so I was very excited to make today's video because if you've been listening
to me lately I am in love with these illo sketchbooks and I just got a brand
new one! Illo actually reached out to me and wanted to thank me for loving their
products I don't know so they sent me a free one and a free
one to share with you guys so check the link in the description if you'd like to
enter that giveaway but yeah let's get started with the video
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something I wish someone had told me when I was younger and what I'd like to tell anyone who's like
a new artist is that one bad art piece doesn't make you a bad artist and mean
you should quit no no no no no no today I want to really
instill that message and I'm going to do that by showing you two separate
speedpaints today, the first one I am going to be drawing on the cover of the
sketchbook and using this acrylic gouache because gouache is opaque and I thought
it would look really really cool - in my head I had this really great idea so that's
what I'll be showing you first and then next up I'll be showing you something uhhh....
I'm a little bit more happy with
my original idea was all inspired by the cover of
the sketchbook and the cover the sketchbook is sort of this like off
black color and it reminded me of space I thought I want to draw a space girl
and then I can add all these like white dots all over the place for stars and then
it will be so cool - and I'm gonna use this acrylic gouache and it'll be opaque and all the
colors would be nice and vibrant flat and it's gonna be gorgeous and I had
these big expectations in my head but moving in I realized "wait a minute" I'm
not trying to sure how to sketch on the cover of this book - I tried a pencil, it
didn't work then I moved on to this white charcoal pencil which did work
but I couldn't really see it as well as it's showing up on camera like that
looks pretty "there" like look at that, Wow! I wish it'd have been like that when I was drawing it
So I was a little nervous going in but I thought, you know what, I have used gouache
once or twice before, I think I can make this work so with that I had a pretty
decently well laid out sketch and I had all of the elements I needed on the
cover sketched out and ready to be colored in and I was pretty happy with
this I think I had basically everything I needed to go forward so I felt pretty
confident and I moved into the gouache and as soon as I started putting down some
paint, I was like" "this is mistake..." everything felt wrong from
the beginning and the brush was too soft I was having a hard time getting like
the lines I wanted and the color really wasn't right as you see I only have
those five colors of gouache and so I have to mix it to get any of the colors
I want and I pictured this being like blue and purple so I had to make a few
colors and I just really wasn't happy with any of them and then when it came
to this her skin tone I was like "oh I think I'd be really cool if she had
like a really warm skin tone to go with all these cool colors" but I really
wasn't able to mix the color that I saw in my head and when it comes to artists
not liking their own work, I don't think it necessarily means that the art is
turning out bad or that like the drawing is worthless or that it's like has no
value - when an artist sees their own work and they're not happy with it it's
usually because they either didn't live up to the expectations that they had in
their head or the way they visualized it before they started creating it or it's
because they feel like they could have done better and today I think I fell
under both of those categories - I really - the other couple times that I've used
gouache I feel like it just turned out better *stumbles over words* and
it just doesn't look 'anyway' like it does in my head
that wasn't a sentence... *corrects herself: "it doesn't look anything like it does in my head" so I
spent a couple hours on this and I kept tweaking it hoping eventually it would
turn around and start looking the way it did in my head but I just really wasn't
able to capture that idea that I had in my head so *laughs* after butchering the cover *laughs* I
decided let's go in with my current favorite medium: Copic markers and redraw
the cover but as the first opening page in the sketchbook so redraw
it but try and do it the way I see it in my head, so that is when we move on
to part two of the video
I think that that concept of taking what's in your
head and transferring it to paper can be very tricky so I think what's important
is to really find that process that works for you and what I've been doing
lately with my Copic markers is drawing with a pink a col-erase pencil and then
applying the marker on top of that and then adding the ink on top of that or
sometimes I'll put the pencil, then the ink, then the marker - but I don't
erase my sketch - usually if I use like a mechanical pencil I have to erase it
because mechanical pencil and Copic markers do not get along
they just *eek* "keep them far away from each other" so I've been using this col-erase
pencil because it interacts with the Copic marker a lot gentler like it
barely smudges the pencil at all, like it really doesn't
I don't think, and it actually looks kind of cool under some of the pastel colors
especially if you use a pink and use a light skin tone than the pink like
almost acts as like blood vessels and veins and it adds just an
extra bit of liveliness to the skin and I've actually done this with darker skin
tones too and while it's not as obvious I still think it makes a significant
difference that really helps bring those characters to life and not look too dead
if that makes sense? I think it's just that little extra pop of pink just helps
and since I'm not erasing it's very important that this sketch really
captures everything that I want it to before I start adding color and Here I
am adding in the hair color - I'm sticking with that pastel purple from the cover
and you'll see I'll change up a few things that I didn't like that I made in
the cover like I changed her outfit a little bit - actually made her face a
little too big this time but that's alright I'll take it
I also changed her hair and made it pig-tails and I think I changed the
leggings or something I don't know it's a space - it's supposed to be a space suit
but I mean its obiously... not-.... um.... safe. hehe
I took some creative liberties
now my whole reason for drawing a girl in
space was because the front cover was a black sketchbook and obviously the paper
on the inside is white so I needed to go in and color in the entire background
with marker so first I used a bit of a lighter gray I think it was like 'N6' and
I colored the inside of her helmet because obviously there'd be a little
bit of reflection and light and might alter the colors that you're seeing
through it so I use a bit of a lighter color with that but before coloring in
the background solid black, which I kind of expect it to be a bit of a daunting
task, I decided to add facial features to her face so I don't have to stare at
this pupil-less demon for that entire time *hehe
for the eyebrows and the lips
anything that I colored in purple, I used the Ohuhu dual tip markers, just the fine-liner side
and added in those details and then for any where that ended up
being black I used a Pentallic fineliner for that and I tried something a
little different with the eyes this time around - usually I'll just color in the
entire pupil area with like a solid color that I use as the line art just
because I like big alien eyeballs but this time I said just do different and I
don't love it but I like that I changed it up a little bit and I'm probably
gonna go back to what I usually do *hehe*
trying to bring a little bit more life
to the face I grabbed a bit of a blush color and
added those tints to her nose and her cheeks and blended those out so that was
a bit smoother and this really helps bring more color into an illustration if
you're drawing very pale skin and I have very pale skin so I tend to draw that a
lot, so I like to add a little pop pink or like this is more like a
maroon color, I feel like it really it really blends in with the color scheme a
lot better than like a bright pink so I'm really happy with that it's almost
purpley and I just really think it works really well and I like it I like the
tones that it gave especially mixed with whatever color I used for the skin, I
don't really know.... if i had to pick like a favorite part of
drawing with copics it's probably adding blush, I need to practice it more with
darker skin tones, i got it really good a couple days ago and i want to keep
trying and see, -i have to realize what i did that made it turn out right cuz
sometimes you just get lucky and then you're like "wait? I don't even know what
I did" so once I figured that out I'll let you guys know, and I switched over to
to a slightly darker color still not like a straight black and started
coloring in the background - I also mixed in some of my cool gray Ohuhu markers
to try and save some of my Copic ink while I was filling in the background
and it was - it's very difficult not to get splotchy when coloring this large of
an area but I did my best and especially switching out with the Copic and the
Ohuhu, I feel like that actually helped minimize the streaking but yeah,
there'll always be strokes, they're markers, they're not paint so kind of is
something I have to accept but I really like the way this paper actually holds
markers, it bleeds to the other side of the page but it doesn't usually bleed to
the page behind that and that's really nice in a sketchbook so I don't really
have to worry about like sticking in papers between the pages and I can just
go in and color when I feel like it and, you know, lots of freedom and sometimes I
added in the Stars before I was done because I would just - I just wanted to
see what it would look like with the Stars but once I was done coloring in
the entire black background for the night sky.. space... thing.. .I added in a bunch
of stars using the Sakura Decorese pen - I have a bunch of these white pens from my
white pen review and I've kind of been trying to circle through them so I don't
have to buy more of the good ones like I could just make it work with some of
these other ones so that's what I've been using - it doesn't help that each of
like the white pens works better on like a different medium so like this Decorse
works really well on Copics - I think some of them work good on
watercolor and others were terrible on Copics - I was like really gonna
switch them out which is kind of annoying - anyway and then I had this
pretty cool night sky and actually like the way it looks with the solid white
and the pink sketch of the character standing out from the background like
I really like the way that pops - for the word 'sketchbook' and then the number, I
used a Posca pen - first I used an extra fine one but it was a little too sketchy
and thin and although I really like that texture it really wasn't what I was
going for, so then I moved on to the next size up which i think is just called
fine or regular and I just went over that font - the words again to
make it a little thicker and fuller and then I was pretty much done with the
background and it was time to start coloring in the body and hopefully use a
color scheme that fits the one that I had in my head so let's move on to that
in the drawing I did on the cover I used this like really bright blue and
in my head I pictured it being a lot less saturated and almost a gray tone
so I'm using a cool grey to color in those areas on this drawing and keeping
it very - like it's - it's - almost blue but it's kind of blue, I don't know, it's just
it feels more spacesuit-y to me and it much better represents the idea that I
had in my head - this is also what you'll notice I kind of changed up the design
of the outfit from the original sketch because I can do a lot more details with
these markers than I could with the gouache so I'm trying to take advantage
of that by doing like quick little strokes and other little elements of it
and on the other one I had it like extra like weird arm holes to her shirt just
because I felt like it needed something and I didn't like the way it was looking
but I left those out for this one because I was able to more
capture that idea that I had and I also changed her shirt and gave it a
star instead of that weird exclamation point and I like this one a lot better I
feel like it's kind of cool - I don't know
one of the advantages Copic markers has
over the gouache that I used earlier was that if it's kind of translucent
so I'm able to add shading to these really sort of detailed leggings and it
gives that rounded look and makes everything look more three-dimensional
and I can do that to the skirt and the shirt and then of course like I gave her
those Gray gauntlets and I'm really happy with this color scheme because
it's a little bit more contrast-y, if that makes sense,
so the blue is very dark and saturated and then the grey is very light and the
white sections are very light and it gives contrast between the blue
white and I think it just looks overall more appealing to me at least I think
the only problem I really had with this drawing was the head is a little too big
but I'm gonna chalk that up to being the fact that she's wearing a helmet and
it's glass and maybe it's a bit of a magnifying glass and it makes her head
look a bigger *giggle* there we go, see? I can make it work
and then all I had to
do is add line art to everything, I also added highlights to the helmet to make
it look more like glass so I added this like circular reflection and other
reflections and I also use the Posca pen and went around the whole outside of the
character to make it pop from the background I like to do this it's very
cartoony and not very realistic but I just enjoy it and I like the way it
looks so I tend to do it a lot so it's just a little quirk, that I can't seem to shake
and yeah after that I think I was just about done! just added a
bunch of details - I'm just checking to make sure I didn't forget anything I want
to talk about oh one thing is I realized after drawing this I was like I had this
idea that the girl would have long hair and then it's like building up in her
space suit and I thought: "oh, this is such a good idea!" and then I went on Instagram like
literally two minutes after this and I noticed that Loish had a picture that was
basically like this and I was like "gaaaah" but if I am gonna emulate someone it
might as well be Loish, so I'm not gonna complain, I just thought I was being
original 'egggh' and I know I've seen that picture but I wasn't thinking about it
so yeah just thought I'd mention that anyway I want to thank you guys for
watching um I hope maybe this - maybe gave you some insight into the fact that you
know not everything's gonna turn out 100% but it's never a good idea to give
up so I'm really glad that I gave it another shot and kind of redeemed myself
in a way and created art that I was more comfortable with and actually enjoyed a
lot more because when I'm struggling with something it's not as an enjoyable
of an experience so I'm glad that I took the time and redid it and really enjoyed
myself so I'm very happy with this and I'm glad I could share the process
with you of not only making mistakes but also kind of trying to recapture my love
for art so yeah and don't forget I have the giveaway
in the description and you can get your own illo sketchbook and don't worry
it won't have anything vandalized on the front of it it'll be
brand new and in its wrapper like this but yeah and I'll maybe throw in a
little doodle on a separate piece of paper or something - who knows? oohooh
anyway if you want to
enter that there will be a link in the description and thank you illo for
sending me this sketchbook and one to share with all of my peeps I really
really love your sketchbooks so thank you and yeah thank you guys for watching
I'll see you guys all next week
and ♪ I hope you all have a delicious evening
full of WAFFLES! ♪
BUI!!
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