The one marker challenge is simple
What you do is you ignore all of your beautiful marker babies while giving your love and attention to one of them at random
I've seen this challenge done one of two ways: One - you pick your color and then you draw something
using that color and only that color and the other way I've seen it done is where you actually
Draw your illustration, you know add the line art and everything and then you pick your color
So you're forced to use that color?
On this illustration that you just put time into so it's a little bit more stressful and a little bit more challenging
So that is how I decided to do it. You can do it. Either way. It doesn't really matter
I don't...I don't think that the one marker color police are gonna come and get you. Okay, it's fine
The inspiration behind this drawing was actually a model on Pinterest who was wearing this like off-the-shoulder
Shirt that was tucked into her high-waisted jeans and it had these massive
Puffy sleeves and I just was like, "I need a draw that!" I ended up adding some like creative liberties
But I was just very inspired by the poofy sleeves...kind of reminded me of Ariel's like, pink dress. I don't know.
I'm just excited to draw it and I changed the characters hair and everything
So that is all just something that came out of my head when I was drawing it
I feel like it fit well with the big round sleeves like I added square sections to her hair
I don't know it felt different it felt good to something
I felt like doing and for her shirt
I decided to add this cute little pattern very simple and geometric
But I wanted the design. I wanted the lineart actually to have a little bit more substance to it
Since I'm only gonna have one color
I'm gonna be very limited with my details. I think so
I was like, I'm gonna add in some more something into the line art
And so that's why it's in the sketch and I also changed her mouth
I wanted her to be a bit happier because her hair is so like
Explosive. I wanted her personality to sort of fit that so I moved the tongue up a little bit and I feel like that really
I don't know
What and not only made it a little bit more realistic because I realized you don't really stick your tongue out the way it was
drawn originally
But now it's a little bit more, you know
Here I am adding in the liner the glasses were kind of stressful I
Don't know if you've ever done line art on a pair of sunglasses, but who like hold your breath?
Take your time, especially when there are complete circles
although I find it a little bit more difficult to draw the
Sunglasses that are a more aviator style just because that shape is a little bit more foreign to me
Um, but you guys have been super helpful with this because whenever I do like a hashtag draw me with waffles
That's where I draw. I'm one of you guys on Instagram you
All have glasses
So you're really you're really challenging me. So I feel like
85% of you wear glasses, so it's been a really good exercise for me, and I've been getting a lot better
So these wonderful glasses that I've drawn in today's illustration are brought to you by you. So, thank you
which is kind of funny because
I've have this problem where whenever I would draw like my friend who has glasses and
I didn't have there like a reference photo of any kind
I would draw them and then I would show it to them like the next day
I be like hey, look I drew you and they'd be like well, where are my glasses?
Because for some reason I just don't remember that people have glasses
It's like I don't know maybe that says something deep about what a great person I am or something
Like I see the inside of you I don't see your outside appearances
That's can't possibly be true. I I don't understand there just may be something wrong with me
But I just never remember that someone wears glasses out if someone comes to me and they're not wearing the glasses
I'll be like woah
you look completely different but when it comes to me remembering I'm like
I don't remember who wears glasses and who doesn't it's just something I've always had a problem with
I don't know if anyone else has that problem
I would like to know if you do because I feel like that's really really random and really really weird
Anyway, once I'd finished drawing the illustration it was time to pick the marker
Oh, and if you're wondering I'll be using these ohyou markers
I got the a tea set I think and they're really cheap and I really like them
Anyway for picking the color. I didn't really do anything special for this
I just closed my eyes and reached in and grabbed one when I picked this color, which happened to be
Marigold. Yeah, I was not excited
because I've done the one marker Taylor before and I had a yellow and I was like
I've already done this and I was tempted to just put it back and like refilm it and I'm like no one will know I
Can just edit that out?
But I didn't I stuck to it. I used this color
I colored an entire illustration with it
And another little tip for you number 24 marigold, you know
Who is the perfect Charmander color in case you didn't know? You're welcome before I even started adding color to the illustration?
I made a couple
swatches and then I really wanted to test what I'd seen done in a couple places is that they use rubbing alcohol and they mix
It with the marker and then you can get like a lighter tone
So I just watched that out to see what kind of colors I could get
Well not colors tones out of the same color that I could get that way
I have a nice reference sheet as I start adding the colors to the actual John
Going into this before I even knew what color I was using
I had this idea that I knew the glasses were gonna be just the darkest most saturated
Version of whatever color I got so that is the first thing that I colored
For like the skin and the hair though. I was I
Really fought myself a little bit
Because I really wanted her to have like a dark skin tone that would like contrast with a light-colored hair
But because the glasses had such a thin rim
The really wouldn't have been enough like white space between those two dark colors
and I really wanted the glasses to pop like I said earlier so I decided to use the
lighter color for the skin while using the rubbing alcohol to lighten up the marker and
yeah, I
think one of the most challenging parts of
The one marker challenge is that I really had to like take a step back. Look at the
illustration and decide where I wanted the darkest tones to be and where I wanted the lightest tones to be and I think that's just
a really good exercise in general, but it was definitely challenging and I
experimented with a couple things and found that they didn't really work like I tried to do an ombre effect with the hair, but I
Wasn't able to get that dark tone at the bottom to really lighten up as it went it
Just I needed like or was the paper I was using maybe but it really wasn't working
so I had to go over that again with just the marker and I
Didn't want her hair to be like that one solid dark tone, but it's kind of what just had to happen
And the hair I think is something that I spent a lot of time on and because they're alcohol-based markers and you're able to layer
Them I go over this hair so many times trying to get some like tones and like different
Shading to go within like give the hair more texture and more
You know hair like because I did go very simple style with those like square blocks of hair
So I really wanted there to be some more detail in it by adding like multiple
Like I went over like the same
little small
sliver of
Section of the hair over and over and over again to get it to go darker and darker and darker and there is a limit
To this so there was a point where it was like fruitless
but I
Tried very very hard and it was really fun and I am still I would consider myself very much unmarked or newb
I've probably only drawn like
five things with markers that I would consider finished mostly just sketches and things so when it comes to like blending and layering
that's something that I am very very new to and I think this was really really fun and a very good exercise and I
Say that a lot
fun and a good exercise and
There's nothing fun about exercise
When it comes to art exercises, I guess it's fun
After staring at it for a couple more minutes and trying to decide whether I wanted her top to be very very dark and saturated
Or her pants to be very dark inserted. I decided to go with the pants because I think it really
it balanced the piece a bit better because her hair was so dark and then I put the dark color down at the bottom of
the illustration and I feel like it just
Made sense to me
And because I colored in the pants with such a very simple flat color, I didn't go over it
very many times you're able to see the contrast between how many times I went over that hair and
Darkened it up and darkened it up and darken it up compared to where the pants are the actual light color of the marker
Like when you've put down one layer, I guess I guess they're all the same color of them
but the more layers the darker and saturated it gets
Sort of thinking and then for her top I decided to color in the little like little detail
So what are they like? I don't know they're sort of like crosses, but they're also like flowers
I don't know but just the shapes. I colored the shapes in with the marker
Then I went over the hair a couple million more times
I'm trying to darken up like the sections that would be more in shadow and a problem
I have what if I draw anything is that I always put it sort of
Off-center on the page and then bugs me
So there's a little cheat and I drew a circle around her two more sent to her in the piece
Well, send her around the page and I decided to color that in and since I only have one marker I had to make some
Sacrifices and I wasn't able to color directly up into her hair because her hair is so dark
And I'm going to be using that dark marker
so what I did was I just left a little space between the character and this circle shape and I
Really like the way this looks I feel like it's very fun
It has like almost a glowing effect. Like she's popping out of the page. I really like that
I think it was fun. And I'm glad that I did it because I did think about it for a long time
Like am I ready to commit to this and I did and I'm happy. I did another thing
I did to add a little bit more detail since everything's the same color is how I added freckles because there's skin
Honestly using the rubbing alcohol
I feel like it didn't really interact with the paper very well and it like caused it to like
Bubble mess that bubbles out the word
Like the fibers of the paper were like beating up into little balls
So I wanted to like try and hide that by adding in the freckles
It's like a texture and it's gonna hide the awful texture with a different texture
Yeah, and while I liked her top being solid white, I feel like it was distracting from that
Bright white stroke that was around her from the circle
so I went in with a little bit more rubbing alcohol and the marker and just
Shaded that in just ever so slightly and I think it really really helped and made
Her pop as a character and it was a little bit less flat and I really that about it
And for the final little things I did was I added a little bit of shading to her pants just to add
You know more depth and then her hair it was still even after going over it. I guess I could billions open ten times. I
Would decided to go over it again with the liner, which I don't know
That means I failed the challenge or cheated or something, but I like it better now. So hmm. I don't care what you think
I just added like strands to make it look more like hair basically and then I had
My one marker illustration. I'm very happy with it
And yeah
I think it was really fun
And I like the perk enos of it and I feel like the color really suited it
Even though I wasn't super excited about the color in the first place
Anyway, I took a picture of this before I had colored it
So if you want to like pick a random marker that you own and color the same illustration and see how yours turns out
I'll have a link in the description or you can
You know download that line art and try it yourself, and I would love to see what you come up with
Anyway, thank you guys for watching
This was really really fun. And yeah, I had a blast. So I hope you all have a delicious evening follicles
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