I haven't been hiding it, I love, love, love, love, love, love, love my Copic markers
but I'be been getting quite a few comments complaining that I've abandoned my Ohuhu
markers and today that changes!
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so I'm going to be drawing on this small piece
of paper, I don't know what size it is, I didn't measure it - what's that saying?
measure twice, cut once? but if you don't really care what size it turns out
you don't have to measure you just cut so *hehe* that's what I did and I'm using my
prismacolor Col-Erase pencil in pink because I've talked about this a lot I
like the way it looks under the Copic markers [in this case, Ohuhu] it's just cute and beautiful and
this shape and size kind of forced me to draw a character in a very interesting
squashed pose and with the first attempt I didn't really like the layout so I
erased it and I'm using a brand new kneaded eraser, I've talked about kneaded
erases a lot on this Channel - I love them - but this is the Koh-i-Noor one and it just
sort of breaks into pieces and they don't squash back together, I don't know
if I've got a faulty one? or if I just don't like this brand so I don't
recommend the Koh-I-Noor kneaded eraser - I really like the cheap ones that you get
at the grocery store they seem to be more squashy and that's what I like in
a kneaded eraser - anyway on the second attempt at the drawing I'm doing the
exact same thing but you know 'better' that's the hindsight
20/20 thing, you know, your first attempt you're like "oh I messed up in all these
different things" so then when you erase it you can do a better job because you
remember all the things that you're messed up on "hey" yeah
there was some adult figure in my life when I was younger and I don't really
remember who it was but they looked down upon people who erased and told me that
erasing was like one of the most 'worstest' things that you could ever do
and now that I've got a little bit more experience I understand where they were
coming from but I also understand the benefits of erasing so like erasing can
be a terrible thing when you're beginning as an artist and you are
erasing like the entirety of a drawing when you've already spent like 30
minutes on it and erasing at that point can bring a lot of emotional damages
because I specifically remember the way it felt when you spend a lot of time on
something and then you just hated it and you erased it
and that's just that's not good for anyone like just turn the page and start
again at that point because I -- "you're erasing and then the tears are flowing
and you just feel awful and then the waters ruining the paper and then the
eraser just goes straight through the paper and then you end up with a big
pile of shrapnel" it's just no good and imagine when I was 14 I really didn't
like any of my art - I enjoyed making it but I didn't really like the way it
looked when I was done with it imagine if I had erased all that I
wouldn't have any reference to look back on and see where I was and see my
progress now that I'm more experienced and I understand the benefits of erasing
erasing is more for like small mistakes that you've done on the paper or early
on in the drawing process when you see what you've done and you know exactly
what you did wrong and you have that experience as an artist to know what to
fix and then you can, you know, erase and fix that mistake like I mentioned
earlier which is what I did today - so there's definitely benefits to both
sides: erasing and not erasing, and I think we all know as individuals
what's probably going to suit us best if erasing is making you feel really
really sad just turn the page and start another drawing, if you're erasing
because you know "oh I know exactly what I need to do to fix this" bingo! I think
that's the best way to go about it - either way I'm not judging anyone who
races or doesn't erase
some of my favorite drawings that I ever made with
Ohuhu markers were of a brand new character named Weelz that I just came
up with like in the last couple months, so when I think of Ohuhu markers I always
think of this character so that's who I'm going to be drawing today and I can
use the exact same colors that I've always used so they're gonna be spot-on
and perfect so I'm very excited to be putting a bit more detail into a drawing
with her, because I tend to use Ohuhu markers in my sketchbooks a lot and with
solid blocks of color and splashes of color and just, you know, so that there's color in
the sketchbook and it's not a boring graphite sketchbook, I mean not that all
graphite sketchbooks are boring, I just - I just enjoy that pop! of color - so what's
special about today's video is I'm going to be putting a lot more time into this
drawing and using Ohuhu - I'm not sure looking back I don't think I've ever
done like a full sit down spend a couple hours with my Ohuhu markers I think I've
only ever used them in sketchbooks and like maybe at max like an hour-long
drawing so this is going to be an experiment definitely and since I've
been using my Copic markers so much I feel like I've learned a lot about
markers and something that I didn't quite learn when I had Ohuhu because I
was only using them for sketches and things and it was kind of like a crutch
and I wasn't learning anymore with the markers because I was just using them
the way I had always used like highlighters in my sketchbook and I
think moving on to Copic has definitely impacted the way I use
markers so in a recent video I talked about how Copic markers were affecting
my art and to summarize that quickly so you don't have to go back and watch it
I've owned Ohuhu markers for a few years now and like I've used them on and
off and I've really liked them but it wasn't until I got Copic markers that I
realized how much fun markers could be so now as an experiment I wanted to go
back to my Ohuhu markers and see if I'm able to do those things that came so
easily with a Copic marker that I never really experienced with my Ohuhu in the
past and that comes down to a lot of like blending and things and with my
Copic markers I have Copic Sketch markers and if you didn't know those our
dual tip one end has a chisel nib and the other has a brush nib, the coveted
brush nib *hehe, this contrasts with my Ohuhu markers because currently they only sell
them with a chisel and a bullet nib brush nibs aren't exactly a brush on the
end but they're just a very flexible round nib I would call it and they're
very helpful when it comes to blending and blending out a color and creating a
soft gradient between two colors and it's a little harder to do when it comes
to a chisel or a bullet nib but now that I have experience with the brush nib and
I've kind of come to know what it takes to blend these two colors or to blend
out a color I've kind of been able to use Ohuhu in
a way that replicates a copic marker, if that makes any sense? how I always used
to use Ohuhu markers was just for flat colors and like simple cell shading I
would say and then when I moved to Copic markers blending just came so easily
that it felt like I needed to blend because it was so much fun and like it
just sort of starts blending even if you're trying to do the cell shading it
sort of becomes a blended and then youre like "oh! I'm gonna push that even farther" and
continue to blend and blend and blend so now I have more experience with the
blending and so, now that I'm moving back to Ohuhu where blending doesn't come
as easily I can still get it to blend, does that make sense? well it's alright
I'm going to explain what I do to get it to blend even though it doesn't come as
easy so if you have Ohuhu markers you'll be able to do it too
I think the biggest thing I've learned going back to Ohuhu after using Copic is you need to
understand the difference between the bullet nib and the chisel nib on the
Ohuhu, so with a bullet nib it's obviously for fine points the chisel tip is for
wider - like coloring wider sections -but there's a bit more to it that I've
realized now that I've gone back after using a Copic marker so what I've
noticed is the bullet nib is definitely a bit on the drier side and the chisel
nib is on the wetter side so if you want to blend things more severely you would
use the chisel nib because it has a lot more ink and there's just a lot more you
know fluid there that you can use to blend out the color whereas the bullet
nib is a bit drier and you can use it to make those fine points or you can use it
to creates more subtle blending and the way I do this is like you'll notice that
I did with the skin the cheeks are the most blended of anything else that
you'll see on this drawing and the what I did was I used only two colors I had a
skin tone and I had a blush tone and what I did was I colored in the
entire section of her face with the chosen skin tone and then I used the
blush tone and I used the bullet nib and I created little circles on her cheeks
then I switched back to the skintone that I had chosen flipped it
over to the chisel nib and just began blending and blending and blending and
blending and the liquid from the chisel nib created a much more smooth gradient
as you could see when you look at her cheeks now for underneath her chin
I used that same blush color for shading under the chin but when I blended it out
I used each the - I'm gonna keep confusing these - I used the bullet nib to
blend it out so that the blending isn't as soft and there's a bit harsher of a
line but it's still pretty soft, does that make sense? I think so... I also used
the bullet nib to blend the wrinkles you'll see around her armpit where the
shirt is really baggy there's some thin lines that I drew in with a darker color
to create those shadows and those creases and then I switched back to the
lighter color of this shirt and I used the bullet nib and blended that out and
you'll see it's not quite as smooth and blended as like her cheeks are I'm
hoping this makes sense I guess I'll probably need to make a tutorial if it
doesn't so do let me know I was hoping that maybe I could just get away with
explaining it but I'm not even entirely sure what I just said so hopefully it
made sense if not let me know I'll make like a actual real-time tutorial and
show you the different techniques that I can do because Ohuhu has
both the chisel and the bullet nib
this video is just meant to be a speedpaint
that's turning into a really terribly put-together tutorial oops! - now another
reason I am drawing with my Ohuhu markers today is because I'm planning on doing a
comparison video between Copic and Ohuhu and if I don't go back and
use Ohuhu because I haven't used them in so long how am I supposed to make a
very good informative comparison so you can look forward to that in the future
to let me know if you're interested in that I know that when I made my first
Copic marker video people said they would really like to see a direct
comparison so that's what I'm working on now but I want it to be good so it's
taking I've I've met a few setbacks but we'll get there so I thought it would be
best if I practice with the Ohuhu again since it had been so long and now I have
some very similar recent experience with both of the markers and I should be able
to make a better video I'm hoping - fingers crossed!
moving on to the hair I was really happy with where this whole
illustration was going and of course there's like mistakes here and there but
I was very happy with you know the overall results and I was having a lot
of fun oh! it was just so much fun anyway so going into the hair I decided to
experiment and try something different so what I did was I outlined the whole
section of the hair with the bullet nib and then I created sort of like sections
of hair like blobs of hair I don't know what you would call them but like you
know just to get an idea of where the strands would be so there's just giant
blobby sections of hair and then I started coloring in where the shine
would be with like a lighter color and then once that was done I went in with
the darker hair color and I filled in all of these sections that didn't have
but light color to try and create those shines of hair and to blend those two
very different colors I switched back to the lighter color of hair and blended
between the very dark and the very light and it creates that gradient between the
two colors and of course I'm using the chisel nib for this because I want it to
blend very very thoroughly and I'm gonna need a lot of ink to do that so that is
why I'm using the chisel and not the bullet... does this make sense? I'm hoping!
'hair shines' that's what I mean... I'm not - I don't know what I don't know *stutters
[the hair] is not my favorite part of the drawing I don't think it ruined the drawing
that's for sure but I definitely need more experience with hair and I'm going
to continue to do that because drawing big hair - I just love characters with big
hair so I'm gonna have to get good at it eventually and if I keep doing it
eventually I think it'll be the way I imagined it in my head so ok we'll stick
with it, we'll get there - I'm using the prismacolor premier 03 fineliner to
outline all the sections of this drawing and I've kind of been doing it in
sections because I didn't go in and just add the line art before the color which
I would usually do because I've been kind of having problems with the
smudging so I was like oh let me take a step back
reevaluate this and like okay I think I'll just add the liner in later because
I like to go with a lot of pastel tones and sometimes pastel tones just
for some reason from my experience they like to just grab that dark black
fineliner and just streak it all over the place so I was like hey not today
I'm going to use the liner last so... who's the champion here? I think it's me.
maybe I'm smarter than markers... I guess that's not saying much XP
oh and now I am working on what is probably my favorite part of the drawing
and that is this background and I'm doing a very abstract fun poppy pop art
background with a lot of circles it's basically all circles and I'm kind of
continuing her color scheme into the background so it's just very bright and
saturated and I just love it it was so much fun and the reason I'm able to do
this is because lately I've just been like "mm who cares what the art comes out
like I'm just going to enjoy what I'm doing" and because of that I'm not really
afraid of destroying the art because whatever the art looks like at the end
doesn't really matter it's about enjoying the process and just making the art
so because I'm not really worried about ruining it I'm able to have more or I'm
kind of just more free to experiment with the art and adding in a background
after I'm kind of happy with the way the art looks is kind of something that
would have scared me in the past but I was like "nope I just feel like doing
circles so I'm gonna add a bunch of circles to the background" and then I had
it like this and was like oh that's kind of done but then I was like no let's
add more circles and I started adding more and more circles and I'm so much more
happier with the way it turned out I think it just it just feels like a full
illustration you know? and I'm just very happy with it and if I had kind of fell
back to what my normal attitude towards art would be it was like "oh I'm really
happy you know with the way this character looks and I'm too scared to
ruin it by trying to add some kind of background in post" you know basically
but I'll like you know I'm just gonna do it anyway and I'm very happy that it did
because that experiment really paid off it doesn't always pay off obviously
sometimes you can ruin your drawing but not being afraid to ruin your drawing
can award you with these kind of results sometimes and I'm happy with that I'm
very very happy with it I had a lot of fun and I really hope I'm in like
singing conveying my emotions properly here because I see a lot of negativity
in my comment section and it's not towards me it's people talking about
their own art and that just makes me so sad because when I was younger I used to
do that to myself too and I still do but I've been really working on myself and
trying to really look at art and see what is the most important part to me and
it's not the end result because I barely ever look back at my art what I love is
the drawing and when I do look back at that I can see the fun that I had and
sometimes when you look back on your art right after you made it you just see the
mistakes but now that I'm older I look back on my art and I see the amount of
fun I had when I was drawing it and I can remember the things I was thinking
when I was drawing it it's like the weirdest thing especially when I'm like looking
back like old art from when I was like 14 and I like remember who I was
thinking about "ahhhh!" and who done me wrong in middle school haha - in a way it's like
creating art creates this weird time capsule of memories and they're like
implanted into the art - that sounds like a really good idea for maybe a story *hehe
I should probably wrap this up I've been talking for a while thank you guys for
watching today's video was definitely prove not only to myself but hopefully
to maybe some of you that you don't need Copic markers to create some of the same
effects that Copic markers can - Copic markers are very very expensive and ten
times the price of Ohuhu markers and maybe they make things easier but
sometimes saving the money is much more important and look you can still create
those soft blending techniques with these markers and that is what I set off
to prove now I need to go work on my comparison video where I show the direct
differences and similarities between these markers
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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