yellow'everyone!
today I'm going to be drawing with every single yellow art
supply that I own, here are all my yellow art supplies, let's draw something!
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before I can draw something I got to figure out what that something is going to be, so I
did a couple sketches trying to figure out an idea of what yellow means to me
and in the end I correlated it with happiness and the word happiness made me
think of being a kid and being a kid made me think of hanging out with your
parents so I decided to draw a kid and their dad - then I simply swatched out all
of my yellow art supplies to see what each of the art supplies actually looked
like in use rather than just on their caps and I had this really long skinny
swatch paper of all my art supplies, and I was ready to start the illustration!
starting with this yellow Col-Erase colored pencil, I began sketching out the
basic structure of the illustration like where the heads are gonna be where the
bodies are gonna be and what the overall layout of the paper will be - now I'm
quite aware that this is not picking up on camera because in fact it wasn't even
picking up in real life so I switched to a darker Col-erase colored pencil
this time in the color 'canary yellow' and this was much more easy to see still
faint, but you know ,visible! and that's kind of necessary - so I slowly started
defining the illustration finding the location of the legs and one cute little
thing that I decided to do in the process of drawing this was the kid on
the Dad's shoulders actually has a ball cap that's flipped around and I thought
it'd be really really funny to show like the generational gap and the difference
between ages and generations by giving the Dad a ball cap but having it facing
forward now this probably isn't accurate for today, I feel like dads
today wear their hats backwards but it's still funny and cute and I feel like it
gives it that dad vibe
now the last thing I want to say about the sketching
process before we move on to the next art supply is that, the pose and
the layout of the page felt a little lopsided and like leaning towards the
right so I decided to give the kid a sweatshirt wrapped around his hips and
blowing in the wind, hehe, this just adds some weight to the left sides of the page and
fills in that white space - the next art supply I used was also a colored
pencil this is the Koh-I-Noor dry marker it's very very vibrant and the brightest
and lightest yellow that I own it's actually very highlighter-y, and stays
very vibrant even over time so I use this to color in these sections of the
drawing that I wanted to be the lightest and I just scattered that among the
drawing so that there would be contrast throughout - the next art supply that I use
was the st. Petersburg White Nights watercolor this was in the color yellow
ochre and I used this for all of the areas that I wanted to be the darkest
you'll see I'm kind of jumping around with light to dark and I'm really trying
to play up the contrast because every time I do one of these "using every
single color art supplies that I own" contrast is like my biggest flaw and
when it comes to the color yellow there's not usually a whole lot of
contrast there so I was very very extra super duper ooper........ worried
about this
illustration in particular so I was trying to take every precaution to cram
as much contrast into this piece as possible - I'm actually kind of proud of
what I do at the end but we'll save that for later - next up I use this Ohuhu acrylic
paint marker I'm actually not sure if they make these anymore but I'm really
happy with the pigment of these like this one in particular is like a bright
mustard color and I just like it so I used it to fill in the sweatshirt and
then the shoes and maybe a couple other locations but it creates like a really
nice flat wash of color and I just really like them, they're very similar to
like Posca pens - this is the Ohuhu alcohol-based marker in the color 32
which is also the darkest and thinnest yellow pigment that I own so I used this
actually as a liner using the bullet nib and just outlining all of the features
that I wanted to stand out- this was a little difficult because I was bleeding
on the paper that I was using and I'm using some pretty heavy-duty paper but
it was creating like a little bit of spider webs along the lines but I really
didn't have an art supply that I could use instead of this so I had to just go
with the flow and let it happen regardless though it looks way better
with this than it did without and like you can actually see what the
illustration is instead of it just being a bunch of yellow blobs with some yellow
streaks in between them, now I feel like we're finally like heading in the right
direction and at this point I got really really excited and I had a lot of art
supplies left to go so that's a good thing - so here I'm
actually switching back to the old Col- erase pencil because I accidentally
added the line art for the whole leg (that kids right leg) so there was no room
to put the dad's hand so he could hold on to him right? - so I had to be a little
creative here and I decided to have that hand just like spread open wide like
he's like talking with gesture while also still trying to like maintain
balance with the kid on his shoulder, it was a little last minute and not what I
wanted but I think....[clap, clap, clap] .... I made best out of a bad situation
then I moved on to another
Ohuhu alcohol-based marker this time in the color 44, I used this to add some
dark shadows here and there throughout the illustration then I moved on to
another Ohuhu marker, this time in the color 37, which is a little bit lighter and I use
this to shade a lot more including the dad's arm on the right, I just filled in
the whole thing I thought it would be interesting and really add some depth to
the illustration and I also used it to like shade little bits of the face as
well - and then I used these two Copic Sketch markers, one is Y0000 and
the other one is Y000...? yeah! I got that right~ - I think when I mentioned
the Koh-i-noor dry marker, that I said it was the lightest color I meant it was
the brightest color these are my lightest colored yellow art supplies so
I tried to take advantage of that and really add shading to the face like
little bits where I wanted there to be a little bit more color and I kind of just
switched off between these two depending on whether I wanted it just a little bit
darker or just a little bit lighter, because these colors are so very very similar but they're also
very very different from that Ohuhu marker that I used to line everything so
we're getting that contrast that I'm looking for so Yay!
then we move on to
the Big Daddy this is the Krink K-75 in the color yellow I love this
thing it's stinky but it's cool
this has a very big chisel
on it so I use it to color in very large sections of this illustration, parts of
these starbursts so when I was thinking yellow originally when I was sketching
out my ideas I kept thinking of like the Sun obviously it's very bright like
the color yellow so I thought a starburst was an order for the
illustration, that was the idea behind the background and I use this mostly
just for the top half, I thought it'd be cooler if I got lighter as it got to the
bottom of the illustration, just to add some fun texture, and maybe even a
little 'contrast' -then I used the Crayola signature blender marker in the color
'canary' and I have completely forgot how vibrant this one is it's very similar to
that Koh-I-Noor highlighter dry marker thing so I decided to use this since it
was a brush tip to try and add some like I don't know texture to that starburst
sometimes I were just filling part of the section, I'm trying to keep that
background starburst from being too harsh and a little bit more organic then
I moved on to two more Copic Sketch markers, the biggest difference between Copic
Sketch markers and Ohuhu alcohol-based markers are basically any knockoff is
that with Copic markers you can buy much lighter tones which you build upon each
other and get them to be darker whereas when you buy one of the knockoffs they
start very dark and saturated and it's kind of hard to have that contrast
so when doing this illustration I wanted to take advantage of that so I use these
markers for all of the shading like the first preliminary shading you know
besides what I already used the Ohuhu marker for, you'll see how much lighter
these are compared to the lightest yellow of the Ohuhu markers, like it's
very very different and when I use markers I really like to start light so
that's why I really like Copic markers - these are also really handy when shading
in the face because of that brush nib that I can kind of like feather it out
and it doesn't look like a super harsh circle when I add like blush to
the cheeks but it's a little bit softer and rounder - Now even though I feel like I
had marker'd out this illustration and it didn't need any more
I had three more Ohuhu markers that I had to get through, 34, 35, and 45 - and I began
dispersing these amongst the illustration - I decided since these have
those bullet nibs to use these to add texture to the dad's shirt so I kind of
just made up a little pattern in my head and began drawing that all over the
shirt - in some areas where there was shading the lighter Ohuhu markers
didn't work so I had to switch to a darker one so that is how I
all three of them I basically just used the one that fit the job depending on
where on the shirt it was because of that shading - the first paint of the
illustration, this is the Americana acrylic paint in the color Cadium
yellow - I was kind of excited about using this and like plopping it on so that
there was like texture to the drawing like a little bit of a 3d effect I
thought it would stand out a little bit more from the colors that I had used
like there's a little bit of contrast between this and the Krink marker but
not as much as I was hoping for so I really played up that like globbing
effect so that it had you know physical texture and physical contrast between it
and the paper - I didn't want like any two of the starburst sections to be the same
- this is the dr. PH Martin's Bombay India ink in the color 'yellow' - these inks are
really vibrant kind of like liquid watercolor but they're waterproof when
they dry and I like how you can get a really large even wash with them but I
first tried experimenting them on top of the Koh-I-Noor dry pencil so those lighter
sections of the starburst, it was kind of fun because it like feathered out the
darker sections of the Starburst but there was also its own color so it just kind
of added a little bit of a hue shift because it's not that same orange yellow
it's a little bit more of like a bright daffodil yellow - moving on to this
Windsor Newton brush marker I believe it's actually the color 'gold' but Shh!
definitely the orangist of the yellows that I use in this
drawing, I use this to darken up the lower half of the starburst I liked that
it had a different hue to it which probably means it doesn't belong in this
drawing but.... you know.... it's very red and I like that - I didn't use this that much so
it felt like a cop-out so then I just started like speckling little dots at
the bottom half of this to add some kind of like texture so it's not just a bunch
of straight lines of starburst but there's like you know something there
next up are these two sharpies I have an extra fine and a fine point and honestly
these don't really stack up next to the other art supplies that I use you
honestly can't even see that I used them but here's proof that I did all right
now let's move on to the next one, which were these two pencils: the Derwent inktense
in the color 'Sun yellow' and a goldFaber aqua
these are both watercolor pencils they have a slightly different hue but I kind
of used them the same way, I would sketch sort of close to the two characters and
then use water to bring that color away from them and kind of create a gradient
behind them and this added a little bit of atmosphere, it's very subtle but you
know it's there! - these are my final two st. Petersburg White Nights watercolors
the light one is Cadium lemon and the darker one is Cadium yellow medium, I
used the Cadium lemon to lighten up the dark sections of the starburst that were
near the character again I feel like this is just adding some atmosphere and
making them look like they're standing in front of the starbursts instead of
like being engulfed by it and with the darker Cadium yellow I just added some
more stripes to the starburst.... #CopOut
so this is the core watercolor it's in
the color 'nickel azo yellow' and this thing was a lifesaver
so basically when you take it out of the tube it kind of looks like a little poop
and you can see it right there in my palette
but then when you add water it
becomes this like really bright almost gold yellow and it's really really
pretty but I didn't want that I wanted that poop color right so first I used a
larger brush and I use this to darken up the areas of the drawing that I wanted
to be darker like the hair I thought that just be cool
to like really push that it's a father and child and have them have the same
color and have it a little bit different than like you know the rest of the
drawing it's a little bit different so yeah I used that poop color for that - but
then I had an idea now that there was like contrast between the hair and
everything else I felt like now it's like parts of the face look like
they're blending in with the rest of the face and it's not very obvious and
there's no contrast there so I took a tiny itty bitty little brush and I used
this to try and actually draw in the details with it now I am not the best
with a brush, brush pens have never been my best friend I have a shaky hand and I
just don't understand how much pressure they require but I decided to try it
anyway and they're very shaky lines like they're not fantastic but I think I'm
improving like this is not bad okay
just don't look too close but
I control the camera and I'm not gonna show you that close so it's gonna look good
but boom!
look at the difference man now there's contrast there,it's not all
one flat tone you know
this is the Feber Castell polychromos color pencil I have
no idea how to use these things I think they're fancy this is in the color
'Strohgelb creme'
I just googled it apparently that's pronounced... [embarrassingly attempts to pronounce German words]
I should be able to say this...i have German blood
whatever one of those has to be right? [hesitantly] ...riiight?
anyway it means 'straw yellow'
so there's your fun fact for the day
anyway moving on this is the Staedler
try plus fineliner I was hoping this would be a little bit darker but it
really wasn't so this is another one of those art supplies that I used it but
uh...you probably can't tell then it did but I have physical proof that uh yeah
look I'm using it but yeah that was about it
now these last two art supplies where
both art supplies that I was kind of looking forward to using because I
thought they'd actually make a difference anyway this is the Holbein
gouache, it's just in the color 'lemon yellow' now cool thing about gouache
is they're very opaque kind of like acrylic paints but they work like
watercolors and this one is just such a bright happy lemon color so I used this
and tried to layer over top of things that were darker than it to try and give
some like brightness and contrast to those areas I also used it for like
little details on the shoes and to add even more texture to that background I
added some more shapes so here I'm adding some bigger circles like lower on
the bottom and a little like polka dots and then here at the top I'm actually
using big circular dot shapes and this is just you know breaking up that
starburst pattern making it a little bit more intriguing
now the final art supply
that I'm using is this I believe it's Kuretake yellow gold watercolor the
cool thing about this is if you let water sit on it it becomes kind of pasty
and almost opaque and it's also so glittery and shiny! very metallic and pearlescent
so this is really good for like accents so I use this to make the dad's hat shiny
gold because he's worked his whole life and contributed to Medicare and paid his
taxes and he's earned a solid gold ball cap I
don't know
does there have to be a reason I just wanted to make like
certain areas shiny and the Hat I thought would be a cool thing to be
shiny, I also have painted over the watch so the metallic bits of the watch so
that those would be shiny as well and then since I couldn't think of any other
places on the character to make gold I decided to color in the lower half of
the background all in this shiny gold but I tried to dilute it a little bit so
it wasn't super dark but I just wanted to have that like Sheen so I filled in
the bottom half of the background with that that way there's contrast between
it and the character so the character is not shiny and then the background is
shiny and then I also added some like circles up at the top to add some like
shiny bits up there too and after that it looked like this look look at that
shininess it's like how do you stop tilting it back and forth it's just so
satisfying and the last thing I did before finishing off the drawing was
take that dark Ohuhu marker and go over the lines again because after using like
Copic markers and other things on top of it they kind of like blend it out and
become less sharp and I just want to sharpen those up and I also like wanted
to redo the arm hair for daddy-o there - and then it looked like this
this is the
finished illustration I hope it just screams and explodes joy all over you
because that's what the color yellow says to me
probably could have gone a little
crazier with the facial expressions but I also wanted it to feel just happy like
you're not laughing hysterically you're just happy
these are all the art
supplies that are yellow that I own I actually went through a little bit of a
purge and I still have this many I need to do purge part two
that's it that's my
drawing I hope you enjoyed coming along with me on this journey where I used
every single yellow art supply that I own
I'm slowly working my way through
the rainbow we'll get there
what color should I do next?
oh shoot
wait I forgot to sign this let me do it at real quick - so here it is
thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a
delicious evening full of waffles!!
BYE!!!!!!!
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