* Hey guys, it's Rae here and...
I forgot there was a candle there and as I was like, swinging it back I was like,
"Oh god, I'm probably gonna catch on fire!"
But anyway, welcome back to the world of art TikTok.
Now, if you haven't seen my other videos in the past,
this is basically a series where I deep dive into TikTok art trends, art hacks, art challenges, art tips, tricks, all that good stuff.
And by the way, almost every single creator that I'm featuring today, they're all smaller TikTokers,
so feel free to go check out their videos, make their day,
and while you're at it, you guys can check out my TikTok as well.
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All right, so the very first video that we're gonna go over today is an art hack from a fellow YouTuber.
Jackie, aka NerdECrafter, here on YouTube.
Guys, I met her in real life once and her cuteness,
it's adorable. She is the tiniest cutest little person with this big old hat and these big old brown eyes. Oh my god!
She is so cute. But more importantly, she's a very talented crafter here on YouTube,
she does a lot of clay and that includes her TikTok.
I'm about to save you quite a bit of money. Many of us have seen blending pens that promise gorgeous and seamless gradients
and here's how you can do that with your already existing collection of alcohol markers.
Just put one tip on top of the other, it will change slightly like this and then here you go,
you have a gradient that is perfect for small surfaces,
you can even take colors that have nothing to do with each other and look how beautiful it is! Go forth and have fun.
(Rae): Now for this art tip/hack we're going to go in with colors that are very very similar. So for example, these two reds.
They were also gonna try it out with these color opposites. So green and red. Let's first try out the two reds.
*Clock ticking*
Oh, they're kissing, look! Here's what the original color is.
A really nice bold red. Let's see if it worked. *Gasps* Oh my gosh, it worked!
It's working so good!
Yes, queen Jackie, it is working so good! Now, this is my first time ever doing this,
so obviously it's not perfect. But I mean, it literally works so incredible.
*Clock ticking*
Let's see if the color opposites work.
Oh my god, this is so cool! It's like wizardry magic. Now when it transitions, it's not as smooth, but that's to be expected.
There it goes, back to green. There it goes.
From red,
all the way to a beautiful beautiful green. Oh my gosh. Yes!
Now, this next TikToker is called QuiteCurly and I really really enjoy their content, very
very talented and the art hack is basically a whole entire new way to use hard chalk pastels, which I have never seen before.
Hello, here's a tutorial of what I call dry painting.
So first, I just start with my normal pencil, mechanical pencil.
Then I put some charcoal on a post-it and grab a paintbrush and just kind of like, blend
the bigger areas, the darker areas with different paintbrushes, use a little eraser for details.
Oh my gosh, then more charcoal pencil for dark stuff, then blend with a big paintbrush.
Paint pen
for the highlight and now there's nothing there, that's good,
so you add more charcoal and then you blend that but a little less and then
eraser for the little hairs and then you're done.
Beautiful, just absolutely beautiful work.
So yeah, it's kind of like pan pastels,
but without the pan, if that makes sense, and I've been wanting to do this technique the moment, the moment that I said -
Nope, Jackie. Jackie, what are you doing girl?
Um, but yeah, the moment that I saw this video, I knew I wanted to try out that technique
so yeah, let's go ahead and try it out.
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Now, I just want to say this technique was really fun, I had a great time blending out the skin tone perfectly.
The only thing is that I struggled a little bit when it came to like, the eyes, the nose and like, getting really really precise
so I ended up using the blending stump anyway. I definitely recommend trying dry painting. I think this technique was really really cool.
Now back to the art hacks, this is from a TikTok user named @DaphLife. My commentary before it
is that why didn't I think of this?
It's such a genius idea that I think could help literally thousands, maybe millions of artists out there. So yeah, here, here we go.
If brush hairs stuck to your painting, grab some masking tape. If you press it up against each hair,
it'll remove it from the painting without removing any paint. Just make sure the painting's dry first.
Hello, autofocus! Hello, it's like literally right in front of you! Come on!
Now in the video, she said that she used masking tape, but I don't have masking tape
so instead I'm gonna use shipping tape, which is a little bit stronger and it doesn't have that paper backing as you can see,
it's like, clear. You see the hairs right there?
That's what we're gonna wax today, so let's do this thing.
Oh, it's working!
Well, kinda.
A few of the hairs are really really embedded in here
so they're just like, under a layer of acrylic. Unless you break open that acrylic and go underneath,
I highly doubt any tape would be able to take care of that
but it got a mass majority of the hairs that were just lingering on top
and what's cool about this art hack is I can see it being used for not just little hairs
but also pencil and eraser shavings, clean up an old dirty canvas. This is really really great
but the only thing is be careful with how sticky your tape is because if you use duct tape, this could happen.
Right here I have some gorilla tape. This is some very hardcore stuff. Check this out.
As you can see, not only did it rip off the little hairs but it also ripped off some of the paint and the canvas.
So, just be careful.
Now, the next user's name is @HurricaneSpike and the TikTok is basically how to preserve your brushes that have like, dried
crusty paint on them, how to make them soft and usable again,
and I know that I'm a huge offender of not cleaning my paintbrushes and I know I'm gonna get judged for saying this but,
but at one point my brushes were so nasty and dirty,
just the thought of having to scrub them clean was too much for me
so I went out and I bought brand new paintbrushes to avoid having to clean the nasty ones.
That's how bad they were. So yeah, I'm ashamed.
I'm just gonna focus on these four right now because they are very offensive to me. So I'm going to take fabric softener
then I'm going to take some scalding hot mortar water. I suggest using lukewarm water
but that's not what I'm gonna use. I'm going to pour my fabric softener in it.
The big brush has to go by itself. It's been soaking for about like, 15 minutes.
Don't get me wrong, they're still stained all hell and absolutely ugly, but they aren't paint bricks anymore,
I can actually use them again, they're all soft
and so yeah, fabric softener. I get all the dry chunks of paint out of my brushes with fabric softener.
So here's what my brush looks like before. As you can see, it is NOT looking cute.
Now, in a little container, as you can see we have the fabric softener. Just gonna add a little bit of water,
this is lukewarm water.
I love the smell of fabric softener.
Oh my god, it smells so good! So yeah, I'll be back in 15 minutes. We'll see how this goes.
*Clock ticking*
Now it's been about 25 minutes instead of the 15. I'm gonna give it one last little swirl, I'm gonna clean it off.
Wipe it down.
And here is the final product. It's not perfect but definitely is a lot cleaner than it was before and more importantly,
it's a lot softer,
which is one of the main components of why dried up brushes don't work is because there's like, crusty paint all over it.
So this is really really nice. Oh wait, there's been a new update! It's making the old paint come off even more! This hack
definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely works.
And honestly while we're at it, I think I'm gonna clean all my other brushes because I mean, it's here. Why not?
Now we're gonna end this on an extremely cool note. I have never heard of this, I have never seen this,
I've never seen anybody do it. When I first saw this TikTok, my jaw dropped.
And by the way, I can't remember the user's name right off the top of my head so I'll put it right here.
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That is absolutely next level. That's some next level stuff.
And I just so happened to go to Walmart to pick up a few shirts
so I can try it for you guys and show you how hard or easy it is.
Now the first thing I'm gonna do is go in with a white chalk pastel and create an outline.
In the video, I think she might have used a colored pencil or a fabric pen, but it doesn't matter,
it's gonna work all the exact same.
And I'm just gonna add in my little teeny tiny splash of bleach, just a tiny little bit,
bloop!
Even that was a little bit too much for this project.
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Now, it was very strange because as I was painting, it wouldn't immediately show the color, you know,
it would take a few seconds to go in there and lighten up
and it's so strange because you're not gonna see what the full artwork looks like until you
like, wait for it to completely dry, which was about 30 minutes.
*Clock ticking*
And if you want the areas to be super super white, I went over them up to six
different times per line just to get that brightness.
And the last step was to clean up with an alcohol marker, make it a little bit nicer, add some nice defined lines.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the final design.
It came out so incredibly cool and I could see this as a great way for somebody to upcycle their old clothes,
it's just pure coolness, you know? And this whole entire project was only four dollars.
This is such a genius idea, I highly recommend you guys try this trick out.
I completely forgot to film an outro for this video
but I hope you guys enjoyed the advice, the tips, the tricks,
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yeah, with that being said guys, thank you so much again for watching and I will see you next video. Bye!