So instead of drawing on a piece of paper today I thought it'd be fun to
draw on a piece of wood.
and to do that I'm going to be using these markers
these are used by a lot of tag artists so I thought it'd be fun to try and draw
in a graffiti style
I'm not sure if you can mix them with like POSCA pens but I
have these nearby so yeah let's see what happens
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I think the first step [skootches art supplies] is to decide what I want
I know graffiti artists are kind of about being spontaneous for the most
part but I'm a little too nervous so I just want to something out first
I was actually looking into different styles of graffiti - there's one graffiti
style called the hollow style which is big round hollow letters where you just
outline them and it reminded me of bubbles which remind me of Blub fish so
I thought it'd be fun to Center like some graffiti around a blubfish..? and I
have to fit it inside the square canvas that I have
let me just start by uhh
I don't know some of this - I've been looking a lot into graffiti, different
styles like you know the difference between a tag and a hollow, but obviously I'm very
new to this whole thing so I'm gonna end up putting my own spin, coming at it
from a bit more of an illustrative point of view
now right off the bat just
writing the letters I see like I can take this as a circle and maybe turn
that in to an actual blubfish
I don't know if I should take every circle or if
that might be a little overboard
yeah cuz there's two B's and I feel like
that ends up making it too even on each side which isn't very appealing to me
just start throwing in some colors oh you know what I did wrong
I think this style usually all the letters are more connected there aren't
these kind of spaces in between it just from what I've seen so far
so like this is what an H would look like more like that
Oh something I just noticed is I
kind of have a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters which might be a no-no
just kind of experimenting throwing some colors here and there
I'm just using the
Posca pens right now because I am drawing so small - Blub fishes makes me smile
maybe add some bubbles no I do want mine to be kind of
legible so I'll probably have to be a little easy on the random bubbles now
just looking at this from a distance one thing I definitely got right that I
wanted was legible words but I also want our little Blub fish here to be pretty
pronounced and right now he isn't showing through so I can either try
using a different color or when I draw it again draw a bigger Blub fish
obviously - its not quite standing out as much as I need it to
see my favorite thing is to
definitely draw in a sketchbook because if it turns out bad all you have to do
is turn the page and I feel like there's just so much less pressure to make it
look good and so I can throw a color on here and not be worried that's
definitely my favorite way of expressing myself
sometimes I'm not happy with
'finished pieces' so sketchbook is always where I come back to
I definitely want
to try another one where the blubfish is more obvious so if I make this lower
half of the B really big
try to think of bubbles when I'm writing the letters
would be like this maybe with this little fin sticking out
maybe make this
second B lowercase
Round out the letters a little more maybe use a bubble to create that L shape
but does this look like a letter B is the other question??? bubbles
fill in some of these spaces - I think I did a better job making them look rounder, do I
like this better? I definitely like a little Blub Fish
being a lot bigger okay
I'm actually pretty happy with this one I think we
improved from there but I want to try another color scheme these are the
colors I have a little in Krink - I'm kind of hoping when these dry I'll be able
a layer the POSCA on top - these are alcohol-based I believe
[Reading off of Marker:] "opaque permanent alcohol-based paint"
and then I could be wrong. they don't stay on them anywhere
but I believe POSCA is acrylic
I definitely want to use I really like the
look of this dark blue as an outline so I'm gonna do that again
something like this
I think it needs a bubble right here to kind of be like a
period -oh wait!! thought I had an exclamation point there
can we squeeze it in?
OF COURSE it's not too late these are opaque
drawing on top of
the KRINK-- oh that does work pretty well so as long as the wood texture is fine
with POSCA pens it should be fine - I'm gonna use just light blue and color just the lower
half of the letters I think this has much more water appearance than that one
did that one was a little dark
oh yeah I definitely like that better doesn't that
feel more like refreshing? compared to this one?
does this add to it or just
distract from it though that's always a good question to ask when you're adding
random bits and bobs
something like that now I have to wait for it to dry before
I can do mr. blub fish there but I'm just gonna practice one last thing if
I can find my pencil
draw a blub fish the way I usually draw him and see if I can
figure out what I don't quite like about that - see you usually can see his tail in some form
try another angle
definitely prefer the eyes looking in on each other
this guy's cute
leaving [the blub fish] white is not terrible because if I do leave him white
I'm actually gonna have to color in white because the surface we are gonna be
drawing on he's not white
I don't know I think I'm gonna try and get him yellow
again - maybe blending it out? well Yellow is not gonna be that standout-y
I don't think, on the wood
could also make him just red blend these together
see what happens he looks like I smudged ketchup and mustard on him
the Reds not bad especially if I go in and kind of
outline some things
try incorporating that color throughout I
don't know don't love the red
I think I like everything else so I'm gonna go
ahead and move to the wood and then we'll rethink the color of the blubfish
when we get there
I'm gonna move the sketch out of the way, move our panel
into position here
a true graffiti artist would probably draw straight with the
paint marker immediately (but that's not me)
I'm gonna start with a white POSCA
because a lot of the background needs to be filled in white for the letters and
obviously you can paint over top of it anyway so I think that'll be the
opportune way here so we know we want it all to fit inside this cube I know the B
it's kind of here with the big --oh see that's taking up too much space
need to move it over a little
then 'Fish' goes down here
explanation point!
I would like it
just a smidge lower oh but we're gonna have all that detail at the bottom
with the shading so that's probably fine
we can even add some more bubbles if we need
I kinda want to add some bubbles that overlap the letters to maybe one here
and Mr. Blub Fish can go right here
now we want that like one-point perspective
coming off everything
I'm going to use this white Krink marker I've not used
before I'm gonna go ahead and fill in all of the letters
I just noticed this L
got squashed somehow
I just want to make sure I like---this isn't working as well as I was
hoping
[shaking marker off camera]
okay this blue ones working a lot better maybe I'm just not using this right
go in and add another coat maybe
get a little better coverage
and I'll see you when that's done!
[time jump]
all right did a couple more coats of the white Krink now I'm gonna
go over everything with this blue one just kind of outline all of the shapes
be very soft and round with it
obviously never too late to fix mistakes with
these Pens
not quite as easy to work with as the POSCA pens for sure they're in a
very different ballpark
I'm kind of not waiting for things to dry only because I
feel like if you were actually doing graffiti somewhere do you have time to
wait for all your layers to dry that seems counter-productive
oh and something I saw someone do is you take your marker like this you squish it in
wait for something to drip like that (oh I got it on my desk)
[squeaky cleaning noises of the squeakiest variety]
sure there's a bit
of a science and an art to where you place these -alright a next step would be to add
that light blue layer (that's all over me)
to add the light blue underneath bit
I'm gonna start doing that
and I might blend it with the white I
don't know if that's something you're supposed to do with these markers I kind
of want to try it
just blend it so hopefully won't be quite as harsh
it does dry fast to a
certain extent but instead of dry really fast it kind of dries tacky
now before I can do
much more I think I have to wait for it to dry
add some extra layers of things
and then I definitely want to use that dark blue POSCA to outline everything Oh
what it actually didn't do is add the paint water splashes
[art ASMR]
Blue is definitely more
opaque than the white was
let me try that Squash/Drip technique
♪oooh watch that drip go! ♪
I don't know if you can see it
I can see how you can go overboard with this
yeah I think I'm gonna let
everything dry and then come back on top of that and start adding it some more
details let's do that
all right it's pretty dry I want to go do this blue
POSCA, outline everything
This [marker] goes on so much smoother
but it might also be
because of the paint dried and it just wasn't sticking to the wood -- I just want
to outline the whole letter
that already starting to look a lot cleaner
grab the white POSCA
clean up some of these edges
add some reflections to
some of these bubbles kind of ending up going back and doing everything again
with the POSCA
[scratchy art sounds]
[more scratchy art sounds]
[scratchy art sounds]
OoOO! I can smudge it with my finger!
a word I kept hearing when I was watching videos by different graffiti
artists who actually know what they're doing is they kept saying "you want it to
look spontaneous' so I'm kind of letting myself just do whatever I want at this
point I know I started with like a thumbnail and everything like I usually
do but now that I'm here on the actual board I'm kind of just trying to if I
think of an idea I just sort of throw it on there and see if it works because you
can actually kind of fix a lot of things later because these art supplies are so opaque
start adding some depth
and add that shadow thinking of it as a one-point
perspective so it's gonna come in like this
add some more bubbles
I want to
use this turquoise (this emerald green actually) and add a bit of a border on the right side
try using some black I'm actually going to redo that shadow I did
in blue, make it pop more
just because it was blending in too much with like the border of the words
that way I can actually use the black POSCA and outline our little Blub fish
which I think I want to go with the yellow
is this dry? oh yeah. okay.
yeah I prefer drawing on this with the POSCAs - just seem to go on easier I'm
able to add little reflection of yellow and some of the bubbles
try that
oh wait that all needs to be wait wait wait this all needs to be white the
eyeballs right? he looks real freaky right now
we can go in and add some lines around him though
it's a little tricky cuz this
tiny little point gets kind of caught in the wood texture and then shoots black
ink everywhere - once I outline this thinly I'm kind of hoping I can go over
with something thicker
yeah cuz that's just gotta make it a mess
now this is working better than the skinny POSCA thats for sure
He is not quite as cross-eyed as I'd like
maybe when that dries I can go over it with the yellow again and touch it up - especially these edges
maybe even add a blue shadow
I think I'm gonna go ahead and do
something spontaneous and outline the entire outside with this yellow
here we go
aaaand you can't really see it
might have to do another layer
its not quite as opaque as I think I need it to be
so maybe now that I've laid this down I can
go over with the yellow POSCA after it's dry
or just go over the whole thing with blue again trying to erase it
I should probably wait for it to dry so it's not green yeah
that looks very barfy okay
time to wait for it to dry again
this is why I don't do spontaneous things
I'm gonna go ahead and put my signature in here somewhere
boom baby [i did something 'write'...]
outline the bubbles again, but it will
swap there but it happens we're trying to decide if there's anything else I
still want to like attempt or if it's time to walk away
I could add some
shines to the eyeballs
[squawks:] awww that looks so much cuter!
[realized her voices was atrocious:] excuse me
why was there green on this?!!?
up some reason there's
for some reason there is yellow on the end of [this blue pen]
boopity boo! here and there
[smacks board with marker]
I think I don't know I'm too scared to touch anything else I think we've
reached a point of no return and I think these Krink markers are starting to get
to my head to my brain starting to leak out my ears
even with all my windows open and the fan going (I hope you couldn't hear that
the whole time that have been annoying)
here's my first attempt at trying to
make some kind of graffiti of some kind
it didn't quite turned out the way I
pictured I much prefer this one right here I think this is my favorite but
this is kind of cute for a first attempt I think my preferred marker of these two
would be the POSCA pens they're much more opaque when you first put them down
whereas the KRINK it seems like you need to do multiple layers before it blocks
out the wood pattern behind it - I still have a couple more wood panels this came
in a multipack so let me know what art supply you think I should use on
other wood-panel - there's so many ideas
anyway I do want to thank you guys for
watching I hope you enjoyed watching me experiment with a graffiti style
obviously I'm not part of the culture or the community that creates real graffiti
so I hope you can appreciate my small tiny attempt -- thank you guys for watching
I'll see you guys all next week and hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles!
BYE! ♪
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