Start A Drawing Habit with 5 Early 2000s Prompts

1. Introduction: Do you miss or maybe enjoy romanticizing a time when the internet was still at its infancy? Do you sometimes think about the media fashion technology and just the general weirdness of the early 2000s? I think we're kind of far enough away from the years 2000 to 2009 to be able to revisit it with a new perspective. At least I want to, hey, I'm Inta and I'm an architect, visual artist, writer and film producer based in Addis by Ethiopia. I've made sand animation videos and created simple two D drawings to explain large scale or complex subjects. Something that's been especially fun for me to do is to sit down with the client and be able to flesh out an idea that they probably have for years and turn it into a coherent and engaging story. I worked with the Packard Care International, the Association of Ethiopian Architects, several TV programs, and in the training of students from various ages. For this class, we're going to be going through five different prompt to create drawings that are inspired by your memories from the year 2000 to 2009. But we don't have to stick to this exact timeline. You can draw inspiration from the late '90s or even from the early 2010. Now I don't want this to be an attempt at capturing the Zeitgeist of that era, because what would that even look like? I want to only focus on the things that were special to me personally, and I hope that you would do the same as well. You can be an absolute beginner or someone who draws for a living. The goal here is not to create technically perfect drawings. Anyway, please feel free to use any drawing media that you have around you or you're comfortable with using. If you really want to commit, you can try to use the same drawing medium that you probably used a lot of in the early 2000. The gist of what we'll be doing is to, one, dig up objects or look up reference photos for five of the prompts here. Two, use any drawing medium we're comfortable with to fill a page with illustrations. And three, I hope we can share our drawings in the project section. Next, we'll go through the five prompts for this class and start collecting reference photos. I'm really curious to see what the early 2000 looked like, where you're from. See you there. 2. Class Project: Hello and welcome back. Here for the class projects, we're going to be creating drawings based on five prompts and we'll be collecting references for them. One tip I have is to draw inspiration from things you personally remember. The first prompt is going to be technology. The second TV series or movies that you loved, three fashion, four books, and five your favorite items. Now you can create these drawings over the span of five days, one prompt per day, or if you have the stamina, you can do it all in the same session. Now, before drawing, for each prompt, we're going to be collecting our reference photos or even pulling out the objects that we'll be using as inspiration for creating our drawings. And we're going to be creating a color palette based on the objects or reference images we have at hand. I like to limit my color palette so that I avoid being overwhelmed when I'm drawing, but you can go crazy with the colors that use on the page. And you can use any drawing medium at your disposal or that you're comfortable with. You can use watercolor, oil pastels, color pencils, just pens, markers. And you can even create these drawings digitally. It's really not about the medium we use here, but I'm going to be using alcohol markers. I love the ones that I got from Ohuhu. I got the midtone set, and they have these very beautiful colors that are very easy to layer. And those are the colors that I'll be using for this class. Now when you're done with any prompt or all five, hopefully you can take a picture of your drawing or export the drawing that you made and submit it in the submit project section that you're going to find under the video of this class. If you're on your computer, you can scroll down a little bit and you'll find it on your right. You can click Submit Project and then applaud the image. Hopefully it will be less than 8 megabytes and you'll be creating a title for it, creating a very short description of what inspired you to make this. And you can even add extra images in the section. Then you can click the Submit button. And there you go. Even if you don't think your drawing looks ready or polished, I would just love to see what your recollections of the early 2000 looked like. You can even check out the drawings that other students leave in the project section. Now I've attached a PDF with all five prompts and even examples. In the download resources section, you can download the PDF and start brainstorming for each prompt. In the next lesson, we're going to be talking about the first prompt. I hope to see you there. 3. Prompt #1: Technology: Our first prompt is a fun one, it's technology. My main tip point into this would be to try to remember the things that you actually used. If you use the pager, for example, try to remember the exact one you used, its color, shape, and everything. If you have it, dig it up and try to use it as a live reference, or if you lost it over the years, you can find a picture or reference image online and try to follow that for creating your drawing. If you played Pac Man or the Snake game, for example, you can try to recreate the screen from memory or even find a reference image for that. My family and I loved that game so much, the snake game, and we'll be very competitive over it, over who got furthest on the snake game. You can also show things like the old TV set that you had at home. I had this big box TV for example, in my house. You can include like a VCR, tape cassettes, anything that you used. And no matter what, I just hope that you can make this exercise your own. Okay, so the first prompt is technology, and I wanted to collect reference images and just put everything in one page. I did it on my ipad, so I'm just going to be going through that right now. I still haven't decided what I'm going to be drawing. But yeah, I just collected these images. It was just things from the Windows, the Windows page, when you open it, when you open a PC. We had like a desktop computer that we all used at home. I also collected images of, we call this in Arabic, we call it the Abu Keshav, which means the one with the flashlight. We had these phones and we used to play the snake game that I also included reference image for right here. We used to be very competitive about it. Me, my dad, my sister. I used to really want the ipods when they first came out. But yeah, I never got one. But I included a reference image because it was technology that that I really coveted or really wanted. At some point, I also included this machine. I don't know what you call those, They have all this candy and I don't know why did I make it upside down. It's like you put a coin inside and then you get whatever like randomly. So it's like something that you chew on and it turns into bubble gum slowly. But yeah, I just included it here. These are all the items that I could remember. Oh, I also saw this when I was googling things, technology from the early 2000. Yeah, I remember this little guy on Windows. All these things that we found so trivial at the time just become a fond memory at some point and I don't know, maybe I'm just nostalgic. My ad got us this Playstation. Playstation. I think it was one of the first two. At some point it was gray with these little buttons. It looked really cool. And I had this red Blackberry as well. It's yeah, one of my favorite things that I owned, ever, So yeah. I don't know where I should draw from all of these things. This is a possible color palette that I thought of, but I might completely change it. We used to have a blue phone, my mom's phone, that we all shared, but I'm going to just take out my pen and circle the ones that I especially liked or think would go well together. I'm thinking maybe Nokia phone with, just like with the snake game. I'm thinking maybe this one would be the first one that I'll be drawing. And then maybe also my Blackberry. This one I actually still own. I still have it. It needs a lot of cleaning, but I don't know why it got so grimy over the years. What else would I draw? Maybe the Playstation console. I didn't download a picture of this, but I don't know. Maybe I should draw this one as well. But I want to focus on phones for this exercise. I'm going to be drawing the blue Nokia phone that my mom owned and we all used and play, the snake came on and the Blackberry that I loved, my third, my birthday present. And also the Motorola phone that really I saw on ads. And I think there was like, it had this ring tone, it was really iconic. And so I'm going to be drawing that because I might as well have had it because the memories I have with this thing is quite strong. Like the ad was something that I sat down to watch. Like I just, when I saw it on TV, it would really catch my attention, would be so cool to own this and like to end the call and just like flip and close the phone. So I'm going to be drawing these things. This is my old Blackberry phone. I have my reference images right here. I think I'm going to be selecting a few colors from the marker set. I'm going to be using this color pencil because I think it goes well with the color set or the palette that I'm leaning towards. I'm thinking maybe this cornflower see, it's so close. Like this blue color pencil and this cornflower blue marker right here, I'm going to be using a lot of red, maybe, I don't know, Cadmium red or corescenure coalescence was the Sakura pink is too pink, I think this and then maybe 1 gray, the natural gyre. That be too much for the snake game. I think that might be a bit too much. But if I have to, I might go for this. Leaf green right here, going to be selecting mark. Okay. I like this color palette. Yeah, I'm going to keep this one here on standby just in case lender. But yeah, I like this color palette right here. I'm going to get right to it. I am going to make very rough sketches. Again, I just want this to be like at more loose drawings. Instead of something very exact realistic. I'm going to have these markers right here. My blender right here. Let's start with the first phone that we have or the one that we all share. So that's the Nokia phone. I think I'm going to make them make it look like a phone evolution kind of thing. And then maybe leave a space for a title around here. So I'm going to just write down, do the sketch or the outline for, I'm using a thick card stock paper, five size, I think those are small enough to not make you feel overwhelmed. And at the same time it's, I think, big enough to have a couple of drawings or a couple of ideas laid on. I'm going to, if you're comfortable with drawing on larger paper, even for loose drawings, feel free to do that. That would be really nice. You can have even all five prompts on one large piece of paper, let's say watercolor paper or like a large two or three sheet. But I want to keep things managed. It's small for now. I'm going to just create an outline and then go right in with the marker. Because I really don't want to overthink this like I want it to be still like fun and loose and I hope that you guys can do the same. I'm going to create, I'm following a reference image from then. I'll have the Nokia Tin right here. It was very blobby, looked really fun, looked very child friendly. Is going to have the buttons right here. I think our buttons were like all together. Like I'm also drawing from memory because I think that's more important than making it properly accurate. I think I want to draw it how I remember it. I hope to be good if you guys do that as well, because it's exercising your memory as well. There was this and then I think there was the cold button right here and there was another button right here. I think. Oh, I think there was like a square thing here. Yeah, and that was the console that we used. It had like little buttons up down left and right and then 123-45-6789, and then the zero, and then there was a star and a hash here. That's about it. So, I'm going to move on to the next one. I want to have the Motorola because that was the one that I wanted that at some point I didn't have that. I'm just going to Draw it from the reference image. I want to make it thicker than it is. I think that's fun because I remember it as being very chunky looking. I like that. It was like it had this big joint here, I think. Yeah, there's this joint, there's this thickness, and then I think that's it. And then should I add this or should I do that just by I don't want to make it too detailed so that I don't get overwhelmed and then it's not too much. Finally, I'm going to be getting to my Blackberry, which I have right here. So I'm just going to do her from life. She is big in red, my favorite phone yet. I want to leave enough space in the border to do something fun in the border. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Yeah, this part is very red. I'm just going to do that. There's Blackberry, Blackberry written here. All of this is black. And then I'm going to have my screen right here. Then the rest of this is going to be filled with this button so that I think it hurt my fingers sometimes because it was very, it was a mess to. I'm not going to draw all of these buttons, I'm just going to go with lines to represent them. I think it'd be good if you do something similar. I don't want this to become a tedious process. Again, keep drawing very loose. This had like some buttons on the side. I'm just going to convey them this so I can remember it later. For the title, I think I'm going to do something around here and then maybe show show the technology move and get, oh my goodness, why does this look so even for a sketch look a bit funky, it's okay though I can fix it a little bit and then maybe can be thickness like this. Just going to color all of it like this. Jump right in. I'm going to color in long streaks with alcohol marker. That's the best way to achieve this seamless effect. It's also fun to color like large swaths of the drawing very quickly. I'm just doing that right now. I don't remember what color these buttons, but I think I'm just going to go over them with the gray. And then I'm going to darken the edges. Darken the sides so that the thickness can show. Maybe dry very quickly as you can see. But I think we're getting there then maybe, yeah, maybe I can just go through this very quickly with the same blue and then go back. And I don't know, I draw on top of it with ink in order to be able to see whatever I draw on top of the screen. I want to go over it with the light gray. And I'm going to be holding it like this so that I like over a larger area without creating streaks. I'm just going to do this then. It's okay. The edges can be darker because they have the edges and I think that was looked like it was embossed or it was sunken somehow. I'm considering or wondering if I should draw over this area with this. I think it would be really fun if I leave this white. But maybe just mark this area like this just so I can show that this is where the buttons you clicked. And then Maybe I should just throw over everything in blue. Yeah, I ended up just doing that because I think that, that would be nice. But you can see you can still see the blue that I drew over, which is cool. I don't know, I'm a little confused by this one. How did it look like? I feel like the more I draw, the more I remember what it was like. But yeah, it's not really entirely coming to me. It's one of the earliest phones we had. Just going to go over this with the gray just to show that some depth. I'll be going over the parts that are dark in gray. So I'm just going to do the same thing, just cover large areas like this. In long strokes, I do this so that I have unintentional streaks. Obviously there's so many smoother ways to use brush markers. But again, I just having one of these, like I'll write motor lover here or just show that there's writing now. The edges are going to be read. Now this is the fun part. I think I want to write throw over my Blackberry as well. I'm going to be I'm just going to be going over it like this and coloring the edges. Okay. What else is going to be black? I think Yeah, the whole screen area is black. It's like a darker black like the rest of the syst you can see. I think I'm going to draw that through line art. I don't want this to be any more complicated for me. I'm just going to go over everything, emphasize certain areas. I'm going to be emphasizing it even more with the line art. But right now, I just want to show myself where these are going to be. One good thing about alcohol markers. For simple loose drawings like this, you can make certain areas darker than others. That's nice. For example, this, I want to make this, see, I messed this up, it's okay. I then maybe also use the other Edgecchisl, and then maybe also draw lines like this and have like the space you mark it and just make it very rough like just to show that these are buttons. This may be for the edge. I'm going to also draw this. And then also have a little thin corner as well. Now I'll go in with the red. The red is going to be, have to be careful with this a little bit. I'm going to first draw the Motorola. The screen is also red, so I'll be drawing the Motorola thing here and then add this, then the rest, I can't color in again. Quick strokes I messed up. Okay. And then just clean up the edge a little bit. And the rest of the phone is also red, so I'm going to be going over that. I have this. Oh, brush markers. A much fun to work with. I think I forgot to make this one dark. Going to be doing that so I don't have to do everything during the line art stage. It's going to be making this dark warning. For those of you who hate markers. I'm sorry, late morning. But yeah, here we go. And I'm going to be going into my Blackberry as well. Going to be doing the little symbols, undo button the Blackberry Loco very roughly the phone. And then I will have my beautiful red all over it. So I'll be going over the, uh, I think I'm probably gonna darken this a little bit, make it a little bit thicker. Okay. Just to follow the reference image. And I think that's it. Yeah, I think that's it. Now, I'm going to be going in here with my line art just to define everything and then I'll add the pile and call it a day. I am just going to be adding a little bit details. Again, nothing overboard. Something like, let's say if it's the snake game, then I want it to be like maybe the border of the screen of the snake game, then the pixel snake. And while it's chasing the foot, we're creating the border. I'm moving very quickly because again, I don't want to be too precious about these drawings. Just saw it in the ads, so I wouldn't know see the reference image and a very thick mortar. I don't know. Did any of you guys own Motorola? These phones that so many kids wanted at the time? Okay. I think this is enough for the Motorola and I move on to my black berry. Miss this off, so I'm just going to color it black. I'm going to write down the black berry here, maybe the local, then draw my screen right here, I think. I'm just going to go in here lightly, try to depict the space button. I want to go over this gray, in the yellow gray because I think it's a little too light for my liking. So I'm just going to go in and make it stand out. Maybe I should add something blue here to balance things out. Like this is a blue, this is historically accurate, or if it's going to appear at all. But I just want to do that right here. Maybe the title can be in blue. Yeah, title can be in blue. Let me create these blogs to balance things out. All right. Right. This time I've actually done, I added a little bit more line art. And just to make things look a little more fun and whimsical, you can add like some lines like this or just blobs and shapes that you feel would add more character and sketchiness to your illustration. I think that's it. I have to wrap up. I have to finish because I think I'm never going to let go of this illustration. I see you in the next prompt. 4. Prompt #2: TV Series / Movie: Our next prompt is TV series. In movies it could be anime TV show that you were obsessed with. Movie that you watched in cinema or used to re, watch over and over with your family. Like your thing, our thing used to be totally spice my sisters and I loved totally spice. We used to watch the dubbed version. It was dubbed into Arabic and used to come on MBC three around 07:00 P.M. So it was like this evening activity where we sat together and watch those girls in action. And we even tried to recreate some of the technology they had. Like they had this makeup kit, the lipstick we used to use color pencils and like folded paper and stuff to try to recreate that and just let our imaginations run wild. It was really cool. So you can pick a cartoon series, movie animate, that you enjoyed with your family or friends. Or you can pick something that was your own. Let's do this. I just opened my ipad for reference for the second prompt. Because, yeah, again, these objects are fictional, they don't really exist. So I needed to jog my memory and look at them again. In my case, I'm picking this TV series called Totally Spice, which is this really cute, feminine animated series for children. And they had this really nice color palette and all these cool gadget designs. And it was really inspiring for us as kids. And even now I look back at it and I'm like they use very normal looking things like makeup and stuff that can transform into like something that injects or emits a laser beam. And like a thing, what do you call this blower, that can push people away or can push the girls away if they want. And like glasses, these glasses don't look normal at all. But yeah, it was a fun time. I'm going to be, I think I'm going to be selecting this lipstick and maybe this compact to draw because Yeah, they weren't my favorites, actually. Yeah, they were my favorites. So I'm just going to get to that here. I have these colors. I picked the three pinks or four pinks that I think would be my primary color. And then I'm going to switch to or I'll be reaching out for darker pinks as I go along. I suggest that if you're drawing with alcohol markers or with going straight into it with the color, like laying down the color, I suggest you start light, and then you build on it as you go. And then maybe you can finish it up with some line art. I, I'm going to pick my colors for this. I picked these three pinks. Two pinks. And oh, great, so it's this beautiful, it's this beautiful shadow pink, that's my favorite color from the entire set. The yellow gray, and this apricot pink. I think these will be not exactly like the color of the gadgets here, but close enough. I hope I'm going to start with the shadow pink. Just get right into it. I have my lipstick reference open. I'm going to use the chisel tip. I think whenever you have something straight and you're roaming with alcohol markers, I think it's really good to try to use a If you have the chisel tip, that is the chisel tip marker. I just love smelling the marker. I get a whole experience. I think I'm going to do the top with the brush side and then I'm going to switch over to the side. I don't want to do any sketching or any construction lines, I just want to get into it to keep fun. And again, ''s going to be this dig. I'll have this oblong shape at the top. Yeah, this oblong shape. And then I think it's going to go this way and probably, yeah, probably end it here for the lipstick. And then it's going to jut out a little bit because this is where the handle will be. Oh, I want to leave some parts white because I wanted to shimmer. That's the original as well. Shimmers. I'll just leave a little part that shimmers like this. I'm trying to draw in long white strokes so that it's because it dries very quickly. So I want it to look smooth. Then I am going to, I think I should leave this as it is. And then maybe for this I can do a very simple box. Yeah, for the closed version of the lipstick, I think I'm going to have that. I'm just going to be bold and I think I'll probably just do this multiple times. Then I have this edge. So I'm just going to do this. Okay? Maybe I should have left a shimmer there. Okay. Now I think I'm going to color that in later. And there's a point here that's kind of darker, so I think I'm going to mark it here. The thing with alcohol markers is that they're very good with layering. You can use one color and just keep going back to the same spot and layer it would just create slightly different ingredients of the same thing. I'm going to leave this now. I want to draw the circle, the compact. I'm going to do that. I'm just opening the reference. I'm going to draw that right here. It's going to take some space. I will just go for it and draw a circle first. Okay, I guess not too bad. Do a few more runs to try to make the circle look slightly better and thicker because the compact has some thickness. I think this is good enough. Now I'm going to draw the part that sticks out right here. There's okay. Now this doesn't look smooth. It's fine. I'm just going to I'm just going to layer a see since I use the shadow pink and I'll be using it for almost everything, like this is my primary color, it's fine that I made a mistake. I made the part that was a little too big. I turned it into an edge. Now it's the part that sticks out or the part that faces us. Again, this is just something very sketchy, very doodly. I think it's fine that even if you make some things that you think, okay, I could have done this better. It's fine. Again, this is just about capturing that memory and the wonder of that, of that era and all the things that you like to consume, to watch, you're inspired by. This is something that this day I'm just like the people who created the show must have had so much fun, you know, doing the interior design and coming up with these gadget ideas. I imagine what the board meetings or like the group meetings looked like, you know, of them sitting together and going, okay, so what crazy wacky thing are we going to make for these girls this time? And it's like, oh, how about we have like lasers coming out of like a lipstick and they're like, okay, does this sounds a little hazardous for teenagers, but I guess we're going to do it because why not? I think I'm going to leave some shiny part right here around here. I don't know whether I should go into this with like a darker pink. I want to do like a swatch on the side or on the corners. Just like there's this pink, just to put all the same colors here. There's this pink and then there's the deep lilac to see the other colors right here. Deep lilac is two purple. I think Dark orchid was probably it. Either dark orchid or like Saca pink. I'm just going to use Saca pink right now, like squatch it here in the corner. Yeah. This is a very, totally spice color, like I would never wear a lipstick of the shade. Mm. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to try this out. This is probably going to be good for the interior. And then finally the gray. I'm gonna have this gray here. I think it's going to be good for. I want to leave a little bit of the shimmer. I think I'll have to leave some parts white around here because that would be, that would be good, just sketching their little weird coloring it in while I go. I'm making it up as I go because, Yeah, I have the reference right there, but I want to also take some creative liberties. This is my childhood gadget, it doesn't exist. It was just what it meant to what I. 5. Prompt #3: Fashion: Hi, this is a section that you might find dreadful. I do. It's fashion here. You could include something that you wore when it was trendy, where you were, or something that was not exactly trendy but you loved wearing nonetheless. This could be a sparkly top, your favorite pair of jeans, maybe friendship bracelets, or any jewelry that you loved wearing at that time. You can also draw something that you kind of wish you wore at that time. I'm going to be drawing striped long shirt that I wore at that time. Very early 2000 Disney Channel girlie. I grew up in Saudi Arabia, so I wore a black garb coal and away over all my outfits for most of my years there. But somehow a lot of the outfits that I wore or I liked to wear or purchase were very similar to the outfits that the girls in the Disney Channel shows I watched war. So it was a lot of sparkly things in the middle of long shirts, striped things, layering just some very dreadful things as well. But I kind of find it endearing now. So let's get to it. I don't know about your fashion at that time, but I look back at the things I wore now and, yeah, I mean, I was a kid but man was dreadful. I remember specifically this outfit that looked like it was just it wasn't exactly a dress. It wasn't exactly a shirt at the time. I loved how it looks. I love how I felt in it, and I think that's what mattered. But it was kind of like those long dress shirts that those early 2000 Disney girls wore on like the most popular Disney series. I don't know whether that's why I liked something like that. It had like a silver belt in the middle. I couldn't find anything like it online. But I don't know. Maybe you have like an equivalent of like a outfit shirt that you wore that you look back at now with horror. But also it's kind of endearing to you. So I don't know. I hope you can pick whatever that is for you. For me, this shirt. And I also really loved this pair of jeans. Like I've never found any like jeans that I loved as much as I had loved this pair. I just drew like a sketch, ignore this. But I was really obsessed with this pair of jeans. And I think when you have like one good pair of jeans, it's like that's all you're going to ever wear. Like I wore these until yeah. They were all stretched out and I think even torn in places. There's also the blue eyeliner that we were really obsessed with at the time. My sisters and I, it was actually trendy in Saudi Arabia. I don't know. I think we have a lot of similar trends or we follow a lot of the trends that we see on American media, TV series or movies, or just things that become trendy on social media. It was like this turquoise, blue, green eyeliner. We used to love that so much. I don't know. It's actually still kind of cool. I don't know. I think I would still wear it, so Yeah. I'm going to pick that. We also I don't know, we used to have like I think my classmate and I had like friendship bracelets. So I might draw maybe one friendship bracelet if I have space. And also I really loved this makeup. I don't know if it's an early 2000 thing, but like the lipstick that transforms into whatever color that you put it on. I mean, it was never flattering, but it was cool. It was like magic. I think this is the color scheme I want to go for. It's this orange color. This very horrid orange. And a dark or neutral gray, and a blue gray that I'll be using for my jeans. I'm not going to draw any sketch, I just want to go right into it. I'm going to start with my shirt because I think that it a distant memory. This was this. Okay. I'm just going to make it longer because it was very, very long. And I'm going to draw the arm, another arm right here. Make it slightly. I'm just drawing the outline that I'm seeing on the reference photo that I downloaded. Like I think that was the my shirt looked like. And it was like the black inside, so I'm going to make that slightly thicker. And there was like a Chris Cross thing, I think. I'm not sure how it worked, but I think there was like a probably started here then there was like a belt right around here. I leave some part here. I'll just draw it in with the line art. Then there was a black line that run across it like this. I think I missed the waist a little bit, but that's fine. Yeah, that's basically the gist of the outfit. Now, I think I'm going to draw in the parts that were orange, which the orange run through it. Like that was the whole thing of it, you know? It was orange and black. So I'm just going to make it very simple for myself and go in with the orange. So I'll go for, it was very thick orange lines. So like I'll try to leave just as much space as I will leave for black. I will lead for black here, It's hidden. So I'll just do this. Then he goes like this. So I'll just leave it like this. It goes inside or under the belt? The belt is over it. I can't even begin to explain what this out. It was a whole thing. It was a choice. I'm going to do this. Just draw very thick lines like this and finish it off with. Yeah. Okay. I think this is just off it. This was kind of the outfit, the one that I wore to like big wedding, I mean. Yeah. A huge wedding that we were invited to. My family and ivory. Yeah, let me try that out. I'm going to do that. I'm going to make this the yellow gray. Let's see how it feels now. I'm going to go in there with the dark gray. I'm going to fill it in. So I'll use a brush tip because I don't want to go over the orange or iconic orange. Ooh, this is intense, this gray. I'm sure I want to do this. You use it for the belt and then fill in everything else. Oh, now that I look at it, it doesn't look too bad. Yeah, it doesn't look awful. Maybe I was onto something. Okay. Now I'm going to go into my pair of jeans. So it was very straightforward. It was like this, it was the slow rise pair of jeans. And I kind of just want to try to depict the gradient of blue that ran through it. It was like darker as you go down and there's like a light middle. And maybe I can depict the seams with the blue gray. There was some like seams around here, around the edges, the zipper. And they had pockets, They had pockets. Those jeans, they had real pockets. And finally, I think this is it for this one. Finally, I want to draw, what do you call it? Maybe I'm going to show like a little bit of like wrinkling with the line art, but for now, I think this is okay here. I'm going to draw over this a little bit. Now for this one, I'm gonna use this. I'll use the chisel tip to draw the should I go this way or this way? Should I go on the top? Because I think I've already taken up too much space. I think it should go this way and then maybe have the line go like this. Oh, maybe I can use the same line to write fashion. Just be like my fashion here. Can be creative with the title. Then I want to connect this to the pen, the eyeliner that I'll be using here. I'll be drawing here. I'll have the eyeliner, just a simple two lines. And then I'll use the line art to draw the rest of the thing. But I think for this I can just probably depict the cap this way just as like a slightly thicker edge. Yeah, I went a little over the edge. It's fine then. Yeah, I think at least that was the vision. I don't know if it worked. I'm going to use this to create maybe some outlines here. I don't like this. I only use the light gray here once. Maybe I'm going to use that to create some highlighting here. Right around here. I want to have some streaks here. May we use the light gray to create those streaks? Oh, I don't think I own it. All right. So I'm going to add a little bit of, I'll add my line art right now. And I think to be enough for this, I'm going to add a few more layers around here. I want to start with the pen, actually. Oh, maybe I can make this light gray. The yellow gray. I'm going to skip some lines here. I just want to add the effect of writing because there's always so much writing. Maybe bar codes in the makeup. Let me now, I'm going to use a piece of paper to avoid smudging the pen. So I'll go into the outfit. Since this is clothes, I want to create more jagged lines. I don't want to have this be very straight again, adding those sketchy lines and do the same thing with my jeans. I'm going to add these lines. You add those lines by holding your pen loosely and just seeing where there's, like extra white space that you want to fill up a little bit. It can be like circles, it can be little jagged lines or curves like this. I think it adds motion to any image or any illustration you make. It makes it look fun. Since this is more straight, I'm going to try to keep the lines jagged. Oh, I'm going to make this the light gray that I wanted to do, so that there's a balance. Like I want to keep the same color palette everywhere. I can't repeat the orange, or it is too horrendous to repeat, but I'm going to add the gray right here. And I don't know what should I add an orange? There's no need to do that. I don't know. I want to add some emphasize the letters a little bit. Just going to add something to the edges like this. Just create more lines and just call that a day. I am going to add my name, I mean, signature right here. And I think that's it. I don't want to do anymore with this one. I'm happy with how it turned out. Yeah, this is my fashion in the early 2000. Next we're going to be doing books or whatever hobby we practiced at that time. And see you there. 6. Prompt #4: Book: Congratulations, we're on our fourth prompt. This one is about books. This could be your favorite book series, or just several books that you loved reading at that time. Now, if you enjoy reading books like the Harry Potter series, Narnia, the Lord of the Rings, any of the books that had universes of their own, you can even draw inspiration from the images, from those universes while you were illustrating the book. In your drawing, you can draw inspiration from the color scheme of those universes or draw little details or illustrations that those books are known for. You weren't into reading books at that time. You can draw inspiration from your favorite hobby. Let's say you're into playing instruments, or let's say you liked playing tennis. You can draw the tennis racket, the tennis balls and maybe an outfit that you kept wearing when playing tennis. If it was an instrument that you liked playing, you can draw the instrument itself in different forms. Probably with some musical notes floating away, or the names of your favorite songs that you like to practice. Yeah, make this exercise your own. Let's do this. I think I'm going to have to get to it because I think I'm taking up a little too much time. I'm going to start with the my Angelo letters to my daughter. I think I'm going to just focus on this and then maybe add flowers or like follow the motif in this book cover. Because I don't think any other books here are the same like I hold as dearly. So I'm just going to have that here. Actually, I changed my mind. I'm going to do this, I'm going to go in the yellow gray again or I think I should just go in with the smoky blue. Yeah, the smoky blue. It does keep blue. I don't know. I'm going to go into the edges so that you guys can see what I'm doing. And I will leave space for the flowers. Maybe not all the flowers, but should I leave space here? Mm, yeah. Yeah, I should, I think I should do that. Puts big circles here and throw around it, I do this and then throw around it. I want to do this very quickly so it stays light. Yeah, I think this is okay. And now I think I can get into this and write the title. What's this? Amethyst. Nice Amethyst, is this very dark purple. Maybe I should go for like a light lavender. Yeah, I think that'd be better to write the title like Maya Angelou. Completely changed the font or the writing, what's on the cover, but I think that's fine. There you go. Here it says, New York Times best seller. But like almost every book I buy is a New York Times best seller. So I don't even know what that means. I have this. Yeah. The deep line. Yes, I'm going to write letters. Oh, it's Let. Oh, I thought it said letters. Letter. Huh? This whole book is one letter. What did it take me so long to Wow, I accidentally made this capital. My default is always capital, like I write in all caps because I did architectural lettering for a while and then I just liked the feel of all caps. I'm going to soften this up a little bit, darken it a little bit. You can write the title. I'm going to have to go, I have this. Purple. These are my primary colors. Nice pastas, I love them. I'm gonna draw the flowers. Current. Yes, it's current. Oh, I love it. And add that as well. And you have like this little jagged thing at the edge, the flowers. Okay. And then I'll add the flowers everywhere else. I think I want to add them over the white even. Yeah. And then maybe outline like not to do over the flowers. That'll be nice. I want to do that. They're all over the edges. Some of them start at the edge like this and then cut off. Some of them only have like a tiny section that shows, some of them look like a different breed of flowers like this. Mm. They go like this. Mm. There's like, I think I'll have to make the colors vary, the colors a little bit. So there's, let's say one more color right here. One more color right here. And then I also want to start throwing around here. So make this go crazy. As many as possible and then I'll find a way to connect to them. I like using this technique, very simple technique of just drawing blows to represent the petals, Sometimes varying the blows or the petal size, and leaving the middle empty just to give it this airy feeling. I can say just my favorite book right here. My. Then maybe I can make the favorite blue. Yeah, maybe I can do that. Nah, too much. Have fun with the lettering here. I think that's a nice way to exercise your lettering a little bit. I'm going to add some flowers, some petals around, and then I'll be going to my other purple. I think this light lavender is going to be a good flower to slightly larger. I kind of like this. Without a green, I kind of don't want to add green. I like dots. Sometimes I just like adding embellishments like this. The most would be around the book using the brush nip to create this effect. Now I'll add some line art. Maybe I'll add it just to the book just to keep things very, very simple. I wanted to add a spine, but now I feel like it's not very appropriate. Let's see. Yeah, it's going to look a little funky because there's already so many dots there, I did not think about that. So I'm going to just add, make the line out go like this. I want to draw, I don't want to draw over the flowers. I'm just going to go over this like this and skip lines. I want to make it a bit more delicate. Let's write down what was written here. Let me see the reference. I think there was like more writing around here. I'll add some details to the flowers because there's details in the book cover. I changed the book cover slightly. This is a very beloved book cover. So I don't know if it's a good idea that I did that, but I don't want to add the green. I feel like it's gonna ruin it. So I'm going to do this instead, like just leave it the way I think. That's it. That's it. I'm going to add my name right here. I want to maybe swatch the colors here, but I feel like it's going to be a little too much. I already feel like this flower took a little too much attention from the book, and I want to keep all the attention on the book. So I'm just going to leave it this way. I'm going to leave you in the last pump, which is your thing, We'll do that. See you in the next one. 7. Prompt #5: Your Thing: Okay, we're on our final prompt. I'm excited for this one. This is going to be your thing or your favorite item. Now, this could be your favorite niche snack. Something from your culture, your favorite stationery, or any specific thing that you really liked or kept buying. At that time, my sisters and I were into stationary, for example. So we loved pens that had like those feathers at the end, those pink pens and like those pencils that were attached to beads that you would detach and reattach at the end. Unfortunately, none of those items lasted very long. So I can't really use anything as a live reference right now. But if you have that thing that you loved that item or items, you can use it as a live reference right now to be really cool to find it and pull it out. And actually, I'm most excited about what you would do for this prompt. Let's go. So I'm going to make this pink. I'm going to start with the feather pens that I used to love, love, love. I adore these pens so much so I'm going to start with just drawing something fluffy. I'm using the long edge, Is this too much? I'm just going to flip this. Maybe it would be better if I do this something like this. I just draw something spiky and then I will draw the pen itself using the chisen nip. Usually, I wish the pens themselves were pink. That would have been the dream. That would have been. I think I'm going to do that pen itself is going to be pink. Why not? I have this pen then. We had those. Like you should draw a You sold. I really draw a. You really? One time I can, I draw a. You probably going to stick to those colorful like crayons or pens. So I'm going to which like you just take out and you put, but I want to do those in shades of pink. But I feel like that's too much pink, maybe just pink and green like this yellow. And let's see, what other yellow do I have that I won't hate summer lemon. I have summer lemon in here. Yellow Dahlia? No. Is this summer lemon? Lemon green? Lemon green. I want to use a lemon green. Really? Let's see that going to go with let me try it out here. So this is my lemon green. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Why do they have to call it these names? It's actually a cute yellow. Yeah, I mean a cute green, that's to me it feels more green than yellow. So I'll just pick this very new looking green. So it's going to be like a green and pink motive motif. Let me see how they go together. They didn't go well together at all. I'm going to do a more adult friendly version of the colors. I liked this green, This pink. Let me pick up a purple or blue. It's this blue going to work? Nope. And this pink. Oh my. And this pink. And maybe another like nice pink like or purple. I don't know, Maybe the amethyst. Where's the amethyst? I didn't use it last time as the amethyst. Yeah, This looks like a collection. And then maybe the dark orchid. Yeah. This could be the more eye friendly version of whatever crayon set that is. I want to add one more color here. I'm not sure what it should be. Maybe the yellow dahlia, maybe like. Mm. Okay. I would never approve of this color at that age. Maybe this should be the color scheme. Yeah, I'm going to do that. I'm going to start drawing those crayons in those separate colors and then cover them in that, in this pink. I'm going to do that right here. Box one, box two. I want to leave a little shimmer box three, box four, a pen tip kind of thing. So I'm going to do thatter the line art. Now, I'm going to fill in the colors. So there'd be like a blue. I'm going to make this blue as well. There's a blue crayon inside there. Should I make this tip blue as well? Yeah. And there's going to be the purple. Do they go into each other still? I don't get it. Okay. Okay. So it's like a tube in there. Okay. So it goes like this. Yeah, I think I went a little overboard with the blue last time, but that's fine. That usually has a cap, like a nice cue cap, right? I'm going to draw that cap right here. I'm going to leave a little shine to it. Pen is attached to the step right here and there's like dots, just gonna add dots 'cause it was magic. Pens were magic. So I'm just going to do this yoyo with the same pink, so I'm going to create the circle here. My sisters and I, I don't know, I think it was called, I don't remember the name actually. It was dubbed in Arabic. Anime. That was dubbed in Arabic, and we used to watch, it was like about yoyo tournaments and stuff. So there's a thinner here. Let's stick following the other friends. Smarter is very forgiving. So that's good because I made a lot of mistakes today. And then the other end was like this. There's like this string thing in the middle. And then the string would go up. I'm going to use what's the dark orchid color to create some details on the inside like this and maybe the circle here. And I'm going to start adding the colors. Should I add the shadow as well? I think I'm going to do that with the line art. So I'm going to use this purple to because I think this all dried to create the markers inside. Then make the string blue as well, just so that it ties in to everything. We'll make the string purple like this, Nice amethyst color. I'm going to use the chisel end to go down here. Take this very clearly a bull pol. I actually really like how this turned out. Yeah, going to make the top of this, add the nose right here and then maybe add my thing. Should I add something here? I feel like it's lacking something and I think that that's it. Yeah, I think this is the color I should have used for the title. I think I'm want to add a little bit of blue maybe here to the middle. After yo, I want to start with the pen so I can move around freely. I'm going to leave the feather as it is. I don't want to outline it too much. I'll just skip from part to part and just quickly make, add these jagged lines or points just to show the shape. But see I don't want to go too far with that. Then I want to do the same thing with the pen. Like just very quick strokes of motion. Then I want to emphasize that there's like more shape here. It's not feathers anymore and the pen has like a texture. I think it's wrapped in fabric. Again, I'm skipping lines and then connecting it to the edge like this. And when I add something around the title and then do the same thing to this skipping lines somehow they never lasted with us. Like that's one problem with a lot of early 2000 things. They were not made to last, you know, that's still true. But I think I'm just going to go over this just with the pink, just to make it blend with everything else. And this is it for this lesson. And I will see you in the closing video. 8. Closing: Okay, we're here. I hope you had just as much fun with these prompts as I had. I would be really happy to see what you created in the project section. It doesn't matter how polished you think it looks. I just want to see what your time travel journey looked like. Now if you enjoyed your time here, please consider leaving a short review below. Those help a lot. 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