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Live Encore: Drawing Playful Creatures in Your Sketchbook

teacher avatar Marie-Noëlle Wurm, Artist, illustrator, HSP

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:11

    • 2.

      The Sketchbook Mindset

      5:09

    • 3.

      Starting With Textures

      5:58

    • 4.

      Adding Color

      6:40

    • 5.

      Using Adjectives

      6:09

    • 6.

      Creating Your First Creature

      5:32

    • 7.

      Creating Your Second Creature

      4:19

    • 8.

      Creating More Creatures + Q&A

      14:58

    • 9.

      Final Thoughts

      0:26

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Play with textures, colors, and creatures in this fun creative exercise!

Artist and illustrator Marie-Noëlle Wurm has always seen her sketchbook as a sort of playground to encourage creative growth. In this class—recorded using Zoom and featuring participation from the Skillshare community—she’ll invite you to do the same with a simple sketchbook challenge for exploring texture, color, and form.

Throughout the 50-minute draw along, Marie-Noëlle will help you:

  • Get to know your materials more, understanding what each tool can bring to your work
  • Push yourself to play with textures and colors, drawing inspiration from your surroundings and your imagination
  • Embrace improvisational drawing and allow yourself some creative freedom in your sketchbook

This class is great for artists of any level who are looking to shake up their practice or just need a relaxing drawing activity. You can participate with any drawing or painting materials you have on hand along with a sketchbook or paper—or, if you’re more into digital drawing, you could even use this exercise as a way to play in Procreate. 

By the end of class, you should have a page full of fun textures and creatures, along with a new mindset for approaching creative play in your sketchbook.

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Marie-Noëlle Wurm

Artist, illustrator, HSP

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I believe that every single one of us has a wealth of untapped creativity that lies within. Maybe there are brambles and thickets in the way so that it feels dark & scary or awakens the lurking beasts in the shadows. But it's there. I hope to lend a hand on this sometimes scary but beautiful journey of getting back in touch with your creativity, of expansion, exploration, of opening yourself up to the wealth of wisdom inside you--to help you gently brush away the brambles and the thickets, and clear away the path back to yourself & the creative fields that lie within.

Hi, my name is Marie-Noelle Wurm, and I'm a French, American and German artist & illustrator living in the South of France. You'll often find me sipping good coffee in local cafes, reading a book, working or plann... See full profile

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1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Hi. I'm Marie-Noelle Wurm. My pronouns are she, her, and I'm an Artist Illustrator and top teacher here on Skillshare. In this class, I'm going to invite you to join me on an exploratory adventure into textures, colors, and creatures. The materials are really open to what it is that you have available at home. If you have a fewer materials or if you have a bunch of art materials, any and all of those are welcome. I've been an active full-time artist and illustrator for over a decade. You can find my work on Instagram and also on Patreon and on YouTube where I do vlogs and live sessions and tons on fun stuff. What I hope you'll take away from this class is that your sketchbook is really a playground; a place to land and have fun and play with your colors and textures and embrace creative growth and creative freedom. This class was originally recorded live, where I was able to answer questions and interact with students. Thank you so much for joining. I'm super excited to get started. Let's open up our sketchbooks. 2. The Sketchbook Mindset: Hello to everybody here from various countries and states and places around the world. We're so excited to have you here for this sketchbook challenge class. Marie-Noelle Wurm is going to teach us how to draw fun, dynamic creatures in our sketchbooks, which is very exciting and we're so happy to have her. Without further ado, let's go ahead and get into it. I'm going to turn it over to you. Hi, everybody. Welcome. I'm glad you joined. Today we're going to be, like Dylan said, exploring creatures and textures as well. In terms of the art materials that you can use today, honestly, you just bring whatever you want. If you have a few art materials, if you want to work with a bunch of art materials, I have a few different things. I brought a few watercolors on my palette. I have some neal colors, I some some markers, a few color pencils, some pastel. I just brought a few things to play with today because we're going to be exploring colors, textures, patterns, and features. Before we get into the actual drawing, I wanted to share a few thoughts that I had on sketchbooks because obviously this is a sketchbook challenge. One of the things that I've noticed when I look at sketchbooks on Instagram or on YouTube, is that a lot of them, a majority of them, are picture perfect. What I mean by that is like this sketch book will open and it will be this beautiful luscious spread. Then the next page is, again, another beautiful luscious spread. I'm not criticizing that. That's amazing. It's super inspiring to look at, to take inspiration from. However, sometimes I feel like the fact that a majority of sketchbooks that I've seen at least are like this. It has a tendency to perpetrate this myth that sketchbooks are supposed to be perfect and supposed to show the best of the best of your artwork. It also participates in that idea that talent is inherent, and that pictures just happen without any effort, and that being an artist or an illustrator is like this unattainable pipe dream, especially if you're making art that you don't really like. I fundamentally disagree with the word talent. If you know any of my classes, then you know that about me. But in this class, I want us to practice a different mindset. I want us to practice the mindset that our sketchbook is a tool. It's a mean to an end rather than the end itself. It's one of these places where growth happens, where learning happens. It's a visual reminder that the most important thing is the process, at least for me. For me, art, what matters most about it is what you learn from it, how it makes you grow, and how you feel as you're drawing or painting. Don't get me wrong, like everybody, I've moments where I can be more self-critical of my drawings, and that's fine. It's not about being judgy about those moments where we're self-critical, but rather about meeting them with a little bit more compassion and a little bit more understanding that that's part of the journey. Just for example, when I have a new sketchbook to start, I used to get the jitters, like, I have these blank pages and what is the art going to be in it? Is it going to look good? More recently, I've found that I see my sketchbooks as just a playground. It's like hours of fun that are just waiting to happen. That's the mindset that I want us to take into the exercise that we're going to be doing today, is that a sketchbook is a place to land with yourself and for yourself, and it's about those moments of joy, discovery, curiosity, and playfulness, and self-compassion when you do something that you don't particularly like. Anyway, that's really the thought that I want us to bring into this sketchbook challenge today. Who knows? Maybe next time you open your sketchbook as well. That could be fun. 3. Starting With Textures: Well, I'm going to be using this bigger sketchbook. You can use whatever size papers you want. The class is going to be split up into two parts. The first part we're going to be exploring textures and colors and patterns, and not thinking at all about creatures, which is going to be the second part. Just to start off, I'm going to actually use one single tool, the most basic tool, a pencil. The reason I'm going to start out with this one tool is I want to also show you that having a ton of art materials is great, but that's not the thing that's going to make you explore textures or patterns. Even a single tool can give you hours of play in terms of colors or in terms of textures and patterns. Maybe not in terms of colors if you only have one, but at least in terms of textures. Take one tool that you're going to start out with. You can just start making a little mark, and you can do whatever you want. I'm going to be doing little squares-ish. It could be little circles or something like that. If I just make just this one mark of repeating lines, that's a texture. Texture is really a visual representation of how something feels. When we think of texture, we think like it can really come from your tool itself. So what I mean by that is that I like to think of each tool as having a certain personality, and that becoming familiar with your tools is like getting to know a friend, getting to know someone. What are all the different little intricacies and complexities that tool offers? Even just here, if you compare these two, there's a huge difference in terms of how it feels when I look at it. You can imagine what the texture would look like if you were feeling it under your fingertips. These are just two. But again, we can do so many different things with our pencils. You can vary the strength with which you apply pressure, the way that you apply pressure with your tool, that will give it a different texture. The marks that you create. I'm going to just speed this up just so you get a sense of that. The way even you hold your pencil. If I hold it up high and I let it go a wobbly. I remember I used to be very critical of my wobbly lines when I started out, I thought it was like a sign that my art wasn't good, that I wasn't good at what I did. But rather than resistant, you can embrace the wobbliness, and there's a lot of beauty and expressiveness that can come out of wobbly lines. Also, maybe the direction of your marks, how slow or fast you go. What you'll notice is that I'm talking here a lot about the sensory aspects, the sensory nature of our tools. That's something that I come back to all the time in my practice. Drawing is something that is a sensory physical experience. When you're able to really connect with that sensory aspect of your tools, then it really helps you drop into the moment. It sounds dumb, but, for example, even just for this class, obviously I was nervous, and maybe you could tell or not. But as I started drawing, I've become calmer. It's because the sensory aspect of drawing, it really allows me to drop into the moment. I think that's incredibly powerful. I don't think that we talk about that enough in the art world about how it is this visceral bodily experience and that you can pull on that in order to really enhance your drawing experience, if that makes sense. Totally it does. It's also just really wild to see how many different textures you can get from that one pencil. Actually, I was drawing with a few friends this morning and we were talking about the brush pen, which is one of my favorite tools. I didn't bring it today actually, but it's one of my favorite tools. I was talking about how for two years I drew almost uniquely with the brush pen. It's just to say that the tools we use should never be a limitation for our explorations, if that makes sense. 4. Adding Color: I'm going to move on and bring in a few other colors and materials just so that you can see a little bit of a range of different textures. But if you're just using a single tool or you just want to explore one, keep doing that. You could literally just fill four pages full of different types of textures. Do whatever it is that you feel could be the most fun. The sensory nature of our tools, coming back to the personality of our tools is the first way that I think you can help find different textures. Now I'm going to go into something else. You can also pull inspiration from your surroundings. I'm saying surroundings because literally if you think about it, we're bombarded all the time with textures. Even if you just look up from your desk right now, you'll see that every single object that surrounds you has a texture. That's awesome because that means there's an infinite amount of textures that you can take inspiration from. I like to take a lot of inspiration from the natural world because nature is very important to me. For example, this could be leaves or scales or some feathers if I went into it a little bit more in detail. But you can also take inspiration from something that's just super concrete. You can see that my desk has some wood on it [LAUGHTER] and it has these textures. I could use that as a springboard for a texture exploration. For example, I have these diagonals and I'm just going to start trying to explore these with some colored pencils. Since this is an organic texture, it's not going to be super rigid. It's going to have that flowingness, these diagonal lines is the first thing that caught my eye. But then if I look in detail, I actually see that there's these very thin lines underneath it. I can go ahead and add those in. When you're using your surroundings, objects, nature, whatever it is that you see as a starting point for texture, it's important to not get too caught up on the realism of it. Actually, I would say that for this entire challenge, personally, I don't think that realism it's the be-all, end-all. Even though when I started out I was like this doesn't look realistic enough so it means I suck at art. But who cares? [LAUGHTER] If you look at tons of illustrators, there are tons and tons of illustrators who don't do realistic things. Anyway, don't get too caught about the realism or how the fidelity of the original thing that you're taking inspiration from, it's really just a springboard basically. In this one, I've used two different overlapping textures and that gives me a different texture than if I just did a single one. In each of these that I've shown you, I've really done pretty much only one, but you can do many layers. You can do two, you can do three. You can do as many as you want. Each buildup of another layer will give you an added texture. Recently, I have been obsessed with stripes so that's why I'm going with some stripes right now. I too love stripes. Something about a stripe is just very soothing to look at. I don't know why. It's just so fun [LAUGHTER] Isn't it? I think our brains really like controlled order. Totally. As we continue your exploration into texture, start to just think about, how do my tools blend, how do they work together, for example, here I used a colored pencil first and then I used a neo color second. That makes it really interesting. I hope you can see that actually. Yeah, I can definitely see more of that You can see the overlap in that sense. You can also play with fun contrasts of color. This is one of my favorite pencils. It's a rainbow pencil. Rainbow pencils are the best. [LAUGHTER] Definitely. Because they just have that playfulness aspect to it. They were amazingly fun when I was a kid and they're amazing fun now. Yeah, totally. That's also something I love is when a tool brings you back into that childlike curiosity. That's always something that I'm always looking for in my practice. [OVERLAPPING] Sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. No worries. For example, here I'm going with something a little bit more chaotic. 5. Using Adjectives: We went from the external surroundings and now we can go also more internal. So you can use adjectives. So the simplest version of this is like, what would a rough texture be like? What would a, I don't know, let's say a spiky texture, be like? That's more like of a descriptive, literal descriptive version of a texture. But then you could also go into the realm of emotions. For example, I want to make a playful texture. Well, I don't know what would a playful texture be. Maybe I would have, I'm going to go a little bigger on this one just because I think that seems more playful, then maybe make some big rounded shapes, and then something like that. Because it's neon, I don't know if you can see that on your screen, but it's like super bright neon pink. Yes, that is definitely coming through. Cool. I was honestly just very excited to see you draw with it because I totally thought it was a chopstick and then you picked it up and I was like, oh my God. [LAUGHTER] It's the best. It's so fun. It looks really fun. So there, that's like my playful texture. But what if I want to do something, I don't know, maybe more moody? I'm going to up. This is like a paint thing. In itself it has an interesting texture, but I want to look for something a little bit more moody. So what am I going to do? I don't know, I'm going to experiment. I'm going to try, well what if I layer this beigey color on top so that you have that mix of colors? That really does transform that color into something totally different. Right, and so it gives you a completely different feel. What if I did something that was horizontal bricks but are organic too. I don't know, could just start adding some lines in there. I guess the thing that I want to show you with this is that, at least when I used to think about texture, I used to get caught up on the idea of, oh, it has to evoke something. But it can literally just be different shapes and patterns and colors. If they are repeated, then it gives already a texture. That's all you really need. You can take inspiration even from like the clothes that you're wearing, there are patterns everywhere. Or what if I take the same element and I repeat it horizontally and vertically, and I can add a base behind that. Oh, yeah, I wanted to mention this as well, markers. I don't know about you, but me as a kid, markers used to annoy me because I wanted to have like a flat color and they were never flat. Always just had these little marks. Yes. It used to really annoy me. I was like, no, I just want like a flat color I didn't know gloss existed, I guess like, good-quality gloss. [LAUGHTER]. So I've remade my peace with markers, and this is another thing that I want you to think of. Whenever you have a tool that you're frustrated with, like you don't like the way it's working, what if you leaned in to the things that bug you about it? What if you use that as a way to discover a different kind of texture? If that makes sense. I'm going to show this to you closely, you can get a better sense of what I'm talking about. Where are we here? Here we are. There it is. That's the highlight you're looking for. Right. So you see how those are the marks of the marker, which as a kid I would be like, ah, but if you lean into it than it actually can give you a really interesting texture that you could use in order to create visual interest in your drawing. Like that looks almost like snake skin, for example. 6. Creating Your First Creature: I'd like you to look at the different textures that you explored and you can either pick one that you used here or if there's another texture that you want to explore you can use that. But I'm just going to go with one that I explored here and use that as my starting point. The one I really like is actually this orange one. I think that one's really fun. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to start making a shape of this texture. Obviously, I mean squares here. I could continue to make a different square or I could make a blob or a circle or an oval it doesn't really matter. But I'm going to try to do that same texture. That was my favorite one too, so I'm very excited. Cool. [LAUGHTER] Awesome. It's bricks with I don't know a line in it of sorts. When I was a kid I lived in a yellow brick house for awhile, so I definitely I vibed with that one. That's awesome. I love that. I want us to start out simple. You can really just start with a simple shape. I'm going to go for an elongated rectangle. I just broke my Neocolor again. Something I always do. It's easy to do. Yeah, way too simple. [LAUGHTER] Oh, yeah. I just forgot to mention this as well. Creatures. Why did we decide to call this class Create a Creature? Because I think creatures are the coolest. [LAUGHTER] They're the coolest thing. They allow for so much creative freedom. Because obviously you can have it be more of a realistic animal but it could also just be a blob. I think that's super fun, especially when you're trying to tap into your own creativity and connect with your intuition and your playfulness to have that freedom of, oh, this can be just a blob. If you've made your shape then you can start thinking about well what creature is this going to be? Is he or is it going to have two heads or eight legs? Or where is its head going to go? I'm actually thinking, oh, this could be a side view of my creature and I don't know I'm just going to make a triangular head because, why not? Triangle heads can be fun. Definitely. Oh, that wasn't exactly what I wanted and that's fine. I'm just going to build on it. Whenever you make something that's unexpected or a mistake, you can use that as an opportunity to explore where it's bringing your drawing, if that makes sense. Yeah, or sure. It's a good way to look at it. I'm still going to add just a little eyeball on my head. Even just the size of your eyes makes a huge difference in terms of what your creature looks like. You can play around with that. Maybe I'm going to give him a little tail. It's already extremely cute. That's because of the big eye. If you make big eyes that always looks cute. [LAUGHTER] That's one little tip. Should we make some legs? For some reason I think it would be fun if it had spindly legs. I like that. What's it called? I know the word in French. You know a millipede? There we go. Yes. I was going to say say. Millipede. In my family, we call them bajilipedes because they've got a bajillion legs. That's so cute. [LAUGHTER] I feel this guy is really representing the bajilipede community. I would say, okay, that sounds a good name for him. I like it. [LAUGHTER] The fun thing with these creatures is that you can really play around with this. I purposefully today decided to invite you to explore creatures without any reference. Because often I remember I used to find that really scary. Like oh, I don't have any imagination. I've no idea what this is going to look like, so I can't do it. This is really an invitation to counter that self-limiting belief. You can use your textures as a starting point. 7. Creating Your Second Creature: Now, I'm going to choose another one of my textures. Maybe I'm going to go with this one, the kind of snakelike skin. Again, you can just start with the idea of a simple shape. You don't need to know in advance necessarily, but you can. You can also as you're building your creature, move away from the texture that you've created in order to explore different texture. Now, while you're putting that texture together, I do have a question from the audience, [OVERLAPPING] which is just that Claude is wondering if you could recommend a good pencil sharpener. Apparently, they rarely use pencils because they break so often. [OVERLAPPING] if you have any guidance here? I have to say I love this pencil sharpener that I have. It's a Staedtler, S-T-A-E-D-T-L-E-R. I think it's a German brand. I really like this, though I did also recently have a discussion about pencil sharpeners and how sometimes if your pencils are often breaking, well, obviously sometimes it can just mean that you've dropped them too many times on the ground and then the lead inside is breaking too much. Or that you're going too hard when you're trying to sharpen. If you go a little bit softer, you just do one turn or two turns then that can help. If that makes sense. It absolutely does. I grabbed my little guy. I have the Prismacolor Staedtler and I am a professional artist, but I do not break my pencils enough anymore because this little guy. That's a good job. Cool. That's awesome. I'm making a longer, bigger guy. Bigger little creature. You could also decide to mix that like let's say with another texture. For example, this pencil texture, what if I made a head? It's a good representation of how I feel in the early morning. Perfect. [LAUGHTER] This one has a really thin neck, with a really weird head and weird body. That's cool too. You can also, let's say, accessorize and add some glasses. This is cloud head. Cloud head. I felt like it'd be my friend. [LAUGHTER] [OVERLAPPING] It's got a vibe that I understand. Totally. I think I'm going to just make some super thin triangle legs. The fun thing is that once you start realizing shapes, they are such an important tool when you're building characters or creatures. We often think of shapes as like a square, a circle, a triangle. But then think about that a little bit even more, with a little bit more complexity. You can pull them, like these are triangles, they're just supper elongated triangles. Playing around with those subtleties and those complexities can really push you into other spaces. 8. Creating More Creatures + Q&A: I do have somebody wondering if and I think I know the answer to this, but I thought I would ask anyway. Yeah. If in final drawings, can you just make texture without thinking, or do you recommend doing the exercise that we did at the beginning before every final work? Well, I think everybody should do what feels best for them. That's really my belief. I think that we all have different things that work for us. I know that for me personally, I really like when drawing surprise me, so the book of my work is improvisational in nature. It means I'm just going to play around, figure out a texture like, what texture am I going to play around with today? Then it'll emerge from that rather than the other way round. I don't know if that answered the question. I believe so. Basically, I just think it's super fun to play and so I just try to play as much as I can. Then sometimes that means that I'll have a finished drawing when I didn't realize that I was going to have a finished drawing, and then sometimes it just means that I've created an experiment and that's fine, and I've discovered something, but it doesn't mean that it's a permanent. It's just not a finished piece. But I don't care that much anymore about finished pieces are awesome, but for me what is more important is the process and how I feel as I'm working. That makes sense. It's more about the journey than necessarily the destination. Yes. Exactly. I would definitely say that. As soon as you want to switch into another creature and just explore another texture, you can go ahead and do that. I'm just having fun here with a pattern. I really like doing colored pencils and Neo colors because I like it when it shines through but not totally. That is a very cool effect. Of course, if you wanted to use reference and make something that's slightly more realistic, you can of course do that. Today I really wanted us to reconnect with just textures and playing around and remembering that it's all just a process. [NOISE] Speaking of which it does look like I have a couple of people who want to know Anna is asking and then Claude agrees with this question. Anna is a very results-oriented person who struggles with focusing on the joy of the process, and wants to know what you recommend and how you think that Anna can give more importance to the process in the growth? That's a great question. The reason that I like this question is because I think a lot of people can relate to that myself included. I used to be very results oriented. The biggest thing that I would say that helps you learn that is literally by showing up in front of your sketchbook regularly because the more that you end up drawing, obviously the more you're going to build skills, etc. But every time that you show up in front of your sketchbook, it's that opportunity to practice a different mindset. For example, if you're struggling with a very strong critic, what is it that you can do to help yourself meet yourself with a little bit more self-compassion is to, there are a bunch of different things. But one of them is to imagine that it's somebody else that's those things that you're saying to yourself about your drawing. What will you tell that person if they said those things? That's one way. For sure, sometimes it can be challenging. If you're in a super overwhelmed state where the self-critic is so loud that it's blaring in your ears, that's a very different ball game, and in that sense, I would either maybe just even completely step away from my sketchbook and just leave it be and come back to it when I feel a little bit more able to meet myself with more compassion. Or this is another invitation is to use your sketchbook as a place to work out that emotion. That's something that I do all the time with my sketchbooks because I think the sketchbooks are these tools that we can use no matter how we're feeling. For example, let's say you have a super loud self-critic. What would that self-critic look like on the page if you gave it a visual representation? Maybe it would just be this huge black scribble. Cool. You know what I mean? Sometimes, it really helps to make it less daunting when you take it out of your head and you put it into visual form, there's something that can be really soothing about that. Sometimes it's also a little scarier like wow, I didn't realize that it was that intense but I don't know. Personally, that's what art has given me the most. It's a place to land, a place to work through my emotions when I'm struggling with them, and then a place to play when I'm able to play. Wow, I love that and it looks like Anna did as well. Awesome. I'm passing on thanks from everybody in the chat on that front. Our self-critics can be pretty evil. Yes, truly. The thing is we're willing to say to ourselves that we've never say to another person. I know. I forgot to mention with our creatures. If you're feeling stuck with any ideas, you can now also think about certain animals, imagine what would a cow look like, but not a real cow, a strange cow, an unrealistic, illustrative cow. What would a catbird look like? You can use real animals also as an inspiration for your creature-making. That makes sense. I added antlers onto this little strange little creature. You can have wings, you can think about buds, tails, means. There's a lot of different elements that you can pull from to just continue your exploration of creatures. I'm also going to invite you to something else because I realize here that in the few that I've done, they stayed contained. If you can see what I mean, my shapes are very clear, defined, okay, that's the body, that's the body, that the body. But you can go what I am doing here past your outline if you've made an outline. You don't have to stay within the lines of what it is that you're doing. I need a tiny little head on that guy. I don't like his tiny head. It's so small. Why not? I am 100 percent one of those people who's like, oh my God, it's a shampoo bottle, but it's two inches tall. It's adorable. [inaudible] of being small. Exactly, I love tiny things too, they're so fun. They make me feel like a giant in the best way. Yes. Totally. I'm just going to show you another example. A lot of these I was doing more detailed work. You don't need to be detailed. You can be free, you can be chaotic, you can make a fluff ball rainbow creature, I wanted to give them long legs, he's going to have long legs, but he's going to be sitting. There we go. Yes, you are laughing with rainbow. And he could have an eyeball up here, and that's it, he's got one eyeball. Good for him. It's a one-eyeballed creature. He only needs the one, he's good to go. Yeah, you get to decide where it begins and ends. I guess that's my point. What if I did a bird? I'm just going to do some weird sort. Oh yeah, sorry and now I'm forgetting. Because I was exploring textures, but I could take one of these cheap textures, what if I use this playful one? Which is a flat texture. That's something else that I didn't mention yet, but when you're using textures you can use, I am just going to show you maybe in detail. This texture which is these lines, what do you call them; stripy? No. Zigzag. Zigzag, that's the word I was looking for, thank you. The zigzags, I made them bend. What that does is that helps me define a shape. It looks a little bit more like it has a roundish body. But you can also have very flat textures like this flat one, the first one that we made and that little creature has more of a flat texture. You can play around with that and see like, okay, well what if I take my pattern and I bend it very slightly? Does it make my creature change shape and what shape does it give it? Or the other hand, I made shapes here that give it a form but I'm going to apply my texture in a very flat manner. That's when you start really having fun, and I'm actually going to go past the lines that I created. You know how he's talking about, you know your outlines. Who cares about the outlines that you've done? Well, there you go, when you're a kid, they say never draw outside of the lines. Well, breaking that belief too. You don't need that. I don't know that I ever got anything out of that belief, so I'm perfectly happy to throw it to the wayside. Totally. I know one thing that I promised I would bring up here at the end. Folks just want to know the brand on those big pastels, you said a word for them and I have immediately forgotten what it was. Was it this one? Yes. This is the Jackson's pastel, the Jackson's art website, and this is part of the set of, let me show you, these three fluorescent colors, which are just really fun. That is awesome. The Gouache sticks, I'm definitely saying that wrong. Gouache sticks, no worries. The brand is Delgreen, but I have to admit it's a friend of mine who I think is here who recommended these. I bought them off AliExpress. I don't often do that, but these were just too fun. If you look for Delgreen Gouache sticks, you should be able to find them. Gouache sticks, I'm going to remember that word forever now. Yeah. It's true. I'm going to use it now over my pencil. I'm just going to make a big fluff ball. Wow. I love that. 9. Final Thoughts: Thank you so much for joining the class and playing with colors and textures and patterns to create your very own unique features. I had a bunch of fun. I hope you did too. I'd love to see what you made, so, if you want to, you can share on Instagram or wherever else using the hashtag, textures and features, so that we can all have a look at the fun creations that you've made.