hello everybody! - today I'm not feeling too hot, so I thought (poet)
it'd be fun to just
take some time and experiment and play around and I saw my gouache when I was
cleaning my room and I'm kind of feeling an urge to dabble in that medium so
we'll see where we end up
yeah feel free to grab your own sketchbooks and draw
along let's get creative
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the speed and intensity at which I play around with
this pencil directly correlates with my excitement - so something that's been
inspiring me lately
when people paint like
portraits of faces they'll use all sorts of different colors in different
areas of the face like greens and purples that you might not expect so
that could be something fun to study and see what colors look good where -
those are some uneven eyebrows!
whenever I sit down to just sketch and I don't really
have a clear idea of what I want to sketch - I always start with a female face
it's just my go-to warm-up doodly-doo
you probably could've guessed that if
you've seen any of my sketch book tours
always the nose blushy hehe - it's always
important to warm up when you plan on drawing something because your wrists
like every other muscle in your body is a muscle so whenever you work out you
got a stretch to make sure you don't hurt yourself and drawing is no
exception so now you can go and tell all your friends that you workout every day
if you draw every day hehe
kind of feel like I want to draw a ball cap (not a bald cap)
a ball cap
extends a little passed where the head ends - a little knot at the top, bit of a
sporty look - maybe a sweatshirt maybe she's holding it with her hand - this is
kind of how my sketches always start in my sketch book - don't have a huge clear idea but
I'll do one thing and then it spins off and kind of like influences the rest of
it- add little knots on the ends with an aglet - let's move the cap up this way..?
no no no no
nah, hehe, where's my eraser? - UhOh... where is my...eraser?
let's turn the
hat backwards a little bit but like off skew, that like section here, I think I'll
move the hand down here so it's still grabbing the brim of the Hat
kind of like this but then these arms gonna end up a little lower - when there's
a lot of foreshortening going on, I tend to scribble because I kind of have a
vague idea of where like the arm is going to end up but I find that when I
like scribble away I can kind of find the lines better and I can see which
lines I like which ones I don't and then this can actually become the sweatshirt
maybe it's rolled up to the elbow it should be all super baggy there
draw a shirt underneath that, its a little too cropped to be decent
there we go! we got a little sketch my wrist is
feeling a little bit warmed up I'm not going to detailed with a lot of it
you'll see like there's still a lot of sketches and that's pretty good for a
warmup - a lot of people probably say for a warm-up you probably souldn't even go
this far but I don't know that's just always kind of been my rhythm - the more
you experiment the more you'll find what works best for you - now when I fill a
sketchbook spread kind of like this one, the graphic designer in me wants to
create contrast between all the sketches so I'll usually like change size as I go
around so this is a pretty large sketch it takes up almost half of this page a
little bit more actually hehe - so I usually try to figure out where would
and what size and location would the next illustration look visually pleasing
as a whole now even though I think like that it doesn't always turn out like
that because you might start here and be like okay that's where the sketch needs
to be but when you start sketching it you learn" oh I want to take up like
space over here and I want to go over here" and I let the creativity
take me where it wants to go I'm not limited by like these choices because it
is a sketchbook and it's meant to be messy and fun and full of experimentsss!
so for this one I kind of want to follow those random lines I drew and they look
kind of like pigtails so let's play around with those figure out where the
body is - what would be fun is if it had two big bangs [fringe] sections but they went they're kind of
like side swept
lets use a little flower to keep her hair up
hair can go down there
she'll need arms somewhere
she's sitting there on nothing as you do
this sketch is a little bit more
loose and I kind of enjoy looking at sketchbooks when they're full of things
like this because there are so many extra lines I feel like several people
could look at it and see something a little bit different which all comes
down to interpretation whereas as soon as you start like
detailing it and refining it it starts becoming what the artist wants you to
see - which both have their redeeming qualities I think
this arm is a little too
crazy for me personally
let me try and bring it down on this knee
*tries to bring it down on this knee
now if you do
have a sketch that looks kind of like this and you do plan on refining it what
I would suggest is take like an eraser and then lightly erase just a small bit
of it so that you can still see what it was but it's not overbearing and then
just go back over it with your pencil and pick your favorite lines but I want
to keep on going practicing a little bit here so let's go in another direction
I do really - yeah - I'm feeling - yeah - where is that? - I really do want to play around with these
gouache, I have a primary set here - I think it would be fun to dabble in those
so let's see - I kind of want to try and use this whole page here I'm really feeling
the I head straight on to the camera point of view - so let's just draw a very
big face so we have a lot of room to play around with the paints
figure out where
the eyeballs are, the nose, and a mouth - ears - trying a little more
effort into sketching something here so I like to start super sketchy when I'm
really trying - it's important to have a good foundation and then build upon that
and I find scribbling lightly and building up on it to be the best way to
do that for me personally
and then when I start to see the lines that I like I
can go ahead and darken them and when I'm sketching since I want to use these
paints I'm trying to think of a color scheme even at this stage because that
can help influence what sort of accessories or different elements
supernatural that I want to like incorporate into the sketch - I'm really
liking these big ears big round ears - glowing eyes kind of sounds fun
scribble out some eyebrows here figure out their shape
I feel like eyebrows can say a lot about a character when you're illustrating
because if you make them sharp and pointy you can make the character feel a
little bit more sharp and if you make them big and round and soft it makes the
character feel softer without doing much else to the face
now for hair I really
want to keep it chunky like I've been talking about a lot lately so let's try
what if there's like a headband a little bit askew - we have some bangs big
chunky bangs with a little curl on the end
we don't need this ear, the curl
should be a little bit chunkier than that if you want to stick to this chunky
style - just lightly erase some of that because we might need it later and then
for up here I kind of think I'd be funny to just go real crazy so maybe this
section is pulled up into like a space bun, but there's also like a hair here
that missed the space bun that's coming over top of this headband and then maybe
this side is just flowing in the wind like this
let me take a step back and
look at this
what do I think.....?
I think I was changed this whole section a bit so
maybe she has short hair so when she pulls her hair up there's some layers at
the bottom so let's add those
kind of like this
shade them to get a little depth
then on this side let's see if the hair ends around here blowing in the wind
it'll be about that length, and then we can also add that same sort of texture
I feel like a tank top is in order for this chick
hehe
kind of like that
alright I'm very excited to like throw some paint on this now I was asking a
friend who does gouache pretty well "how they do it" like ah HOW?
okay so so what my
problem was is it's like going with Gouache which is opaque and when you go over
your sketch lines you lose all of that hard work that you kind of put in you
lose a lot of the groundwork, they suggested that I water down the first
layer of gouache that way I can layer on the details with the gouache and still
have a foundation to work from so let's try that
got some water
I got some clean brushes
I don't own a good palette to save
my life for some reason - i found this from an old watercolor palette let's try this
let's first try and develop a bit of a skin tone here probably need all four of
these for that
because we can always add darker colors actually with Gouache you
can actually always add lighter colors as well that's actually something cool
about it - alright let's add a little bit of yellow, some red, probably need more
red than that but then the smidgiest of blue (it's probably too much) but let's give
this a mixie mix
[mixie-mixes]
I'm getting a coral color - now let's take some of that put it
in this little bin and water that guy down, mix it again, and we'll use that as
our first layer and we'll see what happens
this is the first time I'm ever
doing it this way so we'll see what happens
take some of this let's see if
we can see through it
alright it's still pretty opaque actually - okay now that
I've added a little bit more water to it I think I can see through it a
lot easier and that will probably help me out a lot
here is a lighter color that I just mixed and it's a lot more white
see what we can do with this
let's just block out some shapes, see what happens
okay I think this might be
easier to work but since it's a little bit more neutral I should be able to add
more colors without her looking like a Christmas tree
hopefully...hehe
I mix some more
colors here on the palette before I do anything else
I'm gonna add some of this, see what that
looks like
luckily this is just in a sketchbook it's not that big a deal that
it looks like she smudged poop on her face
I think it's still just too
saturated kind of want to start over in a way, see
but now I'm getting to that point where I'm losing all this sketch again so that
was a waste
I'll just have to make a whole new face
but that's fine I love
making faces
let's do red around the eyes and use that
original skintone color for more shading
it's looking kind of interesting not at all what I was planning on but I'm kind
of enjoying how crazy and like out of my comfort zone it is
which is exactly what sketchbooks are for
I need a smaller paintbrush so i can add some little details here
the cool thing with gouache is I can add a nostril that's way too big but
I can paint over it later
now since I'm using so many different colors to paint
the skin I want to try and incorporate those around the rest of the
piece so that we don't go too crazy
I mean we're at a pretty crazy point lol
I pictured this being a lot more flat colors whereas this is actually
incorporating a lot of blending - I think the nose ended up higher than in my
original sketch - I might need to pull that down a bit
do want to add some more
redness to the cheeks just grab this color I guess to do that
[grabs that color to do that]
I moved the nose down a bit, it probably should be lighter on like one
side of the nose do you think? if the light source is coming from that side
basically just experimenting and just enjoying the process and
not really worried about making anything gorgeous - she gives me a little bit of an
undead vibe, but I think it's that purple I used - I think I'll use this color from the
eyelashes not sure if it should dry enough well let's give it a shot
woo!
okay looks black next all these colors
I do you want it a little more shading
around the nose here just doesn't feel right
so the more I play with this the
closer I'm getting to that flat look that I kind of anticipated
originally so I might just go towards that anyway I feel like it's a little
bit more my speed and I still was able to like play around with that like other
painterly stuff so I think I'm heading in the right direction
definitely looking a little less freaky than it was I think I'm gonna let that
dry and then maybe do something else on top of it but let's maybe do the hair
maybe use this for the bandana
maybe also the tank top
I don't want to go overboard with the colors
then we can maybe use this purple color for the hair
I don't know I don't want to like make any new colors so let's see what this
does maybe we can make a darker version of
this and add in the shapes but first just add a flat layer of this everywhere
[everywhere, she adds a flat layer of this]
well the problem I'm having here is all my paints are drying on the pallet before
I'm done with them so it's making this a little tricky
I'm kind of feeling done
with this [laughs]
it's not really going the direction I
anticipated and I've been playing with it for a while since I've noticed that
like I usually like to give art a chance you know when I'm like oh this is not
going the right direction so I'll keep trying for like you know a while but if
I'm still feeling that after like trying my darnedest, it's probably time to move on and
flip page - I don't know what happened right here on the cheek
wonder if I can fix that
and that is the cool thing about sketchbooks they're for
experimenting and you get to try whatever you want to try and if it
doesn't work out you turn the page and no one ever has to know about it
and so if you're struggling with something like that that's what
sketchbooks are for, they're for experimenting trying new things and
collecting your progress in one place maybe one day in the future when I've
improved in gouache I can look back on this and see my humbler beginnings
I actually have made gouache things that I think have turned out better than this
and that's when I focused on creating flatter colors instead of trying to get
this painterly look so I definitely think that's kind of more my speed and
maybe what suits me better but it was fun to experiment and try something
different and now that I have this gouache out and they're on my desk
and I probably won't put them away for months, they'll be fun to play around with
them some more in my sketchbook and see what else I can create
so thanks for
coming along with me as I filled a spread in my sketchbook I'm so glad I could
share with you and I hope you all have a delicious evening full of waffles!!
bye!
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