Let's jump right in and find out what's inside this box.
i'm gonna be using whatever's in here to make some art.
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Let's see what art supplies are in here.
Ampersand Scratchbord inks.
This one is in the color black repair.
Ultramarine blue, yellow, carmine red.
We have four inks to work with.
You can make quite a few colors with that mixture.
Oh a little rainbow!
These are the Royal and Langnickel engraving art.
The number one cutter which is for thin detailed strokes
The number two cutter for medium and broad strokes
The number three cutter make broad to wide
and then the number four for wide feather like strokes.
[Rattling]
Oh, they're not numbered on here? What? What? What?
They were numbered on here.
I'm guessing the blue is one, the red's two
and then we have the number four.
They need to update their packaging!
I've, never done anything with engraving art.
What is Scratchbord?
You pulled the question right out of my mind.
Evenly coated with black India ink.
Oh, should I be touching that?
Okay, it's dry. It's like a little tile.
When we scratch this it's going to be white underneath
and then with that white, we can apply inks.
So that they're not white and they have, you know, color.
The reason it is called Black Repair.
You probably can hide where you scratched,
if you made a mistake.
Eh, oh, there's one more, S4.
Very similar, but not the same.
This one's more sharp on one edge
instead of sharp down the middle.
Bow-ba-bow
That one's even smaller.
Another scratchbord.
I won't open it
because it's like a something you're supposed to scratch
and I didn't realize that.
Otherwise, I may not have opened that one.
J ust because I don't want to ruin the surface.
And then finally,
We have some paper which is good
because then we can figure this out
because i'm sure the boards
are not the cheapest thing in the world.
So these are like I'm assuming the more expensive guys.
Now, is this something you should sketch first?
Maybe using like the little guy.
Let's see what happens.
Oh! Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
This feels like reverse etch a sketch.
So that's the blue one.
This one's a little bit rounder on the end.
So you can kind of like change direction a little easier
and then this one's got this nice big spoon on the end.
Oh, whoa, it doubles.
ooooOoooo!
It's kind of confusing figuring out
where it actually is going to draw
depending on where it ends up hitting the paper,
you'll end up with a different width.
Let's try these.
i'm supposed to have a curved nib
and one's the fine point.
You can kind of see that.
This is the fine point.
I can't even get it when I go sideways.
I have to change the way I hold it.
So that's even more fine than the blue one was.
So that's for doing like small detailed work
Here's the other ampersand brand.
Again, it doesn't seem to draw sideways,
which i'm guessing is because it's just so thin.
If you're addicted to like lottery tickets,
I think this is the art medium for you!
Let's go ahead and drop a little bit of ink.
I'm going to use maybe a paint brush to apply it.
Two drops there.
Put the red on the red.
ooOoo! That's actually really fun.
[Gasps] Imagine a gradient coming through it
Into the pink.
That looks so cool!
Oh you can't even see that.
That's basically the same value as the paper,
but I bet if you like mix it with water,
like a little green.
I think mixing the colors
and creating a really fun gradient
is gonna be the best way to use these.
Turn it into a little bit more blue down here.
I don't like it mixed with water.
It is more transparent
but just look how vibrant
and even the blue where it's drying is starting to show up
so I don't think i'm going to mix it with water.
Create some kind of purple
Let's try and actually draw something
where this would be useful.
We're gonna scratch away the areas
that we want to have some color to them.
Like, if this is a little face,
we're gonna have to scratch out -
Oh this is gonna be so tricky.
Maybe I shouldn't do a person.
Trim away at what's not line art.
This is so against everything. I know!
Now we just clean it up.
And then it says you can use this black correction ink.
Maybe we can add a little line art with this.
I don't know how long you have to wait for that to dry.
Use like a dip pen for that.
Oh, hey, look it actually draws right on there.
Kinda expected it to blend out.
Freckles.
We'll see if it works the same way when we add the ink
or if it like blends out with the black.
Looks like as the inks dry though, they do get lighter.
That's probably gonna be helpful at the end.
Let me try to copy this
because it's already like inverted for me.
You could probably sketch with this.
The tiger.
Drawing the white areas.
Speckling might be better with a different tool.
Does it look like a tiger yet?
It is a little easier to jump in
knowing that you can fix some small mistakes
with the black ink.
Let's do a bigger one.
I'm feeling this tool is not really meant for this.
Why'd I do this so big? What was I thinking?
This one's not doing the trick.
Taking a little shape.
Mine's a little bit longer. Why the long face?
Might have been off a little more than I can chew.
But I do have a lot of experience with bubble gum.
So the game's not over.
It's getting those like final little pieces
where you want it to be like , solid white.
That's kind of tricky.
Some knowledge of cat anatomy would probably
come in handy here.
I keep forgetting that I can draw pretty lightly
and sketch it out.
I don't have to jump in with solid white lines.
[Tool scratching on surface.]
It's always good to like look and see
what people usually do with this sort of art supply
which is kind of why I've decided to copy this image
that they've used as promotion material
because that means it's good
and you can always learn something
from someone better than you.
I can see how this medium works really well
for like animals with lots of stripes and things.
I hope I've never called it a lion in this video
because I feel like I keep almost doing that!
You can do like little scratches for fur.
So this is probably really good for furry animals.
Stripes here, like sketch them in
and then add in little strokes this way.
Yeah, because then it looks like it's in shadow.
This will be more black mixed with the white.
There's my my tiger. There's like a whole area missing.
Let's try adding color over that to see what happens
and if the black doesn't interact with the color
that i'm about to put on top, then we know
that's something we can do as a second step
instead of a final step.
Oh, no, it dried. I waited too long!
I mixed blue with orange
It looks like a nice hair color.
When you add too much water , it doesn't stick.
Throw in some blue.
Just go over the whole thing because I want to see.
it's not sticking!
it did obliterate the black ink from what I can tell.
I'm gonna go clean this and see if I actually can
because if I can't i'm gonna be really really sad
It looks like with a little scrubbing,
it's probably all gonna come off.
The biggest lesson we learned with this experiment
was that we don't want to apply any of this black repair
until the final step.
The color is going to get rid of it
and then obviously I assume we have to wait for the
color to be completely dry.
It's dry up here on the yellow
and you can draw with the black on top.
Let's try coloring in our little lion.
I would love to mix yellow and red to get an orange
and add some gradients where I can.
Now I don't have a reference of a lion handy.
So this might be the wrong way to do this.
Take the yellow where we'll have lighter areas of color.
Fade into pink color.
And what I really want is just gradients
because I think that's what's going to work really well
for this medium.
Straight red
ooooOooo!
Back to the yellow and blend in with that.
I thought I had a plan, don't remember what it was
Fade it out.
Does have a crayola vibe to it.
Maybe I should have left some of it white.
Clean up the edges where the ink
doesn't have anything to stick to.
Can I have a white area right here?
oooOooo!
It like makes the color seem more vibrant
because there's like white to compare it to.
It looks like there's a ton of blood on his mouth.
ooo, not that kind of artist.
Let's try something else while that dries
and then add on the black repair ink.
What happens if we scratch on top of colored ink?
[Gasp] It works the same way!
Hey, hey, hey,
You can actually like add in more detail.
I feel like there's just so much to reveal.
Let's try practicing just the sketching.
i'm gonna just draw what I always draw
and see if it comes along.
Long flowy hair because
I think the hair is going to be really fun to scratch.
We're not drawing the shadows
and that is something I find very difficult
to wrap my head around.
Add a little pointy toe at the end.
I'm falling into the habit of sketching what I would usually
I should be sketching the inverse.
Let's just see if I can wrap my brain around this.
[Ink bottle thuds]
Little lighter shading where it should be darker.
Maybe a human character wasn't the smartest idea,
but I guess that's the point, figure it out.
Yeah, this is my favorite, the red.
Oh, what's happening there?
Is this like losing its sharpness?
Do you see this weird texture?
Maybe I need a different guy.
Not that one.
That's not pretty.
When you think you know an art supply...
Not the pretty hair I was anticipating.
The novelty has worn off.
Just let me draw how I want to draw!
Go over it with a little this,
gives it a little bit of a more pastel vibe.
So shiny!
I just wanna throw in the color.
That's the part I like.
It stays inside the lines.
What to do, what to do.
I would like to make something on that little tile
I opened up
I need to keep this ratio in mind.
Maybe starting smaller would be smart.
I want to try sketching a pencil kind of like I did with that
Let me try and thumbnail something.
These little knives makes me kind of think of a tattoos
in a very strange roundabout way.
What if it's like a character with tattoos?
I'm gonna give her rolled up sleeves.
So it shows off the tattoos.
I wonder if I could move the square to be like here.
Thick eyebrows would be fun for this character.
Maybe a ball cap. Oh, maybe it's just a visor,
So the hair sticks out the top.
Fast food employee vibe.
Let's try scratching away at this this.
This is the square.
I just have to scratch out where I want it to be white
and then do less hatching where it's more in shadow,
I guess. Lay up like the strands of hair.
I think what I went wrong on this one
is I tried to do like shading with the face
when I should have went more like this sketch,
where it's just flat shading.
Let's do the outside edges.
Something like that.
Something simple for the tattoo.
Flowers, squiggles.
And we can do like maybe a rainbow gradient
for the tattoos.
Extra strands for the hair
Now the face!
Keep that in mind because that worked out pretty well.
Especially if I can go over it with the black.
Eyebrows a little too fine point I think for this.
How does that look?
I feel like I should take advantage of some of this
extra black space in here.
We need some kind of squiggles.
Our center point is going to be this little dot right there.
Whenever we draw these they gotta aim there.
All right, let's throw some color
Smidge of blue, now you got green.
I want green hair for some reason. It's calling to me.
Maybe some green tattoos over here
fading into more blue as it gets closer
to like where the hair is.
So maybe we'll use like cool colors for her
and then warm colors to the background
or should we just keep it cool all the way around?
Let me use blue for the background.
It's not quite sticking I think it's the water.
Dry it off.
See if we have better luck with that.
Maybe my art just doesn't translate into this medium.
Maybe I just have to wait for that to dry.
Do I risk jumping onto the tile?
I'm so nervous
I'm just going to do the same thing.
I'm going to just sketch out the character.
I'm going to add a little bit more flow to it.
And then I can just sketch as normal for this.
hair up top
Fills the square pretty well.
There isn't too much like white space
or in this case black space
and you get like cute little sweat poooz.
Is that what they're called?
Cut the edge of her tank top like she did a t-shirt DIY
and that'll be fun to like scratch away at it I think.
Curling up the bill a little more to exaggerate it.
Fill that area.
All right, I think i'm ready to scratch.
I need the fine point, some of that blue.
Okay. This definitely feels a little different than the paper
It's a little stiffer
and requires a little bit more elbow grease.
I think this might turn out well.
I'm just gonna try and outline everything first.
Instead of diving in and actually like
scratching out whole areas.
Kind of pick up on little things here and there.
Shoot, that's supposed to be the hair.
That's why you don't dive in too quickly.
I never drew the tattoos.
It was like the whole point in this, wasn't it?
Then this hair.
It looks like she's wearing a hat.
That's supposed to be hair. Oh shoot!
It's a little tricky to do like hair strands
just because it does require a little bit of pressure.
Let's do the hair.
It feels a little bit more like carving
when we're working on the board versus the paper.
Sometimes I like just kind of go for it
and then the pen ends up like finding some rut
And then just go in the opposite direction.
It's a little tricky.
There we go. We got some hair.
Gonna add some like extra little strands.
maybe messy it up a little.
I can't decide if like long strokes
or quick little ones is better.
I think quick little ones is better
because the long ones sometimes they get caught
in the ink and just kind of decide to do their own thing.
Let's try to keep these fingers simple.
Hey, not too shabby.
This is not at all what I thought I was gonna do
when I woke up this morning,
didn't even know this existed.
Let's be honest.
Let me know if you've ever done this before
because I sure haven't.
So we need to just scratch out a bunch of it.
I don't think I want to leave any sort of like hatching.
What do I use for this?
Okay, it doesn't quite do what it promises.
Would make a very good political candidate.
[Scratching]
It's not even working.
Come on.
I'm just gonna use the same tool I used for everything.
There's the nose. [Laughs]
Let's hope this turns out good.
Maybe we should leave some of the scratchiness,
that does look kind of cool.
Those are supposed to be teeth.
Uh, we'll see if those stay that way.
We'll go little by little here with the face.
Now the eyes.
I think that's the part I'm like most scared to do.
That's like the important part.
It's my favorite part of most drawings.
It's where my eye always goes
when I'm looking at other people's art.
All right I think we're gonna need some correction ink
because this is creepy!
Creepy, creepy!
I think the nose will need a little help too.
So hard to draw the inverse of what you normally do.
Oh, it just looks so flat and lifeless to me.
Let's erase what I can
and then try and do some kind of tattoo.
Let's start with like maybe succulents.
Maybe another one, something connecting them.
Let's do the same thing on this side.
Maybe she's got matching arms.
I think I'll cut out the little sections with nothing.
Since the skin's white everywhere else.
Maybe some kind of mountain, a volcano
and we can have some dinos! [Laughs]
Does it look like a dino?
She likes fruit.
Watermelon,
she loves it so much, she got it immortalized on her arm.
Maybe with a banana!
Maybe like a strawberry.
There we go. There's our tattoos.
I guess I'll leave the hands plain.
Let me grab the paintbrush.
Goodbye, sketch.
Maybe we'll do blue in the top.
Let's do a straight up and down gradient.
We'll do blue, green, yellow
and then almost like a purple maybe at the bottom,
go straight across with the blue.
Then I'm gonna need some green.
I just don't have any white showing through.
Lost the blue, wait. Wait, wait.
I'm gonna throw it a little more red.
I'm so confused by this, guys.
I'm trying!
So we'll put this at the very bottom.
ooooOoooo!
Look at the contrast between that and those other colors.
Honestly, the red just looks the best
and then some orange then fade that up into the yellow.
That looks kind of nifty!
Pull it up a little to the side.
If we coat the whole thing,
maybe you won't see the difference as much.
It also would be kind of cool to grab some more pink.
Throw it in the odd spot here and there.
This looks like some random souvenir
you'd find at a tourist trap
and then you're like, oh, that's kind of interesting,
look at that and then you go to the next store
and it has the exact same thing in the next store
and the next store and the next one.
I don't like they can see where I didn't put ink
Which means I probably just need to make sure
there's ink on everything.
So that it all ends up being the same kind of shininess.
Go all the way to the edges.
I feel like the pink just stands out the most
from the black.
Not sure why I didn't notice that before.
Maybe lighten it up in like areas that I want to pop
a little more, like the face.
I added a little water now. It's really lifting.
Now the ink's like really showing up especially the blue.
So let's go in with the engraving tool again.
while it's wet, It really scrapes
and then I can go over this with more color.
Ooh going around the edge
for like a little like rim lighting's kind of nifty
and it just blends in so much!
Kind of glad I tried it
because it seems like something that would be fun
maybe with practice
and I assume with practice, patience.
It will be!
Let's see the part I've been waiting for this whole time.
Go in and add those little details with my dip pen
and draw like I know how to draw
and have some semblance of what I'm doing.
I might need a little bit of a paintbrush
and throw in some of the ink here.
I definitely think it looks bes
t with like pink and the orange.
I do like the scratchy texture of it. It's fun. It's interesting.
It's unique.
You can actually see what it looks like when I look at it.
Well, I'm lucky to have tried a new art supply.
I don't come across them all that often.
You always think of watercolor, markers, pencils.
Now scratch boarding, engraving???
I don't know. What do you call this?
Let me know if this is your favorite medium
and what sort of art you make with it.
And if you are a scratch-boarder-engraver-artist,
whatever you call it.
Link your art.
I'd like to see how a real artist does it.
If you're interested in getting your own
Paletteful Pack Subscription and
exposing yourself to all sorts of new art supplies,
I'll have a link in the description.
I do need to send a big thank you to Paletteful
for sending this box my way to try out
and to share with you guys.
I'm managing to find some art supplies
that I have never seen before.
Thank you guys for watching.
I'll see you guys all next week.
I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles.
Bye!
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