Hi!
Welcome to the video!
this is my sketchbook.
remember it?
remember two weeks ago and I said I was gonna fill the first page in the sketchbook for you?
I have filled a few pages since then but I intentionally left the first page
blank just for you guys
so the plan for today is to make some marks on this
piece of paper, call it art, and then walk away
I hope you'll join me
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now before I
draw on the first page I do just want to take a moment to appreciate this page
that I've already drawn om, it wasn't its fault that it was drawn on the opposite side
of the first page which I plan on using Copic markers
you'll live forever in my heart
I don't know what that is
okay bye
alright this page
I'm gonna be using this prismacolor col-erace pencil in the color pink
I thought it'd be a good
idea because I was gonna use it underneath Copics and I'd be able to
erase like the parts that I didn't need but this ended up being a very bad
decision and like all the other problems in the summertime I'm gonna blame the
humidity [darn humidity!] but we'll talk about that later
I might not have put as
much thought into this first page as sometimes I usually do but I did have a
vague idea of what I wanted it to look like and this first sketch wasn't even
vaguely close to my vague idea
I'm inspired by this sketch on this second
page I really like how stiff the character is and how like powerful she
looks so that meant erasing what I already had
my kneaded eraser really
wasn't cutting it so I had to bring out 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆!
but then that didn't work either
what can you do? humidity.
it's probably also the pencil's fault...
so that meant starting
over again and ignoring the chicken scratch that was still there
this time making sure to glance back and forth at that sketch that I really liked so that
I could hopefully capture it a little bit better I don't think I've actually
said this yet but the plan for the first page was to have the character that I
had painted on the cover of the sketchbook standing off to the left and
then on the right I'm going to have basically it's gonna say "sketchbook 23"
and then underneath that it'll like show the dates that sketchbook 23 was filled
within -- I like to do welcome pages whenever I create a new sketchbook I
just think they're fun they leave the guesswork to what the first page needs
to look like because I feel like there could be a lot of anxiety when it comes
to drawing in that first page because you know that's the first page people
see what do you put on it? and so if I put the exact same thing every time I
don't even have to think about it [mouth pop!] it just comes naturally
of course I change it up it's not the exact same thing but you know there's a
theme there I think it's just helpful to allow your creativity to have
limitations because then you have to keep trying new things to try to make
that same thing... new
I already knew what her outfit was going to look like
because I had put time into deciding what that would look like a couple days
ago when I was actually drawing the next page which I keep flipping back and
forth and you keep seeing I kind of ironed out what her outfit would look
like so at this point it was pretty easy I just had to put it on her so she
wasn't.... naked
and then I tried to see if roses might look good over here too you
know just putting um everywhere and anywhere
[pencil sharpening break]
okay gotta clean this up
but now that the pencil is sharpened I can actually use
it to start refining the details I really like to allow my pencil to just
get very very dull as I'm laying out the sketch because I feel like it's very
soft and it like allows me to experiment a little bit more and I can't draw quite
as dark then when I'm happy with it I sharpen the pencil and then I can start
refining everything that I already know that I like and chip away at it and
just make it look better slowly
if you try to make something look good right
off the bat that's when you run into problems trust me it
won't look good
you gotta take your time step by step you'll get there so I'm
pretty happy with the way it looks but I need to just double check I'm gonna keep
checking the cover make sure that I think it looks like her, I want to
capture that essence that I painted on the cover but now in sketch form I
also can't decide if I want to keep the bangs or not I feel like her little
swirly cinnamon bun fringe is definitely distracting from the rose crown that she
already has because it's kind of a very similar shape so I'm still arguing with
myself about that
here I tried adding a little extra ruffle-y bits to her skirt
elongated it added a little bit more texture but it was just too busy what I
liked about her outfit before is that it seemed kind of simple like big poofy
sleeves, crop top, high-waisted little like tie wrap, and then leggings
I feel like it's all just was simple it was easy to draw adding in the ruffles and
making the bandana thing a skirt it was just too much fabric I don't know
I can zoom
in a little bit and show you some more details here like the hands I have her
resting right on that letter 'S' and then I have the other hand kind of pointing
at the word it's kind of just gesturing welcoming you to the sketchbook and
telling you to read "welcome to my sketchbook" literally so that you know
you are welcome
it's a little redundant but I like it
now that I like the sketch
and it's about what I wanted, I know where the words are gonna be, I-I I'm not sure
sure about the roses but I like the character and I like the words that
means it's time to get out my Copic markers! and these are my Ohuhu brush markers
I like to use these together so that I have a larger variety of colors
the first thing I did was add the liner to the title 'sketch-book' I decided to
keep it very sketchy add variety to the widths and even leave little spaces that
I could color with marker later on if I so choose
then it was time to add line
art to the character I always start with the face I don't know why
just the thing I do
but isn't it a cute face? come on
another thing I do for whatever
reason is to add like a very dark shadow under the chin
I remember whenever I would draw at work a customer would come up be like "why does this
character have a beard?" and I would just stare at them
and be like..."uh... can I help you?"
like what do you say to that?! like maybe my character does have a
beard?? it's like it's been years and I still haven't come up with a comeback
for that... "why does your character have a beard" -- "I don't know why do you have a
face?!" yeah see I got nothing.
so I just add liner to everything at least that's
what I did -- basically just tracing your favorite lines and ignoring the lines
that you don't like so much
and then you end up with an illustration that has all
your best lines
sometimes you accidentally you know twitch and just
draw a line that you didn't mean to draw but no I guess it all comes with
practice - one day I'll get it right like a hundred percent
just wait
then it was
time to add coloring now this was a little tricky because I'm trying to
match my Copic markers and my Ohuhu markers to acrylic paint that I
mixed and painted on the cover so I'm trying to make this character look the same but
obviously not using the same tools
I settled on YR0000 (Pale Chiffon) for
the hair now I end up layering this a lot and ending up blending it with some
other colors but I thought this was a pretty good base it looks very similar
to the cover you know as close as I could get
when it came to coloring in
her red outfit I think I'm mixed between r1 and r2 in the Ohuhu brush markers and
this works really well when I needed like just a little extra tone or just
like a little bit of shadow or if I just wanted to see a little bit of like a
tone shift and it really gave the outfit some dimension it looked 3d there
was some wrinkles there and I was very happy with that
and I also use this color to color in the roses
(because it's supposed to be the same color)
then for skin I used R21 (Sardonyx) if you look back at my painting her skin is
very very pink so I wanted to try and capture that at first I used this to
just add shading to the hair bringing a little bit more pink into that because
when I used my acrylic paints I was mixing all of the colors together a lot
so there's a lot of blending and cohesion between those colors so I
wanted to kind of incorporate that idea in
the Copic markers and blend a lot of the colors together even if you necessarily
wouldn't think to shade blonde hair with pink I did it anyway
and I liked it
and then obviously I used it to color in her skin
for the most part this is all the colors that I ended up using I think I'd try using some
purples and some other colors but they didn't really work so I don't use a lot
of them but I keep switching between these three colors oh and I also used
R24 (Prawn) so I used R24 it's a Copic marker and I use that to shade some more so
anywhere that I needed just an extra smidge of depth because it is a little
bit lighter than my r1 and my R2 from my Ohuhu brush markers so it was like a
nice mid tone for that
but it was a very dark compared to my R21 and I basically
just switched between these markers adding some shading using the r24 for
the blush and r21 for any of the lighter tones
to bring some of that red
into the text since I used black I used r24 to color in those little spaces that
I left in the line art I was originally going to fill those in with just the
line art color so solid black but I'm so glad that I didn't because I feel like
this just spreads that red around you know?
then I used this Decorous White gel
pen to add little highlights here and there but I wasn't done yet I did grab a
light purple and try to add shading underneath the kneecap there with that
back leg because when you draw legs and one is kind of sticking backwards it can
be very difficult to get that to actually look like a legs going
backwards and one (of the legs) is not just a different length than the other so I like to color
it in a lot darker to really push the contrast and to tell the eye that that's
further in the distance not just a different shaped leg from her other leg
I also used it to add just a smidge of shading here and there but wasn't crazy
the way the purple was blending with the Reds and the Pink's so I didn't use a
lot of it
then I settled on making the roses in kind of like a circle shape
encompassing the title and welcoming you to my sketchbook and just bringing your
eye in that direction so I added line art and then I colored it with the same
colors I'd been using for the rest of the drawing - tying it up and wrapping it
in a bow and using the same colors
for a little extra fun and pop I darkened up
the lineart around the outside of the character I feel like just makes it look
a little bit more cookie cutout I just like it it makes the character look a
little flat and I don't know some reason that just appeals to me I didn't
encompass the entire character just here and there so that it's not too
overwhelming-- oh here I'm trying to erase some more of that pencil it's not as
visible on camera but GYAOSH! that stuff was sticky it did not want to go
anywhere (that humidity, man)
so this is what it looked like at this point
looking at it I realized it was off-center now these are like the things
that I could have fixed if I really had planned ahead so I felt pretty dumb
because these are all easily avoidable problems so I decided to do a little bit
of a quick fix and I took a chisel nib and I just drew a straight line on the
left side this like shrinks the page and makes it look a little bit smaller very
vaguely centers my illustration on the page this is like a cop-out I know I'm
aware - I'm dealing with this in my own time
but I honestly don't hate it and I
like that it just brings more Red into the whole thing I kind of wish I had
used some kind of background or add stripes OHHHHH! i could still do that
one second
[me from the future:] okay let me just do
this really quick my desks a mess - I was drawing... naturally
I'm gonna use R21,
[back to voice over me:] I'm going to add stripes to the background but not within the actual title like
that circle shape so it makes that circle shape stand out and then there'll
be a background and the page will have a little bit more umph!
oh yes I'm going to do that!!
so if I did that it's showing on screen right now [which it is] anyway but before i did that
I did do this: I added more pink and Red's to the skin because I looked
back at the cover and I realized my painting had much darker redder skin so
I tried to just incorporate a little bit more without ruining what I already had
and this is what that looked like but then if I go back and add stripes this
is what it looks like now... well in the future I haven't done yet
hopefully it's good
ooh thank you guys for watching I hope you like the first
page in my sketchbook I definitely recommend creating a little first page
like a little title page welcoming you to the sketchbook you can put your name
like you're the author of the art you know it's really really cool I think
it's just a fun little thing to do. thanks for joining me! I hope you all
have a delicious evening full of waffles!
BYE!
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