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1. Introduction to the Class: Hello, future Card Makers. My name is Kyle, and I will be teaching your class on
mastering card making, the basics of the
handmade birthday card, with skills that can also be
applied to thank you cards, special occasion cards,
and various other cards. Through our class, we will
learn how to compose a card, the necessary supplies you
need in order to make a card, as well as different phrases and doodles that you can
use in a birthday card. I will also be doing a general example of a birthday card if anyone
wants to follow along. But generally for
birthday cards, a lot of creative liberty
is allowed for this class. Very minimal artistic
knowledge will be necessary. It's for intermediate
two beginners and we will be teaching you all of the necessary skills for cards. Given the unique
and personalized nature of a handmade card, it truly shows and reflects to whoever you're
giving your card to, just how much and how special your connection
is between them. Without further ado,
let's get started on making our first
handmade birthday card.
2. What supplies do I need?: In this video, we
will be breaking down the supplies necessary
to make a handmade card. Regarding the canvas that
this card will be on, it will not be on canvas,
It will be on paper. Paper can really be anything. It can be any color. It can be any shape. It
can be any size. Depending on what you want
your card to look like, you can cut it to
be a certain shape or it can be just
a standard card. For the purpose of this video, I will be using
white printer paper. You can truly use many
different mediums in drawing on these papers, but for the purpose
of this video, I will be using Prisma
color. Premier pencils or any other colored
pencils will work Crayola, fabric castel or any
other variation, but we will be
focusing on pencils for shading and
different uses there. Lastly, and very simply, you will need a normal
graphite pencil, preferably one that is erasable, as we will be using this for sketching and different layouts. And make sure that it has
an eraser on the back. But other than that,
that is all that you need to make your
first handmade card.
3. Birthday Themed Doodles!: To very briefly break down
the composition of the card. We're going to have our
paper horizontally and we're going to fold it in half and make sure it's
really aligned. You can use it by smoothing your finger along the
edge as you fold. And once you have this,
just to break it down, we're going to have our heading, or our main message, like perhaps happy birthday or something like that right
along the top over here. Then you are also going to have an image somewhere
in the center and a little note at the bottom inside will be
the meat of our writing. We'll write our message and
if you have extra room, we'll do a drawing. Over here. On the back will be
our final drawing, just to fully have
the image of a card. For the purpose of this video, we will be doing our
birthday doodles on my ipad so that you can truly see every step of making some of
these pictures. To start us off,
we are going to be doing an image of
a birthday cake. We're going to start
off by doing an oval. It doesn't have to be perfect. And some of the imperfection truly adds to the
character of a card. We do two lines
down, vertically, as you saw a small arch that
is parallel with the top. Then we are going to be, we'll erase this line. Once you erase this line, because you'll do that
with your pencil, we are going to do some circles to resemble bits of frosting. Those circles will be along where that line was
before you erased it, that was parallel to that line. Now we're going to do
some more little bits of frosting at the bottom. Then we're going to
do some lines to resemble that this has texture. Once we do that, we're going
to do more bubble like frosting around to show that it's going around
the entire cake. We'll have to erase parts
of these to leave room for candles to specify for
whoever your card is for. You can also make a
certain amount of candles. We'll say that this
cake has three candles. We'll add flames. Then we'll put these little
around to resemble shading. And then we want this
cake to be on a plate. We'll make another
ovular shape underneath. Once you do that,
you're going to do a little arcs similar, something that would be on
a banner around the front. Then we're going to do
two curved lines that are semi symmetrical and an
arch line at the bottom. That is our first cake, synonymous with our cake. We tend to have a lot of
cupcakes on birthdays, I will be teaching you
how to make the cupcake. We'll do these
little I did 123456. Once you do those, we're
going to do two lines at a slight angle downward
from either end. Then a very slight from
the center right there. Of each of these, we, we are going to pull it down to the center and angle it so that the one in the
center is going straight down. And once we get that shape, we are going to make a frosting. We can do that two
different ways. I'm going to show you
two different examples. We can curve this like a dome
for a very simple finish. Can put a cherry on top as well. That would be erasing like that with sprinkles,
various varieties. Or if we want a more
complex frosting can make one dome goes over the another dome almost like a zigzag that
gets smaller as it goes. Then once we reach the top, we have a curve, we can add
sprinkles to that as well. Those are two
examples of cupcakes. To master something
a bit more complex, we are going to do a Pinata. In doing that, we're
going to start off by lightly drawing an oval. We will have to
erase and some of these steps to be
prepared for that. Then we are going
to do a line up. This will be the front similar
to the neck and we'll have two like an M two little
triangles with no bottoms. Then the front of an oval. Once again, these don't
have to be perfect, and just know that that's
part of the learning curve. Then from the end of that U, that is the mouth of the pinata, we're going to do a
straight line down. We can take our erasing
tool and erase these bits. Point to refine this as well. To do our legs,
we're going to take the natural curve of the
front and make a little box. And then the same with
the back box it off, we will erase that as well. Then for the tail of the Pinata, we'll make it similar
to confetti and we'll do a little
rectangular shapes. If you wanted to
make them spirals, you can do that as well. We'll make a line
from the center will be how the pinata is
hanging with a loop, so a circle in two lines. Then we're going
to do a line that connects the another
line at the front. An eye that can be
open, I like mind shut. Then to add for texture we're going to do little zig zags, all belong the body
of the pinata, and that is our pinata. We will also master the balloon, which we can do by
starting off with a circle and then a V at the bottom of that
circle that doesn't close. Then we're going to do two lines outward in an arc at the bottom. We can erase this part of the circle in order to emphasize that there would be light bouncing off
of this balloon. We can do a circle.
And the triangle, we can squiggle the bottom of our balloon.
However we desire. Another way to do
a balloon as well is more of a teardrop shape. That same circle
and triangle for shading a smaller triangle at the bottom with
that same line. It is truly up to your
creative liberty. How you want that to look? If you want a group of balloons, just make sure you put them at the back behind and not crossing over and squiggling down.
Those are balloons. I will also be showing you two different ways to
make a birthday present. We can first make
it in the two D, which in that case we will make a rectangle or a square,
whatever size you. And then on top of
that and slightly outward it will make a smaller rectangle
resembling the lid. Then we will do little
teardrop shapes to be alike. The bow look similar
to a lotus flower. I did three in the
center and two, half ones on the side. Then in order to be
somewhat of a texture, I will be doing lines. You could also do poka dots or stars or whatever you desire. That is our first
example of a present. For another example
of a present, we are going to make
it in the three D, which in that case we will make a once again
rectangle or square. Then we'll do two
lines at an angle, at the same angle
parallel to one another, going out on the right side. Then one line, these two lines being parallel to each other. Then this line where these two lines are
parallel to each other, another line closing it off. These two lines are
parallel to one another. Then in order to
make the ribbon, we'll be making one line
and another line once again parallel another one continuing from where that line left off, going back then to make one
going across the other way. Do two lines parallel
crossing over here, but underneath the
center ribbon then. Same for the top, you can copy that
along the side. Once that is complete, we want to make a
bow at the top. We will have to erase some of our center patterns in order
to make room for that. We can always fill
in the blanks. We make a rounded triangle and then another rounded
triangle and a square in the center and two lines
going out from there. Then we'll fill in these bits that we had to erase
to make room for it, then that is another present. Once again, if we want, we can do some pattern
actual package that will show polkadot. This time that is another present. I will also show a party hat, which can be done very simply. First off, we're going to
start with a simple triangle. Then we are going to arc along the bottom and erase this line so that we
can see the dome. The tops of party hats typically
have some center bauble. I'm going to do a circle, or you could do a star. Then in order to show
that it's a come, I'm going to start with
one line down the middle. Then lines going
out at an angle. Another way, I'll quickly
do that over here that we can show some patterns could be just as
simple as some lines. I will be showing
another example cake, which is a little bit easier. We're going to start with
one straight line across, followed by two lines down
and another one across. It'll be rectangular, but it can be a little bit different in size depending on what you want. Then I'm going to
show you up here to practice some waves that will look like dripping of chocolate or a
different sweet treat. We're going to put
that right under that top line that we're going
to do one line over here, two lines parallel to
the one at the bottom. Then we'll put a single candle at the top with the stick
coming out and fire. We can put that on an
oval like our plate. That is another cake. Now we've completed all of our doodles in order
to truly enhance them. There are a couple of
things that I like to do around my doodles. One of them includes triangles, which truly puts an emphasis
parts of a drawing. I also like to do stars, which you can do
leaving empty space in the middle or using this cross method and
coloring them in. Just putting those. I also
like to do things as simple as little dots that
adds a cute finish. You can also combine
all of these factors together in order to make a piece very fun
and interesting. And there you have
it. On this page, I've added various phrases that you can include
in your birthday card, as well as in some
different fonts, which we can highlight
in another video.
4. Example Birthday Card: Sketching it Out: To begin making our
card. We have our paper. As you can see, I've
already increased it, but we're going to
fold it in half. And once we have a
straight edge along there, and that's nice and folded, we're going to get
started on the cover. In the cover, this top section will be our statement
or our topic. The center bit will
be the drawing. And this will be some small
personalized subheading. It's going to erase
that real quick. For my drawing, I'm going
to make it be a cupcake. We'll use those skills
that we used before. I'm doing some shading on
the sides of the plate. Once we have that, I'm going
to start on my message. I just wanted to
read Happy Birthday and potentially
mom at the bottom, because that is who
this is addressed to. I'm going to do this basic
cursive and then add some shading to the
letters to make them look more similar
to calligraphy. I'm also putting this behind where there's slight overlap. I'm making sure to put it behind the cupcake due
to the placement. I'm going to erase part of
this to have birthday on top. I'm actually going to make a day if anyone wants class on
different lettering, let me know in the comments
and I can make that happen. But I'm just using some
basic bubble lettering and cursive so far and I'm going to add depth later by adding thickness
to some of the sides. I'm just using some of those
lines that I can see where they're prior after erasing. Now in order to emphasize
that thickness, I'm going to add some
additional lines to the sides almost like where
there would be a shadow. End up coloring that in later. We don't have to
worry about that looking too neat
as of right now, just making sure we establish
where there would be shadow in this end too. Then similarly on this
bubble lettering, I'm going to do it on the left. Then once again, like I said, I want this to be
addressed to my mom. Big bubble letters. I'm going to put
this at the bottom. But once again, for a
lot of these things, like the image in the middle, we could have chosen to do
the instead that we went over balloons or include
balloons on the side, which I might do, do
an exclamation point. And we can erase this overlay
or overlapping rather, by using pencil to sketch
so much of this out. It allows us to make everything so much cleaner
when we start coloring. Once again, remember none
of this has to be perfect. We're just doing our best. I'm going to add
that shading once again on the sides of each of those and the exclamation fight then like we went over prior, we're going to add
little triangles to emphasize circles and some dots and stars. Then I'm also along the
background to really unify it, I'm going to add a shape. The shape I'm going
to choose as a heart, but you could do a circle, you could do a triangle. I'll start here, it'll just
be across the background. And when we color everything in, it'll be a slight color change from whatever we choose
the main background to be, to emphasize that it's there, while also keeping it not as
the highlight of the card. Then we'll have a
little note down here. I'm going to make
mine like a banner. We can do that by
doing two lines. Another line down there, then two lines connecting
and as. Exactly. Here. You're getting old. Always fabulous. We can recent through
that in a bit. I also personally like to
make borders along the edge that is easier in colored pencil when we are
in the coloring stage. But just so we can see the image right now of
what that would look like. I'm going to do some lines down. You can always use a
ruler if you have one. I like to do it freehand and just try and stay really
focused while I draw them. And turning it in
different angles can sometimes help as well. But remembering that so
much character comes from the handmade nature of these cards and the
lack of perfection, but the amount of
effort on the inside, this is where the meat
of the card will go. I usually tend to write on both pages because
I have a lot to say. But in the case that you don't, you can always put
another image over here. I'm going to do
that right now just for the purpose of seeing
what that would look like. I'm going to make
me some balloons using these skills
that we learned before we can unify them like that. Also going to put a little bow, remembering how
we made that bow. I'm going to put a little
strands at the bottom of that can also put some shading. And we can also
another happy birthday among our little decorators, going to lightly put a heart
on the back of here as well. You can also always, if your note crosses over
from here into here, leave some room
for writing there. And put a little
drawing at the bottom. Sign your name too, like that on the back. We also have plenty of
room for a drawing. We want to keep this
card as much fun and as busy as possible without being
overwhelming to the eye. So I'm going to do
another cupcake, because I am in the cupcake
theme for my cupcake liner. I'm actually going to
make it the other way for this time just
for some variation. And make sure to play around
with some of these drawings, customize them, try
different things. This is all with so
much creative freedom. And it's important to
remember that I'm going to do a big dome and some sprinkles, erasing that for the candle. I'm going to put
drips on this candle as well, in a flame. And you can put a note, I'm going to
cursive, I love you. We can also do that shading
like we did before. We'll color that in with whatever color we end
up deciding we want. Whenever we end up starting
to color these images, we are going to erase a lot of the pencil so that it doesn't bleed
into the color. I'm going to put a circle on the background
of this this time. Sometimes when I don't get
the shape exactly right, I just continue to sketch out. I erase where I think
it should end up. That way when I'm
actually drawing, I'll be erasing a lot of
these marks and I can go along the lines that I think most resemble the shape
that I want them to be. I also like the idea putting
a little arcs around it, almost like a
handkerchief of you can also do that on the
border instead of a box or you don't have
to do a border at all. I'm going to do my border
again with straight lines. I'm going to turn it now we have the basic
outline of our card. So we're going to go ahead
and get started on coloring.
5. Example Birthday Card: Coloring/Shading: To start off before coloring, I'm just going to
go ahead and erase. Now, make sure when you are erasing that you can still see whatever was underneath
that drawing because you don't want
to lose the drawing. But we do want to make
sure that none of that graphite from our
sketching pencil ends up within our Crayola or our prisma color or any
variety of colored pencils. This also applies if
you're using marker. We can use marker today, I will just be using
colored pencils, but feel free to explore
using marker on the camera. It does appear as though I did erase pretty much
all of my drawings, But in the lighting
that I am looking in, I can see everything
that I had drawn before. And I'll lift this up and
try and show you what I see. But you can see all
of those lines. Make sure that you
can see everything. Or also you could take a
picture to make sure that anything that you're
slightly confused about what it used to look like,
you can still see. You can also leave in these graphite markings if that is more beneficial to you, depending on your experience. Now, I'm going to begin
with my prisma colors. The color scheme is
really up to you, especially since we
threw this one together. Feel free to use
different colors than me. I'm going to begin
with my cupcake. Now we're going to
explore some of shading. I used some pretty heavy
lines when I did that, because I like the saturation
of how that looks. But as we color these n, I like to shade by coloring
lighter on the inside, Even with this same
pencil than I was. If I do that with
this whole section, can see what that looks like. You can also try and
blend it more into a gradient by going more over the lines on the side
by those darker lines, and leaving those
middle sections only lightly grays
with the color pencil. Feel free to explore with that. You can also do it on an
extra sheet of paper. See what shading looks like. That way I'm going to
go in here with purple. Make sure to time
with this process as well, there's no hurry. And really just
have fun coloring can be very therapeutic. Practicing those shadings and sharpening your pencil
and really taking your time to not just scrub over all of the details
that we worked on. Make sure when there are details
that are on top of that, you don't color
anything underneath it. As you can see, I
left some ****** here and if you look
a little bit closer, you see that that's
where birthday lined. Make sure that you don't
color over those things. Otherwise, the colors that you try to put on top of them with colored pencil will end up being whatever shade
was underneath. In this case, if I were to
color birthday in turquoise, some brown would shine through. Just make sure to be
careful with that. I'm going to do sprinkles
Before I color my background, I'm going to make sure
to do those sprinkles. It is nice on this
white background, as I was saying with the
cursive earlier in these bits where we sectioned off a little bit more
area for shading, I'm just going to fill
those so that it looks thicker in these areas than it looks in the thinner areas. And that adds a little bit
more of a calligraphy style. I know that our focus in
this video is handwriting, but in the case that there are any fonts that anyone
would like to practice, please comment and ask me and I can make a video
on those things. Make sure that when
you're drawing these, if you see anything
that could be added that you think
would look nice like I think these
triangles would be nice here just to
make those additions. Regarding the back of this where I had the
initial heart drawn, I think I'm going to make
the actual background a bit of a light pink and I'm going to make
the heart an orange. It's not going to
be the highlight, but making sure that
we just very lightly shade that shape
that we once had. That is going to be our
next course of action. I'm going to go ahead and do
the outline before I color the entire background and work
on this bottom as I do it, I'd like to keep
these colors highly saturated to really set
a frame for the card. Once again, you do not
have to make a border. You can make it different
patterns if you like. It can be way line zigzags, but I'm just going to
keep it straight across. You can also do slighter
shading before you do the edge. If that something
that interests you, feel free to experiment. Now, I'm going to lightly
shade there background. Make sure that when you're shading all along
the same direction, that's going to allow
for the image to seem more unified by
coloring the same way, opposed to going different ways. You can see those
strokes up close, you can go back over if
things appear too light. With that, our card is
done only on the front. I will go ahead and let y'all continue on your other pages. Get creative, continue coloring. This is our final product. If anyone has any questions, make sure to link them below on anything coloring
or font related.
6. Conclusion: Congratulations everyone. You've mastered the
handmade birthday card. Thank you so much to
everyone who took my class. And please feel free to post
any of the projects that you've made from what you've mastered in
this class today. I would love to see if there are any other doodles or cards you'd like me to focus
on in another video. Please comment them and
please ask me and I will do my best to do those
doodles for everyone. I'm sure that everyone
that you made a card for will
love them dearly. Have an amazing day. Bye.
Kylie Hill, Visual Artist
