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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've decided to
join me here for this class. I enjoy working with
alcohol merkers, Posca markers and
colored pencils and sometimes I have end 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. Today we will be drawing
a beautiful ocean animal, specifically a colorful
and vibrant octopus. I really like using
posco merkers because they're very
vibrant and colorful. The materials we would need for this class are covered
in the next video. And you can also find
a list of them with Gs 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
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to feel free to share your here on skill chair. 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
using postal 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 story boxes and on their ipads and follow along the class using my
coloring 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 how the colors show up so well on this dark surface. So like I mentioned, we'll
be using Posco markers. These are a critical markers. There are other brands
of acrytic markers, so whatever you have at
your disposal is fine. I enjoy using Posco
markers and I find the markers to be high
quality and in my experience, they don't tend
tickets topped up. The colors we will be
needing are the following yellow straw, yellow,
pink, orange, light pink, violet, dark brown, white, and dark blue. As well as needing a
black colored pencil, we will also 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 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 color pencils. With that, we are done
gathering our materials. Let's start with the class.
3. Initial Sketch: Okay, so we're going to start with our white colored pencil. And we're going to
start by drawing a simple oval that's going
long ways from left to right. And we want to place this
oval a little bit off center, so towards the upper and
left side of the page. Next we'll come up here on the right and upper
side of the oval and extend this line that curves down and around a little bit. And this will be the
initial part of the arms. Then we'll have a
second line for the other side of this segment. And then I will connect
the two together. Next I will draw the eye. And I'll start out by drawing a little circle up here near the top where these two segments of the head and
arm come together. And I'll just draw
a circle here to start out with another
little circle inside. From there, I'll draw
these little circles on the inside separated
by a small area, and this will represent the
eyelids of the octopus. Next, I will connect the eye to the body with these
little curved lines. Finally, I'll draw the
second eye that's on the other side of the octopus
with a little curved line, because we only see part of
this eye in the distance. For the sketching
of the tentacles, I'm not going to narrate
every detail I draw, Instead I want you
to just watch along and draw with me and
copy the sketch I do. There's also a scan of the completed initial
sketch of the octopus, You can see in the about
section of this class, or you can download in the resources tab
below this video. One thing I will point
out is that some of the tentacles are
behind other ones, so be sure to draw
with this in mind.
4. First Layers of Posca - Yellows: All right, so we're
going to come in with our regular yellow Posca marker. And this initial layer will be just to get some color
down many times. What happened, as
you can see on mine, is that with the initial layer, the paper soaks up
a lot of the paint. So we have to get
this layer in and allow it to dry so
that we can then go in with a second and
sometimes third layer to really get the color to pop. We're not going to just
color in randomly with our. Instead we're going
to have these lines that are wrapping
around the head. If you've ever looked
at a model globe, like at school or somewhere, and you know how the lines of the latitude and longitude
curve around the globe. This is what we want to
do with these marks of our marker on the left
half of the octopus head. They will curve
towards the left, on the right side, they curve towards the right,
near the center. They almost go straight
up and don't curve. Like I said, depending on
the type of P you use, you may have to add
more than one layer. So let the first layer try
for about 10 minutes or more, and then come in and add
a second layer on top. And with a second layer, the marker will really start
to show and be very vibrant. After we've gotten this in, we're going to go in
with our straw yellow. This yellow has a bit
more white in it, so it will look a bit
lighter and even less red than the previous yellow we
used also For the most part, this marker will cover better because we've
already allowed the initial layer of
yellow to form a crust. What we'll do with this
straw yellow is go on the upper part of the
octopus head and lay in, having these lines wrap
around the head of the octopus about a
quarter of the way down. And we're laying this in
to give the illusion of there being a light on the octopus wrapping
around its head, like the light is coming down from the surface
of the water. And the first part
of the octopus it hits is the upper head. I will also color
around the eye. Next will allow all this
marker time to thoroughly dry.
5. Purple, Orange & More: All right, so we're going
to start working on some of the shadow layer on the lower
side of the octopus head. And I'm using the violet marker to add in the shadowed area. And I'll be starting from the bottom center of
the head of the octopus and working my way out and up about a fourth of the way
up the head of the octopus. As I go up higher, I want to have lesson
marks at near the bottom, we want to have more marks but not cover the yellow
over all the way. You'll be able to
see how I ended with a bit denser area
at the very bottom. And as I go up the side of
the head of the octopus, it gets thinner and thinner until it blends into the yellow. Next I'll use an orange marker and I'll go in this middle area. I'll cover about a fourth
of the head of the octopus, with these marks
showing the same up and down way, bending a bit. Depending on if they're
on the left side bend towards the left
and if they're on the right they'll bend
towards the right. Next I will come in with a pink marker and color
in the middle area, right in the middle of the head and right in the
middle of the orange. This will be a thinner area
than what the orange is. We don't want to
cover up the orange all the way next. While the pink is drying, I'll grab a dark blue Posca
marker and do something similar as what I did with the violet dragging
a little ways. But I don't want this blue
to extend all the way up. As far as the purple
goes, just a little ways, about half the way that
the purple extends up and will concentrate
this blue near the bottom. And you can see how we're
building up our shadow. Now that the pink has tried, we'll come in with a light pink. And if you don't have a pink, you can use a white
posca marker. And what we'll do
is we'll color in right in the center of the pink.
6. Shadows & Highlights: All right. Now we're
going to come in with a dark brown Posca marker and we're going to add
in the deep shadow. I opted to use a dark
brown instead of a because this brown posca is, if we used a black, we
would end up killing all the color that we've
already worked so hard to add. I'll add this brown
starting from the very bottom and center
of the octopus head, going up about halfway up
where we already added blue. Remember not to cover
the blue all the way, we're just having
these loose lines. Next I will grab a white
Posca marker and add a nice thick amount of
Posca up here at the top, along the eye and along
the top of the head. So we really get a nice sense of light coming down
and bouncing off of the head of the octopus on the parts that are closer to
the surface of the water. After I've added the
initial line of white, I'll drag this line down. Adding these little
shorter lines, dragging it down
into the yellow, it plends together a bit. Do do.
7. Head Details: Now we're going to start on some of the details for the head. And to start off
we're going to grab a white posca and we're
going to add in all of these little
docs that are about the size of a P to the
head of the octopus. Now that the white dots have
had time to thoroughly dry, I'm going to come in with my indigo blue colored
pencil and I'm going to add a little shadow to the lower half of the
little dots we just added. So I'll just draw a thin line around the lower
half of the dots. This way we continue this idea of there being light
coming from the surface. And therefore, there is a bit of a shadow on some of
the surfaces such as the head and also the little bumps of
the skin of the octopus. They too have a shadow. Once we're done with that, we're going to continue
with our indigo blue. And we'll shade in
the lower quarter of these white dots near the bottom so that
they go a bit darker. And they're still there
and they still show up, but they're just a bit subdued and fall away into the shadow. We want to be careful not
to scrape up the paint, so we'll work slowly building up our shadow
a little bit at a time. We want the shadow to go about as high as where
the pink starts. So you can see I'm slowly
building up my shadow, working from the bottom up, adding more and more a
little bit at a time. At this point, I'm going to
grab my orange posca Mercer, and add a little specs
to the little white dots we previously added. So.
8. Eye: All right. Now we're
going to work on the eye and we're going to add
in this layer of orange. And we're going to add this to the eye lid and the
area around the eye. And then we'll allow
it time to dry. Later on, you'll see me add a second layer of
orange to this area. Once this first layer has
had plenty of time to dry, while we still
have our rian out, we're going to add in these
little specks first to the other eye and then to the one nearest to us, the main eye. Next, I will better identify the eyelid using
a yellow parker. And I'm going to color in the eyelid with these
little yellow dots. Now that that is done and the orange has had
plenty of time to dry, we're going to add this
mine around the outer part of the eye lid area using
a purple Posca Mercer. Next, I'm going to add
a little highlight to the eyelid on the part
closest to the eye itself. And we'll just go in and add a few little dots
of white posca.
9. Main Arms: Now that we have
finished coloring in the head and adding
all the details to it, we're going to start working
on the arms of the octopus. We're going to first work on these main two arms that
are in the foreground. And we want these two
to stand out the most. Therefore, these two will
be a bit brighter and their color scheme will be
very similar to the head. To start, I'll grab my yellow and add two
layers to this area, allowing each layer to dry thoroughly before
adding the next. Oh, now that the first two
layers of yellow have dried, I'm going to go in
with my yellow yellow, that's a bit whiter. In other words, the parts of the tentacles that would
be receiving more light. All right, we'll
allow the yellow to dry and now we'll
go in with orange. And we're going to add it to the lower part of the
tentacles working in our lines and blending them into the yellows
that are already there. I don't leave the
hard edge between where the orange and
the straw yellow meat. Instead, I gradually diminish the amount of orange
that I'm adding. Now I'll come in with my
white plastical marker and add it to the upper
edges of the tentacles. All right. Now we're
going to add in some pink on top of the orange. Again, we don't want to cover
the orange all the way, we're just going to work with
the pink in a little bit, blending it in with the orange. All right, so now you see the space that I
left at the bottom of the tentacles without
any pink in this area. We're going to add this shadow, and we'll start with our
violet posca marker, adding it along the edges
of the tentacles and going into the tentacles
About a fourth of the way up. In the next minute
or so of this video, you'll see me adding next dark
blue and then dark brown. With each color, I go less and
less up into the tentacle, adding in a thinner
and thinner edge.
10. Background Arms: All right, now we're going
to come in with orange. And we're going to
add two layers of this color to the rest
of the tentacles. And just as a reminder, we want all of the line strokes to flow
along the tentacle, starting at the base and
going towards the end of it. When this applies to all
the colors will be added. We're not going to
color in solid colors. Next, we'll grab our pink
marker and focus on coloring the upper half of the tentacles similar to
what we did on the head. We're building up
the lighter area, on these tentacles
on the sides that face the upper
part of the scene, dadadadada. Now that the pink has dried, we're going to
come in with first yellow and then
straw yellow adding it to the same area that we just added the pink but
adding it just to the edge of the
tentacle so we don't want to cover up
the pink all the way. Concerning the straw yellow
we'll be adding in a moment. You basically just want to add a thin line to the
edge of the tentacles. As you can see, we've done, we've been able to
highlight and bring forward the two main
tentacles closest to us, the viewer, and make
them stand out more. But the rest of the
tentacles we've been working on for the past 6
minutes have been colored in a different way so as to show that
they are further away in the scene and that way they don't
stand out as much. So we have this
distinguishing between the tentacles that are closer to us and ones that
are further away.
11. Highlights & Shadows: All right, at this point
we're going to grab a white Posca marker and go to the very tops
of the tentacles, and also the tips. And add just a little bit
of white so as to have a nice strong high light where the light is
bouncing off of them. Oh, oh, oh, oh, no. Oooooooh. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'll Nell's Nelson now, Nelson. All right. The next
thing we'll do is grab our indigo blue
colored pencil and we're going to work on
shading these tentacles, especially the parts that are closer to the body
of the octopus. We're going to do
something similar to what we did on the
head of the octopus. Going over the posca, lightly and gradually
building up our shadow. We will leave the
tips of the tentacles nice and bright
without any shading. And I want you to try your
best to have this shading. We gradual and the shadow gradually blend into
the high light. I, I, I do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
12. Suckers: All right, so we're going to add a few suckers to some
of the tentacles. We're not going to add them to every tentacle because
that would be distracting. And we want the
focus of our viewer, who was looking at our drawing, to focus on the head
of the octopus. So with that in mind,
I'll add the edges of some of the suckers in
some key locations. I'll add the edge of them
and also a side view, as you can see I do on the
uppermost arm on the right. So we're getting these
different views of the suckers from the
side, from above. And we're adding white. And the reason
we're adding white is to establish a nice color. So that in a minute we can go in with orange and color
over the white. And the orange will
look nice and bright. But before we do this, we need to allow the white
plenty of time to dry Now that the white has
tried will go in with age and color over all
the white tentacles. Next, I will grab a
light pink marker and go and outline the edges
of all the tentacles. We're now going to add
a little shadow to the suckers using our
indigo blue colored pencil. We'll do this by adding a little line right
at the edge of where the sucker goes behind
the arm of the octopus. And it doesn't have
to be a hard line. You can make it so and
blended into the orange.
13. Final Edits: All right, so now for
some final edits. We're going to grab a
black colored pencil and deepen the shadow under
the head of the octopus. Making it even darker and
blending that into the blue. We really want to have
a deep shadow down here to convey the idea of
roundness of this head. All right, so there's our
drawing of our octopus. I really hope you enjoyed this class and I look forward to seeing your drawing and your
version of the octopus. With that said, I will
leave you with a clip of the drawing. Oh.
14. Thanks for Watching!: Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed this class and we're 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 Sco chair 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
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Andy Villon, Fine Artist
