Mysterious Voice: It's the Orange versus blue Copic marker challenge!
Mira: What, what do you mean?
Voice: I said it's the orange versus blue Copic marker challenge.
You have to draw a picture with orange and blue markers and this gold one.
That's your bonus.
Mira: So It's like a wild card? What am I supposed to do though?
Voice: What I just said, draw a picture with orange and blue markers and the gold one.
Mira: but if it's orange versus blue, wouldn't I be doing separate pictures?
Voice: Look Just go with it. Okay, you have some orange markers, you have some blue markers
you have one gold marker. just draw a picture.
Mira: Sure why not? I guess it's a Copic marker challenge.
All right now that you have endured some extreme cheesiness,
Let's dive into this piece.
Basically, this is what I would call the complementary color challenge.
I am kind of going to make orange and blue work against each other while kind of working together.
I want a huge contrast between the two. So that is the challenge with this piece.
We are bringing orange and blue against each other but together.
Kind of a twist and we're gonna see what we can make. We are going to develop a full piece.
Hopefully it turns out good. I'm not really sure.
Well, actually I am cuz this is me from the future on a voiceover and this is you from right now in the present.
Woohoo! Time travel at its finest but technically when you're watching this, I'm in the past even though right now I'm in the future. Whoa!
Crazy!
Okay, now that we have that weirdness out of the way,
Let me explain a little bit about what's going on.
Right now you might be guessing a frog is on the picture or maybe some weird rocket ship thing.
Who really knows. So let's give the lowdown here.
We are drawing a moth today, and this is not like my last piece.
I know I'm gonna kick with these babies lately, but this one is more on the abstract side.
Wait till you see what's coming up guys. Wait till you see!
In the meantime, I have a question of the day for you guys.
I want to know if you have ever done a challenge like this before,
where you have to use complementary colors in a piece and make it work.
If so, I want to know which color combination did you choose and
I want to know what you made. Did you paint or did you draw and what did you make?
So I've been wanting to do this challenge for years and I just never really got around to it.
I kept forgetting about it, but I always knew that when I finally did it,
I wanted to use orange and blue. I just love the way that those two color combinations interact together.
Now this was very challenging because
my color selection for orange markers is extremely, extremely limited.
So I did have to grab some orangish yellow ones from my yellow/red and yellow colour family.
I tried to stay as orange as I could but I did take two markers I think.
So we kind of had to push the edge just to get enough.
Most of these colors you see are very close and it would be very hard.
I did pull in some blues to blend into the oranges here and there.
I did do some blue accents on the moth.
Really love those little pops of blue. It's really fun.
I thought that it really helped my piece too
because as I said if I didn't pull in some of the blues to shade the orange
and if I didn't pull in those two yellowish oranges, it would've looked really flat.
I'm Really glad for that part.
I had a lot of fun doing the details on the wings.
I usually paint my moths.
I'm usually using acrylic paint or watercolor or gouache. So I'm kind of adjusting to using marker for them.
For the last piece that I did on my channel, I actually drew a person with a moth on her face
and I used Copic markers for that, too.
I found it pretty challenging to do the moth.
I just wasn't used to it, but it gave me a lot of freedom to do different details, I guess.
Things are just a little more crisp and I could do little hairs and stuff a lot easier
So it was really fun toying around with that.
Just blending all sorts of colors together.
I guess maybe it was less time-consuming than if I were to paint it too. That was a plus. We love that.
So the whole time I was doing all these details I was thinking to myself,
Oh, I have this wildcard marker, which is the gold marker that I had in my last video as well.
The gold leaf marker.
I can leave a link to that video below because I had a lot of fun making it.
I was just kind of wondering how am I going to incorporate this in this piece?
I think what I do with the gold is going to strongly influence the background.
That was my logic while I was actually drawing this.
Yeah, I started watching different blues and really brainstorming, we have gold we have blue.
We need to really make this background pop. I mean really pop.
So I started coloring and I just started laying down some really dark blues.
It just ended up looking like a solid mass of color for a little bit.
But girl, let me tell you, Mira Byler has a twist going on and I'm really excited for this part.
I think the background ended up being by far my favorite part of the picture
and I kind of expected the moth to be but no. No, no, no!
It ended up being the background. So I started doing this gradient thing and it's a super super subtle gradient,
because let me tell you this part.
I wanted it to be really dark back there for the contrast.
but I also wanted it to look like this butterfly was flying at night
and all you can see is outerspace / the starry sky behind it.
This butterfly is high up in the sky. I mean this butterfly did not want to hang around.
It's an adventurer. It wanted to go exploring.
So we are conveying that in this picture.
but also
keeping it kind of surreal and abstract and yes, this is something I would probably hang in my studio.
It just feels very bohemian and fun, interesting.
Right now, it's just kind of looking like a blotchy mess.
Nothing is really happening but
We are busting out this gold marker and we are gonna do some accents
and we are gonna have some major fun with this.
Okay.
Another question for you guys.
Have you ever used a marker that is really gold before?
I'm not talking about a gold sharpie cuz it just doesn't give off the same effect.
One that's like really similar to using gold leaf. If not, I highly, highly recommend it.
I find it to be really addicting now.
It's my new favorite art supply. It's really cool.
it's just so metallic. I can't get over it.
I have this Winsor & Newton gold ink and I would say it's very similar to that in terms of how metallic it is.
I don't know how to describe it. I have this gold gouache paint and it is way more metallic than that.
So yeah, I will show you guys what I'm talking about in a minute. I'll hold my piece up so you can see but
Yeah, it's it's just such an amazing marker that I just have to talk about it for a second.
You're probably going to see me using it a lot in a couple videos here and there.
It is such a cool thing.
I put a moon up above the butterfly to show that it's up high.
It's flying and then I decided to incorporate a little bit of botanical elements.
We have these silhouettes of some ferns and
It's kind of like, maybe you are an ant or something and you're looking up at the sky
and seeing this giant moth flying over you, okay.
Some plants are just peeking out all around you.
Yeah... [Mouth click]
Thought that was great.
So right now I'm going in with some colored pencils
because the crazy voice in the sky did not tell me I couldn't incorporate other supplies.
So I wanted to make these stars glow and I know I'm using yellow, but hey,
I only used the orange and blue Copics.
Whatevs and I made the stars glow.
Now I'm going in and just adding more stars with white
Yeah, it really came to life at this point.
At first, I wasn't sure how I felt about it because the background took a while to blend
and you can kind of still see some marker textures here and there but after adding the stars,
It almost seemed natural that the sky would do that and I felt a lot better about it
I did all sorts of sizes of stars and
just kept on going through and adding more in more detail.
By the end, I was really happy with how the sky felt like it was glowing.
It's really fun. So then since my color palette was limited,
I did add some orange details with the color pencil.
So yeah, I will link everything I used down below since you guys always ask.
We're just finishing up some details on this piece. I hope you guys liked this.
I had so much fun doing this challenge. It was by far one of my favorite challenges I have done this year.
Here's all the stars. Guys, look at this piece glow. That gold brought it to life!
Look at that ha, I just love it. Okay, this is the challenge.
Thank you so much for watching and I hope you enjoyed this moth drawing.
Have a good day guys. Bye!