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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is IFRS and today I'm gonna be
showing you how to begin. A plus dot. Dot, dot is great for
decorating wooden crates. These are my posters at
the red one, purple one. Agreed one. Bluer. This will extra one. You can use multiple
colors in one. You can stick with
just two colors. It's really great for
redecorating items. I made this little DIY
jewelry box as well. You can use as many
colors as you like. It's really lovely for
the redecorating things and having this matching
collection of things. It's a really fun
and easy art form. I really hope you'll enjoy it. So let's get started.
2. Your Supplies: Hi, welcome back. Now we're going to
look at the supplies you'll be needing
to make this crop. Today. We're going to make
some docked off similar to this that I made for this little container holds all of my little
bracelet. It's very cute. You can really repurpose new
containers with this type of art style to make it put
a different aesthetic, but really loving this one. I used quite a lot of colors. But for the project
I'm going to be doing today range from using
two colors at a time. Let's go over the supplies
we'll need for this crop. First, a pencil. Rubin dot art tools. These are fairly
inexpensive and they come in multiple different
sizes on both ends. Any circular shape tool that will help you make
consistent circular shapes. Paintbrush, acrylic Black
came from a maximum, you'll be using a compass
and a protractor, and eraser and cotton buds. Old parts, if you don't
mind being painted on, is also very helpful. Something just to
clean your tools quickly whilst you go
through the octopuses. Any color acrylic training for you'd like to use
for your doctor. Today, I'm going
to be painting on this wooden posters
that are found in May. But you can paint on
really anything is includes notebooks, on jars, cards, anything that
you would like to do to prepare your surface. We're going to start
by painting it black. So today I will be
making four coasters. One blue, one purple, one green, and one red. I'll be using slightly different techniques
for each of them. If you would like to
seal your artwork, I recommend a clear glaze. Now the cavalry was
Prize together. Let's get started.
3. Base Coat: Hi and welcome back. In this video, as you can see, I have my coaster
ready to paint. We're going to start with a
base layer of black paint. This is going to help all of your colors just
shine really well. And also prevented
from looking too busy. If the underside
is as textured and different colored as
those closer of minors. It just also ensures
that any colors in your dot dot stump clash
with the object itself. Black paint just also makes
it really easy to see the pencil marks we make as
our guides that we can paint. Like even sections, which we're going to
make in the next video. So don't worry about that yet. Or black paint just really helps it shine through
so you can see it easy. And it also helps
it so that later when you need to erase
those pencil marks off that it's already
on a primed surface. You can also use white
paint if you wanted to, but I can like white
painted things often get dirty easier. And because I'm using
these as coasters, they're probably gonna
get a little bit dirty. If your object needs a
second coat of black paint, just so that it's an
even solid black color, that's totally fine too. Would you can also
just lather on a lot of black paint the
first time you do it. Not so much that you can
see the paint strokes, but it should still
look really good. And even in a solid black, you shouldn't see
slightly grayer areas. What's also nice about
painting a base coat of black that if you do make any mistakes that you don't like later on, you can just cover them with more black paint and
it won't show up. Don't forget to
paint your sides. You can paint down the
sides of your object like I did with the jewelry box. But you don't have to. Now that my object has dried, you can see that it still has a lot of that wood
texture underneath. And that's going to
make it very difficult to draw and paint on. The easiest method I've
found of getting rid of all this texture is to just
stick a piece of paper on it. It's sort of like Decker
pausing or paper mesh. But I'm just doing it
with a single layer, a piece of paper
so that it's flat. I started this all
for the base layer of glaze because their hand out of wood glue but would glue or any other type of blue
should be perfectly fine. And then you put a piece
of paper down and you'll never on more plays. My glaze was just a wash
down version of what, blue. So I just made sure
it was super wet. On top of that. Whilst it's still wet, I added my black paint just so that
it's a consistent color. I also added some black paint underneath just because a little bit nervous that
it wouldn't stick because the glaze was
a little bit thin. But if you're using wood glue or just a slightly
watered-down what blew, it should be perfectly fine. Once the base coat on
your object has dried, we can move on to the next step. See you in the next video.
4. Pencil Template: Hello there and welcome back. In this portion of the video, you're going to be creating a pencil template for which
to place our dots along. We want them to
be evenly spaced. And as we go further
out in the circle, It's going to become
harder and harder just to make sure were
stolen even surface. So this is going
to help with that. Those are going to help
us find the sentence. What you're gonna
do is first grabbed an average ruler and a pencil and we're going to
measure one side. We're going to find the
middle, draw a little line. And then you're gonna go like
vaguely the opposite side, around 90 degrees away. Find the middle there. Where those two
lines make across. We're going to draw straight across to make our
first horizontal line. Then we're going to
take our protractor and lay that baseline on that line we've
just made and make a little mark where it makes
90 degrees at the top. Then joining that
top mark to the same tomorrow I'm going to draw a line straight
through the middle. And now we have four quadrants. We're then going to
divide those four quadrants up into eight. You can also divide
this up into sixths to be able to do that after
you've drawn your first-line, we're just going to use
your protractor measure to 60 degrees. And from that line you can also then measure
another 60 degrees. Photos is just a lot easier
to work with mathematically. So I normally do them. These quadrants also
don't necessarily determine where your dots
are going to be placed. So ultimately, it's not super important if you
do six or eight. If you're using a bigger object, you can do more divisions
because it's going to, as they go out further
from those santa, the gaps have been criminologist
or it might become more difficult to work with him. So add as many divisions as you feel necessary for
your sized object. Now, taking our compass, I'm going to space this out
in one seemed to me to gaps. So we're gonna start
at one same to me to look up to two centimeters. These antibodies
enforcing characters. Starting at one centimeter, I'm going to place the hokey, but right from the same two there and go all the way around. If you're saying the point
is not in the middle, then as you expand the circles, they weren't necessarily
line up with your aging, which is important for
my project because I'm doing a poster
which is circle. I mean, it's not
a perfect circle, so it's not super important. But depending on your
project, it could be. However, if you would
like to be project where you start with your circle
in the corner of the page. That would also be
really interesting. You can start your circle
wherever you want on the page. It does not have to
be in the middle. You can also space
your increments out in vigorous circles. I'm just using one seems
to me to it because it's even an object isn't very big. Normally add my first daughter
right in the same time. So I don't mind making a hole right in the middle
with the compass. But if the whole doesn't
really bother you, you can always just put
a small little piece of paper on top there, or like a little
piece of an eraser. And that should
absorb the impact. You can still go
around and surface. Now that we've created all
of our kids are markings. We are going to lightly erase it just enough so
that we can still see them and work with them so that when they vanish it
and finish out peace, you don't still see
the pencil marks. Now we get onto the painting. See you in the next video.
5. Painting: Hi and welcome back. Okay, so the first thing
I want to talk about now is the consistency
of your paint. If your paint is a
little bit too stiff, it's going to end up leaving
these little points in the middle from where
your paint brush lifts. And we don't really want that. If it's too liquid, then it's also
just going to melt into a bigger petal
than we intended. Normally when you start off with your little
dollop of paint, It's a bit solid, just like this one over here. This is a little bit too solid. So I'm just going to add
a little bit of water, really a drop at
a time and mix it through thoroughly so that
it's old, same consistency. Now if you take a skewer or one of your dot
art-making tools, you'll see it makes a little
droplet shape at the bottom. That's what we're going for. Feel free to add a
little bit of paint, although a bit more
water to get it just the consistency that
works right for you. And if it does end up
being a little bit too thick like
mine is over here. You can just take the
sharp end of the skewer, just move it around into it, smooths itself out, or you can tap it a couple of
times on your table. The first dot I make goes
right in the middle. And this is just so that
it can cover up any marks left by the protractor from when we were
making our lines. But also just because I like
it to be in the middle as a starting point for the rest of my dotted
can branch out from it. My first thought is also
normally my biggest doc, just because it
gives me a little bit more room to work around. But you can make your
first dot any signs. Then going off with my
guideline pencil marks, I'm going to start making evenly spaced dots around
that first circle. I liked putting
smaller dots between my bigger dots just to
give them more variation. Most important part about
dot-dot is consistency. You want to duplicate
whatever you've done on one dot around your circle. If you start at the top
and you did a big dots, then you want to do big dots all the way around
your main circle. And then if you wanted to
follow the in-betweens with two circles to smaller dots and then to bigger dots
and then two smaller dots. And then it's all
about patterns, or just so that it
goes around and it looks even to the eye with all of these
repeating pattern. And there are really two shapes you can
make with dot-dot, which is your base circle. Then you can take
your base circle and drag a line out from it. And that'll create a
sort of teardrop shape. Then the rest of data is really just a combination
of these two shapes. You can always go back and
reshape your teardrops. I like to always just
thicken them out and straighten the
lines up a little bit in case it didn't make the perfect shape that I
wanted the first-time round. The next technique I
want to talk to you about is called stopping off. What you do is, you know, quite a bit of
paint on your tool. You make your first dot and you don't go back to
fill it up again. You just keep going round, making your next dots. You can make them into
like a triangle for me, formation or go around
the edge of your circle and you'll see it gets smaller every single time you
placed on the dot. And this can make it like
a smaller gradient effect, which looks really nice
and smooth and easy. If you've count them
on two dots like I do. And you can get consistent drop off as you go around for
each repetition of that. The important note about technique is that
you don't go back to pick up more paint because it will just make those
dots bigger again. You want to make sure that
your first dot is your most fully loaded dark and it'll continue to drop off from there. You can use the
drop-off effect to go around other dots that you've already made down the
sides of teardrop shapes. You could even just have
them as a main effect and go up with the
drop-off perfect. Another technique that's good
and fun to use is to put a dot of a different color inside of another
already dried dot. This gives a color variation. I just wanted to
show you the effect that happens when you add a drop of a different color
into a droplet still wet. As you can see, these dots, they don't really want to
hold the white quite nicely. And it's mixing in a little bit, making these
interspersing lines. So I'm just gonna go back over that and mix it into it looks
like a little squirrel. Which I quite like. But if
you would like cleaner dots, then just wait for
the initial dots to dry before you add on
your second letter. This is my first
read coaster down. Let's keep going. You'll note as I'm going along, I'm really using
the different tools for different shaped dot. The dot autos versus skew is there's no real
difference in the way you use them unless you're
specifically making a teardrop shape than it helps
to have a bit of a point. But really it's
all about finding different circular
shaped objects. These can be flattened
dead pens, really. Anything that you'd like, the size and shape of that you wanted to add or
incorporate into a dot-dot. That's the great thing about dot-dot is that
you don't actually need any professional
tools to create the art. Now let's say you've
made a mistake. Let's say you place a dot
and it's a little bit too high for your liking
or a little bit too low. It's not consistent, it's
not a great shape and it's honestly a bit of
above it to try and fix it because it's not
going to come out, right? That's a super easy fix. What you're gonna do is
you're going to take a cotton earbud like this and you
just going to wet it a little bit and
wipe off that paint the moment you
want to try and do this as soon as you've
made the mistake. Just because it's
easier to wipe off in. If you have finished your
piece and you see a mistake, if you don't like just like a little dot that's
in the wrong spot, then this is where the
base color comes in. As I painted my black, I'm just going to go over it a little bit of black on top. Wait for that to
dry and then draw the new dropped dot on top. Easy, fix, quick and easy. Although I prefer
the ear bud method, just because it works, unlocked quicker and it really
cleans it up very nicely. So your dog might be a
little too high or anything. With the blue piece,
you can see I'm doing the drop-off
technique again, but it does show a lot
better with smaller dot are tools that there's a bit more of a nib as opposed to
SQL with flat end. Just because when you put the paint down with
something with a flat end, you kind of squishing
the paint all the way to the edges of that small objects. So it's great for getting very consistent circular shapes. But for the drop-off technique, it's not super great
because there's not a lot of room for
it to drop off. Now, there are really many ways of going about doing your data. If you'd like to start with
all your bigger shapes first and then fill it in with
the smallest shapes later. That's perfectly fine as well. If you want to start all
the way at the same time, just go out the way I do. You can do that as well. You could even
start on the edges. Anyway is perfectly fine. That a really important
thing about dot dot is just trying to keep
it all consistent. So try and do the same parts of the same shapes
at the same time. You can also add the dot on
the inside whilst it's still wet and drag it out
into a teardrop shape. And get us fun mixing of colors whilst drags out,
which I really like. Whilst you're dragging
that cut it out, you can also drag
it out in an arch. So it looks like the
water droplet is like falling sideways,
which I also quite like. Now that I've done
these circles, I wanted them to
have a little bit of a teardrop shape
around the edges. So it's what it looks like, water droplets zooming around
the edge of my micro stone. Then I added these
small little white drop off dots around the aging. Just to give a little
bit more detail, something a little bit more
fine around the aging. Not something that shines
too much will takes away the attention are just like
some little embellishments. Small dots are really great
for little embellishments. Will just adding a little bit of variation in size as well. That's the end of
the blue coaster. Right? Now Let's go purple coaster. For this one, I wanted to give an exclusive effect as if everything from the center
was just exploding outward. You'll see there's a lot
of drag and drop lines, a lot of teardrop shapes, a lot of drop-off dots. Everything that just explodes outwards and gets funneled
towards the edges. Now you'll see I'm
doing a white ring of dots around this purple ring. And just to make sure
it's all consistent, I'm going to start on
my pencil markings. I'm going to fill it
into exactly between those pencil markings
and between that, just so that it's
all consistent. This is what the
pencil markings are full to help make sure that everything is on a consistent
at him around the circle. That's the end of
the purple one. But a lot of new
techniques there. Then I just want to move on to the last coaster, which
is the green one. You'll see with this
one, I'm doing a lot more of the smaller dots just because I feel like they make a very nice embellishment,
very fine term. The drop-off technique is
really great for creating new shapes before highlighting
shapes that you've read already really
like in your piece. Over here, I'm starting
with one dot and then doing a couple of drop-off
around the left of it. And then doing another color of different drop-off just
around the edge of that. It makes like a petal
shape or a ring-shaped. You can either mirror it so it doesn't look like
an actual petal. Or you can do it
like I've done here, which just makes it look
like little pinwheel. I really do like it
feels really consistent. Right now I brought it to
my green piece to dry. I'm going back and add
into smaller dots to the white dots that I
wanted to add in later. Just something that's very
solid so that the clean, crisper color on top
of the previous dots. Right? Okay, the final step now is just to glaze
over the piece. You wait for it to dry for
about 24 hours to 48 hours. Just to complete be
completely, completely dry. Glazing is an
optional step, right? So depending on what
you've painted, if you're gonna
hang it on a wall or people who use it every day. Mine I would like to place because we're going to use them. Or you just buy a glaze
at any local art store, preferably food safe
if you're going to be painting on a
plate or a coaster. That it doesn't have to be
if you're going over a book, you can actually also
gets spray paint glaze, which is really great. I normally like to do two
layers of nice because once the first layer has
dried apart on a second, it also just gives
it a nice even China across the entire piece, which makes it feel a
little bit more Finished. Great, Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the next video.
6. Class Project: Hi there. Thanks for watching. Now it's time to do the class project. As you can see, I made
a bunch of posters. You don't have to make a poster. Choose any flat surface. I recommend clap for
your first project. Just because it's an
easy way to Stockholm. Choose any flat
object and adult off. Once you're done, post a picture of it to the project
gallery below. I'm super excited
to see what you'll make and don't be afraid
to ask any questions. I'm here to help. Have fun.
7. Thank You: Hi again. Thanks so much
for watching my class. I really hope you
enjoyed it and had fun. I also hope you've created
some cool new things. If you enjoyed my class, you can check out some
of the other classes I have available on Skillshare. If you know anybody else who you think would enjoy
this class, be sure. And I really hope you
have a lovely day.
Xiathoras, Artist
