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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. Today, we will be drawing
a growing mushroom, and it will have some
mouse around the base. I really like using
posca burkers 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 it pigs below this video
in the A 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 meet with you and chat and create some
awesome artwork together. 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
altering 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 Cosco 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. Yellow, straw, yellow, red, light blue, dark green, brown, white, light green, black, pink, orange, and violet. 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
colored pencils. With that, we are done
gathering our materials. So let's start with the class.
3. Initial Sketch: Alright, welcome to the class. We're going to start out by drawing the cap of the mushroom, and then we'll draw the stem. So I'm using my white
colored pencil, and the skip needs to be
very simple, very basic. All we need is an
outline of the mushroom. No details are required. And the view we're drawing is from slightly below
the mushroom. So we're seeing a little bit
of the underside of the cap. Therefore, we'll draw
this long skinny oval. At the bottom of
the arc of the cap. I would also grab an eraser
and erase a little bit of that underside of the cap that ends up being behind the stem. So I'll clean that
up and then also add the top line of the stem.
4. Base Layer of POSCA: Alright, we're going to grab
our light blue Posca marker, and we're going to
start adding in the first layer of color. And you'll notice
that this first layer soaks into the paper. That's why we'll end up
adding in two layers, one initial layer
to seal the paper, and then one more
on top of that, and we'll end up with the appropriate
brightness and color. And by adding these two layers, then we go back and add
in our other colors, and they will be very
bright and vivid. You'll notice I'm
starting at the top of the cap of the mushroom
and drawing these lines. We're not going to cut in
the mushroom all the way. In other words, not solid. We're dragging these lines
down towards the bottom edge, and we'll do this on both
the cap and the stem. Make the first lay is nice and dry before
you go back with more paint because you
don't want it to come up your marker with
partially dried paint. You may notice that I had to
switch to a larger marker, but that was only because my one marker was drying
up and out of paint. And the only other marker
of this color that I had available was a
thicker five M one.
5. Underside of Mushroom: In this segment,
we're going to grab a violet pascamrker and coloring the underside
of the mushroom cap. Nothing special is
needed with this. All we're going to do
is color it in solid.
6. Layering - Red: Alright, we're going to grab
a red posca marker and start on our next layers on the
mushroom body and cap. We'll focus on the
outer side of the stem. Try to have these lines be
very wispy and feathery. And as you can see, I
do these very soft, wispy lines with a quick motion
of the wrist and fingers. We'll leave the middle of the
stem blue without any red. We'll also focus on the lower
half of the mushroom cap. And as you can see, I drag the lines more up
on the far side, on the left and right. These sides need to
be random and loose. We don't want it to look
organized and mechanical. We want it to look natural.
7. Layering - Pink, Orange and Yellow: Alright, so now we're going
to add in several layers. We'll add in pink
and then orange, and we're going to
add it to the areas of the mushroom stem and cap, but we didn't add
the red to so near the middle of the stem and
the upper half of the cap. And again, we want these
lines to be long and loose. And what's more, we're not covering up all of
the blue and red. We want some of those
colors to show up. As you see, getting towards the edge of where
I'm adding the pink, we need to space out our
lines so that we slowly flow into the red and diminish our color that we are
currently working with. With this orange layer, I'm not going to go
to the very edge of where I've colored the pink, and it's left and right, but instead, I'll stop
just before that so that the pink shows up and goes beyond where the orange will be. And you will see how I do that, especially on the stem. We're going to grab
a yellow now and be sure to shake up your
yellow especially well. I found that yellow
posca burgers need shake up especially well before each as so that they show up
very well and bright. We're going to drag
these loose lines down over the top of the mushroom towards
the left and right, and we'll also work in
the middle of the stem, being sure to leave some of the orange and pink
showing up in all areas. And concerning the cap, try to have the
ends of the nines at the very bottom towards
the lower part where we'll be putting
it to be loose and feathery and thin at
the ends of the nines. And you get this effect by dragging the marker and
quickly lifting it. We'll also add this
yellow to the sides of the mushroom so that it
looks like it's growing.
8. More Yellow: Okay, now that the first
layer of yellow has dried, we're going to go back and
add in a second layer, and we'll do this
around the top and edges of the cap dragging
down at the waist. We're not adding it on the
entire area of yellow, just where we want it to be
the brightest and most solid. And you also see
that I go around the edge of the cap
near the bottom of it and add in a little ring of yellow right there at the
edge above the purple.
9. Straw Yellow: Now we're going
to grab our straw yellow pasca marker and add in our highlights right along
the top and edge of the cap, and also the bottom
edge of the cap. We're dragging these lines down just like we did
with the other colors, and we'll go about a
quarter of the way down. The cap will also focus on the
center column of the stem, adding in some nice bright
yellow lines there. And in case you don't
have a straw yellow, you can also use a white you So
10. Adding Highlights to the Cap: Alright, now that the
cap has had time to dry, we're going to come back
with a white marker and add in some highlights
to the very top and edge of the cap and also along the ring of the cap and the very center of the stem.
11. Underside of Mushroom Cap: Alright, now we'll
grab a black marker, and we're going to work on
the underside of the cap. We're going to do
some stippling and add in lots of little
dots over the purple. And this will be the first
layer that we add under here. And the reason we're
doing this stippling is because we don't want to
just color over the purple. We want to tone it down. So we achieve this
with poscas by stippling and obscuring
the purple a bit. And Now, we'll come in with
a red and we'll go on the very bottom
or in other words, the far side of the
underside of the cap, and we'll do some more stippling
just along this edge and feathering it a little
bit or blending it into the black ever so much. Now that the red has dried, we'll go in with a third
layer with thyme and orange, and we'll use this
right at the very, very edge of this area and
add it in over the orange, but only at the very
outer bottom edge.
12. Moss Background: Alright, we're going
to do a very simple moss and tree bark background. We want it to be quite
simple because we don't want it to distract
from the mushroom. So we'll start with a
dark green pasta mercer, and add in these random
little lines that for the most part flow down and
away from the mushroom. But some of the lines
are more scribbly. We'll add in two layers of this dark rain for the first
layer to seal the paper, and then the second layer will go on top and appear brighter. And in a way, we'll get two
tons of this dark rain. And when adding in this second
layer of the dark grain, we're not going to cover
up the first layer 100%. We'll only cover it maybe 75%. Alright, then we'll grab a regular brown
posca mercer and add in some of the park right
below the green moss. And we're not coloring in solid. We're doing these
random scribbly marks. And you notice that
on the upper side, I'm adding a second layer
so that the brown is a bit brighter and it looks like it's reflecting the light
of the mushroom. Now, we'll grab a light
green and add in these to bling marks for the reflection and highlights on the leaves, and we'll do this over most
of the dark green mercer. Now that the light
green has dried, we'll grab a black and add
in the shadow around it, going near and beside
the light green marks.
13. Final Details: Alright, I'm going to
grab my yellow again. In this in stub, we're going to add in the
sparkles around the mushroom. So it really looks
like it's glowing. These could be sparkles or
the spores flying in the air. So what you notice, like when we started on the
mushroom itself, the first layers of these dots will be very light
and in my case, absorb a bit into the paper. So what I will do is once the first layer of
the dots have dried, I'll go back with
the second layer, going back over the ones that closest to
the mushroom cap. And I think I might even add in two or three layers so that the ones right beside the cap really show
up and are bright. But still, we don't want
them to be too bright and distract from the mushroom. And with that, we will be
done with this drawing.
14. 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 Sco share 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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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
