Learn The Lifting Technique With Liquid Watercolors: Paint A Beautiful Illustration

1. Introduction: Hi, welcome to my new Skillshare class where I will explain a lifting watercolor technique. My name is Maria. I'm an illustrator. I graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, where I started how to illustrate books. For me, it's fundamental to experiment, to try new art techniques. I think you can discover new styles, original voice that you have inside. And you can play with arts techniques and learn new skills. So that's why I prepared also this class where I explain new art technique. It will be lifting watercolor technique. And I think it can be really interesting for you because then you can apply it in your own illustrations. I'm quite sure you will love it if you love working with colors, with watercolors, liquid watercolors can provide really brilliant and saturated colors. And this technique is easily to use in your own illustrations and style. This class is for everybody. I think you can manage with the project even if you're a beginner. But if you are new to liquid watercolors, then I invite you to see my other class where I explained the basic of this medium. This class will be divided into two parts. The first part, I will explain you. Tools are tools that technique and different factors that influence this technique. And in the last part, we will paint the final project which will be an old, where I will use lifting technique to paint this illustration. If you don't want to paint a null, you can paint another illustration just by using the technique that I will explain you in this class. So I'm very excited about this class. I really hope you will enjoy it as I did. I think you will, because this is really fun and cool and not so a difficult technique. So in the next class, I will explain it better. What will be the class's project? See you there. 2. Class Project: So for the final project, I will paint and all. I will use the lifting technique to paint this. All. You can do the same illustration and all, or you can do another illustration and other subject of your choosing. For me important is that you will understand how you can apply the lifting technique in order to create your own illustration in your own style and your own subject that you prefer. E.g. I. Will show you a different illustration that I made with this technique, e.g. this trees, all e.g. this water scene. You can choose whatever you wish or you can just paint this old. So I created this class exactly for this reason. So you will understand this technique and apply it to your own illustrations and future in your own artwork, not only in the final class's project. And I think this technique is really cool. It's really beautiful. And I'm really excited to share with you my experience and my knowledge while I was discovering this technique. Before we will jump into the final project, I will guide you step-by-step through all the process. First, I will show you the arch tools that we will need for this class. Then I will show you what is the lifting techniques, what are the differences between when you use traditional and liquid watercolors? Then I will show you two main factors that can influence the outcome of this technique that I discovered during my own experiments. And those will be paper and time. So I will show you different kinds of papers that I had at home and how they work with this technique. And I will also show you time can affect the outcome of this technique. Finally, when you will be more familiar with this technique, when you will know the tools, we will jump into the final project. I will paint all, as I said, feel free to paint whatever you wish. You can paint the same old, can just paint another illustration. Another subject you wish. At the end, please upload your projects in the project gallery. You can share also not only the final project, but also a single exercises your doubts, your questions. You can add them to your project or ask questions in the discussion panel. I encourage you to do so and share all your process with us. Also, I will leave you resources. So be sure to check out the files and resources that I will leave you in this class. I hope you will join me. And if yes, then grab your sketchbook, your watercolor paper. And in the next lesson, I will show you better what are the tools you will need for this class. So see you there. 3. Art Supplies: Let's see what our supplies we'll need for this lesson. If you're new to liquid watercolors. Then I invite you to see my other class where I explained the basic of watercolors, different types and brands, and the differences between them and the traditional regular watercolors. So I will use mainly alkaline liquid watercolors also, but there are also other brands. So again, you can check my other lesson if you want to use another brands that you have at home, obviously it go for it. Then I will use paper. I will use different kinds of papers. E.g. I. Will use this sketch book, mixed media paper, and I will also test it. It's kind of watercolor papers for this lifting technique. And one of them I will use for the final project. So feel free to use whatever watercolor papers you'll have a tongue. You will need also a paper towel or a cloth. And you can use cloth, but maybe it would be better to have paper towel because you will use it a lot and cloth would get wet and dirty really quickly. Also, watercolor brushes, I use synthetic brushes. They will work better as they are harder. Better for the lifting technique. To paint background, I will use a flat and a bigger brush, but they are not necessary. If you have several sizes like small, medium, and big round brushes, they will be perfectly fine. And I will use two jars of water. That's because there will always be needed to have clean water. Besides. I forgot to tell you that I will use for the final project. Also the color pencils. You can use colored pencils, pastels, or another medium that you usually use for my mixed medium, e.g. to add details on, on watercolor, I will use those drawing pencils. The reason is that they are very oily, very pasty. I don't know how to say they cover really well the color that is underneath. I think they have oil. As any ingredients. They are not oil pastels, but they're very Walk see I can say now boxing over. They are really, they're covering really well and they have really nice colors as well. I love this pastel, the saturated, very delicate color. And they're also really warm colors and it will contrast pretty good with my dark blue and quite cold illustration. But feel free to use whatever color pencils you have at home. You can test other pencils or pastels if you have if you don't have colored pencils that I would suggest to buy for this project. Few colors of oily, oil-based colored pencils. You can ask arch your art supply store, which are, have a better coverage, which are more oily. E.g. Darwin's current as luminance. Okay, so we can jump into the next lesson where I will explain you what is the lifting technique? 4. What Is The Lifting Technique : Welcome to the lesson where we will see what is the lifting technique. I will use both traditional regular watercolors and liquid watercolors. I will show you the differences in this technique. And what effects can you achieve when you use those to kind of watercolors? This is the exercise that we will do during this lesson, I will show you with one traditional watercolor and one liquid watercolor, the lifting technique, the differences between those two medium. And also what will happen if you will use more colors, what effect you can achieve? So let's jump into the lesson. Let me show you what is the lifting technique. First, I will show you the example of traditional watercolor technique is the same, but the outcome will be different than with liquid watercolor. I will use ultra marine color. The brand is shrinking, but obviously the brand and the color aren't important. Just use the one that you have if you want to do this exercise and Swatch or regular watercolor. As for the liquid watercolor, I also will use ultramarine color just to see the difference. If you have the same color, use it. If not, you can use other color than the one that you used for the regular swatching, the regular watercolors watching. If you're not familiar with liquid watercolors, they are provided with the pipette usually. So you can apply the color directly on the paper. Wait until your swatches are dry or you can try them with hairdryer as I did. Then prepare your water paper towel and also a brush. I will use synthetic round brush, but you can use whatever watercolor brush you have. Maybe synthetic are better because they are harder, natural brush our software. So maybe it will be more difficult to lift up the color and then take water and paint with water over your paint. As for the quantity, It shouldn't be too little. You have to have a puddle. A little puddle of water drops are a few drops of water that you can push around as you can see. And then you will start to see that the color is lifting. Then grab your paper towel and dab into the water gently to lift up the paint that to activate it. As you can see, there is also the texture of the paper visible, but it's okay. Obviously it depends on the cloth or paper that you will you will use. You can also rewet it if you want to improve lifted color. Or you can also try different brush strokes, you can just leave the color, the water drops, sorry. Then see the effect of different textures, different strokes that you apply it with water and your brush. You can use the lifting technique with watercolors and also gouache. And that's because the colors can be reactivated with water. Whilst with acrylic, e.g. you cannot reactivate the color because it has plastic inside. Now I will test the liquid watercolor swatch. And you can already see the difference between the two swatches. The traditional and liquid watercolors are different. The traditional watercolor has white, lifted. The lifted part is white and the liquid watercolor, it's colored. And that's because liquid watercolors stain paper. And when you will lift the color, you want to be able to lift it completely. The paper underneath will be colored. That's because liquid watercolors have die inside and they behave like inks and they stay in the paper. And that is why this medium is great for this technique. Because you can achieve really interesting effects with when you will lifted. Now, let's prepare the swatch of two or three colors. I will use blue and two different kinds of greens. And important is that. You shouldn't mix them together because then you will have just one color. But I would like you to try to make a swatch of a gradient of those three colors and not mix them altogether. Okay, So this swatch is dry. You can see the colors are separate. There is blue and two kinds of grains. There are also some white dots, but remained, but it's not important. And I will paint again a triangle, but maybe I will rotate it. And I will try to cover with water those three colors to see the difference of the shades of the color once it will be lifted. And quite generous with water. As you can see, there's quite a lot of it. That's because I want the color to be really reactivated. Then grab your cloth or paper towel and gently remove the water. And as you can see, underneath, the beautiful gradient is created. You can see the difference between the background colors, between the blues and the greens. I think this effect is really cool. You can achieve for the bright and vibrant gradients. I will see also the darker greens at the other gradients that are on my swatch. And wallah. Also here you can see the difference between the lifted colors. I wanted to show you another examples of the swatches that I did in my sketchbook. E.g. here I swatch to red colors and paint it those kind of plans of grass. And I really love the effect that it created. As you can see, it's really diverse, vibrant. And what I would like you to leave you with is a suggestion that you can also do the swatching of all the lines that you have at home and do the lifting technique to see the colors that they will create. Now, I hope this exercise is more clear to you and that you enjoyed it and always clear. Let's recap the main things that we talked about in this lesson. If you want, you can upload the outcome of this exercise. Feel free to do it if you want to share this process. I hope it was all clear for you. If not, then be sure to come back to me in the discussion panel. And in the next lesson, we will see how paper can affect the outcome of this technique. See you there. 5. Testing Papers Part 1 : And paper influence the outcome of watercolor technique. If you're not new to watercolors, I'm sure you know the answer is yes. The difference can be fundamental with watercolors. Right now, I won't be explaining different kinds of watercolor papers and the specifics. But I will show you how paper can influence also the lifting technique with watercolors. I will test the papers that I have at home. You don't have to use the same brands of papers that I do. Just grab the papers that you have at home. And I will just share with you my experience and I will test on the papers that I have at home. This lesson will be divided into two parts. In the first part, we will do swatching and we will swatch colors on different papers. And in the second part, we will do the lifting technique. Well, during my process, I discovered that paper can influence the lifting technique. So I always do the swatching of my papers before I will do a project. Here you can see the samples of the lifting technique on different papers of the water, but also I use the bleach, bleach here. And it will be a topic of my other class here on Skillshare. Right now we will focus on the water lifting technique. I prepared for you different swatches of paper and I will redo this swatch together with you to see how it works. I will also scan the outcome of my papers swatches for you and leave it in the cluster's resources. So my first observation I would like to share with you is that I discovered that not always the best quality watercolor papers are the best, or this technique, often the worst quality papers work even better with lifting technique. I think it depends on how much Two. Paper absorbs the water because when it repulsive than it's even better, e.g. for the swatching that we did in the previous lesson, I used the sketchbook paper. It's not a good quality paper and as you can see, it worked really well for this technique. So let's start swatching. I will show you my papers that I have at home and I will show you which worked for me and which didn't. But first, let me give you some color tips. E.g. I. Would suggest you to use the same colors for the same swatches. You will easily see the difference, e.g. you can see that I use the same blue and black color for different swatches. And you can see immediately the difference. E.g. here, there are the same colors on different papers and you can see the difference. My other suggestion would be to use darker tones. That's because it create better contrast. You will easily see the lifting technique whilst with brighter colors. There's not always such a great contrast. But obviously, you can test whatever colors you wish. The first paper is honeymoon Britannia. It's hot pressed watercolor paper. And I will apply two colors on it directly with a pipette. It will be a dark blue and dark turquoise green. Try to keep separated. The colors, divide them, and try to blend them into one color. I will leave the swatch to dry in a natural way. So in the meantime, I can prepare other papers, swatches. Right now. I will jump into Canson Mullin. Do why? I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Sorry, It's the hot pressed paper as well. And again, I will use the same colors. This is one of my favorite watercolor papers, but I saw that with this technique. It doesn't work very well. I mean, it works, but the color is not so bright. So I think it also depends on how this color absorbs water and it absorbs it really well. That is really very good quality paper, but we will see it later. I'm not talking to you about a scientific theory because I'm really not certain. Those are my suggestions, mine guessing. Right now. I am testing Fabriano artistic cold cold pressed. Sorry. So my suggestion for you is just to do the testing. E.g. now we will test not the very obvious choice. This is a sketching paper, honeymoon, nostalgia sketching paper. I chose it because it's quite thick. And I thought to test it because it's really smooth when you touch it. And I thought it could repulse watercolor. And maybe lifting technique could appear really well and it, so let's check it. And also if you have a sketching paper that you think could work, good, then give it a try as well. Now, I will jump into the papers that didn't work. Well. For me. I'm not sure what paper this is. I'm I have this swatch at home and I wanted to test it, but I don't know what brand is it. But as you can see, immediately, the swatching went wrong. The colors stained the paper. And while I'm painting, I already can feel that something wrong. The watercolor is not absorbing in the correct way. So I don't know what the brand is, but I will show it to you just to let you know that there are some papers don't work well at all. And the second example is Fabriano artistic or hot pressed before it was cold pressed. And also this paper doesn't work at all. You can see the same problem here. It's stained the paper. I'm not sure why this happens. Maybe it's because the color the paper is old or I'm not sure. Probably it's the composition of the paper. So yeah, I will show you those examples as the one that doesn't work. Wait until your swatches are dry. That's because you could do it also on the wet color, but the edges would spread and would be blurry while they are sharp when the color is dry. So that's why I will use the dry swatches so it gets your paper dry. You can wait until it's dry naturally on you, or you can use a hairdryer. And when you're ready, then jump into the second part of this lesson where we will test lifting on the swatches that we prepared. See you there. 6. Testing Papers Part 2: Welcome In the second part of the testing Paper lesson, where we will test lifting on the different swatches that we prepared and see how the lifting technique appears on different papers. I will start with Fabriano artistic or this one is cold pressed and I will prepare the water and ask for the lifting technique lesson. I will try to be quite generous with water. I will paint as well, tree with branches. But you can paint a triangle or a rectangle or whatever you wish. And as you can see, I have this drop of water and I'm trying to push it to in order to reactivate the color. So you can see here that there is a puddle, a drop of water. Here we are lifting the color as you can see, the contrast is really great, really nice. I wasn't so happy of the result with a black color. But maybe that's because black color is a little bit more difficult and more dark. Blue with green was a really good choice. And you can see better with bright effect. Test Canson hot pressed. And again, I'm really happy with the result of the lifting color, lifted color. So it's not that the good-quality papers won't work or the bad quality paper will work or vice versa. It's all about testing and saying what the result, what result will satisfy you. And here is the honeymoon and Britannia hot pressed. Right now I'm showing you the granulation that two colors. It's quite unusual because liquid watercolors usually in blend and homogeneous and plain way. But here's some granulation happened and I really like it. So at this point you probably understood that lifting technique can be unpredictable. And I won't give you any strict or fixed rules. The only way is do the testing. So again, colors are really beautiful. I think I also prefer nanomolar from Canson. Let's jump into the last paper that I prepared for you as the example that works good. This one is the sketching nostalgia Hannah MLA paper. I decided to show it to you to encourage you to test the papers that you don't think at. The first glance could work good. Instead, they could e.g. look here, it worked really well. Also the blending effect. I find it very nice. And here's Fabriano, artistically hot press that didn't work well when I watched it. When I'm applying the water, I can feel maybe you can see that the water is immediately absorbed and now lifting is occurring. There's something wrong with this paper. I don't know if its composition may be glue. It is 100% cotton paper. But since it behaves like this, it must be something wrong. And you can also see the color. The edges are blurred and it's not. Okay as well. Let's jump into the second paper, the one that the name I didn't recall. As you can see, the swatching went wrong and also the color is not. Okay. Let's try to see what happened. If I will paint it with water. Now the same problem here. Water immediately is absorbed and it wants to lift the color at all. So I want to use those two papers for sure. And again, my advice for you is to test your papers and if you will see that the lifting technique is not going well, so maybe the problem will be your paper. Let's recap the steps that we took in this lesson. And here are the slides with paper testing, where I show you the samples of the papers that I used in this lesson. So I know this lesson was quite long. It's could appear a little bit boring. But for me it was fundamental to share with you my experience, my experiments. And also, I'm aware it could be a little bit confusing because sometimes the effect was obvious and sometimes not. But what I basically want to to live with, it's not rules, scientific roles, specific rules. Because I don't really know them to be honest. But I would like you to leave you with this knowledge that paper can influence the outcome of lifting technique. And second of all, I would like you to experiment and explore your own papers and see which one works best. Of course, if you want to share this exercise with us, then feel free to do it in your project. Or you can turn back to me to ask in the discussion panel, it would be great to share our knowledge, our experience, and process regarding the paper as well. And in the next lesson, we will see the second factor that can influence the outcome of the technique entities time. So see you there. 7. Time Testing : In this lesson, I will show you how time can affect the lifting technique with liquid watercolors. There will be two time factors. The first one will mean that you will think how long you would like to leave your watercolor on your paper before you will use the lifting technique. And the second factor will be how long you will leave water on your watercolor before you will lift it. So let's check it out. Let's start with watercolor timing. It means that we will do different timing before we will do the lifting technique, I prefer to test with two swatches. On the left one, you can see the swatch where I painted with watercolor and then left it for about an hour before I did the lifting technique. And on the right, I painted and then dried it with hairdryer or you can also leave it to dry. And then immediately once it's dry, you will use the lifting technique. So you can see immediately the difference between two lifting. Here the colors are really bright. And when the watercolor left more time on the paper, you can see the effect is really darker and not so bright. Also on this slide, you can see the difference between two swatches. So my guess is that when you will leave watercolor for more time than the color that will interact with paper. It will stay in it more and it will be more difficult to lift it up. While if you will use a less amount of time, then it will be easier to lift it up because the color won't stay in that paper so much. But since it's the alchemy and we saw that different papers reacts differently. I wanted to say if this rule will be the same for this swatch, I painted those branches after 10 min and the swatch is two days old. And now I will paint the same branches. Next to the old. Wants to see if there will be difference between those two timing in the lifting technique. And as you can see, there is no difference or there is a difference, but it seems that the second swatch worked better than the first one. So even if it was made after the color was on the paper two days. So as I said, it's a kind of alchemy. And you just have to test it and see what will work best. Let's jump into the second step, which is the water timing. Whilst in the first step, we were thinking how the lifting technique can be influenced by the time that the watercolor is left on the paper. And the second step we will think how it can be influenced by the time that the water is left on the color before it will be lifted. So right now I'm doing the swatch when I will leave the water for a longer while, I'll I will insist a little bit re-wet with the brush more times. And yeah. So this one is a little bit longer before I will lifted as as as you can see, it's quite successful. You can see the lifted color is really bright and there is a beautiful contrast. So on the contrary, let's try to do the lifting in a really quick way without insisting. And let's try to lift it almost immediately after we will apply the water. And you can see the obvious difference on the right. The lifting technique they lifted color is more dark. We weren't able to live the color in the right way, whilst on the left, the contrast is really lovely and bright. So the conclusion is be aware of that also the timing will affect the lifting technique. And let's recap the steps that we took in this lesson. And I will leave you a few slides where you will see the difference of different time swatching. Okay, So we finished the thoracic part. I know it was quite long. I hope it was clear for you. And if there's one thing that I would like you to take from these lessons is that you will be aware that there can be different factors that influence the outcome. And this could be paper and time that you apply to the lifting technique. I also know it can be confusing because sometimes you can see the influence of those factors and sometimes not. But as I already told you, I don't, I don't want to leave you with some specific roles, scientific rules, because for me it's kind of alchemy. So I encourage you to test, to do many testing and try. And I hope that you will satisfied with your exercises. If not, then just explore really, really a lot. I did it for me. It was really a lot of exercises before I achieved a cool effects. And again, if you want, you can upload this exercise to the two-year project and share with us your thoughts. And in the next lesson, finally, we will start our final project. So see you there. 8. Painting An Owl Part 1: Welcome to the final project lessons. I'm really excited about it now that you're more familiar with this technique and with the tools and different factors that influence the technique. I think it will be really exciting to apply them in order to do your final project. As I told you before, we will paint this 0 for the final project. But feel free to do whatever threshold you wish. Later on I will show you different kinds of illustrations that I made with this technique. So maybe it will inspire you to do some other topic. And in the first part, we will paint and all with lifting technique. And in the second part of this lesson, we will draw details with colored pencils. So let's get started. Let me show you some examples in my sketchbooks of the illustrations that I did with the lifting technique, e.g. this trace, this one. First I lifted tree and the shapes of the birds and the cat. And afterwards I drew with the dry pastels over the birds and also over a cat. The same here it's the same kind of illustration and technique I just used other colors. And here's an example of just the tree that I did. And later on, I applied birds in Photoshop to create this illustration. E.g. I. Also use the lifting technique for this aquarium seen. First I painted different water plants and the brighter grass leaves that you can see are made with lifting technique. And also later on, I applied finishes with photoshop, collage, digital collage. Also those cacti were made with lifting technique as well. And we will paint a null. That's because I painted also this before in my sketchbook. And I wanted to do again this illustration together with you and show you the process. A brief reminder for the art supplies you will need for this lesson, or your sketchbook or your regular watercolor paper. And also colored pencils for the, for the details if you want to draw them. Obviously your liquid watercolors. And I will use this time of watercolor paper and not the sketchbook paper. That's because I wanted to be a more defined illustration that I can give to somebody later on. But you can use your sketch book if you wish. Let's start with painting the background. I will use two dark colors for the background does because I will use, I will paint a night scene and I also think the contrast is better, but you can use whatever colors you wish for your background. And I will use black color and the Prussian blue color, and I will blend them in the wet on wet technique. This time, I will use this large flat brush and first I will cover the paper with water. The reason that I use the wet-on-wet technique is that I want to have blurred edges. I want them to spread without very sharp lines. You can use wet on wet technique as well, or you can just do wet on dry technique as we did in the previous lessons if you're not familiar with this technique. So I will drop colors here and data randomly on my waters to still, until it's still wet. And I will alternate blue with black here under. And as you can see, they spread really well. But still I have to paint with my brush and try to distribute the color all over the water. As you can see, I left the border of the color without painting with a brush over it because I wanted to leave this effect that of color that spreads. But there are still some gaps, so I will just fill it again by using the pipette without using a brush, I will try to fill the color when it's needed. Okay, The background is dry. I use the hairdryer and now we can start to paint the OH, to make it more easily, you can sketch the shape of the illustration that you want to draw before. I will use the pencil and as a reference, I will use the illustration that I painted before. Yeah, let's get started. Try to be delicate and later on you can erase the pencils. The color won't be canceled. And as you can see, the stroke is visible on the liquid watercolors. We will start with lifting up the basic shape. I will use a medium synthetic brush. And first we will do the lifting technique on the general shape of the all. And then I will show you how to do overlapping shapes. So we will lift the shapes on the previously lifted part. Once I will finish the painting with water, I will live. The water. Ensure that the water was long enough under color before you will lift it. If you think that your color is too dark, then what you can do is to re-wet the surface and do the lifting a second time. To speed up the process, I will use a hairdryer. I want my old to be really wet. And now let's start to paint overlapping parts. I will try to lift another piece of color over the lifted over the color that I already lifted. So I will try to reactivate it. So I'm insisting quite a bit with water and brush strokes because I really want the color to reactivate farther. And because I wish I wanted to have a brighter color. Now, I will jump into the legs, into the class. And also here I want to do a little overlapping parts. One part will be over the over the 0. The same for the wing. Part of the wing will be outside and apart will be over, overlapping the old. And as you can see, I leave the water for a longer time before I will start to lift it, I want to lift it immediately. So let's check the result. And it worked. As you can see, we were able to lift another color more. I will insist before lifting this part. Also here, you can always re-wet before you will lift it if you want the lifting parts to be really bright. And let's try it. And as you can see, there is a really significant difference. I will also try to paint a feather here and that will overlap, e.g. the wing and the tail. I don t really planned the elements that I will paint for examples, the feathers. I decide during the process where to add them, what elements to add. I'm just I'm just, I just like to decide those kinds of thing. During the process. Let's jump into the clubs. But before I will paint class, I decided to paint the branch first. So the clause will be overlapping the branch and not the other way around. Let's lift it up delicately. Also the feathers that were left behind. And two things happened here. First you can see there was a little bit of water that fell down and lift it a little bit of color. And the second is that the further and the branch edges aren't sharp. There are blurred, blurry and spread. That's because obviously, there must have been what? Color? And it wasn't dry enough. So sometimes it's enough to use a hairdryer. Let's see if it will improve. It did about not the branch and not the other feather. I will see what I can do to cover it up. Probably. I will paint another further to cover this effect. But it's not so important. Now that the branch is dry, I will draw the class with water. And also I will wait a little bit before I will lift it and I will finish to paint my branch. As you can see, to drop, fell down and lifted the color and it gave me the idea to make stars. So sometimes the process is giving you the solutions. Also this round shape that was created accidentally by the drop-off color gave me an idea to draw the moon around this shape. I didn't plan it. It's just a process that leads me. Let's paint the moon and the stars. And four stars. I will leave a few drops here and just a simple drops of water. Okay, Now we finished the lifting technique and let's jump into the second part where we will use colored pencils to draw the details. 9. Painting An Owl Part 2: Welcome. In the second part, final part of our project. At the beginning, I wanted to warn you that unfortunately, my battery went down and I wasn't able to finish illustration to record it. So you will see that I already painted the stars and also the feathers on the front of the old. But I use the same technique as I used for other feathers. The stars were simply the tropes that I left on the color and the same for the feathers just to drops that I lifted. Okay, So now that you're ready, let's see how we can use colored pencils on our illustration. Let's get started. Maybe at this point, you're wondering if you want to add details with colored pencils. Of course, you don't have to. Maybe you like the outcome of your illustration without further details and you want to leave it as it is. Obviously, it's up to you. Maybe you would like to add just e.g. eyes are big if you painted on all as well. It's up to you. So I will use the drawing colors. As I explained to you before. There are covering really well and also because they have warmer palette, so it will create a lovely contrast between my cold dark colors and the detail warm colors. So let's start by drawing the eyes and the big, I will draw them, I will catch them with pencil so I could always erase it if I don't like it. For the eyes, I will use black color. And for the pig, it will be chocolate brown color. So you could leave it like this or at some other direct dark details if you want. But I will proceed. I will. Now I will add light white feathers on the head of the 0. I will use a Chinese white, and then I will alternate it with this warm, wet color. So first, I started with Chinese white, and the second row will be the warmer white. I will mix those two together basically. And here it is. Maybe a little bit more contrast to the eyes. I will add feathers also in the front of the, oh, also, I will play for an hour with brighter colors. I play with the strokes. And in the front, I will repeat this drop shapes and use a darker yellow color, ocher color. Also, I will add darker details. Few tips about choosing your color palette. You could use a contrast, as I already said. So if you use cool colors than you could use warm colors for the details and vice versa. If you have warm colors for the background, you could use cooler tones. You could always use darker tones, e.g. or brighter tones to use the contrast between dark and bright colors. So I would avoid to use two similar colors for your details, e.g. green for green, blue for blues, etc. Or if you want to use blue, the similar towns, then use them brighter or darker. Also, you can use just one or two colors. You don't have to use more. If you like more homogeneous tones, then just pick fewer colors. You can use also the eraser on your colored pencils. So it's quite forgiving. If you're not doing too bold strokes, e.g. here, I will use the lighter strokes to create the volumes. I'm just playing around. Sometimes I will use strong strokes like e.g. for the leaves, times softer. I will apply really softly the colored pencils to create different tones and to create the light, this light effect. Alright, we've finished, we've finished our illustration. I'm really curious what you create it. I'm really curious if you painted an all or some other subjects. I hope you will share it with us in the class project, in the projects gallery. And I invite you to see the last lesson where I will leave you some last inflammations about the project and the class. So see you there. 10. Final Thoughts: So thank you so much for taking this class with me. I hope you really enjoyed it as I did. I hope that it will be very helpful for you that you learned new skills. I also hope that you discovered new medium, which are liquid watercolors. I'm a great fan of them. I let you enjoy the colorful process. So let's recap briefly the steps that we took in this class. So first I show you the art tools. I showed you. What is the lifting technique that I showed you different papers. How paper can affect the outcome of lifting techniques. Finally, we saw also how you can play with Simon order to have some slight differences in this technique. And at the end, we created our beautiful Final Project illustration. So my final reminders for you would be to upload your project in the projects gallery if you wish, you can share with us also the process of the previous lessons. Also, I would like to ask you to leave a review of this class. It would be really very helpful for me. You can vote on different factors of this class, and it will be really, really helpful for me. So thank you in advance for your review. Also, you can follow me on social media. I'm mostly on Instagram and I share some art videos on YouTube as well. Thank you. Once again, I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoy the process, enjoy exploring new arts techniques. And I hope to see you around on my channel. I invite you to see my other classes and explore also all the classes that skillshare offers to you. So see you there. Bye.