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1. Introduction: Welcome to my studio. My name is Benjamin and I'm an artist and illustrator
from the Netherlands. And I'm delighted that you're joining me in this art class. So what are we going to do
in this article as well? We're going to draw this flower, the stoma are on the floor, or at least some tears depending
on where you come from. We're going to draw this flower and how are we going to do this? First for, we're going
to learn to observe, see what is important, what are we going to draw and how are we going to draw it? And we're going
to start out with just a regular
pencil, some paper. And once we can
sketch the flower and we're gonna do some
exercise with sketching to. Once we can do that, we're going to set
up this composition. This will be the project
you're working on. And as soon as we're
comfortable with depends on we're going to
move right away into ink. You can use a fountain
pen like this for it. Or if you don't
have fountain pens, fine liners will do
fine for this two, or even a regular
pen you could use. Then we're going to
do some practices like you see here,
some examples. And then we're going to
just sketch this flower. I'm going to sketch
it with the pen. And once we've done
that and let it dry, we're going to move on to
colored pencils and I'm gonna show you some easy
techniques to draw this, bringing some effects,
some light and dark part. And then once that is done, the last part, we're going
to work with some graphite. So again, we're going back to
the pencil but soft pencil, and we're going to create this beautiful background with it, where this flower really
comes off the paper. That is, what is art class is about to learn how to draw
this beautiful flower, turn it into something like this with the
materials you do have. Whatever colored
pencils, you have, whatever pens you have, whatever graphite
pencils you have fine. You can use your own materials. No special materials needed, not even special
paper near you can just basically use what
you have laying around. So that is all
about this project. So I would say getting
your materials, whatever materials you have, doesn't matter any brand, any paper that will work. And then we will
start working in the next video together
on this beautiful flower.
2. Composition & a little practice with a Pencil: Welcome to this lesson
where we're going to draw the stoma and
that's lovely flowers. Sometimes it's called
O stole muck around the Florida or Louisiana. Who stoma means bitter
flower is Latin, so it literally
means bit of flour. And that is, this lovely flower comes from the United States, grows in the Southern states. Originally of course,
this is called a faded great gift for somebody because it stands for appreciation and gratitude. Also for charisma. Little bit background. And I'm going to go
into more detail. That's enough because we
want to draw this flower. And what are you going to
need to draw this flower? We're going to start
out with pencil, preferably in HB pencil. I'm using a two
before the video. You may need your
sharpener and an eraser. And if you use an eraser, then use a brush. This is a makeup brush to get rid of all the rubble you make. That's what you
need. And of course, some paper, I'm using
sketchbook paper. And you may see that
a little bit of sketchbook paper,
I'll move closer. Then you see probably this is a little bit of has a
little bit of a twofold. It means that later on
when we're going to use colored pencils to color
it and work with ink to, then it will take the
colored pencil well, so you could use
sketchbook paper with a little bit
of a texture tooth. You could use regular paper though I wouldn't recommend it. I think mixed media paper
or watercolor paper, but used to smooth
watercolor paper, not really textured
watercolor paper to make it yourself
tougher than it should be. Okay, well, that's it. That's what you need. That's the beginning. And let's just start at this. So this will be a video in
a lesson in a few parts. And we're going to
just start with having a look at the flower. I want to draw the
flower and I want to not just draw one flower, want to make a little bit
of a composition of it. So I'm just going to
look at the flower. And as you can see,
this looks a bit, probably reminds you of a rose. And what I wanna do
is I'm going to draw a little bit right away so that we get a little bit
of a composition. And what I wanna do is, I want in my composition will be the one I get a bit
of a darker pencil. I want a flower right? Pit in the middle. And look to this flower is a lovely one, is of course a bit round, but I'm drawing what
I'm doing first. I'm thinking of a composition. What do I want this
flower to look? I just want to have
a few of them. And the first one I just
want to face like this, I want to see it like this on my composition and
that will be here. Then let's say I want
another one and I will go that is just
regular like this. And if I look from the top, it's a bit, as you
can see round. So that is why I drew a square. If I look from the side, I see that it is not
a complete square, but it is a bit
wider than a square. So I'm going to
draw one behind it. This will be my second
flower just from that side. And I'm drawing death
not as a square, but more as a rectangle. And let's say I'm gonna
do the site and then I see that there is some of
these little ones up here. I will draw them under
an angle right there. Let's do them in these
two, I will draw. And then you get an
interesting composition. And what we're gonna do, let's pick a leaf two. We're gonna do later on a leaf
and I'm picking up a leaf, but let's say I'm
looking at the leaf, these leaves here and there, of course, a huge rectangle. So what I'm gonna
do, I want a leaf, the clumping a bit to
gather these leaves, but I'm gonna just put it under
an angle a bit like that. That would be my leaf
would come right there. And I'm just going to do for this composition just one leaf and then the stem would be, the stock would be right here. And this flower, of course, on the hair, as you can see, this flower is very
interesting because one stock splits off in more and have all
different kinds of colors. So we're going to have
that, this one too. Splitting off like that. And let's give this one here. Just there. And behind there. Let's give that one
to leaves like that. Smaller leaves than this one. Here we're going to
do one leaf now, let's do a big leaf. There are two big
leaf like that. This one needs to be longer
than it gets into the stock. That will be the competition, very raw fish you
can see later on, we will work this out. So this will be my composition. I have that flower. Draw it from reading
from the top, but then it looks like a front. I have the second one behind it. Then I have some leaves here. I have this smaller one that Still not blooming yet. And we're gonna do
some leaves here. And that's for the
composition, that's about it. So that would be the first step to just draw this competition. Then you know where
everything's go. So if you draw a flower, then you know where
everything just goes. I'll leave that
flower right there. Now when I observe a flower, when I look at the flower, I'm going to say, okay, this is just one of them. And you start noticing
some things right away. This one has these little
leaves coming out, which could be nice to have, let's say right here. So I'm going to draw one of these smaller
leaves down here too. And you notice a few
things about a flower. First of all, we
notice the shape, although this has a really
thinner shaper we do, we might do this one. Let's add this one since
I have it in my hands. Let's add that behind here and let's get that
shape right there. Now, when you draw this conversation now let's
draw a little flower. Let me zoom in on the spot. And we're going to
use this flower. First of all, we're going to draw this flower here as a
little bit of an exercise. And what we're gonna do
since I have two flower, I'm going to put it next to it. I'm going to observe the
flower and that is all what drawing flowers is mainly
about when observed a flower, I'm going to say, Okay,
I see a few things. I see leaves, I see
the flower ionize, see here the flower that
is still on budding. So I'm going to do
this part first. Then what I will do, draw that rectangle, I see. Then I draw that stock and it has a bit of
a curve like that. The next thing I will do is say, okay, around here is a leaf, then there's a second
leaf like that, and then we get that. This one coming out. I'm
going to ignore this one. Connect, put this one in, that would come right there. And that would be all I do. And I'll call this
boundary boxes. And by doing boundary boxes,
you know where you go. And once you could do
first also you could draw yourself a huge boundary
box and stay, okay. This is where my flower needs to stay in and all the
parts I'm drawing. I'm giving this boundary
boxes and then I can quickly identify the parts
and quickly draw them too. Let's start with then
this one down, up here. And I'm going to say,
Okay, I see that flower really looks like arose. And let me just start
with this one here. And I see this one, the flower coming right
there. And right there. And I'm just drawing
that petal in here, then there's a petal behind it. I'm going to draw that petal in. And then there's
these petals here. Let's gift that flower,
that particular shape. And I want to do that. I hear a bit too. There you go. And then behind
there, there's 12. And then I'll have
this part here. I'd throw that in. Then I have these leafs going, this one there, one there, one there, and I'm drawing
one behind it there. And that will be all
there is to this flower. Then you would go, of course, bit thicker with this
part until I get to here. And then we're going
to do just the leaf. I'm saying, okay, the leaves
comes out and it just makes this shape and I'm just following what I'm
seeing like that. And the next one is
a bit like this, and I will draw that in. And for the next one, I'm just drawing in
the general shape. And now I'm adding these parts and making
it slightly thicker, letting it disappear
into the leaf. And that's it. That is how you
basically quickly, we'll draw this flower. As you can see, we're
going pretty rough. And we do want that because later on we're going to just use a pen and bring in
some more detail. But I just want
to make sure that everything I see is there. Okay, So that is that
flower and that is how I would quickly
draw this flower. So what we do now, we're going to stop
for now this lesson. And that will be your
assignment first. There will be a photograph of this flower in the notebook. And you can just take a look at this flower and just
start drawing it. Or of course you can get
a life flowers I have, get this flower and start looking at the
flower and saying, Okay, what do I see? What don't I see? And then start drawing it in. And while you're drawing it, you can of course, do some alterations and keep on working on it and then
quickly draw this flower, mainly identifying
the main shapes, two main parts and good. Yours won't be so thick
as mine is for the video, you will have an HB pencil
and use it lightly. So your flower most likely will be a lot
thinner than mine. And looking more like that. And now I have to move the
camera thin like this. That yours will look more like this unusual pen,
not thick strokes, but try to use it lightly, that will be easier to work with later on this
will be a bit harder. But for the video, I'm keeping a dark. Okay. So then once
you've done this, then I will see you back in the next lesson
where we're going to work on the composition. Once we work on the
composition and later on we're going to go back and do
some inking on here. A fun drawing, this flower.
3. Drawing the Composition with Pencil: Welcome back to the next lesson. We're still working with pencil. So as in the previous
lesson, we did this one. I'm going to put
that aside for now. Let me make sure I'm
going to put that give it someone so it won't die. And then on the next, now we're going to work
on our composition. Now we have done
this composition. I want to have a flower
from the front here. I want to have a
flower behind it. I want to have that flower
I just put away there. I want to have some
of these little ones that aren't recording yet. And I want to have some
leaves right there. We're just going
to start with the major one, the major one rule. With this one, we want to have this one to get
all the attention. So we're going to start
with this one and I'm going to just
pick this flower. And what I'm gonna do,
I'm looking from the top, put it aside and we can see it. Then I'm going to see, let's see what I
see on this flower. Now of course, we
see a lot of petals and they're a bit like
shaped like a rose. But there's a heart in it. I can see that too. I gotta start with that. And I'm going to say, okay, let me see which are
the major petals. These we're going to start with. And what we first want to do is, I've drawn this square. I want to find the
heart of the square. And the easiest ways to do
is from corner to corner, draw a line like that, and draw a second
line like that. And now this will be
the heart of my flower. Now, what we'll do
next is also a woman. And once we've zoomed in, you should be able
to still see it. If I carefully paint this
flower, don't destroy it. You can really see it. I can really see it. We're going to just
continue with it like this. Alright, so if we have the
heart, now the next thing, what I'm going to look at
this flower and say, Okay, the heart isn't round, but it has more of
a diamond shape. And what I'm going to do
to get my diamond shape. I'm going to, from
this middle point draw a straight line that is in
the same angle as this one. And I'm going to draw
my straight line there. And from this, I'm
going to say, Okay, I have this, this
hearts around there. They are making this
and this same distance. This one bit shorter. Just want a bit shorter. I'm just going to draw in
this for my heart shape. And from there I'm going to say, Okay, then we have all
these petals around it. And these petals,
one we'll do is, we'll start with this petal. Now if I hold the
flower like this, this petal is pretty
much in the middle. But first what I wanna do, this is almost a circle. So I want to draw that one in. And what I'm gonna do with that, what I'm going to just
draw inside my square, I'm going to draw
a second square. Let's say I want to keep, so I want to make sure
that this distance and this distance is
everywhere about the same. And I will be around here. If you need to take a ruler
to measure, you can do that. But we're not gonna do it super accurate that everything
is on the right, exactly this perfect place,
but that will be it. So this will be this round. And you can see
I'm just going to roughly make that a
bit of a round shape. This is my heart now. This is the second layer of already the first
inside layer of petals. And this, these are
these outside petals. And what I'm gonna do, I'm
gonna start with this one. And I'm going to
let it constantly touch that circle I've
drawn there and start here. And I'm just going to say, okay, this petal goes like that. And it goes here. It is not in the
middle perfectly. It is more of to the side. So I'm just going to draw
that in a bit roughly. That will be that first petal. Then there's a second
petal which isn't, the middle would be right here. So it starts right
under the middle. There it goes. And I'm not going to go
outside my boundary box and it goes like debt. So that will be my second. And as you can see, not
doing straight lines, I'm wiggling a little
bit because this, these aren't straight lines. Good. Then the next part, now
the next petal I have, I would say is pretty
much on this line. I'm going to say, Okay, I'm going to draw a circle here. It meets that other petal there. And then it goes in
about the middle. And there you go. That will be my next petal. Now, it's already starting
to take shape or form. You get form of the flower. We're gonna do this one now
that one is, isn't here. So if I imaginary, draw this. Cross in it would
go around here. So it definitely
not in the cross. It starts of course here. Then it comes around there. And then it goes back a
little bit around there. And there you go. That will be the next petal. And I'm going to draw
in that last petal. Now that petal is not in
the middle, definitely not. It doesn't touch this one. There's a gap between them. Now she looked there.
This one goes, of course, deeper, but
we can't see that. It's around, let's say a bit
under an angle like that. And I'm going to
start this one there. And I'm just going to get
that shape in. There you go. That would be that petal. So now we've got all the
major petals, the big petals. We've got an hour just going to start with the small petals. And we're going to start
with this one. Now. This one's comes right
from my triangle. Sorry, trying, my
diamond goes around, touches there, and goes back in. There's actually look, well not one petal comes back
in and comes back out. That would be this
petal right here. Go pretty much like this. And later on we can
correct then we have this big petal that
is also there, but this is a really big petal. This one goes from
pretty much this point, the heart and tear it touches. There is small. We're gonna do this round here. It goes all the way around. Comes in again like that. This goes inside. And then it goes
pretty much like that. That will be our second petal. From the inside. Then we have this petal. It's not starting at the bottom because that
is this petal comes out, but it's going
around this petal, this petal here it touches. So we're now moving here. And it goes back in. And then it's a very thin
line disappearing in there. That would be the next petal. And then we have this petal. And we have this petal still. Let's do this petal that goes
around there and moves in. There's a gap. There's a gap here, you can see. And what I wanna do
is with that gap, I'm gonna make that
dark so that later on, No, Oh, look, there's a gap. And then we have that
petal goes around here. Then we only have this petal. And that goes on
the bottom here. There's another
petal, but it's not a really thick petal coming out. There you go. Alright, That will be the first pass
of the flowers. Now inside I see these shapes. I'm just going to draw in
those shapes that I see. And later on we're
gonna make them yellow. And I'm going to make
dose markings in it. And those bit like that. Alright, I'm going to
leave it like this. That will be my first flower. Okay? That's the first
one. This one stops. And there you go. Now we've got this
shape of this flower, and we have it. So I'm going to put this
flower down now, right? Good. I want, I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna use the same, exactly the same
flower, this one. But now I'm going to
draw it from the site. So you only would
need basically once and for the camera and
push it a bit down. And then you can
see from the side now this flower is
now behind there. And what I do is I'm going to
put it straight like this. And I'm going to
draw it right here. And let's see, what
do we observe here. We're going to start the major
petal, that is this one. And we're going to start at
pretty much from the middle. That would be. So
let's find imaginary. I'm going to draw that box. And our middle would be there. So the petal would
start here, goes here, and pretty much till the
end with that curve. Then goes to the middle and
that we have our drawing, our first petal needs a bit of a shape like that. There you go. So I need my eraser. Get rid of that and
that shape back again. Okay. And now the petal
comes pretty much backend. That would be the first petal. Now behind there. That second petal,
this petal with that, you can't see it like
their death curve. And that goes behind, that stops already there
because the rest you can't see that is
behind this flower. I'm going to do this petal. That would go all the way till the end of my
books, pretty much. And that would be around there and there's
that leaf that is folded. I'm going to exaggerate that a little bit more
than what you see. Okay, and now I have that one, this one behind it. And that comes out. Then it just moves back in. And that depends from
the angle you look at, what you see, you might just
see it slightly different. And that one has that
folded part two. Okay? And then we have these
petals inside and you probably just see them
slightly different than I do. And there's one pretty
much in the middle. I'm going to draw that in. Let that disappear. Then I have this one and we're
going to do it like that. And then I'll have the one
behind coming out there. That's about here. Alright. Let me see there's one there. Okay, We're gonna
do it like that. This one, we're
going to curve a bit more and give it
a bit of a curve, Degas, that will be
our second flower. Here's pretty much,
yes, there's one. When I tell them I see
something different, of course. And I'm looking and
I'm saying, Okay, there's there is a petal behind her to to
make it complete. That will be our second one. Okay. Alright. We'll leave that guy along and we're
gonna go up here. And I'm moving the paper down. And we're going
to draw these in. And these have just
a bit of a cylinder. Well, would you call
that pot shape? And I'm doing the same with
this one copying that twice. Good. And this one
has those leaves. And we'll do that
with this one too. And we give this
stem right there. There you go. And this, actually, those
are leaves folded in. One. We'll just do it
a bit like that. Okay, good. I'm going to
just go to the bottom. So there you go. This one goes bit stronger
than we have this. Here. We turn it, we can
see that of course. So what we see is
I'm going to move this petal a little bit. And then we get this shape idea. And this petal. We now look here. We're going back to this one. When to take a look at it,
I'm going to say, okay, there is this shape under it. And then it has those,
again, those leaves. And I'm going to draw
them in like that. And then I'm going to say, Okay, then this continues like that. And then we go move
to the leaves. As you can see, it's
taking shape nicely. Now you also see the disadvantage
of having an HB pencil, or sorry, a to B pencil, that is much better, but we'll get rid of that. Aid run. Let's continue first
with this flower. And we're going to do that leaf. And now, as you can see, the problem is with these
leaves, I'm going to take, this one, is that they will curl up because the flower
doesn't get water. So let's go pretty quick. So I'm drawing in this
and I'm going to, let me take a look at this leaf. And as you can see,
I have to do it a bit smaller and I see a major thing that
made you faint. I'm going to draw, and
actually I'm going to draw it the opposite way. Let's turn it. Now
let's do it like this. Then the major thing
would be here. And then the flower, the leaf will have this shape and it has
that little curve there. And I'm doing the same. I'm going to ignore this. I'm just pretend that this
is still open in a point. And then I'm just
drawing in this shape. I'm going to do the same there
and I would be the stock. And then this one
goes out of there. And then we have
all these stocks meeting right at the bottom. Now the second leaf is behind there, and I'm
just going to say, okay, that would
be around there, but I only see this. So I'm just going to draw in that same curve I did
here. And there you go. That would be all AUC from
my second leaf behind there. And then let's see, we'll do the same here with
these little ones. I'm going to draw in that same. Bit of a curve I see there. And I'm going to
draw that same shape with that end under it. And there is my
flower and then I go, oh sorry, flower my leaf. Then I'll do the stock, and that would be this flower. Let's see, then the stock
continues there, right there, and the other leaf to
be behind it and you only want to see pretty much that's all you see
from that leave again. And this leaf, we're
going to have a bit of that shape we
have on this one. Here we go. We're just going to have that
shape that has this one. Let me turn it and you
can see it nicely. And starting thin, making
that whole gene there. And then there you go. Okay? What I'm doing, I'm just
observing what we see. And we do it
reasonably accurate. But we're artists, so we're leaving a bit of an
artist expression here. So not everything is
totally accurate, but you can clearly see
that this is the stoma. Let's pronounce it rightly, that it is clearly this flower. Last bit we're gonna
do is we're gonna do this part of the flower. And we're just doing the
same as we did over here. But we're putting it
at a bit of an angle. I'm going to put it down again. And what I see when
I put it down again, I see Let me see, we have this part and that
would be pretty much too long. So we can do two things. Now. We can have that flower
indeed go up like this, start there, or we can
bring it down like this, but let's keep it up. We're going to keep
it up. So that means my boundary box for this part of the flower needs to be slightly smaller and this will
be now my boundary box. This is where I'm going
to draw in the flower. This is where I'm going
to have the stock that goes out in a fan shape. And I'm just going to draw in those little leaves right away. Then I know where I want
to go and that would be the flower. Now
I have this one. Since I drew this leaf already, I can use this as an
orientation point. And I say, okay, that petal
is coming out like that, has a bit of a shape like
that and then it curves away. And then it has that typical what you would see
on a roast too. Then there's a second
one that comes in behind it, the ego. And that is from
my point of view, pretty much straight until it meets that leaf under there. There you go. The next one, you have this one. And that again has that bit of typical what you're
going to see on a rose. That bulging bit of a bean, let's say bit of a bean shape. And then we're just going
to connect all of that. And I know there's a fight
look up there. This one. I want to be like that. And then there is a leaf in
there that goes like that. And then there's some
leaves behind there. And I'll leave it like this. Good. Now that is that flower. And I might have gone a little bit too white with this one. This could have been
a bit more thinner, so I might just erase
these parts a little bit. And I'll leave it. As you can see. I leave it just slightly because this was my new animal
going to create a new one. Let it go in and then go out. That is much better
and the same, this one is pretty much straight and we're going
to do it like this. And even let there
be a slight down. I can see a petal behind it. And then I'm gonna
do it like this. There you go. That
is much better. Okay, so we've got
these parts now. I think we're pretty much done. So that's it. Now, later on, our get rid of all this machine now
to prevent this matching, what I could've done is I've
taken a sheet of paper, put my hand on the sheet
of paper and then move it over every bit around. But you can see I didn't
do that because this goes from really a lot quicker if I can just draw and later on, I'll erase all of that. Okay, so that's it
for these flowers. Now we've got this. Who stole my flower in pencil. The next step we're
going to do is we're going to add
some ink to it. But before we can add into it, of course, you have to draw it. And you can just follow
me along drawing it. You can look at the
photographs of what I have in the notebook and then
work from there. And once you have
set up your flower, I'll see you in the next lesson.
4. How to ink and shade with a Pen: Welcome back to this lesson. Now of all as well. You have this two,
pretty much this. Now. The next step
we're gonna do is before we start
coloring this, we're going to ink it. We're going to create
some outlines. Now, I have some tools here. Once you could use for
this is you could use just regular fine liner
and a fine line you find. But if you do that,
make sure you get a 0.40.5 and bit thicker
one I would say. For this, you can also just
use a regular fountain pen. Fine too. You could use if you want it to. Regular pen tool works fine. You can use a brush pen. Now if you use a brush pen, you get something
totally different. I'm going to use
just one art pen that is a fountain
pen made for drawing. But before I do that, I'm gonna do this one. This one I'm going
to do first with just regular phi
line on this one. I'm going to work
with the art pen, this one, this one I'm going
to do with the fine liner. Now if you ink, inking is rather simple really
once you know it. And probably you have done it. What we're gonna do is we're gonna more or less trace this, but not with tracing paper, but right away on the paper. What I'm gonna do
first is I'm going to cover this up so that I won't smudge that more than I already have. What
we're going to do. We can do inking in two ways, and we have this
little flower up here. And let me show you
what you could do. The first one you could
do is if you want to have a really nice, neat, straight lines, you
could do it like that. And you get this kind
of neat, nice flowers. So you basically just trace what you see
and you'll get that. What do you could also do? And let me draw this part here. Pretty much about
the same roughly. And there's a petal behind that. And then we have
this petal and we have some petals
there. So that's good. The next, what you could also do instead of doing it like this, you could sketch it. And so now you have
this neat part, or you sketch it and you just start a point and you just make these short sketching motions and you don't even have
to touch every part. And the difference is
I'll let this dry. This one should be dry. Let me erase everything. That the difference is
this looks pretty much, I would say comic
style coloring book. And this one on the
left should be dry. It's quick drying. Looks a bit more lifelike on especially if we're
going to work more on it, you will see that we get a
certain type of illustration, which for me, for plants, works a lot better, especially if we start. I'm just adding some shading now and some Her2. Then you see that this
already looks really nice. With this. This looks a bit stiff. Let's put it that way. Stiff versus more
lifelike, more natural. So we're going to use
sketching motion. We're going to look
at this petal. I'm going to say, Okay,
I'm going to start with this here. I'm going to start here
now with this one. A fine line, doesn't
matter where I start. I can start up,
down, left, right, go anywhere, just make
sure I don't smudge. But since it's this small, wherever I move, my
hand wouldn't touch. Now if I use a fountain
pen, this one, I could still do the same thing, but then preferably
work from top, bottom, left, right, unless
you're left-handed, then you work from
right to the left, then you won't smudge your work, especially when you go
bigger than the risk, the chance of smudging
unless you have really quick trying ink. But with our fine liner,
it doesn't matter. So what I'm gonna do first, I'm going to bring in
these petals i-hat, and we're just going
to sketch them in. And sketch this. There you go. And then I'm going to let
them meet on that stock. And that will be the
first path I'm doing. Then I'm going to
concentrate on this petal. As you can see, I'm not
following the line completely. I'm trying to bring in a bit of the shape that you see in the plant. Where
is it? There it is. So it's not totally regular
everything it is a bit irregular and we're
just bringing in a little bit of dose form in. Then we're having that
one going around. Then we have in this one, I'm just looking at the
flower and bringing that in. And then we have the middle part and there's one behind there. Okay. That would be it. And we have that, then
we can work on this one. It has those things on it. I'm just bringing
that one right there. And I'm doing the stock
meeting that one going there. Okay, and now out of
debt come these leaves. And here's a leaf to that
stock continues right there. And that's it. Now we're
going to let that dry. And that would be all the
risks to inking that flower. So let it dry for a minute. And we don't want to
do, I'm going to start erasing this already around it. Depending on the ink.
Sometimes your ink, of course, needs time to dry so
that it has a try, especially if you
use a fountain pen, you may want to wait just a couple of minutes
for it to be really dry. And there you go. Flour. And compare these
to the top there, this one on this one or this
looks really way nicer. Now the next thing
we're gonna do is I'm going to add
some shade to it. What we're going to
do with shading us, rather easy, it
takes some practice. Now if you've never done that, I would say Get a pencil. Other than other here Dropbox. And what we wanna do, we wanna use what they
call hatching. And if I draw a box and I
want to add some shading, let's pretend that light
comes from this side. Then if I'm going to shade this, that means that there
won't be much light here. There will be a bit more
light here, less light here, and there wouldn't be much
light them with a pen. The easiest way to do that
is just to Hetch, Hetchy, or just diagonal
lines like this. And if I do that here, I'm going to do the
same with this, but I'm going to get the
distance a bit bigger. So I've showed that look, there's a lot of light here, less light here and
this little light here. And at the bottom here, I could even do another layer and
hatched it in like that. So that might take
a little bit of practice with your pencil. Once you have that on
the control for pencil, then I would say,
start that with a pen. And I'm gonna do it on
the flower right away. And let me give you just
flour, water again. I'm pretending the same as
with the box down here. Light comes from here. That means this petal back
here hardly gets any light. And I'm going to shade one end with the hatching
pretty much all the way. And now as you can
see with my pen, I'm doing it a lot nicer than I did with
two quick example. Now this petal, same petal here. This petal here will
catch light around there. So what you could do, you
could add with your pencil, say okay, if the light shines, let's say it would hit here, this petal would
get light there. This petal would
get light there. Now, this petal probably
wouldn't get much anyway. So with this petal, I'm going to not do the
same as here because then it basically flows
over into this. I'm going to go
the opposite way. I'm going to hatch
this one like that. Now you can really
see this is a petal. This petal now we're going
to add color to it later on, this will get really beautiful. Now the next petal, I do the same as that one again. Alright, and this petal
behind here doesn't get much. And this one gets a
little bit there. I make pretty much black. This one I hatch in like that. And that will be it. Now if the stock this I'll
leave like they are pretty much the stock would get
some shade on the sides, but that will be since it's fin. I'm going to hatch just
some parts like that. And then the one side
where no light is, I'm going to redraw that
a little bit so that, that gets thicker and you get the idea, there is shade here, up here, we're going
to paint it here to, there wouldn't be much there. And this, we're just going
to leave it like that. Now we have these leaves. The here, there is
no light up there. There's light everywhere. So we're not gonna do
anything about that. Now, this petal
here, sorry, leaf. I'm going to let this part on touch and I'm going to
just hatch on the edge. And on the bottom. There you go. This one, I'm going
to do that petal on one side and opposite just
a little bit at the bottom. With this stock, I'm just going to do one
side. Alright, that's it. I'm going to let that dry
and that's, that's it. Basically now we have
done this whole flower, as you can see, that looks
pretty cool, doesn't it? Regular, fine liner. You can do with this.
I'll let that dry. And then let's see, I can I
see some pencil there still, so I want to erase that
a little bit better. That's it there too. And that will be
it. Alright, and that will be it for
this lesson too. So I would say practice that on the flower the same
as I've done here. We're not going to use
this continuous lines, are going to use these sketching lines because it looks more lifelike than practice a
little bit of hatching. Get the idea how that
works with the pencil. Just try to make
those strokes under an angle diagonal and try to keep them a bit the same
distance if you manage. And once you manage
that with a pencil, start practicing that
a little bit with your pen tool and
then go back to the flower withdrawn here and draw it all in whatever
way, the first one. So that's that for this lesson. In the next lesson,
we're going to work on, of course, the
complete composition. So enjoy practicing, and I'll
see you in the next lesson.
5. Inking and shading the Flowers: Welcome back. Now, you should
have this role as well. You practice this and now let's review what we
had already course. We knew that there were
going to work on this one. Now, we're gonna do this the same as I did with this flower. But I'm not going to
use the same pen. This is just regular, fine line. You can use whatever
pen you want. But I'm going to
use this pen now. And this pen is filled
with ink and a shoe, we'll see in a minute it has
a bit of a different color to a bit of a different shade
sepia instead of black. But I will look great with
this flower. No problem. Alright, I'm gonna
work with that. So let's see if this inking pen, what I wanna do is I want
to work this way here. And as I said, start left, go right on the shore, left-handed, do
it the other way, round bottom and
go down that way. I won't smudge my work with the pen now this is a
bigger work of course. So that is why I'm going to follow that effort pretty much. Unless on little
parts like here, I'm going to start at the
bottom here and then work my way up since I won't
smudge that part. So let's go for the bottom. And I'm going to start with
the leaf that is here first. And his vantage of using
the different color is, you should see that if I zoom in pretty well on the
camera over the black. Alright, and then I'm going
to do this live here. And I'm gonna do that leaf to let them meet those
leaves and do stock. And I'm going to stop there. And as you can see, the camera that color,
It's really nice. You can see really
well what I'm doing. The next bit I'm going to do is this petal that is
really in the back. And as you can see
with this line, I on purpose started at the top, went all the way down
and not true this petal. And because this
petal is behind, this is the main line of this petal that defines
where we want to start. K. That is good. Now I'm going to add this petal. And as you can see, I'm
sketching still. There you go. Now, this one goes behind there, makes that curve, and came around there and
then goes back there. That's the next one. Let me do this 1 first. And everyone goes behind
and then comes back here. And then we're going
to do this up here. I'm going to start
with this one, then this one behind, and then that one.
Alright, that's it. Good. And let's do here a line from that petal kept getting
an interesting effect. Good, that would be this one. Now I'm going to
move to this one. And I say, okay, I'm
starting with that. Same leaves. You go. And now I'm drawing in that shape and I'm going to
draw in that middle line. Now we're going to do the stock. Alright, and later on I may have to do this
talk a bit longer. If I'm going to go
shorter, we'll see that. Next one would be this
one that has dose. The middle. There you go. And then this one, cos, they're good.
And that's it. Now, normally, you
would do this one. And we could do
this one since we pretty much know where
we're going to end up. So we're gonna do
that now in pencil. We would have started
with this one With depends if we're
moving from left to right, we could do this one. But then as we go, if we go to this one, we might smudge this
one. So what do we do? We do this one instead and
then move to this one. Alright, let me be the one. We're going to start work
from the outside and work our way into the middle and then move to
the outside here. Let's go this one to bring in a bit
of curve there. And as you can see, I'm not
doing again, not straight, but try to bring in a
little bit of these edges. And there you go. Then I can do this one. Let's see, we're not
going to do this when we're first going
to work on the heart. This petal going there, then there was this petal going
behind all the way there. Then we have this petal. We have that petal behind it. And we're having a gap there. All right? And let's see, we're having petal right there. The petal right there. And now we can do the last
petals and do this petal. And by sketching this gets, when we erase the rest, this looks totally
different. Alright, Good. Oh, we need the
middle, of course. I'm just drawing in that one. This one. Okay, and that
will be the middle. Good. Now I can move to this
petal and the fall as well. I'm not going to
touch this petal. I'll move from this side. And I'm starting at
this petal here. And then we'll do this whole
flower that is behind it. So I'm going to stop here. I'm not gonna do
that line because I want to work up here first. And then if I do this line, I would move with my hand over
it and we don't want that. I want to do these petals first. Stop that one to stop there. Now I'm ready and now I can go there and I can
finish this one. And then asked first one, I do these leaves
again. Alright. And that's it, good. And now we can work on this one. This one is done as one there, and then we have these ones, and then there's
this line there. Okay, Good. Does that. Alright, and then we
can move to the bottom. And we're going to start,
of course, with this leaf. And I can do the
hard life. First. Ten, do the whole leaf. And then once I'm there I can do the stock that goes behind. And then all of these meet somewhere
right there. Kms, as you can see, I'm drawing these in so that I will have a bit of
an idea where everything goes and I'm going to leave
this to dry a little bit. And this is pretty
quick drying inks. So I could do this one behind it and need to have
that middle line two. And then this is the leaf, of course, that is upfront. And there you go. And then
we can do this stark. And we're going to do leaf. And let's see, now we're
gonna do the last leaf. And there you go. That should be it.
All right, Good. That's it. That's the flower. At least. That's the first inking part. So what we're gonna do
next is we're going to just start erasing stuff, leaving this to dry here, but I can start at the top. I might as well
zoom out for this. And I'm not pressing
really hard, I'm just letting it
flow for a first. Erasing, just gently
erase and then later on, I can go a bit
harder if I need to. And as you can imagine, if this isn't dry, by now, we will have
a huge problem. And the ink will be everywhere. We don't want it to be. Let's get rid of this
stuff. There you go. Now are slowly, but surely
our flower appears. We can do the last bits to alright, let's see how Fallujah. All right. Okay, let's go check
with hairstyle. Alright. Let's do it like this. Now, he noticed one thing
probably I notice that to get rid of my dad's shed
out that in the middle here, some of my ink is gone. And ink to nicely. So what I'll do is I'll
just in this heart, I'll go over it one more time. Can a bit of my ink back. Okay. Check. I'm happy with that line there. Now I can see where
I missed points. Okay, now, now we
have this flower. And the next step
would be we've got to, of course, add some
shading on here. Okay. Let that dry air
because this is nice, but kind of boring, isn't it? A boring illustration when we want to have a
nice illustration? So let's go with the thing. And now what we're
gonna do next. I started with this
boats rather bolts pen. I'm going to switch pens now. I'm gonna go same
color, but a fine pen. Now if you have fine liners,
you can do that too. You can work with both pen on the outline and
then switch to a smaller pen for the hatching. And if you start with a 0.5, the next one down I
will get is a 0.3. To start hatching,
I'm just going to use a finer pen to hedge
so that it won't be as bold and will stay look because this is pretty old pen. And the next one, this
one is a nice fine pen. What we're gonna do
is, I'm going to just do the same
with this flower. Light. Pretty much
comes from this side. Let me zoom in.
We're going to start with this flower again. And then I would say, okay, if this flower is, the light comes from here, then this, It's
pretty much in shade. There you go. Then down here, there wouldn't be
much sun either. There you go. Next step, okay. If I look up here, I say there is not
much shade either, and this petal here
would be in SHA-2. What, what I wanna do
is with this petal. I'll say I'm going to leave
this bit on touched a bit. And I want to use
a different angle. And around the edge, I want to do a second layer. There you go, good. And then this petal, we'll
go in like this again and we're going to say
light comes from here. So this would be untouched. You could draw in your lines.
So we could draw that. So do you have an idea
of what we're doing? Light comes from here, so I'm using a HB that's good. There won't be light. We don't want to have
light there and there. We want to have light there and we want to have
shade opposite to it. So now we have a guideline. You don't have to do this, but you could do this of course. And use the guideline.
There you go. Now, let's do this one. I'm going go edge. It's different angles,
straight angle. This one I'm going to hatch, but I'm going to use the
opposite angle again. And there you go. That would be this flower. We're going to
hatch data a little bit to leave it like that. Now with this one, what I'm gonna do is simply, I'm going to only hatch that this petal and put
them. I'm gonna do. Hedge on the edge carefully. There. Yeah, let's go. Same with this one. We'll
do the same with this one. Make it herself easy. Only hatch this one
and where we can, we're going to hedge
little bit on the site. And that says, now
you can see it's looking quite different
already then down here, let's see, we can
do with this one. We won't touch this. Yeah. Now, I see I missed
a line there. Okay. Let's do the
same with this one. So you know what we're gonna do. The light comes from here. So this petal, this will
be pretty much live. This would light a lot. This will be then shade, but we're going to get bit
of light there to here. This will be dark. This would be light. This will be light,
will be light. A bit shade down
there and down here I want to have some
shading to this one. Lights and the rest is shading. Let's see. Then this
petal I need to close. That would be it.
Let's start with that. Start with this petal, then. There you go. That would be
this petal, the next petal. We're gonna do the opposite way. And I'm going to really
start at the bottom, but makes sure I'm not going over this part here because
there is that little leaf. And now I can go
long broad strokes. If you can't do them in one, you could sketch
them in like that to do long strokes like that. Now we're going to go up here just a little bit on
here, the edge two, we said, let's do that
for these ones too. Bit of the edges. That just makes it look better. Now, this one will do and go
this side, like this angle. Again. We're not going to go on there. And we're not going
to go touch these. So and what I'm going
to start up again, Meet right there
and leave this bit, a bit of an extra shadow line. Now let's see what
did we say here? We want this to be in shadow
bands the opposite way, so that we clearly know. Alright, this is a
different petal. Let's do with shading
up there too, Okay, and that will
be this flower. Now starting to look really
nice already, doesn't it? Next flower, what I do is
I'll still light here. The light touches there. When it comes from here. The light touches here. The light touches their life. We'll touch a bit there now
this would have some shadow, but this area would
have pretty much light. Let's see, we could do
this one bit bigger. Let's go with debt on the here and the light
comes from here. This part is blocking the light, but this one opposite again would catch some light and we'll leave the bottom here. Some light to that will be our light and
dark in the middle. I'll just figure out in a
minute at a line there. Now let's start here
and I just was light. So this will be o hatched. The first one. I'm going to
just continue with this one. This one, this one
I haven't defined, but I know that this part
wouldn't catch light, so I'm just going to hatch it with a straight
line like this. And now I can hatch this
one catching no light. We said in the opposite way. Alright, that is like that. And what are we
going to do next? This one, when a
swap angles again, short head Shane, and
a bit longer again. And there you go.
There's the next one. Let's do Her2 then, using the same angle. Alright, and now we do this one, what we're going to
go opposite angle. Okay, Good. Now this one, opposite angle to the same
angle we used here, K, and that's it. Pretty much know,
we need this one. I'm going to go
with this one here on the hair straight to. And then with this one, this is light, this is light. Let's go with same
angle as that one. Unless you can see this
whole shading thing is not accurate science, it's just approximate it
on a sheet that stock in, then I'm knowing that this
won't catch much light. Neither will the petals, but let's leave it like this. Good. Now we have this heart still left and we're
having some shadow. This one would be
blocking shadows. So there you go. And let's see, this one. Catch shadows. Same here. Insights. Petal. There you go. This petal here. Not much lights. And this petal would be
lighted on the thing. And now inside gonna do just a bit of
shadow on the bottom. And what we wanna do inside is all hatching and we're going
to go straight like this. Be careful that I don't go through the elements
that are in the heart. And there you go. That would be the flower
hatched, this flower leaf. Well, we do leave sunshine's. Let's do that here too. Same for this leaf. That leaf will catch
light up there. This leaf we're going
to just do dark. And the stock we give
to cite some shadow. Let's start with this leaf. There you go, good. And now this will, we do
shadow, opposite way. And around here, we're gonna
give this some shadow to, and we're gonna give shadow. And there you go.
Now we do the stock. Now light comes from here. And this here would be
done in full shadow. And then going into
that side like that, see start with foo
and then slowly make the hatching shorter when
you get to the darker side. And we'll do the whole stock. Good. And now here and this one we can
do on the hair, there's really no light. But slowly, we're creating
a sense of light again on their hand on the bottom. We do it just like that. Let's see. Now let's
do this one too while we're at it.
No light there. Slowly getting light. I'm holding my paper. It's going to open down. Good. This leaf we
set catch light bulb. Let's do some right at the top. Okay. And this leaf we're going
to hatch like this. Just following the
guideline we've put down. And now we're gonna do this one. There you go. Like that. A bit nicer. Okay, good. That will be it. I think that would be the
flower on the leaf, that bottom part to dry
the whole thing again. And I'm going to get rid
of my erase the lines. And now one thing I
want to show you, my eraser is pretty dirty. I want to have a clean side, so I'm just clicking
clean piece of paper and I'm going to erase and there's nothing to erase. But what I do is it just cleans
up my eraser pretty much. There you go. That's
a lot better. Now, I don t get all
these smudges again. Now I can erase this, get rid of those support lines. And then once you do that, as you can see, you end
up with a nice flower. Let me do this. I can
do this leaf too. No problem. I see I missed something. Okay. As clean this high on purpose, didn't do this part yet, letting that dry just
a little bit more. Now we can do this
part two, now. I missed one bit there. Let me do that. I missed here. That means there will be
some shading and also, again, this will be light
on the opposite side. That wouldn't be much light. And there it is, this one
I might just do a bit more. There you go. That's it. That is definitely it. Except for up here. I want to have a bit there. Bit extra on there. Good. And that's it. Now, good.
Let's get a flower. If it again, Let's
take a look at this flower really close. You can see it has
all these lines here. So what we're gonna do now, we're going to bring
some of them in. And around the note
with this pen. We're taking this pen again. And I'm bringing in with my pen just a few lines like that, HER2 random here too. But as you can see, that
makes really a lot of difference on this Troy. Even on there. He is, I will do here. And you can just take the
flower with it again then. See where you see
them, bring them in. Good day everyone. Now, going to look like
take a look at the leaf. Skip the leaf with it. Let's take a look at the leaf. And as you can see,
of course, the leaf, as every leaf has kinda feigns in it a
bit more than we have. So what do we do with that? Let's bring those things into just this is not completely accurate. So you could do and just
look at every leaf and say, alright, It's going
here, It's going there. But we'll just adding
a little bit of, and that makes all
the difference. But a little bit of these veins, some lines here and there, and it's just, I would say
in brightens up the flower, but I wouldn't be the
right expression, of course, that will make
the flower or less complete. Alright, that's it. That's definitely it for now. Okay, so we've got
this flower ready now. Yours may of course, slightly different,
not exactly the same. Of course can be in a
different color and black, blue, whatever color you like. I pick these colors. Nice, it looks nice. And what we would do if
the next step we will, of course give us some color, but that is for the next step. Now we're going to
leave it like this. And you're gonna
work on yours and create this composition
of the flower. And then the next step would be, we're going to work that and create column, add color to it. And I'm going to work
with colored pencils. And we're gonna give
this the colors that are in these flowers and
I have these flowers, then we fit two and then we'll start coloring those flowers. Alright, that's it.
And I would say, have fun drawing neuron. And then once you've done that, I'll see you back where we
start the coloring process.
6. Time to start Coloring: Welcome to the next video. We're going to continue if
the flower or when I leave this one alone for now and we're leaving it like this
for the practice. We're going to work
on this one and we're going to color now. And to color, you need
some colored pencils. I just caught myself a
selection of colored pencils. We're probably not going
to use all these colors. I'm using Royall, Tyler and fungal called pencils bit
softer color pencils. You can use any brand you want, cheap brand, expensive brands. That's totally up to you. It doesn't really matter
what we're gonna do will work with any
colored pencil. So I picked out some colors. And of course that is
reflecting the flowers we had. Let me get the flowers with it. There you go. We've got
some white, purplish, yellowish colors here, some nice greens, some deeper greens. We've got more pink tones. And then inside we
have the yellow, some green, and we're going
to just use all of that. And we're going to just
start with coloring. What we're gonna do
first is going to work a little bit on the heart, will do some of the greens. And then we're going to
work on the flower now, put some aside and I'll pick up the colors and I'll tell you what
we're gonna do now. The heart, the heart
is some bright green in it and there
is some yellow in it. So if you look well in
it, can you see that? If we can get to the
camera now it's too dark inside some green and some yellow and we're
going to just go for that. And with this one, we
might be able to see it a bit better if we
try and open it up. There you go, That's better. See yellowish green. And we're gonna do
that in the heart too. And then deeper down, there's deeper colors
I'm going to use for the deeper colors and
ultra marine violet. But if you have midnight
blue and indigo blue, you can use that one too. And then for the heart, I'm going to use
permanent yellow light and I'm going to use a
permanent yellowish green. So a very light green and
a nice bright yellow. Then what we're gonna
do, we're gonna start with the lightest color. First off, colored pencils. Of course, if you put
down a dark color, it's gonna be harder to
put down the lights. So we're going to start
with a light color first. And I'm going to zoom
in for that as you can see it a little bit better. I'm just going to draw in
that color, that heart. And since that is a very small, it doesn't really
matter what I do. I have a reasonably sharp
pencil, not a sharp sharp. You can use one with a very
sharp tip. Breaks off. And how I'm holding my pencil is not at the
beginning like that, but I'm holding a bit
more back like this, letting it rest in my on my
hands and I'm holding it. This finger supports
your middle finger, my pointer finger, and then my phone
and this is the way I'm using it and that's
the way I color in. And we're going to
just put a light layer and we're starting with
a light layer of yellow. There you go. We're just coloring that then you
don't have to press hard. If you use, put your pencil like this or letting
gravity do its work. And we'll just,
instead of starting pressing really hard
and getting fatigue, we might as well
just enjoy it and relax and put down these colors. There you go. Good. Now the next thing I'm
gonna do right away, since I have this
yellow, I'm gonna give this a yellowish color, since this was a really light, light green, I'm going
to mix this in with green and yellow to get
a nice bright color. And there you go. And just one layer.
Not pressing hard. I'm just putting down this color and doing a few nice layer
so that I get a nice yellow. Alright, with these ones, I'm not gonna do much more. The heart. What we're gonna do, we're gonna go
back to the heart. I'm going to get
that bright green. And what I'm gonna do is I'm not going to do these screen. But with this one,
I'm just adding in one layer of green
and as you can see, gives you a totally
different color right away, I'm now going back to
the permanent yellow, permanent light, yellow light. And I'm just going to add
few more layers on top of it. And there you go. That's about it. And I'm making rotating movement now
I'm blending in my green with my yellow
a little bit. And there we go. That's it. Now this flower, we're gonna do that pink color. What I'm gonna do, I'm
gonna get my lightest pink. And the insight, I'm gonna
give that light pink color. And this is called a
permanent red violet light. So very light pink
color as you can see. I got to make sure I don't touch the yellow I
put down already. Which is for the
video bit tricky now, normally I would go closer, but for video I can't
because then you would see only the back of my head
and not what I'm doing. So I'm putting down a layer of very light layer of this
color for the inside. As you can see once in a
while I turn my pencil, that helps me to get, keep that point a bit sharp. Although as you can see, it's not a sharp, sharp point. You could go sharp
or if you wanted to, but you don't have to D. Now, just letting gravity do its work and just add
some layers and others. Good. Now we're gonna go
to that dark color that ultimately in file. And I'm going to just do a very light layer over
it to get a deeper, darker tone because
this is deeper. So this is not catching any
light pretty much in shadow. And I'm hardly pressing
just a light layer. Now if you have a
very hard pencils, these are, as I said, bit soft. If you have a harder pencil
like polychrome most, then you may need to press
a little bit harder, but still don't go
pressing really hard. Then you basically
destroy your paper. But they're okay. And I'm going to
leave the heart. Pretty much like debt. Nice blend of the three, light pink and a very
dark deep violet. Leave it like that.
Alright, good. Back up here again. I'm going to take that
green and this is the permanent yellowish green. And I'm just going
to add a layer carefully onto that yellow. And I'm going to do
the same here too. And I should can see it
gets more greenish tint. And we're gonna do a
few more layers on this until basically that
yellowish color. It's more or less gone.
And there you go. Alright. Now there's a
darker side right there. What I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go back to that ultra marine violet. And we're going to carefully do a layer on the site where it is darker so that I get a
bit of a darker tone. You can see that doesn't
go as you can see, that same color here, but it picks up that green
and yellow that's under here. Then it makes a nice darker
green shadow is green. And what I'm gonna do next, I'm going to take
this green again, this is light green and
with a circular motion, I'm going to blend
these colors all in. And now I'm pressing
a little bit harder, but I'm not pressing hard, hard like crazy, but
just a bit more firm. And there you go. Now right away on
here you see get a nice light and shadow effects. Good. Alright. That's, that. Now these look good. We're going to
touch this anymore. This will leave like that. Now the next thing
we're gonna do, Let's go for the green. And I'm going to put down one layer of this
light green first. And I'll pick up
that flower again. Let me see if I pick one here. Some mix of green, some light green in it, some dark green in it. We're going to just
mix a few colors of green and we're starting
with a light green. So the lightest
green you have put down on there and also do the
leaves right away, a layer. And this big leaf,
we're going to do two. And as you can see, I'm holding my pencil is same as this. I'm just putting it a
bit flat so that I can put a nice layer on it. I'm trying to do
that a bit even. So I'm not gonna make quick
broad stroke skipping, but I'm trying to
do from one stroke, moving to the next one. I'm not lifting up my pencil. I'm just leaving it on the
paper and almost painting. You could almost say
that I'm painting it in and I'm using
slowly but surely will see that there
is a flat side coming there from doing this. And that is okay, that flat
side because it helps me to do a nice big area. Alright. Got it covered pretty much. I'm moving on to the next one. As you can see, I'm not going as flat anymore on this piece. Tilting my pencil bit more up
so that I have to control. And don't go outside
where I have put down my lines, my outlines. And there you go. Now this will be my base layer, the nice, bright green. And I see I missed
a little bit here. Let's add some more there. And I can also see right
away that the effect between the ink and the
colored pencil is really nice. It does the ink a little
bit and blends into. Now if you would
keep on going and going and going and
adding a lot of layers, eventually, the ink
might disappear, but that's not the
idea of course. And this one. And there you go. Good. Alright, so this
is really nice relaxing. Hold the pencil like this. Don't press too hard, but just let the pencil do its work. And by doing it lightly, you can add some nice layers and get some nice
blends eventually. Alright, putting it aside, the next thing I want
to do is I'm going to take olive green. And I'm going to add
one layer because that, that flower, we've seen that green bit deeper
around, bit darker. It's going a bit too. It's the olive, but not strong. Just a little bit. So I'm going to add one layer. I'm starting on top. On one layer a few,
but just lightly. And as you can see, that dose, that light green right
away and you get way closer to what it is. In real life. Now as you can see, I don't
look for a color that matches exactly what
I'm trying to decipher, what layers I would build up and how I would
get the nice tones in it. As you can see, this is
a really nice tone now, mixing this really light
green with this olive. And you're not getting that
strong dark olive color because of the light
layer under it. But you're getting a
nice kind of green that hopefully comes close
to the flower in reality. So that's the thing
about colored pencils and any color I use. Most often you don't go
straight to the color you see, but rather say, Okay, I'm going to build
up these colors with some nice tones in it so that your pencil
looks really nice. Now, depending on the paper, your outcome may be different. Since I have some tooth, I'm going to make use of that. I'm not going to worry
about working all of that texture away or rather make some use of
it and canning a nice is, you can see here a nice,
interesting effects. Now if you have smooth
paper, you're going to get, of course, something way
different than this. If you use watercolor pens, paper, like I said, the smooth watercolor paper, you're going to get a slightly
different effect to most likely your colors will be a lot brighter than what I have. So I'm not going to worry about the effect I get
now I'm going to say, unlike the effect, I'm
going to keep the effect. Although at some point, D effect probably is
more or less gone. But for now we're going to
make use of it. There you go. Well, pit there. And this one I didn't
do. And there you go. Another would be my base color and that looks pretty nice. Now the next thing I'm gonna
do is I'm going to take a green that would be
slightly closer. Fatale green deep. That's a diff color and I'm
not going to press harder. I'm going to do just one
layer carefully on it. And now I'm getting closer
to what this color is. In real life. Okay. Alright, but they're not
want some there too. Okay, Now that's for
my base layers and as long as I don't
press really hard, The loves me to put up
put on a lot of layers, and also keep my
lighting a bit because I wouldn't want this
to go all dark yet. We'll do that later on. Okay, we will stop here. Next thing we're gonna
do is I'm going to take that light pencil again. And we're going to blend this
a little bit of blending. Now, disliked pencil
has a pointer. Now on the one
side of flat side, we're going to make use of
the flat side a little bit. I'm going to make
that circular motion. And by doing that, blending in these
colors, mixing them. You could use very sharp
tip for this to blending. But that would get rid of most
of my texture since then, this sharp tip goes into
the grooves of the paper. And then all of my
texture will be gone. And I said I want to
preserve some of it. If you don't want texture, you want something
really smooth, then use sharp point, then you will go
into the grooves. If you want to preserve
some of your texture. Then make sure using
a more dull stump. Dollar, dull pencil,
flat pencil, even here, these are fine. We're not going to touch them anymore. And so there we go. That would be the green. Okay. More layer on the light side. Okay. Now I'm picking up that
darker, olive green again. I'm going to go for the
shadow side and I'm holding and flat
as flat as I can. Adding in a layer bit darker wherever I've hatched
the darker side. So I'm going to use
the pencil to do that. And at the side too now I'm
going to make use of the tip. And only at the
edge where there is the document where the light
comes but the darker edge. And this one I can
do completely. And we're back to this one. There you go. This one could do, go a
bit darker. Bit too light. Alright, good. And now you see you get a nice light shadow
effect going on. Okay, now under here and go. Why that shadow is
just a bit dark. Okay, that's good. This one and this
one that is behind, gonna give that a little bit
of a darker tone to now. There you go. That is nice. Now I'm going to pick up a
really, really light yellow. And this is called
Naples yellow light. You could use a lemon. In light, yellow. This, this is a lemon color. You could use a two and
what I wanna do is, um, just with a light yellow, do these edges a little bit. Now, this might not even
be strong enough for that. I'm going to switch
to that lemon. This is better. That is strong enough just
around the edges where they will be
really much light. We're gonna give the impression of light too, if that yellow. Even on the site. A little bit there.
On top of this, this one, we did bit
more right there. Little bit there.
That would be good. And as you can see,
now we're getting a really sunny side. And we're getting a
really darker side. We're going to work on
that dark side a bit more. Let's go back. Then I'm going back to
debts, ultramarine violet. I'm going to do the edge
of this one carefully. Not really, really. Aren't just the edge around
down there a little bit. And as you can see
by doing that, this leaf suddenly getting shaped and I don't
fresh with heart with this one because then it
will pick up this color. I want this to blend in
with the other color. And I'm gonna go at
this bottom a bit to fit around that nerve, a little bit in
another nerve thing. Not all the way. I'm going to, what I'm doing is I'm adding some shape dimension to
this, as you can see. Alright, I'm going
to stop there. This one we're gonna
do because this will be really deep down. And around this, just
around that edge, a little bit to see. And now you get the idea that this leaf is really in the back. That looks really good. We're doing the same
with this leaf, especially where the
stock is starting there and then slowly
adding some color. And that's enough. And now we're gonna
do this one again, adding some color ringing
and a little bit of shape. And around the edge there too. And where there is a
lot of shadow like here we doing that little, then we're going to
add the dark line there around this edge. A little bit more. Let's leave it like this
except for here a little bit. Okay. Alright, now we're gonna
go back to that yellow, that green light,
yellowish green, that very light one. I'm just going to blend again. That won't be the last
step for these leaves. Circular motions and finding the flat side of this pencil. And I'm blending in these
colors carefully at that edge. I don't wanna go too
much green on it, a bit more green in the middle. And there you go. Same here, I'm just going over, I'm blending in these colors. Same here, blending the domain. Even they're going to use the point for that
a little bit more. Get rid of that strong blue
here to still adhere to. What could do a little bit
of the hair, a little layer. Just a line of the dark purple. There you go to get
a bit of a shadow. And here too in
here where these, this leaf goes into the stock, just be back there. Add a bit of shadows
you can see, and that makes it
improves this right away. And I'll blend it
in a little bit. Alright, Good. I want some more green there. There you go. We're gonna
leave this like that. And now there's one
thing I noticed probably you notice to
come outside it a bit, so I have to find an
eraser to get rid of that. You could use a regular
eraser for that. But I do have a thing
called an eraser pencil, and that allows me to do things a little
bit more accurate. Now you could use an
electric eraser tool. And what I'm gonna do, just
where I've gone wrong. I just erase that a little bit. And then I'll take my
brush and that is created. That is a lot better. Good. Alright, Good. What's next? That is the green
and the heart. Okay. I'll suggest that you
do that to yourself. And then in the next video we're going to work
on the flower. Okay, So have fun coloring this, and I'll see you
in the next video.
7. Time to finish the Coloring: Well, a fall as well. You have either colored this
or you just moved right away to this video and
you're going to color it later. It's up to you. And we've done the green down the heart a little
bit and now we're going to work on the flowers. Now the flowers, they
have various colors. Some are pinkish. And if I take this one, some are really light pink, dark pink, all kinds
of pink colors. And we're just going to try
to get all these colors in. And we're gonna give this
one the bright color. We want this, we want our attention to be
focused on this one. Then we're going to go
really light on this one. And that one we're going
to give some middle tones. So let's start with this one. Now. This one is mainly white, but I don't want
to go all white. So what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to use that very light yellow, that Naples yellow light, which is very light yellow. And we're going to use
more of a flesh tone. This is called
Annapolis yellow, red, but it is more of a pink, very pinkish flesh, flesh tone. I'm going to use that for this. And we're going to do
first, I'm going to give it a layer of this very light, yellow and I'm gonna
do it, uh, very light. And as you can see,
let me zoom in for you so you can see that it
goes also very lightly. And I'm still holding
the pencil the same as I did in the
previous lesson. So that I have control
over my layers and don't put down all at once. But just put down
a little bit of color and have control so that
I can add a lot of layers. Now for this, this is
actually more than enough. I want, I'm going
to do next with this pinkish, really flesh tone. We're going to go where
the shadow is. This petal. I'm going to give some of
that color as you can do. Sorry, if you can
do as you can see, it does just a little
bit of extra tone and I want that around
here to around there, and up the hair a little bit. And that's all we're doing with this one now
on here on the bottom, I'm going to give some
more of that color. And there you go, the color
blends in really nice. Also with the color of ink, I used to say Pierre. Okay, Now that is nice, but it's flat so we want to
give it some depth to flow. We're going to take that ultramarine violet again and I'm going to just
add some shadows, but I'm going to do to
very lightly, carefully. So I'm not going to
press hard and just around the edge there. That will be nice
around this edge, C. And that creates
a sense of depth bit here on the there and
this one in the back. Just some shadow,
same up here too. And I would say that is
plenty fit with on there. So good. Now we're going
to go back to that very light yellow
circular motions. I'm going to blend
this in a bit. And that basically does
that color a little bit, makes it less intense. And that is what I want for this to be a bit
less intense, Diego. We're going to
keep it like that. But they're okay. That's it. For this
part. At least. It looks great, doesn't it? With the lighter colors, you go a lot quicker than
with the darker colors. So that is quite nice to use some light colors
once in awhile to now, we're gonna do this one. We're gonna do this one. We're going to set it
up the same as here, but we're going to add
some extra layers, some other tones to it. So I'm going to start
with a very light yellow. And I'm going to
add my base layer until I see that color repair. Now this here, we need
to do green by the way. So you know what? We might as well do
that right away. So I'm stopping with this now. I'm going to finish this,
of course, my first layer. Once I have my first
layer down, there you go. You can see it gets
a bit of color. We're gonna go to this one. This here. We forgot that. We're
going to start with that very light green, which was called permanent yellowish green
in my collection. So it's just a very
light, bright green. Now I should be careful that I am not going onto the flower. I'm just adding. A light layer of this
green again, same, we did one on here
with the leaves. Now I'm going to go
back to that olive. I'm just adding a light layer
of that off. There you go. Okay, good. And then we're gonna
go to that green we had plotted yellow, green, deep. I'm going to add
carefully layer of this. And they go, and I'm
going to go back to, let's yellowish green. And that's it for this color. And then I need some dark tone. I'm gonna go with
that file again. Ted, pet that leaf there and
on the hair a little bit, and then right there, and that's enough for this. And I'm going to blend
it in with this green. Okay? That is good. I'm going to sharpen this one a little bit
because we want to do the tip and this
has no point anymore. So I'm going to sharpen it.
I'll be back in a second. Alright. I'm back or you
didn't notice I was gone. And there we go. Now I can do that tip bit better and decide to
blend this in a bit more. There you go. Let's
leave that like this. And now we're going to
continue with the flower. So if you've done a layer with this Naples yellow with
a very light color. The next thing I'm going to
get that flesh tone again. And flesh tone where
the shadows were. The petals. Where the
shadow is a bit that not, are not in full light. I'm going to add a little
bit of this color. And by having done this 1 first, it's not a real problem. If you per accident go
over it with this color. We didn't touch
it, you're showing that doesn't really matter. It won't pick up much of
the scholar since these are very light colors. And hear a little bit
and that bit there, around that edge a bit
more there. Alright. We pretty much almost have the same as on that side
and put that away. And now we're gonna go
to the light pink tones. And then what's called pink. This one is permanent
red violet light. That's a nice pinkish tone. And I want to get a bit of this. I'm gonna do
reasonably dark this. I want to keep
in-between this really light and this what we're
going to have later on color. So I'm going to add
a layer of this. And I'm doing it as
you can see, roughly. And up here. A bit more careful. Again, hardly pressing
as you can see, I'm giving this a bit more
color then down at the bottom, because often with a flower, the end of the petal has a lot more color than
what it has at the bottom. I don't know why
that is quite a way. Perhaps the light pigment
lights to go where lightest. I don't know. That's it. And this one too, I'm going to give this a
little bit more and in the shadow, just a little bit. But as you can see, I didn't do much there yet. Alright. Already, it looks
really nice, doesn't it? I'm going to go for a next
layer on it so that it really picks up this car. And as you can see, I'm
focusing more on the bottom. I'm leaving a little
bit of light here. The light color there
so that we later on get light and dark effect
would even the same here, just this middle part, we're not going to touch as
much and leave an impression. There's a light shining on the bottom here
of this top petals. I'm now only doing the
bottom as you can see, where there won't be much light. Okay. Let's go for this one. Won't be that flower
looks nice, doesn't it? Okay. Let's get that very
light yellow now. Let's blend this in a little bit circular motions
than the blending pen. Now you could use a
blending stump to and then, but then if you do that, use it more towards the end. Once you have most of
your layers on it. Because that's smooth,
renounce everything and makes it hard to put
on some more layers. And the blends nicely
bit more here. I'm getting a nice
in-between color, as you will see later on. Okay, What we're gonna
do now for this. We're going to leave
this one as it is now. I'm going to move
to the next one and then may go later on, change the color on
this a bit more. But for this one
we're going to start, now we're not going
to give this one the same base layers here. We're gonna go with
that very light, pink right away, permanent red, violet light. This, this. And this flower is going to get this color as a base right away. And then later on
we'll go back to that one too to add some shadows. But for now, I'm just
adding a light layer. The pink looking color. All right. It looks pretty decent. Make sure you don't
touch the heart of much. There will be my first
layer and I'm going to leave that first
layer like this. And I'm going to move to
next color I have that's a bit darker and then will
be permanent red violet. And this was the
permanent red fine light. This is the permanent
red violet. So what I'm gonna do start
with the darker colors, where the dark colors
are supposed to be. And I'm adding just one
layer of this darker color. Right where these shadows
and darker parts here. So part two, and that's all I'm going to do for
now with this one. So there you go. Alright, now I'm just going to go back
to this lighter pink color. I'm basically going to add another layer of this and
I'm building up my tones. And then you can see
that color is emerging. And these colors blend nicely
so you get a nice tones. Now at the edges,
we're going to go a bit softer with this one. If you miss some
spots here and there. That's not even a
problem that will give the effect of light,
darkness in here. And I need to do this one, this petal. How about that? All right, Now I'm going
to focus on the edges. I want the edge to have a
bit more of this color. And this edge to that one bit darker. Okay, good. Move around the corner
here a little bit. And let's add a little bit on
where the darker parts are. Roughly. Okay, I'll stop
with this one end here some. Okay. Now I'm gonna see down there
a little bit, stop there. Okay, next thing I'm
going to go back to, now I'm going to
go darker, darker. This is third column,
minus heard Carmine. This goes towards the
red, red, purple. And that's what I'm
going to use for the really dark shadows. I'm going to add. Can see that it's really
a nice deep color. I'm going to do the
same here on that, a little bit around that edge, a little bit in here. Not everywhere. I
want this on some of the edges to really create
some edges and show like here, this is a deeper part under it. And then certain parts go
up and go down by doing this more around
the shadow edges. Right there two, I'm
using this color. Then you clearly start seeing
differences between petals. So a bit like we've
done here with the really violet color or no, using this to go around
some of the edges here to really showcase those edges. Okay, let's take a look
at it now, a bit here. Around the same
I'm gonna do here. But really lightly,
I'm going to blend this in a little bit, get a nice transition. And there's a bath
darker part here. So I'm going to lightly
use this to do that. And I'm going to do
the same here too. And why write down the shadows and add
some of this color, but not as strong as
I did on the edge. I want to just basically
from go from very strong and then fade
into the other color. And that's by putting some pressure on the beginning
and then slowly letting go of the pressure on she
go towards the outside. Here, we're just gonna do
that to around this edge. You get some nice
interesting looking effects. Okay, Good. Little bit more here. And a little bit more there. Just some around there and good. And others really
looking good, isn't it? But there's too
much white on it. Definitely will pick
the flower up again, as you can see, as light but
not really white, isn't it? This is more white like that. Okay, so too much, widen it. I'm having a problem
with putting this flower back.
Yes, there we go. I'm gonna go back to
the really light pink. And I'm going to make sure I'm gonna get rid of most
of them white now, I'm going to blend
in circular motions. By doing that again, preserving some of my texture. Blending in these colors. Building up layers. Bit more there. Good. I'm definitely not working
way all of the white, but I'm blending in
getting rid of most of it. Alright, that looks
nice, doesn't it? Good. I'm gonna go a bit more on that problem to bring back
some of that darker tones. Nice, there we go. Now let me see if I
have a sharp edge. I have to have a little bit. If you don't have a sharp edge, then go. Use your sharpener. I'm gonna do around
the outer edges. Adding a bit of this color. There we go. Alright,
that is good. Now we're gonna go, we have some light, we have
a bit of dark, but we want to make sure that dark really comes popping out. So now we're going to use it
ultramarine violet again. Bring some of these dark
parts around the edge, just creating a little
bit of a shadow. There, some shadow
going on there. There's a little bit
around this edge. A little bit in
their in here some, this is a bit of a darker parts. Same here to there too. Now you can see that slowly
these petals are coming to life by creating just a
little bit of shadow effect. And let me using that
ultramarine light. But if you have an indigo
or really dark blue, light blue, I think it's
called with some of them. That would work too. Just
creating some nice edges. We want some, just
a little bit more. On the dare curve.
That looks better. Let's do this petal carefully. Like it too, and let's add
some here, ends in there. Good. Now let's see, we
want to have this one probably a bit stronger to. Okay, let's blend
this in a little bit. Lighter. Purple,
that pink again, that light pink blending in, softening these
edges a little bit. And there you go. Okay, let's leave it
for now, like this. Now that said, if you
don't like your texture, that could be happening,
my texture is great, so I'm not gonna do
anything with it. You could blend this over. You could get a blender pencil
and really start blending this ON or with even the light
color. You could do that. And what we're gonna do
next, we're going to get that light permanent
yellow again. And I'm gonna just
a little bit here, bringing a period of some around some of the edges
where it will touch. Just a touch, a hint of light. Here to hear a little
bit around that edge. Not much, Not really strong. And I'm going to take that lightest pink
and I'm going to blend this in really carefully
and depressing heart. I'm just making these motions
and I'm blending it in a little bit. There you go. Alright, and now we get a hint
of light shining on there. Okay, go to this one. And we're going to add some more of this color
that pink on it, that light pink, because it's not definitely
too yellow still. So let's get rid
of all the yellow. Well, most of it. And add a couple of layers. This pink. All right, good. Let's do a couple
more and I'm going to just use the circular motions. Bit more. Blending in. That is a lot better. Okay? Alright, That will be dead. Um, let's see,
let's go with that. File it again and also here, creating some shadow lines. You some shadow down
there, behind there. By doing that, we're
creating some depth. It looks more natural to okay. On the hair a bit around this
edge or too much. See it. Up there. On this edge. A little bit, up
there, a little bit. Let's add a little here. And then around this bottom two. Okay, That looks pretty good. Okay, happy with that. Maybe a little bit here. Good. Let's just some on
this side here. Good. Now we're going to blend
that in with this pink. It's likely. Okay, good. All right. Well, I would say that looks
pretty good, doesn't it? Now, with yours, you may not have the same
colors as you can see. I'm just adding a bit on
the bottom still here. That's okay. You just
pick colors that you think that might be
close to my colors. You can use even a very deep purple on HER2
because this flower has various color variations. Let's do this one. A bit darker too again, so that it stands out a bit
more from the other one. Okay. Here too. All right, that
will be our flower. I'm going to think I'm going
to stop at some point. You can keep on going. But at some point you can say, I'm going to stop
and I'm going to leave my flower like this. So zoom out again
so you can see it. That will be the flower. Let me see. Now we've got a, if I need some touches up, I'm looking at it
and I'm seeing that our end a bit wrong there. So let's erase around that
edge a little bit too good. Now, now you could do a
background, you have a choice. You could just leave it like
this on the white paper. And the choice you
make, what we could do, what we really look
nice with this, create a bit of shadow. And we're going to do
that in the next video. That will be the last one. So we're going to
add a little bit of shadow at some point to just make this come off the paper a bit more
than it does now. But you could also stop here. Now, you have the
choice to blend this, of course, for blender
pencil if you want to. And then you use to blend
the pencil the same with the circular motions I did
with my regular pencil, a lightest color, but I think
this is blended enough. And I want this texture to
stay in it a little bit. So that would be it
for this lesson. I have to last lesson, we're going to finish this up. And I'll see you in that one.
8. Make those Flowers pop off the Page!: Well, welcome back. We're going to do the edge.
Now I have a few choices. Well, we can do with the edge. We could just take this
pencil and around the edge, create a shadow effect
around every petal. And then leave it like that. We could do something else to. What we're gonna do is we're
going to take a pencil. And if you have a pencil, I'm going to use for B for this. If you don't have a for B
and H B to B would work too, but preferably a for B
and I gotta get that one, okay, got my four B
pencil that's there. And I got a blending stump. If you don't have
a blending stump, you could use your
finger for this. Although preferably to have something like a blending stump, put a blending stump side. For B, the phobia is a
lot softer than the rest. So what I'm gonna do
around these edges, I'm going to create
a shadow effect. And I'm going to work
from top to the bottom. And I don't want to smudge. And I'm going to
hold the pencil, tuck it in there, and
hold it like this. And really put it
as flat as I can. And lightly. I'm going to
shade some shadow around it. Now if you have charcoal, you could use charcoal
for this stew. Surrounded edge. As you can see. Bit rough. And that's okay. This will be a bit
dark to in here. Let's do a bit dark
around this edge too. Moving there. Same here on the
hair, right there. And that would be pretty much
do a little bit there too. All right, and I would
just keep on going. I add some more
of that graphite. Alright? I'm, there must be
some there too. Alright, let's do it like that. You can see quite likely, quite roughly. I'm just adding some
layers of this. Basically doing the same as
I did with the color pencil. But next one I'm gonna do, I'm gonna really
smudge this, right? Let's add a lightly around
dare to and the route here. Just very lightly. Okay. Not on top. Why not? Let's do very lightly. Okay. We're focusing on
this side where shadow is. Soda means we're going to add the edge is where the
light comes from here. And this would cast a good
shadow and we're going to bring those in a little bit. Now, this would be
pretty dark too. Here would be a shadow. You can see, I'm adding that in. Now if this one will
be shadow around this edge and there would be the shadow around there where there would be
immediate shadow. I'm adding now another line, another layer that will
be shadow around there. Now colored pencil and graphite, they don't like each other. So if you put down graphite, you want to go over it. You put on a lot of graphite. You want to go over,
if you call pencils, you're pretty much in trouble. A moment just adding, She can see dark parts now
to make that really look as if it is shining a light
onto a wall or something. And lightly add
some more here too. Fading, this basically bed awake and a bit of
a fading effect. See this is really lightly here. On the hair, on the there and little f. And definitely on the, they're a little bit. You can already see this
flower coming off the paper. It's nice, isn't it? That's the whole idea. Or illustrating. Just making this look
beautiful, convincing, nice. Mixing some materials.
Now I said, you could have done this with a darker blue collar you have
for the permanent yellow? I have or did I use the file
at the dark violet color? But with the graphite. This is going to give
some special effect. Alright, Well, I
think I've got enough down for now. Good. Adds a little bit here. Would be some
shadow right there. And this will be my share to heading just I
know with here. Now on some there. Good. All right. I think I'm almost done just
adding some on top. Okay. Right. Next step. Blender pencil or my gutter, reasonably thick
one, you could use a funnel onto a pencil. Same circular motions. You could go straight. You can do anything.
This is going to blend. So let me do straight first. This is going to pick
up the graphite. You could go circular
two like that. But for this might be a
bit harder to control. What I'm just doing. I'm pushing this graphite into the paper and creating nice effect. As you can see. And now this flower really comes after paper,
not gonna cough. That's not the goal.
So let's go here. Go straight to that
to make sure I don't touch this part
with my hand soap. Let my hands more or
less float a little bit. Okay, let's continue
with this lighter side. Let's do that first. I should can see you get a
nice blend, a nice transition. I didn't do much there, so let's do that. This blending stick picks
up the graphite so you could even go where you
haven't put down anything. It's still do that. So you can color a
little bit with it. Right here. Okay. Here's that same
angle. Over here too. You don't have a blending stump. You could use cotton for us. Rack, kitchen towel
or cotton pads. You can do and then make that same motion
that will grow to add more there. Now let's go to the side. I haven't done much on yeah. Let's use that same angle. Bring it in a little lift. Okay. Right here, a little bit more. There you go. Well,
that makes this look totally
different, doesn't it? Getting rid of this
stuff a little bit. Okay. That S quite some
character to our flower. Blend this way, a little bit
more rough circular motions. Get a bit more of a transition
between those lines. Get rid off. Anything extra. And that would be pretty much
it looks nice, doesn't it? Okay. One thing you could do, then I will need you need itera. Use the sight of your eraser. If you have a new one or cut off a piece and use the point. And we're going to erase
a little bit of way to create a light line. Or you can use an
electric eraser for that. Or I'm going to use this
pencil eraser for that. Because the nice thing
of pencil eraser and you can create that action. What we're gonna do is on the side when a light
would be hitting, we're going to erase a little bit of that
graphite, picked it up. Like this. Here to there too. Just a little bit. Only wear light
would be hitting. So in other words,
the shadow with only where the lightest here to paying a little
bit of an edge. And that creates an
interesting effect. That's about it. I think shadow here
a little bit here, just her with more
that'll be hid. Perhaps just a little there. Okay. Alright, now we're going to erase this a
bit and as you can see, that creates the effect. A little bit of a light
shining at certain points. Blend this in a little bit. Go alright, bit around here too. Now, if you've gone too
much, then you say, I don't like this, just take the blender pencil
and work it away again. All right, around here,
create bit smoother. And then I'm going to take
that blend the pencil. Graphite is take some of it. Okay. Just a bit too much. Alright, that's it. Good. Looks nice. There you go. That would be it. This concludes our flower. Okay, and that's it. Then we have our u
stoma, Grundy flow, Bhoram Lee see on this
flower to flower, whatever it's called in your
country, lovely flower. And we started out with just
observing the real flower. Did some practice. Once we've drawn with the pencil or the outlines of the shape where we wanted it, building it up from blocks
and then getting some detail. Then the next thing
we moved with, as we move to a pen,
I use two pens, a bolt pen for the outlines, and smaller pen
for the hatching. Now you can use, as
I did fountain pens, you can pick up fine liners. You can just even
use regular pens, gel pens, but if you want to. And then the next thing we
did once that was done, we just build it up with color lightly and adding
layers and layers, getting nice effects
and transitions. Now you can assert with a
blender pencil blended all out. But I want to keep
this texture effect in it because that will
really looks nice. And then the last thing we
did decide on the background, and I didn't go with
colored pencils on purpose. I said Now let's go
with graphite instead. That works a bit more quicker
and gives a great effect. So that will be this, You stole my flower. And that would end
this art class. And I do thank you
for being with me and enjoy creating it. And I'm just looking
forward to what you create and how your
flower will come out. So have fun with that and hopefully see you
in another class.
Benjamin A, Art Teacher, illustrator Art by Benjamin
