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1. Introduction: Hey, hey fellow artist. I'm Neha Podar and I'm an artist and I'm a
surface pattern designer. And I'm so thrilled to welcome you to my new scelture class, which is about florals. Yes, we'll be painting florals, but this time we're
using Posca markers. Yes, we're using a new medium and it's a wonderful
and amazing medium, which I will take you
through in this class. I started my artistic
journey with Posca markers and I have
never looked back since. So why Posca markers?
Well, let me tell you. These markers are like
a dream for an artist. The colors are vivid, an opaque, and gives an unmatched matt illustration
look to our painting. In this class, I
will share tips and techniques on how to make the most out of your Posca markers. And not just this, we will also learn how to make a
balanced composition. I will share the
three elements that I use which makes an
artwork cohesive. For a class project, we will be creating a
stunning floral masterpiece. Exploring the intricate
layers of primary, secondary, and
tertiary elements. I'll guide you
through each step, sharing tips and tricks to make the process not just
educational, but incredibly fun. This isn't just about painting, it's about discovering your
unique artistic voice. So whether you're an
artist looking to explore a new medium or you're a
big no and love florals. And also you want to check
out how posca markers work and how they can just
diversify your art works. Then this class is
definitely for you. So we will nurture
your creativity. And by the end of this class, you will have a stunning
masterpiece and also a substantial knowledge
about Posca markers. So friends, I can't wait to see the wonderful project that we
will be creating together. So grab your Posca markers and
I'll see you in the class.
2. Few Types of Posca Markers: This is my first Posca pens, and I remember buying
it for the first time, and I fell in love with these. These have eight colors. The size of the nib is three M. This is like a starter nib that you can start with and
then after I got this one. This is a 16 color set. And this is a bigger a five nib. This can cover like
a larger area. It has more colors and it has
like gold and silver to it. Yeah. Because you can
dilute or you can mix your Posca markers As such, I felt that it's better
to have more colors. It is. Then then I got
a smaller one also. This is like one MR. These are the different
sizes that is available. I bought this one. This is this was really
costing me a lot, but this one is the pastel collection
and I think it's like a direct import from Japan or something like that because the instructions are not in English, they're all in Japanese. And you would hardly know like, you know, it's just written,
it's three M over here. So that's why I know
the size of, you know, of the pens and also in the pens like there's
nowhere it's written like, you know, any instructions
is in English. So I just got to
know like it's like three M. And just just
like it's on the bar code, I can see it's written here. It's a sky blue color. That's the only way you can
just identify your colors. But this is a addition to my
collection of Posca markers. I think you should definitely go for one regular
set and one pastel set just to complete the entire collection if you don't want to go
for a lot of sets, since I'm so obsessed
with Posca markers, I got them in one
M size as well. I got them one size. I had to get the
five M size as well. I'm not disappointed at
all with my Posca markers. They are a very good purchase. I also got like these loose ones which is there and
I tend to pick some along the way
whenever I feel that I'm using a
particular color more or something like that, so I make sure that
I buy some more. And I also have these from
its metallic collection. So these both are metallic. I think there were
two more colors. Yeah, one is also right here. So there's one more color in
this metallic collection. And I think I misplaced
the last one, but I'll definitely swatch these and just show
you how these work.
3. How to Prime your Markers: I wanted to show
you how to activate your Posca markers and it comes generally in
a plastic wrapper. You just twist the wrapper
around and you can open it. You don't have to use any
scissors or something. This is how it looks.
It's white, right? The color has not
come over here. And it consists like of a
barrel of color over here, I believe a steel ball
or something like that. You have to shake it
to activate the color. Try shaking it for
maybe 2025 times. And I'll just show
you a nice close up. Once it's done, see it's
already started to come a bit, but still it's not there. What we'll do is we'll
just keep pushing it till the color flows
to the tip of the pen. As you can see, it
is started right. It's okay if you just let it
bleed for the first time. That is okay. Let us take
out a little bit more color. Yeah. Now can you
see it a bit more wet Now our Posca markers
is ready to work with. Let me show you one more time how to activate
your Posca markers. Just open and see
like the Posca, they will have this
white tip to activate. We will just shake
it well like 15, 20 times and I'll just
show you a close again, this is how we activate
it, believe me. Like this is one of my
best part about this. That's why I'm showing
it to you again. Yeah, we just press
it a few times. See the color is now ripping down there. Now our Posca marker
is activated. Can you see how
well this has come? Just a note that you should
keep in mind is that do not shake the pen
when the cap is open. Otherwise, what will happen
is if we shake it right here, the colors will come from
here onto the paper or whatever surface is there just below it or
something like that. Don't shake it. Pen cap is open. Always shut the pen cap and then you should
shake the pen sometimes. What happens is that some of our Posca markers are not working quite properly
or something like that. Maybe it's been a long
time that we have used it. The color is not coming
properly onto the nib. Then also you should
do the same technique. You have to shake
the Posca markers like really nicely
with the cap shut. That is the most important part. And then just give it like what will happen with old color is that
you'll find that maybe sometimes there
are a little pools that form, you know, the color. Too much color
drops from the pen. That's okay. That is one of the thing that happens
with Posca markers. Can you see like this one is
so pigmented and this got more color dripping from the pen because it's
already activated. And I just pressed it
and shaked it again. Yeah. So this is how to
reactivate your Posca markers.
4. Posca Markers on Different Papers: Now let me show you
like how Posca markers, they work on different surfaces. So this is a 300 GSM paper, and I'll just show you a Swatch. This is the 300 GSM paper. And as you can see,
like there is like very slight pilling
of the paper that comes naturally with
Posca markers when you are using it
directly onto the paper. But I use another technique
with which I get absolutely 100% no pilling effect
with my Posca markers. And I'll show you
that in a while, we'll do the project with that. You do get a little
bit of piling, but you can just
scrape them off after it's dry and you're good to go. It is very saturated
and you cannot see the white color
beneath That is one of the point of working
with Posca marker is that the colors are pretty saturated and you don't need to go
on and put another layer. Now let me test it on
another paper for you. This is 61, 80 GSM paper. I'll just test this on this. Just see how saturated this is. And the trick is always to use like
shorter strokes. Always use like
shorter strokes to fill whatever space
that you want to do. This one here has relatively more pilling
effect than this one. As you go with a
better GSM paper, then I feel that you get like
a much smoother background. But it gives this illustration
feeling, which is really, really popular with
a lot of artists and they love it and
they are easy to scan and get your motives or get the illustration
that you're going for. It's highly recommended for scanning your artworks and if you want to make them
as prints and sell them. So that's why it's one of the favorites with
a lot of illustrators, these Posca markers, in case
you're a lettering artist and you also want
to see like how it comes onto black paper. So let me just show it to you. It comes on really nicely
on the black paper. Also, if you can see there's
just one downside to it. It does take on a little bit of the black color
which is underneath. You might just have to do a second layer once
it's completely dry. But can you see like, I will just show
you the comparison. So this is the same
color on black, and this is the same
color on white. It comes really well on
the black surface also. You might just sometimes have to go again on a black surface, but it works on both
the colors pretty well. This one here, I'm
trying to swatch on 100% parton 300 GSM paper. And this has this rough texture. So this is a cool press one. So I'll just show you like if you're doing it
on this surface, like, um, how the effect
of this marker will come. So it did pretty well. In fact, I've never used this 100% cotton
watercolor paper for my Posca markers,
but as you can see, like there is
minimum of pilling, I n this is the five
pointed bullet nib. It did pretty well. Let me
just try another smaller one. Let me try it with a three M one and let's see if we
get good results. Yes, to my utter amazement, it's doing pretty well. It's coming on so well. Yes, even the smaller nib
came out pretty well. There's almost minimum
to no pilling at all. The color is very saturated. It was very smooth to work with. I think we can go for a 300 GSM, 100% cotton paper also for this. This is something
new to me also, but I'll definitely
make something on this without the use of
the medium that I do, which I'm about to reveal
in the next segment. Probably. So, yeah,
this is pretty good. And you can go for 100% cotton, 300 GSM paper, also with the project that
we'll be coming up with.
5. Taping the Paper: Let's tape the paper. And
I'm using this paper tape. What I do is I just
eyeball it to like half an inch or I like to give like a border
because I just use a tape. It just combines my painting
and it just frames it. Right. So in case
you want to omit this process of not using
the tape, you can do that. You can go ahead and directly
paint the background, something which is
a little uneven or, uh, even that looks really nice. So in case you don't want
to go with this tape, then definitely just
put the background, so I just place the
tape and then I just go over them and press them down with my fingertips there. Let's just give it one more
sweep there, you're done.
6. The secret Sauce - Background Painting: I wanted to give
like a peachish, very light pinkish
background to our artwork. I wanted to use this light
pink color that I have. It's a pastel pink color
and it's from Art Ranger. They're not very thick
bodied acrylic color which is really good as I really don't want a very
thick background, it can be a little watered down. I just want to place some
color in the background. Uh, for two reasons. First being that, you know, I love doing a background and it makes my
artwork just pop. So that's why I love
to give a background. And second I want
to give it with acrylic colors is
because it just, it just gives very
smooth finish to my Posca Marco pens.
Yeah, let's do this. I think I would like
to add some white with this because I want it
a little more pastily. Let's go ahead and
do that there. I've taken the paint and let's give like that
bit of white color. You can actually mix this up also on your own just
with some red, white, and probably some
orange or yellow, and you'll get a very
light, peachish color. Make sure that you put in more of white to get
that pastel effect. Let's take a flat brush, and I've dipped it into water. My brush is now quite wet. I just mix in the paint. I'll take some more
water and I'm putting it on the paint there. I think I can put
in some more color. It's very light. So just choose the color which
you are comfortable with. Even light pistol Blue
also looks really nice. Yes, I'm liking this color now. Before I mix the entire color
on my palette, let's start. I like to go from left to right and just make sure that you do up the
corners really well. It's not important for this that you have to go
in a single direction. If you want a little sketchy
effect for your background or you want a little
wash down effect, you can go ahead and
do that as well. Right now, I'm just placing the color though I do
like a smooth background. So that's why I'm
just evening it out so that it looks really plain. When I'm coming to
the Posca Marco, I mixed it just right, and don't forget the corners. The birds is saying hi. Just evening it out. Can you see like there are
some pastel effect going on naturally? It's coming because I've not
used a very thick paint. It's quite watered, and
that's why a little bit of paper can also
be seen through very small pieces,
but that's okay. I think this is we're done
with the background now. Let's wait for the
entire background to get dry and then we'll
start with a Poscacos.
7. Choosing the Colors: Meanwhile, the
background is Rying. I'll just show you the
colors that we are using. I'm going for a red, this is just a normal red. Along with this, I'm
going for a dark red. This a maroon. Then to compliment, to give
it a little highlight, I'm going for the speech color. It says coral pink in case
you're going with posca marks, then go for coral pink. You can also use white or
you can use yellow color. If you don't have
this pastel color, then I'm going to
use this Navy color. It's really pretty
color, Navy blue color. You can go for a deep blue color if you don't have a navy color. This is also from the
pastel collection. Name is Thy Blue. You can go for a light blue. In case you don't have
the pastel collection, just change it to a
light blue color. Of course, we will
require a white. This is mostly for
highlighting and some finer detail part
we'll be doing with this.
8. Class Project - Part 1: Now let's first start
with the primary element, which is the two florals. As you can see in this. Like
this is the primary element. And then this also comes
under the primary element. We'll place the primary
element first on the paper, and then we'll design the
entire artwork around it. I want to start in the center. Let's start with red. I'll just shake it nicely. I just checked before putting on paper that it's
coming out nicely. It's important just always
keep a paper sheet or something beside you just to
get the Posca markers going. Let's start from here. Let's
give it a center point. Remember like we can
just go over this color, once it dries, we can
put another color on it. But this is just the center
marking that I'm doing. Again, this is just
something which we can come back a little
later and change it. I did this so that I can
get a bigger flower now. Go for a six to seven petals there. It's just so
cute and simple. Then I want another one. Over here, I'm using
this five M one. You can go ahead and
do a three M one. I just have to
fill it. So that's why I'm going for a five M. Let's give a bud over here. What I'm going to do,
I'll just give it like an open shape in case, like I feel this is
a little smaller. Go ahead and just make the, you know, just if you want like the shapes to
be a little bigger. So this is the time
that you can just go ahead and do a double
line or just fill in. Now, let's start
with filling in. Can you see there's no pilling, it's just because we have
used acrylic colors, uh, as the background,
so there's no pilling and we get such
beautiful, opaque colors. I'm filling it with
very short strokes so that I don't get like
any scratchy effect in case you feel that, you know, you have
left out a space. And you know, you can
just come back to it a bit later once it tries so that you don't
get any scratch. Thankfully, after drying,
it doesn't leave, like, you know, the
direction that we had taken. So, you know, it's good to just scribble the paint in
just to fill the part. Though it's better to be a bit systematic about
filling these petals there so our main
elements are done. So this is the primary element. We are done with it.
I just, I don't know. I just feel that maybe this flower I can do a
little bit bigger. Look better. So now we have to let
it dry completely. Then only we'll come back
and give it details. Meanwhile, let's start
with a Navy color. You can go for a deep blue. In case you don't
have a Navy color, let's take out a stem. This artwork that I I'm not making it
like a seamless one, None of the elements are
going out of the paper. I'm just starting
it at the bottom. I'm not taking it
out of the paper. Now let's fill in
with some leaves. So since I've already made it. But the thing is to visualize how you want
to place the leaves, it has to be, it's really
important to just think of it. Can you see like a lot of color just came out
but that's okay. It's a part of Posca markers. But what will happen
now is that color will flow very nicely from the pen there. So what I'll do is
let me just mark out, uh, the dark blue
leaves that I want. So let me just mark it out. So I'm just planning
out like how I want. This is the secondary
element that we are doing, so I'm how to place it and
how to give it some spaces so that we can get in those tertiary elements
or the smaller elements. Yeah, this is the left side. I want like a climb over
here. I want to take it out. Now let's balance it out. This has, this is heavy, so I want like a few leaves
to come on this side as well, but I really don't want them to look like the mirror image. Make sure that your leaves
are inside the frame. I just merged my hand over here, so I'll just put it a little
on the side. At this point. You can also take
out the paper tape because we are not going for a seamless artwork even if you take out the
paper and you can just rotate the paper
according to your will. Even that is fine.
Yeah, below part is. Now what I want is
let's continue this to the top there. Almost scribbles
are very childlike. Don't hesitate in
experimenting with new shapes. They really don't
have to be perfect. That's the charm
of this artwork. I think I've placed most of
my secondary element now. The first element is done, the second element is done. Now let's fill up the
second element so that it also gets dry. And maybe when we can come back for highlights or the
third elements on it. So use shorter
strokes to fill in the leaves because
a paper is stuck and it's better to come from up to down so that we
don't smudge a painting. Even though posca markers, they really drive fast, but still we have to give it that time so that
we don't smudge it, so this one has turned
out really scratchy. I'll just go ahead and just, you know, see again. It's working fine. So whenever you feel
that your Posca marker is losing some ink or it's
coming out a little scratchy, just dab again on the excess sheet of
paper that you have. So can you see like
this one was coming scratchy and this
came out so well, it's always better to use your posca markers
in a direction which actually facilitates an even coming out of the ink,
the green of the paper. You just work it out. See now, since I did it from over here, it just filled so beautifully. Use short strokes to fill in case, like some
places are scratchy, we'll come back to
them a bit later. Now let's complete this side again to get the
pen going nicely. Make sure that you shake it. Well, I think I need
to shake it once more, but I don't want to leave this. I'll just complete this
leaf and then again, I'll give it a good shake. Yeah, it's working now. Fine. I'll just finish off some of the places like which it dried and has some
scratch marks. This is still wet, so
let's not do it over here. I'll scratch it more.
So now let's move on to another leaf. So what I'm doing is I'm
just changing the nib once more so that I get a good nib. Yeah, I think we're
done right now with a second element and
let's wait for it to dry. I think vin, this will need
a stem, so let's do that. It's almost like it's
also continuing. So that's what I want to do there. Can you see
like some scratch, some white spaces are there. I'll just go ahead and
just finish it off. Once it's dry, it comes out much better, the primary element. And the secondary element is done as we can see that there are a lot
of spaces which is left. Now what we'll do is
we'll come and we'll just place third element, or the tertiary elements, so that our composition
looks more complete. What I've planned for it is I'm going for the space still
blue. So this is sky blue. You can go for a
light blue also, I want to use like
a bud over here. It's like a second leaf
color which is there. I'll just shake it. Yeah, it's coming out nice and fine. I want a bud over here too, so then use the space nicely. Just plan out like how you
want to place the leaves. I'm avoiding an
overlapping of any sort. And I also, I don't
want it to be seamless. So let's put one leaf over here. I feel like maybe like we can go for a leaf over here too. So now I'm basically
just trying to see how aesthetically I can just
place the elements and, you know, they just
come together. So yeah, this looks pretty nice, So let's leave it at that. And now let's just
fill our blues. So let's come back to
more elements now. And so we'll also require this yellow and the
name is orange. It's like pastel orange. So you can either
use like a yellow or an orange color to
make some tiny flowers. So what I want to do is I want
to just add a pop color to it so that the entire artwork
is not just red and blue, but there's like another color
which is just popping and giving it that
glitter like feeling. What I'm doing is I'll just make some circles and they
will form a flower. I'll just show you a close up there. Can you see just it's a very
tiny flower and it's done. Let's do another one over here. Same technique we're using just by putting on some circles, just getting these cute flowers. And let's do another
one over here. This is like a pop accent
that we're giving. It was mostly like a cool
color palette which was going, I'm just introducing
another color. We'll come back to this yellow again wherever we require it.
9. Class Project - Part 2: Now, this flower
is completely dry. So what I want to do
is I'll just give it another I'll start with
some detailing now. This is the deeper red
that we are using. Can you just see like this was the medium color? This
is the dark color. And then when we are
giving it highlights, we'll go for a lighter color. We're using three
shades or Yeah, three shades of the same color. Similar color, I'd say, yeah. Also now I want to put in some sort of depth
to this flower. And what I'll do is I'll
just go ahead and place this red color on its
boundaries somewhere. I'm not just outlining it completely but just
giving it some depth. This is looking very pretty. Let's do a bud over
here with the same red. Our blue is completely, it's covered this part
that was tiny blue and thankfully this red
part just covered it. Now let's again come
to the top part. This part is empty and what I want is like a
climber coming up from here and we'll make like
really tiny leaves. So again, we are using
a small element. Again, you know a third element and we're just
filling the space. I'm just using the tip
part of the pen as it is. Just giving me a
very slim leaves there. This is looking nice. And
let's give another one over here while making your
tertiary element. Just step back a bit and just see where you need your
small elements to be. I'm pretty sure you'll
get a hang of it and you'll come about and start making
your small elements. Tiny dots, Probably a
leaf here, a leaf there. Just combine your
painting friends. Just remember about
harmony and balance. It's the secret sauce to a
standing floral painting. You have to know about the
color coordination and then spacing and layout to
ensure that your primary, secondary, and your tertiary elements work
together seamlessly. Just feel the rhythm of your
composition, let it flow. And remember, this is
your unique masterpiece. Now let's give some
tiny leaves over here. I just want to give like a
few tiny branches over here. And let's fill out
some more spaces. I can see one here and one here. We can just go ahead and just fill in the spaces where
we feel the gap is there. These leaves are now dry. And we can go ahead and just give it another layer or just
fill in the blank spaces. I'm just liking the feel of how this entire artwork
is coming about. When you're making
your finer elements, just remember your
color combination. How you want like
which color to come more and which is
your pop colors. You utilize your colors
also very intelligently. It's important to keep a
balance between your primary, secondary and your tertiary elements that they work
seamlessly for you. Now let's give some
more of maroon color. This deep red color, I can see that I've
just left like this. Wine over here is
incomplete. And So let's just go ahead
and complete that with the balancing
of all these shapes. We have to remember
balancing of color as well. I feel like we need more of this red just to balance
our entire artwork. I'm currently just eyeballing a few of the spaces
where I can put these. Maybe like some twigs and
a bud here and there. Feel that there is
a gap over here. I'm just putting the
red over here as I want it to be complemented
with our bigger elements, which are these flowers, and they just balance
each other out. Now let's switch the color. Can you see again, coming back to the deeper red and filling in the
smaller elements? With that, keep
experimenting with your smaller elements and
just look where the gaps are. Can you see there are
two blue elements? I can just put in this
deeper color, red over here. And I'm also breaking
the pattern with a new type of leaf so that it
doesn't become monotonous. Now, let's give some leaves
to these tiny flowers. I can see that the space over here is really,
really small. But still, let's just
fill it out a bit and I just want to balance
it with this lighter blue. Come to the final
detailing parts and you'll see how just doing
these smaller details, giving highlights
and just bit by bit, the entire painting
will come to life. I'm again using this lighter
blue as I don't want to introduce any new color and it just balances the blues. Now let's move on
to a lighter color. And in to this color, this is like a very
light pastel color. In case you don't have it, you can just go
for a white color. Now let's start adding
o finer details. As these details,
they matter the most, They're very tiny, but they'll
just make our artwork pop. I'm just using this
highlight color. This is the lightest of all
the reds that I'm using. This is a time when you can just use the lightest color to make textures or give details
to your flowers and leaves. This is actually one
of my favorite part. While painting with
Posca markers, it's so important that we
use highlights our painting. They just make them
look really special. Just let your imagination
run wild and see where you can put these highlight elements
or small detailing, maybe just stripes somewhere, or just fill in some gaps. Now this part looks really lovely and I'm now using white. So this is the first time
that I'm introducing white. This is the ultimate highlight. And let's make some, you know, maybe the core of this flower with white and see how it goes. Now let's just bind both
the flowers together. Both should have some similarities
to each other, right? I'm using the white in the
center as the smaller fan also had also giving in these really tiny tiny
flowers here and there. Just so that the white also balances out in
the entire painting. I can see a gap here. Let's fill in with
a deeper blue. Always, just step back a bit
and check your painting. Like, do you require anything? Are you missing
something for me, I generally tend to
miss out a few details and then I get to
them a little later. As you can see, the
entire painting is inside the box and it's not
going out of the tape. So it's not a seamless
painting and all the elements, they are within the border. Now let's complete our painting. And I just want to come back to the navy blue again and finish off the leaves there. I think the leaves are done now. Now I'm just trying to balance out both the
parts of the painting. The left part seemed
like it had more yellow. Now I'm just balancing out
the yellows on both sides. I'm coming back to
the white again. I can see I just need a few more places
where I can just put this. See how I'm not
repeating the shapes. They're not like mirror image
somewhere, dots somewhere. I'm using maybe like a
flick or small petals. Now this is the final element. I'm using, the deepest blue
again to give it a core. And maybe a few circles you
outlined somewhere just to finish our artwork
and we're done. And now comes my favorite part, which is stay peeling. I don't know why, but it just gives me so much satisfaction you seeing those borders,
those crisp edges. And yeah, I'm loving how
this is turning out. Just look at this. It's
turned out really good. So these are our primary
elements, these are secondary. And then we're spread all over. The tertiary or the
small elements, they just have to
come together to work seamlessly and we're done. I hope you love this painting. I hope to see your projects and also see you in the
next class. Stay tuned. Bye.
Neha Poddar (The Doodle Keeper), The Doodle Keeper
