So Inktober is just about over and
maybe I didn't create as many drawings as I wanted to
or planned to for this month
but I definitely created illustrations that I wouldn't have
if Inktober never happened so,
Today I want to just tackle the end of Inktober.
Make something big that I can be proud of.
So that I can coast into November.
[Laughs]
All right. I've got bristol board. I got my sketchbook.
Let's draw something.
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I really just want to draw something that is totally up my alley
I don't have to like think too hard, just draw.
Maybe with a decent amount of expression
I'm thinking like the wind is trying to blow a witch's hat off.
So she has to like hold it tight, so that it doesn't go flying.
This gives me the opportunity to draw like
hair blowing in the wind
or maybe some like fall leaves or something
and I just really want to capture that Fall essence,
since you know,
we're getting a lot closer to winter day by day.
For the outfit, I can't quite decide if I want it to be more
like classic witch 'cause I do have that hat,
but I also kind of just want to draw something
a little bit more modern.
So I'm probably gonna go that route
just 'cause it's really what I'm feeling right now.
Maybe try drawing the rest of the body.
The plan originally, the one I had in my head was just like
a close-up of a witch with like the hair blowing around
but now I'm kinda like trying to explore
maybe the rest of the body.
I didn't mention this but I also like twisted the boundaries of
the illustration, you can kind of see how it's slanted now.
I feel like it just adds a little bit more oomph
and dynamic-ness. Is that even a word?
Okay. I'm pretty happy with this.
Like I drew this on the top left of this sketchbook
'cause I thought
Oh uh, this just might take a few tries
to get something that I like,
but I had a pretty good visualization of what I wanted.
I think I am actually putting it onto paper here.
Let's give her some like - [Laughs]
Oh, yeah I'm totally giving her some Adidas.
I really like this. [Laughs]
I'm kind of excited to draw this really big.
Drawing big is really difficult for me, though.
Like I can draw a small, teeny, tiny,
but when I draw big,
I feel like it just blows up all the mistakes in art
and you can see them and they're just so much bigger
and they're just like oh look at me!
So we'll see how this goes.
I'm just gonna put this over to the side here,
So I can still see it
and I'm gonna start drawing on this full-size piece of Bristol board,
I believe it's 10x12.
You know what, actually,
I didn't try the drawing her looking the other direction.
Let me just try. [Laughs]
I don't want to like dive in before I'm a hundred percent
sure that this is the pose that I want.
I just want to see how it will look from a different angle.
This has some attributes that I like, but I'm not sure.
But I think I like the first one better.
I'm just gonna like finish it up though
because I still kind of like it. [Laughs]
Even though next to the other one,
I like the other better.
Some wind. Oh, you know what?
There's a lot of white space down here on the broom.
I'm gonna try and add a cat. Wish me luck.
They've heads and eyes and ears.
You know, features cats have or so do bears and people.
Can't be that hard. [Stifled giggle]
Okay seeing these two next to each other.,
I think the one on the left gets the edge.
So let's move on to the piece of paper.
I'm gonna start very loose and light and big
and try to get this laid out on the piece of paper
without any huge Anatomy mistakes
and making sure that I like where it's laid out on the page.
Okay yeah, that's not right.
It's way too far over! Uhh.
Okay, come here Mister Eraser.
I need to get like the angle right , 'Cause I twisted this
so I want like this to be straight up.
So this is the angle that it should look
and that's how I need to draw it
with her like diagonally fitting on the page.
So she'd be here,
Head would be there.
Hat. [Laughs] Drawing big is hard.
Eyeballs. Oh, that's actually kind of a cute head.
I like the shape of it.
The hair coming in front.
I think the arm is a little funky.
I'm gonna move it in a little bit
'cause in my original picture it's definitely closer to the face.
Why does this body feel wrong?
[Laughs]
I feel like it's big compared to the head or something.
Yeah, I think limbs are something that suffer
when I try to draw bigger. Try to soften it up .
Shorten the limbs.
Think I'm gonna have to change the face though.
Like it's just too deep in the shoulders.
I can either move the shoulders down,
Oh, let me see. Smiling.
I really like this face, but I think I'm gonna have to erase it.
I'm like trying to find a way to keep it but I don't think it's -
Since I'm redrawing it, why don't I try it from a different angle?
No, no, no. No. No.
I just wanted to look the way it looks in the thumbnail.
Is that too much to ask?
I drew it once I should be able to do it again.
It's just bigger.
Well, I know I want a shade under this hat.
(Uh, that's so satisfying)
It's my favorite thing about drawing which hats,
is just being able to shade that one section.
Should probably try each other's body again.
[Laughs] It just gets too big.
I don't know if like the head is too small now.
So, let's see. She's sitting on a broom.
The leg would be here.
The other leg's over there.
Forget it, I want to work on the hat.
Add some more shading.
Something just feels way stiffer.
It doesn't have the like loose sketchiness,
even though it's pretty sketchy. [Laughs]
Just her arms look so...
Robotic to me like,
the one arms like stuck out that way the elbow
and the other ones this way. It's not what I want. [Laughs]
Just look like my thumbnail!
Try softening up the arm, but now the forearm is too long!
Urgh
You know what, I think I'm just gonna have to move the hand entirely.
It's just unnatural!
Drawing those fingies.
This could be better. This might be better.
It's not worse.
Drawing those cute overalls.
I think it'll have stripes on the shirt. Yes. This is very cute
and it's like the overalls are solid black,
Oh! Yeah, okay. I think we're getting somewhere.
Hmm that head is just too small.
Or the body is too big.
Yeah, I think we're gonna try and shrink the body.
I'm not entirely sure how to do this.
So I'm gonna make it like thinner and also shorter,
that should make the body look smaller
and more proportionate with the head.
So if I raise the hips up a little higher.
That would make this seem higher
and that leg would be higher.
Okay. Yeah, that definitely looks better.
Should I include a cat?
Hmm trying to balance on the back of the broom.
I mean there's a lot of space back there.
It needs something besides just a broom. [Laughs]
I want the face to look more like the thumbnail.
Maybe if I raise the nose up
just a smidge.
It does also make more face visible because I have that
like hair coming in front of the chin, if I raise the nose up,
you'll see more face and maybe even the lips.
Add a little bit more detail to this hair.
Okay, okay.
Hmm. The body might still be too big.
I'm not sure I can slim it down any more
without making like the character look too skinny.
So maybe I just need to raise up the butt a little.
A little butt lift. [Laughs]
Think we're getting somewhere.
It didn't come as easy as maybe the thumbnail sketch did
but it's coming together.
Just need to draw some feet down here.
It's crazy how much I've shrunk the body because originally like,
the butt was almost at the bottom of the page
and now I'm managing to squeeze in these feet.
So yeah, I have made some significant changes.
Give this hand another go.
I think it just needs to be a little bit lower
and a little bit more sprawled
like she's actually holding on to the hat.
Maybe by stretching out the fingers.
That way I can put rings on her fingers.
Yeah, I think that does work, the arms still just feels...
Janky to me, but I'm not sure what to do about it
and I've like redrawn close to 30 times now.
I'm gonna try again with this cat. [Laughs]
Fourth attempt maybe.
I'm just gonna keep it really simple.
Animals are not my specialty.
so maybe if I just air on the side of cute,
people just believe it's a cat even if it doesn't really look like one.
If I did two little dots for the eyes and a little mouth
(The mouth)
A little fuzz
Then I want the tail kind of like blowing in the wind too.
Okay, okay.
Cats are definitely not shaped like dogs.
I tried to give it a like a dog leg at first
and I was like somethings not right, so I like squished it.
It made it more squishy. Mmm-hmm.
and I feel like it looks way more like a cat.
My kneaded eraser.
Does it look like anything to you?
Anyway, goodbye sketch!
I really like the way this sketch looks,
so I'm kind of sad to say goodbye.
But it's just the next step of art, man.
I'll see you on the other side. Well, what's left of you.
I was gonna use my dip pens,
but I really want to try to just do my best here,
so I'm just gonna use fineliners.
I use fineliners throughout the year.
So getting better at that.
It seems more important to me at this point.
So I'm just gonna practice using my fineliners.
This is a 1.0 millimeter fineliner.
I'm just gonna go around and line stuff.
I'm not really happy with this face.
But you know what?
I'm just gonna stuff those feelings deep down inside
and ignore them.
It's much more important to me that I finish this drawing.
[Laughs]
There's some of that thumbnail sketch that I love.
The illustration versus like the thumbnail,
They're more like distant cousins, maybe.
but you know, they're still related.
Add some line work to the overalls,
that's what they're called. [Laughs]
and work on this kitty cat.
Definitely not the worst animal I've ever drawn.
It does look like a cat.
I like the way it's like scrunched up against her hip.
That worked out really well.
I'm using this Pitt artist pen.
Is that what it's called? Pitt artist pen brush,
To like darken up some of these lines.
Give them more variety in the width.
I think the last thing to line is just this broom.
Well the bristles on the broom.
Then I'll be able to erase the pencil
and see what we're working with.
I think I'm gonna add like a border around the character
to definitely darken up the lines.
These lines aren't quite as black as I want them to be.
They're little like off black.
If off white's a color, off black can be a color.
Just go ahead and erase everything.
Alright now I'm just gonna tweak a few things
with this fineliner.
I seem to have lost all the whispies in the background.
Like the wind blowiness.
So I'm just gonna draw a bunch of like little leaves in here
in different like swoopy shapes
and fill it in with, you know, leaves.
I mean, I guess I probably should add line art to those as well.
Alright now I'm taking this premiere - What is it?
[Laughs]
Prismacolor premier brush pen
and I'm just gonna outline the entire character
just to make her pop a little bit more
and blend in less with like the leaves
And I think there just needs to be a little bit more variety
in the line work here. It looks very flat currently.
I'm hoping this will help.
Oh, I didn't add line it to these leaves up here.
Okay, I got this. [Laughs]
and then maybe a few random leaves that aren't quite...
Contained in the swooshies but like, you know,
they still live, they're still real they're still important.
I need my palette. Not you.
I'm going to use some India ink
and just add in some tone to this illustration.
Definitely make it pop a little bit more.
Right now, it's quite, uh,
plain.
So if I just mix that with some water.
I should have a nice gray color
and I can color in, I think the overalls.
I want the overalls to be black,
but I'm not quite committed yet.
So I'll start was like a gray color. [Laughs]
and just tried my best to make it like a flat even wash.
I feel like I say that every time I use anything that's mix with water
but I find it very difficult to get even tones.
So any time I'm using a paintbrush,
you know, I'm practicing. [Laughs]
We don't want no streaks or swishes or squishes. Okay.
We want a flat even color.
Not too shabby.
I'm hoping I won't have a problem here at the top,
but let me dry off the brush and try...
I think the hat should also be dark.
So I'll color that in.
I might add more like depth to everything.
But it's just starting light.
Let's see what happens.
I do think I want it a little darker.
I can leave like the brim a little lighter
because more light might be hitting it
and then darken this section.
I don't know if that's like a realistic way to approach it.
I don't know. I don't do realism.
Honestly this color is light enough to go in
and do the face and start building that up,
so we can add like a little blush,
some eye makeup.
No, can't forget the nosey.
I really don't like this face.
It doesn't capture like the personality of the original sketch
It's not a bad face.
That's not what I'm saying. It's just it's not THE face.
Definitely need some more contrast in here,
So I'm gonna grab some more India ink
just sqoosh it in there, mix that up
and let's darken up some sections. Shall we?
Specifically like the underside of the hat.
Hopefully it's not still too wet.
I think it's pretty dry.
[Laughs]
If not, I think you know it'll happen
and it doesn't look like it's happening. Okay.
That could have been bad.
I'm gonna try to use this color to add stripes.
Oh, this might be a little thick. Oh, no, I don't like that.
Oops
Mm. You know what? I think I need a different paint brush.
This one's just too big.
This is a little better.
I just have no control with a (paint brush)
Gah! That could have been done better.
I should have just used the fineliner.
I also wanna darken up down here.
It just seems a little too plain as well
and I want more contrast between the overalls
and her white sneakers. So just darken all this up.
Maybe add some wrinkles and shading here and there
in this region.
Oh and definitely under this tail.
Oh that looks nice. I like that
and under the chinny chin.
I need some shading under the hat
just to make it look bigger and...
having more of an impact on like the actual character.
Now I'm just coloring in all of these leaves,
just adding some tone. Making them pop a little bit more
from the background.
I'm not coloring in all of them. I want them to be s--
I want them to have some variety.
I'm just doing whichever one's call to me.
Just darkening this up a little bit more.
Just trying to find some contrast.
The piece is definitely improving.
I just think it needs a little bit more oomph.
Now the background still seems plain to me.
Darken up the nose.
That's what I like about inks, is the ability to layer them.
So I like to start light and slowly build up from there.
I still don't have the confidence to go like straight dark.
I tried in this piece and I don't like those parts.
[Laughs]
I'm just gonna fill in some darkness in the background.
Like not as dark as like the overalls or anything,
but just to capture some shapes and make it less flat
and also like follow along...
The swishes of the leaves,
just to make them look more squishy.
I don't know, like a more contained shape.
Now I also want to like darken up this broom.
It's blending a little bit too much.
I'm having a lot of fun just playing with this.
Like kind of doing the painterly style.
I don't know. Does it look like a broom to you?
I feel like it has a little somethin' somethin'
Now I'm just taking a dark color again
and just adding some speckles here and there
in like the leaf sections to again, add variety.
I don't want them to all look samey same.
I'm just gonna clean up a few things with this white gel pen
and I think I am done.
I'm really to scared to like make it worse. [Laughs]
I'm kinda happy with it.
It doesn't quite encompass my idea going in
and like the way I thought it was gonna look
but here it is.
I feel like this is a nice farewell to Inktober 2019.
Goodbye. [Laughs]
I'll see you next year Inktober. We'll see how that goes.
Anyway, thank you guys for watching.
I'll see you guys all next week
and hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles.
Bye!
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