Hello friends! Today I have the October Scrawlrbox, so it's got some
mystery art supplies in it and i'm gonna open it up, find out what's inside, and
hopefully draw something cool -
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Ohh!I love pastels colors! I love pastel, not the art supply but the colors.
so here we have the artist of the month and this is some of their beautiful art
oh we have a little Derwent pastel sharpener, so it looks like a
basic sharpener nothing too fancy about this it looks like the barrel might be a
little bit shorter for doing wider lead - if that make sense
also i see the candy which is menthol and eucalyptus - what does it look like? oh
oh my gosh that's massive, I've never seen anything like
this in the US I'd be interested to try that - here i see a pencil it is black and
white a Staedtler tradition HB - it's got an eraser on one end - lead on the other, you know
your basic pencil
what is this? the koi coloring brush pen - does it write in
white? I wonder if it like smudges things?
I'll have to read about that I'm not sure what that does and then
finally we have six fine art pencils we've gotten something that looked very
similar to this, I think in another Scrawlrbox and it had several colors
in it so let's see what's inside here because nowhere on it does it say what's
inside except that there's six pencils so I'm hoping there's some fun colors
maybe some pastel colors - oh yeah I'm right - looky looky looky - so we have
some lightfast Derwent pencils - so have
yellow ocher
mid ultramarine
this one is
sandstone
champagne
and one-no, two more - this is called 'wheat'
and this last one is
midnight black
oh and the sticker - there is also a Scrawlrbox sticker. here we have the menu or
the list of art supplies
okay yeah it says this is a blender so I assume you
use it to blend these pencils together that's gonna be fun I want to I want to
experiment this okay oh and then of course it mentions the paper if you've
watched on my other subscription art supplies unboxings I much prefer when
they provide paper which Scrawlrbox almost always does this - [the paper] feels weird
can you see the texture? it feels like - almost feels 'canvas-y'
oh let's read about it says it's a mold-made, wood-free, acid-free, 130 GSM, sheet
in two colors - so here we have like a yellow toned one and then a plain white
piece - I think I'll swatch these quickly in my sketchbook just to get an idea of
the colors - these two colors are very similar except this one's like a little perkier
and brighter seeing a lot of warm tones here - I have to blend them together too and
see and then we have this one random blue color - oh this is a gorgeous color
scheme *sings*
you can get bit of a gradient there, I should do that with all of them - I really want to
test out the koi coloring brush pen see how well that blends things
I'm not seeing a significant change - oh wait
I don't think this paper can really hold
up to this I'm not sure what this is made out of because I use copics on this
paper all the time and it's fine this is the illo sketchbook and it does not
like this koi coloring brush pen, for your information - so why don't I just
grab just this piece like a corner of the fancy paper see if I can get it to blend
out so let's grab two different colors don't want to take up too much space but
I do want to draw on the paper - and to blend it a bit before going in with
the blend - see if we can blend that - okay that's beading up the paper too - are there instructions?
and I doing this right? "the odorless water-based solvent facilitates smooth blending and layers
of colors, try lightly softening and blending your pencil colors with this
handy pen" - I think that's what it says to do unless you're supposed to like lay it
down and then go over it with the pencil? - ehhh, I see a difference, but I'm not sure... if anyone
knows how to use this let me know I don't I don't know if I'm doing it right
cuz it's not - it's just eating the paper - this is the yellow ocher, try to blend that into
sandstone - i'll try to blend that better - now that there's like a thick layer of
pencil I'm gonna try this again and I hope that will protect the paper - do you see a
difference? do you see anything happening? maybe I should watch a tutorial? *laughs
see if there's anything like that - so this video uses this with watercolor pencils I
don't think these are watercolor pencils these are oil-based pencils I actually
have....*reaches for something* some watercolor pencils right here
that was unplanned
so why don't I try this
blending brush with these and see what happens and let me just write this stuff down
so I don't mix it up -
moment of truth let's see what happens
okay see that
actually does something I am seeing a definite difference but I mean they are
watercolor pencils so that makes sense but look at how well you can blend that
I'm liking the results on these watercolor pencils a lot better than
with the pencils that Scrawlrbox provided so I don't know if there was
like a change of plans halfway through or something I don't
think this is meant to be used with those but we're gonna do our best to
create something with the supplies provided so I'm going to put away these watercolor
pencils - it says these pencils. they're light fastness lasts for up to a hundred
years in museum conditions "these smooth texture of its revolutionary thick core
can be sharpened to a strong point for detailed drawing and give a dense color
application which brings vibrancy to your work they can even be used with the
medium giving painterly effect when dissolved" oh is that what we're supposed
to - I wonder if we're just supposed to take this - there's a little bit of
watercolor pencil on the end, let me get that off - see see how the watercolor
pencil has like attached itself to it and I can use it sort of as a marker I
wonder if I can do the same thing let's use blue
that's so different than the color that's stuck on it right now okay looks
clean let me see if I can just do this to get a painterly effect
still more yellow - I'm not seeing a whole lot of blue, if you draw over the wet space it
doesn't really leave much pigment whereas if you go on a dry spot it does
so I'm kind of confused I think they just I don't know? did that they originally
mean to provide watercolor pencils because I'm not seeing a whole lot of
results with this which is disappointing - so if what you draw with these can last for up
to a hundred years that means they could last for just long enough for like a
nice prophecy in a fantasy novel right?
oh did they give me a prompt? I feel like Scrawlrbox always gives me a prompt
maybe I should double-check that - oh here
on the back so the Scrawlr-challenge prompt is "washed ashore"
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I kinda want to draw a kid picking up seashells on the shore
use all of the orange tones for like
the character and the sand and then there'd be the blue for the ocean
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oh here's an idea, I'd have to look up a reference of a seashell but for a
thumbnail this is probably fine, let's do a little color-block down here see if I like this
for a color scheme and what I could come up with
I really want to use this toned-paper, I
think that'll be more fun - a little bit more out-of-the-ordinary and I think
I've got an idea of what I want to draw so we're gonna work on that now
I thumbnailed a few things and I think I've come up with and Idea that I want
to go with - something I noticed while playing with these is that this pencil
really smudges when it comes to using these on top of it so if I use this for
sketching I'm gonna have to like fully erase it
before I may be able to put these down so this might end up being a disaster
but I'm gonna give it a shot anyway because I want to be able to erase my
sketch in case there's things that don't look quite right and I need to alter
them just go in then shall we 'uh-huh-ah' it's always that first mark is the scariest
I want this to be very fluid so I'm gonna draw my line of action here and have a
face looking this way - a seashell - block out the basic shape of the seashell
those major parts and it has the opening and then it gets a little pointy at
the bottom - the eyes would maybe be there okay following this line of action we
can draw the body here - and this -well- let's see... do we want to angle this way or this
way? let's try this way it's a little bit more - see how the head is turned right so
we're gonna take the shoulders and turn them left to give it more *gestures swooshiness* more this *gestures again*
you know? fluidity, I guess - now I got to be careful because these art supplies
are lightfast up to a hundred years so this might be my only living art piece
in a hundred years so I gotta make this good
see I want her expression to be
more like I don't know enjoying the experience and right now she looks kind of
Angry, maybe if we open her eyes wider maybe just give her a big smile that that
definitely makes it look more inviting right?
hmm know the head looks too small...
I'm not in love with the face and the face is a preeeeeeeeetty big deal - any better?
I'm gonna keep going till I get one I like or until I admit defeat whichever comes
first *laughs I wonder if I should try to draw her hair wet?
I've never drawn wet hair before - maybe itd be like slightly curly right and
would be heavier so it's going to be flat and squiggly - extra shiny - right? but
now we have all this extra space which I kind of left for hair - so maybe she's got her hair
up in a bun - a soggy bun - I don't know I'll leave it there and I'll just let it be
and see what I think of it in a little while
now I can work on making this hand bigger - oops *drops pencil* - woah woah woah, that looks like a turd
let me try that again - there is a lot of stuff
going on here and I can't really see what I'm doing I might have to start
over - I really want the shell to look good because it is kind of important
I want the hole to open up here though - does that look more right? "more right?" did I just say that? okay...
on this hand I want to see more of the shell and before the hand was covering a
little too much, So I'll open the hand up a bit more
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something like that - definitely never drawn a hand in that position before
why don't we start on the hip since there's not much to it - like it's one flat - one
big shape for her legs - start lightly and see what happens
fill out the shape first, very lightly so I can maybe add some definition and
maybe blend the colors - a little hip shine *hehe - and use champagne - which one is that? oh this one
try to blend these together -
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interesting, I'll add another light layer - and fill in some of these sections
okay start with that I might
want it to go darker but for now we can leave it like that - I actually really
like it with the darker line on the outside instead of using the black
to outline each shape, just press harder [with the same color] looks pretty cool
alright I'm not
entirely sure what color I want the bathing suit to be, I'm leaning
towards blue but I'm gonna leave that option for last instead I'm going to move on to ---
let's just keep doing the skin since this seems to be working really well
blending with champagne - so the color I'm using is sandstone and then I blend it
together with the champagne - it's crazy how different the color looks after you
go over it with the champagne color - it like dulls it down a bit
and blend that out
same process
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I just need to put it there so that I could finish coloring in this skin
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there we go *dog sounds in bg*
could use hey we could probably use blue for a little hair band up here - I don't know if
you've ever went swimming with a bun in your hair, but it's usually a mess - this isn't
a very logical drawing - all right, its time for the seashell
I'm leaving the face last cuz I'm
so scared figure out where the sketch was
there is this big section here - it opens up to the hole in the shell- there's these pointy bits- I don't
know what they're called? prongs? should be filled in very darkly since there's no light
coming from there could probably use that same champagne color to
blend this
too light let's try wheat change it up a bit
let's try adding in some black, and try to darken that up - I don't know if I want it too dark because
it'll distract from everything else -
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actually, I want it to be blue-er - its a little too pale - there you go
we've got a seashell of some kind - seashells are so intricate and beautiful they're
very difficult to draw and for a first attempt I'm gonna take it - this looks
pretty good to me so yeah her ear isn't directly on the
hole but maybe she's just placing it to her ear -now its time to draw the polka-dots in
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alright, I keep putting off this face - I'm not quite done with the bathing suit but
it's kind of creeping me out so I need to finish this
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eh...I'm losing something here - it's coming to fruition
that didn't help... I made it wose
i'll try and outline it all in black - ehhh
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blend that all out
ehh, yeah, I do not like the new face
[future me here, honestly, this doesn't look bad to me anymore. I don't know what I was thinking. Just wait and see what I do...to "fix" it. oh dear.]
that seem a little bit better maybe.
well, I can't go back to the way it was, so it doesn't really matter
I kind of blew it right at the end, that's a bummer - see if I can try and fix this like
heading the black, the midnight black, on top - eh, making it worse aren't I? oh well
and now I got to commit - hey! half of art is experimenting and finding out what works
and what doesn't and how are you gonna find out what doesn't work if you don't
make some mistakes you know? too bad this is the only piece of art that's probably
gonna last, in a hundred years, I could just shred it and then I'll know it
won't last *grunts* I think my last attempt at using
colored pencils turn now a little bit better than this - I really like this
hand I think that turned out really nice - just add a little bit of blue back here - Oh any time you accidentally grab just a
smidge of the black, it just smudges everywhere
I'm so upset about that face
there is really nothing I can do to fix that so I'm just gonna call it - this is why I
use regular pencils - well I mean it makes sense I use pencils a lot I have a lot
more experience with pencils so I'd be able to draw something that resembles
more of what I'm intending to draw with pencil
whereas with these big chubby oil pencils I've never used them before so
it's going to be a little bit more difficult - what I didn't use was this let
me just try to go over some of these places where it's not quite blended and
see if I can get anything to happen I'm not seeing anything happening - not see anything happening
it's definitely not solving any of my problems
I guess you're not a miracle pen?
I wonder if I
could draw a new face and tape it on top *lip popping sounds*
can I trace it? I don't have a
lightbox or this would be - OHHH! what if I turn my phone on to a random google search
hay!:D
I wonder if I can just avoid the pencil
hmm here's my second attempt at the face I think I'm improving - like I did
something completely different but I'd like to just cut this out and I just
glue it
the white paper definitely makes it look completely different but not bad, why does it
looks smaller? I just need to sharpen this
And I'll just tape that, right in there
ta-da! I fixed it, *laughs
the best I could - okay now I'm a little happier now I can look at it and
not cringe at my mistake - there we go it was the same color paper it worked a
little bit better but other than that hey
I'll take it.
works for me - anyway I
wanna thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed going through this October
Scrawlrbox with me, I had a lot of fun I don't - I'm kind of disappointed this
didn't really do anything but I'm excited to try this with my watercolor
pencils in the future I want to thank Scrawlrbox for sending me this box for
free to try and share with you if you're interested in getting your own Scrawlbox
subscription I'll have a link in the description along with all of the
supplies listed - I want thank you 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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