Painting Original Characters on a Toy Plushie/Squishy - with Acrylics

1. Intro: What's happening? Kind folks, welcome back to another I paint creatures Skillshare class right here on skillshare.com. First of all, just like to thank everyone for view my classes and getting value out of them. Basically kind of go out of the norm and provides you some fun creative activities and expand your painting and drawing skills from your imagination. Today is no different. We were paying in Plessy foam, little cute Plessy that is squeezed double and comes with a character on it. But I use my creativity and I use acrylics. And I painted on top of it and made it a multi-dimensional character creature. Plessy, little foam Plessy. I think that's what they're called policies. But in this class, basically going to take you through the painting of it and all my creative ideas all the way to the application of acrylics onto a real interesting, challenging surface like this. It seemed to work really well and I'm basically going to run through All my processes, what I'm thinking about and how I apply my creativity and my ideas to this and make a totally original plus x0 toy here with multiple creatures. And I'll talk about how I started looking at it so I can have multiple faces with multiple creature parts on it. And what type of brushes I used and layering techniques and the classic acrylic techniques that were applied here to basically draw for and draw scales and draw all kinds of three-dimensional facial features and creature features. It was extremely fun time and I'm looking forward to bringing you along in this course. There's just one more video and it's basically sped up a little bit, but definitely we'll go through all the techniques, my process of creativity, my storytelling, and the ins and outs of the different art materials I used from brushes too, ink pens to water brushes to basically the wet palette that is sitting there. And my choice of colors and the layering techniques and everything all good with that. So get ready. Get your Plessy toy or get some type of stuff doll that has a good enough surface that will hold paint and we will get into painting. This is kind of a general class. It is painting this squishy Plessy toy. It's also about using acrylics to paint on, you know, just normal day household things and surfaces that have a plastic surface that will hold the paint and stick to it. So I'll see you over in video. The coloring video. 2. Painting Full Coverage: What's happening, folks, and welcome to painting. A toy Plessy or squishy or whatever this is called. But it's a cute little character that was kind of like a panda. And I thought I'd take it on and create all kinds of fantastical creatures and characters from my imagination. And I did this for a commission. I'm using acrylics and the first thing I'd like to talk about is choosing a surface so you definitely can get a surface like this. Didn't really include a reference in the exercise for this course. Because I want you to just pick up something around the house if it's a plastic toy or some type of service that will handle the paint. And the best way to do that is experiment. I just ordered this online. I've kind of had a lot of experience and what I do is if the surface can't hold the paint, then I use what's called JSR. And that's ground for acrylic paints that is basically made out of acrylic paint and use these white gesso or gray gesso. And you cover the whole thing and it will make a tactile so the paint will stick. But when I got this squishy, this toy Plessy, basically it got it. It's very squishy. But I just started to kinda tack it with my finger. When I attack it, I can feel that it kind of sticks my finger to it so I know that it can handle the paint. Then of course, the best way to really experiment with and get it going is just start to paint on it and start to dab and paint and do what it is needed to get on the surface of that. The first medium that is definitely a really viable for this is acrylics. And I definitely experimented a little bit with my favorite sketching tool, which is a big stick, a ballpoint pen. And that applies really easy on the surface. And so I did a little outlines and mapped out the different creatures I'm gonna put on it. That is a capo Yochai right there, which is japanese water Goblin. And I thought that fit perfect on the back there and kind of made a little scene, laid down a lot of the background first and then started painting. And kappa is apart, duck and apart fish and apart turtle. Thought it was appropriate to put it right above it. And it has this kind of center line thing that allowed me to also think about the design. And also what I do on these type of equation says I just don't paint right away. I kind of think about it. A little bit of a story can tell and basically put that together. So I'm basically just painting all over it. I get ideas down and sketched in there a little bit and then course use the acrylic to really start to punch it in and take it all different places. And just let my imagination open up wide and go where it needs to go. And there were certain features like those ears, which I turned into eyes on one creatures. And there's multiple creatures that can be shown in characters on this. And I just started a mapping them all in and intuitively design and being creative. A lot of times I use a lot of observation. I'll step back every once in awhile and just look a little face you go there and this is working out and then kind of multi-dimensional hard keep flipping it sideways and upside down. Started out first with the Panda because it was the white place and then started flipping it left and right and started to see in another face there. And it just kinda slowly playfully came together. And I'm using a wet palette right there, which is for acrylic paints. Because acrylic paints drive really quick. You end up wasting a lot of paint and then also the paint gets not as sticky and not as a GUI to get on the surface, melting and it starts to dry up. And acrylic paints, it's pretty much, it's, it's it's binder is polymer, which is pretty much a type of plastic. So that's why it goes really well with this type of squishy Plessy because it kinda has a plastic kind of phony feel on the surface almost like it has. Plastic skin on it on his phone. I was concerned a little bit when I first started painting on it that it would be too squishy and I'd have the problem of putting down my paintbrush and it was squished too much, but that wasn't a problem at all. It's pretty much is a pretty nice service. It was almost like almost as flimsy as a canvas would be. Has has a little bit of pushing play on it. Yeah, so I use the wet palette and the wet palette, basically what it does is it has a sponge and I use kind of a shammy piece under on top of that. And then I use what's called pallet paper. And you dunk that in a really warm or hot water. In that hot water basically gets in the granules of the shammy, the sponge and then the pallet paper is very fiber it out so it absorbs a lot of the water and it keeps it moist so that when you put all the acrylic paints on top, they stay wet and then you can reuse them. So like at the end of this session, I can take my spray bottle out and spray all over the paints and get them all wet. And then it has the top for the sealant top. Pretty last for a long time, as long as you keep wedding them and stay conscious of keeping them all all intact like that. And so then it makes it a very good process because I can squeeze out a whole bunch of paints. You can see I pretty much built a pallet of really dark blues, medium blues and light blues. I have some greens and some reds and magentas and some for screens and darker greens and then yellows. And then my favorite grounding color, which is almost like a burnt sienna or some type of dark and yellow. So basically a lot of this was very pleasurable because I did some blends and did a lot of details and did a lot of backgrounds. So use the traditional techniques of acrylics and how you keep layering and you keep putting different layers and they give becomes more tactile and you can build upon it. And you can see I can punch in my really, really dark some, when we went around to the other side of the character, really got a mouth looking like it's really indented in there. Here I'm doing a real fantastical creature that I kind of discovered through some of the elements that are on there and made it multi-dimensional and putting a lot of texture and how I get a lot of that texture is I first laid down base color and get it working and get some coverage on it, and then start doing a lot of detail and swirls and contrasts. You put in shadows under bunch of light colors. And then the power of acrylics to, is the ability to use the opaqueness. And opaqueness means basically it's not transparent. And so I can go over things and kinda paint more like a sculptor than drawing and painting. Kinda sculpt the nose and the shapes. Not exactly the right word, right where I want it, then I can shape it. I've found that this surface also was extremely powerful for blending and just use water as a medium, too. Thin my pain out and given a medium and you can see like right there really just intense, beautiful blend between the yellow ocher, burnt sienna and kind of like a hands-on or lemon yellow. And then always love using magenta from my reds. So it gets really beautiful oranges and it seemed to work really well. Another thing that really got really well as soon as I started laying down enough of the textures on here, I started being able to dab and make all kinds of really cool brushstrokes. And that's how I created all the hair and the kind of hairy textures. And it worked really well in the textures are beautiful and they're really vibrant and they really punch and they explain a little bit of the type of character creature that is on that point. I also started playing with, right now. I'm playing with a little bit of white, but also a dirty and a little bit of a little gray and maybe a little bit of burnt sienna. And it started to make some really cool textures on the surface of things. I'm also being able to cover up some of the that originally features that came on this squishy, this pushy, and I can make my illustrations more comprehensive. Another technique I use, which is true and tried acrylic technique is just taken a titanium white and just putting very subtle shapes and contour, shapes and contour means the shape you want it to represent. So if it's round or smooth like a stone, you paint in the contour and the shape. And I added a little highlights and shapes on the black elements that originally came on this. And you can see it really makes it punch in. Really beautiful. Just got super creative with the little hole that was on the top. I don't know exactly what it was representing originally, but just to kinda wondering around it with some yellow and some yellow ocher and burnt sienna. And I'm laying in a bunch of blacks right now and made it really cool, sunflower up at the top. And so really got in the mode of Vincent Van Gogh and really expresses sunflowers in the self-funded pain is as long as you layer them and you put down the base layers first and then you start laying up to get a lot of the petals on a sunflower. But yeah, you can see it's coming together really well and allow the blends work well. Basically at this point, as soon as you get enough of the layers going, it's just like acrylic painting, no different than any other way of doing acrylic paintings. So it's a lot of fun, a lot of joy and a lot of expansion. Expansion in making all come to be. But definitely go out and experiment with all different kinds of surfaces. If you have children or dogs or cats, constants look at their toys and see if you can turn it into a piece of art. Of course, it's acrylics. If it is a kind of a toy for a dog at least or a pet, Do you really can't give back to them because they'll probably tear it up and get into all the acrylics, which is basically plastic paint. So but I think it will work good for maybe not a really young child, but basically for good display in their room. And like I said, I love to make a story. And so basically as a story on it too. So you could use as a parent, you get to paint it for a parent to tell the stories through their kids and leave it open because it doesn't have a lot of texts in. It, just has a basic story going on. I really enjoyed how it basically took the pain on and made it a very incredible experience. And I love exploring the series and wouldn't probably do more of these classes. Whereas this experience how you can use acrylic paints. It's so industrial and a campaign on anything I painted mailboxes. I've painted all kinds of, like I said, story policies that have made. But then again, go out and find it an incredible surface. Get your acrylics out, and let's paint. Thank you for enjoying the class. I'll talk to you folks real soon.