hi everyone welcome back to a new video here on my channel if
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for today's video i am doing a sort of real time process of an illustration that i created for
the draw this in your style challenge which is basically a challenge that went around instagram
for a couple years i'm pretty sure it started maybe 2018 to 2019 i'm not entirely sure
but i did have a post um also participating in this challenge back in 2019 but i also know that
i was late to the game so it may have started a bit earlier than that. Basically the idea of
this challenge was for an artist to create an illustration of their own their original art
and tag it using the hashtag draw this in your style or draw this in your style challenge
and that allows their followers or anyone who sees their artwork to recreate their illustration or
their drawing in their own style - in that new artist's own style - so that's pretty much what
i'm doing i have taken um an illustration this really gorgeous illustration by Rafaela Perasinic
i will insert their link in the description box down below so you can check out their instagram
and i believe they also have an etsy shop so i will have those linked in the description
box, but i have taken their drawing and i am recreating it on my right as you can see using
my own style or whatever style it is that i'm currently fascinated with at the moment
so i think that's pretty much the basic rules or the idea behind this art challenge you can use
whatever media you want and of course i decided to use my good old trusty watercolors and paired
that with my red pencil, more specifically my venetian red pencil by the brand lyra, i will have
the materials that i used listed down below some of them might even be linked so that you
can straight away purchase them if ever you are interested in knowing what art materials i use
in each video, usually they're listed in every single videos especially my newer ones
my old ones probably not so much i can't say like if i was very consistent on that
but with newer videos if ever you're curious as to what art materials i use
because sometimes they do change they will always be listed in the description box down below
so i'm hoping that you are still watching and enjoying this video if it has put you in the mood
to draw definitely grab your own art supplies and continue drawing along with me because we
still have a long way to go with this video like i said it is a somewhat real-time process so this is
quite a long video however it's not actually that long and i do refer to it as a somewhat real time
because i actually did speed up this um video i personally draw really slow especially if um i'm
just kind of taking my time and i am just doing it for like relaxation therapeutic kind of purposes i
try not to draw too fast or else i don't know because like everything i feel like that i do
especially once it starts it starts becoming like work i feel like oh it has to be fast because then
then you get more out of your day but sometimes you just want to draw and just relax and take
things slow and so that's what i was doing for this particular video, it was very chill so
that ended up with a real time video where i was just super slow and
i was also kind of just pausing every two seconds literally like i had to edit out all of the times
where my hand wasn't doing anything because sometimes i would create a stroke and then
i would pause and kind of like assess if if it was correct or something and then and then i would
paint again so i had to edit those out it was actually a lot of times and even then the
whole painting process was still a little bit too slow for my taste so i decided to kind of just
amp it up a little bit speed it up instead of like a hundred percent i just put it to
a hundred and fifty percent so it's not like a speed paint where everything's going by so fast
i feel like you can still see every single detail that i add onto this illustration
you can see like the strokes that i'm making but it's just not super slow if that makes any sense
and also if you have any suggestions for topics that you might want to hear me talk about in
videos like this then let me know in the comments down below if you have any questions for me
then feel free to comment them down below and perhaps i could do like a Q&A in another video
where i'm also kind of just drawing and it's not like a tutorial video or anything like that
because i do like posting these kind of videos they're very easy for me to make and they aren't
as time consuming however the only thing that kind of puts me down with speed faint videos is that
i know a lot of people want to do or want me to do a commentary or like a voice over so that it's
not just music and i completely understand that however i just have absolutely no idea what i
should be talking about because if it's regarding my process honestly i have so many videos
on how i do things already that i feel like i'm just a broken record and it just sounds
repetitive to me, it might not sound repetitive to you especially if you're new to my videos but
that kind of is what puts me off with posting speedpaint videos with
voice over but yeah, so if you have any questions or any ideas that you would like
for me to talk about then let me know in the comments down below but yeah i i i need help
okay i found another thing that i could possibly talk about
during this video but yes so i created this illustration probably in the beginning of the year
actually no that's that's completely false because it is now 2022. i feel like i'm still
thinking like it's 2021, but so i created this earlier in 2021 and you know like i
filmed it and everything and i actually decided not to post it during the time that i filmed it
because i wasn't happy with the illustration, like it came out nice um but i felt like
it was too soft for my personal style and taste because i guess looking back i was a lot more into
the bolder colors and the way that i colored in the hair for example i was like oh it's
like that's way too light and there's like not enough contrast so i wasn't happy with it but
recently i of course like i go through my archives because there's so many videos that i film
that don't end up getting uploaded so sometimes i go through all of them and then i kind of
just see like oh okay like maybe i can upload this one like it doesn't look too bad anymore
so honestly like i don't know what's going on in my head i don't know why i don't upload everything
that i film but that's just how it is so i thought that this one was actually like it looks really
nice like months after i painted this i ended up liking it because i guess because i'm embracing
a softer style so it kind of suits the direction that i'm wanting to go with my art whereas like
maybe a couple months ago i would have been a bit hesitant with a softer style like this so
yeah i'm really happy with how this illustration actually turned out i i had fun painting the
stripes on the shirt even though like it doesn't really look correct if you really think about how
a striped shirt works but it was just really fun and it's kind of hypnotic in a way i tried my best
but yeah so that was kind of fun, and you might see later on that i did end up making a mistake
on the earrings so of course to fix that i ended up using a little bit of gouache um so this one's
more of a gouache slash watercolor illustration which is usually my illustrations anyway so
and now we are up to painting the face and the details on the face
for this illustration and usually if i actually leave it last
it's the scariest process because i feel like that's the make or break of the illustration
and i think that's one of the reasons why i wasn't super happy with this um illustration
by the- like the time that i filmed it because even though i sketched it out first and this kind of
goes back to the pre- to a previous video where i was saying that sometimes like i sketch things a
bit too fast and i'm like okay that's good enough whereas like i don't add any details and then
the drawing kind of suffers towards the end because then i'm left to color and to paint it
and figure out where certain details go so that's kind of something that i did
here i just did the sketch like really quickly i didn't really um do it to any sort of detail
and so when i painted this and decided to add in the details afterwards for the eyes for example
i find that one eye is just a little bit smaller for my taste and it could have been improved so
yes if i just focused a little bit more on the details earlier on in the process then perhaps
this illustration would have been even better than what it currently is but
even with all of that i'm still really happy with how this turned out i think she looks really cute
and i feel like i actually captured the features that was simplified in Rafaela's illustration and
turned it into like my own semi-realistic style like i'm really happy with that i feel like they
sort of resemble each other so that is going to be it from me and thank
you so much for watching and i hope to see you in my next one