Quick Sketch Flowers Module 2 - Drawing Flowery Greetings Cards with a Brush Pen

1. Introduction: Now, we've done some drawing with the pencil in the previous module. Now it's time to switch to a pen. We're gonna start with a brush pen. And a brush pen makes it easy to ignore details and just work very quickly. Now, let me show you something. What we're going to do? We're gonna do a little bit of practice, of course. And then we're going to create this beautiful flower with a brush pen. Now, this is not our greeting card. Oh, let me show you those right away, too. I've got the greeting cards here. We're going to create free pretty greeting cards. And the brush pen has a few advantages. As I said, you're going to ignore details, but you can also work really quick with them. So if you need a quick sketch, a quick card, something pretty, you can use a brush pen for that. And in this module, I'm just going to show you how to use that brush pen effectively. Now, the brush pen is one of my favorite tools to work with, and I hope you come to love it, too. Alright, let's find out if you're gonna love it as much as I do in the next lesson. 2. How to use a Brush Pen: Welcome to this lesson. We're going to work with a brush pen. Now, the brush pen is one of my favorite tools in ink to work with. Yes, we're going to move on from the pencil to ink now. And a brush pen, let me find one. Just a pen like this. And as the word says it you may have seen them, there's a brush on it. Instead of a fixed tip, there's a brush a bit like a paint brush, and we're going to work with it. Why are we going to start inking with a brush pen instead of, let's say, something like this, fountain pen or a fineliner. We're going to do that for a purpose. If we start with a fine liner, not a word already says it, a fine liner is very fine. Now, the same counts a bit for a fountain pen, they're fine. A brush pen has a huge advantage, and the advantage is that it's not as fine as a fine liner, so it helps you to stay away from the details and focus on the whole object instead. That is what we want to do first. So that's why we're starting with a brush pen instead of a fine liner, which would perhaps make more sense to you. But because we're starting with a brush pen, it will help us to focus on what is important. Okay, now, I've shown you brush pen already. What can you use for this? Need a brush pen. Now, I've got one like this is a Kuretake. I think it's number 13. I think the number eight is pretty much the same as this. It has a very soft brush pen, but you can also use something like this. A lot of people like it. It's the Pigma brush pen. It's a bit more firm, or if you want to even have something more firm, Pit artist brush works too, very firm brush. Now, I'll demonstrate them in the lesson to show you also a bit of a difference. And a lot of people like this one, too, the pocket brush by pento, but it's quite soft and hairy. Good for quick sketches. Really good too. All right. Good. The other thing you need, of course, for now, this lesson, we're going to go for the sketchbook again, pencil, eraser, sharpener, little brush to get rid of the rubber. The other thing you're going to need are the photographs supplied in the book of notes and references. I'm going to use a couple of flowers, and we're starting with this one for this lesson. Okay, well, let's get going. Okay, right, let me show you first how to use a brush pen. Now, I got a few here, several, and the difference is mainly the tips. This is a soft tip, and this is a very hard tip, so it works a bit different. And brush pens, you can get them in colour too, really cool, and then you have a different color. Alright, let's start with the brush pen. I'm just taking this one for now, the Pigma Brush pen and it works a bit as a pencil and somewhere between a pencil and a paintbrush. Now, the thing is, if you're going to draw with a brush pen, and I'm sketching my box again and you use the tip, you get a reasonably fine line depending on your brush pen. Now, that is great for doing the outline and drawing the subject. Now, with a brush pen, you could do some hetching for your Shading, but what you can also do with a brush pin, and that's the cool thing about brush pin. I like to put it then the same as we did with the pencil on its side, and then you see what happens. Now, some people will put it more straight like this and then press really hard, but the disadvantage of that is that you will damage your tip if you do that too often, especially if you have something like that, demonstrate it, then your tip will be gone in no time. So quite easy, isn't it? You hold it more upright, and as you can see, I'm not doing it like this. You could do that to get a really fine line, put it up straight. But since quick sketching, I like to tilt it a little bit, a little bit thicker line, and that will have the advantage that it will not get me into all kinds of details. I just don't want to do details because it's not a detailed plan. Alright, I'll take that pit brrush pen and just demonstrate that too. This has a reasonably tip still on it when they're new. They got a nice, fine tip, but not fine fine. And by tilting it, I can use it more or less as a marker, as a paintbrush and shade in one go. We're going to use that. So we're going to shade in a really quick way. We could also do some hatching with it, even combine them. Do some hatching and combine it with some shading. You can also go a second time, and as you can see, you get some nice nuances. All right. Good. The brush pen. That's basic brush pen. Now, if you have one like this or the pentlePocket brush, they're soft. These are soft. So if you want to have fine line with these, you really need to control. And again, don't put it at the tip, but let it rest relaxed in your fingers. And by til putting up right, see, this gives you a nice, fine line. And the advantages if I press a little bit, I can shade, but if I put it really flat, I can shade really quickly. A huge area. Now, a disadvantage of this pen is that it needs some time to dry because this one, you can't fill ink, it's stuck. It's like it is. It's more like a fine liner with this pen. There's a cartridge in it, and you need some ink with it, a bottle of ink, and you need to fill it. So it's a bit more wet. And that's the thing to keep in mind if you use a brush pen, you want to work from left to the right because if you work the other way around, you're going to smear this and your fingers will be black. And once your fingers are black, you're going to smear your paper too, and you can't erase this. An eraser won't work on this. This is permanent ink, and that's it. Now, some of them have water ink. So if you add water, you can still use it and paint a little bit with it, but it's still more or less permanent. You can't erase it contrary to your pencil. So keep that in mind. And again, if you're left, then of course, you have to work from the other side. Yeah. Now, if you're left, you see me shading from this side. If you're left, you could just flip everything around them. So if I have the flower here, if I paint it like this and then shade it on one side, you could just flip the whole flower around if you want to and shade it from this side. Yeah. So then you would use your brush the other way around. And You would shade. If you would shade, you could go from the top like that your left hand, or you could just flip it around. Then I'll make a second box. What really straight box, is it? And instead of shading what I do from that side, you just start on the other side, you start shading here. Now, you need to get it in the right position and shade this way. Well, as you can see, I'm not doing left often, but kind of works. Yeah, for the demonstration. So you would flip everything around. You can do that, or then shade from this side and move that way. Again, then work from the right towards the left. Yep. Okay. But make sure wherever you work that you start on one side and move away from it or this way, yeah, so that you don't smear it. Okay. Well, that's the most important thing about the brush band. Now, which one you want to use is totally up to you, yeah. And I've got a couple here also like this. So there with a fixed point, but this has a fixed cartridge in it. You can pull in it. You got brush bands like that. It's a bit thicker. This one works a bit more like a marker. And allows me to shade really nicely because it has a firm point, but it can also do the same technique. Now, the advantage of a firmer point is that it's easier to control. But you can do this one, too, because this is reasonably firm. Yeah. But maybe when you're beginning, avoid the ones with the bristles, the really bristles, the hairy bristles. You can't see it, but these are really halves opposed to this one, which is one more felt tip. Okay? All right, that's it on the brush. Yeah. So that's what we're going to make use. We're going to make use of this brush, and this helps us to ignore certain parts on the flour and just draw really quickly. And the drawing really quickly, we're going to do in the next lesson. Alright, so I would say, find yourself a brush pen if you don't have one already. Practice just very little bit with it, draw some boxes, do some hatching, and do some shading, and even see if you can get some nuances in the shade, let me see if I manage that with the Pigma. So if I have this Pigma, which is really black, there you go. And then very carefully shaded, so not pressing too hard. See, and that gives you a bit of what's called dry brush effect. And so this would be my light area. This would be my less light area. And if I now go over it, see, I can get a little bit of tones with it, so I can get this nice nuance in shading from light to dark. Alright, that's the explanation on how to use a brush pen. Now, this will take a little bit of time to get used to. But once you get used to it, I would say, go to that next lesson where we really going to start drawing, shading, creating something pretty with these brush pens. Alright, enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next lesson. 3. Sketching a Flower: We're going to do the next step with our brush pen. Now, if all is well, I assume you picked a brush pen and you've practiced a little bit with it. So we're going to now draw with it. What do you need for this lesson? Obviously, you need your brush pen, whichever one you want. You're gonna need pencil, perhaps eraser. Sharpener is sometimes handy to have. And, of course, you're going to need some just regular sketchbook paper is fine, nothing fancy. And you're going to need some photographs of the flowers. Now, what we're going to work with is this flower. So you need to find the photographs of this flower in the book of notes, and let me move that flower out of the way so that you can see me again. We're going to use it. We're going to sketch this. We're going to sketch this quickly with a brush pen, and I'm going to show you how to do that quickly. And then once we've done that. So this is our practice round. Yeah, let's call it that way, the practice round. And once we've done that, in the next lesson, we're going to create some pretty greeting cards with the brush pen. Lots of fun. But before we go there, let's practice. Okay, I got some room left here still. So to draw. Yeah, so I might just draw on this side here. Okay. I'm going to get the pencil. We're going to start with the pencil. Right. And we need, of course, that flower. The flower is handy to have. So let's put that flower here. And you've got a photograph. I'm going to use the live flower for this. And I'm just going to point out what I'm doing with this, why I'm doing it, and how we're going to do it. Now, this flower, we're going to draw it from the side as we see it. We're gonna make it ourselves pretty easy. And in other lessons, we're going to tilt it and do some dimensions and other things. But for now, we're sticking to it, making it easy. So what I want to draw is this part here. So if I look at this part, I'm going to say, Okay, I'm going to need a rectangle, almost a square, but a big rectangle to fit all of this in. So I'm just going to draw my rectangle. And let's say I want the flower to be in this rectangle. It's not gonna fit, so I'll have to adjust the dimensions of what I'm seeing. We're having a couple of elements. We have the free flowers, and we have some leaves. What we're going to do with this one, we're going to sketch it really roughly and then do the rest with our brush pen, and we're making use of the brush pen. So I see that one is straight, one is straight, and this one is under an angle. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to start with this one first. I'm going to say, Okay, that is pretty much down here. So I want it. Tomor or less go in this box. I like that. Right. Then I have the second one that goes right behind it. And I want to have that on the top in its own box. There you go. And then we have the third one. Now, it's down at the same line. If I put an invisible line there, it comes right here, but that one is definitely under an angle, and there we go. Might make it slightly larger. Okay. And then the stark would go. Like that, the stack of this one is in the middle goes right there, and this strle goes behind and meets up with this one. So that's my basic drawing. I've defined where I want everything, and now I can just roughly draw it in. Now, I'm going to totally ignore details for this. I'm going to start with this one. That's the easy one. It's a bit rounded slightly, and it goes to a point right there, and I'm drawing that in. So quickly sketching that in right. There you go. And that looks really convincing, but it has some folded leaves, so I'm drawing in those folded leaves, there you go. Now, see? That looks pretty. That's it. Now, it has some leaves under here, and I'm just gonna just draw them in like that. And that's already something, isn't it? Okay, the next thing I see here is this flower. Now, I move this up. This should have gone down a little bit, but minus moved up a little bit. Since I don't want anything on the bottom here, that makes just for a nicer composition. Instead of having something really on the bottom, I want it to move up. That gives me less room for these leaves. So what I'm going to do with these leaves, I'm just going to put them up a little bit, and the easy thing to do is I'm going to draw the back line of this leaf. So I want it there, and I'm going to draw that middle line of this leaf, and that goes behind this flower. Now, this one I only have to draw in like that, very easy. And this one, I'm going to try to mimic that shape a little bit like that. I'm giving the impression. Now, look at that. Looks nice, doesn't it? So you play a little bit with it. Now if something goes wrong and you don't like it, just get that eraser and erase it and just do it again until you have it where you want it. Now, as you can see with my drawing, I'm not putting everything in the exact order where it is and the exact dimensions. I want a quick sketch, so I'm just giving a rough overview of what I'm sketching, but not going into all the details and exact dimensions. We're just estimating a little bit, playing a little bit with the composition and make something nice. Alright. So we've got that first flower. Let's do this, this one here, I don't want to move with my hand over that. Now, what do I see with this one? Now, probably, again, since I'm looking from a different angle, you see a little bit differently than what I do, but I see a leaf coming towards me, bit tricky. So let me start with the bottom first. Now, if you can see the bottom has some of these leaves coming out, and I'm drawing them in like that. There you go. And from there, I'm going to do that leave what I see, and basically what I see is coming towards me and I'm just drawing it in quickly give a quick impression of it. Now, the second leaf, that one is there, and it goes all the way there, and it's a bit like that. Again, quick impression. That one here is moving up right away. So I'm giving it that curve a bit and then drawing in that leaf. There you go. And that's it. More or less, Yeah, I'm happy with that. Okay. Then I can see the heart coming out a little bit. All right. And I'm seeing a bit of a leaf behind it, so I'm just drawing it in here too in the back. I can see that leaf, a little bit, those two. So I'm drawing them in fairly quickly, and then there's a leaf behind there. Now, that is that quick impression of the flour here. Right. I'm not gonna worry about I mentioned everything exactly. I might just add stalk to it, do it a bit thicker. There you go. All right. Now, took between this one here is a little flour? Not starting to grow, what I'm going to do it. I might as well add that here and move this out of the side. Needs to go a bit thicker on the bottom. Right. And it has some lines. There you go. Now, see, that makes it right away interesting. So that's it for this one. And now let's do this one. Okay. And the last flower here. Now I'm going to put that down. And what I see is, let's start with that bottom again. Okay. These coming out, then I see the petal, sorry, the stark, I need to do this stark a bit figurative. And now I can extend this stark. Now, I could have brought these leaves down a bit since I have the room here, but I'm going to leave them like that. Now, this one has those leaves here. I'm going to go drawing that backline again and drawing that underline here. Like that, and then I'm going to do basically the same what I've done here. Go up and then go in. So make a bit of an angle with that here too big and then go small again, create a nice leaf. There you go. Alright, and now I'm going to do the last part in. Now, the easy ones are these petals there, straight and up straight like that. And then go like that. And same I'm doing right there. And then I have these two petals towards me. They're a bit tricky, but I'm just going to draw them in really roughly like that. And then I see some of that heart coming out, and I'm going to leave this like that, see? That looks nice. Don't need those back petals. You don't see them because they're straight. Alright. Now, that's it for this one. Good. That would be my first step then. Now, there's some leaves, big leaves here. Yeah, you can make the choice to either draw them there or just totally ignore them. You could draw a big leaf in front of it, this one here, even tilt it a little bit and say, Okay, I want that in front of it or to the side. We could do that. And if we have them like that, we're going to follow this line, the middle line first. So let's curve that out a little bit and then do that first part on it, and then do the back part on it, which more or less follows. That one, and there you go. Now, that looks good, doesn't it? More? Well, let's do one leaf here. Let's just pick a leaf. It doesn't matter which one. Anyone will do. This one tucked in, will do, and I'm just going to draw that in. Big leaf like that. All right. Good. Now, look at that. Good. I'm going to put the flower aside, and that's it. See? That's my flower. Okay, now, that's the basic setup of the flower. The next thing we need is a little bit of shading. We're going to play with light and shadow, of course. And for that, we're going to just roughly mark the areas where we want the shadow to be. Okay, let's do that now. Now, we got to choose where the light comes from. We can go from this side, this side, top, whatever. We make it With these quick sketches, you want to make it yourself easy, and probably picking a corner is always the easiest. I like this corner. So my son would be there casting its sun rays there. So pick this corner. That means that for this flower and I'm going to make it myself easy, I'm going to hedge. This would be the darkest part and in here would be a less dark part, and I'm letting that in the full light. Same with the leaf, it would be hedge there. Now, this one would be shaded there. This one, we could go like this, leave the top a little bit. This area a bit non shaded. This one if the light comes from here, we shade it there. The big leaf, this part here would catch sunlight, so this will be shaded a little bit and this opposite side would be shaded a lot more. There you go. This, what we're going to do this flower is good. This would be dark because it looks towards me. If I pick that flower with it, the sunlight comes from here, this will be lighted, that part there, but this part will be dark because the sun comes like that a little bit, doesn't light up that part. Same for the opposite side here, that's gonna be dark. This is going to be a lot dark. And the back flowers, those, I'm going to let the light shine on those. So I'm not going to do anything for that. This leaf pretty much the same as this leaf. Here's the dark part. And this is the less dark part. And the stark we do these sides of obviously, of course. This one light comes from here. The sun is not, of course, in this corner, but further away, then that would be dark and the rest will just leave in light. Okay, last flower here, bit as the same as this one. So this would be in dark. And the bottoms, we're going to make really dark. This will be dark. And mostly this would be dark. That would be all dark, this flower pretty much. And then this side, we would make dark. Okay, so we've got our drawing now. We've got our shading now. We know where we want the shadow to be. We know what we need to draw. The next thing is, of course, we need our brush pen. I'm going to use the pick my brush pen for this, and we're just going to draw it and then shade it. Alright, let's get into that. Okay, let me get the brush pen. And I'm going to work from this side to this side. I might start at the top and then do the bottom part. So then I would start with this one. Now, with a brush pen, it's basically really the same as with a pencil, we're just going to make these short lines like that. And I'm not pressing really hard. I'm just pressing a little bit. And as you can see with this now, this already totally stops me from getting into details. I don't want to do details now because it's way too rough. So I want to work rough. So I want this line to be in there, and as you can see, I'm not doing it continuously. I'm not even connecting everything. I'm doing it really roughly. Let me do these leaves right away and a bit there. That's all I'm going to do with this leaf and let me do this leaf too. And this leaf Right. And I'm not going to shade yet. I'm just going to draw. Okay. Now I've done this part. I can close this, do the stack on one side and do the stack on the second side. Now, there you go, see? That is already the first setup. Now I'm going to do this one here starting with this leaf. And since I have everything already ready with my pencil, it's just basically easy tracing it This one needs a bit fringe. And once in a while I have my flower still here. So I could look once in a while to it and say, Oh, how I want some curves in it and things like that. It's just off camera. I can see it. So you could do the same once in a while still look at the image and then say, Alright, I want that with it. Okay, that's the heart. Here's those leaves. Now I'm going to do a stark and my pencil stack is slightly too thick, so I'm going to make it a bit thin. And I want this one. Now I'm going to look at this one. It's really has a pointy part, so I'm not having that in my drawing, but let's see if I can get that in, there you go. There, that's better. And it just had some lines going like that. There's that one. So leave I'm starting with the middle part. I'm doing it like this. Okay, we've got that one. Now I'm going to extend this Stark here. And there you go. Make it a little bit thinner than what I had. Alright, the next flour, I'm going to work this one from top to the bottom so that I don't smear anything. All right. And I'm going to do this one first. There you go. Then I had another one in front of it, and I had that one in front of it, and there it is. Now, as you probably notice what I'm doing is sometimes I'm hardly even touching my paper. I'm more or less letting this brush dense a little bit on the paper. So it's just touching it. I'm definitely not pressing it, but I want to make loose lively lines with it. And you get this whole pretty idea. And there is this one that we have this leaf at the point to it. And then we have this leaf here. I'm doing that middle line again. And there you go. This is really fun to do. Really fun to work with a brush like this. Now I bring in the stark. And the bottom star part, this one is slightly thicker. There we go a bit thinner. And there you go. Alright, that's the drawing. Now, of course, there's more than the drawing. We need the shading in it. And for that, we're mainly going to use the side of the brush and just do some areas really quickly. Now, this is looking nice already, but we need some shading in it. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to use the side of this brush, and we're going to do the really dark parts first. And I'm just painting those in. This one is really dark, too. So you get this light and shadow effect. Very interesting. Idea, light and shadow. Alright, I'm not touching that top part for now. This one I need to do. And there you go. No, this leaf I need to do this one I want to do on this side a little bit. And there, I want to do the bottom of this one too. And of this one, two, and of that one, I want to play a little bit more with the light in here. This one, the same roughly at the bottom and that one. There at the bottom, and I want to do this one. And there you go. Now, the stock I want to do. On the edge is just a little bit here and there. I'm waiting just a little bit for this to dry. Now, this pen dries reasonably quick, so I could go in again. But if you have a pen that needs more time, then give it that time. So as you can see, I'm just doing little dots, little dots and stripes. On this one, this needs a bit more. There you go. Same here on the bottom. All right. Good. Now, you could already leave it like this, but that will just be light shedder. We have these in between parts. So what we're going to do? We're going to hedge a little bit, and I'm going to just roughly hedge these parts there too. Let's see. I might just add a little there. I want a little bit of hedging here. Same here. And that is all light. That is all light. I think I'm fine. Right. Oh, no, I want some hedging on this one, and I want it there a little bit. Okay. So more. Now, that will be it. All right. I think this one is slightly too strong. There you go. Okay, I'm just going to have just a couple more of those leaves going down here. And then I'm going to say, Alright, that's it for now. Okay, now I got to wait. Yeah, we're going to use the eraser to get rid of all the pencil markings, but for that, you have to wait and make sure that your drawing is really dry. A couple of minutes, 10 minutes, 5 minutes, now, just a few minutes. Yeah. So I'm waiting. And then once it is dry, we're going to erase all of the pencil markings, and we're only left with a pretty drawing. Let's erase a little bit. I'm going to erase that. I can safely do these borders. Now, with erasing, too, don't press hard hard hard because then you might wrinkle your paper or even tear it. So do it carefully. You, of course, need to apply pressure, and as you can see, I'm holding my paper firm. Alright, good. And now, I'm getting towards what I've drawn. So let's try a little area and see if it is dry. Yeah, because if it would smear here, that wouldn't be a huge problem. So now I'm doing it quite carefully. Erasing it all decide to Okay, let's get the brush. And there you go. Now, look at that. Isn't that a pretty ink drawing. See that? There's a bit more pencil there. There's a little bit more pencil there. Now, if you are left with just a little bit, that's not even a big problem. Alright. That's it. Now, good. And there is our first beautiful ink drawing. Okay, we've got our first ink drawing done a lovely scene of flowers with a brush pen. Now, the brush pen helped us to really work quickly, ignore details, and really get going with a quick sketch because this went pretty quick. Now, your turn, I would say practice with your brush pen and do a scene and do a couple probably just find some other photographs or look in the book of notes. There's quite some photographs in it. And once you get comfortable with using the brush pen, we're going to move to the next lesson where we're going to make some pretty greeting cards. Alright, enjoy it, and I'll see you in the next lesson when you're done. 4. Project - Creating Greeting Cards: You know what a great thing is about sketching and especially quick sketching. It's not only fun for yourself, but you can make some pretty things for others, too. And that's what we're going to do in this lesson. We're going to create some greeting cards using the brush pen. I've noticed that people really appreciate it when you create a card, especially for them. It's not a big time consuming thing with quick sketching. You can do it really quickly. Just make a pretty card and give it to somebody too for his birthday, encourage them for a thank you card or whatever you want to do. You can use this for a lot of things. Okay, we're going to do that together. What do we need for this? Now, we have used a sketchbook until now, but the sketchbook won't do for a greeting card. So I'm going to put my sketchbook away. Close it. We'll get to that in the next lesson again. Right? I'm going to put that back and see if it doesn't fall on the ground. No, it's, it's safe. Okay, what do we need instead? We need some papers that work for a card. These are great for greeting cards. What is This is what color paper? Nice, sturdy, and it's set up as a postcard already. You can buy these at various places. You don't have to buy a really expensive one. You can buy them. Like, it doesn't need to be watercolor paper, mixed media paper, even just card stock works. So you could use that. Another thing you could use is just regular card stock. Yeah, and we're going to work on that, too. Just card stock works great with ink, too. Oh, no, that one goes away. If you want to have some color, Now, look. Nice. Different colours. You can use different colors too. This is something called paint on Clairefontaine, sturdy paper, really great for inking. And I've got some various versions of that. Now, perhaps you can see it on the camera. This has a pattern in it, more like a canvas. Really great for a card, or you just can get a big sheet like this. A big block. Just cut up the pieces you want and just fold them. We're gonna do that, too, by the way. You need some thicker paper, card stock, watercolor paper. They're all work well. Yeah. Okay. Color, no color. That's up to you. Yeah. I like to just use white or perhaps a toned tan like I've shown in this one, a bit of a natural color, and that's it. Okay, we're not going to work with color. We're just going to do black and white sketches. Okay. That's it. Now, obviously, aside from that, you're going to need your pencil, eraser, and so on, and you need a brush pen. I'm going to do a couple, so I'm going to demonstrate a few of them with some different pens so you can see the difference, too, in the pens. Alright. Do we need more? You need reference photos. Now I got some flowers. I still got that puppy from the first one. I got an oriental puppy that's quite different. And I have, of course, that flower from the previous lesson. But you can find your own flowers, find them online, and just start using them and create some pretty cards with them. Okay, well, let's go. Okay, you're looking at an empty space. Okay. That's not what we want, of course. Let's get start going. What are we gonna do first? I'm going to use this watercolur paper. Now, the difference with watercolur paper is huh? This is quite rough. Now, you have different kinds of watercolor papers, but there is a nice texture on this, and that makes the cart already pretty in itself without putting anything on it. So what we can do is we can use it. Landscape. We can use it like this. That's totally up to us how we're going to do that. We're gonna do a landscape first. That is probably a bit more tricky than portrait, but let's go for that. What I'm going to do, I'm not going to use the same flower that we used. Let me take this oriental puppy. And yeah, that would work great, see? I'm going to make it really big on this. What I'm going to do with this, I'm going to put that flower here, and then I'm going to put this flower somewhere here. I'm gonna play with that a little bit, yeah. So cards, you can create however you want. You can play a little bit with the composition, put just one big flower on it, several little flowers on it, use the card, and yeah, just have fun with that. So you don't have to copy one on one what can create your own thing, and that makes a more creative card. Alright, so I'm going to do this really big, I said. And I want it under an angle because that is pretty. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to sketch in and I'm going to put this flower aside. I want the flower to go in this box. Now, there you go. And then I can put the other one somewhere there. Okay. And now I'm going to look at the flower. Okay, now I see that under it just in the middle. I'm I'm turning it like that. The pretty side. Ah, that is good enough. Good. There's a stark somewhere in the middle that goes here, and then it blooms out. I like that. That's the part there, that underpar. And then there's some big leaves towards me also, and I'm tilting them a little bit. It's making them interesting. There you go. Now, that already is a good start. Don't you think so. Alright, now we're going to put in the big one. And let's see. I've put my rectangle way too small, so I might go outside a little bit. And let's see you go here. And I'm doing it like that. Then there's one here. Now that has a fold there, I'm going to bring that fold in this fold here. Alright, that will look interesting. Now we've got that big one. Let me check. That is one big one starting there. And now gradually moving down, disappearing into the other one. That's nice. Now, on the back, I see a little bit coming on top of it, so I'm going to make use of that. Put one behind it, put one in this corner and put one behind there, just a little bit to get a nicer composition. That will be my first one. There you go. And the next one, I'm just gonna doesn't matter how I turn it. I'm just going to put it right there. Yeah. Might do it even behind the other one a little bit to get an interesting composition. So I'm going to create a box, and I'm going to do this one just it's moving around. Stay where you are. Let's put it up a little bit. I want it to get into this box, and then the stock comes right there. There you go. Yeah. So that is wrong. It's this box. So I'm going to start with this bit. And you could have drawn a little box here, too. There you go. Now, that looks better. Trying to make it a little bit more natural. Okay? And then it just goes out to the I'm just drawing that in quickly. It goes behind that flower. And now, I'm gonna fold it like that, give it a bit of an angle here. There we see, I can see the heart coming out of it a little bit, moving this one under an angle and adding a fold here and there. Now, that's pretty, isn't it? Put that one up a little bit. There you go. Now, that's the second one. Now, that in itself, this composition already makes a pretty cut. Now, we could draw a little bit of the leaf in it. We could do that here. And then we would draw the leaf right there and only do this part there, and that is good. Alright? Now, for composition size, there's a nice leaf here. This one, we're going to add just here, okay? Bit like that. Again, just part of the leaf. This one is a bit bigger. There we go. Okay, now you can see quite roughly. Alright, so I got my basic sketch down now. I need to define where I want my light and shadow still. So let's do that now. Now, the nicest side is this so that this gets a lot of light and that gets shade other way around would be less nice. So this is behind there. So most of that except for the top would be in shadow. And I'm just doing that there, there going the opposite, so I know there are sites there. Okay. And I'm just once I get to the pen, I'll decide what is going to be dark and really dark and not. Now, sun coming from here somewhere, that means there's shade here. This one is in shade too. There's some shade there. Some shade on that one. Now, this would be in shade two. This one would be in shade two, and this one would be shaded, too. And here would be some shade and on the bottom. But I'm not doing that side. There's some shade under there. Alright. And for the leaf, I'm just doing some shade on the bottom, and this leaf on this side, just a little bit. Alright, that would be good enough. Then we have quite some shade in here. And we need those petals to be in shade, but I'm not going to shade them too much because then I can't see them anymore. All right. Good. Now we're done with this, and now we need to decide which pen we're going to take. I'm going to take this brush pen with a more firm tip so I can show you how to work with that. Alright. Alright. We're going to begin with drawing it. And I'm again doing the same as before. I'm going to do lively loose lines Like this. Alright, that's the first one. I'm going to add some. As you can see now with the sketching, some more curves to it so that it looks a bit more convincing. Now here, too. And these leaves I knead in. There's my stark. Okay. I'm doing the leaf now. There you go. That's the first leaf. Then I'm going to work on the flower again. There's this big one here. And there's the fold on it. And that would be the basic drawing. Not yet. There you go. Now I've got the basic drawing done. Okay. No one line. Forgotten. Okay, now I can start shading. And for this, I'm going to start here. Now, this part here, I'm going to do with the side of the pen. Basically, I'm going to color this in. There you go. And with the stark, I'm more or less going to do the same. Right, that would be the first one. Now, since I've colored this in, I don't want to color the rest in. So the rest, I'm going to use some hetching Hetching there. And here I can go paint again because that is far away from this site. I forgot to do the heart of it and this. I'm going to shade like that a little bit here too, and I'm going to thicken these lines a little bit. And there you go. That will be the first one. Now, let's go to the flour. These ones, I'm going to do the same as with the other one. I'm more or less painting these completely in, blocking in the whole area. Right, and there you go. And now, do the stark. There you go, leaving some white in it. This one. I was going to do quite roughly, same here. There we are. And now I need this part here. Let's do it like this. Hedging but relatively close to each other than the fold here. I'm going to paint in again. This one, doing the same as there, Alright. And now here we need some hedging. I'm going to follow the same part. I'll wait just a little bit for this to be dry. And we need that here, too. See, and now the hatching comes in. Quite useful when we do that here, too. And there we go. That would be our first little cart. It's a little bit of shading on this bottom, and there is that's it. And let's go with this one a bit more. Okay, but not too much there too. This one is in need of some more because it is behind there. I would look weird. Alright. Good. Now, that's nice. Uh, yeah, cut that part. Okay. Well, okay. That's nice. Got to erase that, but we're gonna do one little more thing to it. I'll show you that to make it a bit more lively. Alright. What you gonna do now? This is all now white. We're gonna add some spots. Let's do first this on the edges. We're going to add just a little bit of lines, random lines here too, there. So stipple stip yeah, stip. How do that points, some marks. Yeah. And we're going to do that here too, just bit like this. See that? And here, too. Now the technique we're using is called stippling. But normally you would stipple a whole flour or wholeing. But for this, it just makes it look a bit more interesting also on these edges a little bit here too, see and that makes it look more lively. Alright. Good. That's it. Now we're done. Okay? Now we got to wait for it to dry. Okay, so while I'm talking to you, wait for it to dry. See? That looks pretty, doesn't it? Now, that is our first little card. I'm going to let this dry. I'm gonna move into the next one straightaway. Alright, well, our first card is drying, we're gonna make a second one. I'm gonna do it on card stock. Now, this card stock is too big. Yeah. This is gonna be a folded cart. So what I want to do is I want to fold it, and to fold it, we can do that in two ways. We can use just a ruler and a scissor. I'll demonstrate it or what you can also use. Is Oh, this is a big. Something like this, called a score pal. It has all these lines, and it will help you fold a card easily. I'll show you that on the camera. Right. I'm going to use the score pal first to show you how that works. There's a little bit. There's my score pale to make a score. Now, here's my total length of the card. Now, that depends on your card, of course. I'm using what's called in Europe, an A five size, and I want to just fold that to the middle. So it's 21, so I need 10.5, and they made it easy. That's where the star is. Yeah. Now I'm thinking that if you are in the state, but I'm not sure you will probably fold your card right at the arrow. But hey, that is for you to find out. This is a site I'm going to draw on, but I don't want to fold it there. I actually want to fold it on the inside. I want to put that scorpel there, I'm gonna press, Andev is well, it just follows in automatically, and there we are. And let's see if we done it right. We can easily fold a card, and it's really neat. Alright, so that is a really nicely folded card. Now, I understand not everybody has a tool like this, so let's demonstrate it a different way. For that, you need scissors and a ruler, yeah, or some blond metal. A pen that has worn out would work, too, but make sure it's really worn out. Otherwise, you get lines. Let me demonstrate how that works, too. Alright. Well, I'm putting this one away. I'm gonna get a different piece of paper. And let's go for this toned ten paper. I'm going to just cut out the piece. Now, this is too large to. And what I'm going to do with this, I will need a pencil for that. I'm going to measure it. Now, I know it's 21 centimeters. So what I'm going to do on the top, I'm just gonna find 21. I'm going to find half of it. That's 10.5. I'm going to just put a little dot there. And I'm doing exactly the same on the bottom, 21, finding my 10.5 there. Now I'm going to get my ruler on the put them ends. You can do the stripe. Now, you can do it without the stripe. You can just pick up your scissors and with the back of the scissor, so not the sharp points, yeah. But the back of the scissor, what you're going to do move this right. I'm going to keep my ruler there. I'm going to press. So I have my fingers on the card, on the ruler as well, spread them out as much as I can. Really press firmly, and I'm going to just whit the blunt side of the scissors. Do that a couple of times. And if all is well, what I get is before I do that, let me get the eraser. Get this line away so you don't really need to have Oh, probably my camera shaking a little bit now. You don't have to do the line. You could do with only the dots. That will work, too. All right. Good. But just to demonstrate and that you see what's going on. So I've got a score if all as well. I'll be few. Yep, it's definitely there, and I can now easily folds my card. And there you go. Now I've got a folded card, too. All right. So that's one. Now I've got two nicely folded cards. You can draw on it. Landscape, I can draw on it. Portrait. That's my choice. So what I'm going to do next, I'm going to draw two flowers on it. I'm going to film this. But as with the previous module, I am not going to talk you through it because I've demonstrated that now, you can play with it, but I'm just going to show you how I'm just using these cards and making two extra cards so that in the end, we have three pretty cards. Alright. Yeah, so I'll be drawing and then once I'm done, I'll be back. Two. Alright. I'm done. I've created three pretty cards now. The first one, I just walked you through it and showed you how to do it with that sanguine colored pen. Really nice one, looking great. Then I created a second one with these puppies and with my favorite brush pen, and I set it up with pencil first, but then I did the third one, and I just didn't do the pencil. I just did it free hand. And once you get comfortable with brush pen, you just don't need that pencil anymore. But you can do it right away. Now, of course, that takes some practice. You're not going to wake up one day and just do a pretty card. No, you need to practice with the pencil first, and then slowly taking the pencil away and just giving it a try, okay? Well. But if you're not comfortable drawing free hand, hey, the pencil that works great, too. No problem. Well, okay, that's it for this lesson. I got some nice cards. Now it's your turn to create a pretty card. Use photo references, use the photos in the notes in the book of notes I have, and create your own beautiful cards. And you might create them with somebody in mind. What is their favorite flower? And just take that favorite flower, go outside, sketch live, buy it at the store, or take photographs and just create it and just give the person their favorite flower as a lovely card. Okay, many ideas, many things you can do with a card, and you don't have to stop at the free, of course, you can do as many as you like. Well, enjoy it. Have fun creating quick sketch greeting cards with a brush pen.