Paint A Pointism Painting

1. Introduction: Painting with Pointism: Hey guys, I'm Eric. And in this class we are going to learn how to paint a picture using dots or pointillism. This is an intermediate class because although dots are super easy to make, this can be somewhat challenging if you aren't sure how to shade or pick spots that need to be darker than others. It does take a little bit of prior knowledge with, I'd say coloring, not necessarily painting, but being able to know where to shade and where to not shade and leave highlights. So please have that skill set before you start this project, and I will see you in the next video. Let's get started. 2. How to draw your reference picture onto a canvas: Hey guys. So in this video, I'm gonna show you how to copy your reference photo onto your canvas. So first off, I'll show you my reference photos that I'm using. I decided to print off a colored version and a black and white version. I also want my black and white turned up the contrast so the darker areas are even darker than if I just turn this black and white. Just so I can make the painting more interesting. If I referenced this image instead of this one. With that said, I am going to use a method that I learned in high school on how to copy this onto here pretty easily. And it's basically the grid method where you Grid this and then you print that. So first you have to do some conversions. This image is 6.5 by nine, and this one is 13 by 16. So this is bigger than this. Obviously I can't just copy this directly on here. To make this bigger, I have to convert it. The first thing is you're going to want a ruler. I would use a marker. You could also use a pencil, but maybe use a pencil first and then a marker. But I already used a pencil and I can't see it. So I'm going to use mercury just for this big year. You're welcome to use a pencil. You probably should use a pencil anyway. So I went ahead and measured. I did it off camera that I measured in inches. I used inches. You can use centimeters. I measured the length and the width of my reference photos, they're the same. And I also measured my canvas length and width. I wrote those down. Here's my reference photos, 7.5 inches by ten inches. And then my canvas is 14 inches by 17 inches. Now I say this is equal, but it's not I mean, I don't think it is. Let me check. So 17.5 width divided by ten equals 0.75. Okay? So if, if it's equal, this side will also divide and equal 0.75. I don t think it will go 14 divided by 17 equals 0.823. Yeah, they're not actually equal. You have to make this equal in order for the grid that we're going to create on our references. And then we're going to make a grid here. In order for the squares to be equal. You have to make this equal. So I wouldn't touch your canvas size because you're going to want to fill out your entire Canvas unless you have a preference. Maybe you want to crop the edges a certain way and have a white border. I don't know. But for this project, I'm going to use the entire canvas. So I'm not going to mess with this. I want to use all 1417 inches of the canvas. That means we have to change the reference photo. Okay. So this is the width. This is the length. I have to decide which one I want to change. Do I want to crop it this way or do I want to crop it this way? And for me, I want to crop it this way. I just feel like there's more empty space and this is I don't need my entire hand. Okay, So let's take off the length. So just erase it. It doesn't exist anymore. Now, you are going to cross, multiply diagonally, and then divide by what's ever left to make this an equal equation. So that's why I'm going to do cross-multiply. 7.5 times 17 equals a big number. Yeah, you're going to divide by what's left, which is the 1414. Alright, so now you have 9.190.1 inches K. Alright, that's what it is. So I'm gonna go buy. By the way, if I divided 7.5 by 9.5, it would get the same number as this, or very, very close to. So now it's equal. Now this and this are equal. That means though this was ten inches, I just cropped it to 9.1. Meaning I get to choose. Now, where do I crop? I decided I'm going to crop the bottom off. So here's nine. Here's 9.12. I'm going to crop it right there. Okay. I'm going to try to draw a straight line across. Just going to try, here we go. Kind of eyeball it. If you have a ruler, you should be using it. I do not have a ruler and I'm just going to eyeball it. If you have a nice hand, if you have a good perspective, you trust yourself. If you use a ruler, definitely use a ruler. Okay, so now I'm not going to use any of this. I'm not going to use now it's time to draw the grids. So I'm gonna go by inches on here. So basically, actually I'm going goodbye. Don't want to do inch and a half. That way the squares aren't so small. I'm gonna go by inch and a half squares. So here's my ruler. One and a, 1.5551 k. I'm going to come up here to the top. 1.5. Have 1.55111. Ok, then I'm going to, I'll get a straight edge. I know I'm an artist and I don't have a ruler or a yardstick. I think I broke my last ruler and then eventually I was using it, broken. But eventually I was just thinking, I'm just going to throw this out. Okay. And see how I'm lining it up with the two lines that I drew. See that? 11. Okay. We're going to do the same thing that way. So an inch and a half inch, inch and a half inch? Inch and a half inch. And even though even though I could I don't know, there's only a tiny, tiny bit at the top. I could just not draw a line, but I might not, I might not. Gosh. That was not lined up. I liked the Sharpie more because I can actually see it. Honestly, I'm just going to grid one of them. I feel like I can eyeball the other one and kinda get a feel for where it is. But feel free to definitely grew both if you want to or if you only have one reference and just the one. So there's that. Let's do the conversions. So this was now you got to look at it like this for every inch and a half on this side. And this is, this is 7.5. Let's just do that. 7.5. Over here, the width is 17. I'm sorry, is 14. So what is the width of the segments? Yeah, that makes sense to me. Alright, so again, we're going to cross multiply 1.5, cross-multiply 1.5 times 14 and divide by what's left, which is 7.157.5. And I got to 0.8 inches. That's how big the segments are gonna be on your Canvas. There you have it folks. Very lightly gridded out Canvas. Now, this is going to become this here. So what you're gonna do is you're going to start off by looking at one of the corners. It doesn't matter which corner, which square you pick. I'm going to use this corner square, this square, this square. And if you want, if this square is too big, if that's too much detail, you could break this one up into smaller squares. So let's, why not? Let's do that. Split that square in half. Okay. And just pretend this is a split. And then it looks like, yeah, sure, I'll draw, I'll draw another square setting here. Okay, So now this is even easier to manage. So from I see my finger coming down and then I see it going all the way down. Actually. That's my finger. A little unnatural area. He does a slight curve down. A little bit of a knuckle. Now, Not yet, Not yet. Okay. And now here's some weird knuckle action. That's my finger. And then it looks like in this top one we all forgot like something like that. See how I'm just using all the squares and edges to kind of reference, help reference where everything goes. Yeah, Hold on. I'm going to let my birds out of the cage because male bird is crazy and I close the door to my bedroom because they'd like to go in there. And then if the sound randomly goes out in this video, it's because my birds started yanking and they're kinda loud. So I didn't wanna I didn't want to bother you with that, so trying to get on my fingers. Now this might take some practice. Like I said, I'm, I'm kinda skilled IT eyeballing things and drawing what I see, but not everyone is. So this might, this might be a little difficult. If it's still difficult, I would suggest making even more squares like breaking, breaking it down even more. Okay. That finger looks huge. But whatever. It probably, since, since we're using the square method, that's probably actually proportional, because I've matched up all the squares to what I'm seeing. So the shadow, see the shadow. Here's where the shadow is. You got to remember there is a shadow here which does alter it slightly. Now it probably looks a little bit more decent. So this is all shades. I'm gonna go ahead and make little shades because that is going to help me see what tones in paint I need to use. I will shade these in a little bit. There's a shadow in-between each of the fingers. Some fingers are a little darker than the other ones. Does anyone else use their fingers to shade? I know some people will say, no, don't do that. That will ruin the picture. But honestly, I've been doing it for so long. It's such a bad habit. And it's so easy, It's so tempting. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to move that up actually. If you ever feel like you're going too fast, like right now I feel like I might be going a little too fast. Luckily, you're using a pencil so you can just eat brace. And again, if you see I'm getting confused by this line right here, there's a line I should just erase because it's confusing me. My squares probably not, even, which does not help. I should be using a ruler for this, but that's okay. Eric. There we go. Throwing some knuckles here. And yeah, you're gonna do that for the entire thing. Do you guys want to see me do the entire thing? I don't know. What what is the Skillshare community need? I will come back and I will show you what I got done. Has that. Before I go Actually, there's one more thing I wanted to say, so I was getting a little lost. I was copying the square. I did do another miniature squared inside the square and drew it there too. And I was getting confused. The reason why I printed off this black and white version is so I could actually reference it as I'm doing a black and white coffee and this helped a lot. So once I started getting lost on this, I just brought this one out and then compared it to the area. And that helps tremendously. So this is a good idea to make a black and white version of your picture. Okay, That's all I wanted to say. And there we go. It's been a few hours. Now. You don't really have to shade it this much. In fact, you could block out the pieces, the different colors, just like block now you don't have to shade them in. If you know that's a dark color, you can just put a big weird shape right there to represent that color, right? So I did a little extra here by shading it in which I don't know, it's just a habit of mine. You don't have to. I'm just obsessed with shading. We're going to color over this and we're going to use paints. In the next video, I'm gonna show you how to choose your colors and textures. 3. How to paint dark areas with pointism: All right guys. So I have decided on watercolor to paint my dog. This is not watercolor or I'm sorry, watercolor. Paper. This is just Bristol smooth surface and it's not recommended. I mean, you can watercolor anything. But I did test it out. I put some water down and then I put some brown down and it's still wet and that was like two minutes ago. Five-minutes go doesn't dry very fast. What I'm trying to say. But I decided with watercolor because I also had to think about the style of my painting. I knew I wanted a bunch of colors. I knew I wanted, let me move the camera a little bit. I knew I wanted a bunch of colors and I knew I wanted it to be somewhat abstract, but I didn't know how to go about it. I just wanted to do like Am I don't know, like await, like a brush stroke effect of some sort. But today I was talking to some people in the pointillism came up. And I love George Georges. Warrant. That how you say his name. I love pointillism. And I just had an aha moment like, yeah, that's exactly what I want and I wanted to do watercolor. And you know, what's great about watercolor is you take some water and you drop it and it makes a perfect circle. And that, that's perfect for pointillism. So, yes, I think that's what I wanna do. This is going to be a little difficult with using this paper because it's not used for water color typically. But again, like I said, you can use watercolor on any paper is just, it's going to have different effects. It's going to have different outcomes. Then what you would traditionally look for. And that's okay. So here's what I'm gonna do. I think I'm going to first check what colors I need. Alright, this this is like three years old. This blue right here, and just getting it wet. I love watercolor. Like you can't waste it. Like look at that. It's like brand new again. So I want to make it colorful. Let me check if you can see it. I want to make it colorful. I'm going to start with just doing dots. Oops, I got some right here. Okay, Well that is now blue. I'm just going to start with doing dots. In the darker area. I have a very well lit surface here. Because when it comes to water, you gotta be able to see where the water's going. And if your area is not well lit, you won't be able to see the water droplets. Yeah. I'm just going to start off with circles. I'm going to try to make all the circles about the same size. By the way. I'm going to try to first space it out. Like almost like a comic book. How comes books? You can visibly see the dots pretty well. Eventually I want to get to a point where they're much closer than that where you can't really tell that it's made of dots unless you're looking closely. So I'm going to space them out pretty far. And as I see where I need more color or where I need to add different colors, I'm going to bring the dots closer together. So I'm starting with blue because blue, the dark color. And right now I can see where shades are, I can see where the dark areas are. So I figured that would be a good place to start. I'm going to keep my brush pretty, pretty wet. Because if I don't, my circles might not be as consistent as I like them to be. I'm going to bring my water over here actually for that exact reason. And it also makes the process faster because now all I have to do is just kinda push down on my brush. Then I'm good to go. Also because I'm not using traditional watercolor paper. I have to let this sit and dry it for longer. That's okay. How fun is this? I'm also, I see where there are lines like see this dark line around the eye. I'm gonna go ahead and trace that with dots. Might as well. Because I know I'm going to have to anyway. Eventually. Really, there's no science behind pointillism except take it slow, Be careful. Appreciate the process. But I am tracing right now, dark lines with a dark colored blue. And another thing you'll have to do is you'll have to step back from the piece quite a few times and just see what is needed. You'll notice that the dots will get closer together the more detailed you get. So this is a big dark area, for instance, so you don't really need that many. You don't need them all bunched together. But then to emphasize to the eye that there is line's going on, you're gonna put your dots or at least your spots, your dark blue areas closer together. I did say I want to make these all the same size. I'm still sticking to that. But I have noticed that I've made them a little smaller in the detailed areas. As long as they're not too far apart in size, I don't think it really matters. But I was trying to go for like the same size. But if that's not where my art is taking you, that's not where my artists taking me. So I got to let the art speak for itself. Got to let the genius inside my brain speak for itself. So yeah, these are really close together. This looks so cool. Now, just because it's all shaded the same gray tone does not mean I'm going to use blue throughout the entire shaded area. I'm going to incorporate other colors in there to maybe, maybe I'm going to use more dark colors, maybe purple next time or brown? Probably Brown got to get some brown in there because I I do want some natural looks to it. In this dog is brown in this little area. So I still have my reference pictures, by the way, the gray scale and the colored version. So like for instance, if I look, if I step back from this and I don't recognize the picture, I at least have the reference pictures to go off of. Lots of references always helps to figure out where painting is going. I'm guessing just by doing this so far, this is going to take awhile. Because not only do I have to go slow, but I also have a lot of dots to do. So. But any implied lines like the shadow kind of has an implied line here. I would trace it. I would trace everything with the dots. Actually, that seems like it's working for me to trace everything with dots first and then go from there. At least the technique I'm going to be using and we'll see how that works out for me. And I see some of my my water is finally drying so I can actually see what's going on here. Or if it's actually working as watercolor should. Okay, This is looking good. It also might help to look at a couple of points is paintings. Before you do this and just kinda stare at them, see what they did. Did they also trace their implied lines with color? With a certain color? Did they do that? I would imagine so because how are you supposed to imply lines? Unless you do some kind of line creation with your dots, you know. How how do you get that job done? If you don't do that? I don't know. You gotta be careful because sometimes when you start moving fast like that, you start creating things other than dots. Bur I'm also trying to, it's not going so well, but I'm also trying to add as much paint to each dot as each dot is getting. That way the color stays consistent, but I'm forgetting to load my brush with more paint after one or two dots and I can already see as they are drying. They're not drying same color. So remember to reload your brush brush with paint often. I can't believe this pain is like so. I'm still able to get color out of it. It's crazy. It's great. Another reason why to use watercolor, it's sustainable. You don't have to buy so much. The amount you get out of Little you put on your brush is remarkable. You don't have to. You can recycle it. You couldn't have it on your palette for years and it's still good after you get it wet, so love it. Okay. So I'm gonna finish putting the dots on his head here. And then I'm going to show you a different color and see what happens there. Now. Pointillism, it looks like you're just adding a bunch of dark colors, but there is also lighter colors. Your paintings. So I will be adding some not so saturated colors mixed in with these dark saturated colors. Even though I'm trying to imply shadow. Because of the contrast, it will actually look like a shadow because of the contrast. But here in this white version, I'm only going to use colors that are very low unsaturation. I'm gonna put colors that are totally different, like orange and blue right next to each other. But because they're gonna look like barely anything, it's going to imply white. But I do still want to get some color down everywhere. If that makes sense. Alright. So I'm implying some lines. Let's get some more color down. Let's get a different color down. So I showed you how to do blue. I want to, Let's add some. Do you wanna do green? Where do you wanna do Brown? I think I wanted to do. Let's do brown because I got excited. It sounded my voice sounded excited. Or do I want to do read? Another thing you can consider is, this is a brown dog. What colors make brown? Is it all primary colors mixed together? I think so, right? I think so. So why don't we try that? Why don't we try that? That's pink. Do I have read? Yeah, I'm going to use what? This blue right here is. French ultramarine blue. I'm about to put cadmium red medium, and I'm also going to put some, well, it's kinda covered up probably cadmium cadmium yellow medium. I think that's what it's called. Yes. So I'm going to try to try to mix those in there. Let's try it. We won't know until we try it. And it should maybe imply brown. I don't know. I don't know. We'll definitely put some brown in there too. Okay, So this is all just try it and if you hate it, can't necessarily go back from it. But at least you tried to put some dots in there. Go slow first and try bigger spaces first. So I have a big shaded area right here. So I'm going to just test this red out here. See how that goes first before I go crazy with it. So far, it's looking really cool. It's looking like a text, like a mosaic, which is gorgeous. Love that. I'm also, remember I'm only trying to shade in the areas that I see like a little white spot there. And I need to stay away from that because I'm only trying to use really saturated colors like this, really saturated red in the dark areas. Because I think that's something that point is artists use, is they use saturation instead of color. They do use color. That is definitely an element to it. But I think saturation also has a huge part shading their pictures. So I am going to be careful with my saturation. Oh my gosh, this is turning out so pretty. I'm already so excited. Like, wow. I'm not afraid to start touching different as long as it's dry. I'm okay with it. Like touching different dots. Like right up next to each other. See, we're already starting to create that solid block. By touching dot to dot. Oh, how exciting. You can even finish those implied lines using your other color. I'm not really doing a pattern here. I'm not like blue space blue, red, blue, blue, red. But I also am I guess I'll all imply some lines with patterns as well. But definitely saturation is something I'm really going to focus on here for sure. I really liked that idea and it's working out for me so far. So I'm going to do, oops. I just mix two to wet dots with a wet dot. And now it's turning into this weird color of brown. But that's okay. You know what? Gives it some doesn't have to be a perfect red. No, it does not. Write. Just for fun Z's. Do we want to try it another color? Here in a second? Maybe. You want to try yellow. I want to try to cook more dots down. Okay. Yeah, let's try yellow. Okay. Do do do, do, do do after yellow. Look how excited I am getting. I think I want to try either pink or brown, but I think I'm gonna do I think I'm going to do Brown. We haven't even tried green yet. Okay. But again, I know yellow is a light color, but if we saturate it, it goes along with everything else I'm doing here. This yellow, very saturated, which is great. And since it is a lighter color, I am going to be a little bit more careful with how many dots of it I've put down just because I don't want this to become a light spot. But I do want it, this area to be interesting. So I do want to add a bunch of different colors and the, I won't see them at first until you get really close. So I am with this yellow going to start exploring the other parts though, like these lighter shaded areas though, maybe even imply lines with the yellow. So this little area right here, this wreck, I don t know, this trapezoid, this polygon of some sort. I'm going to imply a line using the dots outline this. Polygon with it. No one questions that this is a lighter spot or this is something special, something different going on in this little area here. Okay. Oh my gosh. I can't I cannot stop telling you how much room and having right now. Okay. Let's imply some lines here. Just like this little highlighted area underneath the eye. And I guess we can imply some lines with in her eyes are actually golden. So this works. Okay. What happened here? That's what I'm talking about. This kind of stuff happens up, so just keep moving. It's, it's dot point isn't like no one's going to notice a tiny little blur, or maybe they will know they want anything that's just going to turn a little green. And if I add green, It's not even going to matter. If any of you hear something in the background. Like like it almost sounds like chomping. It's my dog. I like to stimulate her mind. And that includes putting wet dog food and I can open but not emptied on the floor and let her get it out herself. She'll spend the next hour on it. She she loves toys. That involves food. She hates toys that just sit there, even squeaking one. She's not really a fan of toys, but if it's food-related, Oh my gosh, she goes crazy. So I gotta get creative with my dog. Bones. She won't even too hard things which are good for her teeth. So I got to get creative with that. I have to use a lot of peanut butter and put it in the open ends of bones and two toys or else, you know, she just won't take care of her teeth. I do by the dental 2is. So that has been helping with her teeth? Yeah. So if you hear that in the background, that is her still after like a good hour so far, chewing on this wet dog food can try and get every little bit out. And she moves all over the living room and she doesn't she just she cannot. I don't know if she knows how to use her hands properly, but sometimes she will use her hands but not sometimes you just drag it around everywhere. That's bad dog. Hey, I might be going a little fast, little too fast because I don't want to put too much too much down. I want to be careful here that I am getting the hang of implying lines. That is, that is becoming apparent to me at least. Alright, let's, let's add another color. What color, what color should we add? I said brown. Deny. All right, we'll do Brown. Okay, this is burnt. Umber. I kinda wanna do purple. Now, let's get the brush wet. Let's get the paint wet. Alright. Again, I'm using saturated paint where the dark spots are. For sure. I don't want any kind of pastel in these dark spots. Cross your fingers, make sure you reload your brush. Often. Some paints are more saturated than other like the yellow. I didn't have to reload as often, but it looks like this burnt umber and maybe the blue needs reloaded. Pretty often to get the full saturation and see how I implied a line right there. You wanna do, i'm, I'm thinking you want to do this in sections. So I'm probably shouldn't even have done this section yet and just finished off the shading. Because what's going to happen is I'm going to start working. I mean, I'm not going to it's not going to make it any worse. But like, you want to get you wanna know what look into, what look, colors and spacing and all that you use for this particular tone, this color. That way I can replicate it right here and right here, like this particular color and texture that I'm using that way I can just go across the painting and use this exact same style in those locations. Because this is a totally different tone. This is a different saturation. So that's more like the same as the, I mean, they are similar right now. But I gotta be careful. I do gotta be careful. Don't spread myself out too far. I mean, it might work actually, like maybe doing it like that, doing dots across the entire painting at first. And then seeing where that takes you might actually be better for you. I'm just going to do mine in little sections. I mean, I think that's how I draw two. I I usually, if I'm drawing a person, I usually start with the eye and I'll work on the eye for a good hour. And then from there I might go to the eyebrow. But some people, they, they sketch out a rough, rough draft of the face and then they start adding details from there. And they'll draw like night for me and my brain. My brain works a little different. It has to draw a little sections at a time. So if you're following me so far, you're not having too much issue. Probably you're probably thinking the same thing as I am, which is do this in little sections. I'm liking this brown. In fact, the more I put it down, the more I'm liking it. And so I think I'm going to fill more of these spaces up with this brown because it really implies shade. So maybe in these darker toned areas, I'm going to put a lot more brown there. So like I said, color does come into play sometimes. And also, like I said, my dog is brown, so I do actually want it to look similar to the actual picture of my dog. Not exact. Because I do want it to be rainbow in pretty colors. Similar. But similar. I actually can't believe how fast this is going by. I feel like I've already gotten the painting somewhat done. Even though it's not, not even close, but I mean, pointillism makes the painting look almost done. It it did kind of help that I have shading already down underneath the the pain. So that also helps imply a dog. So in the previous video, when I was sketching everything, I said you don't have to shade it. But if you're doing it like me right now, you probably should because it is helping, but hopefully I cover all that up with paint. Like that's what the goal for me is. I wanted to cover all that up. And also I got to think to myself, if I had an eraser right now and I erased all the shade underneath this pain. Would it look like a dogs right side of his face? Would it? That is the question. I guess we'll see we'll see. All I know is, wow, I'm really impressed with it so far. I am varying the size of the dots. I've found that it is almost impossible to imply lines without varying the size like these these dots around I got really small. They really did so which is fine. Yeah. Definitely agreeing with what I said. Block out everything. Trace everything with dots. Trace big spots with dots, like big tones, certain tones you're using. And by tune I mean like big blotches of shadow. The same tone of shadow with your lines, trace them with whatever you're using. That seems to be really working for me. Again, with wet, blending with wet. Got to be careful. So far, the watercolor is working okay with this pain or this paper. I know sometimes it I just was told one time that you can watercolor on anything and I was like, Oh, okay. I'm pretty sure it was watercolor. It actually maybe that was oil. No, I think about it. I don't know. I can't remember but like I said so far, this is working. It's working for what I need it to do. Is the paper going to fold and bend in weird ways after I'm all done. I don't know. I'm not I don't think using too much water. I don't think to the point where it works. And if it's drying and it's shaping slowly in it, not real, it's not doing too much here. I don't think. I'm going to imply some shade lines by drawing lines across wrinkles. And I'm implying not wrinkles because this isn't a wrinkle. It's just like a different I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying. Okay. I think I think I'm ready for a new color. I get bored with this color. I'm ready for the next color. Alright, let's do a different color. What do we want? What do we want? I'm sorry. Purple. Purple because it's saturated, it's lively, it's crazy. And it's dark ish. Which would go great with this shade. I'm trying to create a couple more browns here and there. Because I do like this brown and I do like I said, I might have to come back with the brown if the if one of these colors are taking over. Because like I said, I do want it to look too realistic. Kind of. All right, a couple more here. But I also don't want the brown to takeover too much. It's just a balancing act. When you start getting the intuition or boredom to change colors, follow that intuition. So I'm feeling, I'm feeling the push. I already started feeling the place. So now it's like really itching, really itching now to change that color up. So but then i'll, I'll lean back and I'll see some spots that need some brown. I don't even know what I'm gonna do about it. I'm out area. Have no clue. No clue whatsoever. Okay. Let's add some purple. Yes. This is deoxy San eyes. Purple. Violet, the ox and eyes. Yeah. Okay. I'm excited. Here we go. Oh, that's dark blue. That it's gonna, it's gonna be so cool. I already know. I already know. Okay. It almost looks like the blue, it almost looks like the brown, but it's not. I think that's key, especially in its saturated form. And then as we go to lighter areas, I do. I can add more water in desaturated and then really bring out that purple. That's going to look so right now, like I said, I'm gonna keep this really saturated. So it's still almost looks like that right out of the tube. Dark, almost black looking purple. Yeah, get that shade going. I know I really want to start adding color all up in this area, but I got to remember this is the darkest area of the painting. So I can't, wow you guys with the colors yet. Like I can't do that. Like even looking at it now that blue might be too light, like I should have maybe went a little bit more darker with the saturation. Maybe. Maybe. Is it too late? No. Can I come back and darken these blue spots? At least some of them. It's not too late. Oh, how pretty like right here in this more lighter area, even though yellow is implying that it's lighter. I just added a little bit more water to my purple brush. Let's see if I can start emphasizing that it's purple by lightning, that color. And I added more water to it. And purple next to the yellow is so pretty. Oh, look at that. Let's do some in the eye too. Why not? There's so much yellow in the eye. You're not even going to notice it's purple, dark dark color there. Nine minute notice, but it's there. It's there. Yeah. I'm definitely seeing the purple now that there's less paint on the brush and more water. Very, very cool. I'm back in the saturated areas so I need to add more paint to my brush. So cool. I don t think the paper is warping as far as I know. I mean, at moments I feel like it is. But then other times I'm like No, that's that's just my brain trying to trick me trying to trick me into thinking something's wrong. Nope, Nothing is wrong. Sometimes I'll just start home. And I'm like, Why am I am I used to not notice it at all. Like for years seriously, until like three years ago when a teacher actually came up to me in college. It was like once you hone them, I'm like What? They're like, Yeah. Your home in something. Like no, not really. Yeah. You were just selling something. And then I started humming it again out loud and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm humming. And then I looked back on my life and realized, I think Huntington's whole time. That is a weird thing to say. I don't know. Sharing something with you. Alright, this is one of those moments when I kinda wanna step. I just wanted to look at what I have so far. Yeah, let me just step back. I'm looking at the camera. This looks so cool. Those are all dots by the way. And there's different colors in there like that's red, that's purple. Like this is what being so we'd love it. Love it. Okay. Let's keep going. Yeah, let's keep going with purple a little bit more. I'm not seeing anything to wrong with the purple yet. I feel like I just started with the purple. Maybe that's why I want to keep going with it. What does Skillshare want? What do you guys want? Do you want to see me do the whole thing? I doubt it. But I feel like I'm just going to keep talking for a little bit more. Show you if I think, if I just keep painting and then if I think of something to say, I'll turn the camera back on. I think that's what I'll do. Because I don't want to waste your time. If I don't have anything constructive to say. Some areas are not blocked out like this area. This area is kind of like it goes light and then dark and then light, but it's not a clear cut like blocks, so I can't really trace it. But what I will do is I'll kinda put the dark saturated areas here and then I'll kinda spread it out. I think that's what I'll do. I need to come back with those all the other colors to kind of bring those other colors back in here. I need to bring some blue back in there. But it looks like yellow has become the color I use for this dark area, but not as dark as the darkest area. That yellow seems to be that. Which makes me wonder like what am I going to use for the white? It's probably, it's probably gonna be yellow as well. Yeah. Let's try let me try to fix well, yeah. Because I still got plenty of area to fill in. I want to use green and I also got pink. I got green and pink that I still want to use. I got plenty of room to do that, but I want to fix this area first, so I'm gonna go back, hit it with some blue. And like I said, it's not as dark as this area. So I can actually start the saturation can actually go down just a little bit. I might have to use more yellow ish. But yeah, I see how my dots are not as well that one or not as dark as they were before. I think I might need more yellow in this area and realizing not too much, but it would help. Sorry, I'm getting a little lost here. Okay. So yeah, I still need some red in there. I want to make sure I incorporate all these colors all over the painting. So I do because it just looks more even that way. Don't miss out on colors unless, unless you're doing more of a literal painting. So like, like for instance, I do want to make this more brown, like I do want a brown dog. So literally I'm going to have to add more brown on top of adding a little bit of pink and a little bit of green. Like if you're doing, let's say a tree and you're being a little bit more literal, you might want to just do different, not only shades, but colors of green, different hues of green. You can add a couple of other colors in there. Okay, So I just got a good idea. This red is looking mighty fine. So I think for this tone, this darkness of brown, I'm going to add a little bit more red. So the lighter parts are going to be yellow, the darker parts but not so dark that it's this. I'm going to add red. And then the darkest of dark, we'll have a lot of blue. And then the other colors like pink and purple and green, those are just kinda fun highlights. I don't know why I haven't done this white color yet. So we're not we're not there yet. Maybe one of those would take over those spots, but I won't know until I get this red is looking beautiful. Might have to step back here. I'm sure I'm not going too crazy too fast. I kinda feel like I'm going a little faster now. But it's just so fun. My intuitions not saying I ruined it yet. But again, it might be because of that shading underneath. That just makes me feel so much more confident about what I'm doing. You know what? I like this red so much. I'm going to outline the dog's head with it, or just like in this area. So there will be a pattern of red right through this area. That's how, you know, I'm serious. I start outlining with that color in dot implying lines. And in fact, I'm going to find kind of where the shading, I'll just find where the other outline is, which is right there. So I'm going to outline that outline with red. I think I'm seeing Khalid co-ed. I say coward, but I think it's curried. And at this moment, I don't know the title of the song. I almost want to say it's called changes. That doesn't sound right. Look at that red. Look at the red guys. Oh, it looks amazing. I want to incorporate red. I'm gonna do a slightly lighter saturation in these other areas, but I wanna make sure I have all the colors in this particular not so literal painting. Right now, at this moment, it's not so literal right now, but I might want to make it more literal later. I want to make sure all the colors I'm using is used in every single section of my painting. What I wanna do. So I will be putting read in these areas as well. All the colors, all the colors. Because I got a lot of space to fill out. There's a lot of little blank spots, little whitespaces. So I'm going to try to use all the colors. Why not? Okay. Yeah. So sorry guys. I want to add another color. I didn't I say I wanted to add a little bit more yellow. Okay. Let me do that. Let me do that real quick. It's more yellow in there. Sorry. I haven't used the green yet. And that's it almost seems like a backup planet does not seem like it's gonna be a highlight color, but I have a feeling I might be able to use it in like the white area. I don't know. I haven't use green which is probably assigned to start using it. Because I'm thinking about it a lot and I haven't been here in the pink. I just want to use these colors. Just wanting to use color. All right, let's do it. Let's use a different color. I've been focusing on all the shaded area. I might want to try to do some white just to compare. I think that might be a good idea to maybe even before you can start painting, create like a box, like a practice box, and go from dark to light or to lighter to lighter, what those colors will look like. That's probably what I should have done, but that's okay. That's okay. This is a learning process, but that's actually a really good idea. I'm going to add green now. Here we go. I think this is watercolor. I think it is. Well, it's not really come in. The thing is, the other one is, so this is Hooker's green light. Maybe hookers green light just dries extra well. Compared to all the other colors I got. K, again, saturated, supersaturated. For these darker areas. I need more from the tube that's not gonna be enough green for me to create saturated areas. Now, I need to load my brush. Okay, try that again. There we go. That green down. Such a pretty color. I'm barely using any water for the saturated areas because I just don't want it to get light. I don't want you to be able to see the green too much. I want it to be almost as dark, whatever the darkest it comes out of the two, That's how dark I want it to be in these darker areas. So far, so good. It looks like it's not taking over here in a second. When I finally get this pink down, when I get all the colors that I own down on this picture, I'm going to step back and see how realistic this looks. It probably doesn't look realistic at all. Meaning I'll have to add more brown. Probably probably not an issue at all. Because again, there's plenty of space to fill in. I just want to make sure I get other colors down that way. The brown isn't like squeezed up right next to another brown dot. 1 third to be sung. Difference between those. I'm so glad I blocked each of these sections out by dotting an outline of them because now I kinda know where in general I, I put dark saturation. That's really helpful. So again, I'm definitely a big fan of the outlining spots. Would you guys believe that this is one of my first pointillism paintings? Yeah, You would totally 100%. No. That's good. I'm teaching a class that doesn't make sense. We're gonna go with it. I feel like I'm not doing too bad. But I guess that's up to you guys. You guys tell me, how's it looking from your point of view right now? Is it looking realistic or is it just looking like a big rainbow? I'm feeling it looks like a big rainbow. We haven't even gotten the pink and yellow. Stay tuned for that. How long do I make this video? I don't even know. Don't even know guys. Let's get some green in these other areas, not too much. And a little bit less saturation. I'm going to add some water, get some green and start looking as it fills up, start looking for areas that I can fill with a random color, like green. I'm having so much fun right now. Can you tell? Maybe I'm so sorry if this is getting along like if this is longer than you want. I don't know if I cut any of this. I have no clue. Right. Okay, I am starting to see the shades though, and I'm starting to see less of the pencil shading I did in more of the taking over, which is definitely idea, didn't want this to be some weird pointillism. Cheating with pencil shading kind of thing. I really wanted it to just be paint. I'm starting to see that and that is fantastic. That's exactly what I want. All right. Let me, let me step back and loving the implied lines. I think that's really helping. And let's see. I still need to add pink, so I'm gonna do that next. And then I'm going to go back and hit it with some brown because I already know in some brown. Alright. Alright, stepping back. Oh my gosh. That is so cool. That is so cool. Did you see that? I stepped back and immediately knew where I need some paint. Okay. Okay. Let's add that pink. This is per man named permanent rose. Why don't we flatten this out? Permanent Rose. Rose, Permanent. Okay. I'm opening it with my teeth. I mean, no, I'm not mom, if you're watching this, don't use your teeth to stop. Here. I did. I add all the colors. This has purple. It does have red, yellow line up my colors. Just to make sure I have all the colors and all the places. This area is missing blue, it doesn't have blue. So let me just fix that real quick. Also be now myself later. Not as saturated though. Yes, there are hints of all the colors in these sections. Okay. Let me see. Does it have green? Yes. Green screen? Yes. Yellow. Yellow? Yes. But not very much. Yellow, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 4. How to paint light areas with pointism: Hey guys, so I'm back. I'm gonna do the white real quick. So in the last video, I showed you how to do the darker areas, the tones. This area is white and that can be challenging to work with. I do have white, watercolor, titanium white, which I can always dot over the white areas to help. But let's try not to use that. That's kind of a trick. Let's try to actually make the saturation of these colors light. So I definitely want to use a lot of yellow, definitely want to use a lot of why not? And that green I would like to use excepted. It's kind of sort of how about red? No, because these two are too similar. We could do we could do green. I mean, we're going to end up using all of them. I just want to, I guess I'll focus on these two colors right now. So I got plenty of yellow. Let's really wet our brush down. And I'm going to first like before start out by outlining the shape. And I'm going to load this paintbrush with white or water. It really shouldn't be too dark. Like that. That's where I needed abuse. So I'm actually going to steal some paint from these other dots while they're still wet. And try to even it out. To make other yellow dots outlining the shape. Really evening out that color at White. And I'm still going to use as many dots as I did over here. These are gonna be so light. That's the goal they need to be. So light. You can barely see that they're there. That way they do look white, almost. That also there's color there. So just keep going. You patient. I really feel like this is all about saturation in these critical areas. If you want, before it dries out, if you think a dot is too dark, just grab some water and push it somewhere else. I feel like I can push this in a lot of different areas. Steal the color, put it somewhere else. Steal the color, put it somewhere else. Might have put too much water on that spot. Gosh, you always need a brush of a washcloth, of a paper towel nearby when you're doing watercolor. And I do not have that right now. Silly, silly idea. I guess I'm feeling really confident. I am not that good of an artist guys. I need a wash cloth, but I'm too into moving doing this to even move right now. Yeah. So I'm going to add a little bit more, yellow. Just a little bit more. That's too much C. Getting too excited here. That's okay. While it's still wet, I have a lot of water in those areas. I'm just going to steal from that saturated bubble and put it somewhere else. Steel, put it somewhere else. Steel put it somewhere else. I'm doing this one a little quicker than I did over here just because I got the hang of it a little bit now. And also I am working with water. And I got to move somewhat quickly, not as quickly as acrylic, but somewhat quickly. Even it out, even it out. Remember this area is supposed to be almost white, so you really don't even want to be able to see the yellow, really. But I know you can, so that's okay. Just try your best. When in doubt, since it is watercolor, you are allowed to use a washcloth, I mean a paper towel and soak up that saturated color. It will come right off. Usually if you get it quick enough, should have a washcloth with me, especially since I'm doing the white area. That silly me. I don't feel like I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up to do that. Now. I'm going to use pink, so load your brush. I'm gonna make a little bubble of water next to the pink. I'm just going to tap the pink and then add it to the water. That is my pink right there. So let's see. Yes. Yes. See. I noticed I stopped making my dots and now they're kinda like flat lines, like ovals instead of circle. So I got to kind of get back into using the tip of my brush instead of the side of my brush. That can really ruin a painting. But I guess it's okay just to fill in the start of the painting, Let's see what happens if I just go crazy with this. I don't even pay attention to where there's color already done because the yellow has already dried up. So let me just see what happens if I just start crazy. Not really. Okay. I need a new puddle of water, just the tip of the pink in the water. If that's too dark, add more water. More water. That's better. After going crazy. Yeah, I don t think I can go crazy because then I end up accidentally making a big puddle. So I gotta kinda watch where I already put stuff. That's looking good. Looking good. Yeah, I'm creating a lot of puddles by not being careful. It's even worse. Some of the areas are not puddles of pink, it's puddles of yellow. And what I'm doing is I'm accidentally mixing, mixing them and it's becoming a big puddle of orange. Which is not ideal, not for this project. If it was just like a pretty normal watercolor project, that'll be really pretty interesting. That is not what I'm going for with this pointillism project. Not at all. So you gotta be careful to not put puddles to the point where they're touching. They don't. Big petals. If that makes sense. That that does kind of vary if you're using a cert certain type of paper because the paper might not soak it up as well. Who knows? You gotta be careful. Alright, we've got two colors down. Let's do some human do Brown. Okay, just create a little puddle of water, takes some color and dab it into your puddle to make that really light saturated color. And then go to town. You might have to wait in-between color changes to add new color, because right now there's just a bunch of puddles on my paper. And I don't want them seeping into each other like I just did. Yep. So I might have to let this dry for a second before I add any more dots. Yet, I cannot bring myself to stopping. Having too much fun. Okay. That is a problem. Stop. Stop. Okay. Let's add another color. Let's do blue. I'm going to do blue just because I feel it's going to be so interesting. Okay. Pretty the puddle. Yup, I really need to wait to this drives, but oh, well. You also got to watch your hand, make sure it doesn't go into anything. So pretty so interesting to look at. And it's the same colors as what's right here. They're just really low and saturation. Right? Another color. Yeah, let's do it. What have I not added? Green. K. Create a little puddle next to the green. Grab a little bit of color. That's pretty all right. I might have to wait until this dries because now I'm just creating big puddles and green because they're all connected to one another. Not my intention. Oh, this is so cool. Yeah. Okay, guys. So I'm going to end up adding red and appropriate red and purple to this as well. I got to let it dry. But as you can see, it's like the same same technique as the shaded part, but this area, as I just said, it's supposed to be technically all white. And it's not. If I zoom in right now, you'll see all the dots. So let me zoom in. But that is the lightest, the lightest points on my painting, this area right here. So the contrast is going to be amazing. Okay? So that is how you do it. I will come back when this is all done. And there we have it guys. Now, I think I'm gonna do a different tutorial series on how to watercolor in general. But I think it turned out pretty good. Don't mind all I decided to just do the dog in pointillism just to give her a little emphasis, spell dog backwards. I'm really proud of it. I like how it turned out. The reason why and you know, what, when you pick your photo out that you're going to use, when you pick your subject matter and whatever. I take pictures of my dog all the time. But I like this one in particular because I felt like she was nudging me. She's sometimes she'll roll around on the grass and she'll look cute and stuff. But I wanted, you know, I really think dogs speak to us in a spiritual way. And I think God talks to me through my dog and my birds all the time. So I decided to pick this one because I really felt like she was trying to talk to me, like she was nudging me. And she's full of the Spirit. All these dots are like the spirit. And yeah, so that's just a little on how to pick your subject really makes sure it speaks to you. I mean, it looks cute. She looks cute and it's still Excuse me. Yeah. Thank you for watching this tutorial on how to paint using pointillism. And I will see you again real soon with another tutorial. Bye guys.