This is the June Paletteful Packs box!
I'm very excited to open it up, find out
what's inside, and then draw something with it!
let's do that!
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ewww is that bologna?
I think these are sponges..?
those are really soft and they're creepily close to my
skin tone [shivers]
and then these look like little finger nails.
and I don't even know where I got this. did I pull this out of there?
these look like the same shape as this
can you like-- it's like a little sock!
there we go these are micro pore sponges- reusable, non abrasive, and versatile so
this is called a sponge bar these are the knife covers as I figured out and
then this one that looks like a piece of bologna is called the angle slice -- the next
thing I see: this is a two color set of pan pastels
pan pastel: 'apply like pastel color like paint'
those are pretty colors right there -- wait you can do
something like this oh there's a little pamphlet and it
lists all the colors that this brand has available ooh
instructions! give me a second. so you can like mix colors - wait these are erasable
I didn't have very much luck with -
[gets distracted] ooooo
[back on track:] the last time I used regular pastels I had
no luck getting it -
[distracted again:] oh my gosh (so pretty)
to erase but it says these are fully erasable with any eraser
I need to try this right now
do you see how vibrant these colors are and the
way they connect together
that is nifty
so you just...
rubby-rub-adub
ooo--ooo-ooo!
that just keeps on going!
Wow
and it says its erasable let me try that
I mean it smudges a little [blows eraser shavings off desk] but it also erases
how do you clean this?
jeez the pigment just keeps on going -lets try different sponge
jeez that's
like so vibrant okay doesn't look quite as vibrant [on paper] and then you can like blend it
out that's gonna kill my wrist, let's try blending it get some green so this one
is called Hansa Yellow, I think
and then this one is ultramarine blue and then
they screw together - how fascinating! imagine you had like a whole stack of these
let's see what else we've got we've got we have some primary colored
mini pastels
pastels are not something oh hey look! this feels gross let me
see here we got green, another yellow this one's a bit Golder, red, and blue but
those you should be able to get any color you want because that's a primary
set if you're willing to do the blending
also oh and there's a grayscale set
compressed chalk
oh this one's not labeled how unfortunate - poor quality
control - so we have a white does this show up on top of these?
Oh maybe use it to blend?
yeah okay so whites probably used more for blending then we have a
gray, a darker gray, oh yes black that one seems to work the
best like these ones I feel like it doesn't leave as rich of pigment you can
see the paper through it whereas that black it just oh I think
that's straight charcoal that's probably why
and the white seems very similar to
the black oh that's interesting where I put the white it's not sticking as well
when I rub over it -fascinating
what am i doing? let's see what else is in the box
looks like we have a sheet of - is this velvet paper?? oh my gosh I am
making a mess - i don't know if you can tell the texture but it's almost like velvety
what is this called?
oh it's velour !
an 8 by 10 velour board
[reading:] 'unless you're dedicated pastel artist this is probably
a surface you have never tried before' bingo ya'got me!
I am NOT a dedicated pastel artist
it definitely does have a unique sound Wow
I'm kind of excited to draw on this velour paper and finally last thing in
the box the Strathmore pastel paper acid-free
heavy weights 24 sheets oh they're all different colors is that just how it's
always sold it doesn't mention that it's got different colors in it so maybe
pastel paper always comes multiple tones like that?
drawing on this black
surface it's gonna be very different compared to like drawing on these
lighter tones because I was thinking oh we can sketch on some of this paper and
then do our final drawing on the velour but it's just gonna be so different I
wonder if there's even a point I kind of have this weird feeling of drawing this
character in my style... let's do the pink! pink paper!
aw I ripped it right at the end didn't I?
I really want to try out this
paper but I am NOT ready for that yet - how are you supposed to do this cuz the problem
I had last time I used pastels was it didn't stick to the pencil so I had
these weird super gray spots that were really gross so no to the graphite but
the other problem is if I try to use these these don't seem to work that well
together either like this one didn't smudge on top of the white pastel so I'm
nervous about this
I'm just try drawing in red we obviously don't want to get too
detailed because these are the art supplies we're working with - let's just
try and sketch something, be light about it, should I try to draw this character
this individual I don't know if that's a real person that's a drawing so it could
be a real person - why not? I got nothing else going on right now
she's got like a heart...is that a heart? you know it's really hard to say
I'm gonna make mine a heart
oh...she looks so angry... noooo what do I do?? what did I do?
you can't even see her ear so I guess it's up to me
maybe somewhere in there I'm just going to like sorta add some of
these dark tones in lightly to see how it looks before I like going with
some of the heavier art supplies - can I smudge this with my finger? that's right
i kind of can!
yeah keep it light and then we'll build up the tones cuz I don't want to like
lose the highlights obviously and then hopefully maybe I can like sharpen this
and get some really fine details with the black - fix that eye cuz like there's
obviously some problems here I am missing out on the pretty factor that
got lost in translation
we'll see we'll see maybe I can get some of that back I
literally have no idea when it comes to pastels so I'm trying to like
imitate this because that's something that was created with pastels so
obviously it's possible hope you don't mind Susan
oh I probably
should be using the sponge shouldn't I?
can't forget that earringy-thing
it's also like
really dark over here that way these highlights pop oh I see so basically
what I'm doing is I'm doing it all in this red and then I'm hoping to use
maybe the black on top of it and then some of the colors maybe Oh would this
yellow look really nice as a highlight? I don't know we also want to use like the
paper maybe
that was fun to experiment with at least I don't think it now that
I'm trying it out I'm like yeah that's probably not how I should go about that
because the paper obviously is a lighter tone than this yellow it doesn't really
make sense let's move on to this black take a good look of what this looks like
cuz I'm probably going to destroy it! (but that's what we do here)
that makes her look like she's just like [moans] like this one the mouth just looks sort of like
slightly ajar and then mine she's like a zombie blahhh
[talking to the art:] i'm so sorry...
darken up this a little
remove that harsh edge I made
let's just use my smudgies
that's the wrong one, I'm
like I could tell instantly it doesn't draw as softly as this one does. it's kind
of interesting the colors are definitely muddy and then the other problem I'm
going to is if I'm gonna use this dark paper
obviously this isn't going to show up I can't even like recreate this if I
wanted to just not possible
this thing's really nice cuz it saves your wrist
you don't have like a hold a tiny little tool
this does smudge really nicely my
illustration definitely looks older than the reference drawing there so like you
put it down smudge it and you can put it down for some more contrast
smudge out the edge here
don't use color for highlights that's what I learned
ah!!!!!
no!!!
but now I can actually use this broken piece and only stick out like a little
bit of it and then maybe I won't have to worry about it breaking
heyy! :D
I'll take it
I don't hate this but what I like about it has nothing to do with the arts
supplies - woo so messy !
definitely finding the black pastel the easiest to work
with I'm not entirely sure how do like incorporate the colors
let me grab a new
sponge here then here's the blue
don't these colors remind you of a Maccaw?
aren't they like blue and yellow? I kind I just want to go for it well let
me try and draw a bird first let me see if I actually know what they look like
let's see we have like a curly beak - if we leave this like part of the beak is
really small and then the sides big and then they have like an eyeball that's
like right here just like this parts black - this part is yellow, this part is
yellow and then this part here is all blue
not its vibrant as hopefully it'll look
on the black paper I can try to like stylize them more, maybe more like this ?
looks so much more buff!
big buff boi here
let's move this paper get these guys out
and try this
I feel like I'm going in kind of blind, the only way to learn is to
try right so let's go for it
should I use the red again? what does the
red look like on here?
it's kind of slightly invisible let me try this grey..that might work
how do I want to go about this so we do just the head and then we can do more
details and like that the weird line-y section around their eyes I also still
want to like keep it kind of stylized
looks a little too much like a puffin
yeah I'm changing my mind
can you erase on Velour? not really
let's see, put the head here
try by starting with the neck then the heads here
yeah we have a beak - that's actually really helpful
cuz I always draw the neck too short and then the whole thing looks janky here we
go I don't know I don't think thats showing up on camera at all!
so its gonna look cool when
I start adding the colors in the right spots since you can't see
all this ground work I'm laying
now there are some parts on this bird that
are actually white so why don't I try to do that where's my..... there it is!
some of this down first mm see that's actually working on this
paper way nicer like it was meant to work on this paper
a couple layers of this maybe
around the eyes as well! its kind of difficult to get an even tone of color in some
spots definitely look grayer than others all
right next up let's do the yellow and then blue and then the green because blue and
yellow make green and this is yellow currently so rubba-dub-dub, I'm a little
excited about this
like that and that comes down this way -- velour paper does
take off a lot more pigment faster so I have to like keep dipping for more
ooh it's almost like feathers
looks a little furry instead of feathery so maybe I ought to blend it out a bit
more okay we can maybe come back to that I'm going to switch this out to a
completely different one for now to use with the blue I just don't have to worry
about mixing the color yet I'm just not ready for that kind of commitment okay
move over to the blue so we can start maybe here cuz this is gonna like go to green
as we get close to the beak oh that does look pretty cool doesn't it
it's hard to cover large areas with this blue
it's a downslide feel like I'm drawing with makeup I'm being really excited to
do the green part I can't wait try and do longer strokes here try and
imitate the feathers
how's that lookin?
these a little shorter down here
some more short ones here
it's interesting it's a little too dark in
this section I don't wanna like lose these longer feathers maybe we can just
keep picking up more and extending it higher up
i'm gonna grab this sponge
and the yellow and see if I can even this out a bit more
whew I haven't even use this thing yet I've been neglecting the Bologna sponge
there we go there's nice even and then oh I don't want to switch sponges but if
I like if I can even out this color then the dream would be that I can use this
thing with this and get some like feather textures up near the breast/pec section
back to the blue! I'm gonna have to like highlight over here to make
that beak stand out from the page I'm not sure what color we could try green
but I don't know alright let's move back to the yellow sponge ah shoot I just
ripped straight through him - anyway I have to grab some yellow oh and try and
make green
here we go there we go gonna mix that in a separate place first we're
just doing it right on the canvas was the right choice
hey looks pretty green to me maybe add a little bit of green here - does that
make any sense? oh and then I wanted to hopeful there's
not too much blue on this I want to add some feather texture here just like
quickly dab and pull like this
that looks pretty cool actually - i'm gonna go in
with more white maybe and just fill in maybe a highlight - ah wrong sponge!
I made a mistake yeah maybe I'll just fill in this area with a light bit of white and
the white doesn't blend as much as I want it too
[thinking noises]
might add just a smidge of
white back here to then blend that out
hey it looks like there's a spotlight on
him I wonder can I use the black and like detail any of this?
Oh see the black
drawers on this velvet paper so nice but it does not draw over top of the yellow
very easily
i can also add some feather texture along the edge of this yellow
even pull this white up a little higher
on camera it's so blown out I can't
really tell what I should be doing - but in person I'm like: " oh so many things I need
to fix"
feathersss
subtle feather textures I think it needs a little bit
more blue right here
all right after using these a little bit more I have a new assessment when it
comes to pastels as an art supply and I think the reason I don't like them as
much is they're kind of difficult to control and they require a lot of
blending which isn't something you see as often in like a cartoony art style
like mine I really like flat colors and cell shading even though I've been kind
of branching out a little bit more lately but with pastels you obviously
even tones are very difficult to get and blending is kind of their function so I
think that's why me and them just don't get along as well as some other art supplies
do because the way to use them properly is so different from what my normal art
tends to look like and that makes sense and there's nothing wrong with that and
that's obviously why I don't gravitate towards them
I'll just add one last
thing here just like subtle grassiness, Leafs, leaves of the trees, that greenery
just give the illusion that there's some kind of background here grab a little
bit of yellow a little bit of blue a little bit more yellow just greenify the background
[beats the devil out of the paper]
I bet your pastel artists have a lot
less angst pent up inside them look at this! therapy
yeah there we go I think
I'm all done with this I don't hate the way it looks
that velvety paper though I
wish I could show you how soft it is
I want to thank you guys for watching and
I also want to send a big thank you to Paletteful Packs for sending me this
month's box to try out and 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 them and see if it's something that might be right for
you, if not I'm also going to be giving away this box and all of these art supplies
and I'm gonna do my best to wash these first
so if you'd like to enter that
giveaway you can check the link in the description
yeah good luck with it that!
thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a
delicious evening full waffles!!!
BYE!!
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