The June Scrawlrbox just came in the mail today so let's open it up and see
what's inside and then make some art with it!
[percussive & positive music]
so right off the bat I see the
menu with the list of the art supplies, I see a Scrawlrbox sticker - this time
it looks like a lime green to an emerald green watercolor wash, so I'm
expecting to see some watercolors - oh yeah here we go, we have a watercolor
palette - this is the Daler Rowney travel set of twelve colors and one paintbrush
I like the size of this one, some travel sets are like really big and clunky but
this one's thin and slim (that means the same thing...)
Then we have this little tiny paintbrush oh
wait wait wait wait wait wait
I'm like what are these notches? oh those
are more paint!
they like click in it looks like just pressure holds them
in there's no like click or notch - there we go
and then I think this is removable
each pan actually lists the color name on
maybe you need bigger hands then mine?
ummm
[struggles]
let me reference the documentation here: it just shows it removed
[whisper yells:] COME ON OUT!!!!!
I cannot get this out
well it shows that this little segment
with all of the pans is removable so that you have more space to like swatch
out colors now a big difference between this and some of the other travel
palettes that I've seen is that the brush is not a water brush so it doesn't
hold water in it anywhere so you will need to transport water in a separate
container
this sticks right in there and then closes - Cute!
I don't know how to
get that pan out of there though
also there's an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny little
Posca pen,
it's actually 0.7 millimeters
we have a duo sticks fruitella
it looks like it's pop flavored like soda oh wait
soda and is that a lemon?
oh it's so squishy
[eats]
okay I know what that is! It kind of tastes like
Dr. pepper and lemon it's actually pretty good
then we have three pencils
here this is an erasable pencil not sure what's going on at the tip of
it you see how it's like white and then red
Oh so this is an erasable colored
pencil "especially designed to be erasable" it's very cool so that's like a
Col-Erase colored pencil competitor - I'd like to have one that erases better than
those so that would be fun to test then we have this green polychromos faber
castell pencil and this brown one oh this is 'earth green yellowish' and this
one is 'Van Dyck Brown' and here is the art print of the month I really like the
softness of it with the pencil lines and the watercolor washes oh and then
there's pencil like over top to add shading - This is drawn by Johanna Fi or (fye)
[wonders audibly if she is pronouncing it correctly]
but you can find them on instagram at 'milktu_'
and then for paper oh
this is thick
and it's got a nice tooth to it
this is the Langton Prestige
watercolor paper and it is 300 GSM and a hundred percent cotton
ready for it?
[melodious wobble]
and the choir
[harmonious and melodious wobble]
this stuff just feels nice can you see the texture?
we're supposed to
fill those with water and then use them as reservoirs I think I filled them to
high - go ahead and swatch these out so far I really like the way they activate
they get very soft and easy to like pick up the pigment let me see if I can get
like a close-up so you can see just how soft it is
those two colors look exactly
the same or is that just me this one's 'burnt sienna' and then we have 'black'
there we have the 12 colors I'm also a pretty big fan of the brush except that it is
pretty small it's gonna be hard to fill large areas
lets see if this is a erasable
test that out
mmm it's about as erasable as a Col-Erase colored pencil especially if we
compare it to like these Prismacolors these probably won't erase at all
for reference
let me show ya
[erases gently]
ohwait what what?!
all right those seem to be just as erasable
good to know
I'm a little dumbfounded, I don't really know what to say
then we have our white Posca
paints really well over the colored pencil - the watercolors not quite dry I'll
test those when we get there but I'm pretty sure it's gonna work, Posca
works pretty well on almost any surface I really really like this drawing and I
kind of want to do like a 'draw it in my style' especially since I see all of
these colors except for the blue colored pencil it looks like they used a blue
colored pencil but like they used a lot of green colored pencil and brown
colored pencil and those are the two colors we happen to have
that's what I would like to do and we also have like the red for cheeks although it looks
like these more of an orange let's give that a shot
I'm gonna start with the 'erasable' colored pencil and try and draw it very
lightly so that if I need to erase it I can erase most of it so let's try
first I'm just going to sketch out the character
looks like her one legs out a
little most of her weights on this leg her head is looking to the left - I think
this will be a really good way to test all the art supplies too
I'm gonna turn the head I kind of like the idea of it looking up and to the
right just draw a big circle we can chisel it away if we need oh she's
wearing a turtleneck I didn't even notice that so this arm is kind of just
hanging loosely and then this one is holding a flower pot then she has some bangs
lightly erase some of those lines I don't quite need anymore oh and then there's
the plants going around her
oh yes the seams on the sleeves are right past the
shoulder my favorite to draw
shade behind there, add a little depth
I'm gonna change the shape of the plant maybe cut down the number of leaves
oh! her earrings!
I always forget accessories like
glasses and earrings not sure why..?
I really like how straight the
hair looks in this drawing but mine keeps ending up a little bit more voluminous
I really want to try and imitate some of the ways that Joanna drew the hair
because that's definitely something I struggle with personally because they do
it so well [tears up with jealousy]
the hoop earrings are kind of getting lost in the hair so I'm gonna
have to make a decision here I want to make them bigger so that they not like
creating that tangent here with the edge of the hair or if I want to leave them
the way they are?? probably should try and fix it
enlarging them just a bit so that
they poke out of the hair well this is where that pencil not quite erasing is
coming in to play
see there we go
is that better?
a little less clogged
not sure I like it better
I just need to straighten out that planter here and
then I think I can start adding in some colors
I think I want to sharpen the
pencil and redo the hoops cuz they just look really thick compared to everything
else try that
got a little pointy one let's
see if I can draw them smaller
not perfect but I think we're gonna need to
move on - start trying to find the colors so it looks like there's a yellow for
the shirt oh we would wait I think I want to lightly erase everything first
so that we don't end up with a really orangey looking drawing, Joanna's
drawing isn't all that orange it doesn't smudge around hopefully
now we have the
white Posca so we don't really have to worry about leaving those stripes when
we color those
but let's go ahead and start with the
yellow while the brush is really clean try to find it it's almost add a little
bit of this looks pretty good -- I might add a little bit more yellow
yeah I like
that okay let's go ahead and color in the turtle necklace with that avoiding
anywhere where we want to draw that plant or hair or anything like that and
then when that dries we can go over it with the brown pencil gonna add a little
bit more raw umber I add this color down here to this arm in the back you can get
just a small bit of contrast there I can also use it to shade a little bit I
don't know if it's the paper or the watercolors but I'm really enjoying the
way this is working every time I try watercolors I fail so miserably and I
know I've only used one color so far but this looks the way it looks when other people do it!
and now we're gonna use blue - letsee which blue do you think? this one's very
pastel so I think we're gonna have to mix a lot of water to either the cobalt
blue or the ultramarine then maybe even add a lot of water to it so that we can
get a lighter tone
maybe just add water directly there
looks pretty close yeah
let's do it I'm gonna avoid over there it's almost dry but I don't want to take
any chances
now the cheaper the watercolor paper the
harder it is to layer without it lifting so that would be interesting to see if
this paper works well under that kind of pressure
I think we're gonna have to
wait for it to dry and then add some more blue for the stripes because we
don't have a blue pencil we do have the white Posca so I'll be able to do those
lines right next up let's do the hair looks like they're using a very light
maybe just yellow ochre and then for shading we might be able to use raw sienna
or light red depending on how I'm feeling
the yellow ochre is very orange compared to the hair maybe we need to add.... what would I
need to do??
just mix it with this yellow we have
maybe that'll lighten it up and then add a little bit more water as well and
that'll lighten it up even more we can try and use that for the hair and of
course we're gonna use that brown pencil on top of it which is going to make it
look a little closer to brown anyway -- No see that's way too yellow mmm try adding
some of that red I liked
need more water
mixing colors pretending I know what I'm doing
okay that's definitely more close to the color I want though oh and I have that
red pencil behind it which is gonna make it look even more reddish so Brown over
top might help with that too -- now to do the skin I'm gonna have to wait till the
hairs dry cuz I just don't want to risk it bleeding into itself but we should be
able to go over the blue again and add some of these stripes
not quite darkening up
the color yet I'm using the exact same color and just laying it see if that's
good enough I just want to see how this drys
like it looks good right
now when it's wet but when it dries might be completely different -- those are
some fun pants I love them
next we could probably do some green so I'm actually
gonna just add this green, it's our only green, to this blue -- oh yeah that's pretty
and then we'll try and do some yellowy greens later on too
start with this
turn the page (or twist it I should say) turning the page kind of means something
different usually doesn't it?
I'm gonna add some yellow, grab some more yellow
and add it straight to the green oh yes perfect that's exactly where I want it
just mix the colors and get a mid-tone between those two, kind of fill in some
of the white space, and then our dark green will hopefully darken up some more
and add even more contrast when we get there
oh and we need to color in the
flowerpot just this color
now grab the green pencil start outlining some of these plants just to
see what it looks like
it's interesting I like that I like it not being like not
using a fineliner do need to sharpen it though it's
getting a little shabby
kind of falling in love with this pencil overtop
watercolor look it's just so soft
these ones kind of stick out a lot of
others I'm gonna add some over here so it's not so lopsided
oh we can do the
plant that she's holding too
do feel like you have to push really hard to get
the amount of pigment I want from these
pencils not sure if that's normal all
right there we go I think I'm gonna take the brown pencil and outline some of the
oh look how pigmented that is I forgot how dark it was
outline everything
just go over some of these lines preferably the ones we like - wonder if I can use
this to sort of darken up some of these stems too? -- sharpen it again something
tells me I'm gonna have to keep this pretty sharp
fingernails
it's so easy to
get an accidentally too fat line just here so I can get a better angle it's
not looking too bad I haven't done the face yet I'm a little nervous about
getting the skin tone right so I thought I'd go ahead and do this first
I will have to practice drawing more dainty thing so that I can get those hoops right
maybe next time
her hair's definitely more like a dirty brown and mine's a
little closer to the blonde but I think it works okay
everything's pretty much a
dry now so I'm feel pretty safe trying to go about and doing the skin now I
watched a tutorial on how to get a good skin tone and they say should add a
little bit of blue but like not a certain type of blue and I can never
remember what that certain type of blue was...
but you want to get a color like
this that's like yellow mixed with a red and then depending on like how dark or
light you want it and then you just add like a little bit of blue but you don't
want much like a tiny smidge then when you mix it in
it up.maybe can also add more red let's see what that looks like
See - look how much more vibrant that looks compared to the one we had before the
color we had before let's try that one and if it's light
enough we should be able to get a pretty similar tone I'm hoping
start here try
to avoid the eyes we do have the white Posca but I'm gonna try and keep the
paper as much as possible just do one even wash so that it doesn't
look too choppy before we start adding in some like Pink's or Reds to the
cheeks and the lips and the nose maybe just use that same color and darken up
some of the features first before we add more red or pink
blend it out a bit
we have that red erasable pencil that we can use for extra blushes and then we'll
obviously go over that with pencil add details
alright I definitely want to let
that dry before I touch it -- add some shading here while I'm waiting for the face to
dry maybe some shadows from the plant all right I definitely want to sharpen
the pencil and then try and do the facial features - if I need to I can always
like maybe add even more blush we'll see zoom in so you can see this face in all
its glory
[zombie moaaan]
then we'll try to add some eyelashes
those eyes ended up a lot bigger
than I wanted them to be whoops! - now for the nose
and it looks like her mouth
slightly open you can see the teeth so we'll have to use the white pen the
Posca pen for that
I don't love this face at all
[erases the face]
grab the brush
add some more red
could even add some of this it's like the fingers
try using a Posca pen
make sure it's prepped
add some highlights
we have to add the white stripes
might have to do a couple layers
looks a little transparent
still need some practice with the whole watercolor thing
but I am falling in love with that pencil as a line art look I'm really
happy Scrawlrbox sent those together so that I could try them together for the
first time it's like so soft and like illustrative I love that
I think a lot
of the problems I have with this drawing would have been solved by drawing larger
so maybe if I had drawn directly on the new piece of paper and drawn you know
bigger because I was only able to sharpen this to so much of a point so a
larger canvas would have really benefitted me I think or maybe just lack
of laziness so that I could just if I had sharpened it every time it got dull
yeah there's my version of oh I should write their name on here
@milktu_
I just loved it I need more practice I do want to Thank you guys for watching! I hope you
enjoyed watching me unbox the June Scrawlrbox and use the contents to
make some art or recreate some art would be more accurate
if you're interested in
looking more into Scrawlrbox and the subscription service I will have a link
in the description where you can check them out - thank you guys for watching
I'll see you guys all next week and hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles!
BYE!
[music gets louder]
[music carries the video out to it's conclusion]