hey guys I'm shayda and in today's tutorial I'm gonna show you how to do a
hand lettered calendar page that you can use for your bullet journal or your wall
this is a November of 2017 page and we're doing a tea theme so as usual I'm
just starting with my piece of cold press watercolor paper I've got a little
bit of a smaller one this month and then I've done my grid of numbers using graph
paper to keep them straight and square of course I've transferred that grade
onto tracing paper and same with my illustration and my hand lettered month
it's all transferred onto tracing paper that's gonna help me transfer the full
design onto the watercolor paper and of course you can see here I'm just taping
everything in place in order to transfer it so once it's all centered I'm going
to grab my graphite transfer paper place it dark side down and then I'll just
take a nice sharp pencil and I'll start going over everything in order to
transfer it and you can see when I move it that's really effective for
transferring the entire design it does smudge a little I know sometimes depends
on how humid the climate is I'm near the ocean so I'm getting a lot of smudges
today but that's okay I'll erase them and I am speeding through this part and
it's because we do this every month so if you're sort of like whoa slow down
just go back and watch some of the earlier hand lettered calendar page
videos from 2017 once everything is transferred I will just go over my
transfer with my pigma micron I'm using the O 5 that's as I always say sort of
my Goldilocks nib so it's just not too big not too small and I am thickening
the down strokes on my November to give the look of faux calligraphy and I'm
just gonna fill in the T here at the middle of the illustration and then
before I go over it with pigma micron I'm going to add some color and today
I'm using my watercolor pencil crayons or watercolor pencils I also have my
favorite T and my favourite mug here and they're sort of serving as my model so I
can look at them as I'm adding the color this is the
jasmine tea that I can't live without I drink it every day and then this is my
favorite mug that I've had for I want to say at least 15 years I got it in
Chinatown when I first moved out on my own so it comes everywhere with me so
that's when I moved drawing and illustrating today and to illustrate the
mug you'll see here I'm just sort of mixing the light blue and dark blue
pencil and I'm not really doing a floral pattern I'm doing a bit of an abstracted
pattern where I just leave a little bit of white space to represent those
flowers and then for the tea tin I mixed a little yellow and orange and
watercolor pencil crayon is so fun it's like being a kid again you just get to
sort of color in like a coloring book and then you take a little bit of clean
water and a clean brush and you just add water to to the color and it immediately
on contact with that water turns into watercolor paint and you just want to
add lots of water and allow it to really look like the wonderful watercolor paint
that it turns into so it'll have this nice watery translucent look on the
paper and it turns out really beautiful and it's very very easy to use and easy
to control once you've added the water to your illustration you can put the
water and the paintbrush away and just allow that illustration to dry and while
we're waiting for it to dry we will illustrate our teapot and antique kettle
here all right so let's sketch out a few tea kettles and teapots although I do
recommend that you sketch from life so if you have a teapot I'd use it as a
model today but I'm doing for a kettle sort of this oblong shape with a rounded
bottom and then just a straight spout at the sides a very simple design and to
show that little handle at the top I'm doing a bit of a coil so very whimsical
for a teapot that's a little more bulbous they can be a little tricky to
draw I recommend drawing across there to kind of keep you centered and then just
have fun look at the shape of the one in front of you if you have one and and
just sort of play around with it using graph paper can be very helpful here as
well and I think it'll come together it's just
one of those designs that takes a little practice and you can always add some
cute floral illustration on the side and that really brings it to life
now that the illustration is truly dry and watercolor pencil crayons can not to
take too too long I can go back in with my pigma micron I'm using the O five
again and I'm just gonna add that sketchy black line that I love so much
to my illustrations so I'm just giving the T 10 especially all the detail that
it needs to make it look like the actual T 10 that I use every day so I'll write
jasminetea on there and then where there's sort of that ornate pattern I'm
just gonna do a couple X's so anytime you don't know how to illustrate
something you can always kind of come up with a shortcut so little X's or cross
hatching can represent a much more ornate pattern and yeah just adding that
line to the entire illustration and then to finish I've got this great white gel
pen that Lori gave me thanks Lori and I'm going to add a bit of dotting here
to my kettle and because I want it to look like an enamel petal and I think
you guys know the one when you see these everywhere and they're sort of a camping
kettle and they just have this old-timey charm that I love and that sort of
brings the illustration to life well thank you guys so much for watching
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video and this week there were two tutorials so go check out the first
Christmas video of the year it's all about how to clean these simple but
beautiful watercolor holiday cards I'll see you next week