hi guys my name's Shayda Campbell and this is an eleventh apartment video
today I'm in beautiful Iceland in the capital city of Reykjavik and we're
actually going to be living here for two months and I'm dedicating the entire
time to just working on the 11th apartment so there's going to be lots of
new content new videos new blog posts so please follow along for all that new
stuff and if you haven't please follow me on social media and you can find me
on Instagram at the 11th apartment I've been posting on there a lot more because
I don't have a pesky waitressing job to go to every day so that's kind of nice
yeah so let's dig right in today I'm going to cover kind of a big topic I'm
going to talk about illustration and while I can't really deal with the
entirety of illustration in a short YouTube video what I want to get across
is that you can really enhance your hand lettering projects by sort of honing in
on your own illustrative style and adding that to your artwork and
if there's one thing I can convey to date it's that even if you think you
can't draw you can probably illustrate and you might have a really creative
voice that is something new and exciting so let's just get started I want to
start today with an example and I'm going to use this flower as my example
so on the Left I have a really simple icon just the basic lines to let you
know that it is in fact a flower and then over here I have an artist sketch
well if you can call it that I did it really quickly but
so in between sort of the basic-ness of the icon and the realism and detail of the artist sketch there is this huge space and in that chasm that is sort of where
illustration lies and so here is what I've come up with to represent flowers
this is just kind of this isn't really my illustrative style but I just wanted
to show you, you can get really crazy and out there when you're illustrating
the more interesting the better and this is another example I wanted to show you
I had sort of a laugh someone had said on one of the videos "you're really
good at drawing mushrooms" and I just thought that was kind of funny because
actually if you draw almost any shape and put a stem on it let's see like even
a square it's going to look like a mushroom so I just sort of had a
bit of a laugh when I saw that on there and you know and then if you do a few
factors that give it context like in this case we'll put some grass and maybe
some spots just to help your viewer identify what in fact it is but you
don't have to get it exactly right for it to be interesting and artful so
here's another quick example this is like again the icon of a house
even though it's very simple you know what it is; it is a house and then this
is one that I did an illustration of houses and I just had so much fun and
this was taken from mostly my imagination but also from some pictures
and really that's the fun of illustration you can blend together all
kinds of different things; things that you've seen, things in your memory, and
things right outside your front door so just have a lot of fun creating that I
guess the trick of doing a video about illustrations is that I can't tell you
'oh well this is how you should illustrate' because it's all about coming
up with your own style but I want to give you some tips and tricks today for
developing that style this is sort of a grid that I put together
of course it's junk food and these are really fun to do and they're a great way
to develop your own style pick a topic and then just draw these
little sort of mini mini illustrations of you know whatever falls under that
topic food is a really fun one to do and I think you'll see as you work on these
you'll sort of see your illustrative style start to come out and remember
it's not about getting it exactly right it's about you know finding your own
style and presenting this item whether it's a hamburger or a cupcake in a new
and interesting and personal way this is another one that I created and these are
my Instagram must-haves you know all the stuff that a good IG feed would have
so I've got a pineapple and a cappuccino and you would have like a
cool mason jar drink and whatever kind of leaf that is I don't really know but
feel free to comment and fill me in on my plant life in the in the comments
below but anyway so I did this one and I
wasn't really happy with it I colored it in my contour drawing using watercolor
pencil crayons and I just sort of set to work coloring and I didn't think about
my color palette but then I went back and I did it again and I used markers
and I just was a little more conscious of how I was filling in those colors and
I think that's another important trick is when you are illustrating you kind of
want to develop a color palette and it doesn't need to extend to all your
projects but each project you know you can do total realism but it can be fun
to sort of boost your illustrative style if you can decide on a color palette all
right so when I was doing the prep work for this video I just came up with a
theme and I started doing some sketches and seeing what I came up with and my
theme was the most trendy of breakfast's
I did avocado on toast
and yeah I just started playing around with that how can I illustrate this
breakfast and and this was one that I really liked it's just all about the
font and then we've got these really simple basically icons down here below
that did it out and then secondly I did my little I've done these before in
videos sort of a little picture that incorporates a font and an illustration
and kind of brings it all together with a border and the reason I'm showing you
this is because although I can't say okay 'this is how you illustrate' this is
what I'm going to show you today so kind of a fun font and then I'm going to show
you how we create these little picture illustrations with text so you can use
that in your hand lettering and then anyway since I'm showing you guys this
stuff I'll just show you this is the third illustration I came up with and
yeah that's just not...I like it I sort of was playing with perspective...but this is
a good example...this isn't really my style it's just like a little too
intense with the almost like Star Wars coming at you breakfast so yeah anyway
it's a but yeah so that's what we're going to do today that's what I'm going
to go over and so let's get down to it so when I was preparing my little
Instagram must-haves I did have a lot of fun with this I you know I had to put a
pineapple on there but then I was thinking you know the coconut I really
think is going to be the new pineapple of Instagram just mark my words I think
we're going to see a lot more coconuts this summer so that is what I'm going to
be writing out today coconut is the new pineapple and so what I've done here is
I've just sketched out my lettering I've just done a really simple almost messy
lettering sketch I'm using print and I'm using a mix of uppercase and lowercase
letters and then what I have here is I have a Staedler permanent marker this is
the M tip so it's just a regular tip it's not a chisel tip it's a much quite
a bit thicker than your Sharpie ultra fine point but it is not
super super thick you could also use the chisel tip I I think that would work
quite well and I'm just filling in over my pencil letters nice thick lines a
little bit messy and then all I'm going to do is go back in with my marker and
I'm going to thicken on the downstroke I know it's always like the same trick
sort of come back over and over and I'm not going to worry about getting you
know filling it in completely that's sort of the charm of this one it's all
about the imperfection of it
there we go and then since we're doing illustration I'm just going to do my
little pineapple down here at the bottom and coconut and there we go
coconut is the new pineapple you guys and in addition to thinking about your
color palette when you're illustrating you're also going to want to think about
how you color in so with these markers are on this particular drawing I'm kind
of just doing a very sketchy sort of almost scribbly and coloring in
thinking about those choices as you prepare your project will really help
you to create a cohesive illustrative style
so the last thing I want to show
you today is how to do a sort of Illustrated hand lettered quote and
these are really good if you want to do a greeting card or you just want to do a
little something for a friend so what I've done here is I've just cut out a
pizza of square cardstock and then I've thought of a short quote so what I'm
going to do is we belong together so just a fun little thing and then I'm
going to use kind of like an emoji type illustration so you could in this case
I'm going to do a melt carton and a cookie but you could do anything if you
want to do the we belong together you could do like ketchup and mustard or
fries and ketchup or like salt and pepper shaker is I'm going to start and
I'm going to include the first two words in my sort of border at the top I'm
going to use a cursive sort of font do the we belong then what I'm going to do
is I'm going to connect my border to those letters so I've got the we
the W I'm just going to drag the pen towards me I've shown you guys that
before so when you're doing this easy simple border all you want to do is pull
the pen towards your body to keep it stable
and this is my fake calligraphy font so if you remember from the first video you
just thickened on the downstroke so W is up down down and if you want more detail
about this font go back and watch the hand lettering a step by step for
beginners and I go over it in that video okay and now I'm going to do the
together so I'm also going to use actually for this the font that I did in
my very first video I called it my hipster font and for this one again go
back and watch it for more detail but what you do is you just do sort of an
easy lowercase or uppercase print leave lots of space between your letters and
then you just go back and you thicken on the outside so on the O we're going to
go around it and it's sort of very like imperfect and whimsical so I thought my
little milk carton here I'm just going to do the whole illustration outlined in
black so very much a simple contour drawing and you can illustrate these
kinds of cards any which way you like I'm just doing really sort of cutesy
emoji sort of look I've got a milk carton and my chocolate chip cookie here
and I'm going to give them little faces
always a good idea to get rid of any pencil markings that you might have
before you add in your color marker fill it in by using little lines so I call
this line shading and doesn't need to be perfect okay so that's all done and it
looks good and the next thing I want to do is just fill in with color
throughout the whole picture so that really helps to bring the
illustration together you don't have to do that however because you do have a
border on there so it's really up to you but I think that's part of the look that
I like and so what I'm doing is I'm taking my chisel tip art marker and I'm
just going to fill in with nice big wide strokes and I'm going to leave a border
of white around everything so around the letters around the the drawing so it's
just really sort of got a messy look to it keeping those lines straight so that
it does look purposeful but whimsical
next I am going to fill in and just color in these guys I'm using a brush
marker here but frankly that's just because that's the color I happen to
have my little milk carton is getting a stripe across it gray markers are great
to have on hand because you can use them for shading so just put a little add a
little definition in here I don't have a brown marker so as I do in every video
I'm just going to use this peach color and she'll be a chocolate chip peach
colored cookie but I find that's a good tip actually your colors don't always
have to be dead-on and perfect again that's the fun of illustration you can
do whatever you want have fun with it and as long as it's shape is there
there's a few defining features there people are going to know what you're
going for and being exact is not going to matter but being creative and
interesting that's what's going to catch people's attention so that is how you do
the Illustrated hand lettered quote and you could do anything like
that just have fun with it
thanks for watching today guys
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