Today we're gonna be opening up the July Paletteful Packs box!
oh I didn't...- one second.
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we're gonna find out what's inside and then we're gonna make some art with it!
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so the first thing I see is this koi travel watercolor brush
[riiip!]
you can see it right there
then it has a cap to hold the water in it if you need to
separate it while you're traveling and boom you got your watercolor brush - next
thing I see are these aqua pen graphics
Oh dual tip so it looks like one side is
a bullet and one side is a brush now
I don't believe this brand puts color
names on their brushes, not even on the box
so I guess I'm gonna have to
name them so we've got ashphalt black
the missing skittle blue
light denim wash blue
what people usually call Robin's Egg Blue but robin's eggs are more blue than this
one of my favorite colors
and a 'let's hope this shows up on paper' grey
all right we're gonna have to dig a little further to see if there's anything else
is this another pack of these?
did I even check to see that these were a brush? oh
yeah for sure brush on one end and bullet on the other and these are
water-based so you can mix them with water and get kind of like watercolor
washes with them so here we have a bunch of more colors 12 to be exact
come on out!!
why does my voice sound funny?
hmm
oh we got another ashphalt black then we have
'what's that on my shoe' Brown
'what's that on my shoe' Green
ABC wintergreen gum
one of those markers that looks yellow but it probably paints green
purple yeah
baloney pink
'I could get lost in your eyes' blue
actual robin's egg blue
'just skimmed my knee' red
cheeto fingers orange
and pretty pastel yellow
so now we have quite a few here we've got like 18 markers only 2 are duplicates, 2 of
those ashphalt blacks
here's the menu with the list of the art supplies which
comes in every box and is this a square?
I don't know if you can read it it's
very shiny it's the Bee Paper Company super deluxe
mixed media paper Professional Series six inch by six inch and 93 pounds
[wipple wipple]
yeah a little flimsier than we've been getting lately so we'll have to see how
well it works with these water-based art supplies because these can definitely
tear up a piece of paper (and not like a dance floor)
oh wait okay oh cool the
Sakura micro perm ultra fine 03 permanent on most surfaces pen
let's start with that guy so I'm gonna swatch all these art supplies in front here so
we have two sets of graphics aqua pens the first one is the mega mesh set
which I believe were these
hey 'I hope this shows up' grey actually does!
oh I just
put those in the wrong spot!! this is actually.... (way to go)
so these are
actually the metropolitan sets see how I wrote twelve and there's only six colors here
yeah I'll just put a line and then here we will
have the mega mesh twelve
im really excited see what this pink looks like:
Oh cute!
the brush tips definitely don't rip up the paper as much as the bullet nib
because when it comes to water-based markers you don't want to go over the
same spot more than once or it starts to rip up as you can see i swatched
with the bullet nib over there and the papers a little funky but I've been
using the brush nib over here and the tone of color is much more even so there
are our two marker sets
let's try adding some water here and seeing if it
adjusts even after they've dried okay yeah so these markers pick up no matter
how long you've waited for them to dry
and then if we actually just take water
and leave a little spot and grab a marker it should fill in
like Boop
ain't that fun?
you kind of like spread it out just like you do watercolors you
can see the more water you mix in and the further you stretch it the
lighter and more pastel it will get and you can do that with all of the colors
obviously with the really light ones I'm not gonna have as much of a range Oh
what we didn't test was water on top of the pen
looks like it's sticking pretty good that's good to see so the next thing we
need to do is to come up with an idea of what to draw and I know Paletteful
includes I think a prompt for every week of the month - so we have metropolitan
office, future, and shy - so we can try to sketch some things that make us think of
those words I'm gonna grab a pencil if I have one
just sketch some things so if
we're gonna do shy which is the week 4 one - we're gonna draw a character I would
think or an animal or something like that who doesn't have a lot of
self-confidence obviously
so when I think of shy I think
of not looking someone straight in the eye, trying to hide maybe their face, very
scrunched up body features because they're just they don't have the
confidence cuz usually when you draw someone with the confidence they're very
open their stature is very confident obviously
when you're confident you're
not afraid of things happening to you which means you kind of like expose all your
vital organs but when you're shy you're worried and everything is very scrunched
up your arms are like covering your body to keep you safe and protect you
more like this
maybe the hair... I think of Violet from Incredibles you know
the first half of the movie she's very shy, she's very closed off, her hair is
always in front of her face and she has zero confidence
you can see just how
changing the expression not only of the face but of the body can help further an
emotion see how the shoulders are higher here and the shoulders are lower there
it's obviously a very exaggerated difference but I think that helps when
you're starting out to kind of just pinpoint differences and then you can be
a little bit more subtle the more comfortable you are with it
and then for like fashion I'm going to really exaggerate it and give her a
clothing that is big and comfortable and makes her feel safe
I think would be fun
for an illustrative point of view would be to include both the confident and the
shy character and maybe they're the same person
but it depends where they are that makes them feel their own way so it depends on
the environment they're spending their time in
like maybe they'll be back-to-back so this is the confident one this is the
shy one so I'm gonna like hunch it over a little just using like rectangles to
be their bodies for now - I don't want to make it look like the confident ones
like actually taller we have to make sure that the body is scrunched so that
they could be the same body if we want them to be the same person and I'm
thinking we should probably give this character like a unique outfit or
hairstyle so that we don't think they're two different people
shoulders forward
and the shy one can be turning away from the camera
"camera"
maybe even this one's hair is sort of blowing in the wind with perfect confidence
this one's just like sort of greasy and
flat it's kind of a little something we've got I think I need to try it again
though I think I'm getting a better grasp of what I want let's start smaller
make sure we have a silhouette that I like we have square paper so I should
probably make our thumbnail square I want our confident character on this
side I remember reading an article that said:"before a job interview or
if you're nervous about something just do the Wonder Woman pose" like this and
you'll just feel better about yourself so if you're feeling a little lousy just
put your hands on your hips with your feet shoulder-width apart and just stand
there and absorb your confidence you know?
kind of just nervously looking over
their shoulder mmm still missing something and that looks like Buzz
Lightyear they're like this one better where the faces heads were looking
completely different directions
let me try that again
maybe if we draw it as one shape would that be weird?
maybe slouch this character
even more a little
we've got the shy one just peeking over the side with their shoulder
over their chin like that put their hands in their pockets that makes
it seem kind of closed off
this I feel like is loosing that "they're the same
person" vibe, because of the way they're standing over top of each other but I
mean that doesn't have to be a bad thing I'm gonna be able to emphasize that they're
not the same person or I could make one younger and one older so it's like this
is their future self kind of thing but I do want to try and use a little color
here and see if that can help push the vibe we're going for so if I use like
blues and like kind of sad cool colors on the left side and then brighter
warmer colors on the right side that might even help push the emotion I'm looking for
we can also at the same time test how these work in this sketchbook
and we're using a lot more water looks like Portal
blend them out
see how that
looks there's no wrong way to fill a sketchbook
let's make it rain on her
so sad
you can see how the paper is
buckling and creating divots which the water then like pools into
that's usually the sign of the papers not quite thick enough for what you're
doing I think what I'm gonna do for the next iteration here is maybe cut into
this so we can focus more on the faces I'll leave that to dry
we can start working
on this side and I can keep flipping back and see what I liked about
these different drawings and try to apply them here so I think I just want
to make the characters a lot bigger this one's gonna be looking down there's this
one's shoulder there's kind of scrunch this one's looking more upwards - I do
want to like turn the heads the opposite direction
something about this just doesn't feel like my art I don't know if it's my
shyness about the subject and I'm not confident in the way it's turning out
but something's not quite right so let's see if I can move closer to the direction
I'm looking for - let's try this again
see drawing two characters is always a
little bit difficult because you have to make the heads the same size especially
if they're supposed to be right next to each other
getting correct proportions
becomes really important and that's something I'm missing here
here we go
something's connecting a little bit better here
and we'll draw confidence over here
something like this
I still need to do some outfits of some kind this one I want it
to be in like baggy comfy clothes and maybe this character can be a little bit more
confident showing off some skin
turtleneck over here
the shy character
can wear a turtleneck
sweatpants maybe
it's big bulky clothes now I'm gonna make
these look like the same character not sure it's possible hmm
the outfits are
so different the statures are so different I mean I could do like what I
wanted to do which was give them some pretty unique hair I've definitely been
both these people like even on the same day depending on the hour
what if I give them like a birthmark and some freckles - some kind of mole there
and then freckles so there'd be a mole here and then freckles
oOoooOoo
maybe another one
up here bye the nose
there you go now they look like the same person
right so
now I can give them a different hairstyle maybe so like this one oh
maybe they do have the same hairstyle and buns but this one's they're like
drooping and falling out so like our confident character has their hair
pulled behind their ears they're showing their face which shows their emotion
I think would be a very confident thing to do and then our shy one her hair
probably falling anywhere even in front of the face like that
might lose a
little bit of detail and because she's scrunching her shoulders the hairs
hitting the shoulders which makes it looks longer and a little bit heavier
which I think will weigh down the character a little bit but I do want to
try and show that mole so maybe some of the hair is gonna get caught up here
like that there we go - i just want to make sure that they look like the same character
so I'm just gonna do the lineart and then we'll go in with the
colors because we know the line art will be permanent under the water so we can
do that first so yeah let's do that!
[snaps fingers]
there we go!!
I just need to erase the
pencil we don't need any more I had a issue with the part of hair because I
realized that I did the center part in this one didn't and I tried to move
it so there's a little bit of an iffy there but no we have a mess because I
can't find my kneaded eraser I just need to add a few freckles so I definitely
want them to have like the same skin and hair color just not sure if their clothes should
be the same color so that they look like the same person or not
let's look at back
what the colors looked like I could also do this character gray and blacks - so
no color, and then this character having saturation that might work we
have the black and we have that one gray color but we can mix the black with
water and get more gray tones I'm going to use black
I might even mix them on this card
try and get as even of a tone as we can with this
and then we can maybe even use almost straight asphalt black for the bottom sweatpants
it's a little darker in the shadow there but you live and you learn
alright so then for this character I'm
gonna stick to the lighter tone on top darker tone for the pants idea but I'll
add color maybe is this a good like hair color?
for some hair oops wrong cap try
pink for the top I really like this color I think it's very pretty
blend out some of these edges then how about purple for the bottom being very
light so we don't rip up the paper
once these are all dry- oops I'm dripping it
everywhere - you might be able to add the slightest hint of color to our less
confident character over there it looks real patchy what happened here?!
uh-huh..:(
I need a couple layers
very interesting
not crazy about the way that looks
purple you disappointed me! [throws marker]
you betrayed me! [throws again]
and just made me very unhappy! [throws one last time for good measure.]
I waffled back and forth about what to do here but I think this
is probably the best choice if I want them to look like the same character
use this ashphalt black and outline some things make them pop a little more I
definitely prefer alcohol-based markers water-based ones are a little trickier
to work with you kind of get that Crayola texture like you used Crayola
markers I'm sure there's a way to use them so
that they look like this I've yet to find that I really like the black it's
nice and pigmented and you don't even have to worry about it layering on top
of each other and creating a different tone because it's already so dark I
don't really quite have anything that I'd love to use as a skin tone so this
might be the end of this so we have our confident and our shy character I'm
gonna have to see how other people use these markers because it's kind of like
my third attempt using water-based markers
it always just looks so grainy and unprofessional I guess
I don't know I
think I like using them as like one color as an accent color in my
sketchbook but when I try to like mix the colors together and like use them as
I would any other medium that's when I starts looking a little weird and like
the colors are all so vibrant I do want to thank PalettefulPacks sending me this
box to try out and to share with you guys if you're interested in getting
your own paletteful packs I will have a link in the description where you can
learn more information about that if that's not in your budget I will be
giving away this box so check the link in the description for a giveaway
I'll pack up these art supplies and send them your way,yeah thank
you guys for watching! I hope you enjoyed! and I hope you all have a delicious
evening full of waffles!
bye!
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