do you have a lot of green arts supplies?
its a cootie catcher! [laughs]
an argument could be made
that I have too many
and today I'm gonna be using every single one of them to
make an illustration
here goes nothing
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at this point I've got a lot of experience using all of my art supplies in a single
color - I do my little swatching
I figure out what all the colors look like
then I start thumbnailing
but green may or may not be a creative color but I
for one had no idea what I was going to draw
so I started doodling green things
like grass
leaves
The Incredible Hulk
and Mike Wazowski..?
you know everything
you think of when you think of the color green
I dabbled with a few other ideas
finally resulting in this little thumbnail down here in this bottom left
corner all by itself
and I was ready to finally start the illustration but not
so fast I'm not going to be drawing it in portrait
I'm gonna be drawing in landscape
I will have all of the art supplies listed in the description below
including the paper but first we're starting it off with this green
Col-Erase colored pencil
it's a good place to start because it's erasable and if I
make any mistakes I can obviously remove them and try
again -- the sketching stage is not only my favorite part of any illustration but it
also could be argued is the most important because it's where you take a
blank page and you turn it into something you have to make a lot of
decisions and you're laying down all the groundwork for your final illustration I
started with the actual character - when I did the thumbnail it included
like a background and I started sketching it I some reason just like put
on my blinders and started drawing the character I think it's because there's
all that foreshortening and I wasn't entirely sure how I was going to go
about that but the character turned out pretty good so then I finally started
adding in some of the leaves and the greens and the shrubbery all around the
characters so that they look engulfed
the next Art Supplies I used was this
Americana acrylic paint in the color citron green
I use this color a lot and
I don't even just mean to fill in the entire background
which I did
but I end
up coming back to this color a lot because it is one of the brightest
lightest greens and it's opaque so it comes in really handy later on
next I use this SAP green golden open acrylic paint so it's slow drying and I actually
mix this a little bit with the Americana paint at
times but this color it was really really cool because it's just so much
darker than the last paint that I was using so I can put in these super
contrasting dark shadows
I love it
now that I have my base layer of those two
acrylic paints I waited overnight for it to dry because I use that slow drying
open acrylic paint
and you'll know it's dry when you can do your handy-dandy
technique of using your actual hand and just batting the canvas
"it's still tacky?..wuut da heck?"
for the sake of productivity I decided to ignore the wet bits and move in with this Copic Sketch
marker in the color G0000 which I lovingly like to call:
gooo
now this unlike the acrylic paint that I mentioned earlier is my actual lightest
toned green art supply that I own but it's not opaque so I have to be very
careful about how I use it
I decided to use it it's kind of like a skin base
tone I kind of just used it to figure out where shadows might be
you end up
not being able to see this by the end but I do think it was helpful for just
laying out the groundwork
next I used another Copic Sketch markers this one is
g00 can you guess what I call this one?
Fred
this one I took extra care to add shadows to the skin so you can see I
like put like a pretty large one underneath the knee I'm still kind of
visualizing where the light source is because I kind of messed up and didn't
decide on that before so it's something I kind of struggle with for the whole
drawing but by the end I think I figure it out
after Fred I used this green
Posca pen which is an opaque acrylic marker and I used this to add a couple
extra shrubs to the left of the drawing I wanted to have something that came up
and overlapped over the character so she looked like she was behind it
I kind of created some
tangents when I did it so I'll keep working on that
then I just made sure
that I evenly distributed the color around the drawing so it didn't look out
of place then I use these 3 Ohuhu art markers they're actually three different
tones there's like a mid-tone a light tone and a dark tone so it was like
perfect for adding in the shadows and starting to color in the
character so I use the darkest one to color in the underside of the Hat I used
the mid-tone one a little bit more for shading and adding like a separate tone
in there and some shadows including some shadows that leaves above her were
casting onto her body then I actually switched back to that darker marker and
I used the bullet nib and started adding in the line art to the drawing - I don't
have a very dark fine point green pen so this worked pretty well in a pinch
this next art supply I've had since I was 14 this is the green papermate highlighter
this colors bright it highlights things
at first I colored in those two big
leaves in the top left of the drawing but this color I'm no sure it fits into the
color scheme so I didn't do much else with this and I like vowed to cover it
over with something else
the 'something else' was not this green ultrafine sharpie but
it is the art supply I used next
this is much finer than the Ohuhu art marker that
I'd use for line art previously so in some of the sections that I had saved
for something thinner I used this sharpie and I was actually
able to fix a lot of the mistakes I made with the large clumsy bullet nib this
next Ohuhu art marker is pretty cool because it has a brush nib and I used
this to add some tone to the shorts I like this color cuz I had a bit of a
different hue than some of the other greens that I already had in the drawing
then I used another Ohuhu brush marker this one's a little bit darker and I
used this to add darker leaves around the drawing and also adding texture to a
lot of the leaves
oh I also use this to color in her shirt I decided it needed a
little bit more contrast between like the skin and the shorts as well as their
hair so I thought this darker color would work really really well for that
next I'm going to use this Qor water color in the color green gold and I
tried to use this to tone down that highlighter green leaves first I just
layered it over top and then I also layered it over top of her shirt to kind
of spread that color throughout the illustration
next up is this Amsterdam
acrylic marker it's kind of like a Posca pen but you know a different brand so
it's opaque its hue is actually a little bit more
on the blue side compared to some of the other markers so I just used it around
the shirt for like just a little fun hue shift
oh this is one of those moments when I detour and go back to that Americana
acrylic paint and it just went over the two big leaves there because again I
just didn't like them
while that was drying I moved on to this
fine point dark green sharpie and I used this to add some more texture and detail
to some of the leaves adding like those little like line things that leaves have
the veins the veins of the leaf that's it
oh and then here I thought I had made
a big mistake but it actually I think really improved the drawing I went back
and used that green gold watercolor and I went over a lot of the skin this is
just adds some tone there and a little bit of warmth instead of that white
paper shining through and I think it just makes the character look a lot more
alive but then when I moved on to the legs I was a little bit more sparse with
it and I feel like this helps make the face look more like it's in shadow and
underneath those leaves and then the legs are getting a little bit more
sunlight so I'm very happy with this decision -- finally moving on to some more
art supplies I'm using these two Ohuhu brush markers and I used them to continue to
add detail to the leaves like little spots that the bugs had eaten through
and more veins and things like that and
I used these two matching sharpies and
ultrafine and a fine point and I used this just a slight more shading to the
character just like in little small sections that I thought needed a little
extra oomph
and then if it needed to be extra small or ultrafine as Sharpie
likes to call it I use the little one
then I moved on to
these two watercolor pencils both by Derwent - I used the inktense one in the color
field green to add a little bit of texture to that front leaf there as well
as just some more shading and freckles in some of the places where I put
shading I also grabbed a paintbrush with some water and I just kind of like
spread them out and this is a very saturated green so it added like a fun
effect then for the other one which is a Gaphitint in the color 'ivy' I used
this for just little grass textures in the grass I really
like the away these look it's like cute and cartoony and I think the color
suited that Acrylic paint really well
we're getting near the end here but I'm
gonna try to speed it up so I'm gonna use these three Copic Sketch markers we
have G05, G29, and G99
I'm using the darkest one since it is transparent and
dark I used it to add some shading behind the leaves and behind the leg and
kind of just even out the tone of some of the paint that I had used to shade just like
evening out that tone so there isn't so much texture there
g05 I use to add some
more shading to the skin it's a lot darker than some of the other things I'd
used to shade the skin so it worked really well for those deeper shadows and
adding more contrast then g95 is very desaturated so it works really well just
like pulling some of the color out of some of those shadows so I kind of just
overlapped shadows that I had already colored in
alright another detour going
back to that acrylic paint and adding more [leaves] over the character to kind
of try to look try to make your look deeper in the vegetation after that I
use this green bombay DrPH Martin India ink and I used this with a paintbrush
and focused it towards the top half of the characters body adding more and more
shadows just trying to make them look like they're deep under these leaves and
pushing the atmosphere of the illustration and by focusing all of
these shadows towards the top half of the body it just pushes it backwards and
deeper into again the vegetation and I very quickly fell in love with the
contrast between this color and that really neon acrylic paint
just look how
they look together they're so saturated and beautiful
alright we're heading into the final stretch here these are three Ohuhu
fine liner brush pens I used these kind of the same way I've been using
everything -- when we get near the end things get a little repetitive because
I'm just trying to consume art supplies
but I basically just use them to add
more shadows and try to push the contrast
next up I'm using this UniPosca
emerald green paint pen and first I just started in like the top corner
I'm like I'll just draw a couple of leaves but then
I fell in love with this color because it is the bluest green I've used yet and
I realized I could use this to fix a mistake that have been bugging me from
the beginning and that is that her hat is really really dark and it kind of
blends in with that really dark shadow so if I paint over the Hat with this
blue green creates contrast with the hue and makes it show up without it being
too bright
I'm really happy with that like it's still green it looks blue
compared to all these other greens but obviously the marker is very green if it
was used on its own
next I'm using this Ohuhu acrylic paint pen this is just
like a Posca pen but it's Ohuhu I don't think they even sell them anymore I'm
kind of bummed I like them I used this to deepen up the vegetation in the
bottom left because you can use this to paint over some of the really dark
shadows because it is opaque and then finally the last art supply we have the
Americana acrylic paint in the color blue grass green and what I use this for
is to add some hue shifts and also to kind of fix her shirt because I've had
that shadow over her shirt but what I don't like about it is just the way it's
hitting her because if a shadow was hitting you you know it goes around your
curves whereas this one it's just like it's still the same shape as if it
wasn't hitting her so I used this to block that out and kind of remove the
shadow but I mixed it with water so it was a little bit opaque so you can still
kinda see the shadow it like shows through just a little bit so there's
still a shadow there but it's not as annoying
then I just went back and
used some of the other art supplies just finished up little bits and bobs made
sure it looked the way I wanted and then this is what it looked like
ah!!
okay I'm really happy with this I love the shadows it makes me want to like try
this again but obviously plan out the shadows before I just start painting
them in but it was also kind of fun and spontaneous so I enjoyed myself
thanks for watching the video and observing me using every single great art supply that
I own
if you do something similar feel free to tag me I'd love to see what you
come up with
yeah thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week
and I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles
BYE!
pick a color!
green?
G-R-E-E-N
[giggle]
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