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1. Welcome to Class!: Hey, there. How are you? My name is Andy Von, and I'm so happy that you have decided to join me
here for this class. I enjoy working with
alcohol markers, pascamrkers and colored pencils. And sometimes I even like
using artery and even more, such as acrylic paint
and watercolors. And doing something
called mixed media. Over the past ten years
of my artist's career, I have learned and
gathered knowledge on how to draw and paint. And over the past three
years of teaching, I have learned what
appeals to my students. And how they learn best. In this class, I want to help build your artistic abilities. Here's what we're going
to learn in this class. We will be drawing
a glass butterfly. This will be a somewhat
whimsical drawing. Really like using
Posca markers because they are very vibrant
and colorful. The materials we will need for this class are covered
in the next video, and you can also find
a list of them with pigs below this video
in the about section. We're going to have a lot of fun today using vibrant colors. I invite you to check me out on Facebook and Instagram
at Andy's Artitude. You sure to also follow
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whenever I upload them. And if you have any questions or don't understand
something in the class, I would be more than happy
to answer your questions. So just post your questions
in the Discussions tab. I also invite you
to feel free to share your work here
on skill share. Let us all see what you've
done if you'd like to. I would love to be able to check it out and see what you've done and know that your work can
be inspiring to all of us. It is now time to
start this class. So sharpen your pencils
and let the class begin.
2. Materials: This class, we will be
drawing using Pasco markers, and the drawing surface we'll be using is a black
illustration board. Now there are different
types of these boards available for sale
online and at stores. I will be using a Crescent
illustration board. If you have another of dark
surface. That is fine. I've had students work
on throwing boxes and on their iPads and follow along the class using my
toring techniques, but adapting it to their needs. I for my part, like using these black surfaces
because they allow these acrylic
markers that are so vibrant and colorful
to really pop. I love the colors show up so
well on this dark surface. Like I mentioned, we'll
be using posca markers. These are acrylic markers. There are other brands
of acrylic markers. So whatever you have at
your disposal is fine. I enjoy using Posca markers, and I find the markers
will be high quality. And in my experience, they don't tend
to get topped up. The colors we will be
needing are the following. Orange, pink, white, blue, light green, yellow, dark
green, and light blue. We will be needing a white
colored pencil to do the initial sketch
on the blackboard. If you're using another type
of material to draw on, such as white paper
or something, then in that case, you will use a regular
pencil or pen. We will also need a dark
blue colored pencil or some of the shading. Or if you don't have that, you can also use a black
or gray colored pencil. I'm using prisma colored pencil. With that, we are done
gathering our materials. So let's start with the class.
3. Initial Sketch: Okay, welcome. So
we're going to kick this off with sketching
the butterfly. We'll do our in
this show sketch, and I'm using the white
colored pencil for this step on my black
illustration board. And we're going to start by
drawing in one of the wings. So I'll draw this curved line
down towards the middle. I'm trying to place
this butterfly in the middle of my canvas. Next, we will draw the
lower part of this wing, and this lower part of the wing overlaps the upper
part a little bit. Next, we'll draw the other wing, and this one is partially
hidden by the front wing, the one that we just drew. So we'll only be drawing
part of this second wing, and we'll stop our line right
when we get down to where all of these wings meet
at the front, bottom. And right here we would
start drawing the body. We would draw a small oval for the upper part of the body, and then behind it, going parallel or
in other words, beside the lower wing, we will draw the tail part. So this would extend down beyond the body oval and it doesn't go right
flush with the wing. It separates a little bit down near the bottom,
as you can see. And we will also draw in a
little circle for the head. Now, after reaching this point, I took a look at the entire
drawing and decided to make one small adjustment on the wing so that all
the angles looked good.
4. White Under Layer Coat: So we're going to grab our
white posca marker and start drawing and coloring in these different
shapes on the wing, and these come almost all
the way together to form a type of puzzle or mosaic
of types on the wing. And in the long run, each of these shapes will be
colored a different color. The reason we're
starting off with white and not the actual
color, such as green, orange is because
sometimes when working on black paper or illustration
board like we're doing, the colorful posca markers tend to sink into the paper
and get absorbed, and you have to add a bunch of layers in order to get
the color to be vibrant. Posca markers are somewhat transparent, although
not very much, but by adding a white
background that then reflects through the second and third
layer that will be colorful. These colors will look
even more vibrant because the white is shining through
them in just black paper. So with these, I'm adding
in about two layers to get the white to be nice
and bright and solid. And I'm allowing
each layer time to dry before I go on to
the next because if not, and you go in for a second layer before the
first layer has dried, then the first layer can
come up your Pasco merger. So we'll do this for
the three segments of the wing that are visible
on our little butterfly.
5. Initial Colors: Alright, we're going
to start coloring in the wings with our
posca markers, and we're going to use
some nice bright colors. I'm going to start out with
the light blue marker. And what I would do
is just pick some of the shapes and
color them in solid. I'm going to try to not pick
any that will be touching. In other words, I
don't want to have one blue shape next
to another one. I want to have each color
separated by another color. So we'll be working
with light blue, pink, orange green coloring
in these shapes. M.
6. Initial Shadows and Highlights: In this video, we're
going to start working with some of our
shadows and highlights. So we'll be starting out
with shadows and we'll only add these to the light blue
parts of the wing for now. We'll be using a dark
blue posca marker. And as you can see in the video, I'm starting at the bottom
of the light blue shapes and dragging these lines up at an angle about
halfway up at the shape, and I'm working
along what would be the bottom edge of each shape. Now that this dark blue
shadow has been added in, we're going to go in with
a light green marker and work on the green shapes. What we'll do this time
instead of working from the bottom is we'll work
from the top going down, and this is for the
highlights on these shapes. Go. Now, for the pink
and yellow shapes, we will use a white marker. And again, we're starting at the top of the
shape working down at an angle with this spaced
out line work or hatch work. Don't Don't Don't Don't. Don't Don't help. Don't Don't. Don't. I'll add a little
bit of this white to the very top edge of
the light blue shapes. Next, we'll grab
a yellow marker, and we'll add a highlight to the orange segments along the very top just like
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7. Midtones and Shadows: Alright, so we're
going to work on some mid tones highlights
and shadows in this video. So I'll grab my
orange posca marker and focus on the yellow areas. So I'll start at the bottom, similar to how I did
the blue shadows and work upwards with
these hatchwork lines. And this is just to add a bit of a mid tone to the yellow so we can break
it up a little bit. Next, I'll grab my white and add a very thin streak to the blue, orange and green shapes just
for a glimmer of highlight. Next, we'll grab the dark
blue again and go in and add some shadows to the pink areas working from the bottom
up about halfway.
8. A Bit of Shading: Alright, so we're going to grab our indigo blue colored
pencil number nine oh one, and we'll use this to
do a bit of shading on the lower part of
some of these shapes. So in this video,
you'll see me going in on the lower section,
in other words, opposite from the white
highlight area on each shape and working softly
with the side of my pencil, building up my shade a
little bit at a time. And what I'm trying to do is
create a bit of a roundness, so picture bumper
lights on a car. On some cars,
they're a bit round. They stick out, and
they have an edge. They have an area
where the light glows more and an area
where it glows less. So that's what I'm
trying to mimic and do on these butterfly wings. So just watch the ones I do. I do the blue ones, the green, and the pink. No
9. Blue Outline: Alright, so we're going to
grab a blue Posca marker, and we're going to add in
the outline of the wing and also color in between
the shapes on the wing. So you might have to add more than one layer to
get the blue to cover. Now that the blue
has had time to dry, I'm going to grab my
yellow pascamrker and add a thin line to the
very edge of the wing. And again, you may
have to add in more than one layer to
get it to cover well. Finally, we'll grub an
orange posca marker, and we will add an orange edge
to the back of the wings.
10. More Shading: Alright, so we're going to grab our blue colored pencil
again and do a bit of shading on the back wing and the lower part
of the front wing. We want those to
be a bit subdued and pushed towards
the background and lower half so that the main upper front wing
stands out the most. So I'm using soft layers with a soft pressure
on the pencil. So we want to think of these
three section of wings as being bright,
subdued and shaded. So each one incrementally
gets darker the further away it is from the main
part of the main wing.
11. Body: Alright. In this video, we're going to color
in the body and add a shading to it
with our pakamrkers. So I'll grab this dark blue
paska and color the body in a solid and then let it thoroughly dry before
adding more layers. Next, we'll grab
this orange posca and add in these rings or curved lines around the body to show the different segments
and where they divide. We'll also run a line under the tail along the bottom edge. We will then go in with a
yellow and over that orange over the top half of those
orange lines on the body. And this yellow is
to show a bit of a highlight or area that's reflecting light
off of the wing. And we will also add some of the head details such as
the eyes and antenna. Now at the upper part of that
yellow that we just added, I will add a little speck of white to be the
ultimate highlight. Next, we'll go in
again with orange and we'll draw in the bent legs. Even though I
haven't narrated it, you may notice I go in and add in secondary layers
to the yellows, whites, and oranges
here and there. Now, what we'll do with
our yellow is add in these little specks
on the upper part of the segments of the
body in between the lines to add a bit more
of a glint on the butterfly. Finally, we'll wrap up with grabbing our indigo blue
colored pencil and adding a bit of shading to
the lower part of the body, just so it's a little
bit darker down there and it looks a bit
more three dimensional.
12. Final Details: In this final video, we'll go in with a white
posca marker and add a few more highlights
to the wings on the leading edge and a few
more white highlights. You'll see me add
in here and there, and that will about
wrap up our drawing.
13. Thanks for Watching!: Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you
enjoyed this class and were able to learn
something from it. Please feel free to post a
picture of your drawing below this class so that
all of us here on Scoture can see what you did. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to start a discussion in the Discussions
tab below this video, and I will be happy to
answer your questions. If you would like to support me, please check out my website. At www.andartitd.com, and feel free to visit me
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in the coming weeks, I will be uploading
more classes. That's it for now. I hope
you have a wonderful day. See you in the next class.
Andy Villon, Fine Artist
