 years old now. They're not quite as old as my Prismacolor Scholars,
which are stamped with Berol's company name, they do say Sanford, but they still say made
in the USA. I believe they were a stocking stuffer one Christmas when I was in high school.
Clearly I didn't like them at the time, because a couple colours aren't sharpened yet!
But I'm getting off topic. I did my sketching mostly off camera, and I cheated slightly
and used a blue Col-erase. I realize I do have multiple supposedly erasable pencils
in purple in this collection, but they're all Cra-Z-Art, and they suck. I needed a sketch
I could actually see, work with, and layer over top of, so I went with a blue Col-erase.
Sorry! One of these days I'll get more colours in the Col-erase than just the blues and a
red. You may have also noticed a red smudge appeared on the paper early on. That was still
on the edge of the ruler from the every red art supply video. Don't worry! It'll get covered.
In the beginning I figured I would separate the two figures into warm shades on the left
and cool shades on the right, but that went out the window pretty quickly. I free styled
a lot of the decorative details on these outfits, rather than copying the outfits in my reference
exactly, and it just felt right to do those in darker shades, which turned out to mostly
be cool tones. I started off the background with my Kuretake
Gansai Tambi paints and embraced any pilling the paper decided to do. I scraped those spots
after the paint was dry to reveal lighter spots, which look cool and kinda remind me
of stars. I started planning the border with those Cra-Z-Art pencils, but again, they suck.
They failed. At least I can say I gave them a try. At this point, the supplies being knocked
off the list are all three Cra-Z-Art pencils (Mauve, Pretty Plum, and Purple), and my non-metallic
gansai tambi pans, 37 purple, 38 Imperial Violet, and 139 Cobalt Violet. I finished
planning the border with one of my Joseph Hartmutt pencils. Which one? Can't tell you.
They don't have names or numbers on the barrels! I ended up filling in the border pattern with
three Pentel Arts oil pastels, shades 13 Purple, 40 Hyacinth Violet, and 92 Violet, and then
blended them using my Gamsol odorless mineral spirits. The base colour of the outer border
was done using my purple Gana paint marker, and then I gave it an antiqued look by painting
over it with Derwent Inktense 725 Dark Plum from their traveller pans palette, forcing
it to dry beaded up with a hair dryer, and then roughing it up with my Tombow sanded
eraser. I also added more to the background around that point using my lesser quality
watercolours. Those include a full pan block of purple from a nameless student palette,
two purples from my Simbalion round cakes palette, shade 26 Violet from my Sheloi watercolour
tubes, colours 18 and 19 in my Superior brand fan palette, and shade Permanent Blue Violet
from my Sakura Koi palette. Once I had those supplies out of the way,
I started working in some starter details. I made use of the fineliner ends on my Dual
Art water based markers. Those also do not have names or numbers anywhere on the barrels,
but 6 of them made the cut for this video. I used my Ecoline brush pen in Pastel Violet
to start off with the texture of the left figure's skirt, and then made use of a pair
of Touch Ten watercolour brush pens to add details to the hat and attempted to add some
splatters to the background. My Karin Brushmarker Pro in 226 Lilac was used on the same figure's
ruffles. I pulled out my aging Thomas Kinkade watercolour
tube in 430 Violet and used that on the right side figure's boot laces and ring. The base
coat for the left figure's bouquet and more details on her ruffles were done next, using
Daler Rowney Simply gouache in shade Violet. After that, I started making use of my alcohol
markers. Those included 10 Copics, 3 Winsor & Newtons, 5 Ohuhus, 2 Spectra Ads, a Spectrum
Noir Illustrator, and a Touch New. I won't bore you with every single shade name, but
feel free to ask if you're curious! I did not include all of my Touch New and Touch
Five markers because they aren't kept out as part of my normal marker collection these
days. With all the other brands I own, I don't feel that they add anything to my collection,
and if I had taken the time to swatch the and pull markers from those bags for this
challenge, they likely would have just duplicated the other markers. The reason this one was
included is because it's one of the two I turned into a brush marker in my popular "Cheap
to Copic" video from last year, where I proved my theory that replacement brush nibs from
Copic and similar brands can be used to modify the cheaper markers if you're on a budget.
The purple was my proof of concept, and then I did a brown on camera.
I had one highlighter in this collection, a Pilot FriXion in the shade soft violet,
and I used that on the left figure's gloves. After that I knocked my ballpoint pens off
the list adding details here and there. Those included two different purple Bic Crystal
pens and a purple Papermate Inkjoy. Interestingly enough, the two different Bic purples are
probably meant to be the same shade, but they come from two different continents. The lighter
shade was purchased here in Canada a few years ago, and the darker shade came from the UK
in a ScrawlrBox either late last year or early this year.
At this point I also made use of my purple fineliners: a Copic Multiliner in Lavender
and a Superior Micro-Line in shade 807. I used my very old bottle of Winsor & Newton
drawing in ink violet on the left figure's skirt, and thanks to the aging ink base and
dye wanting to separate as it dried, it added some nice texture as a bonus. I then layered
Marabu Aqua Ink over it, and also added it to her ruffles and bib. I used my violet Dr
Ph Martin's Bombay India Ink on the right side figure's skirt, lips, and decorative
hat chain. With that, I was done with my liquid inks. I have a Daniel Smith dot card from
one of last year's SketchBoxes, so I made use of that on the right figure's hat and
the left figure's blouse. Those shades were Rose of Ultramarine and Permanent Violet.
With that I was down to pencils, gel pens, two types of acrylics, and my one metallic
gansai tambi pan. I decided to use my Stabilo Carb Othello pastel
pencils next to get them out of the way. I used them along with a blending stump to create
a gradient on the left figure's hat. CarbOthello pencils aren't labelled with names, but they
do have numbers: 365 and 385. From here I went back and forth with the different pencils
and gel pens to smooth out colours and add more details. Water soluble pencils were blended
with water, and in some cases other pencils were blended with Gamsol. Again, I'm not going
to bore you with the long list of shade names, but this includes 46 pencils and 8 gel pens.
7 of those gel pens are generic gel pen refills, and one is a multi-coloured Reverie rainbow
pen that happens to be on its purple layer right now. The pencils included 1 Derwent
Watercolor, 2 Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolours, 7 Derwent Inktense, 6 Joseph
Hartmutt, 1 Marco Raffiné, 2 ends of a single Chameleon pencil, 2 Staedtlers, 2 Laurentiens,
4 Prismacolor Scholars, 7 Prismacolor Premiers, 3 Faber-Castell Goldfabers, and 7 Faber-Castell
Polychromos. Can you tell I like coloured pencils? I think I might have a problem. (Sorry
if you hear random noises in the background. My cats are going crazy and I'm done pausing
and repeating myself!) The Inktense pencils in particular were used
to do a lot of smoothing and darkening, since they do turn to ink when activated with water.
Gamsol blending for coloured pencils was mostly only done on the right side figure's jacket.
The Prismacolor Premier metallic purple was not very metallic, which was disappointing.
The Marco Rafiné was more metallic, and that's a cheap Chinese brand off Wish!
Once I was done with the pencils, I broke out that last Kuretake Gansai Tambi pan, 861
Gem Violet, and used it to add a layer of sparkle to the left figure's hat and skirt
before splattering the whole piece and dabbing with a paper towel at random.
This left me with just the two acrylics to finish the piece off. I used my Derwent Academy
acrylic in Purple on the eyes, the used my Apple Barrel craft acrylic in Purple Iris
to add dots to the eyes, the corners of the frame, and the centre of the left figure's
head piece. And with that, the piece was finally finished.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments down below, and tell me which colour I should
do next. Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you next time. Bye guys!