today I'm going to be opening up the July ArtSnacks plus box
we're gonna be opening it up, finding out what's inside, and then trying to
make some art with it!~
here we go!
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so the first thing I see is this-oh oh it's
an envelope of 100% cotton paper
it appears to be watercolor paper I'm
getting that hint because it literally says watercolor paper on it
[reading:] "long life permanent paper then"
[sticker asmr]
then you have your twelve loose leaf sheets of paper
[shakes the paper, making it sing]
sounds good.
here we have the adorable bubble wrap bag
I geeked out about this
last month so this is actually only their second month of the ArtsSnacks plus
it's a brand new box and usually it's the ArtSnacks box which is like this
big and it comes with just the art supplies that are in the tissue paper - I
think last month I was a little underwhelmed because ArtSnacks always
comes in a small box and you have small art supplies and now that they've
made the Box bigger to incorporate full size premium paper you're kind of
expecting there to be large art supplies which doesn't really work out that way I
think that's just like a mental thing
so this menu actually lists the items
that are in the regular ArtSnacks box so that goes with that - this lists the art
supplies that come exclusively in the ArtSnacks Plus
this is the master brush
cleaner and preserver - youre supposed to run your brush under water and then rub it
gently on this soap and it's supposed to clean things very very well I have no
idea what I'm talking about, just reading the description
then we have this we
have this Princeton Lauren series gold synthetic brush in the size 4
yup, seems to be a brush
and then the other exclusive ArtSnacks plus item obviously is the paper
on the back we have a coupon code, a prompt - they suggest that we draw some
unique trees or paint vibrant flowers so let's find out what the actual art
supplies we'll be working with are oh and of course we have a nice candy: an
extra sour cry-baby bubble gum
now the art supplies!
Oh daniel smith watercolor!
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so we have these two colors it appears to be Phthalo Blue
and uhhhhhhhh......
a rose color
[clears throat]
we have this Pigma Graphic 1 so I guess it's one millimeter
and this is a Graphic which I'm gonna guess makes big bold graphic lines
also we have the ArtSnacks sticker which looks like this
those are exclusive to each month
we have this Princeton number eight round brush
yeah look at that it's a brush
very nice
the last art supply in this month's box is the general sketch and wash pencil now does
that mean it's water soluble?
so it's a watercolor pencil I guess we should find out
this seems like as good a time as any to mention the sponsor of
today's video ArtSnacks if it wasn't obvious
and no I didn't film this later
because I forgot
what are you talking about?
ArtSnacks is offering all of you 10% off your first
order for in ArtSnacks subscription box either the ArtSnacks plus or
the ArtSnacks original - if you use the code "waffles"
I also want to mention something
about this because I don't do it in the actual video I got some of this paint on
my desk and it's stained which is weird for watercolor and I tried soap I even
tried acetone and nothing would get it off and
then I remembered that this existed and so I tried it and well this is where it
was [points]
so I just took a little bit of the brush cleaner you tap it there used some
water and scrubbed and it came right off and it actually took a couple other
stains that I had on my desk so I'm very happy with this this is something I'm
going to be using a lot of in the future
I'll have a link in the description for
more information about ArtSnacks through their website and I want to
thank again ArtSnacks for sponsoring the channel and the video now let's get
back to the video where I attempt to draw out those roses
(my arch-nemesis.)
[gentle paper cutting]
there I cut the paper down to an a5 size and then we also have some little swatch
papers we can use to test the art supplies
here is what we're working with, I
also need some water
I have a dirty water cup and a clean water cup (I mean
they're both clean but one is for dirty water and one
is for clean water) let's see what happens
gonna grab a little paintbrush
some water
just see...oh yeah look at that see how it lifts - yes okay I'm in love
with that - see what kind of tones you can get with this
depending on how much water we add
definitely lots of options in one tube which is what I really like about water
color but it's also very tricky for me as a beginner to get the specific tone that I want
let's try the blue
oh and then I wanted to go back and check
that micron [/its the Graphic] -- alright it does lift just a smidge but it might be the humidity oh
no no wait wait wiat
it looks pretty good now
they didn't include a pencil hopefully that's
not cheating I'm gonna grab a pencil
I want to just sketch out an idea here
don't have a green which is usually kind of what I associate with something being
lush or organic so we have to kind of play around with it
the first thing that
came to my head is one of those characters from that Thumbelina movie
but they're all like "is she gonna marry the fairy Prince, Mama?" those people so
maybe the outfit is also a bud
I can't quite remember what they look like but
that the first thing that kind of came to mind
maybe something kind of like
plant inspired or organic looking creature or the head could be a flower
although that feels kind of Pokemon to me
maybe something with a rose for a
head - also since I don't appear to know how to draw flowers maybe I should
just try to draw one from reference
oOoo something like this pretty flower
now flowers... I always try to simplify everything down into simple shapes and
then I build from there but flowers are just so complicated and delicate it kind
of goes against everything that I know how to do so I find them very difficult
to draw obviously
maybe if I can learn how to do them it'll help my Art as a
whole in the future because I mean if you can learn to simplify complicated
things that just opens up a whole bunch of doors
so that's like a bud mm-hmm
looks like buds tend to group themselves in these bouquets I'm looking at
grab a paintbrush just add some water to this the sketchbooks not a watercolor
sketchbook but who cares
just add some light color
see how I could go about this without having green
maybe what if I just
substituted green with purple I could make it look a little bit more fantasy -like
well we also have that pencil if we need something to be dark or black we
should probably try to keep it a tone first try to stay away from black as much
as possible so I can kind of learn to use different
tones for those instead
I love doing particle dots I think they look cool and
they kind of like make the eye think of things without it like expressly telling
you what to see
like they don't take away the creativity of the viewer by
expressly telling you what you need to see (that sounds deeper than I would
have ever imagined I could be)
alright so I seem to be kind of mixing all
the colors together a lot and I think I want to keep some separate so that the
bouquet feels more like the flowers are all different because right now I'm
mixing all the colors together and I'm feel like that kind of takes away from
any point where the color could be used solely on its own
let me just try throwing
some of this in here so this isn't quite as black as I thought it was at first it
does look a lot like kind of like graphite but obviously it works a lot
like a watercolor pencil
let me try without sketching just like throwing
paint around and seeing if I can do anything it looks like a flower just
kind of like paint simple shapes see how much I can
make it look like a flower
I'm kind of gonna just not wait for anything to dry
and let it spread see what happens
and I'll try and blue one like right next to
it and see if I like that better than like incorporating most of the colors
together - maybe a different kind of flower too
this one kind of just looks
like I tried to use blue as a green don't ask me what kind of flowers these
are they're blue flowers, blue magic flowers that look however I decided they
want to look
I think we definitely need another pink flower in here I'm gonna
add like a squishy swirly looking thing
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make it look like it's a little bit behind there
more pigmented of the pink
actually it's rose isn't it and then darken up around here try and create the
illusion of like the folds of a flower
concentrating most of the texture in the
center - hmm... interesting
I think I've improved since my first
attempt just by layering it and taking it a little slower
the compositions a little meh
but I like the flowers - add a little detailed little bitty flowers
gonna be scribbly with it cuz I'm gonna add a wash over it that's not completely
inside the lines
(Oh barbaric!)
yeah this isn't turning out at
all the way I pictured
so what I'm finding the most fun was trying to draw
the roses so I'm thinking I'm getting a little too bogged down by like all these
other elements and I don't really know how to draw any flowers so if I pull
back a bit and just focus on trying to draw a rose I might come up with
something that I'll be pretty happy with - grab our piece of paper here I'm gonna
start with a very light wash of the pink and I might end up mixing some blue into it too
this stuff appears to not come off your desk which is strange for watercolors
I'm gonna use the really large brush and try to just paint Rose
shapes so maybe we have a petal over here - I gotta think of it all as like
petals try and figure out where the actual bud is
well we've got like a bit
of a rose shape I just need this stuff in the middle and the stuff on the
outside - curled petal down here
okay I'm trying
to keep them all as separate shapes and not connecting them yet so that I can
hopefully continue to visualize it when I have to start adding in more
tones like darkening up certain sections
kind of just slowly making this shape
smaller and smaller it looks like
this where it gets really complicated because
there's like smaller bits that are inside the flower and then they
get bigger and come out like that and I'm not sure what I'm looking at even
with a reference
this whole area probably should be a dark petal - here is the
reference I'm using I have it I'll have it linked in the description and then
now I need to go in and darken up some areas so we've got like the basic shapes
down but now I need to start adding in the tones I'm going to take some more
pink but add a little less water this time and it looks like it needs to be
dark ...inside here
and that kind of like gradients outwards and also behind there
as well so this little white section is supposed to be a petal coming up and
then curling outwards so this little curled section is getting a lot more
light which is gonna make it lighter I'm keeping it white right now so that I
don't forget about it but it should be pink by the time we're done but I need
to make sure all these sections around it are significantly darker if that
makes sense now go ahead and just do one petal at a time
also these white sections between each petal probably should be the darkest but
I need to keep them separated so that I know what I'm looking at basically I'm
just simplifying everything down I'm trying to do it step by step instead of
trying to draw a big complicated flower right off the bat so that's another
petal right there see how weird that shape is like how
would you ever think to do that I guess I need to draw a lot more flowers
next up some flowers up here or petals.. excuse me
now this is where I'm getting
very different from my reference so I'm just gonna have to wing it
this one right here should almost be the darkest petal fill these in while I can
cause I'll have to wait for it to dry to build a completely paint in all those
little white sections that I left I'm just trying to pay attention to the
funny little shapes because like obviously there aren't triangles and
circles in here I mean unless you break that down too like that's kind of
triangular and this is like rectangular but I'm kind of trying to just pay
attention to the actual shapes so hopefully I'll be able to draw a rose
in the future, gain some knowledge you know
now i'm slowly darkening things up I might have to add a little blue maybe by
making it purple I can get some contrast in these sections that I kind of lost
by going too dark too fast mm-hmm
definitely I'm losing a lot of contrast
here kind of lost a lot of the light tones specifically so I'm kind of too
nervous to get rid of the white spaces that I did leave I want to try again the
this time, I'm going to use a whole sheet of paper and this time I'm gonna try sketching it
out first and try to simplify everything and draw this darn rose again since it is
the second time I'm drawing it that should help as well because there's
things that I picked up on the first time I drew it and hopefully I'll
remember and then I'll also pick up on some new things
okay now this complicated middle bit again
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♪ these things are so complicated, I don't know what I'm doing ♪
♪ I'm just trying anyway ♪
maybe I'm taking this too
seriously maybe flowers are just supposed to be pretty little things that
you look at and don't paint anyway I'm gonna start doing the lineart or I'm
gonna Drive myself crazy trying to make this perfect
try to not keep any of the
edge of the petals too straight and perfect because they're very wobbly
because there's like little niches and notches and all the little bits
color in all these like really dark sections here in the folds of the petals
I think I'm learning something the way these curve and the way to draw the way the curve
folds into the petal (I don't know if that makes any sense) but it's starting to make a little
bit more sense to me
I'm just gonna wing it here this might be a mistake
here's my rose so far - think I'll add the little bud down here too
keep it a little bit more simple
so it doesn't distract
all right next I'm going to erase everything
a little texture to the edge of the petals
grab the big (op, not that guy) grab the larger
paintbrush our number eight and water
color in all the lightest points maybe
I'll see which Rose turned out better once this is - once I finish this one
this one's definitely gonna be a little bit more illustrative because it has
that bold line obviously
then go in with like a nice mid-tone maybe color
in some more doesn't seem any darker does it?
yeah I just hmmmmmmmmmm
this is kind of what
I mean when I say I'm not very good with watercolors I have a hard time getting
the tones I want and maybe a proper palette would help - i'm coloring it in trying
to keep similar tones farther away from each other best I can
I also want to kind of like fade out when it gets near the edge
personally think that watercolor is just a very complicated medium there's so many
different factors that go into getting each color and each tone: like your type
of brush, the amount of water you're adding, the amount of pigment that you
have, and the paper that you're using
so each time I attempt them it's like equal
amount of struggle I haven't like improved yet
and I've kind of like tried
my hardest to learn on my own and this might be one of those mediums where I
just need someone to be over my shoulder telling me exactly what I need
to do to improve and like giving me lessons and exercises and things like
that I just have so much to learn
watercolor artists have my greatest respect
and Im gonna grab some of the blue and color in this stem
if there's one thing I could teach you in my videos it's that you need to
try even if you're gonna fail so that's why a lot of the end results I come up
with aren't necessarily perfect -- let's compare this to the one I made earlier, I
kind of like different things about each of them I like the simplicity and the
like shape fulness of this one like the way the petals look and then this would
I think I did a little bit better when it came to separating my tones so I am
moving in the right direction I'm just glad that I have the
opportunity to be able to make these kind of things
and the fact that I'm still living which means I can still improve in the future
wonder if I can use this to like darken up some areas while the papers still wet
just draw on it with the watercolor pencil
there we have it here's what I
came up with today
a couple sketch book pages I think this
is personally my favorite thing I made today and then we have these two roses
as well I think I am going to just take a little bit of water and a little bit
of this bluish purple that we've made and add it to this because I really like
it over there almost all the same places that I added the graphite or the watercolor pencil
has a different look to it
Anyway! I do want to thank you
guys for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me go through the July ArtSnacks plus box
I wanna thank ArtSnacks for sponsoring the video and if you want
to learn any more information about ArtSnacks or ArtSnacks plus I will have a
link in the description where you can find out more about that
anyway thank'ya'guys for watching
I'll see you guys all next week and I hope you have a delicious
evening full of waffles!
bye!
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