So the project I want to work on today is
starting this brand new sketchbook I have and as you can see, it's a pretty black sketchbook.
It's black: front, back, and side with a little logo on the back. And then the inside has this white paper
that can lay flat. I thought it would be fun to draw on the cover, the side, and the back.
I like to put the sketchbook and the number on the side.
These are posca pens and as you can tell,
the more I use it the more it wears off. So the plan for today is to try and
design something that won't rub off.
And then if we have time we can go ahead and start the sketchbook and draw on the very first paage!
♪ music ♪
Now instead of doing like a full-on illustration,
my plan was more to do something decorative
and like thematic so it can have like a similar theme that goes around the entire sketchbook.
Whether that's like flowers or stars or explosions, haha...
either way.
*tap-tap-tap*
I think it'd be cool to have like the word sketchbook here.
I think I'll just go ahead and paint that in right now,
and see what that sparks with this thin paintbrush.
Alright, so there we have the letters, hahah.
Looks pretty good. I like it. I might go in actually with another color like a little bit of a darker blue
and add some gradients to the bottom of it.
I'm really liking that I just want to incorporate some like pink now to like make that greenish blue pop,
like so, just a cute little uh...
patterny theme.
Nothing too crazy. I want to keep it pretty simplistic because I want the sketches on the inside to speak for themselves.
Maybe add a couple more hearts here and there and then we need to add the writing here
which is what I really want because I wanted to -- I want to see if this lasts better than the posca pens.
This is acrylic, so it should be pretty permanent, but this is a location
that's gonna get a lot of wear and tear so we'll see.
Not sure how to do this, how do I go about this? Tehee.
Add a heart here... 💖
Posca pen is definitely easier to work with, but hopefully these will last longer.
I just want to continue these hearts; make it more of a pattern.
Originally, it was kind of sporadic but then I tried to even it out so it's more of a pattern. I think it just looks cute.
What'd be kinda funny is if one of these hearts is like this green color.
Which one, maybe this one?
*The sound of scrubbing away the evidence of mistake*
I was trying to fix this heart and I made a mistake.
All right, don't do that again.
So far, all I've done was paint on the outside to kinda like customize it and label it.
This is sketchbook 22.
Now before I start sketching on this main page
which is where I'm gonna create the illustration, I do like to create little thumbnails.
That was like a thumbnail for the front cover that I didn't actually end up using, but I like to create thumbnails
to kind of help me decide what I want to draw before I start adding in an entire illustration here because when you start big
Sometimes you don't realize exactly what you're doing and you can make mistakes a lot easier, and I don't really like doing that.
Instead I'm gonna create thumbnails so I can make little mistakes before I work on the big drawing.
I do want to try and take inspiration from this cover with this teal color and the pink hearts and maybe some of these like polka dots.
I can't decide if the band-aid or the wound is uglier.
*sigh of resentment*
As something I always like to do on the first page is kind of make it a welcoming
so like I always like to write welcome to my sketchbook on there.
Sometimes it's in a speech bubble; sometimes it's just you know, there as a graphic designy sorts.
It would be kinda cool if we have a portrait.
It's looking this way and what's kind of cool about that is it's leading your eye to the next page
so it makes you kind of want to like scroll through it. So I might go with something like that.
I also might coup--try a couple things and then we'll move on to the actual page.
All right, so I think I've come up with something I kinda like.
I just really want to draw some overalls, Ehaha.
And I want to try and use the color scheme that I used on the cover for this.
I think it'll be a lot of fun, but I also kind of want to use markers.
So we'll be translating that paint color to a marker. I think it'll be fun.
So the first thing you want to do when you're translating a small thumbnail to a
larger piece of paper is you want to be very loose and make sure
that you fit all of the elements on to this page the same wa--
--this page, aha--
--the same way that you fit it into that square. I'm always very light with my pencil.
I just try to get the basic shapes out first including like words...
because if you don't like the way it looks you can always change it especially you're starting very light.
I actually want to create this drawing a little bit bigger.
I just need to erase it. I really want to focus on the hearts that I'm gonna use as the freckles.
*drawing noises*
And black out some of the...
*more drawing noises*
And then I just go through everything and slowly chisel away at it,
and I don't want to focus too much on doing just one element;
you really want to bounce around, at least I do, because if I spend too much time on one little spot
I'll notice something else is off and sometimes when you need to move one thing you end up having to move everything.
I really want to go over everything and just slowly like make my way around the drawing and not focus too much on one
specific location. -Try and make it sure it looks the way that I intend it to.
I think I'll extend it onto this yellow sheet
since I don't really have any plans for that currently.
*swishy-swishy*
Chunky hair bits...
nothing I like drawing more than chunky hair bits.
And I erase some of the bits that are kind of distracting
so I can have a better uh
look at what it's going to look like when I do like the line art.
Now the first page in the sketchbook is like kind of the one where I put the most effort into it.
I kind of try to treat it as like a actual finished illustration,
although for me that's still pretty sketchy. I don't go take it too far, hah,
but I really like to make that first sketch with something fun,
but I also don't let it worry me if it doesn't turn out the way I
anticipated because there's still a lot more pages to, you know, make up for it.
Now I want these to be overalls so I need to make sure I include the straps...
even though your not going to see most of the outfit.
That actually affords me the opportunity to really spend time
making these straps look very detailed...
like one of those thingies!
Slider? I don't know what it's called.
This is reminding me of another drawing that I made.
Wonder if you guys can find it.
Mostly because I'm picturing this in like pastel colors, but we'll see. We'll see what happens.
*swishy-swishy*
This is a problem I run into a lot, haha.
Whatever I draw on my desk, uh,
I tend to draw things
elongated this way because I see it from an angle.
So my angle that I see it [from]
looks kind of like this, and so certain mistakes are a little bit more difficult to see
then when you see it from above.
So if I look up at this monitor here, where the camera is, I can tell that this neck is too long.
Usually I like to check up there a little bit more often to make sure that I'm doing all right,
but I accidently had the monitor closed so I wasn't looking,
and now I notice that this neck is too long, and I really like both the head and the torso, but...
*tap tap-tap*
I think I'm gonna have to go for it. I'm -- it's gonna bug me too much if I don't so...
let's go through,
lightly erase -- this is kind of what I was talking about when I said you need to go around the whole piece...
So that this never happens, but this I'm noticing at the very end, so it's a little bit of a different scenario.
I'm not gonna erase it completely so that I can still sort of see.
So basically what I want is the shoulders to be almost here probably.
Yeah, I think that does make a little bit more sense.
From my experience, it's almost never too late to fix the mistake,
it's just trying to decide whether or not you're feeling up to taking the time to fix it.
So then it would be more like here.
Now something looks weird and stiff.
Something is not right. I think that's better; that looks better; yeah, much better. Okay, tss.
Let's figure out were these straps go.
Sometimes we can feel like a little bit of a letdown when you have to fix something that major,
but I'd rather fix it now.
I just need to go in and do the detail on these straps again.
And then I think we should be able to do the liner after that.
With the uh thingy here, taha,
"thingy," I don't know any of the terms for this even though I've actually made my own pair of
overalls once and I had to buy this stuff and I've already -- that information is gone.
Taha-I don't remember what these are called. Slides and hooks or something.
I feel like it's something else. There we go. We made some progress.
I want the striped shiiirt.
*Thipuh-thipuh*
*thug-thug thug*
*𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘱𝘦*
There we go.
*thug-thug-thug*
Took a little detour, but now we're here... so everything's fiiine.
Alright
It's Line art time!!
I'll lightly erase so I can still get an idea of where the lines are
And then start adding in the lineart.
*drops eraser with a thud*
Make [the eyelashes] curve up at the end. I don't like to draw realistic eyelashes. I feel like it just ends up being too distracting
so I'd like to just give it a little curl at the end, giving it the illusion of something
I'm not trying to realistically render it. I think I'll do the heart freckles all in marker
I'm not gonna worry about lining those
Yeah, then doing these space buns here,
I don't know if I want to draw like a scrunchie or something. It could be cute
*hip music gets louder to drown out the fact that I'm not saying anything*
I'm trying to put a lot of detail into this, but it's probably gonna make this look
undetailed, which means I might have to compensate up there.
We'll see what happens here.
I'm actually kind of enjoying this part
usually I find line art kind of boring but
Because I'm like putting so much more into this. It's kind of more enjoyable
See if I can drawwww this hearrrrttt
ough
okay
annd thiiis side!
Freehand!
good enough
I think I'll go ahead and use the brush pen.
and add to the sections that are further in the distance,
I'm gonna add a bit of a line there and this should add some more
texture to our line art.
Alright, so now the line art is done here
I want to try and color swatch some of my Copic markers to see if I have any that match [the colors of paint]
*intense swatching*
Yeah, I think I got it
These guys right here if you're interested
are the colors I'm going to be using
and then I'll probably pick some skin tones or something later and see what I think
will look good. I pictured pink hair
pink, blue, pink...
or Blue, pink, blue...?
Why don't we go blue hair? Blue hair it is!
This could look really cool if I do this right!
Gonna hold my breath
we'll get through this. Hopefully, this is all dry properly
And it won't bleed
And blend it out with the lighter color
This one must be going dry. It's squeaking something fierce!
gonna fill in this tiny streak there
And then for extra dark bits, I also have that color there, Jasper
What are these two? Ice Mint and Moon White
just keep switching between the two blending them out
that's the technique here
moving right along, ♪ "footloose and fancy-free" ♪
♪ "Movin' Right Along!" ♪
I can even use the darker color here and blend it out with this one
*agonizing squeak of a dieing marker*
Perfect, oh, wrong one, this way!
I actually even grab our third tone here, color in right there and right about there
I wonder if I should have grabbed a different color to try and match tones on the yellow paper..?
That could have been interesting
Ah, there's the hair
I might go over that again later after we've done some more of the drawing to see if that needs to be darker, but
for now, lets put these guys away
move on to some pink! which I want the overalls to be pink and
start working on those
Cool thing about doing your very first drawing in a sketchbook is you don't have to worry about ruining the sketch on the other side
No worries!
Hakuna matata or whatever.
I do need some shading here.
I'm gonna have to grab a darker color
We could even actually try and use our mid tone blue
which one was that?
add some shading so we're not bringing new colors into the drawing
now for the shirt, I want it to be blue and striped,
so we're going to take our lightest color and our darkest color of blue to do that and then just try to draw
as perfect of a line as possible
*marker speaking in squirrel*
Okay, that looks like someone, there is someone who wears an outfit that looks very similar to this and that was not an intention
I can't even think of what it is, but it's looking very familiar.
Is it Amelia Bedelia? That'd be funny wouldn't it?
I'm going to use our other color, the light blue green
to color in this area here, the extra stripes.
Oh, you know, who wears an outfit like this
The Muppet Babies babysitter
I swear I got a look that up.
Not exactly the way I thought it was but I mean there's some similarities there
that is so funny
I'm gonna go in there with our darker color
and add some extra bits here. I'll use this color for one of these hearts
aw, look at that! love! ❤
the problem with trying to do light skin tones is you always blend the lineart
Like no matter how long I've waited for it to dry. I feel like these lighter colors
just do not cooperate
emm, not quite dark enough
Let's try..., this is one of my favorite colors, Baby Blossoms
Just try to avoid the lines for the most part. I don't want to make a mess
if you ever wondered what the Muppet Babies babysitter's (Nanny) face look like *points at drawing*
Can't get over that, thats funny
♪ Muppet Babies! ♪
I think this is working better as a skin tone for this drawing because I was using this pale chiffon
But it's more on the yellow side. Whereas
R00, pinkish white, is on the pink side and pink is one of the colors in our color scheme here
So it's working pretty well
I need to fill all my markers, they a squeak!!
Muppet Babies is before my time
But I was lucky enough to have a VHS tape [of it] growing up
It's actually this episode where
They go into a bunch of movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones was there - I loved that. It was really good. Yeah
*SMUDGE!!!*
AHHWHATAHPPENED?!
No, No! no, get it off!! get it off, get it off.
I think I want the bright pink for the lips
Which one was it? oh, Tender pink! yes. I know. I love this color.
I can use some green here in the eyebrows - I feel like this part of the drawing is really squashed
There's like a lot of white space there that I could have stretched that out a bit
add some shading here
try and blend it out a bit
Should we use maybe... green for eyeshadow
which color, where is it?
All right, now the only thing we're missing is
the freckles there
How do I want to go about that? I might at least start with.... it'd be cute if they were pink. So I
*tongue clicks of thought
I guess we could go with the pink we've been using - I'm gonna use the chisel
I'm gonna use the very tippy tip of it and just draw some little
Hearts like that. Can you see it?!
I just need to draw a bunch of these
I'll try not to do too many
but also not too little
There we go
Pretty cute.
It might be fun to grab that green color and use that chisel side and add some stripes
They kind of like follow along this way
I can't go straight!
There you go, maybe add some like hearts
Subtle background hearts, I really don't know what I want to do with this part, but I do want to write the date
The other thing I do is always write the date that I started sketchbook and the date that I end the sketchbook
and I think there would be room right here with the stripes, maybe even
Have it come off of this heart would be cute. So it's February
26th and I'm hoping to finish this in this
2019 so I'll just write 2019 at the end
when I do the next date
Then I'll have a little *dssh* and then on this little line there is where I'll put the date that I finish it
And there we go
Yeah, there's my new sketchbook
I'm excited. I love the color scheme
first page of manyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I love looking through the sketchbook and wondering 'mmm infinite possibilities' 'what drawing is going to be right there?' and
Sometimes when I do that, I like to leave a little like hint
So that I remember this was the page that I thought about - I got a little heart
Anyway, 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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