ah pink!
the color of cotton candy, bubblegum, and Wednesdays
today I'm gonna
be taking every pink art supply that I own and I'm going to be making some art with it!
let's see what happens!
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as always the first thing I do is swatch
out all the art supplies, not only can you discover which ones have strangely
exploded (talking to you Ohuhu)
but you can also find out the exact colors and tones of
each marker instead of just relying on the cap or the barrel color
I have all of my art supplies on the left and as I use the art supplies I'm going to take
them from the left side and move them over to the right side of the desk and
then I will know which ones I've used and which ones I haven't
but first I
need to decide what I want to draw so I've got my sketchbook and I'm just kind
of brainstorming and drawing the first couple things that come to my mind and
Mean Girls was for some reason on the top of my head, so I kept drawing like ....Mean.... Girls...?
[tongue click]
and I decided I didn't want to actually just draw fanart so I kind of took it as
inspiration to design a character and you can kind of see the thumbnail that I
created right there and now I'm going to take that teeny weeny little one and try
and translate it onto the larger piece of paper
starting with my pink Col-Erase Colored Pencil I'm going to start
sketching out the idea and laying it out on the page
this is a very crucial step
because if you mess up in your sketching stage you're not gonna have a whole lot
of luck further on down the road so whats most important to me here is making sure
that all of the elements fit on the page nothing's like too precariously close to
an edge of the paper and that it actually looks like she's taking a
selfie so the phone is lining up with her face which is lining up with the dog
behind her so they all could take a cute photo selfie!
once I'm pretty satisfied with the layout and I'm pretty sure I'mnot gonna have to erase large chunks of
the drawing I start going in and adding more details to like the hair and the
face and the outfit and I just keep doing that until I'm happy with it
this is definitely the art supply that I use for the longest amount of time because
it is just such an important part of creating an illustration and it's the
only pink art supply that I have that's erasable so it allows me to fix mistakes
when I make them so I try to take full advantage of that
the next art supply that I use is this Copic Sketch markers in the color R21
and i thought this was like the orangist of my pinks and i thought it
would look really really pretty as a hair color and now that i've done it i
know it does look really pretty as a hair color
imagine waking up every
morning and seeing that head of hair in the mirror, oo it would be magical!
next up I'm
using this Ohuhu Alcohol-Based Marker in the color '6' - this one is very very dark and
pigmented so I use the bullet nib and added like sort of details to the
drawing like her hair bow as well as her cellphone
I used the Copic Sketch
marker in the color RV13 to add some shading to the hair and really give
it depth so you could see what was in front and what was behind - I used another
Ohuhu art marker to add some details to the little doggies face and I also use
this to color in the girl's shoes I don't know what you call those.. like flats with
a like a tie -they kind of look like very simplified ballet shoes but you know no function just fashion
I decided to try and use the India ink as a line art so I
used my dip pen and started outlining the character- the face in particular and
I remembered that Copic markers don't really like India ink as much as I would
like them to so I was like I better hold that off until later so I'm going to be
using the India ink as like one of the last art supplies so that hopefully I
don't get any smudging
so then I took the Copic Sketch marker R0000
and I used this for the skin because at this point I hadn't really
decided if I wanted a light skin tone or a darker skin tone so I thought I'd
start light and then I can build up later if I so choose and I just used
this to color in all of the skin taking great care to avoid any of the India ink
especially around the face
next up I'm using this stained sharpie I decided I
really wanted this to be in the forefront of this illustration and one
of the main colors so I used to color in the top as well as her thigh socks I did
this mainly because I thought this color was the pinkiest
of my pink colors and some of them feel a little bit more purple so I thought if I use a
lot of this highlighter pink this hot pink color it'll help make the whole
illustration look pink overall which is in the end what I really really want
speaking of purpley Pink's this r83 is one of those
and I used this to color in her like shawl/jacket/cardigan... thing? I kind of
figured if I used this to surround that hot pink and her white skirt it would
make those sections look more vibrant because this is kind of like a dull
purple and overall I think it worked it took a few layers because I think this
markers drying a little bit but eventually I got a pretty even coat and
I used these two sharpies and I just use this to subtly outline the cardigan give
it a little bit more detail - these kind of blended into the cardigan color which
I liked but also had a bit more sharpness which I also really liked next
up I used this Ohuhu art marker in the color 28 and I use this to add blush to
her face it's a lot darker than the color I had used earlier and I feel like
it definitely brings some color to the face
then I'm going to be using these two
Windsor and Newton brush markers one is 'rose pink' and the other one is 'pink
pear' -l I use both of these markers to create flowers kind of a flower crown
around their faces like they're using a snapchat filter or something
I also gave the doggie one
then I use this really dark sharpie to add some depth and some
detail to the cardigan you can kind of see the difference that made it
doesn't all look super flat it's got more structure to it then I'm using this
Pilot Varsity pen (look it's got what looks like a dip pen on the end) itsn't that
cool? but I used this to define the flowers and the roses in the crowns and
as well as in the background there I feel like the two markers that I use
were more on the purpley side and this pen is definitely more pink and red so
by using this to outline those roses it definitely brings more pink into the illustration
I use this Koh-i-Noor dry marker thing and I actually use this
over top of the cardigan I thought this just made it a little bit more vibrant
but you know it's not overdoing it her top is still the most vibrant thing in
the area but this just like makes it more pink and a little less purple which
is something I was kind of fighting with in this drawing
I used this Ecoline brush to color in her purse I wanted to make sure this was darker
than everything else so it wasn't blending in with the other tones that I
had in that area there's a lot going on in that left side of the drawing so I
was hoping by using a really dark color would add more
contrast then I used this Staedtler triplus fineliner to add all the details to
the purse like the belt but then I used this Ohuhu acrylic paint marker which
is opaque and I painted over the purse because I decided I didn't want that to
be white anymore I thought pink would work better (after all we're drawing with
pink aren't we) and I really really like this like the contrast between this pink
and that Ecoline brush pen I think they just look really really nice
together and I took this dark sharpie and just outlined the purse anywhere
that I thought it needed a little bit more detail and then I took my pink
Posca pen and I tried to use this as sort of like seams to the purse but they
weren't all that different from the acrylic paint marker so they're not
super obvious
then I used this Jane Davenport paint over pen and I used this to add
like flowers to the background because originally my idea was to kind of add a
solid color to background with a paint
but
I don't know I started experimenting
with these flowers and it made me think of like one of my lunchboxes I had in
second grade they had all these flowers on it and it's just said: "girl power!"
(nostalgia I tell you [sniffs tear] makes us do silly things) this is using the core watercolor
I forgot to film the actual barrel but I'm using this to further my nostalgia
and draw varying sizes of flowers and using this water color to create subtle
flowers in the background that just kind of like fill up the space and add some
variety I used this pink Papermate highlighter
which I've had for so many years and I used this to add some more flowers to
the background these ones are a little bit more vibrancy pink color and I
definitely think it added something to the background - I used this Touch marker it's
a brush marker and I used this to actually add a little bit more depth and
tone to the entire character so I shaded like that entire left leg behind with
the cardigan and then as well as with her hair in her face a little bit and I
think this just made the character feel a little bit more 3-dimensional -- next up
I'm using this bic atlantis pen and I used this this is a bit of a
controversial decision but I used it to add like a little bit more doodle-i-ness
like it looks more like a doodle over the flowers kind of like the
color isn't fully staying within the lines kind of look I don't know
definitely not my normal style but I thought I'd experiment
next I'm using
these Americana acrylic paints - first I used the lighter tone one and I used
this to create a little bit more contrast with the cardigan with the
front section and the back section so I filled in all of the areas that are kind
of like closer to you if you were looking at her with this light pink
color and I also used it to add a little bit of shading to her white skirt
I feel like this makes her skirt look a little bit more shiny which I like
I took the darker acrylic paint and colored over that further shoe because
even though I had colored over that entire section with a marker it didn't
really add any darkness to that foot so I decided to just go in and do that with
the acrylic paint and I used this fine point sharpie and I it's very similar to
the color of the India ink that I'm going to be using to lineart everything
but there's some sections where I'm a little bit nervous to use like the dip
pen so I instead created the line art with this sharpie in those sections then
I took my last two sharpies, I have a fine point and a ultrafine point, is that
they're called? can't remember. but I use this to add some more flowers to the
background so I was able to create thin ones as well as thicker ones and I also
used it to kind of create a cartoony like shine coming off of a phone
eeah I know... interesting choice right?
and then it was time to go back in with the dip pen I was kind of excited about this so
basically I'm darkening up a lot of the lines and what's cool about a dip pen is
that you can get those like fine points but then you're also using in very
liquidy ink so if there's sections that you want to fill in a little bit larger
you kind of just go over it and it fills in and creates a nice even tone which I
love it's so much fun to experiment with so I did that over the entire character
creating a little bit of contrast between the lines and also just adding
some more depth where I thought it needed it -- I wanted to add a little bit
more oomph to the drawing so I used a white gel pen and kind of separated the
character from that cardigan that's blowing behind her I just wanted to
separate those pieces a little bit more and I think the white gel pen really
helps and then of course I also just added it to the eyes and you know where
you use a white gel pen
and then this is what it looked like I'm
really happy with this and looking at it... I like it but if you don't know me, I, for
some strange reason, maybe I've been cursed as a child, but whenever I finish
a drawing I think "ah I could make this better" (but in reality you know I can't)
mm-hmm I like reach the pinnacle of my abilities but I don't realize it
anyway
when I was first drawing this I thought I wanted to create a shape coming from
the phone kind of like it's the phone's field of view and I wanted that to be a
certain color behind like the character it's just you could tell and make it
obvious that they are taking a selfie (like that's not obvious already) so I used the
white acrylic paint and just filled in over the background cuz I thought it was
too busy you know ruin the drawing blah, blah, blah
it's fine
it's okay
i don't hate myself
[dramatic pause]
it's fine!
everything's fine
there's nothing wrong with it - it's [unintelligible]
let's just look back at the old one
Ah! why did I touch you?
anyway I want to
thank you guys all for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me use every single
pink art supply that I owned it's actually been a year since I did my
first one of these videos so I just want to thank you guys for just being so
enthusiastic about them because there's so much fun to make and I love making
them for yah! so thanks for watching them! anyway thank you guys for watching as
always I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a delicious evening
full of waffles!!
BYE!
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