Monochromatic Magic with Alcohol Markers (Blue tones)

1. Monochromatic Magic with Alcohol Markers (Blue) Intro: Hi, and welcome to another class in my studio. So today, we are feeling blue in blue. More like the most beautiful possible way of using blue. Art. When we think about blue art, most of you might think about Picasso and his blue period, but this time it's not gonna be that kind of melancholic, sad blue scenes that Picasso was trying to show all over Spain. That's my Dag Lana, if you hear weird noises in the back. And she might start saying things. So, this time, we actually gonna be coloring. You see that painting? Did you see that failing right behind me. Well, I made that painting last year. Hmm. And now we're gonna be transforming that into this, all blue. So this is how we're gonna do it. Whenever you look at that new full package of markers that you just got and you're so excited about, and there's 80 of them or sometimes even more, and it's so confusing. Like, What I'm gonna do with all of these colors? Well, today we're gonna stick to just one family of color, and it's gonna be Blue. So These are going to be the ones that we're gonna be using. I would definitely put it in the description. We're also going to be using this bad boy right here, which is very helpful. And is like a white gel. Well, we will be using this one, and this is completely optional. I decided to use this. So this is gold ink that you can use with a thin brush. This is size zero. You can use this to for details, like, so I wanted to make her jewelry, gold, like I have it in the original painting right there. I make I don't know if, you can see that it's gold. So yeah, I made her jewelry gold. That's completely optional. You just leave it blue. You don't have to go the extra mile. Just make sure you get a paper to put underneath because this is the back. This is the front. This is the back. So I highly recommend to put this, so you're gonna have a mess on your desk. Let's avoid that. Now, this scene, it is inspired in a morning cafecito, but this time, it's more like a night moonlight moment why she's drinking coffee at that time, let her be, you know? She has her own reasons. Now, let's start and let's have fun. 2. Monochromatic Magic with Alcohol Markers (Blue) Process Class: Oh. After you print your paper, make sure you put another paper underneath, so it doesn't bleed-through your desk because alcohol markers tend to bleed quite a lot. So here I am showing most of them, and this is one of the things that I highly recommend is to in another piece of paper to try every single one of the colors that you already selected. So that way you have a better idea how do they look in paper? Because they might look different in the little lid that they have than how they actually look. That way you have a visual idea of how it is. And so I'm going to put all of the values, and also if you put them in color, starting from the lightest to the darker, it will also help you to have that comparison that visual comparison of what to get and what to choose for each part of the body. Once you already have a test in a separate piece of paper of how your markers look, you have a better idea of what to use. Now, this is very important because this has to do with the values, and the values of the colors are super important when it comes to monochromatic painting. You got to go from light to dark, so it gives you a better idea which one to use depending what part of the painting we're going to be using. For example, the light values are the best one for highlights. Like it's gonna come the highlights of her skin or the background or the coffee steam. Now, this part that I'm showing right here, this is the white gel pen. This is gonna come very useful at the end. They're actually very easy to get. And yes, there is we have over here a little companion. I guess it was a supervisor that mini fly, you're gonna see around a little bit around the video just giving you heads up. So let's start with this one. This is going to be the mint blue, and we're going to use it for the highlights because this is one of the lightest values. We're gonna use it for the highlights of her skin. At this point, you might be thinking it's looking very weird. Here's the thing. It's definitely gonna look weird if you use a non natural color for the skin, like it's blue. Well, it's natural, I guess in Avatar, but besides that, you don't see blue people. So, yes, I understand it's weird. But this is one of those situations that you have to trust the process. Now we're going to move to the sky blue, which is going to be more towards the mid tones of blue. So this is going to be more for, like, the shading, for the skin, mid tones, and we're gonna use this one. So we can start giving some dimension to the skin, and it starts looking less odd. So let's continue with this. We're moving to another tone. This is gonna be the cerulean blue. This is gonna be more toward the deep kind of tones. So we continue on giving this shadow to give this idea of dimension so we don't have a flat painting. We want to make it as appealing, visibly appealing as possible. So here we are This one, we're using it as almost the darkest tone, but we still one deep tone away from the really dark one. As you see, this is more for, like, her lips, the eyeshadows start making her look like she's wearing that nice makeup. And now we're getting on the flowers. Yes. The flowers, they might take you a little bit. So we're going again with the lightest tone, 'cause we don't want to keep all the flowers the same color. So you see that we're gonna be playing between some of the light tones, but still keeping some kind of difference in between just to make them more distinctive one from the other. Now, we're going to be using this tone specifically for the leaves. The leaves are going to be darker, but not as dark as the darkest tonee. We're still not there yet. And now tan tan tan tan, the darkest stone. So this is going to be number 71, which is the cobbled Blue. This is the one that we're gonna be using give me a second. I need to take a zip. Mm hmm. Stay hydrated, my friends, especially in this weather. Well, right now it's August, so it's pretty hot in here. And yeah, I guess that explains a little fruit fly. Let's call her Carmelina. Our inspector Carmina. You will see her around. She definitely was around. So we're gonna be doing with this her hair and her eyebrows. In this specific part. Then we're gonna, like, keep on using it in other parts. But for this specifically, yes. So once she has eyebrows, as you see, starts looking more like a face. It's unbelievable how much of a difference eyebrows can do. So for this one, we're going to go first around the borders. It makes it easier for me that way. And I have a confession to make. I did not painted all of the leaves. I didn't feel like it, so I just covered them with the dark stone, and it's very visible only if you look. You're very, very, very close. And it's up to you. You can color them all. You are the one in control of your painting, nobody else but you. But yes, I will start going through all those little details. Whenever it comes to those very fine in between petals, don't push too hard the tip or it's gonna bleed-through, and it's gonna make it look ugly. So just do it very, barely pressing, very, very lightly, and it will still get 'cause this is alcohol marker. If you'll be using an acrylic marker, it will be definitely finer and it would not bleed-through. But that's not what we're using today. We're using the Oh, I won't say it wrong. We're using the alcohol one. So let's go full speed it will take a while. And now, it comes the part to shine of this little white pen. It's perfect to doing any kind of highlights. So you can barely see a bed right there. I did some highlight on her lips to make that shine of the lipstick. And a very useful part of it is any kind of little bleed-through or little mistake that you have made with the blue. Guess what? You can fix it with this little pen. I'm telling you. It's a lifesaver. I really love it. I didn't know how important it was until I started doing marker paintings, and, yeah, they make such a big difference. You will see. So I recommend to have one of those handy. It makes it prettier. And we're back to the lightest value. Now we're going to do, yes, you get the background. Lovely. We're gonna be using the thick tip because there's a lot of space that we want to cover. You don't want to take 3 million years trying to cover it with the small tip. I'm doing just straight line. You do it however you want to, but that's how I like to do it. And then I will go with the small tip. The I change to the small tip, and I went all the way around the border of the image and went back to the sig tip or flat tip, I think flat tip. Then I will cover the little white spots, and boom, we have our background. Now it comes this optional part. For this, I'm gonna be using a brush. This is gonna be size zero 'cause we want to go to very small details, completely up to you. And yes, this is the gold ink. I got in hobby love it. Oh, my God. It's our friend Carmina. She's back. Oh, wow. Inspecting that I'm using the right markers. Lovely. So, yes, you will need some water, also, and a little piece of paper towel works or a rag or whatever, just so you make sure that you don't get it too wet cause fall drops on your painting, and it will not be pretty. Now, very, very gently, I'm gonna be painting all of her jewelry with gold. 'cause it reminds me to the original painting. That's the only reason. You could leave it just with blue is perfectly fine. Now, this part is a small detail that I didn't mention in the beginning. It's just a regular black pen. I use it to add some details after I use the gold ink, it kind of lost some of the black lines, and I just wanted to enhance it again. 3. Monochromatic Magic with Alcohol Markers Final Thoughts: And that's it. Now you can say that you have made a beautiful monochromatic painting with just the color of blue. Now, if you want to use other colors or you want to make it all red, you can print it again. You can do as many as you want. I'm not gonna limit your imagination whatsoever. I would love to know how many colors you use. How long did it took you? You can leave all of those answers in the review because I love to see your reviews. And please leave your picture because I really want to see what you created. You should feel very proud right now for what you just did with your time and with your hands. You should also be grateful to yourself that you took the time to do something artistic and so mindful, like it is art. In case you didn't know, art is a kind of meditation, so it's actually very good for all of us to be present and to get back to ourselves. Well, thank you so much for staying this far. And please stay tuned for more of these classes because I will definitely keep on bringing you classes like this. Thank you. Bye.