Inktense Pencils For Beginners: An Introduction To Inktense Watercolour Pencils

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to my class Ink tens pencils for beginners. Have you always wondered what intense pencils are all about? Are they just fancy pencils with ink in them? Or you may never have heard of intense pencils before until today, and you're super curious about what these pencils are all about. And if the answer to any of these questions and beyond is yes, then you're at the right place because this class is perfect for you. We're going to start the class off by quickly going through what ink tense pencils are, their components, how they work, and what characteristics they have. Going to then quickly move on to the class supplies, and we'll go through all the items that you're going to be needing for this class. And then a matter of excitement to announce, I will be giving some free worksheets that are available from my published workbook on intense pencils. So if you've already got this book, then that's great. Haven't not to worry because few pages from this workbook will be made available, absolutely free, which you can download, and I will indicate to you when you need to use them throughout this class. We will begin by looking at the different application methods on how to apply intense pencils, and we will explore the various ways that this can be done to produce really interesting and lovely effects. We will then work through one of the sheets on Blending from my book that, again, is available for download. That we can work out how to create a beautiful blend with color and work alongside the lovely little features that you have on this worksheet. And then once you've done the application methods and the blending exercise worksheet, then you'll be ready to start exploring that knowledge and really implementing it in a beautiful pattern, which again, I'm going to be making available from my book free for you to download and use. And then finally, we will explore a really interesting technique. Using these pencils to produce a step by step sketch where we will look at different methods of how to create wonderful effects in creating sketches, whether it be from real life studies or whimsical in my own personal whimsical style. And once you've completed all the class exercises and the complete step by step sketch, you will be able to accumulate all those skills and those techniques that you've learnt and really go ahead and unleash that creativity of yours in producing your very own beautiful class project. So what you're waiting for grab yourself a nice drink, get yourself a nice treat, get comfy, get your ink tints and pencil ready, let's get started with the class. 2. Class Project: Okay. Welcome back. For your class project, all you need to do is follow along with the exercises within the lessons of this class. We're going to be looking at the application method. We're going to be looking at blending, using the exercise sheets provided for you to download and print from my book. And we're also going to go through a lovely little pattern that you can color in using those blending and application methods. And then finally, we're going to do a lovely little sketchy style bit of artwork using these pencils. So follow along, give each one of those exercises a go for your class project, and then you'll be ready to explore and create your own wonderful artwork. With these brilliant intense pencils and that's it, then all you need to do is upload your beautiful work, whether it be the exercises or the sketch or both of them, and also with your artwork that you produce so that we can all look at your wonderful experience with these pencils and then also leave a lovely review on the class so other students can find the class and we can all enjoy this wonderful adventure using intense pencils, and that's it. That's all you need to do for your class project. So now let's move on with the next one. 3. What are Inktense Pencils: Okay, welcome back. Let's now start the class off by going through some of the basics of what ink tense pencils are all about. Let's quickly go through them. What are ink tense pencils? These are highly pigmented, intensely vibrant watercolor pencils that are permanent when they're fully dry. They are pigment based, highly water soluble, create ink like transparent washes. They're great for layering, vibrant colors, instant dissolving, and versatile for light or dark tones. The pencils are wax based and have a four millimeter core with a round barrel. In total, there are 99 pencil colors and one outliner pencil. 87% are light fast. Dilution with water may affect light fastness. Intense antique white is great for highlights. Or black paper art. Pencil, dipped ends, match the washed out colors, not the dry cores. The outliner pencil is a non water soluble pencil for line and wash drawings, and that's it. That's what this pencil is all about. So let's quickly go through what you actually need in the class and then we can start with the fun stuff and start figuring out how we apply these pencils to our paper. 4. Class Supplies: Ok Dokey, welcome back. Let's now quickly run through the basic class supplies that you're going to need to follow along in this class before we start doing the exciting stuff. So for this class, you'll be needing number one, inktense pencils. Of course, this class is all about intense pencils, so having some inktense pencils. Is absolutely a necessity for you to do this class. Now, you don't need to have a huge set of intense pencils. You can maybe just have a couple or maybe a small set. Again, these pencils come in various set sizes. So if you've never had these pencils before and you're thinking about getting them, I would probably say get yourself a nice small set to get yourself started with them to see whether you like them or not. And if you like them, then maybe go for the bigger sets. The set that I'm going to be using throughout this class is my original set of 24, which I bought. And some of the pencils are actually missing from my set, so I'm just going to try keeping it to some nice, basic colors. Number two, you're going to be needing some sort of a watercolor brush because we are going to be using watercolor brushes for some of the application methods that we go through. So any watercolor brush will be great. If you have a small tip watercolor brush, that would be fantastic rather than having something that's too big and wide. And number three, you're going to obviously need some water because these are effectively watercolur pencils. Water, again, is absolutely necessary for their application. And number four, you're going to be needing some paper. So I would recommend that you get yourself some watercolor paper, decent quality is fine. You don't need the super expensive 100% cotton watercolor paper. These pencils are very versatile. They tend to work even on non watercolor paper. But because we're going to be adding water to them, it would be really beneficial if you have watercolor paper or even a good quality mixed media paper. In fact, I'm going to be using my mixed media paper throughout this class. Grab yourself, your watercolor or mixed media paper. Number five, these are just some extra items that will help us along the way when we come to doing some sketching. So any pencil will do a fine liner would be great just to add in some details if you want. Then finally, number six, you would need some paper towels at hand just in case you make a mess with your water or your lovely intense pencil start smearing all over the place. Paper towels just in case, and it would also be good to have maybe a ruler and some washy tape just to fix things down. But again, these are just optional items. And last but not least, you're going to be needing to print out the lovely worksheets that I'm going to provide you from my book. So if you download the PDFs and then print them out on whatever size paper you want, they'll print on A four size. They should even print on letter size, scale them up. In whichever setting you have on your printer to fit the page, I'm going to be using A five size for the demonstration, if you don't have a printer or you're not able to print the worksheets off, then just have them on your screen, on your laptop or computer or on your iPad, whatever you're viewing the class on, have them open and maybe just trace them to draw something similar in terms of the outlines of the worksheets so you have something similar to follow. So that's it. So hopefully, you'll have all your supplies ready. You'll have the worksheets printed out that we're going to do for the application blending and the lovely pattern design. And I know you're excited, but I'm going to tell you to just calm down, get yourself a nice drink, to just get yourself all set and nice and cozy, and now we can move on to the application method and the exciting stuff. I'll see you on that one. 5. Application Method 1 - Dry First: Oh, that's a good one, that, isn't it? Nice bit of ginger and tumeric fantastic and a hint of lemon in that. What a great combination. Nothing like a nice, lovely ginger tea on a cold, windy day. So I think we're ready to start the class. So back. I was just enjoying my ginger tea as usual. It's an absolutely horrible day today, so much wind. You can probably hear it in the background, and that's why I've got my nice, lovely stuff, shirpa coat on over here. So let's get back to the class. Okay, okay. Now we're going to do the exciting stuff. So I better get me tea out of the way. Okay, oke. So let's get our attention onto the table now. So you can see over here, I've got some nice little cut out pieces of paper on the middle of my table. And this is my lovely mixed media paper that I love to use with these intense pencils, and I've just cut them in a nice convenient, small little shape like this. So get your paper ready. I'm going to just take a sheet of this, move the others out of the way. So just a nice little sheet of mixed media. And for this demonstration now, we're looking at the application method. I'm going to use this lovely color that I've got here. This one is called Ce blue, and the color code is 1200. So if you have this in your set, then grab hold of it if you want to follow with the same color. And if you notice, my pencil is nice and sharp. That's very important ensure that you keep your pencils nice and sharp because it just makes for better control when you're applying them to your lovely drawings or your coloring in sessions, whatever you use them for, having a nice sharp point is absolutely fantastic, and it will really, really enhance your experience with using these intense pencils. So grab your pencil, make sure it's nicely sharpened. And another thing, just to make sure that you're using a good quality sharpener. I use this electric sharpener here, which I've got quite accustomed to over the last maybe a couple of years. I never used to use electric sharpeners, but there you go. We all advance, don't we at some point in time, and I've never gone back. So I tend not to really use my manual ones anymore, only unless I'm using specific pencils. But get yourself a good sharpener. I actually forgot to mention that into supplies. So add that into your supply list. So for the sharpener, just give them a nice little sharp and let's move that out of the way. And we can start now. So the first application method I'm going to go through is the dry first method. So we're going to look at the dry first. I'm just going to hold a pencil as it is, and I'm just going to go ahead and create a nice lovely little swatch in the middle on the top section of the paper. So just like that over there, and we papers moving all over the table, isn't it? Let's sort that out. Let's fix it onto the table. Okidoki, I've got my paper fixed on really nicely with my lovely little blue tack, and let's continue. So just with the pencil, all I'm going to do is add a nice little swatchy swatch over here, just going up and down, using the sharp tip of that pencil, just applying that lovely color pigment onto the surface just like you would do with a normal colored pencil, and you can see that the color is so nice and vibrant. Nice pigment going on there. And it just looks great as it is, you could just leave it like that, couldn't you? But we're going to take it to the next stage. We want to explore the versatility of these wonderful pencils. So just like that, a nice little swatch over there, and I think that's about enough. What we've done there is we've just got an initial layer of dry color. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in over here at this bottom part of this paper, and I'm just going to go ahead and do exactly what I did with the one on top. Using this upward and downward motion here, add this lovely little swatch of color, just quickly getting that down, a couple of layers in the same direction, and that looking fantastic. Then again, just a little bit more on the top so that they look similar. Just make sure that they look similar so that we can compare and contrast the results. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to switch the direction. I'm going to go in a diagonal direction on the bottom swatch. Just like this and basically just adding another layer just to intensify the actual pigment that's on the paper so that we can see what difference we get with the intensity and the amount of actual color when we go on dry first. So just like this in a diagonal fashion, just adding a couple of layers of that pigment, and I think that's looking quite nice. You can see on the screen. We've got a darker swatch there and a slightly lighter one there. So just going to give it a bit of a blow. Fantastic stuff. So I'm going to put my pencil to the side now, and now I'm going to get my lovely watercolor brush. So I'm going to be using my favorite brush here. This is the silver black velvet brush. This is a number eight. I find that this size is absolutely perfect for applying water onto ink tents. So I'm just going to go ahead and I'm just going to give it a nice drench in me water like this, and then I'm going to tap on the edge of my kind of container there to make sure that the excess is off. And then let's just get that out of the way. Now you can see that we've got a really nice drench going there on that brush, and I think that is pretty much good for this first application process. What you don't want is, you don't want the water to be dripping off the brush so that you get water all over the place. Just get the bristles nicely wet and then they can hold in that moisture. Let's go in to this first swatch here and all I'm going to do is I'm just going to lightly glide that brush, which releases the water over this left edge, and you can see, as soon as that water touches the beautiful dry pigment, it starts melting away, giving us this wonderful ink like effect, and that's it. So I'm not going to overdrench it. I'm just going to leave this section dry so that we can see what it looks like dry and wet. Then again, I'm going to give my brush a nice little rinse over here so that we maintain the same amount and then just dip it in again and then give it a nice little shaky shaky for the excess so that we have a similar amount of water because water control is always important when we're using watercolor mediums like these intense pencils or just normal water that's about the same. Then I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to do exactly what I did on top. So just like that, just going to make sure that the water touches the dry bits onto that swatch and you can see that it's just melting away as soon as it touches it. Get the brush out of the way now and you can see, as this is still wet, we've got a really lovely intensity of color, a lot more in the bottom swatch where we had the extra layer, a lot less in the top, but nevertheless, it's still very, very intense and beautiful. So let's wait until this dries and then we can see what the final results look. Okay, okay now, our lovely swatches are fully dry and you can see that they look absolutely fantastic. What you got to remember with this is that once these are fully dried after you've applied them, once you've applied the pigment dry and once you've put the water on top and it's completely dry, they now become permanent. So if you add water on top to try maneuvering it around, you won't be able to do this. And this is absolutely great when you want to add and build very subtle layers, just like you would do in normal watercolors. So that's the results that we get with the dry first, and then adding water, you can see it's a completely different look from what it looks like when it's just dry. And then, depending on the intensity of the layers, you're going to get slightly different results, but it looks absolutely brilliant. So give that a try with your color ink tense pencils and see what results you get. And another way to actually go ahead and use the colors that you have in your set is to do a color swatch. So that's one of the first things that I tend to do. I'm also going to give you a lovely downloadable color swatch sheet that you can use, so I'll just show you in my book. Over here, so just grab hold of my book. So with the book that I have, this is the digital downloadable book that you can purchase separately. Now, if you already have this, that's fantastic because you can use this really to expand on this class. But if you don't have this, then I will also provide you with a nice little swatch sheet from this so I've got it usually at the back over here. So I've got a nice swatch of these colored pencils that I've got from my set of 24. Now, you might not have the set of 24, so these colors and these codes might not be relevant for you. However, if you have a look on these, I've got each swatch as a dry swatch and a wet swatch. So you'll be able to actually get a zoom in on this. Quick little zoom zoom in on this. Just like we did with our exercise over here, we've got a wet swatch and then we've got a dry one. With the sheet that you'll be able to print, you can just do this, print it off and you'll easily have these lovely little boxes and the relevant color code that you can write in. And that will just give you a nice little reference of all the colors that you have. Now, if you have the 24 swatch sheet, then I will provide you with the 24 set swatch just like I've got with the actual names on them. If you haven't got the 24 set and you're thinking, Oh, this doesn't really work for me, then don't worry. I've got you covered. I'm also going to be giving you a blank swatch sheet so that you can actually go ahead and build in the colors that you have and write in the names as you go along while you're building your collection of intense pencils. That's a bonus that we didn't mention at the beginning, but I've just decided I'm going to give it to you so I'm going to give you this swatch sheet of the 24 and a blank one just because you are fantastic people and I want you to enjoy this experience. Let's get back on to the second application method. We've done the first one. Let's move on to the next one. 6. Application Method 2 - Wet First: Okay, welcome back. Let's now look at the second technique. So on my screen, I've got another lovely piece of paper, just like I had before. On the left hand side, I've got the previous technique that we did. So I'll just keep that on the left for us to have a quick reference to. So that was the dry first technique, application method. Now we're going to do the wet first technique application method, not complicated at all. So for this one, we're going to have the same color pencil that I used before. So I'll just put that to the side because we're going to use that after so what we need to do is we need to grab hold of our water. I'm just going to give my brush a nice little rinse there, and I'm going to make sure that I've got a decent bit of water on the bristles of the brush that's looking good. And now it's just a case of applying our water to the paper first. And therefore, that's how we get that wet first method name. And so we're just applying our lovely water onto the paper to create a bit of a swishy swash. So just like that, that's about enough. Let's quickly move to the pencil now. You want to make sure that you work quickly with this, otherwise the water is going to dry and then we won't be able to get the effect that we're after. What we're going to do now is we're just going to get our pencil as it is, and we're going to go ahead and just create a swatch over that water and you can see that as soon as that pencil touches the water, you're getting this lovely ink flow of pigment, and that just looks fantastic, doesn't it? So you can see the water on the top section here has dried out fairly quickly. So if we move on to this section, where we've got more water, you can see, we're getting much more of a melty inky effect, just like that now. Just look at that. Going backward and forward, I'm not using much pressure at all. I'm just letting it just glide over that water, and you can see we can get this wonderful vibrant electric effect, isn't it? Fantastic there. And that's it. All we're doing there is just adding our dry pencil on top of the water solution on our paper. Now, do remember, try not to use too much water. Otherwise, you're going to have all sorts of funky designs. But what you can do is with this technique, if we just get some more water, we're just going to get some water on the brush, if we just have a wet area here, so just a dot of water down here, maybe a dot of water down here and another one here. So just three random dots of water with some space in between. If we do a little squiggle, you can see we're going to get different results. Just like that, a little squiggle of my line, and we get different results. Now, do you remember when you apply this dry pencil onto the water, you're going to get the actual end of that pencil, the tip of the pencil to see if you can get a Zoomy zoom in on this. You can see over here that the tip of the pencil gets worn down really quickly. So do bear that in mind when you're using this technique because if you press too hard onto the water, that tip is going to get melty melty, and it's going to create all sorts of funky tip point shapes at the end of your pencil so do bear that one in mind. But again, it just works really nice doing a little squiggle get this gorgeous, gorgeous textured inky effect, and I absolutely love it. We're going to explore more of that when we come to doing our little sketch later on. So that was technique number two, wet first application method. So we've done two techniques. We've got one more to do, and then we can start doing even more fun stuff. So let's move on to that one next. 7. Application Method 3 - Swatch : Okay, welcome back. Now we've got our final technique of the application method. So on the screen here, again, I've got another sheet of lovely paper, and I've moved my other techniques onto the left so that we can still see them. So on the top here, we've got the dry first method. Then on the bottom, we've got the wet first method, and it still a little bit wet because I haven't waited for it to dry because I'm so excited, so let's just carry on with this final method. And this method I'm calling pick from a swatch method. So simple words, nice and easy to understand, and we can go ahead and do this. So I'm going to use the same color again. I'm just going to make sure that the tip is dry. So if your kind of tip of your pencil is a little bit moist, wait until it dries, and then maybe just give it a little scratch on a blank piece of paper like this. And I can see there that's just lovely dry pigment, beautiful stuff. And then just move that one to the side. What we're going to do is we're going to first of all, we're going to create the swatch that we're going to pick from. So I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to create a nice little dry swatch of pigment just like this. I'm not going to use too much. I don't want to kind of spend too much time on this method because it's just very simple and easy to understand and use. So just like this, adding in a bit of pigment, then maybe going in in a different direction, just to make sure that we have another layer just to create a nice tense solution of color. Can move that now to the side, and now all I'm going to do is grab hold of my water, give it a nice rinse on the brush there, just like that, and then I'm going to go straight in into this swat just like that with a decent amount of water. I'm going to effectively just melt this dry pigment away. So that we have a swatch of ink. Look at that. A nice little swatch of ink. Now what I can do is with the same brush, all I'm going to do is lift that ink that I've created in this solution and then just apply it onto the dry paper there. Look at that. Beautiful, isn't it? It's just like you're using normal watercolor, just like that. Picking off that wet, melted solution and just applying it onto our lovely dry paper. So just like this, whatever we have left over here, it's going to go ahead, maybe just create some squiggly, wiggly lines, and you can see we have this wonderful, clean, lovely effect, pretty much just watercolor in this ink consistency and look. So that's it. So let's just move the brush out of the way. So we've got this wonderful third technique, and for the application methods, these are the three that I'm going to stick to. So that's it for the application method. Let's just now have a look at all of them side by side. Okay, so on the screen now we've got all of our lovely application methods. On the left here, we started off with the dry first method worked out really nice with a couple of different layer levels. Then we moved on to the second method, which was the wet first method, and then we went on with our dry pencil. Fantastic results there very, very different from the first one. Then finally, we moved on to the third method, which we called the pick from the swatch method. That was the third one where you have the most cleanest and most water color like effect like you would with normal watercolor paint. So give these three methods a go again, use different colors, use the same colors like I've done, and see what effects you get. This will just act as a nice warm up exercise for you to move on and start really expressing yourself with this fantastic medium. So that's it for the application method. Let's now move on to the next one. 8. Blending Exercise: Oki Doke, welcome back. Let's now do some more exciting stuff and look at how blending works with these intense pencils. So on your screen over here, I've got a gorgeous little printout of one of the worksheets from my book that I've got that I've made available for you to download and print. So for this lesson and this part of the exercises, you will be needing this sheet. So print it off on your printer in whichever size format you like, and then you can follow along. Alternatively, as I mentioned before, if you don't have this, just draw a similar shape like you've got on this from the PDF on your screen, and you'll be good to go. So let's now move the book out of the way. And what I've got is I've got the actual sheet printed off as a single sheet, and again, all the sheets that are available on the worksheet section in resources of the class, you can print these off as many times as you like to practice all these techniques and to really give yourself a focus on what to do with these pencils. Let's have a quick look at this sheet. So over here, we've got these lovely little teardrop shapes, but they're not tears because we don't want to cry, we want to enjoy ourselves. We want to enjoy this lovely experience of intense pencils. We teardrops, I'm going to call them raindrops, lovely, lovely raindrops over here. So on this screen here, what I'm going to do is I'm going to just do a zoom in. But basically, the screen itself, I've got a bit of an instruction on the top of what we're going to do, and then I've just got a repeat pattern across the bottom in these lovely little rows that you can practice on. So let's concentrate on the top and get a lovely little Zoomy zoom on that. Oki doke. So if we have a look at this lovely little shape, I've divided the shape into three parts. The first one is going to be color number one. Then the second part is the overlap color, and then the final part at the bottom is color number two. Basically, what we're going to do is we're going to use two different colors and blend them as we would with normal colored pencils. So now the trickiest thing now is to decide which colors we're going to use. So I think I'm going to go for some nice warm colors. Let's grab hold of me color. Okay, so I've got my lovely two colors here. I'll just read them out which ones these are. I've got a lovely red called poppy red, and the color code is 0400. So if you're going to use the same colors that I've got, and if you've got them in your set, then grab hold of them. And then the yellow color that I've got here is this gorgeous sun yellow color, 0200. Grab hold of two nice colors, a yellowish shade and a reddish shade. We can start. Again, if you don't have the specific colors that I've got, then just use something similar. Let's start off maybe with the yellow. I'm just going to put that pencil to the side there. All I'm going to do is we're going to actually do the first application method, if you remember the dry first method because that will probably be easier to apply, but you can also use the wet first method or the third method of using the swatch first, but maybe do that at a later stage when you get a bit more comfortable with blending colors. Let's now add in color number one. All I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to add in my lovely yellow color into this lovely little shape that I've got keeping it within the bounds of the shape. If you go a bit over the shape, don't worry about it again, this is just practice so that you get familiar with your beautiful ink tense pencils. I think that's looking good, maybe adding in another layer by going in a different direction just to make sure we've got a good, saturated, nice bit of dry pigment on here before we start applying any water. I think that will do for now and we'll just move that on the side. Then let's get our lovely red color. Then what we're going to do is color in this bottom final section here. Again, I'm just going to go in best I can in the shape. The size of what you print these worksheets will depend how intricate you need to be with this coloring in stage where we're basically just coloring in these elements of these shapes. I do recommend maybe print them on an A four or a US letter size just to have a slightly bigger shape for you to color rather than have something small like this, the only reason I do small like this is because it's easy to demonstrate on the screen so that you can see. But again, you like to do little detailed work like this and spend your time on it, then go for it, do it as big or as small as you want. I've just added that lovely red, which looks fantastic. Move that to the side. Now what we're going to do is we're going to get our water. Give me brush, a clean, make sure we've got clean water on the brush, just like before, I'm just going to give it a little wet and a drench. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in and I'm going to start melting away this first color. This yellow color here, I'm just light tapping in that water onto the pigment there so that it become moist. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to quickly just drag it in to this area here. That middle section, we've got the white area. I'm just going to drag it in into this section nicely without touching the red and then that looking great. Then quickly, I'm going to clean my brush. And then with the same amount of water on the brush, just nicely drenched, we're going to do the same for the red, so we're just going to wet that red over here and then just bring it in like so, and then bringing it into that yellow area that we had. And you can see what's happening is, it's merging into the color of the yellow, and we're getting a nice, lovely blendy blend of color, aren't we? Look at that. Fantastic, isn't it? Now, I'm not going to overdo it by really pressing hard with the brush. It's just these light little dibby dabs that I'm doing just here just to demonstrate that we have now blended the two colors, and we've got this gorgeous overlap. So that's it. That's all we need to do for this kind of first demonstration. If we clean our brush again and maybe grab hold of our color, we can actually do another technique by applying the dry color first completely and then blending over with the water. Let's do that one next. Oh, Gdoki, welcome back. So what we're going to do now is we're going to wait for this to dry completely. And if you remember, we just went in with the color in the top kind of area, then in the bottom, and then we just merge them together by making the lighter color blending to the mid section and then just using little dibby dabs of our brush with the darker tone color. Alternatively, what we can do is we can go in with the same colors again and let's maybe work on this one while that dries. What we can do is we can just go in and literally just adding the color into the top and mid sections completely dry before we add any water. That's just another way of applying this kind of blending technique and really using a different method. You don't have to do it one or the other way. You can just mix and match and see what results you get, whatever you're comfortable with, and whatever different methods you use, it's absolutely fine as long as you're comfortable in doing it and it doesn't stress you out. The whole point of showing you different ways of achieving similar results is so that you have some options. It's always good to have o. So just like that, I've added in the yellow into the top and mid section. And then, again, with the red, I'm just going to go ahead and start adding in my lovely red just like that into the bottom section. And then I'm also going to overlap it into this middle section as well so that we have a nice complete area of color you can see that as we're overlapping the color, it's already started to blend so you can expect to see very similar results like we had up here. Just like that, maybe just adding a little bit more. You don't have to be super neat. Just do it as quickly as you can so that you're not spending too much time on it. It's just so you get a bit of a flavor of how to blend these colors. Let's move that out of the way now. Now let's get me water, so I'm just going to clean me brush, and then all I'm going to do is I'm going to go in straight onto that top bit for this one now, I'm going to just go in the direction that we started off in. So just like that with the yellow, keeping it nice and clean, and then using the same brush, bringing it into this area, and just adding, light pressure, and then just like that, making sure we've got moisture hitting all those dry area of the paper and pigment, then again, just bringing it in into the red, where we've got the pure beautiful red, gorgeous color. That isn't it. And look how easy that was to blend the colors. And again, these kind of shapes that I've got, these are just guidelines. You can create your own shapes and try using these techniques to blend, and that just looks great. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to clean my brush to make sure there's no pigment on it, give it a nice little rinse. What I want to do is I actually want to dry out my brush now. I don't want to add any excess water, and so I've just got a little bit of paper towel over here, just put that to the side there. I'm just going to give my brush a nice dibby dab so there's not too much excess water on it. Then what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to use the brush to very gently tap those areas just to make sure that we have a nice even coverage of that color and then maybe go a little bit into this yellow so it blends in a little bit more and it's effectively creating this speckled blending look compared to the one that we had on top. Just like this, blending away those beautiful colors, just like that. And it looks absolutely fantastic. Give that a try, try using the same colors that I've got, and then once it's complete and fully dry, you'll be able to see the results that you get. Then once you're done, then you can go ahead and use different colors. So maybe use a blue and a yellow to create a green or maybe just use similar colors from the color wheel and just come up with eight variations. If you get a zoom back on this, do a nice little variation of colors, and I've actually done one before where I've actually gone ahead and just had a nice little play around using the same template that I printed out. You can see you can get various results using different colors that are within the complimentary colors of the color wheel or complete opposite colors that don't mix at all. Have a bit of fun. Fill it in, see how you go, go in dry first completely, and then maybe go in section by section like we did over here, dry and then dry and then overlap it with some water and see what results you get. I think that's a great warm up starter exercise into the world of intense pencils with blending. Give it a go, print it out, and I can't wait to see the results that you get. So we can now move on to the next one. 9. Pattern Colouring: Okay, welcome back. Let's now use our lovely techniques that we went through in the previous two lessons, the application methods, and the blending exercises, and let's apply them to a beautiful little design that we can color in and enjoy. Let me bring your attention back onto the screen. Now. This is my book that I've been talking about, and let's find ourselves a nice pattern to color in from the selection that I've got. We've done the blending. And we've got some wonderful patterns here, haven't we? So I'm going to make this one available. We'll keep it nice and simple. So on your downloadable section area in the resource sheet, get yourself this pattern printed out. Try keeping it maybe medium size in your print rather than having it too big because this is your first attempt at using those techniques to color in a particular shape. So I'm going to use this one and I'm going to do it straight into my book over here. I'm not going to print it out on a separate sheet. Let's go straight in. So the next thing that we need to figure out is which colours are we going to use? So let me go grab my colors. Okay, okay. I've got my colors here now, so you can see in the tray, we've used these two before, so I want to use something a little bit different. Maybe we go for a how about a nice kind of shade of pink? I like that. That's a nice pinky color there, and then maybe some purple. And then maybe we might actually go ahead and use a little bit of this, actually. Yeah, let's use that original yellow that we had. So I'm happy with my choice there. You can use whichever colors you want. It makes absolutely no difference. But if you want to follow along with what I'm doing, I'll just quickly mention what the colors are that I'm using. So that yellow was the same one that we had in the previous lesson, the sun yellow, 0200. Then the next color I've got is this lovely pinkish shade. This one's called Fosha What a fantastic name that for Shea, 0700. Then I've got this really nice purple color that's called violet and it is 0800. I've got my three colors here, and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually go ahead and start off in the middle with my yellow color. Let's go ahead and add a nice bit of yellow the center of this floral symmetrical pattern. So just like that, I'm just using these circular motions just to lay down that beautiful pigment. Again, what I'm going to do is make sure that I go in in different directions to make sure that the actual pigment adheres to the surface of the paper. This paper is the multimedia paper that I've been using throughout the class. But if you have some watercolor paper to print this on, then that would be even better. I do prefer watercolor paper to mixed media. But I tend to like to use this mixed media when I'm putting these books together just so that it's a bit more practical and it kind of fits a bit better in the printer. So just like that, I've given that a nice color. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in to these areas, and I'm going to just add in a little bit of this yellow on the edges so that we have a little bit of variance. So just like this, if you concentrate on this first shape, bit of yellow there, the kind of bottom part of that shape. Then I'm going to switch to my pink color. So I've got that lovely pink color there, and then I'm just going to add in that pink, purply color over here. I don't want to do too much overlapping with the dry like we did in the previous lesson on the blending. I just want to keep the colours separate and let them blend when we add the water. So just like this, I'm going to go ahead and do that for this one. And then at the tip of it, let's put our nice purple shade. So our purple color right at the tip, nice dark lovely shade of purple just there, and I think I'll just cover it all up so that we don't have any whites. Sometimes it's nice to leave a bit of white space just so that the colors merge into each other. But the look that I'm trying to go for is more of a completed look. So I'm going to copy this kind of color sequence all the way across all of those kind of shapes, and I'll see you once that's done. H. Okay, okay. Now, what we've done is we've filled in all of the kind of shapes and elements, and you can see, I've gone all over the lines. I've not been neat. I've done it in a rush. But you do take your time on this. I want to do this as quickly as I can so that I don't make you wait too much and get frustrated because you want to jump straight in. So let's just carry on. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my brushy brush. Let's get a nice clean on that brush. And I don't want to be using too much water, so I'm going to try getting rid of the excess by just kind of scraping it on the end. We want a nice little drench on there, but we don't want too much that it kind of overpowers everything on this piece of artwork. I'll see if we can get a zoom zoom and get a bit closer up here. So just like that, that's looking better, isn't it? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in, and again, just going to do a little bit of a dip on the brush again because it was drying out. And I'm going to start with the yellow section here. So you can see here, I'm going in with my brush onto that yellow section, and I'm just giving it a little bit of a wet, spreading it out, and then I'm just going to start in into the pink section there. Just like that, using very gentle touch, I'm just effectively maneuvering that liquid over to that area, and then I'm just going to start blending it in into the yellow, just like this, bringing it down. Like so just with a few dots here. It creates that beautiful blend like we did in the blending exercise, a couple of dots. Then I'm going to move upwards into the dry section of the pink. I don't want to become too muddy. I want to have a bit of a separation of color and at the same time, maintain a beautiful blend. Just doing these little dotted dots just like this. And that's fantastic. Getting all of the dry pigment and then again, moving into this purple area and the purple, this dark bluish violet color. This is very, very deep and dominant. So what you want to do with this is if you're blending colors, you want to really blend your lighter color first like I did with the yellow. Otherwise, the dominant color is just going to overpower if you haven't gauged how much you've got on your page in terms of the pigment that you laid down, then it can be a little bit overstimulating in terms of the color becoming too much and kind of blending too much on the dark side. So just like this, again, and just doing this really, really quickly, you can take your time and keep everything within the lines. And if you do find that you've messed it up a little bit, don't worry. Carry on. Don't stop at that stage, carry on. Complete your lovely little painting of this pattern and just print a couple more out so that you can practice. Practice makes perfect, but we're not here to create perfect art we're here to enjoy this lovely, lovely adventure and experience and really, really enjoy that time we spend with this medium. All I'm doing now is while it all wet. Before it dries out, I'm just going to start adding in a few more of those dots because my brush has a little bit of that purple on it, so I'm just want to bring it down like this, and that looks great, doesn't it? Look at that. Look how beautiful that looks. It's gorgeous, vibrant, lovely inky type of effect. And that's looking great. So I'm going to let that dry now. And then what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to repeat that all the way across, all the way around. And once it's dried, we can see what we can add on on the next stage. So let's do that next. Ok doke. We've now added in the water on these outside edges, and you can see it just looks gorgeous, doesn't it? Look at that inky effect. It just looks fantastic. So I've got the middle part that's still untouched. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go ahead. In fact, let's do this now. Let's get our pencil, our pink color so that sheer color, that funny sounding name. That color, what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to go ahead. And as the edges of some of the kind of elements are wet, I'm just going to go ahead and just add in a nice kind of edge to the inner part of this circle like so so that it has a bit of a separation from those petal shapes that we've got just like that. Then I'm going to go in with my brush now, give it a good drench, and then what I can do is just add in a little bit of water in the middle and as I turn the brush like this, I'm just going to slightly touch the edge of that pink color, and what that'll do is it'll start blending it in really nicely on the edge, and then let it merge into each other to create this gorgeous, gorgeous effect. Look at that. Beautiful, isn't it? Look how nice that looks. Beautiful, inky watercolory pencils. That's what we call them inky watercolory pencils. Fantastic. So what we're going to do now is we're just going to wait until everything completely dries and then see what the effect looks like. So give that a go. Do it with the colors that I've got if you've got them in your pack, do it with different colors, print a couple of these out so that you have a different variant. Maybe once it's completely dry, use your darker colors. So if you're using the purple to just create some patterns within it. So effectively, once it's dry, you're doing more layers of dry details on but again, we can explore that more in your class project when you come to doing it. I think, let's have a break now, maybe get myself a nice a nice coffee or shall I have another ginger tea? I think I'm going to go for a coffee this time and treat myself to a cake while I watch this painty inky stuff dry. I'll see you once that's done. 10. Pattern Outline: Okey doke. Welcome back. Now you can see on the screen, we've got a lovely bit of dry color ink tints in that lovely little design that we filled in with our beautiful colors. So everything is nice and dry. We can leave it as it is. But I would actually add in another step and maybe do a little bit of outlining work. Now, we're going to look at outlining and sketching in the next lesson, but I thought it's just a good idea to just add it in as an extra step so that you can experiment and see what results you get. So I'm going to select that purple color that I had, which I did on the edge over here because that was my darkest color, the violet color. And then all I'm going to do is I'm just going to outline the lines of this shape, just to make it a little bit more prominent and see how it affects the color that we've already got on. Now, remember, the color that's dried is going to be completely permanent, so you won't be able to lift it off. That's one of the unique characteristics of intense watercolor. So we should have a nice permanent layer that we can build on top. So let's start off by just outlining these edges. So maybe I'll start off with this one on the top. It's easier for my angle. So I'll just bring this down a little bit like this, maybe get a Zoomy zoom in on the camera, and then all I'm going to do is with my pencil and I've got to make sure that it's a nice, decent, sharp tip. It's not too blunt. Otherwise, this technique or this next stage won't work. So just with my pencil, I'm just going to go ahead and lightly, outline the edge of my shape like this, just like that, just to fill it in, make it a little bit more prominent and add that nice clean sharp line. Then I'm just going to bring it down over here. All the way to the bottom, and you can see it added that nice bold line to the actual shape, it just gives it a bit more contrast. So if you compare it with these others, I'll just bring the page up, compare it with these others, we have a nice bold outline, and that's all I'm going to do. But in addition to this, what we can also do is add in some patterns. So from this point over here, all I'm going to do is I'm just going to add in a nice little line that goes up like this, not too hard, just pressing with light pressure, and then maybe come up with some nice little curvy lines that go out like this. This is just an addition that you can do to add a bit more elements to your design over here because the shape we have is pretty basic, and you can see that's just added that wonderful little pattern. What I'm going to do is I'm going to repeat that pattern now on all of these elements of this pattern here and then maybe in the middle just adding a couple of dots just to give it a bit more visual interest, and then I'll outline the actual circle of the center. Let's quickly go ahead and do that now. Ok doke. Now, you can see, I've done that. Nice little outline to add a bit more contrast and a bit more kind of lift to the actual overall design, and it looks really nice, doesn't it? Now, you can take this further and even add a little bit of water to the lines. So if I just get my brush now, and I'll quickly show you this, you don't have to do this, but it's just something to note. So with my water, I just want to make sure that I've got very minimum water on my bristles, so I'm just going to clear it off. We don't want to be using a lot of water for this technique. We want to keep it really nice and kind of semi drenched. And what I'm going to do here is all I'm going to do is with my brush just lightly go over some of these lines. And what that does is it'll just darken them up. It'll melt that kind of dryness of the mark of that intense pencil. And just like this, it just adds that kind of harmony to the overall effect of this lovely pencil. So just like that, slightly wet it. The edge over here as well, maybe just add a little bit on the edge. But again, don't worry about this if you don't want to do this or you think that, you know, I don't want to ruin it by adding too much water on me brush. This really is about brush control. So give it a go, maybe, do one version with the outlines and one version without and maybe add some water on those outlines to see how they turn out. And then that way, it'll just give you a nice idea practice to kind of really get familiar with what you can and what you can't do with these wonderful pencils. So I'm just going to quickly go ahead and do that now, and then we can see what results we achieve. Oki doke now I've just done a nice little kind of touch of water on those outlines, and you can see it's just enhanced it, that slightly kind of amount to just give it a bit more contrast. In the middle, I put a little bit more water on so that I can let it dry so it has a slightly different effect. So give that a go. I think this is a really nice technique to practice with these intense pencils, and this will really give you that warm effect to get yourself ready for your class project. So give it a go, print out a couple of these sheets and try out different colors, maybe add in some other patterns on top or just leave it as it is. Practice. Don't rush it, take your time with it. And that way, you'll build that memory muscle and kind of practice of how to use these pencils when it comes to drawing something a bit more complex or even doing a more complex coloring in page from one of the designs of this booklet. So let's now have a little break and maybe go for a walk, have a little relaxation while all the kind of water on this dries, and then we can move on to the final kind of technique and style of using these pencils. And then we're going to be ready for that lovely class project. So I'll see you on the next one. 11. Sketching Technique: Doke. Welcome back. Let's now move on to the final technique and method to explore another way of using these wonderful pencils. So on the screen here, I've got myself my nice little paper, that mixed media paper that I've used throughout the class, and grab yourself maybe something similar like this or whichever paper you're using. And if you want to follow along, then that's absolutely fine. Or watch this part of the class and watch the complete thing and see how I come up with this sketch and then maybe do it later on entirely up to you. But I'm actually going to grab myself another one of these cards because this one's got a bit of a mark on them. We don't want to mark on our card. No, we don't let's keep that one for scrap. This one seems nice and clean. Fantastic. This is going to be a sketch that I produce with my lovely ink tense pencil, and I'm going to use one color for this. So if you grab yourself a nice color, maybe a darker shade rather than a lighter shade, you'll be able to see this type of effect that I'm trying to achieve. So the color that I'm using is this wonderful sea blue color, which is 1200. And this is the one I'm going to use throughout this entire sketch. So on this, another thing to note is that when you're practicing with these pencils, with these techniques, try keeping your sketches nice and small like this size that I've got here rather than do something really big and waste all that pigment and then not be happy with it because this is just effectively that trial and error and learning experience stage. And then later on when you become more familiar with the techniques and with this medium in general, then you can explore and create some beautiful big artwork. So go small and steady and you will achieve better results overall, let's get started. What I'm going to do is I'm firstly going to just go ahead and draw myself a nice little inner frame just so that we have a nice complete frame on the outside. Just like this, I'm just going to go ahead and follow the shape of that paper. Doesn't need to be accurate, doesn't need to be straight. You don't even have to do this part if you don't want. But I always like to do this. Even if the lines go wonky, it doesn't matter. It just gives me a nice focal point to work within with my intense pencil. Just like that free I've just gone ahead and drawn this kind of inner border, nice and wonky, so it's all good. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and create an outline sketch. So as usual, you know me. If you watch my classes previously, I just love to do whimsical style houses. Easy to do. So let's start, maybe have a nice little shape over here, and maybe have one down here, something a little bit different. Just drop in whichever shapes you like to draw just to create this kind of foreground area over here. And then maybe we have something a little bit different nice bumpy curvy shape there and maybe another one over here just like so. I think that's about it for the main shapes. Let's draw in a nice little housy house. For this one, I'm just going to go ahead and do a line across here like this and then let's create the roof of our house. Keeping it super simple. We don't need to worry about perspective, we don't need to worry about anything. We just need to get something down just to express ourselves with this wonderful medium. Just like that, again, it's not accurate. It doesn't matter. Just go ahead and drop in a couple of lines to create a nice little sketch. And that would be great. So maybe just drop in a little chimney over here, just like so. Again, you don't need too much detail. Keep it nice and simple with a little shot here, maybe another one there, and then a bit of smoky smoke just traveling up and on the sides, like so. And then we could possibly finish it off with another nice kind of shape over here. And that's pretty good for the outline. So I'll give you a chance to do that outline again. All the kind of stages of this sketch will be available in the resource sheet. So check that out. So let's now maybe add in a couple of details for windows, maybe just drop in a window here, just like that. Again, keeping it to outline only. We're not doing any shading or anything like that. Nice and simple, maybe a little one over here, a little window on the side. Chilling out and maybe just a edge of a door over here with a couple of lines on the inside, and I think that's looking good. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to tilt me drawing on the side over here and drawing maybe some detailed lines for the tiles of the roof just like this. Nice and simple, doesn't have to be super accurate, it doesn't have to be accurate at all. Just a kind of expression of a little illustration will be absolutely fine. And then maybe just adding some lines now over here. Actually, we'll leave that as it is. Let's just throw in some lines like this to create a bit of a crisscross pattern. Just so that we have a little bit of variance of these elements and shapes. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use again, same color again to start filling in some of these areas. So this kind of background here, I'm just going to use the upward and downward motion just to apply that pencil, very light pressure, not pressing down at all. I'm effectively just coloring in that space that we have for this kind of sky backdrop area, so just like. Up and down, just using one layer of this color really nice and easy. Again, you don't have to be super accurate. You don't have to fill in every single part of that gap, fill it in the best you can add in one layer, and that should work really nicely. Just like that quickly, I'm just going to go ahead and drop that in over here, so just like this, filling it in so that we don't have too much of a kind variance from a white background. We want to have contrast. That's really the key of any illustration contrast and also in design principle, but let's leave that for another series looking at graphic design. I might end up doing a series just on graphic design. Anyway, let's get back to intense pencils. So I've just filled that in one layer in the same direction. And then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do a tilti Tilti to make it easy for me, and I'm going to add in another layer now. So I'm going to add in another layer. And if you remember in the earlier classes where we looked difference between just adding one layer with the intense and then adding another. That second layer always gives a bit more vibrant, saturated finish once you add water to it. And, you know, that's what we're going to be doing, adding our water. We're not just going to have a dry drawing. What's the point of having a dry pigment drawing if you're going to be using these wonderful intense watercolor style pencils? No point in that. No, there isn't. So let's just carry on. And just like that, I'm going to go ahead and add in that second layer by going in the other direction. Nice and easy, fantastic stuff. Trying to get all those gaps covered. But again, if you don't cover all the gaps, it's not the end of the world. You can practice this technique again and again as much as you like, with different drawings, you don't have to use this kind of drawing that I've done, and that's about it. What I'm going to do next is now very lightly, I'm just going to go ahead and coloring the bottom parts of each of these shapes. So just like this, I'm just adding in a little bit of color there, so not filling the whole shape, I'm just filling the bottom part of it. And again, over here, just very lightly, only one layer very, very light. We're not pressing down hard at all, filling in the bottom part of that shape. And then, again, over here, just filling in that bottom part just like that. Important to leave the top areas white and uncolord with pigment. So just like this again here, and then quickly over here, just using the side tip of that pencil. Circular motions work great for this. So again, just like that over here. And then we've got our nice big shape just from the bottom area upwards so that we have a bit of separation. You can see already it's looking quite nice, isn't it? It is, indeed, right. So that's it for that. And then what I'm going to do is over here, I'm going to go ahead on this kind of side part of the house. I'm just going to go ahead and drop in some really, really thin lines that are more closer together just to create a little bit of a texture. Again, you don't need to worry if your lines are going all wonky, it's absolutely fine. It just adds to the effect of the overall style of the illustration, and there we go. So we've got ourself a nice, lovely little illustration that we've done with our ink tense pencil. 12. Adding Water: Okidoke. The next stage now is that we put our pencil to the side and let's get our water. So with the water, as we've been doing throughout the class, we just need to give our brush a clean, nice drench, and then I'm going to just tap it on the edge so that we have a nice amount of water in there. And then what I'm going to do is just move that to the side so you can see. Then I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to start off by wetting this background that we added in. I'm just going to go ahead and add that water to it. Nicely in circular motions, and then just moving my brush into that area, like so, and you can see it's just melting away as we expect it to. And just like that, looking fantastic. You can see didn't need to use too much water because we had two layers of color on there. Just giving it that initial wet and then just like this, following it through. Oh, and I got a little silly spille not to worry with my finger. I'm just going to push it back, and it's all good. So if you get a bit of a smudge going, don't worry about it. Everything can be fixed, and if it can't be fixed, just relax and carry on. So again, into this section now, I'm just going to quickly go ahead and wet that section now just like I did with this. You, that's all done. It's nice and wet. We can wait for that to dry. But as we wait, we can start working on these other elements. So I'm just going to make sure I get a nice clean on me brush. I don't want too much pigment on me brush there. I'm just going to kind of, like, get the excess off this time, I don't want to use too much, and then let's now work into the shape. So let's start off with this shape on the left. So just like this, what we're going to do is we're just going to very gently and lightly just wet the actual area that we put that pigment on the base. So just like this, just wet that area, and then we're not going to go into the white yet. What we're going to do is we're just going to wet it. So as it remains wet, we're going to give our brush a cleaning clean. So now we're going to clean our brush so we just pick up normal water, normal clean water on our brush, give it a tap. And then what we're going to do is we're going to add that water now to the white part first. So that white part area where we didn't have any pigment, go to drag this water now into the pigment area while it's wet. So it starts blending in and creating this lovely tone effect from color to white, just like that. Then with our brush, we're just going to mix it in with circular motions. Try not using too much water. Otherwise, you're just going to get a lot of pooling and we don't want to get pulling. No, we don't just a bit of a tibi tap on this white area. Important to leave the edge white, it just adds that contrast. So just like this, beautiful little color gradient going on over there, and that's it. We'll let that marble up, and I'm going to repeat that now quickly for all these other elements. So let's do that next. Make it okay. Now, you can see, I've done that same kind of method to add in the color to the base part first, and then with some clean water, going onto the white and then just bringing it down so that it melts away and blends beautifully. So it's always a good idea to let the elements dry before you move on to the next one. Otherwise, if you start working onto the other parts, then you can get a bit of a smudgy smudgy, and then you're not going to be happy. So take a break, relax, and let's come back to it once it's completely dry. I 13. Details Technique: Doke. Now we have a nice dry on the page. So remember, these intense pencils become permanent when they're completely dry, so they won't re wet what's underneath. So that's a great advantage because then you can start adding more texture on top, and that's what we're going to end up doing towards the kind of final parts of this sketch. So let's move on to the next stage now, and for the next stage, let's concentrate on maybe some of these details that we've got on the house. So with my brush now, I'm just going to again, give it a nice little rinse so that there's no pigment left on it. Shake it off a little bit on the side. Then let's now go straight into the roof. With this now, we've got these lines and what we don't want to do is just blend all this color up so that it just looks like one flat color like we have on the back. What we're going to do is we're going to follow the direction of the line like this. Just like this, I'm just pressing down with my brush so that it spreads it away from the line. It follows that same direction. You can see we're getting this beautiful effect where we have kind of these white areas in between them lines. So just pressing down, but not too hard, just moving it in that direction, not adding too much water. That kind of initial drench of water will work fine. And then I'm just going to turn it around like this so it's easier for me to do. I'm going to go ahead and do the same now on the top. I'm just going to follow the direction of the lines going in that crisscross pattern. And look at that, it just creates this beautiful effect. So we are effectively sketching with ink pencils, aren't we? Look at. Beautiful that now. I don't want to overdo it. I want to keep it like that, so I'll just add in a little bit more on this edge here, we've got this edge of the roof, maybe just drop in a couple of lines to go over some of those elements, just to enhance them a little bit and just create this crisscross pattern. Do it the way it works comfortable for you. You don't need to follow the exact kind of procedure that I'm doing here, just follow it along. Try keeping some of those elements within these boxes white so that we have some variation and a little bit of contrast. That's that part done. Let's now move on to this area on the side. I'm just going to give me brush a clean and get another nice little bit of wet on the brush and just shake it off on the side. So we've got a nice bit of wet there. For this one, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go ahead and I'm just going in that same direction, just cover up those lines rather than following each line so that it looks slightly more prominent over here and that's it. Just like that, gave it a little bit of a wet in the areas where there's not enough moisture, just maybe just dab a little bit of water on there with the brush, but not to lose the detail because if you keep adding more brush strugs to it, your details are going to get lost. So that's what I'm trying to maintain here a nice little bit of detail just to make sure we have separation between this and this kind of roof texture that we have. And that's it. What I'm going to do next is do the same for the windows and the door. So I'm just going to go ahead. I'm just going to follow the outline of that shape, and I'm not too bothered whether the color completely covers it up. In fact, I'm going to try doing by intentions so just like this, I'm just going to add the tip of the brush to effectively coloring that window without losing the detail lines. You can see you can so easily create this detailed watercolor look and all you had to do was just do the drawing and just slightly wet it. Afterwards, fantastic, isn't it? Again, with the door, just following the lines and the water will fill in the gaps. And look how easy that is. Beautiful stuff, three different types of techniques already used to produce different results with the same color. I bet you didn't think you could do that with the same color, but now you know you can and I want you to give it a try. So let's now move on to maybe the chimney area over here. So I'm going to maybe just carry on using the same brush because it's going to have some pigment. If you remember, one of the techniques that we used in the application process was to pick up the pigment that's already on the paper. So effectively, we're using all of those application methods in this one little sketch. So just like that, whatever pigment is left on it, I'm just going to use that to color the kind of gap that we have here. I'm going to do the same for this kind of top one. I'm just going to do it on this left side. I'm going to leave this right side white. And then on that one shoot, just have a little bit of color on there. So just like that, looking good. And in this kind of smoky area, I'm just going to kind of spread whatever little bit of pigment I've got left. It'll be nice and dilute just onto the edges here, and then just down here, maybe wet some other lines of that smoke area. And then we've got this borderline here so you can pick up some pigment from there. And that way, it's effectively giving you some pigment on the paper already. So just like that, maybe pick up some more pigment pigment from this edge over here and just bringing it in to use all that lovely pigment that we have. And remember it's dry there so we can wet it, and initially, it will melt away. So that looking great. Maybe get a little bit more pigment maybe and drag it in, but you can do it however you want. So with this kind of corner border that I've got, I might just bring some of that pigment into it just to create some separation, and I think that's looking fantastic. So what we're going to do next is we're going to let that all dry up and then we're going to finish off with adding another one of the techniques that we saw. So let's wait until that dries, and then let's get it. Okey doke, we've got a nice, dry, beautiful bit of artwork there. So what I'm going to do in this kind of final part is I'm going to show you a technique that some people frown upon because they think that it's not very good for the pencil itself. I used to think that. But then I thought, Do you know what? Let's just give it a go. You only live once in this world, so why not enjoy it experiment. And I've found that it doesn't do anything to the pencil. So let me tell you what this technique is all about. So for this, you're going to need your water, and we're going to use the pencil as it is to wet it. So we're going to wet the pencil direct with the water. Now, try avoiding dipping the entire pencil in. So when you do dip your pencil in, try just wetting the tip of it where the actual pigment is rather than the wood area because sometimes the wood area can get soft when it's moist and it can start to split. So do do this very slowly and take your time. So I'm just going to give it a little bit of a dip there. And if the wood area gets wet, don't worry about it. Again, this is just testing it out to see what results we get and to really elaborate on all those different techniques that you can do with the pencil. So that tip is nice and wet over there. I don't know if you can see that properly on the camera. What I'm going to do now is I'm just going to go straight in and start drawing in some beautiful lines. Look at that. So you've got that wet tip. Now you've got this wet, beautiful ink efectan't you? It's like you're drawing with ink using your ink tense pencil. So just like that, then it dries off fairly quickly, so I'm going to give it another dip into the water just to maintain that kind of flow. And look at that. Your kind of dry ink tense pencil has now become an ink pencil now, hasn't it? And you've got this beautiful flowing ink, and all I'm doing is just creating these beautiful little patterns here, very nice and intricate and you can see how beautiful that looks. Look at that gorgeous stuff that, isn't it? So I'm going to do the same now for all of these, I'm just going to keep dipping that intense pencil, just the tip of it, and then I'm just going to go ahead and just create these beautiful kind of little drawing lines to add wonderful detail. And I just think it's just a fantastic way to go ahead and use your intense pencils. It just creates such a dynamic kind of experience. Again, that's what it's all about just enjoying this experience. I just love it how that melted ink just applies to the paper. It just adds another dimension to your experience and to your lovely artwork just like this very gently, when it starts drying out, just give it another dip into the water to keep it nice and moist and maybe we have some different patterns over here, just some straight lines coming up like that. Vary the patterns that you have. Again, we're dipping it again, our pencil, and it's absolutely fantastic. I'm going to quickly go ahead and do the patterns for all of these, and then we'll have a look and see what results we get. Okay, Dokey there. We have it. Look how beautiful that looks. What a fantastic technique to use. Just remember, once you've used this technique and your kind of, like, pencil is nice and wet, let it dry naturally, put it on a bit of paper towel on the side. Let it dry up before you use it again. Otherwise, you're going to have a mess. Onto your sheet, and then you're not going to be happy. So let it completely dry, maybe just get rid of some of the excess with some paper towel. So just like this very gently, very gently with a paper towel, give it a little dab. You don't want to press too hard on the pigment. Otherwise, your pigments going to come off, and you don't want to be wasting your pigment. So just onto kind of the wood area where you've got the wood, give it a nice little dib dab, and then just let that tip dry, put it on the side, and you'll be ready to use it once it's completely dried out. But just look at that. Look how beautiful that looks. Lovely little patterns going on over there. Let's let this completely dry and then we'll see what the results look like. But we can also maybe work on some more texture work onto the kind of this sky area really to enhance it while it dries. So I guess we could probably do that now. Let's just give this a turnaround like this as those elements dry up. And then what we'll do is let's use that pencil again while it's wet and maybe just drop in a couple of lines like this, just a cross, just to add in and wet it again. I'm just wetting it with the water, just to add a little bit more kind of texture to that sky, just to give it some more visual interest like this. So you can see now we're adding a lot more of that color onto that sky area. Again, you don't need to do this. I'm just showing you this. And again, I just get really excited with these wonderful, wonderful pencils and this beautiful ink effect. You can't really get this in pure water colour, this kind of ink effect. And that's what the advantage of these pencils are. They have a finish of ink. So it looks like you've done this in ink rather than in watercolor, and I absolutely love it. So just like that, I'm just going to drag it across just like that. Just to add some more texture elements to this overall piece over here. And you can use this now in your beautiful illustration. You can use this in your class project. You know, go enjoy yourself with these techniques. I bet you didn't know you could do this. You might have been like me right at the beginning. As I said, I bought these pencils and I wasn't really too happy with them. I couldn't really bothered using them because I found them a little bit boring. But once I started to experiment I found that, you know what? These are just fantastic. So let's let that maybe dry up. And what we can do is we can also add a little bit more contrast while we're using the wet pencil just like this onto this kind of window area here. So just like that, I'm just darkening it. Not going to wet the pencil too much. I'm just going to darken these kind of window sills here, and then the edge maybe darken the edge on the left side, just like that. And then on the do, maybe just darken that just like so, and then maybe darken this kind of edge of this roof like this just to give it a nice natural kind of rough, rugged look. And then that separation line over here, you can just add in a little bit of that kind of semi dry pencil there. That looks good, and then maybe just finish it off by adding a bit of a semi dry pencil there. Can see we're getting more elements coming off that pigment and then maybe just on the edge very gently and lightly while the edge is wet, just like this, make it look a little bit more interesting rather than robotic. Bring it across like that and then again, just a bit of an outline there, a couple of dots for the chimney, maybe just throwing a couple of texture dots there, texture dots over here and you can just carry on and on and on now, You know what I'm like? Once I start, then I don't stop. Again, over here maybe just adding in just a little bit more darker elements like that. I think that's going to look good and then maybe on the edge here, just clean it up a little bit and maybe just adding a couple of dots where the smoky smoke is just to get a bit more texture over there. And I think I'm going to leave it at that because, you know, I'm going to be here all day and I'm just going to keep adding and adding to it until it just becomes an ink masterpiece. So that was the final kind of technique with these pencils. Hopefully, you would have given all the class exercises a go. You've given the coloring page a go, those blending exercises, and then given lovely little stylized sketcher go, and I can't wait to see what you produce. So let's now move on to what your class project is, and let's go through some other types of artworks that are produced with these colored pencils to inspire you for your class project. 14. Inspiration: It okay. So let's have a look at some of the artwork that I've produced so that you can be inspired for your class project. So let's have a look on the table where I don't have anything, but I shall show you. So here are a couple of designs that I've done that were similar. This is the type of things that I do. Again, you can draw whatever you want. These intense pencils. The one that we did in the previous lesson was this one over here, you can see, it's very similar to my style of sketching. So do check that out and have a look and really explore with the colors. I've done single colour drawings, just to give you that kind of access to what you can produce just by using one color. Try it out with different colors, one color, two, four, five, do a complete painting with these intense pencils. But I would recommend that you start practicing with one color just so that you get familiar with what you can achieve with these pencils. These were my kind of whimsical house style sketches, which I absolutely love to do. Let's move these onto the side now. And then the next one, I've got just some very loose sketches over here so you can see over here. These only took me about 5 minutes to do really loose, not thinking about them, abstract, making them up as I go along. And you can see that you can experiment with different colors, and the results are so vibrant and it's just such a fun medium to use. So try it out with some loose sketching or whatever you like. And then let's move on to maybe some kind of studies from real life. So I've got this apple that I had that I was about to eat, and I thought, Do you know what? Let's just quickly give it a sketch, and I do like to draw fruit, especially when I do a bit of poetry. Yes, you heard me right. I do my own poetry, and I like to sketch while I do poetry because that's what I like to do. So again, another inspiration for you. Keep it loose. Keep it quick. Don't worry about details. Just add as you go along and just build up color with beautiful pencils, try out those different techniques that we use, dry first, wet first, dip the pencil in the water if you really want to experiment and enjoy the process and be very adventurous. So try that out. And again, that was just drawing from kind of real life. But again, my kind of main concept always is coming up with these whimsical style sketches, mushroom houses. On this one, I've used an orange, and I've used kind of like a brown shade to go on top. So I've let the first layer dry, and then I've just gone in with the dry pencil on top, and I've not bothered wetting that second pencil. And you can see it achieves a really, really nice result. And again, over here, we've got another mushroom style house using the same technique that I used with the actual sketch that we did in the last lesson, very similar like that. And then let's just quickly go through these. I've used one in a red, just kept it single color. And I just love doing these. And then, again, that beautiful olive green color there, single colour design, using kind of details on top wanted stride, coming up with texture, leaving some side of it completely plain, so it looks like we've got this beautiful light effect. Experiment with this, try it out, work from imagination, work from real life. That way, you'll really get a really nice experience using this pencil and it will just encourage you to just pick up your pencil and go ahead and start sketching. You would have noticed I've used that same sized card throughout these sketches that I did in this class, and I like to keep it nice and small. I don't like to do massive drawings or illustrations with this pencil or this intense set that I have. That's entirely up to you if you like to draw big go for it. But again, I would recommend that you start small, get familiar with this medium, and see what types of tips and tricks you can do. Again, I've got a nice purple version here. I really like that purple color. Then I've got this sepia type color here. Again, just made these up because it's what I like to do. Then over here, what I've actually done here is I've gone ahead and use the same color like I did with this one. I'll just move these out of the way so I can explain. So I used the same sepia color over here. But what I did was I added a layer of graphite on top. So to get that darker tone and shading and a little bit of cross hatching, I added a three B graphite pencil, so experiment with other mediums. Again, we've not really gone into experimenting with other mediums. This was just kind of a beginner's introduction to the specific ink tense pencil. But once you've kind of got the hang of using them, try it out with mixing them graphite, maybe with normal colored pencils or even ink, and I can't wait to see some of the work that you produce because I know you're going to produce some wonderful works. So they were just another example of the type of things that I do with these lovely pencils. And again, with the pattern color from the exercise that we did, I've gone ahead and done some coloring in myself. This is just so therapeutic just to have something there, which you can just color in to really get that first hand experience of using these pencils. And again, I've just come up with some little pattern designs on top in these patterns that I've got. I've not done that one yet. I've done this one here. So on this one, if I just keep that open, you can see I've gone in with the pure ink tints, and then I've used a fine liner to go on top to outline. So again, using mixed mediums to really create that wonderful, vibrant look. So that was a patterns. And finally, I'll show you some of the sketches that I've done in my sketchbook. For poetry, let's just get a Zoom back on this. Maybe we do a class on poetry and sketching. If that's what you want to do, then leave a little discussion below, but we'll leave that for another class. Over here, these are sketches that I like to have with alongside my poetry in my sketchbook. So this is all done. Ink tents and I actually write down what I do these in ink tens and then fountain pen, and then I even gone ahead and used a normal colored pencil to create some nice effect on that kiwi over there. And then we've got this apple. Again, I've drawn all of this from a real life image. I just draw while I've got the apple or the kiwi on the table. I'm not looking for real life kind of authentic realism, hyperrealism. It's just more of a quick little illustration just to kind of use the mediums that I have, and it just kind of inspires me for my poetry, as well. So that's the apple. And then I've got an orange over here. Then a little strawberry, again, using mixed media, using the ink tints first, getting the blends in there, then adding details with ink and other mediums. It's just fantastic how it works. And then we go on to other things, and I think that's where the sketchbook ends, but I will continue doing that, maybe explore it in another class with you. So hopefully, this would have given you some inspiration of the different types of things that you can achieve with these wonderful, wonderful pencils, and now it's your turn to have a go at the exercises if you haven't already had a go, do a bit of the coloring in, have a go at the blending, the application methods, and then do a beautiful little sketch with one color like we did in the previous lesson. I can't wait to see what you produce. I know it's going to be fantastic. But again, on your first attempt, if it's not what you expected, just keep going with it because just like with everything, the more you practice, the more better you get at it. There's no right or wrong way of doing art. This is just all about enjoying that process of for your mental well being and for your health, I use art as a tool to keep myself in a relaxed form and keep my well being really at a good level. And that's what this class and all my other art classes are about. So enjoy the process, and hopefully you would have learned something from here, and I can't wait to see what you produce. So do send all your class projects and all the exercise works that you've done, working progresses put them onto the class gallery, send me a little message so that we can all see your wonderful work and your experience with this fantastic medium. That's it now. I'm going to let you get on with your class project. I'm going to go for a nice cup of tea and maybe get myself a nice black forest gato. Yes, I do fancy a black forest gato. I'm going to grab hold of some desserts and treats and then we'll wrap the class up with some fine thoughts. 15. Final Thoughts: Oki, welcome back. Let's just wrap up the class with some final thoughts. Now, hopefully you would have gone through all of the exercises and watch the lessons within this class. You would have had to go at coloring in that lovely pattern from the worksheets that you downloaded and printed. And hopefully you've gone through the step by step, lovely little sketch that outlined the different techniques of applying these wonderful pencils. And I really, really that you enjoyed this process, you know I enjoyed it. I always enjoy anything to do with art and especially teaching and giving you this kind of experience that you can follow along, it gives me absolute enjoyment, watching your beautiful work, your class projects, and your kind of journey into art, and the overall enhanced well being that is produced by this wonderful journey of using traditional mediums in art. Do check out my other classes on art and illustrations. I've got so many on skill share over here. So when you finish this class and upload your class project to the class project gallery, do leave a beautiful review on the class so that other students can find the class and learn from your experience as well. And then that will hopefully inspire you to work on other mediums. You can work on one medium and get really, really familiar with it. But the kind of exploration value of art and traditional media is just so endless that once you've learned the skills on one medium, you just naturally want to learn another medium and then another one, and then you've gone ahead and learned 15 different mediums, and you've just created this wonderful journey and experience for yourself in this fantastic world of art. Do also follow me on social media, on Instagram, on YouTube. I constantly release classes on skill share. And again, if you want to see my world of graphic design and illustration on a day to day basis, then do follow me on Instagram, YouTube, and also on skill share and give a nice little discussion that we can talk about and learn from each other. It's just such a fantastic community this. I really enjoyed myself. I hope you enjoyed the journey with me, and I can't wait to see your wonderful, intense artwork in the class project gallery. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for your patience and your support. Your support means everything, especially for me on this brilliant skill share platform and your support in all my other platforms. And I really, really appreciate what you do for me, and that motivates me to produce more classes and just really enhance this wonderful life that we have. And again, you're going to have ups and downs in life. So really to bring that well being level to a really nice level, bring art into your life, and let's talk and let's communicate and let's encourage each other and inspire each other in art. So again, thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your help. Stay positive, stay happy. Don't stress, and hopefully I'll see you in the next one. Take care of yourself and peace.