Guys, I don't know what I want to draw today, but I feel like making art.
So with that being said, I think we're gonna do a sketch with me sort of video today.
I guess I feel like designing characters.
I don't know. I mean, I guess we'll see where this takes us.
We can just get experimental, get funky. If you want to grab your sketchbook,
You can join me and if you don't want to grab your sketchbook,
you can just watch or listen in the background and clean your house or play with your dog.
I don't know. Do what you want!
I just made a fingerprint! My hands are wet!
Eeee!
On my mission to find this pencil it's a pilot color eno pencil.
I came across a really really weird mystery art supply.
So this guy was in my pencil drawer. I honestly have no idea what it is.
Oh wait, hold on.
All right. It says faber castell, something, ink eraser, something, something, something, something.
What, wait, wait, wait, we're gonna test this.
Figure out what it is and maybe use it in the art.
Artsy.
Stuff in this video
All right. I have my sketchbook. I don't really know where to swatch this.
I think I'll just do it on this page because there's space.
Okay. So one end is this.It's like a fineliner I guess. Not really sure. It says "F" for fineliner.
Right? The other end. It says "B" I don't know a brush tip, bold tip, bland. blanc.
Hmm Blanc. Yeah white, blank.
Let's see. Let's just draw a smiley face.
All right, we have that.
This
You know, I bet this isn't ink eraser.
What!?
What?
Doesn't really erase. It's like an ink smearer. I don't know. What?
Oh, oh, oh you're eating my paper! Disaster! okay.
Maybe we'll use that. Ha ha!
That was weird.
This sketchbook is almost full. So we're just gonna doodle,
have some fun and I want to develop characters.
Just kind of get better at doing that.
So we're gonna practice that today.
Just so you know, you are more than welcome to draw exactly what I'm drawing.
I want to develop my style a little better. I guess. I don't think I really have an exact style.
I think I'm not very like confident with doing outlines and just coming up with concepts sometimes.
I want to improve my artwork a little more.
Think her hair will be in a little bun. I want a messy bun that's coming off page.
This is usually where I feel the least confident.
I actually get a lot of anxiety sketching on camera.
Which is why usually you guys just see me coloring, but we are overcoming some stuff today.
See I can never decide. Do I want to do full-on cartoon? Do I want to do realistic?
Semi-realistic? I just don't think I am the type of person that will ever subscribe to one style.
I can't do it. Can't commit.
So this video might be all over the place.
Ah, how do I want to do her nose?
I guess like this. I don't know.
She's got somewhat of a bridge.
Oh, that's I just don't like that. Where's my kneaded eraser?
Here it is.
I think it's too dark. I'm gonna have to stick with that actually.
Okay, her ears need to change shape now.
Wowsers. We're just gonna mess with this some.
Manipulate a few things.
Something needed to change with her face shape.
I think she just needed some frillies, you know,
sometimes the girl needs some frillies coming out of her ponytail.
She seems lopsided because she is! We'll give her some kind of plump smirking lips.
A little squinty wrinkles, you know what, you know what.
Let me just say, it is okay to show some aging with your portraits.
If you want to put wrinkles on your ladies, put them on! She's gonna have some loud and proud.
This is something guys. I don't know how I feel about this.
We are practicing today. It's all good. if things don't come out alright.
I'm showing you my raw imperfection right here. Struggle busting together.
Trying to keep it a little gestural. Here's a sleeve coming in and let's see,
The hand would be this way for her?
Wait. Or would the thumb be at the back?
It would be like this.
Yes, okay.
That's gonna be tough.
Why am I doing this to myself?
Literally, I'm picking the most counter intuitive way to do this. I could take a picture in my phone.
I've got a picture.
So I have a little bit of a reference here.
She has some purple nails like that. Oh boy, this is rough. Okay. Let's try to doctor some stuff up.
I think one thing that would help me with drawing people and stuff, is to make myself be fast.
So that I'm more gestural.
When I do these little studies in my sketchbook, I guess.
I think my people can be a little awkward and stiff and I'm not brave with poses.
So this would really help me.
I mean, I know there's some proportional things like her hand is a little too small,
but you know what, we made progress.
I'm happy I just dove into this and I sketched on camera, instead of just coloring for you guys.
I kind of enjoy the messy look too and we can add some details to her outfit.
Do that little thing that's on some sweatshirts.
How cute.
Okay, I'm happy with that. Now for the lips.
I usually sketch with red or blue,
But I don't know what made me feel like using purple for this.
I guess I just really felt like drawing somebody with bangs and I kept just seeing it in purple in my mind.
I'll make her eyes a little bigger. I think that would really help her face a little bit.
I think all her other features are pretty big.
Proportionally, it might make some more sense to enlarge her eyes.
I'm just gonna do wiggly lines in the background for interest.
Cool, I don't think it was recording.
I don't remember if I pressed record. We're struggling through this.
I don't think.
I don't know. We're gonna erase the girlfriend, bye!
There's just gonna be a dude waving. It frustrated me. Oh wrong pencil!
yeah, right now I'm definitely rusty on Anatomy. If you're not happy in a certain area of your art,
It's okay, like seriously.
Look at me right now. I mean, I'm not using a reference right now either and his arms are way too short.
Well, that was a struggle.
It didn't work out guys. It didn't even erase. I'm taping over it.
Sometimes when you don't like things in your sketchbook just tape over it. It's okay.
Hide the things that make you cringe.
Mm-hmm back to square one. Page is rescued though.
Nobody won't never know that happened.
Still want to draw a dude though. I'm gonna get better at that.
Maybe do a sharper jawline. He should have a cool hairstyle.
Well, if I'm not gonna practice anatomy with him, I will at least practice expressions. I got frustrated, okay.
He's gonna look kind of doubtful.
Little five o'clock shadow going.
All right, this is much better than the last one I'm glad I just tried again.
Now I can use this fineliner.
He's got a little grimace.
Have you guys ever seen one of these pen things before?
Let me know because I honestly never Have even though I owned it.
I think I got it is as a gift at some point.
It's pretty cool though.
It actually writes really well.
You can press pretty hard and
the nib is okay, this is fine. I wonder if I can shade the neck with the eraser end of this. Ooh.
What a cool way to shade oh, yeah!
That was pencil.
Still pretty cool. Oh, yeah, this double-ended stabilo pencil just gonna make his nose a little colorful.
His cheeks.
Then for the background,
I think I'll do green.
But try to like watercolor it out.
Cool! For this one, maybe I will try drawing a full body.
I think I'm gonna do a different style of person
Are any of you guys sketching right now?
If so, what are you drawing? I want to know!
Anybody else struggling with anatomy and people.
I took such a long break from it that it really made me take some steps backwards.
Oh my goodness. This would be a really fun concept for a bigger sketch or piece I guess.
Basically this girl is hugging a plant.
I thought it was a cute little idea.
The bottom of the pot should be resting on her hand though.
I'm looking at poses online but altering them.
The reference I'm looking at right now, the girl is actually wearing jeans and a tank top
and holding a puppy.
I am making her hold a plant.
She's kind of mauling it over a little bit but whatevs.
I really like these soft children's book illustration style ways of making art too.
I would say none of these are the same style. That's okay.
We're gonna change up the bottom because she needs a little bit more of a waist I think.
Then her skirt. Oh, that's better.
I don't know maybe puff sleeves or something.
Like she's from a different time era.
Of course a little peter pan collar.
How can you not?
Maybe this one, I will watercolor.
Nothing too fancy, but enough to add some interest here and there.
She's gonna have orangish brown hair.
We're literally speed sketching today.
I think it was helpful for me because it brought me a little bit out of my comfort zone.
i feel a little braver now.
Hopefully I can shake off some of this fear of anatomy and just go at it.
I mean I have a lot of work to do but we're getting somewhere.
I'm going to use the same color for the flowerpot.
Oh, she could be wearing like a grayish dress. I never make my characters wear that.
Low key just want to see what it looks like If I outline it in this green color. We'll see.
It might be a good idea, might be a bad one but since this is my sketchbook,
Hey, if it doesn't turn out that good, then the whole internet saw it.
Just do some simple cartoony shoes. Ruffled socks, oh, how cute.
Dude I kind of want to develop this into a bigger idea for a bigger piece. It'd be kind of fun.
Well better than nothing, okay, I'm going to give her some rosy cheeks.
She looks almost doll like because of the difference in shading and style and everything than this.
I could doodle a little fern too just it make things even more botanical.
Yay, a little fern!
Smooth it out a little.
Then here we go.
Okay, guys.
So I basically just tried out a couple different styles of people,
Because I'm getting back into it. I want to explore.
I know this is not my best work. I also know that I need to work on my anatomy again
because I kind of took a couple steps backwards.
I just thought it would be fun to just show you my process from success to mistakes. This whole chunk.
Just be real with you guys. Art doesn't always come easy to me either.
Sometimes I scrap things and get mad cover them up. Whatever,
but it doesn't mean you have to give up. You can redeem your page.
You can create something you're happy with later.
I hope that this is encouraging for you guys.
You can just live through my mistakes and maybe feel better about yourselves.
That would be my hope.
Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you soon in another video
Bye!