Transcripts
1. Introduction: Are you ready to dive into the word of watercolor and
paint a laid bug with me? Hello, AlfabaHibo. I'm a watercolor
teacher and designer. I'm really happy to be here to guide you in the beautiful
world of watercolor. In this lesson, we
are going to paint a lad bug a step
by step lad bug. We will see how to use basic techniques such as
water and pigment control, color mixing, and how to add details that bring life and
realism to your painting. Whether you are a beginner
or have some experience, this class is for you. I will show you simple yet
effective techniques to create a vibrant painting unless your creativity and
most importantly, have fun in the process. Shall we go? See you in the next class.
2. Class Project: Throughout this
course, you will learn some techniques and how to apply them to paint
your late bug. And when you have
finished your painting, I would love to see your result. I encourage you to share
your painting with me and to the other students
so that we can be inspired. So don't forget to upload your work on project
and resources page. Art becomes even more
special when we share it. So don't be afraid to
show your creation. The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy the process.
3. Materials: Hello, to painting your led bag, you are going to
need some brushes. So I'm using synthetic brushes, a very old synthetic brush. So number ten, number
four and number one. So in the resources, you will find a PDF with all the information
regarding the materials. I'm using a student brush. The paper I'm using. There is a cold present
and cotton paper, to handle better the water. It has some texture. It's easier to work
with this kind of paper if you are working
with a lot of water. So a pencil, you will need
to draw your lead bug. Water. Paper. To dry your brush, a palette to mix your colors, a tape to fix your paper. And also, of course, erasers to get rid of the
pencil before you paint. I normally use kneadable eraser, but you can also use
common eraser. No worries. I'm using to paint the
late bug tube watercolors. But you can adapt and use
your palette or your pens. The colors are ultramarine. I use cadmium red, but you can use a vibrant red, you can adapt to
the color you have. Wings are red, a pains gray. I like this brand
because it's bluish, pens gray and lemo yellow. That's all. Ready to begin.
4. Basic Techniques: Hello, everyone. In this lesson, we are going to talk
about basic techniques. So first of all, we are going to talk about consistency
of watercolor. It seems very basic, but it is one of the most important
things that you could learn to paint well. Let's go. We can I
would choose a color, I would choose a ultramarine to make these exercises, okay? We can speak about different consistencies when
we talk about watercolor. Of course, we have more, but for the goal here of this class that
is to paint or laid bug, it's already enough to know the tree that
I will show you. We have cream consistency. That is the color
directly from the tube. It's a creamy color. We normally say it's
a honey consistency. Then we have a milk consistency. It's not too strong. Then we have a tea consistency. A mix with a lot of water. Good. If you get these
three techniques, these three consistencies,
you already know a lot. We call this one, honey. We call this one milk, and we call this one tea. Nice. Now I will show you some techniques
like wet on wet, wet on dry, and try try. It's important to say
that when we are talking about wet, Oh, what? We are talking about the pain. And we are talking
about the paper. We have a pigment wet and I say pigment
is the watercolor. Anyway, when I say
the second word wet, the paper is also wet. This is the same for wet
on dry and dry on dry. I will show you these
techniques that will be very important for us
to paint the lady bug. So to do wet on wet, it's simply you put water. And then you come
with your color. It can be in different
consistencies. I suggest you to practice with the different
consistencies because depending on the consistency, it will spread or not. If it's more pigmented, it will not spread too much. If it's less pigmented
with more water, it will go further. Okay. So this is wet on wet. Now we have wet on try. So my color is my pigment, it's wet and then
my paper is dry. Then I have also dry dry. I have a creamy consistency
or a honey consistency, and then I come
over of my paper. Dry on try. There is another thing
that I took a lot. I you will notice I
speak a lot about this. That is the soft edges. Soft edges is a technique when you want to smoother
your painting. I did here a hard edge, a hard edge in here, and then I put
water in my brush, I try it, and then I come back. So I will make a soft edge. Normally, I don't like my
paintings with hard edges. It depends, of course,
on the situation. But normally, I like soft edges. Practice this, it's
really important. Also blending. Blending, I have my color here, I will take another
color just to. It's somewhat similar
to soft edges. But then I make it smoother. Normally with
another color, okay? So I'm here. Then I blend the colors. I could do this with
blue tub. Okay. This is the main techniques
I would like to show you for you to be able to
paint the laid bug. I think that with these
techniques you are more than ready due to paint. Let's go. Let's begin
to paint or laid bug.
5. Preparing the Colors: Hello. In this class, we are going to prepare all colors to paint
the laid bug, okay? So we are going to
use tramarne blue, cadimum red, and limon yellow. Normally, I use the
three primary colors. So we are going to mix
some of these colors. In addition, we are going to
use the paints gray that's a neutral color to make darker
colors in your late bug. I will also show you
how we are going to build the color palette
to paint the ladybug. I'm using the pigment
from the tubes directly, but if you don't have
it, it's not a problem, you can use your pens
with no problem is just to choose the same
colors or similar ones. Okay. Normally it's easier to use from the tubes because it's
easier to mix the pigment from it because you already have the cream consistency that is difficult to make
from the paints. I will prepare here the
colors for you to see. First, I am mixing the
yellow with the red one. So we are going to make orange, a dark orange, but we
are going to vary a bit. Put in more yellow, you have lighter orange. You will see that the
pigmentation from the tube is really powerful. You see, I will show
you here or palette. It's the orange that
we are going to use. I really like to
prepare all my colors. I don't like to take all the colors directly
from the tube. It gives you so much power to and to know how to
prepare your colors. Now I want a green, so I will mix yellow and blue. It's important to say that when you are
mixing your colors, it's easier to first grab
your lighter color and then you put ten bits of the darker color to
mix the pigments. So you can experiment
with your colors. Normally, when we
want a darker color, we put more of blue
like in this example, I'm adding blue to
have a darker green. I will also add a bit of orange
to desaturate the color. Otherwise, it will
be too bright. I normally say that we
are seasoning the colors. Normally, we look to
the picture and we search for the right
color to paint it. Now I'm mixing a bit of
paints gray with green to make even darker
green, as you can see. Now I will complete my
color chart with a lighter green I will also use a brownish color
that looks like sienna. I will mix orange with green. I will have a dark orange
that will be like sienna. Now I'm using orange with more blue and it will be
this neutral color, more muted color as a green. For the body of the lad bug, we will use this bright red
cadmium and I will mix and bead with pens gray or
blue to have the shadows. I think now we have all our
colors to paint or laid back. It's enough for
us to work there. It's done. Let's begin
and apply these colors.
6. Background - First Layer: Hello, everyone. In this lesson, we are going to paint the
first layer of the background. Let's work wet and wet
first in some areas. I'm going to put water
behind the laid bug, taking care and reserving
the laid bug area. I'm going to start
with the leaf first. We have already got our colors
red pens gray with green. And a little more paints gray. Now, I'm going to get the
lightest green mixture, and I'm going to put the
colors on the background. I'm using a more
pigmented consistency with a very vibrant yellow. And I'm going around the d bug. I'm going to take advantage of the fact that it's
still wet here. Underneath, I'm not
going to wet any water, and I'm going to take advantage of the
texture of the paper, a little green with pens
gray in a second layer, I will strengthen these colors. Now, I'm going to add
some details with the brown or sienna color
that we have mixed. Then we will come
back here to blur the paint or soften it
because it's too strong. I'm going to add
yellow between the ps, a very diluted yellow. I'm always analyze the image and see if I'm selecting
the good colors. But the interpretation
is the most fun part. The truth is that our central focus is on the
laid bug and not the leaf. We make the background loser. This first layer is very light. A pigment or a watercolor with a lot of water and
on the other layers, I'm going to use a green that is being
diluted with water. I'm going to take advantage
of the fact that this paper is still wet to add a darker
color here at the bottom, and the same colors
as before at the top. You can see that this
paper is still wet, so I can continue working. It's important to remember
that I'm using a cotton paper, so it's still wet for longer, and I can work longer on it, which is a bit different
from cellulose paper. A Now, I will wait for it to dry so I can continue working
on the late book. See you in the next video.
7. Ladybug - First layer: Hello, everyone. We have
already painted the background, and in this lesson, we are going to do the first
layer of the late bug. We will work with
a very diluted red without paying too much
attention to its spots. Down here, we will use
a less diluted red. As if there was
more light above, we will make it lighter. Reserve the space
and let it white. Let the white of the
paper to be there. Now I'm going to blend
it, make it softer. In the second layer, we can define this area better. Now, I'm going to work with Pains gray and make the shell. Now I can intensify it
with a darker color, working wet on wet. We can see here that there
are some orange too. Take care to keep
the space white, to give it three dimensionality. And now I'm going to do the light bugs legs
very light for now. Try to look at the photo
and notice that there are some areas where we should keep the white and the
tonal variation. Here, there is a orange too. To finish off, I'm going
to make some details at the back that will be
intensified in the next layer. Now we have to
wait for it to dry completely so we can move
on to the next layer. See you in the next video.
8. Background - Second Layer: Hello. Now, let's move on to the second layer of the
background to make it more intense and to create contrast and separate the background
from the laid bug. Now, we are going to work
more on wet and dry bases. I'm going to add a little
bit of blue here to my mix of paints gray and green. Let's go. I'm going to
separate the structure here. Same thing down here. I will just flow it upwards. So as not to lose the
details I have made below. I'm going to use yellow here to emphasize this area
a little more. Just a little because
our focus isn't here, or focus is the lad bug. If we make too many details
scattered around here, or painting gets confused. That's why it's just here. I'm going to add a
little bit more in some areas here just to give
it a little bit of lair. If I think it's too strong, I will tone it down a bit. There is also interesting
color under there, which is a mofreen
something like that. I'm going to do it here. It's quite separate
from this area here. I think we have got a pretty
good definition there. Now, I'm just going to do a base of the leaf
here, not too strong. I'm going to take my
reddish color there. Look, be careful. I don't like these things
when they are too strong, add a little water
here and blend it. I'm going to emphasize these little spots that the
leaf has here like this. Then I blur it a little. Oh Oh. Guys, if you look at the photo, this part of the leaf here
has a shadow of our laid bug. We are going to do this now. I'm going to put a little
more diluted pigment in here. I'm going to cover this white that are left under
the leaf here. I'm going to make
this shadow with a slightly more diluted color. It's okay to cover the
little leg here for now. It will dry and will
be much lighter. So I will come over here now. I will make this part darker. Again, that pretty little
orange I had here. This drop is very
pretty here. I like it. I will leave it
there. And down here, there is a very strong colour, a greenish color, and I'm
going to put it down here, I'm going to bring it up here. I'm not going to
do anything else. I will play around and
put few drops here, which I really like a little
bit with orange as well. And the second layer of
the background is ready. I'm going back to the late bug. I see you in the next video.
9. Ladybug - Second Layer: Now let's do the second
layer of the late bog. Already thinking about defining
the details, shall we? Let's go with the red. Now I'm going to straighten this area with red I have got. Be careful to maintain
the white reserve, and I'm going to fade this area. It's a very pigmented color
at the moment, a dark color. Now I'm going to go over to the other side and
do the same thing. There is a division there. It's quite prominent, so we have to pay
attention to maintain it. There's also a white here. Let's get it right here
because it's round. And I blur it here. And that's it. Now, I'm going
to make a border down here. Almost with a pure pigment, I'm going to do the
same thing up here. I'm going to start working
with a darker color now with pens gray here
using this outline. I'm working here with
a number four brush, but I will switch
to a smaller one soon because I need more
paint at the moment. Guys, to make a shadow there, I'm going to add a little bit of blue but very diluted, okay? Et's pay attention to
the details of the head, and I have already
started making some details here I'm blurring, working and blurring. Okay. Now, I'm going to get a slightly smaller brush
to work on the details. I will get the details
of the shell right here. Same thing here. I will interpret what I
see in the photo is not exactly what you
see in the photo because we need to give
more personal touch to it. Watch out for the little drops
that the brush releases. You have to control it. No. Here with the
brush a little drier. Let's go. I will build
up these details here. Remove a little of
the excess here. I will leave some
traces underneath Dry brush, dry technique on dry. We'll use the texture
of the paper, right? The texture of the paper
here is important. There is a orange
here at the end. We put the orange like this as it is at the back, we will leave it as it is, and I will do it here. I will put more emphasis on the antenna and I'm going to sort of do a negative painting
here, here like this. Here, it's important for
us to make some shapes to see where the most
light is hitting. We come and tap a
little. Do it here too. I'm going to emphasize
a bit more here. In the next video, we will finish the Late
bug. See you there.
10. Third Layer: Hello. In this lesson, we are going to
finish the late book. This is the last layer. Here in the legs, I'm going to emphasize
some details. I will put it darker. And it looks like the
shadow is missing here. We need a darker shadow. I'm going to go over what
I have already done. Then I will blend it. Be careful not to paint over what's already
being painted. The shadow comes more
or less up to here, so we blur it from the outside. Make it as natural as possible. Now we are going to paint
the laid bug spots here. At the back because
of the perspective, the spots are flatter, blur them a bit to
make more natural. Okay. Now let's move
on to the other one. If you look at the photo, it doesn't have a right shape. I will give it one more go. I will just do a few more
details that I think are missing and I will finish
my late bug at this stage. I hope you have
managed to do it so far and I'm waiting
to see your results. See you next time. Bye bye. M
11. Conclusion: Okay. I hope you had fun
painting your laid back and learn some techniques or new techniques along the way. Watercolor is a journey, okay? And every brush stroke will
teach you something new. The most important thing is
to practice. And experiment. Above all, enjoy the
process and remember, the more you paint,
the more you grow. Thank you very much for being here and don't
forget to upload to your work on the project
and research page. I hope to see you again at
one of my other classes. Bye bye. See you.
Fabiana Ribeiro
