So this is my Copic marker collection and I love it very dearly - I think it has
a very good mix of colors (if you want to look at it, there it is)
whenever I sit down to draw
something I feel like I have all the colors that I need and I haven't felt
myself wanting any other ones and today I might feel a little different about
that because I'm going to be only using one of them at random - here goes!
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hey guys! welcome back!
before sitting down to draw I picked out my marker closing my
eyes and I got Jasper or BG 57
I started drawing with a good old pencil
I haven't
drawn in a couple days and I like to keep things simple and not scare myself
into an art block because if you have been drawing as long as I have, you kind of
notice when things happen and what things cause those things that happen so
for me when I have very high expectations for myself and I can't meet
those expectations it's not a good time and that's kind of when I start feeling
insecure about my art so I decided to go in this very simple and one of my
favorite things to do when it comes to being simple is to try and use only one
marker and I'm still feeling that holiday spirit even though New Year's
has already passed so I wanted to draw something fun like
holiday dress I thought maybe I don't know I mean she's looks a little old to
be wearing this sort of dress but hey in my little 2d illustrative world/universe
place no one makes fun of anyone for dumb things so I think she'll get on
just fine - I do have to make a little confession though while I was drawing
this drawing thing of an illustration-y/drawing thing I wasn't really thinking
about what color that I was gonna have to use when it came down to it even
though it was sitting right there -
I kind of just you know drew which
happens when you haven't drawn in a while I mean at least it does for me
because I've noticed if I don't draw in a while I lose that kind of urge to like
sit down and draw I kind of just sort of float through life without art but-but
once I like force myself to actually sit down or like I accidentally sit down
next to a pencil or something the art just sort of starts coming you know and
I I'm not saying it's good art it's just it just starts flowing like you know
someone made a weird semi-realistic cartoon girls with poor
fashion-sense shaped-hole in the size of the Hoover Dam and, you know, ''WOOSH! the
drawings just pour out - (i dunno)- I really hope that that means that like art and me are kind
of in it for the long haul because I mean it'd be really depressing if like
me from the future just like dropped out of a wormhole one day and like landed on
her feet majestically like a cat and just told me : "Rin, on the 23rd of
January that was the last day that you ever drew a draw" and then I'm like "What?"
just like having a heart attack (I mean mostly because I'm just meeting myself
from the future) but like oh my gosh what a life if I can't draw like whats
the point? - did anyone else picture when I fall out of the wormhole in the
future that I'm wearing an eye patch? some reason I picture myself with an eye
patch I mean but then I'd have no depth perception, would I? but at least I'd
look kinda cool - i dunno - heh... -
anyway the point is don't be super depressed if you
just don't sort of feel like drawing I mean that doesn't make you a terrible
artist we go through those high points and low points and there's gonna
be moments where you don't really feel like doing it that's that's okay I get
them too I don't think that automatically means
that like art isn't meant for you because I've never experienced anything
in life that I could just enjoy endlessly cuz like by the 11th cookie
you're kind of like "ehhh, that was maybe like one too many cookies" yeah oh here so once
I was finished sketching I erased everything just so slightly with my
kneaded eraser that way you know it's mostly erased but I can still see it so
I know where to put the ink for the line art and then I began adding these lineart
um I decided to play around with the line art this go-around because I was
going into this thinking oh I'm only gonna be using one marker so I need to
really take advantage of the fact that I'm going to be using line art and add
to the illustration in some way so I decided to use both the brush tip and a
point three fine liner and brush pen I guess and I'm going to add the line art
with the 03 and then use the brush pen to fill in the larger areas so
I'm actually filling in a lot of sections
sort of using it as a second marker if you've ever done the one marker
challenge before you'll realize that it's a very good exercise in separating
your colors and adding contrast between colors that are right next to each other
like the skin and the shirt or the shirt and the skirt so (hey, that's kind of funny) um
so what I'm doing with the line art is I'm actually again adding just another
tone to everything because the line art is darker than Jasper and Jasper is
darker than the white paper so now I kind of have three tones to work with
and I can separate those out and put them together as I need to - when I was
originally drawing this I kind of pictured the skirt being the black
section but when I took a step back and looked at the drawing I realized that
the way the character was laid out and everything that using the lineart to fill
in the shirt section would give me a lot more to work with because then I can add
that blue color for the hair and for the skirt and they won't overlap each other
do you see what that would mean? I mean once I'm finished drawing you'll see the
way I laid out the colors but because of the line art in this shirt I can do what
I just said hehehe
but if I had colored the shirt section blue then I would be I'd
have to color like the hair black or leave the skirt white and I'm limited a
little bit more in that way and I wanted to add the hair blue and this skirt blue
because this is the one marker challenge and I wanted to use as much blue as
possible and by coloring in the shirt I was able to do that - I messed up with the
face because I mean I've kind of got this ruining a face every time I draw
traditionally streak going and I didn't really feel like breaking it today so
yay
okay so Once I did line art um I basically you know just did
line art the way you do lineart you just kind of trace what you drew so there's
not much to say about so yeah there's the line art I'm practicing cleaning up
line art that I've drawn traditionally digitally so I'll have the line art of
this available if you'd like to color it yourself - last time I did a one marker
challenge I did this and it was so cool seeing you guys try it out yourself with
your own colors and your own markers and like so there's all these different
colors and it was like a rainbow of awesome so
if you want to color that I will have a link in the description - but now that the
lineart is done I can go in with my Jasper and start to color it
this is probably a
big no-no and like the first thing you learn on your first day of marker school
but I literally just dabbed the colorless blender onto the marker to
grab the color um - oh my gosh was that lightning? are the marker gods coming for
me?! no? okay --- I guess I'll live, anyway I don't
do this a lot because I own pastel markers so there's never a need for me
to do this so I actually basically never use my
colorless blender ever and this is like one of the first times but I realize it
works really well if I just blob it on to the Jasper color and then I take that
straight to the paper and I just blob on like the nose and the cheeks and adds it
like a little bit of blush and this worked really really well I had a lot
more later because I really didn't know what the heck I was doing she says in
every single video but I figure it out a little bit later on so it'll look better
then so stay tuned but after that I just started using the straight brush tip and
color didn't like the lips and added a little bit of eyeshadow and I colored in
the ribbon and like any of the darkest areas of the illustration like
underneath the skirt and then for the actual skirt I wanted to give it a
little bit more texture and almost a gradient so I started at the bottom and
like did light brushstrokes upwards lifting up the pen as I went so that it
would get lighter and softer as it went up because I wanted the top of the skirt
to be lighter than the bottom of the skirt and then once I've done that I
used like a colorless blender to try and help blend that out even more and make
it smoother and gradient up to a lighter color and I did that throughout the
whole skirt for the first part of it I did it in that very front section that
you see, and I did it really really dark and then when it came to doing the rest of
the skirt I realized that I had done that part too dark so I had to kind of
go over the rest of the skirt and tried to make it matchy-matchy and then I
wanted to add even more texture so I just added dark polka dots all
over it not entirely sure what I was thinking it just sort of happened
then I also colored in like the bracelets and then I moved on to the hair again I started
with the section that I wanted to be the darker so that I could do multiple
layers and this is like the hair that's behind her neck so it's going to get a
lot less light back there so I'm coloring in that first
and then I'm trying to add shine to the random hair that she's holding (can I just
mentioned that that looks really weird) I completely-I know... it just looks kind of
like she's holding goop...I had in my mind she's like playing with their hair "mmm
so cute" but I mean that looks just weird anyway but I'm trying to add shine to
the weird stuff and I think it worked really well what I did was at first I
tried to use that same strokes with lifting it like I did with the skirt to
kind of get that soft look but I realized I liked it a lot better when it
has like a hard edge to the shine I think it just looks a lot cooler and
it's more of what I'm going for so I started actually drawing with the marker
from the shine and moving up and then going underneath the shine and putting
the marker straight down and then pulling away from the shine if that
makes any sense and that's how I get that hard edge and I like it a lot
better but then for one of the shine's (the one like right behind her ear there)
I did use that sort of soft feathering technique and some reason I like it
there but it didn't like it in other places I think it's because that part of
the hair isn't jetting out in any way it's much-like just falling
there softly and gently so a nice soft and gentle shine makes more sense
whereas the other parts where I added the shine the hair is you know curved in
some way a little bit more exaggerated and I like it better to be harsh shine
there - at least that's my thoughts - I went over the hair a lot this was kind of I
thought an important part of the drawing so I kind of wanted to make it look good
and then um I mean (you could be the judge of that) haha
but then I moved on to these little shinies that I was trying to help with
the composition of the drawing cuz like I said when I was drawing Rapunzel for
the year of 2019 I kind of want to practice composition and really making
my drawings sort of look like some effort was put into the layout of the
character and like the elements of the drawing so I decided to add those shiny
things that kind of help create like a swish sort of to the drawing it's even
more swishy at the end if you stay tuned but I colored the outside of the little
shines and then tried to blend out because I wanted to shine to be white
and then the outside of them to be giving off like
blue, like the Jasper color - um I don't know if it worked but I I'm trying
something new and then I felt like there was just a lot of white space at the top
and I really liked how at the bottom I had done with the line art that black
border so I thought it'd be kind of interesting and contrasty to add a
Jasper colored border at the top and leave the sides opened and once I had
done that I really liked that I think it just added like an extra sort of
something I'm not saying it's cooler not saying it's worse it's just sort of
like you know 'there' but I like it and I think it adds some weight up at the top
of the drawing because the bottom was very heavy and I-I kind of like it that
way then I went in and added some more depth to the hair because I have to wait
for those layers to dry and then I can add another layer and they get darker so
that's what I did behind her head again then I went in with a white gel pen and
added some like shimmers here and there like to the skirt and the tights and the
ribbon around her waist just trying to add a little bit more...
interest to the piece and this is when I realized I wanted the blush tones on
like her nose and her cheek and her ears to be a lot darker and more noticeable
so I'm going in with another layer of that again I kind of just blob it down
darkly and then try to blend the 'bejeebies' out of it that's how I'm going
about it - I for some places I like put down a little bit too much marker and
then it takes a little bit longer to blend out or sometimes there's sections
that don't really blend as well as others I don't really understand how
that works quite yet I think it just comes to - letting it dry a little bit
too much before you go in with the colorless blender but I was able to get
fixed like the knuckles which was a goal of mine because I thought I'd put a
little too much down on that one knuckle right there oh and then I also added
some nail polish because the fingers were just boring me and I like I've been
adding nail polish to all my drawings lately and sometimes it can make my
fingers look really really weird but these hands already looked weird so I
was like "hmm, it's worth a shot!" oh and then I used the white gel pen to
add some white to those little sparkles that I had added because I had taken the
marker a little bit too close to them and the white wasn't really showing
through so I used the white gel pen and then I started I don't
what I was thinking I just kept oh I didn't know what I was thinking I
grabbed the Jasper marker and I started adding like glitter dots but with the
dark color around her because I was trying to again really follow through on
my composition goal for the year and I decided to add like a swoosh of these
glitters so I had in my mind this s-shaped curve that went like around her
head and then down behind her and so I kind of just tried to follow that and
condense most of the dots along where the line would be that imaginary S line
and that is how I did that at least it's kind of interesting that
looks like snow doesn't really look like sparkles like I had in my mind but yeah
there is my one marker challenge or I guess I used two markers and two liners
and a white gel pen and I mean if you're going to be really picky
I used a pencil and an eraser and then I mean if you're gonna go that far I also
used you know paper so I guess I failed but I had a lot of fun and it's really
good to be back into drawing I hadn't drawn in a bit and yeah I think
it's important to give yourself breaks and it feels more exciting to get back
into it when you have so I'm very excited to get into this again so here
we go here's to a great 2019 you know I hope you all have a delicious evening
full of WAFFLES! ♪
and I'll see you guys all next week! ♪
BYE! ♪
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