Quick Color Flowers Module 2 - The Three-Color-Technique - a unique way to use your colored pencils

1. Introduction: Time to do some coloring. Don't you think so? Because that's why you have this art class to learn how to use color in an effective way on flowers. Let's go for that. In this module, we're going to just take the first steps with colored pencils. Color pencils are really great to use. They're fun to use, they're relaxing to use. You can create pretty things with them. Now, quick coloring and colored pencils don't totally match, but I'm going to show you some techniques to really speed up coloring. Do it effectively and still create very pretty things. Pretty things? Alright. When do you start simple? Right. Well, this is kind of pretty already, isn't it? Ignore this one. That's for a different module. Yes, I'm using my paper as effective as possible so that I don't get all open spaces. But at the side, we're going to just practice a little bit of the color pencils, take the first steps how to use a color pencil. How to blend. How to create some shadow light effects, how to use the pencil in and way that you don't spend hours coloring, yet get still great effects. Now, the title of this module is the PhotlessPhoto album. And that's what we're going to work on at least work towards. Creating a photo album without photos, but with pretty images you created yourself. Now let me show you that. Alright, so here's one of my photo albums. And let me open it. And this is what we're going to do. Our first steps in color pencil look pretty nice, don't they? Beautiful flowers. And let me show you the other one. We're going to work on free together projects together, free flowers. And there's the other one. Now, once you get these techniques down, imagine that you can create a whole book full of these pretty images to enjoy, show your family, your friends, whoever you want to show it, and just create something really pretty and put it in a photo album so that you have something to remember, to look back on, even see how you progress over time. Right. So the photo less photo album is for this module. The first step in colored pencils, and let's go with that. 2. The first steps with Colored Pencils: Now, after the introduction of the materials, it's time to start drawing. Now, if you're not sure what set to buy yet, which colored pencils, I would say, watch this video. You get a little bit of an idea what I do with it. And in the next video, I'm going to compare some of the colored pencils, too. So you might get an idea how they work and what to choose. Okay, well, I'm not going to talk long. We had a long introduction already. Time to get to work. What do you need for this? You need a, where is it? Yes, you need a regular pencil. I'm going to use a regular pencil. We need an eraser and you're going to need a sharpener. We're going to demonstrate how to use a sharpener with colored pencils. And you're going to need some colored pencils. Well, one colored pencil would basically be enough for this lesson. In the next one, we're going to do some more. But one colored pencil and we need something to draw and of course, I'm just going to use a piece of mixed media paper to demonstrate this colored pencil. All right. Let's take a look at the colored pencil. Now, we all have probably colored with colored pencils before, and I know what most people will do with a color pencil is hold it like this, like a pencil, start drawing, start really pressing nice and hard to get lots of pigment down, then go to the next color. We got to unlearn that. Yeah, that sounds strange to unlearn something. We've learned probably to use a colored pencil in a certain way. And in this lesson, we have to unlearn it because that's not the way to use a colored pencil. While it is one way to use a colored pencil, but if you want to have nice effect, nice drawings, then you want to use it totally differently. Before we go through how to use a colored pencil, let me show you something first, just what we're aiming for. It's nice to see what we're aiming for. So we're aiming for some nice colors, bright colors, some changes in colors, some shadow and lights. And just like here's two, if you can see a blend of colors. Now, if you take your colored pencil and just start throwing away, pressing really hard, you're never going to achieve this result because what will happen is you're going to fill the paper with pigment and you can't put any pigment on top of it anymore. So that is why I want to show you how to use a colored pencil. Now, first of all, same with the pencil and with the pens. Don't grip it there. Just let it relax loosely into your hand. We're going to slowly build up our layers. Now, we're not going to use tons and tons of layers, but we want to use some layers so we can build a nice colored gradation. So for that, we're just going to hold the pencil like this, let it rest right there, and that's it. And I'm supporting it with my fingers, and the pencil will stay there by itself. This is just to secure it when I'm going to color. We're not going to use a lot of pressure. We're going to build up our layers, starting with a light color, then putting another color on it and create a nice blend. Well, let me demonstrate that on the paper. Let me first of all, put this one away. Now you see a blank piece of paper under it. That's the mixed media paper. I'm going to put that away for a minute too. First, I want to show you how to use an sharpener. Now, what most people will do, they will get their sharpener, put the pencil in, and just start turning the pencil around. Now, that is not what we're going to do. What we're going to do instead, we're going to turn the sharpener, and that would be like that. Turn it around. Now, the advantage of that is it gives you more control. And it will not damage your color pencil. Now, as you can see, I got a nice tip on it. This is what we want. We don't need a sharp, sharp tip, but we do need a nice tip. So taking the pencil and turning the sharpener around it, and that creates a very nice smooth tip on it, and it will not damage your tip, because if you use it, it might if you use it like this, the chances are that your pencil tip will break. This will avoid breakage, at least minimize it. Alright, now I got to get rid of this stuff. So we want a nice tip on it. Now, it doesn't need to be sharp, sharp because if it's really sharp and thin at the end, it will just break, but just a nice tip on it. Okay. Because if you use a blunt pencil, you're gonna fill up your paper again too quickly with pigment. Now, I've drawn a little box here with my pencil, just the box. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to demonstrate how to use the pencil. Now, most people will hold it. Let me pick a second pencil. This one here has a bit of a blunt tip so that this one won't break. Most people will hold it and start coloring like that. Nice color. Nice and bright color. But if I want a second color on it, now, this one, it's not going to do much because the paper is pretty much filled up with this first color already. So what I'm going to do instead, I'm going to hold the pencil as shown, and I'm going to just put it down like this, and I'm going to lightly color this in. And by doing this, I can create layers, and I can create my light and shadow effect, darker tones, lighter tones, and that's the way you use a colored pencil, and I can go over it again. Now, eventually I will get this color, but I will get it in a more gradual way, and I have control over the color gradation. Now, let me say this will be my lightest part. Now I would go over this part again. And I'm now hardly using pressure. And as you can see, we already have from dark to light. Now, if you put another layer on here, too, And I'm slowly stopping with the pressure so you get a nice gradation. Now, if you use a loose sheet like this, you need to make sure that your surface is nice and smooth under it. If it has dents in it or some rubble rubbish on it, you will see that in your colored pencil drawing. Alright. So that's it, basically. And you just keep on going with this until your white spots are gone. Or if you don't mind the white spots, you're just going to leave them. Now, I'm holding it like this. But at the final layers, you could move this up to apply a bit more pressure. Still, don't use it at the tip too close. Keep some distance. If you keep some distance, you have more control over the pressure on your colored pencil. And the further away you move might sound strage the more control you get because you can put it down very lightly. The closer you get to the tip, the more pressure you automatically will apply. Okay, let's continue with yeah, drawing. So I'm moving a bit closer, and let's say this would be my final layer. I would now apply some more pressure. And once in a while you see me turn this pencil, and by turning the pencil, I keep a nice sharp tip. And if I go over it again, and there you go. And now you have a nice color gradation. Okay, I need to I would normally spend more time on this, of course. And you could just start here, then easing of the pressure and get a nice smooth blend in it. All right. Okay. That's it. Now, to work away this part here, what you could also do now, I've done this direction. You could also go this direction, and then make sure that I'm filling up the paper a slightly different way. You can also turn your paper. So if I hold it like this, turn my paper, I would get exactly the same effect. And I could turn it like this and now go. Gonna go like this. So now I'm just filling up the white spots with pigment, but I'm not pressing really hard because what I want, I want to keep that gradation from dark. So to make sure I keep that, I'm just going to put a layer on here. Now, at a certain point, your paper just won't take any layers anymore and it's filled up, and then that's where we're going to stop. Now, I don't need to fill all this with color. Actually, because later on, we're going to use a little trick to make sure we're going to even this out. And that's the whole idea. We want to do some quick coloring. Alright, that's enough for this lesson. We now know how to hold the pencil, how to apply pressure, and that takes some practice. So obviously, what I would ask you to do is to practice this a little bit, to get a colored pencil, sharpen it nicely, and start applying layers. Really thin, slowly building when up too thick. Now, for now, just apply as many layers as you can. Try also to get a bit of a gradation from dark to light using just one pencil. And in the next lesson, we're going to use the free color technique, and then I'm going to show you how to properly use colors, how to mix them, and how to get results a bit quicker. Alright. You practice, and then I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. The Three Color Technique: Welcome back. I'm assuming you practice a little bit. You know how to use the color pencil. Now, you know how to sharpen it. Now let's move on and do something fun with it. We're going to take a look at the free color technique. Probably from the name, the free color technique you already know. We're going to use free colors. I developed this technique to be able to draw quickly to color quickly. Now, normally, coloring can take a long time, lots of layers, lots of blending colors. There are many techniques you can use, but we're just going to focus on the free color technique so that we can do some quick coloring. Get results quickly, which still look beautiful. Okay? Now, the last time, we just did a simple thing like that and okay, well, that's his practice. Let's put it that way. Now we're going to take this step further. What do you need for this? You might need a pencil. You're going to need three colors. That's obviously and three colors that are more or less close to each other. So let's take here, for example, I got three reds. And then I got a lighter red, a darker, a midtone red, and a dark red. Or if I take some blues, no, don't have the blues, but I got some blues, a light blue, a mid tone blue, and a color blue. Now, most pencil sets, like I said, the 48 ones will have a range of this. And my favorite color greens, light green, mid tone, and a dark green. All right. Good. So you need three colors. You might need a sharp one or two. Of course, you're going to need some paper. I'm still going to use the same. Mixed media paper, and I'm also going to use this paper. Bristol paper because Bristol paper works a little bit different. Now, if you have the hot pressed watercolor paper, that more or less works the same as the mixed media paper, although for practicing, I don't think I will use that since it's a bit more expensive, I would use regular paper. Now, what I will also do, I will use a sketchbook, my regular sketchbook, which has a little bit of textured paper just to show you how it looks there because perhaps you just don't want to buy any of these paper and just use a sketchbook. That's fine, too. For pencils, I'm going to demonstrate free brands here. I'm going to use the artisas, the more wax dominant colored pencils. I'm going to use those mark arts, the more oil dominant colored pencils. I'm also going to use the fangogs and the fangogs are what they call artist quality colored pencils. And what I'm going to show you is that with this technique, you won't see much difference in colored pencil. You can use inexpensive, expensive ones. And as I said, in that first video, I recommend just using the inexpensive one. So I'm going to demonstrate that, too, in this video. Seems fair, doesn't it? Okay, let's get into the technique. I'm going to reuse this paper I got here, the Bristol paper, putting that aside for now. So I'm just going to start with whatever the red ones. Let's pick the red ones. We were working on the red ones, and then you can see the difference right away. Okay, I'm taking that pencil. When I clean my paper a little bit. And I'm just going to create a box for this. And this box, I want light to come from here. Now, the thing to remember with light is where the sun is. Obviously, the most light will be and opposite from the sun, it will get darker. And that is all you need to know for light and shadows at this moment. In my book of notes, you will see me having always two drawings, a drawing of the picture. Let me show you that a picture of the flower like this. And then there will always be a second picture like this where I just already added the light and shadow using that simple principle just to make it easy for you. Now, I got these three colors. What I'm going to do is I'm going to start with the lightest color. It's always easier to work with the light color and then build up the darker tone. So what I'm going to do with the light color, I'm going to just hold it relax like that, and I'm just going to color this in with a nice layer of color. Now, for this lesson, as with the previous one, I'm not going to worry about those light spots. We will work those away later. So I'm doing two layers. I might just do a layer across like this, and I get a nice even base tone. Now, a lot of white spots in it, but we already get that light colored tone. I'm going to put this one away. I'm going to go to the next one, just a little bit dark. And what I'm going to do with that one, I'm just going to do the same, but I'm going to stop at about two fd. So I'm drawing two firth so about here, I'm going to stop and ease of my pressure. And I'm still hardly using any pressure. As you can see, this is a different tone, so that works in a nice colour tone already. And I'm easing off the pressure. Let me do another one. Now let me ease off the pressure, and now I'm going to go. Across, as you can see, only half, and then I'm going to do that one ft that is left, but I'm having a lot less pressure now. All right. That's the second tone. Now I got already a nice gradation. This is a lot lighter than this color, and I'm going to go in the third colum what I'm going to do about a third of this box. I'm just going to put down this dark color. Now that goes quicker, I could just go back too if I wanted to. Now, if I am too dark here, what I'm going to do is blend it in a little bit by using just a little pressure and now here some more pressure. Let me do this. Now use very little pressure here. And as you can see, I'm getting a nice gradation. I don't think my middle tone is strong enough, so I'm going to go over with that one. Correcting that, turning my pencil once in a while. And now I get a nice tone here. Blend it in just a little bit. There we go. And now I'm going to go back with that lightest pencil, I'm just going to go over and I'm going to more or less seal it. Blend in those colors. And right away, add some more color there too. Now, the further away your colors are, the stronger this effect, of course, will be. And there you go. Add some more color here. Slowly letting go of the pressure. There you go. Now, for our final layers, we could go in and just start pressing really hard. We're not going to do that. I'm going to leave it like this and get this later on, we'll work on that. I'll show you how to get this more even. Okay, so that's for the first color pencil, and that works nice. You get a nice gradation, as I said, the stronger the colors are away from each other, and the more effort you do with this, the more time you take, the greater the gradation will come, because as you can see, there is already a nice going from dark to light. Alright, let's pick those more all dominant pencils now, and let's draw something with that, too. Do the same. Just to show you. I'm going to get my pencil. I'm going to get another box. And there we go, Let's go for these greens. Now, these greens are further apart than these red, so we should get a slightly different result. So I'm doing the same again. I'm looking. My tip is quite nice still. I'm laying down slowly. Why you don't have to do this slow. You can do it quick. If you do it quick, though, you're going to go less even. So if I take my time with this, my result will be better because my lines will be closer to each other. And if you go really quick, then the lines will be further apart and you get more gaps between them. And there we go. Now, that is a nice, even tone already. I like that. I'm going to the second green, and now you will notice right away that these are a lot further apart. Now, what I could have done with this red instead of starting with a light red as I've done, so pick the light red. I could have done an orange, too. You could do an orange. Then you get a brighter range, go in with a little bit of red. But when we do some flowers, I'm pretty sure I'm going to demonstrate that. Topping at one thirds, planning it out a little bit, and I'm doing this again. Okay. Going in like that. And now I'm going to pick up that third color. And as you can see, that is quite darker. A couple of layers. Um, and the last one. Now, let's ease off the pressure and mix this in a little bit to get a nice gradation. Nice smooth transition. I want to do that with that second pencil, too. I'm picking that up here with some pressure, and now I'm easing off the pressure. There you go. And I'm going to take that last pencil and I'm going to go over. Everything just basically blending in these colors. Once in a while turning my colored pencil so that the tip will stay reasonably sharp and I don't have to sharpen it that often. And there you go. Now, this looks very nice. See if you take these colors further apart from each other, you get a nice result. Now, again, for now, I'm not worried about the white spots. We'll solve that in the next lesson. Alright, so now I've got two of them. Two nice gradations of colors, and this one is really nice because the colors are nice further apart. We're gonna go for the third one now. You see me holding them already, the artist's quality pencils. But I'm looking at these pencils, and I'm going to say, I need to sharpen these first, so let me do that. Alright, I'm going to sharpen these because they are That's a nice sharp. That's a nice point. This one, too. Just let me make sure I got the right color blue green. Do I want blue green? I'll have to check if this is the right color? No, I don't want blue green. The blue green goes away. I'm switched to a fatalo blue red. That's a nice point, and now I need this one. Okay. They all have a nice long points now. Let me see if I can get that in the camera. Yes, I can. All three are nicely sharpened, but not too sharp. Okay, so I'll sharpen them. I now need my paper, and let's do another box. Let's go. And there's my last box for the last demonstration. I'm going to start with the lightest blue. Oh, let me put this here. I'm going to start with the lightest blue. Now with my paper, by the way, I'm holding my paper firm, but if it is in a block, it doesn't move around that much so you don't have to do it that firm. Alright, I'm going to put down this first layer of blue first. And that went a little bit tricky because I'm pushing against something. Alright, I do another layer of this blue. As you can see, these are nice colors too. And that's my first layer. Right. Let me go to the second blue. A bit darker. Now, these blues should work hopefully just as good as these greens work. And now I'm slowly stopping with my pressure, and I'm doing that again. Returned the pencil might as well go back and put down this layer. And that would be my second blue. I just want to add a little bit there. Good. And I'm going to switch too. The third blue, this is a darker blue. And that shoot up show up nicely. And I'm going till about there. We do another layer. Okay. Let's add a little bit more, but we've just slightly little bit of pressure, and now I got free nice tones too. Alright, I'm going to just add now seal it with that light blue again. I might need a little bit more pigment or as we would say, just some color on that light piece. Not light piece. Light part, huh. And there you go. Now, I'm not totally same with the red. I'm not totally with this middle part. So I'm going to move from the end. Bring in that middle part. Just a little bit stronger now. That's better. All right, good. Add a little bit of a blend there, transition from the one to the other. And now this is good. Now, you've probably already noticed that I need to do a little bit more work with these pencils. These are soft pencils, but not as soft as the other two. There you go. Just needed to take some more work. Now, there's the free result. Now, this one has some layers extra, so it's a bit stronger in color, bit less white, perhaps. And these were a bit easier to work with. Okay, so that's the free colors. Now, as you can see, all three look pretty nice. And once we're going to get to the next lesson, you're going to see that the difference between them when we start blending will pretty much disappear. Now, at the beginning, I made a promise to work on the Bristol paper and also on the sketchbook paper. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to use the first pencils again, the red, but I'm going to exchange the red for an orange. The light is red and just do it on the bristol paper and on my sketchbook paper. Okay, let's do that now. I got these three pencils. I got an orange and red and a dark red now, so I exchanged one. I'm going to draw, again, a box. This is the Bristol paper. And that is quite good enough for this. Now, I'm going to start with this orange color. I'm doing exactly the same. Applying just a little pressure, but now you will see probably right away that this paper takes that color really nicely. And it's nice and bright. This is different kind of paper. I need to move some pencils away. You get a nice smooth, even blend with this. Now, the disadvantage of this paper is, aside from it being quite small, but that's my own fault because I cut out just a little piece. Is that it is smooth, so it takes just a few layers. But for the technique I'm showing you, that's not a problem. Just avoid pressing really hard at the beginning because then this paper will have all the pigment it can take and won't take anymore. Alright, switching to the second color. I'm checking the point is still, that should still work. And now because of using the orange, you get, of course, right away, a stronger difference between these two colors. Let's add color like this. And another one like this. And just he's of the pressure here a little bit. There we go. Now we got that, and now we're going to go to the third one. Let's add that really dark one. He's of the pressure. I just slightly pressure here to blend it in. And let's go for the last layer. And there you go. Now you got a more strong distrnt change, and I'm going to go with the orange. Now, this will brighten up my colors nicely, by the way, if I do that with this orange. So I'm bringing in that orange back again. And I will get a bit brighter colors from all of this. And there you go. Okay, now I want that mid tone back. Definitely. I might go a bit under an angle. And so there we go. Now the last one. And now I got. Three, nice gradations There you go. Now, I could spend more time with it, but you get the idea. And it will take some more pigment. I'll put this next to it. You see the difference in colors right away. It's quite different this. Now, this is very nice. We could do some more effort on this, but I would want to blend it first before I continue. But blending is for the next lesson, so I'm not going to do that. I'm going to put these aside again, and the last one I'm going to demonstrate is my sketchbook. And there you go is my sketchbook. So let's go into my sketchbook. Well, there's my sketchbook, Let me do the same. Just add a box. Just to ignore the line that's there. I'm just making practical use of all my papers. Alright, let's go with the orange. Now, as you can see, the sketchbook takes this color really nice, too. But the disadvantage of the sketchbook is that it will be very limited in layers. And for demonstration purposes, I need to make sure I don't put down too many layers. Then this might not work anymore. Now, with the free colour technique, we should be totally fine. We're never gonna reach that amount of layers that we take the paper won't take any pigment anymore. Okay, let's do the next one. Now, as you can see, this looks great too on just simple sketch paper. Now, not smooth. This sketch paper is not smooth. You might see it in the camera a little bit. This has some texture on it, and that is why it works pretty well with colored pencils, too, because the texture, the grooves, you get like mountains and valleys. And in the valleys, it takes some more pigments than on the top of the mountains, and that is why it will take a colored pencil well. So if you have some texture on your paper, then the pigment has somewhere to latch onto. That's it. Like that. Alright, and I'm already on the third collar. And as you can see, it takes quite some layer still. But that's because I'm not really pressing hard. Again, if you would start with really much pressure on this one, you would spoil it right away. Now, let me go with that third color. And so there we go. As you can see, inexpensive. Sketchbook paper, a bit thicker with a little bit of texture works great, too. You get a nice effect. Okay, I think I've demonstrated enough. Here's the Bristol paper. Here's the mixed media paper. And finally, we've got some sketchbook paper. So all three of them do take this technique really nicely, rather nicely. Now, this could have been done. So stronger, but we'll leave it like this to demonstrate something in the next lesson. Okay, I'm going to stop here. I've demonstrated a couple of brands, a couple of papers which we can use. And now it's your turn. Now you don't have to do all these papers, of course. Just practice on the paper you have. Now, if you have various papers, sure, try them out and see what works best and what you like. You might be surprised. You might like your sketchbook paper a lot more than the more expensive watercolor paper, or perhaps Bristol is your thing. Try to find out, but we're not done with this. There's a next step in this free color technique, and that is for the next lesson, where we're going to blend. Alright, do some practice, then leave it as is move to the next lesson where we're going to do the final step on this. All right, see you in the next lesson. 4. Using a Blender: Let's have some more fun with colored pencils. Well, technically, maybe not the colored pencils, we'll see where we end up. We're going to do some blending. Now, of course, we've done blending already with the free colors, mixing them, blending them, getting a nice gradation, but we're going to let them blend some more. And for that, we're not going to use a pencil, but we're going to use something else in this lesson. For that, you need an alcohol marker. I said in the introduction of the materials. We're going to use an alcohol blender, a colorless blender. So this is just an alcohol marker with no color, just ink. And the fun thing about this is that the pigments and the other ingredients of the colored pencil, mainly the wax and the oils are gonna react to this. They're gonna give us a nice smooth blend. I got to demonstrate that, don't I? Now, perhaps you were curious already and tried it, so who knows? This will not be new for you. Anyway, whether it's new or not, we're going to do this. Alright, let's move to another camera for that. Alright, I've got everything I did in the last lesson here, except for now these colourless blenders. We're gonna use them. Okay, so let's put away colored pencils, let's demonstrate them. Well, let me start just at the bottom paper. The bottom paper is my regular sketchbook paper. And that regular sketchbook paper, that should just work fine with these colorless blender. Now, I've got two of them. Oh, by the way, there's a zero on them. See that on both of them. There is zero. That means it's the colorless blender, no color in it, the colors zero. So you need to look for that. You can buy these separately, most alcohol marker brands or non brands. Have a colorless blender and just pick one up and have fun with it. Alright, let's continue. So I've got this now here, and I'm just going to pick up one of these colors blender. Well, let's pick up this one. And what we're going to do is I'm going to start at the light point and I'm going to work my way towards the dark, and I'm going to blend this color in. Now, it is getting reasonably wet but not as wet as watercolor papers. So, sorry, watercolor paints and watercolor markers and water. So that works quite nice. And I'm going to now move my way a little bit back here and I'm going to go from the light color again to the dark color. Now, as you can see, we're getting a nice blend and as you can see, this one is now picking up that color. So if I would move to a next color, I would have to get rid of this color first, get an empty piece of paper and just clean it until most of it is gone. That's the result. That is quite nice, is it? So if these little layers we've put down, we already get a great result. Let's continue. So now the colours the pigments blended in nice. Now, it has become slightly lighter than it was, but there's a nice gradation going from dark, lovely to a light color. And that is what we want, and that's all we want. Now. Most of the white spots, as you can see, are gone, too. And I'm just happy with this for a quick coloring session. This is great. Alright, we've got more paper. Let's try this one. Do I want to clean this? Let's see. I'll just demonstrate that on this paper. See? There's some of that color going down now, so I'm cleaning it until I don't see that color anymore. And that's pretty much now. Now, there is still some on there, but that is not going down anymore. Okay, I'm going to go with this one, too. Now, with this one, I've put down less pigment, so it's going to be less strong as that one, and you see that right away. I might as well move this one to there, but you still get a nice even blend. And that is what we want. Now, don't overdo it. This is pretty much enough. So don't overdo it because the longer you go, the more of the pigment this will take in, and you're just losing your color. So, that's good. Now, once this is dry, we could go back in again, and I will do it with this one, but let me put that away. This one is very good. Let me get the next one. Here are the next ones. Now, this one is the red. Let me do the red first since I have some reddish colors, and I'm now blending in that color again. And as you can see, that goes nicely, too. Some more on these separate parts. And let me do this one, too. And as you can see, you almost get a bit of a painterly effect as if this is a painting. Now, this was the artisa. Works good. I'm going to get this piece now since I'm using this as scrap piece, cleaning my tip a little bit. Yeah, I'll let's go to the green. Green. Now, we're going to the green. The green, this was the more oil dominant Wmrcus and let's go, and you will see these react great on this stuff, too. They great work greatly with the alcohol. See, you get a nice blend right away. And why I'm starting at the light color at the first one? Because if I start at the dark one, it will pick up too much dark and mix it in the other colors. Now, with this one, I don't have to do more. This is good. I just got it clean. Oh, it's not that bad. Yes, it is bad. There you go. And let me put this one away for now. Let me get to the other marker. Now, this has a finer tip. Let me make sure. It is clean. No, it isn't have used it on something green. Don't want that green in my blue because it will definitely mix in. Now, as you can see, this one has a different tip. That's the bullet tip, so I need to take a bit more time to mix. Though the other one is a brush tip. A long brush tip goes quick. This will take a little bit more time, but not that much. Okay, let's do it. The last one. That's the fungo, the artist quality, and as you can see, this goes really nice, too. Now, this is an inexpensive one? Well, if you buy one mark of it, it's not that expensive, really. And there we go. And I'm ready with this one, too. I don't think I want to do more on that. Alright, I'm just letting this dry. Now, if we would go over this right away with our colored pencil. It's not really working, then it's crumbling a little bit. Not really nice. So I'm just waiting till it's dry, and that doesn't take long. What would it take 30 seconds a minute? While I'm done talking with you, this is dry already. But I've got the other one, this one, and I want to add some more colour to it to show you that that works really good, too. Okay, so I'm going back to this one. I'm gonna get those colors. And now, this is nice and bright. This I didn't spend that much time on. So what I'm gonna do is I was gonna add some more layers to show you that works great. So I'm going to strengthen my color a little bit, and you see right away already this color starts popping now already, a lot more. And I can just go over it. Without a problem with my coloured pencil, I just blend it in the bottom layer and I can just add some more layers. Granted, if I have put down a lot of layers already, then this last step isn't going to work. But since we use limited layers because we want to work rather quickly, we have enough groove, let's call it groove left to get some pigment down. All right. There we go. I want to blend this in a little bit nicer, but I could just leave the line there. If we're going to use that colorless blender again, it will smooth that out. Now we're going to go to the last one. Now with this one, we're going to apply definitely some more pressure to get some pigment down, get a nice dark tone, and now I'm easing off the pressure, letting it blend in. And now I've got some more pigment down. And now you can see comparing them, this one is getting really strong now. Let's get the blender, this one. That was the same now. Doesn't really I can move to this one, too. I'll show you that. Doesn't really matter if I even mix colorless blender Mv because it's just alcohol, but I need to make sure. See, this one has picked up quite a lot. And I don't want. That blue in. Good. Because if I mix the blue with this orange, I'm gonna get some kind of greenish tint. Don't want that. And there you go. Now, see, look at this. A bit more there. And if that dries, see, now it looks nice, too. And now you see already a difference between this one and this one, and I'll put this one with a too. Let me see. Can you see that while on the camera? Moving it around, e. You can see that pretty well. So you see a difference. This becomes nice and smooth because the paper, the bristol paper is nice and smooth, and this will still leave the texture under it. And that is a choice you make when you're working. Do I want something nice and smooth? Or do I want this texture to show through? Now with this one, too, you can see the difference. Some of the texture will still show through. Not as strong as with this paper, this is a totally different kind of paper. But the smooth paper will get you a smoother end result. Okay, and that's it. That's the last step in our free colour technique. Great step, isn't it? Now, you could use a blender pencil for this. You could use solvent for this with a brush. That works, too. But this is the easy way. Now, if you use blender pencils, this is going to take a lot longer, and you're not going to get the same results, not the same quick result and not the same painterish effect. And that looks just great, the kind of paint effect so you moving away from the colored pencils, don't get all the stripes in it, but get a nice even blend, and that's what we're after. Now, in the next video, I'm going to demonstrate coloring a flower, using the free colour technique, using the blending technique, creating something pretty. Before we move on to some final works, so let's practice a little bit first. So in the next lesson, I'm going to practice a little bit more and show you just how to use these techniques. I'm not really practicing. I'm just showing you how to use these techniques on the flower. But before we can do that, you need to practice this a little bit. This is quite easy, of course. Just remember, start the light color and drag it into the darker color. Unless you want a total even blend, then start at the dark color or you have a really large picture where there's a lot of room between them, then you could start at the dark color, but prefer we start at the light one, move to the dark one. Okay, well, have fun practicing, and then I'll see you in the next lesson where we're going to practice a little bit more. 5. A little bit of Practice: We're going to do a little bit of practice together. Now, we're going to add a little step to the previous techniques, too in this practice. So don't skip this practice because we're going to introduce a new part in it, too. It's not only practice. It is practice with a little addition. Okay. Now, what are we going to do? We're going to draw a flower. So we're going to need a flower. Now in the book of notes, there's plenty of flowers. You're going to need this one here, the simple flower. We're going to work with the simple flower. You're also going to need free colors, but not just three colors. You're going to need two sets of free colors, and I'm using yellows, and I'm using blues. And let me say which blues I have. I've got the sky blue. Then I have the peacock blue and the Egyptian blue. That's the blues I have. Great name. And for the yellows and a little bit of orange, I got probably a lemon yellow. No, it's not. It's a sapphire yellow. And for the second yellow, I have a sunflower yellow and an orange. That's the free I'm going to use. Okay. And the next color we're going to use is Indigo or midnight blue. Got midnight blue hair from Artisa and I got indigo. If you have the choice of both, pick whichever one you like the most after I've shown it. I prefer the indigo. Is that this one? Yes. But some sets don't have indigo, indigo, but have midnight blue in it and pick that one. Basically, it's a very dark blue, but not a purple. Alright. So dark blue, but not too much the purple side. Some sets, like, for example, Fungo don't have that. So then I mix in some blue, get the darkest blue. This is blue green and would mix in some gray pains gray, steel gray or this is a bluish gray, then you mix two colors together to get a nice shadow effect. Yes, we want that. We want a bit of a shadow effect going on too in our drawing. But let's get going with the regular colors first. So I've done my preparation, and I've got these colors, and I want to start with the heart here. Now, I've got to decide where I want my light to come from. So the sunlight would be from this side. And that means that with the heart, it's easy. This is light. This is dark. Simple, isn't it? So let me see. Do I have enough point left? No, I got to sharpen this. I'll be back. Oh, well, I won't be back. I'll just keep on going. Right. It's just a simple step. There you go. Get rid of all the mess. Make sure you get rid of the mess. Normally, you would do this, of course. On top of a dust bin, a bin, whatever you call that. And there we go. We're back. Alright. Well, I still was there, of course. Now, let's start. I'm taking the lightest yellow. I'm just gonna go do what we've done before. I just put down a nice layer of yellow. That's already quite a nice layer of yellow, isn't it? Let me go like this. Now, normally, you could also turn the paper, but I want to leave the paper as is. Now, I like that for light colour already. I Now, if you don't like all these lines of your colored pencil, the I have them quite strong so that the video picks it up nicely. Then what you can do is you can get something called a needed eraser, and that is a ne eraser. Some call it a potty eraser, too. If it comes out, yes, there it goes. This is a ne eraser. You can actually shape, and I'm going to shape it into a bit of a ball and what you can do with this. So I got a nice ball now. You can lift up some of that graphite by just hitting it, and now it gets really light. And as you can see, I've got now a very faint line. So you could use pickup, something like that. They're inexpensive. Need erase potty erase and some are cold. My name might be on it. An art eraser. Oh, Fabo Castel art eraser. Sounds good, uh. And then you can lift your graphite and get it as minimum as you want and color it, and then you don't have those lines. Now, I want for now for the demonstration. I want these lines back. Now, if you're going to use that eraser, you need to do that beforehand. Afterward. Not a good idea because it's gonna lift your color pencil, too. You don't want that to happen. So you draw, then bring back to the level you wanted very faintly and then you can bring in your colors. Okay, let's continue. I got enough of this yellow down, so I'm going for the next yellow. Putting down. I want to have a bit of a shape. Since this is round, I'm going to make a little bit of a round shape at the edge. And there you go. Now a bit stronger on this, this edge has now become slightly too strong, so I'm just removing it, and now I'm going to do the third layer. Oh, that's around there. And there you go. And let's go for that original yellow again. Blending these colors a little bit. Alright, there we go. Now, we've got enough layers down, I would say, except for this color. Want it slightly stronger. Now that is better. And I'm gonna take whichever brush is closest to me. This one. Make sure it's clean, so I got that demonstration scrap, that is pretty clean. And I'm gonna mix my colors nicely. And there we go, bit at this edge. All right. Now, that would be my first step in the flower. Alright, let's go for this blue now. I've got these blues. Alright, then I'm going to do just one of these petals. Let me do this petal. Light comes from here, so this petal would be on top, the lightest. And down here where I'm at now, it would be the darkest. Alright, while I'm at it, I'm going to do this petal, too. But and let me do this petal, too. I'm going to do free petals for the demonstration. I'm not going to do all of them. I'll let you do the rest by yourself. Because the rest will basically be pretty much the same. Now with this petal, I would work the opposite way. This side, I would make darker and this I would go lighter since flowers have a bit always of a shape. I'm going to simulate that. So with these petals, I would just actually work the other way around. We've done the lightest blue. Now we're going to the mid tone blue. So the one in the middle, and I'm picking the one in the middle, and I'm going to work with that one now. Okay, let's add some layers. We're going to start with this one. This is the easy one. Now, the most light would be on this part. So I'm starting to shade right there. And I'm going to do the same with this one a bit like this. And I'm just creating light and dark parts, making this flower look really nice. Add a few more layers might turn my pencil a little bit for this one, too. I am lightly applying pressure. Well, more or less hard, and I want some at this end, too. Bit more there. And now I want to do this one, I said, I want to do this one, the opposite from the other one. And there you go. Now you can already see here on this part where the green and the blue are matching. Sorry, where the yellow and the blue are overlapping. That's where you get some green. All right. And now let's go for the last color, the dark color, let me start with this one. I want a nice and dark tint. Right there. And blend that in a little bit nicer. Bit rounded. Now here, too. I'm going for this part here. So this will be my line. A little bit there. And I want some up there for some contrast. Right. And then the last one, starting at this bottom. And there you go. Now, definitely want some more pigment down. From this one, create a little bit of the edges there. And this one, too. And here, definitely, too. So we've got the three colors down now, and the last thing I'm going to do is blend that in with this light color and then see how it looks. Starting here. Right, blending in these colors nicely. I want to have a little bit of colour on the edge there. That one is pretty much done, and let's go. For this one, I'm blending in those colors. All right. And let's do the last one. A Make it a bit nicer. There you go. Now, this last one, I want to do that middle color again. Starting right there. Making that a bit stronger than I have it. There you go. Now, that's a lot better. Right. Do that here, too. And there now, that's good. A little bit on the edge. Alright. Now, I do want to do this petal, too, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to speed that up, so I'm going to color it, speed it up, and then once I'm done with that one, I'll get back to you. Ohh oh Okay, that's it. I've colored the whole flour. Now I just need to use the blender to smoothing it a little bit and then do that last step, which we haven't done before. When we find the blender. Here's the blender. Let's go with the blender first. Got to clean my blender. Shallow in it. And the blender is clean again. And let's just go. Well, I see that there's some mess. Let's get rid of that. Alright. That will be the first nice blend. The second one here. Now, with these petals, as you can see, I try to think of how would the sun go, and I just brought in that shape a little bit into the petals here too. And with this one, now, this is a petal under this one. So I just added on the edge a little bit of darker color. But you get the idea a bit more of light and shadow going on. This we already did. We can move to this one. And now we're moving into the dark color, not the other way around. And here, too, light is here. Now careful around the edge here that I don't drag this color into this site, which I don't want. And there we go. On the edge a little bit, cleaning my pencil just marker a little bit. Spiking up too much of that dark color. And the last one Bit around this edge, too. And there we go. Now, this one, perhaps a little bit more. And now you also see that my pencil bit blends into it doesn't disappear all the way, but I don't mind these faint edges really. Now, if you mind, and then I've shown you what to do with them. Okay, now, that would be the flower. Now, it's completed. Looks nice. But what I want, I want to bring some edges into it. And that's why we have that last color. Let me find it. Either the midnight blue or the indigo. I'm going to use the indigo. Now, make sure you have a bit of a tip on this one. Bit sharp. This one is blonde. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to just sharpen it. And then once I've sharpened it, I'll show you what we're going to do with this. I've sharpened it, a nice sharp point on it. Not too sharp. Now, most likely, when I'm going to work with it, the tip might break, but that's not a huge problem. I've got a tip. Now, what I want to do is, first of all, I'm looking at this petal. It overlaps this petal. So what I want to do on the edge with that nice sharp tip, I just want to add a little bit of a shadow line. And while I'm at it, I might do that right there. Under here. Draw it in two. Now, this one here, this petal overlaps this petal. So I'm going to add Alright I've done around. This edge nicely. I want to do it under here, too, and drag that color a little bit into the flour there. Alright. This one. I'm keeping thin, but I want to thicken it. A little bit here to create a nice smooth line. Now, this petal here, this one is overlapping here, so it would be casting a shadow onto this one and that would be shadow line right here. So let me make use of that fine tip first before I'm going to blend it in. Now, here, too, you would get some shadow line here. And on this side, this petal would cast a shadow on this petal. And I want some shadow. Going under there, too. All right. Let me add a little bit shadow there. And now I'm gonna drag this shadow. Make that a bit more. Right there, too, create a bit of a shadow area, not only a line, and this petal, I'm just going to add this dark color on top of it since that is pretty much in shadow all the way. And we can do that bit with this one too, create a bit of a shadow. Create a bit of shadow there. I do it around this edge. All right. Well, that would be dead. And now those veins are gone and with the pencil. I'm just gonna bring back some of these veins, too. And that's it. There's my flower. Now, I only want at this bottom, still a little bit darker. I'm carefully going to bring in this dark blue color around the edge there a little bit. And there we go. Bit more there. And now we've got a pretty flower. So that's what we do the last step. And there you go. Now, that's good. Now, what we could do, you could pick up the blender again, blend it in. I don't think I will do that with this, but I will do it right here. But I got to make sure my blender is nice and clean. Otherwise, I might be in trouble. Alright. What are we going to do this here, blend that in nicely, see? You get a nice even shadow that belongs. No, I'm not gonna do that here. You could do that. But then I might get rid of my shadow too much, so I'm gonna leave it like this. Well, that's it. My practice flower is done. Looks pretty, doesn't it? Nice colours, bright colours, going from light to dark. Really showing where the light comes from, where the shadows are a bit more, bringing in those fine shadow lines, and that completes it. So that's the practice of the free color technique and blending and adding in some shadows to strengthen what was lost. Some of the veins and things like that, you just bring in very subtle some lines, use a sharp pencil for that, and then it just completes it. And we're going to stop here. I'm not going to do anything more with this flower. Now, you could keep on going with this. You could add more layers and more layers and make it even more realistic. But we're going to stop here since we want to do some quick coloring. We've got a convincing flower now, pretty colors, some light and shadow going on, and nobody will mistake this for her. Bobobe? I don't think so. This is a flower. Yeah, that is definitely a flower. All right. That's it. That's the practice. Now, in the next video, we're going to do something with this, of course. When you're just only going to practice, we're going to make some pretty things with it. Alright, I would say practice this. Once you've done that, I'll see you in the next video. 6. Project 2 - Your own Album part 1: We're going to do something different with our colored pencils. We're still going to color with them, of course, but we're going to create something with them. What we're going to do? We're going to create some colorings, some artworks for our own albums. Now, a lot of people put photos in their photo albums or in folders, but why not put our own artwork in it? Why not make a kind of a portfolio that we can show other people, our friends, our family. And just create a beautiful album which we can browse through and look at and say what kind of beautiful things we've created. So for that, I've got a folder, and you can get one of these folders, and there's sleeves in it, and in these sleeves, you can put images. And as you can see, this one is empty. Well, it's not empty. There's a lot in it on the other side. This side is still empty. Or what you also could do, got to put that one away. It's just a photo album and just on the pages instead of putting in photos, put in our own artworks. So that's what we're gonna do today. I'll put this one away, too. Yep, it's safe on the floor. Now, to do that, we're going to need some materials, of course. Aside from coloured pencils and papers, you might need a pen. I've used a fine liner and a pencil eraser and all that kind of things. And you're gonna need some designs for it. Now, there's two papers you need. I've used these three flowers. To create free artworks with them. And we could do many, many more, but over the years, you can, of course, create a collection and expand it and expand it and add to it. So these free pictures, and we're going to need, then these pictures, too, where the shading is on because we're going to use that as a guide. Now, I've prepared a little bit beforehand, so I've prepared free images. I've got this one, and what I'm going to do with this one, I'm going to make a square of it, probably cut it off or leave it like that. Gonna decide it later. I've got this one. And I've got a bit larger one that is this one. Now, these will fit greatly into the binary with the folders, but also in the photo album, and this one, of course, fits great in the photo album. Then you have some variation of images. Now, the papers, this one is Bristol paper, this one is mixed media paper, and this one is watercolor paper, hot press, smooth watercolor paper. And I'm going to start with this one. Now what I will do in this lesson, I'm going to demonstrate part of this one, probably not all of it and speed up some of the parts, but just show you some of the main parts, how I do them. And then the other two, these ones put in right side up on the camera. These I'm just going to show you in a sped up way so that you can see what I've done, but I'm not going to talk you through it since we've got the lessons for that. So if I'm doing something and you don't know what I'm doing, you can always go back to a lesson and see what I was doing. But if all is well, you've practiced a little bit, so you should be familiar with what I'm doing because I'm not going to do anything else then, what we've already discussed. Alright. Let's see. For this one, I'm going to use those Artisa pencils, and I got a few sets I created. And let me see. I want to use these three for the petals. And then we have a peach cream, I think. This is peaches and cream. The second color is flamingo pink, and the darker color is fugia. So I'm going to use these three for the petals. For the heart, I've got slightly different colors. It's a peoni pink. It's a fruit punch, and it's a plum purple. And again, a nice range of free. Now, for all the green things like the leaves and the stalks, I'm just going to use two colors today because it's little room, so I'm just going to do a light color and a dark color. This is a fern green. This is a pear green. And, of course, let's not forget indigo, I'm going to use two, of course, to do the axons and bring in some shading. I think I'm ready to go. So you, of course, need to then transfer the images to the paper you want to use, and you can just watch the video, go along with me, however you do that. I don't know how you do that. Some people just watch the video and then go back and do it. Some people will just go right alone. Well, that's up to you. I'll leave it up to you. So I'm going to start with this one. So I've done this one from the top. What I'm going to do, I'm going to do this flower and explain this one, and then I'm doing some of the green, and then I'll leave the rest pretty much up to you. Now, I forgot to mention one thing. Of course, we're going to use the colorless blender. We're going to work with that one, too. So I got these two here, but I'm going to use only one of them. That's the material you need to. Alright, now let's get going. I want to start, of course, with the lightest color. I need to decide where the light comes from, and I think for this flower, it would be nice to have the full light on this flower and this one, and the rest be a little bit darker. So what I'm going to do? I'm going to start with the petal. I'm Color that in with this really nice light peachy color. Now, working on this paper, we haven't done before, but probably you see right away that I get a nice smooth, even color on it with a bit of the texture showing through right away. And it's Kiki quite smooth. It takes this pencil up, nice. It's not so as smooth as the bristol paper, but that is really smooth. But probably we're going to see that this is going to make my colors really nice. So I'm just doing one layer. Because it really takes the color in quite nicely. A little bit there. And now I'm going to go back in with a second layer. Now, let me pick those flowers with it. Now, let me show you the flowers. These are the flowers. I created that image off, and as you can see, they're white. They're quite pink. But since I'm not going to do anything with my background on this image, I'm going to leave the paper color. I'm not going to use white. I'm going to use a different color for it. So I changed the colors a little bit to get the image pop a bit more off the paper. If you would use a background, then I would probably use a dark background with this, then I could use white or the paper color of the paper. But since I'm not doing that, I'm just going to fill in a little bit of different colors. Alright, that's the flowers. Let's put them aside again. And let's continue. So I'm going to add another layer of this on the color. Sorry, on the collar. What am I saying on the paper? Just to get a bit of a stronger color. Do some on the edges. Let's see. And this belongs to the petal, too, this part. Alright. I think I've got some of that color down nicely bit there. Let me go over it. And there it is. Nice. All right, I'm moving to the second color, and that's the flamingo pink. This was the peaches. The flamingo pink. Now, I've decided the sun comes from here. So that means on this petal, for example, this part would be in full light, so I've gotta Make sure. I keep that in mind. Go move this pencil to the other side. Now, this pencil. And let's go for the next petal. This one. The light comes from here, so this part basically wouldn't be in the full light anymore. Now, you could draw, of course, if we don't before a little line, but I'm not going to do that with this one. Try to get a bit more natural transitions. Now, this petal gets light there. Now I've picked a number of colors, but if you do want to pick a different color, of course, that is totally up to you. All right. Now, I think that is clear. Now, these petals will get light here. I would put some light here. This one, I put in there, this one here, this one here. But I'm not going to do that. I'm going to move right into this one and speed this part up already. I'll do the heart first probably. And now at the bottom, I do want some of this color. Alright. Let me do the next color, the darker color. I'm going to start with this one. And around the edge a little bit, at the bottom a bit, and that's it. Same here. At the edge around the bottom. And this one, too, the this one I only want at the bottom. And that's nice. Okay, I want this to be slightly stronger? There we go. And I want that middle collar back. I think I want that in slightly more. All right. Now I'm going with my lightest color. Blend this in a little bit. And as you can see, I'm not touching the closest to the light part. I'm just skipping that. We do this one, too. Is there we go. Now, the only thing I want back is the **** share a little bit on the bottom. There we go. Here, too. As you can probably hear, I'm pushing slightly stronger now to get some of that color in. And I'm not coloring. I'm more or less now sketching with this to get a bit of a natural look transition. Alright. That's this part. Now, let's get the blender with it. Wrong side, and let me get the paper with it, too, on which I can clean my blender. Alright, let me see. Oh, yeah, that needs to be cleaned for sure. All kinds of colors in it. Now the color under it is shining through it a little bit. So I'm holding it up a little bit, and Chucky. I've lost that color. Alright, now let's go. And we're coloring in this color, and now I'm moving this color into it. Did you get a nice even blend. Same here. Start at the top. Now I'm moving that in, mixing it in a little bit, and you get some nice pretty colors. Alright. I'm gonna let that dry. Now, that looks really good, doesn't it? And look at the oits bit here. Seem to have lost it there. All right. Well, that would be my first part. Now, of course, I'm not done, but the rest, as I said, I'm going to speed up because it's all the same process. But now I'm going to do the heart. I'm going to demonstrate that too. And at the end, I will bring in that darker color, too, but that's for the end. Alright, let's do the heart. So I'm going to put my set away. This set, I'm going to put aside and remember that it is that set, and I'm going to switch to the other set, and I'm going to start with that peoniPink and Peony pink goes in the hearts. Now, you can see that is a different color than the petals have. The light color here is quite different. So that is good. We want that. Down there a little bit. The next color, fruit punch. I want my flight to be here, so I'm just going to add this darker color here. Bit on the bottom, and that is what I want. Now, as you see with this paper, I'm not really worried if I get a nice even coloring, although the nicer, the better, of course. But I'm leaving some of these marks at the end because as you can see here, this kind of paper really reacts well to the blender, so it just blends in. I want this to be a bit stronger. So contrary to the regular drawing paper, where you need to pay some more attention that you work away your lines. This just makes that pigment move around really beautifully. All right. And I need that third color. I was going down at the bottom. All right. Let's add some of this furt color in it. All right. I think we've got that. I'm gonna go back with that. Middle color. And I'm gonna go back to a light color. Blend it all in. I'm not going to the edge. Again, I'm leaving the edge so that you get that nice nice transition. Bit there. All right. Good. And now I'm gonna get that blend a pencil, make sure clean again. Move the paper because it's gonna go through. Yeah, I continue. And let's go at the edges first, of course. And since this is watercolor paper, that nice almost watercolor effect even with your colored pencils. Now, the more pigment that your color pencils are, the better your result will be, look at this. Mix this in a little bit with each other. And there you go. Now, that's a very pretty flower, isn't it? Okay, now, that's this part. The rest of it, I'm just going to speed up. A, what do I want to do the green first? Oh, let me do some cream first. Alright, I'm not going to speed up yet. I'm going to do some green. Alright. I'm going to do some of the green. So the green down there. And what I'm going to do with the green, I'm going to color with the light color, and this is probably going to be a nice even blend right away. And then at the bottom, I'm just going to go with that dark color and where some shadow would be. There you go. And now I just might blend that in. Little bit. And just let it dry. Should I do some more. Right, let me do this leaf here. Now, this leaf. I'm going to do the light color first. That's a bit of a very rough leaf I've done. Not an accurate. But then the attention stays on the flowers here, and the leaves are secondary bit of I would say afterthought, they're supposed to be there, but we don't want to have all the focus on the leaves, so that is why I've done them less detailed. All right, let's go for that second color. Now, here's a shadow line, so I'm going to darken this part and the sun comes from here then. So I would get a bit like this and this one gonna do some at the bottom too. I'm going to leave some of the light color there. To get a distinguished part between these two. Now, later on, we could bring in. We will now, we could, I say, but the good word is we will bring in we of course will bring in some of that dark again, that indigo. Alright, for the leaves, I think I'm done with two colors, add, mix this in a little bit, blend it some more there, leaving that light as is, but I gotta go. Carefully where everything is, of course, there you go. And now I'm going to get the blender and paint this. Mix it. A nice blend down here. Starting at the light part again, now mixing in the dark part. And for the leaves. This is good. Okay, right. Now, that looks good, doesn't it? That's it. That's what I'm going to do with the leaf and the stark, and I'm going to leave it like that. Alright, so now I'm this far. I've demonstrated the major part. Later on, I'll get back when I'm done. I'll show you what I'm going to do with the dark color. But for now, I'm just going to speed this up. And once I'm done with that, I'll be back. Alright. Enjoy the sped up video. See you Wait. Oh, Well, that's it. I'm done with the flour. No, I'm not really done. I'm done with the flower itself. But now I want to add some of those deep shadows, bring back some of the lines, and I'm going to use that indigo for that. I'm going to walk you through this bit, and then we're basically done with the flour. Alright, let's do that. 7. Project 2 - Your own Album part 2: Well, that's it. I'm done with the flower. But I'm not completely done with everything. I want to use the indigo to bring in some deep shadows, add some shadow parts, bring back some of the lines that have disappeared now. So yeah, we're going to do that. Alright, let's do it. Well, let's do that. Let's take a look at the flower here. Now, this petal here behind there, that's an obvious one is in shadow, so I'm going to add a little bit of a shadow line there, and I'm going to add some of this indigo around the edge. So what that would be my first step. Now, down here, this petal is really under it. So I'm going to add some indigo there. So there's a deeper pipe there, too. Now, this will need just a little bit, not too much. Now, here's a flower petal under it. No, that's not a petal, the heart, but I'm going to do that dark, too. I want to make that a deep shadow, too. Now, this petal around the edge but also drag that color into pink a little bit. Let's see there another one down here. There's a petal. On top of that, I'm going to drag in a little bit of that shadow, and I'm hardly pressing for this. Now, here this is a petal, and this is a petal. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make sure those two petals by some of that indigo, are really separated. As you can see, just a little bit. I'm going to do the same here too. This petal, this is a petal. Even on the top there, just a little bit and add some of that indigo there, too. Let's see. The bottom here I want a little bit under green, that's under here. I want to add that extra tone. Green down there too. Now, this petal, I'm going to leave alone. Now here, where the petal is folded behind the fold, I'm going to add a little bit and just a little bit on the edge, bottom there, the edge here too. And there you go. All right. Let's continue. Let's do that a little bit at this bottom too, here too, and now here, let's create a shadow line and really carefully. Add some shadow too. Just a little bit of shadow there, a little bit. This one, I want some shadow there and some shadow there. And then I really lightly add a bit of shadow right there, too, right? Now, this is definitely a folded part, so I'm going to add shadow there too. This might need some shadow, right, I want to add a little bit there, too. Now, the flowers are really coming forward. So petals are going to the back because of all the shadow and dark. We add to it, and now it just comes to life more, huh? Let's see. We want some that's good around here. That's good. And it's all subtle. And now here too, And there we go. Bit more of a stronger shadow line. Now, let's see. What do we need more? Down here? Just a little line. Now here, where it is. Leaf is behind the stalk Make that more obvious. Let's add just a little bit. There too. Add a little bit here. More two. Now, we've got to do the same here. This is the stalk. This is the leaf. So I'm going to add that line there, and I'm going to color in the leaf just a little bit and up here too, some more. M. There you go. Now the leaf and the petal stand out. Now let's see this is tricky. We're going up here first. Do the tricky part later on. Add some shadow. So deep shadow there. Do that. Up there too, a little bit behind there. A a little bit of shadow there, a little bit there, and this one definitely needs some shadow. Right. The petal? Let's do sorry, the stark. Let's do that a little bit better. And um there's this stark behind it. Let's draw that in. Very dark. Okay. And we need some there. No, that's looking better. On here, some shadow. Now, we're going to this part here. Let's do some shadow there first. So inside here. Then you get right away the illusion of depth all we're doing Illusion. Let's add a line here. That's that stalk. And let's add a line there for this stark. This one needs a line and we need to create some dark parts here, too, and now we've got stalks back and leaves and everything. Let's create one behind it, make it even. Bit more interesting. Well, how about that? Now, we could go back in. With that blender, I don't think I'm not going to do that. I'm going to leave this like it is. Now, I need to work a little bit on this flower. I might add a little first on the bottom of that flower. And now we need to work on this flower a little bit. And here. Let's go. For this too, now this petal here. This one is under it and here too. I brought in those lines and let's add a little bit of shading. There too, now the petal. Moved to a layer down. Let's see here too. Add that line here. There you go, and I'm going to add a line there. Call that in a little bit. And this one very carefully at the bottom. And now, see how this flower is suddenly having depth and looking differently. The heart, let's go for the heart here. I'm just carefully at the bottom. Adding a little bit of shading. Go to do that right here, too. Just a little and around here. Got the blow up. All right. I might just do a little bit there too. Let's add some shadow around these edges too, just to make it more convincing. Right. That looks good. Now let's see. Adding some shadows under there. Some shadow right there. Alright, we're getting to the end of it, but I want to blend a few parts and then add some lines to it, but let's blend first. Okay. I want to blend this part in a little. To create a subtle shadow, and I want to do that right there, too, bit more subtle here, too. And here, say, these larger areas of shadow. I want to blend in just a little nicer. And this one obviously too on the leaves a little bit two. Alright. I think I'm happy with that. Might do carefully. A little bit there. Alright, now that looks right away, a lot better. This shadow is now a bit less prevalent, so that looks really nice. Now, let's see what I want to do. I got to first of all, sharpen my pen. So for this next bit, I want to have a really sharp tip, and I will add some of the lines that have disappeared now so that it just looks great. Alright, let's do this last little bit. Okay, now I want to add some sort of lines, so we've got a sharp tip. Yeah, and I'm going to add some subtle lines back again. By doing that, I'm just creating some more interest, but also some more depth to it. All right, here's some. And I want shadow line. Right there again. Yeah, we definitely need that around here too. Now some lines in. I've done that. Here's some lines. These are still pretty good. And there we are. Let's add a little bit there on here some. Okay, and I think we've got them back except this one was looking pretty. A just some shadow with this sharp point at the base of the heart. And there you go. Let's see. Here, we're good. We're good there. Ed. A bit there to create some more shadow there. A little bit here. Something there. Nah, now, that looks good. Let's see. Bit there again. Let's dust. Some shadow on that one. Okay, now, that's it, I think. All right. Well, see. One more thing here, I see. I missed something. Alright, let's add a shadow here too. Oh, that looks good, okay? This one is bits strange. Now, that's better. Okay. Well, I think I'm gonna leave it like that. Alright. I'm done with this one. It looks pretty, doesn't it? It's a very nice image. Nice on this what you call a hot press paper that works great with these pencils. The more wax dominant pencils work great. But if you have all your dominant pencils, oh, they would work very well on this paper, too. You get a nice painterish effect with this almost a painting. Check? Yeah, that looks a bit like a painting, doesn't it? Well, and that's the result we're after something nice. Now, I'm not done. There's two others. I've got this one, which I just trace. And then I have done this one. There's nothing on it. Ah, there it is. I've traced it, too, but more in a sketching way. So I've got three distinct images. And I'm now going to work on these two. I'm just going to speed that up. This one, I'm going to do with the more dominant pencils, those macads I've got, and these I'm going to do with the artisas again and make something pretty. All right. Well, I'm going to do that now speeding that up again. I'm not going to talk you through this, but I'm just going to do it and then at the end, I'll be back. And then we just put them in my picture books. All right. See you at the end. I'm done. As you can see here, I've got three beautiful colored artworks. Now, with these two, I just followed the regular free color method. But with this one, you've seen that I did something different at the end. I used the indigo, but I also decided to bring back some of the highlights and do that with a different color. So with a bright yellow, a lemon yellow, something like that, I decided to bring in some highlights, then you get something a bit more interesting than without that, it might be a bit plain, but now even this simple flower becomes very pretty. So I definitely have a nice collection of flowers now. Now, these would look great in a photobok. Now, if you want to put them in a photobook, of course, gonna need something and you could use something like that. Photo tape, or you have these special corners you can put them and then stick them in, and then you can pull them out. Now, Photo tape, too, you can just take them out again, put them in again if you want to do something else with them. Alright, I'm going to arrange them in my photo boook. Now, I could put them in the book with the sleeves, but let's do it in the photobok. Alright. The photo book. I'm going to just find a page in the photobook and that one would go great like that. What Let me just do that. Let's see. I got the tape, pulling it, something comes out, and I can just stick this on the back. Alright, I'm stuck somehow to it. Alright, stuck. Now I need to get that top layer off. There we go. This one is stuck already. There's the next one. Putting it in. And that's good. Now, I only need to take these off. I'm gonna put it in my book. Alright. They're safely in my photo album. So we're done. The advantage of putting them in a photo album is that the colors will stay nice because they're not exposed to the light constantly. And if you expose your colored pencil drawings to the light, over time, they might fade depending on the pencils you use. But if we put them in the album and just look at them once in a while, they stay nice and pretty. Alright, I got to go back to the two pictures and show you a little bit. Okay. Now with this one, I've also created a little bit of a background, and I just want to show you the colors I've used. Now with this one on purpose, I started with yellow because I want a bit of a light effect. I could have picked orange, too, then it would have become slightly brighter than it is now or a really bright orange, but I took a bit of a muted or yellow. Okay. Let me find that one. And that was this one. So I started with a Jasmine yellow, and my reds were a red crimson and a hentian red as the last color. So these were my three colors from light to darker. So that's for the flowers. Now, the green, I have to find the two greens. There were these two greens. Let me see. Basil green was a dark one, and mint green was the light one, and they only used two. I did the same as with the flower. I put the Yasmin yellow down to Cat still free homes in this, so I used the yellow also to get some highlighted colors. For the background, I use these two pencils, sunflower, yellow, and just an orange, but not strong, a bit muted. Yeah, so not pressing really hard, keeping it a bit faint, but there's still a little bit of a background. Now with this flower, I can give you the names, but there's only numbers on the pencil, so we got to check that. So hang on, I got to get the box and then call out the numbers I use. And now I used a range of brighter colors and a range of more muted colors all in the purple ranges, and, of course, the indigo. And, of course, for the highlights, I used a yellow. Now, the yellow I know what it is. This is a lemon yellow. I'm sure about that. And the blue I know it's an indigo. The other colors, let me get the box. And just find those numbers. Alright, I found the box, and in the box here are the colors, the names, and the numbers, so I'm just going to call that out to you what I used. His three colors I used for the heart. I started out with the N, what is it called? No 17. That's an Apricot color. Then I used. The next one I use is the n111. That's a purple gray. And the last one I use as the dark color is an NO 81, that's a grape. Yes, grape purple, really fruity now with the aprico and the grapes. So that's for the heart. Now, for the flour itself, for the petals, I use these three colors. Again, arranged from light to dark. And the first one is the n116, and I got to check that. That's an op purple, up, purple UBE purple, up, however you pronounce it. The second one is an 05 free or a 053, and that is a royal purple. And the third one is the NO 15, and that is an amethyst purple. So that's the colors I use for that now the yellow was a lemon yellow, and the dark blue is just an indigo. Why, right. That's the colors. Okay, now you got the color range for both of these colorings. Alright, so now you've got the colors too. If you have these sets or different sets, you could try and match some colors, find some colors. If not, pick the colors you like. You can go like I've tried with some of these flowers to go very accurate, but that's purple flower. That one is not really accurate. That is more colors. I just picked and liked in a nice range. And that's totally up to you. You can try and match the real colors or just pick colors, fantasy colors, create a fantasy flower just the way you like it. Alright, now it's your turn. I would say create at least like I've done. Free images. You can use the images from the book of notes too reproduce them and then color them the way you want, with the colors you want, using the method, the free color technique, using the blender pencil, even bringing in some dark shadows with the indigo. You may try some highlights like I've done with a lighter color. You could use white, but I would pick a very light yellow or a contrasting yellow like with the purple, nice bright. Yellow will contrast nicely. Alright, well, that's up to you now. You can go to work, and I would say, Don't stop here. Just put them in an album. And then once in a while, create a new picture and add it to it, and then look over time, just browse for your album and look back and see how you've progressed, how you've grown with your artworks. Really fun. Different way of using a photo album, create your own photo artwork. Alright, that's it. Have fun, and I will see you in the next module once you're done.