today I'm going to be playing around in my sketchbook, I was especially inspired
by these two dr. pH Martin's Bombay India inks when I saw them next to each
other, I was just like "oooh! that's a gorgeous! I need to stick those two colors
together in a drawing right now" so that's what I'm gonna be doing! - grab your
sketchbook and yeah let's get started!!
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I will be filling this entire spread in my
sketchbook so both of these two pages and I started it out with a very guilty
pleasure sketch there on the left and you'll notice I have some Copic markers
up at the top there and I also picked them out because they were very similar
to the colors that I had chosen in the inks and I thought they might complement
each other nicely or if I needed to like try and get some different details that
I might not be able to do with the inks I could do it with those because I've
never used Copic markers with inks and I thought it'd be fun to experiment and
see how well they work together... we learn a very valuable lesson that I will
enlighten you all with when we get to that point - but here I'm sketching and
sketching is my very most favorite part of any illustration I just like the
sketching process it's why I love having a sketchbook
because you just open it up and you throw something on the paper and I just
enjoy that process of starting with a blank page and turning it into something
and I definitely enjoy it a little bit more than finished illustrations which
every time I create a sketch I always like it more than if I take it further
to like completion and I don't know if that's just because I'm not as good at
those following steps or if it's just because I know how much more fun I have
with the sketching process and I put more time into it because it's the part
that I love - so yeah Here I am sketching that girly, you can see she's got her
shoulders scrunched up and she's being all cutesy because that's what I love
to draw! - once that sketch was done and I had it the way I liked it I grabbed my
Bombay ink and a calligraphy pen with my favorite nib on it and I began inking
out the character one of my favorite things when people use ink is your
ability to get those fine lines with your dip pen and then you can also grab
like a brush and fill in larger spaces and the way that contrast is between
like the white space and the dark space of the ink is *oh!* that's just my favorite
part when I see other people do it and so I've always been
trying you know, to try and imitate that in a way that I think looks good
but in the end it always looks like I made it so...[hesitant inhale] that's either a good or a bad
thing -- now here's actually a really good
example of how you can take a dip pen and use it to fill in larger areas and
you can get that seamless blob of ink look that I really like so I just go in
and fill in a space and because the ink is much wetter, I would say, then like a
normal pen, when you go over those areas the liquid just grabs on to itself and
it just creates that flat surface that I really really like
look at it just
underneath her sleeves the shadow mmm
I use the same technique and actually
exaggerate it even more with this back foot so her back right foot that's her
right, our left, but it's actually on the right of the left foot...[realization] (that's really
confusing) but I just feel the whole thing in with the dip pen I didn't need
to like grab a brush and it still fills in the space and looks like a flat even
coverage of ink now whenever I create something in my sketchbook I don't know
where I'm going to take it so this is a good example of that because I'm
actually blocking in some shapes and creating some dynamic contrast between
the character who's filled in white and the page that's also white so by doing
this it now separates that character from the page and gives them just a
little bit more body and makes them look a little bit more substantial I also
decided to grab the yellow ink and just drop some in there and see what happens
and see how it blends without actually touching it and just letting the ink do
whatever it wanted to to create some like fun texture there and as much as I
love to experiment to make messes and try new things sometimes it takes
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this next sketch I decided to draw the same character although I
didn't realize it till I did that big poof of hair on the top of her head and
then I was like "yep I guess I'm just drawing her from a different angle" so
this is me approaching that character and seeing what they'd look like from a
different angle thinking of them as a real individual and how these different
character elements that make them who they are would look if they just turn
their head slightly because sometimes when you come up with the idea of
something it looks cool the first time you draw and then you tried to draw from
another angle and you're like "ooo....okay no that's actually really weird" - problem
I had when I was inking that first little sketch was that I didn't erase
the pencil at all and I was kind of getting a little confused by where the
lines were so for this one I actually erased a majority of the sketch but like
left enough that hinted at the general idea before going in with the ink then I
grabbed that magenta ink and started outlining the character I didn't do
anything too different with this one even though I was still trying to
experiment with it - I basically just inked this the same way that I inked the
other one, other than that erasing the sketch thingy majiggy that I did and
then I started blocking out this ones shape as well to try to give it a little
bit more contrast from the page and I kind of wish I hadn't because this is
where I I don't know it just got a little messy (messier than I would prefer)
and even though this is creating contrast between the character and the
page the fact that I have that Sketch up and to the left that has a very similar
blocking out technique it makes these two sketches look very similar and thus
creates less contrast overall on this page and that is what I don't like about
it- for the next sketch I want to see how this big hair floomph would look from the
side so I decided to draw a portrait view of this character, let me know what
you think we should name her I feel like pink and yellow or such vibrant colors
we haven't gotten to the yellow yet but trust me it's it we we fill a lot of
these empty white spaces with yellow as the video goes on - so I feel like her name
should be like very perky and fun like I don't know
Priscila!? hehe
I don't know- this character already has a little bit
of a vintage kind of retro theme to it so that little extra hair floomph on top of
her head I feel like really goes a long way to look a little bit like a beehive
and gives it that like 1950/1960s vibe so I tried to exaggerate it in this side
angle and really 'floopmh' it - I mean that's the only word I can use to
describe the way that looks and to break up the hair near the top of the
beehive I added a couple flowers because I am approaching the hair in a much more
simplified style than I may have done like a year ago I've been trying to
really think of things as shapes and simplify them - it does have a little bit
of a downfall in the fact that this doesn't really look like hair it could
be mistaken for a hat so I do add a couple extra strands here and there to
try and really emphasize that this is her hair especially when I go in with
the color because I end up coloring her hair pink and then for this one I also
erased the sketch and then started adding in that magenta ink but this time
I played around a little bit more with the tones and took that hair piece
that's further in the distance instead of adding hatching like I used in the
first sketch I actually filled in that entire shape with the magenta ink and I
just find that visually pleasing - while those were all drying on this next
sketch I was still very much intrigued by this character's hair style so I
really wanted to explore it even further and decided to draw it head-on
this gave me the opportunity to add some extra lines and really try to push that
character design and make it a little bit more unique and not like every other
character out there it also looks a little bit like I Dream of Jeannie so
that kind of goes against what I just said - but I added that like a little swirly up
at the top of the bangs because I kind of consider these little swishes around
her forehead to be bangs and they all come out of like that high beehive up at
the top, but to create the distinction between the bangs and the hair I added a
little like curly swirl up at the top and I thought that was kind of cute and
unique for the next sketch I wanted to draw the outfit again because I thought
it was a fun outfit I liked that drop shoulder 'floophy' and the little scalloped
edges I just want to draw the whole outfit again and I also really wanted to
play around with what I really liked about that side profile illustration, the way
the hair that's behind the character is filled in solid so with this one I
really emphasized elements of the character that are further away will be
filled in solid and I feel like that just gives that extra oomph that I was
talking about at the beginning of today's video where I was like "I really
like with ink when people do this and that" you know it's where they have those solid chunks
of the ink and then they have the thinner more detailed bits of ink and it
all just like work so cohesively it looks cool so this is my attempt at
furthering that in my own art and you may have noticed that even in the sketch
I filled in those areas with pencil to see if it would look good before I went
in with the ink and this one I'm not happy with the hair, the hair is
definitely evolved throughout these sketches and become something that it
wasn't maybe necessarily in the sketch before and this is one where I was like
"mmm, no, I need to tone it down a bit don't really like the way it looks like a
ponytail" because in the other ones it almost looks like the hairs down but
there's like some kind of pillow in her hair that gives her that volume whereas
with this sketch it looks like it's a ponytail of some kind and I wasn't
having it nope wasn't wasn't the where I wanted this character to go -- I'm also not
a huge fan of the face in this particular illustration I feel like it
lost something that the other sketches had like none of them look like the
exact same person one after the other but this one looks the furthest from the
others in my opinion and since I had such large areas to fill in with the ink
I actually used a paintbrush to fill them in and I just made sure that the
brush was very saturated with the ink before I went in to fill it in because
if you don't then you kind of get some splotches or you can get a little bit
more opacity and I didn't want that I wanted to look very similar to what
color I was getting with the dip pen -- one of the last sketches on this page I'd
call more of a doodle because it was just one of those quick like let's-draw-
something-with-crazy-big-eyes-and-have-a-lot-of-fun-with-it sketches, and I just I
don't know I was very swooshy, very expressive and had a lot
of fun with it and down here I kind of did the same thing because too much
white space in a sketchbook for some reason gives me some kind of anxiety
like I need to fill as much as I can, I just drew another little character down
there this time a little bit more emotional like she has a face that's
expressing an emotion is what I mean by that and just getting used to drawing
this character and finding out what makes this character look like this
character so what do I have to do to make it recognizable and the more you
draw a character the more you're going to realize what makes this specific
character this character and this is one of my favorites just the very expressive
happy picture gives her some personality takes her away from that like flat
supermodel just staring at the camera look gives her almost a story like ooh
what's happening that's making her feel this way? who did she see? who is she in love
with? or what thing did she see? what passion does she have? these kind of
sketches are always fun to draw and I feel like I don't do them enough --- now
that the ink is dry I just had to experiment with the Copic markers on top
of this profile sketch here and see if the ink blended with them or if it would
stay permanent and I could just use the markers on top and some areas were
smudgier than others - I'm wondering if I just need to wait 24 hours for the ink
to dry because I've heard things like that and don't have the patience for
that so you can see it's smudging around but maybe next time since I'm really
[in a quiet voice, like she's telling a secret:] "falling in love with these inks guys like they're really really fun and like
line arts not like my favorite thing but like when I use these things it kind of
makes me happy and I don't know, i think i'm falling in love, they're pretty cool"
[back to her normal voice:] so maybe I'll try this again and let it
dry 24 hours and test it again for you guys so yeah let me know if you I'll let
you know regardless cuz I'm gonna try it so I
don't know why I'm saying that that's just anyway even though it was bleeding
a little bit when you would add the Copic markers on it I realized there's a
lot of white space on this character and I could probably just avoid the ink
right? [with the markers] that's probably famous last words but it
worked fine I like it cuz with these markers I have some very very light
toned yellow markers and because of this I can kind of blend them around and like
blend it out to the white page and it's it's just very subtle color and I really
like that about these markers in particular and so I decided to use
these to color the face and just add
some subtle tone to the face and get the nose a little bit of tone and the cheeks you know here and there and I'm really happy
with the way that looks it's exactly what I pictured
do you realize it's a
pun when you say "the drawing turned out exactly as I 'pictured'" ... okay
now the hair was a little bit of a different scenario I wanted to be able
to fill that all in but there was a lot of like inky lines like little tiny ones
that I really didn't want to bleed with a marker so I decided to add water and a
little bit of white ink to the magenta ink blend that all out about and then
color in the hair with that and oh my gosh doesn't this look like delicious
sherbert like that color is gorgeous it just makes my mouth water - it
looks delicious
[voice sounds like it is coming from a PA system:] please refrain from consuming the art. thank you. {click}
imagine if that came over the PA system in a museum, haha -- because of this mixture of ink
was a lighter tone I was able to layer it up and get like a little bit of a
shimmery shine on the hair which I feel like makes it look a little bit more
like hair and a little bit less like a funky hat so I'm happy about that one
now I gotta be honest I fell in love with that pink hair so I decided to add
the pink hair to every single sketch on this spread so I started with like the
one on the far left since that one was the most dry and on all of them I gave
a pretty obvious and exaggerated shine of white which I actually go over later
and lighten up well darken up the shine with more pink
cuz I start layering up the pink and making the hair have some more dimension
and giving you that shimmer and I really like that so it's all about like
layering up lighter colors and they become darker and more pigmented but you
get those like variations and it's not all one solid tone you know so while
that hair was drying before I added the next layer I mixed up a pretty light
half water mixture of the yellow ink and started coloring in the dress -- I wanted
this to be a very flat tone so I just quickly went over the whole thing before
it dried so it looked pretty even and solid then I actually accidentally mixed
a little bit of the yellow with the magenta and it actually made
this really pretty perky pink skin tone that I really liked so I decided to fill
in the character's skin with that and I also if I added a little bit more
magenta to that same mixture it made a fun blush color for the cheeks and so
that's what I did with these characters on the side besides that side profile
one which I obviously already colored in the face like I mentioned earlier I
didn't like how those two sketches on the Left were very similar with their
like pink blobs behind them so I grabbed some yellow and just elongated the blob
of the second character and stretched it out underneath the other three sketches
on the right page this just like I don't know it just grabs it and it just pulls
your eye further to the right and I like that about it I think it's fun and then
I also blended those two colors together so it's a bit more of a gradient and I
don't know just like look at that ink mmm just the way it spreads, ain't that fun? I like
close-up shots like that it's like watching Juicy Ink, if you have never
heard of Juicy Ink go watch her, she does like the awesome shots, awesome
cinematography, awesome art, she knows what she's doing go watch her thank you.
then one of the last things I did over all of the sketches was I took that
mixture of magenta and the yellow but I made it a little bit more heavy on both
the colors so less water heavier on both magenta and the yellow and I use this to
shade in the dress I just love it it's like this it's like a pinky orange color
and it looks so good on top of that like yellow dress the tone just it's so
pretty I love it and like here it's really obvious right there under the
bust like the way I use it for shading doesn't that look good next to the
yellow mmm!! and I also did it on this sketch over here - I think that one it's
also very obvious because I keep adding more layers as it dries and then here I
tried to add some more blush to the knees and the toes but it was a little
bit too magenta so it kind of like altered the entire skin tone of her legs
and I had to like bring that up to the face too because then her face looked
too light compared to her and just looked like a self-tanning
disaster so I just darkened up all of the skin tones which I feel like lost a
lot of contrast there -- then I took one of my favorite white gel pens the Sakura
Decorese white gel pen and I used this to add some little highlights here and
there or specifically that one character is really blending in with her backdrop
because when I was adding in those backdrops it was to make the characters
white of the page stand out from the rest of the white of the page and now
that I've colored in the character it's blending in so I need to add some
separation between those two Pink's yes they are different tones but they're too
similar for my taste so I added a nice white, I call it the sticker outline, I
just love it it makes everything look paper-thin and fun, I just
love it okay
so here's what I came up with for today I had a lot of fun
experimenting with these inks and I was just so inspired by these two colors you
never know what's gonna grab your attention to make you want to draw
something -- I want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring the channel and allowing me
to bring you more improved content in the future, I'm very excited about it so
thank you for that
but yeah here's what I drew for today let me know what you drew
today or if you drew along I always love to hear that and yeah thank you guys for
watching I'll see you guys all next week now if you have a delicious evening
full of waffles!!!!
BYE!!!
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