I've been having a little bit too much fun with my Copic markers so let me show
you something I've made with them recently
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first, I have a little bit of housekeeping things to get out of the
way, so what I'm drawing with is this pink prismacolor col-erace pencil I've
talked about this many times, I just love the way the pink interacts with the
kopecks and they layer on top of each other just beautifully so that's what
I'm using, I think all the tools I'll be using will be linked in the description
if you want to check them out and if I forget to mention them, in the rest of
the video, and I'm just drawing on some basic bristol board paper that
my brother found in his room and he was like: "here ya go." and I was like: "thanks I'll take it" - so
yeah that's what I'm doing and I'm sketching very lightly at first and then
I slowly chisel away at the features this is something I've been doing to try
and keep my art more fluent and flowy and less stiff and I've -- it's definitely
helped a little bit and I definitely need to continue practicing and I
definitely suggest it if you're trying to pull away from having stiff art to
start as flowy as possible because as soon as you start defining the features
it's gonna get stiffer and stiffer so my plan has always been to just start as
'swooshy!' as possible and then maybe by the time I get to the
line-art it'll still maintain some of the 'swooshies' - so that's my goal at least
so let's see what happen - my inspiration for this drawing was definitely like
fantasy-princess-mermaid-fairy-thing so I knew I didn't want her hair to really
be contained by any laws of gravity or physics and that same sort of idea
definitely helped influence the colors that I chose further on down the road
because when I start to draw and sketch and it's really just like
guilty-pleasure art I don't really think about what colors I'm going to use at
the end I'm really just drawing for me and this was definitely one of those
things but the colors were definitely inspired by like pastels and pinks and
blues and greens I don't know if things that make me think of mermaids and
fairies so you'll see that in the future and I kept her expression very - I
wouldn't say salty but she doesn't look too pleased either - I've been drawing
that a lot lately - I don't know if it's - I used to draw like a giant huge smile on every
single character that I drew and lately I've been drawing this 'face' - I don't know
what you call it - it looks a little bit like disdain--ahh... I don't know and
I'm wondering if this is having some like deeper meaning about like where my
emotional state is lately I've just been feeling kind of 'meh' lately so maybe
that's true hey if I start drawing characters and like they all are crying
with like makeup running down their faces or something and that becomes a
trend then maybe I'll seek some help but I think I'm alright now it's just going
through one of those spurts - I've got my eyes on the future so everything's fine
this is getting way off topic but this is the funny thing is that I've always
realized for the longest time that whenever I would draw like a giant smile
on a character's face I'd find myself smiling and when I noticed this
happening I was like oh that was kind of weird and then like a week later I was
strong another character with a giant smile on their face and like while I'm
doing it, I'm just sort of like acting it out and it helps me draw it I've
noticed so I don't know if it's the drawing that makes me smile or I have to
smile to be able to draw the smile but they definitely go hand-in-hand so if
you've ever seen a drawing that I've made that has a giant smile or a smirk
or something, a smile went into that - that's actually kind of cute.
a video a while back, I think it was like a month ago or something, I mentioned that I
really wanted to practice when I draw long hair to actually draw realistic
sections of the hair and make sure that you could follow the hair from the
scalp to the ends and it made sense so I'm putting a little extra time into
this piece really trying to make it logical yeah
there's definitely some parts where I cheated because I'm just kind of lazy
but it's the intent - it's the purpose - I'm trying - if I do a little bit better each
time, which I definitely did more on this drawing then I have in recent past,
eventually I'll do the whole head properly - so yeah - I'm proud of the growth
that I'm showing and I'm going to keep growing - I haven't been able to find any
way to practice this other than doing it like I can't find references that really
help and I can't find a tutorial on how to do it because - I actually don't know why
that is there's just like nothing that really shows it because I'm not drawing
like realistic hair it's so 'flooffy' right now - that there aren't really things to
research about this so it really just comes down to practicing and trial and
error and seeing what looks bad what looks good and giving it your best shot
and trying not to be lazy and really thinking through each strand of the hair
and each clump of the hair and the more I do this, the better I can feel myself
getting at it so that's kind of exciting I'm not very creative when it comes to
like dressing my characters so you'll notice I literally put off the clothes
this characters wearing till the last possible second but I decided with like
a sort of goddess-look so like flowers along the collar and then super flowy
underneath that and like beads for sleeves and it kind of matched the
flower crown that I gave her and I couldn't decide whether or not to give
her antler.....I decided not to give her antlers - it just doesn't seem quite like
something that I've drawn I've seen people do this a lot and I always love
it it's always so cute when you draw like a little deer girl but I decided
not to and I'm glad I didn't mostly because of the color scheme I decided to
go with so I think would have been a little weird to have antlers and so much
blue and green and pink so I'm kind of glad that I didn't go that route but it
would have been fun to experiment in that way so maybe in the future now
watch closely as I dive into coloring the skin tone, the very first thing I do
I colored in the forehead next I moved on down to like the cheek area section
and I smudged the linerarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
*grunt
*subtle laughs that nearly resemble tears*
I know why this happened, I used two
separate liners for this drawing, one I used the micron PN for the eyelashes
because I thought it would be easier to fill in the sort of wider section and I
thought they'd be a good idea - turns out it wasn't - it kind of smudges with my
Copic markers so that was no good but for the rest
oh and then there was some one the marker and then I did it again but I
kind of found a way to hide that in the future so just keep watching but I do
want to mention the other liner that I used was the prismacolor fine liners and
those did not smudge at all - those worked wonders
so shout out to prismacolor - I think it was the prismacolor premier in 02 or
03 (it was [03]) could have been 05 - i have all three of those - I love them they
don't smudge with the Copics like the PN did, *grunts a little* on the bright side I am super
glad that I switched out to the prismacolor after doing the eyes with
that pn because If I had done the whole thing in that i think it would have been a
total disaster so yeah see there's always a bright side and this is
something that you just have to really look out for whenever you're drawing
with very pastel colors like the one that I chose for the skin tone this
ice blue color you got to be very careful with darker line arts with those - it kind of
stained the end of the brush still - I wonder if I can fix that?
we'll see - if you've been following my channel for a while you know I kind of
gravitate towards flat colors and bold line art but with Copic markers I've been
kind of moving in a different direction they've kind of been forcing me that way
okay it's not forcing me it just made me want to experiment in that direction
seeing other people's Copic illustrations and the beautiful
gradients that everyone can make and I remember one thing someone said when I
posted my very first Copic video where I was like using them for the very first
time and I said oh I don't need a lot of colors I think I'm pretty set because I
have the flat colors *bump* (oops, I just bumped my hand on the desk...XP) and someone even mentioned in the comments that they were
like oh yeah you won't need a lot of colors because of your art style and the
way you use flat colors and It was almost like a challenge *hehe* I was like "oh now I have
to really try and blend these and see what happens" and ever since I've started
doing that oh I've just enjoyed blending different colors so like here I'm using
a green color now and blending it in with the blue and like seeing the way
these colors are interacting and it's it's been so much fun
and another thing I've always used pretty cheap Copic knockoffs in the past
like Ohuhu and even though those came with a lot of colors I found myself
using like the same 20 colors over and over again because I just liked them so
much but when it came to these Copic markers I don't know if it's because I
spent so much money on them... maybe the fact that they weren't cheap I
felt like I need to get use out of every single marker they each cost me a
pretty penny so I need to show them each some love, you know? and I think it's just
that mindset I have that like you know "this costs me a lot of money I need to
use it" that has led me to be practicing with these Copic markers so
much and I've just really been enjoying that and I'm just glad I had that push
and an inspiration to do it and maybe spending a lot of money was just what
I needed to do be forced in this direction and I couldn't be happier and
now I just want to like buy all the Copic markers but I'm going to hold off
figure out which colors I like the most and really try to limit myself but I
love the pastel colors and I think some of them - if you watch my video, I bought
them used, so a some of the colors that I really like are kind of already running
low so I might already have to buy some refills though I need to save my money
but I'm just - I'm so happy and I love them and I've been having way way
way too much fun with these markers and experimenting with them and learning
different techniques and like how to use them because I'm so new to actually
blending with these markers and seeing the different effects that you can get
and it's just so exciting! I feel like I keep repeating myself but it's seriously
I'm I'm just tickled!
you'll notice I added a pretty simple conceptual background
and it originally started as a square and then I started - I kind of pulled it
into more of a starburst shape and I thought that fit the goddess
theme that I had going on so I think that fit a lot better than the plain
square - here I'm using a Posca pen and I am outlining the character cuz it's just
something I like doing I just love the way it looks in the way it makes your
character pop from like a solid colored background so I'm doing that and I'm
also using it to fix some of the mistakes I accidentally colored in her
earrings so I'm fixing that and adding highlights to the face and lips and
other places that I accidentally colored that I didn't really want to be colored
so just going over with that - the Posca pen is really nice especially if you're
using white paper to fix mistakes and then if you wait for it to dry you can
actually go over it with a pen and create more liner and then go over
again with the Copic marker and it's like your mistakes never happened! - now if
this had been just a sketch in my sketchbook I would have ended there but
here I wanted to add more contrast to the drawing so I'm shading even more
into the hair and then I'm also adding color to the flowers this is the first
color I'm adding is this dark purple almost as leaves I guess they would be
leaves so it's almost like a floral leaf around the flowers then I grabbed a
lighter purple color and started coloring in some of the flowers really
sketchy I wasn't worried about staying inside the lines I was just trying to
see if it would look good because at this point I still wasn't entirely sure
I didn't know if this color scheme is really gonna work so it's kind of still
just throwing colors around and then the hair felt a little flat still at that
point so I went in with a pink marker and colored in some of the lighter areas
and you could actually see the pink and I feel like it really grabbed the color
scheme and blended it together a little nicer and I really liked that then I
went in with a sort of green color and added more dimension to the skin because
it was paler then I kind of had anticipated but I kept tweaking the
background as well blending out those colors and grabbing lighter Pink's and
trying to blend out the starburst to make it look less choppy and the more I
did that the more it covered over the white Posca pen that I had outlined the
character with so after that I had to add even more Posca pen on top of that
to really make that white line bold because I just - it makes me happy and I
really like it - I drew this in landscape technically on the piece of paper even
though it's more of a portrait so I had to cut the paper smaller I did all my
swatching on the same paper it's nice when you have that extra space and you
can do that without having to worry about going and grabbing a swatch page
especially since it's the exact same paper you're drawing on so you don't
have to worry about the colors are looking different on the paper that
you're using compared to the paper that you're swatching on so pretty handy
dandy (I also used the scraps for other smaller marker illustrations) anyway this was my finished illustration this was definitely one of
those guilty pleasure drawings that just really got me in the mood to draw more
and so now I'm in a really good mood I hope maybe it'll rub off on you a
little bit and you can have some of this inspiration just feel so good ohmahgosh
thank you guys for watching and supporting my channel and just being
there it really really helps me create when I know that I'm surrounded by other
people that also enjoy creating and are putting their best into their art and
it's just such a nice community and I'm so glad to be a part of it and to be
here so thank you for being here too and making it what it is so thank you and I'll
see you guys all next week and I hope you have a delicious evening full of WAFFLES! ♪
BYE! ♪
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