oh hey welcome to my bed now in the year
2020 when most of us think about hack
videos I'm sure most of us think of
those strange compliation hack videos
that don't really have much substance
take a bra put it on and carefully put
it on your butt you know and that's not
going to be this video those videos are
ruining the good hack name I feel and
today I'm not having it anymore i su
parade dizzle I'm going to give you guys
the best art hacks that I can currently
think of and you know it's been a long
time since I've done an art hack video
like a really long time hey guys it's
ray welcome back to my channel hopefully
some of these tips and tricks that I'm
gonna show you guys will make your art
process a little bit easier and you know
I'm bringing it back it's time it's time
for a good art hack video so and of
course before we get into it if you
would like to see all of my artwork
since like 2012 you guys can check out
my art Instagram if you want more art
tutorials and art tips guys go check out
my art tic-tock there is a lot of fun
stuff going on over there and yeah with
that being said let's begin alright so
for this very first art tip / hack this
one truly blew my mind so this art tip
is from Bree iy here on YouTube who
actually suggested me this tip on
Twitter she's currently living in the
year thousand eight well worth two
thousand late so do you guys remember a
while back like the watercolor booklets
that had all the watercolor do you
remember those were all the rage for a
while they're basically just like
portable water color palettes that you
wet and they were really popular
everybody loved them and Brie iy made
her own all right so the first thing
you're gonna need is some watercolor
paper or mixed media paper the first
thing you're gonna do is cut it up into
a little tiny book and if you want to be
extra like myself tape it all together
and tape the back of the sheets that way
the water doesn't go through everywhere
now here's where it gets interesting
get your watercolor pencils you're gonna
press them as hard as you can and make
little swatches in your booklet make it
really really thick
you're gonna wet it as soon like this
and then boom check this out check this
out you got your own watercolor booklet
like how amazing is that so basically
you don't have to spend money anymore on
any kind of watercolor booklet because
you can just get your own you can make
your own for literally free
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all right so now for this next art hack
it's definitely for my digital artists
out there now this tip was suggested to
me on Twitter and I just felt like it
would be so great for so many people and
this tip is instead of getting one of
those fancy drawing gloves you guys know
the ones that have like the two little
slips on them now normally you don't
want to have just like your bare hand
dragging onto the canvas because then
it's gonna mess it up as so so a very
simple but yet effective solution is a
winter glove like this there you go it's
not doing that annoying thing that it
was doing a second ago and seconds after
I said that I heard a weird noise and I
legitimately thought a serial killer was
in my house and it's such a simple hack
you get another use out of your gloves
and I think it's so easy and so helpful
for a lot of people out there
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blending markers this is a colorless
alcohol blender which is generally used
for blending out alcohol-based markers
but in case you didn't know you could
also use these for colored pencils
alright so we're gonna get our poet
pencils I'm just using the Crayola ones
these are the olden trusty old reliable
pencils I'm just going to blend out two
colors as you can see naturally it just
blends really well on its own but it's
still not as opaque and blend it as we
want so this is where my baby the
alcohol marker comes in check this out
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and boom just like that you have a much
more opaque a much more softer blend and
it gives you so much more control than
you have and you have the ability little
it sorry I can't talk you have the
ability to control what you do at blend
and what you don't blend alright so now
for this next hack again I just want to
say the people on Twitter there are on
some next-level stuff because I would
have never done a billion years thought
to do this and this next hack is from
Samantha and basically it's how to turn
a marker into a pencil extender so
basically if you're like me and you like
to keep your pencils until they're super
tiny like this this hack is definitely
for us alright so basically you're gonna
get some pliers as sole and you're just
gonna twist off they pop it out get rid
of it then you have something like this
and I'm gonna make the end a little bit
thicker with some painters tape that way
it'll secure a little bit better and
then you're just gonna slide it and
that's what she said and boom there you
go and boom just like that you got your
own DIY pencil extender
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okay so now on to the next one this one
might be like the oldest trick in the
book
but I don't know if it's that well-known
I actually learned this back in college
because like the art building had a
bunch of big windows and we only have
one light box and this hack is how to
get a window and turn that into a light
box so we're gonna go in with surprise
none other than more painters tape the
reason I use painters tape is because it
doesn't stick to the paper it just works
so perfect but anyway I'm gonna overlay
the paper onto the drawing that I want
to trace as so in this case I am working
with an old prints drawing that I had
drawn I love Prince he's amazing so
anyway then you're just gonna simply
tape it up to the window as so my
boyfriend Zack is working on it and then
there you go you got your own DIY light
box alright so next up you might have
seen in my last video where I created
the Mona Lisa with crayons last time on
Dragon Ball Z you may have seen this
little brush that I was like briefly
using throughout the whole entire time
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and I got a lot of people upset like
great you're not using just Crayolas
you're using a brush to blend it does it
count but actually this little brush
first of all is a makeup brush and the
reason I use makeup brushes now is
because my hand can sometimes Sameer
little pigments around the paper
sometimes it ruins it but with the
makeup brush like this it's lightly dust
away particles and I don't have to worry
about smudging or anything like that I
don't suggest using a paint brush
because it might press the pigment end
but makeup brushes is where it's at
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alright so now this is my old super
super old sketchbook from I think I was
like 17 16 around there I did a whole
video on it if you want to go check that
out
one thing I've noticed is that when I go
through the old old pages you'll see a
lot of the drawings have smeared and it
just doesn't look cute it smears some of
the drawings so here is a really good
hack from my friend hollow Alice here on
YouTube she's actually the one who like
blew my mind on this alright so I have
two identical sketches right here and
for this I'm actually gonna use my
little watercolor booklet that I just
made I'm gonna get a thin layer of
watercolor up in this business and I'm
just gonna lightly go over this with
watercolor nothing too crazy just like a
nice swatch of watercolor it doesn't
have to be a dark color you can go in
with like the light color a light yellow
literally as light as you want I just
happen to go with this red color right
here so we're gonna let it dry for a
little bit and then check this out check
this out so we have the NAM watercolor
one
we can easily smudge it and now we're
gonna go over to the watercolor side
where check this out nada absolutely
nada nada ain't nothing look at that
look at the two nada
Oh such a good hack Alice you are such a
babe I love you so much everybody go
check out her channel it's been doing
really well lately I love her know if
you're like me or you just like to layer
a lot when it comes to like watercolor
and alcohol markers it can be very very
frustrating when the medium bleeds
through the paper and then you ruin a
perfectly good piece of paper so
annoying so an alternative to that is
getting some cheap acrylic or fixative
or gesso or house paint even like clear
nail polish I'm sure would work like
pretty much anything that dries down you
put a very thin layer on the back of the
paper and then you work like normal
layer as much as you can and then BOOM
bleeding whoo bleeding where we don't
know her and this brings me to the final
and last art hack and that is practice
and believing yourself if you work hard
enough believe in yourself and just
practice constantly you can accomplish
anything that you want to do I believe
in you and yeah with that being said
guys thank you so much again for
watching and I will see you next video
right
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