Hi guys and welcome back to my channel and welcome to another one of these 'hour
in my sketchbook' videos. Thank you guys so much for the response on the
last one, it was really lovely that you guys were even remotely interested in it
so I have decided that I will carry on with these. And thank us also for all the
feedback, all the different ideas. You guys actually gave me some really really
good suggestions and one of them was to actually use this time to answer some of
your questions, so maybe a question each episode or maybe like for the real time
videos, answer a load of questions. So yeah I thought that we would do that, I
thought today we'll open the floor so any questions that you have, you can
leave in the comments and I'll just go through them here and there throughout
the different videos and pick up a few and cover any topics that you want me to.
And then if we run out, then I'll ask again in the future. But anyway
today I am painting- sorry if you can hear my laptop breathing in the background-
today I'm painting some skies from Studio Ghibli backgrounds. I really
really love the artwork of Studio Ghibli backgrounds and yeah I just
wanted to just try out the skies that they paint. I just think they're gorgeous.
I wanted to see if I could. I'm really not that experienced with
painting skies so I just thought I'd do this kind of quickfire speed paint, just
see how much I could kind of figure out just by copying a few different pictures.
These are all from one film I think, I actually found them on a tumblr blog so
I'll leave a link to that below just in case you want to give that a go
yourselves- if you want to see if you can paint these. I've
actually only- this is so bad to admit- I've actually only seen one Studio
Ghibli film and it is Kiki's Delivery Service and I only saw that... um... I don't
know- a few months ago? I've obviously seen loads of the artwork, I know a lot
of the stories and I have seen bits of most of the films but I've never really
sat down and watched many of them just because I know that I'll love them and I
really have to be in the right mindset to really
commit to a film that I know is gonna be like one of those that you kind of keep
forever. So yeah I've only watched one film but in general
I just love like Miyazaki's storytelling, I love the artwork- Oga Kazuo's painting
....just just all of it. And I'm actually hoping to study the artwork a
bit more it's more. It's closer to the direction I feel like I want to take my
artwork in. It's like the one thing that's always been consistent that I've
always been so drawn to is the way that they do landscapes so I don't
necessarily want to paint exactly the same but there's- there's a lot from that
style that I really want to see if I can work on. And in this case obviously it
was such a quick study that I really didn't get the sense of it at all,
there's really no finesse to this work which is a shame because there's
such a neatness to their paintings that
just -I don't know it's such detail- and this clearly is really lacking that and
a lot of the paint work it's quite sloppy. You have to paint quite wet when
you do skies and the paper really wasn't up to it as you can see but also I think
I get kind of carried away and trying to blend everything and mush it
all together and I lose track of where there should be edges because there are
edges in cloud and just the way that different areas of light will hit each
other. So I know that that's something I need to work on. I wasn't
looking for perfection from these- I really didn't know if I'd be able to
paint all of these, I thought I'd do about four or six- so I'm really
surprised that I managed to fill the whole page but I did. And one of the
things you'll notice is that like you'll paint in the sky and then take away some
of the paint and then go over it with white. So I just take away the wet paint
with like a dry brush and that's something that I've seen a couple of
Studio Ghibli background artists doing. They also will usually use poster paints.
I did actually impulse order some poster paints for
myself so if you want me to do any more studio ghibli studies let me know and I'll kind of see
if I can follow their technique as closely as I can but I have seen some
studio ghibli artists using gouache as well-
specifically Holbein as well which is what I'm using- and one of the things I
liked from what I saw was that they will mix the cerulean blue with opera- that
really hot pink color and I don't know it just gives it a little bit of a weird
glow. So that's what I did with these paintings and I do think it's quite
effective. Kind of warms up the sky a bit and it gives the clouds more a light
shadow I guess. Like less of a heavy just black and white grey. It's more
warm and has got that dreamlike quality that you see in all of
those Studio Ghibli paintings and backgrounds. So yeah, in general I
actually really enjoyed this spread. It was really a relaxing one and just-
anytime you get to paint so fluidly and really mess around with colors there's
always loads of fun- and I think the colors are the main thing I picked up
from this video - from this sketchbook spread. Oh god, we moved on already.
Though I treat you to a little bit of Peel Porn here. I cut out most of it just
because I was using a hair dryer to heat up the tape. But anyway guys, thank you
guys so much for watching. I'll see you soon for the next video. Bye!