Subjective Colors- Color Theory- Value of Color- For Beginners

1. Introduction to Using Color as Value in Drawing: Okay, So this is the introduction to the value of Color Drawing class. Here we're gonna learn how to use colors as a value. So the first thing that we're gonna do is make a gray scale chart. So there's gonna be nine images, nine values from white to black down the middle. And then we're going to put the 12 colors on the color wheel next to the gray that they're equivalent to. No color is equivalent to black and white. So the warm colors are on this side. Yellow is a light gray, yellow, orange, a bit darker orange, a bit darker, red orange a bit darker. Red, a bit darker and red-violet, a bit darker than on this side. We're going to start down one square and do the cool colors. Yellow-green, green is a bit darker, blue-green is a bit darker, blue is a bit darker, blue, violet is a bit darker and violet is a bit darker. Red, orange and blue-green are the same darkness or Value. So Colors have value on their own. We're going to draw with those values. We're going to use black and white images and transfer them into Value of Color drawings. So for example, this is a portrait. These are all renaissance drawings that I trans for into Value of Color drawings. So this is this drawing. And I just drew it on a piece of paper. And I used only warm side here. So I used warm with black and white. You can use just warm or warm with black and white. So I looked at the gray that the color was next to you, and I put a color there. Instead of using black and white, I'm using color to shade and create value. This is a part of Color Theory. And then the next one, I did one on the cool colors. So I used just the colors on this side, the cool colors, and I also used black and white. So I used this black and white image by Raphael, and I drew it here using colors as value to shade. And then the last one, I use both warm and cold. So I used colors from both sides there. No. You can use them in any order you want and in any way you want. So you can mix them altogether. And this is this image. So we're gonna do three different drawings. And for that one, I was using this black and white image by Pontecorvo, another Renaissance artist 2. Creating a Value of Color Chart: So I'm going to do this chart, which is a value of color chart. And I'm doing it and Colored Pencil because I, the other ones I was Mixing with chalk, but this one I'm gonna do in Colored Pencil because I am going to want to use it and pull it out. When I do my drawings, I'm going to use it to do my drawings to the Colored Pencil is going to be more neat. Like it's not going to be spreading everywhere and messy. So in the middle, I'm gonna do a value scale going from white to black. So all these charts are things that you're going to use when you're drawing or painting. Although I'm not using paint yet, you're going to pull them out when you're drawing to refer to. So you're gonna wanna save them. So this is telling you how light or dark the color is or what gray it is equivalent to. Okay. I'm gonna kinda go from the top. I just wanted to put that black and so the top one is white and the bottom one is black. There's no color that's equivalent to the lightness of white or the darkness of black. Yellow is the lightest color equivalent to a light gray. And violet is the darkest color equivalent to a dark gray. So I'm putting the light gray in here. And I probably want to add some weight to that. The colored pencils mix. It's just easier to mix with chalk pastels, oil pastel, but they do mix. So this one is white. You can put white in there or leave it white. I just I don't know if I wanted to lighten this more. I'm going to try to lighten it a bit more. Okay, Now I'm going to get this gray and just go with this value here, which is a little darker than the same value of gray with white added to it. So there's nine squares going from white to black in this color mixing chart. So there's nine squares down. Okay, right here, I'm going to make it a little bit darker. But I'm going to mix it with this color that I was using before. So I'm just putting it a little bit of a darker gray. And then I'm blending this value over it. That looks okay. Those two kind of look kinda similar. Okay, so now I'm going to get this value. That's a little bit that's too dark. Who? I'm wondering is this. When you use grays and colored pencils, chalk pastels, or paint, you'll notice that there can be warm or cool grays. If it's totally neutral, it's not warm or cool, but if it looks a little blue, It's cool. If it looks a little orange, it is Warm. Now. I'm going to come on and try to lighten this up a bit with this value. Okay, that looks, I mean, CDs to look too similar and needs to look too different. So I'm gonna try to darken this a bit, but not too much. So I'm just trying to get them to look like different values. And then I'm going to try this just by itself. For this square Yeah, I'm going to darken it a bit. This one is really dark, so I'm going down close to the black with this value. When you start making these charts, you'll start realizing how all the all relate to each other. Then I'm gonna get the black and bring some black into this value to make it darker. And then I'm gonna do this plane without black and maybe try to lighten it up a bit. Okay, So again, there's nine squares going down. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's close enough. Like it's kind of pretty dark down here. So on then you're going to have the 12 colors on the color wheel. So on this side you have the warm colors, yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange red, red-violet. And on this side you have the cool colors, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet and violet. I'm going to start on the warm side. So this, why are these next to a color? I mean, I'm sorry, why are these next to a value of gray? This value scale is telling us how light or dark the color is. So you can lighten and darken colors with black, white, or gray. But colors are also light or dark on their own. And it's important to be able to discern that. So here's yellow, which is equivalent in value to a light gray, even though it's a color of Color has a value. Yellow, orange, which is a little bit of a darker gray. Orange, which is a bit of a darker gray. Not seems a little too reddish to me. So I'm going to bring back the yellow, orange and mix that in there to make it more of an orangey color. Then red-orange. Red and red violet. I'm just testing this out. No. I'm going to go more for something like this, which is the darkest of the warm colors. So warm colors are reds, oranges, and yellows and they pop out towards you in space Cool Colors. Our blues, greens and violet, and they recede or go back and space. But again, you can have a warm red or a cool red, a warm yellow, or a cool yellow. And that's telling you where it's leaning on the color wheel. Okay, so now I'm gonna go to this side for the cool colors. And I'm gonna go into a yellow-green. But I'm probably going to add some yellow to this. Okay, Then I'm gonna go into a pure green. So yellow green and yellow orange are the same value, meaning they have the same lightness or darkness. Orange and green Are the same value. Value is similar to intensity of a color. So again, these colors that are just straight Pencil colors or straight chunk colors, or straight pink colors are very, very bright as you can see. They're very bright. So again, you like, you may want to neutralize them in certain instances. And I know this is a lot of information, so we're gonna do examples of this later. I'm just getting the charts done now. So this is a blue-green putting in kind of a turquoise in there. And then I'm going to add some green. And that doesn't look quite right. So I'm probably going to put some Lulu and they're darker, blue. Green is a little dark. Just the Colored Pencil I had. And then blue, I'm going to put right here. So blue is equivalent in value to red. Then do violet, which is equivalent in value to red-violet. This may be slightly off because I'm using just the colored pencils that I have and I'm not actually Mixing here. And violet, which is the darkest color with the darkest value close to black. Okay? So now if you look at this, you have your, your value scale in the middle with nine squares. This is six squares. The warm one is starting at the latest gray, and the cool one is starting at the second lightest gray and it goes down to the gray right before the black. So this side is warm, This side is cool. And these are the grace that they're equivalent to you. I'm later going to do sorry, I'm just trying to get that filled in. I'm later going to do a lot of drawing exercises with these chart. So you can just make the chart and keep it for later. But I'm trying to get all the charts out of the way. First in this lesson 3. Blocking in Warm Colors: Okay, so here I'm going to use the value of color chart that I made. And here's my value of color chart. I'm going to, for the first drawing, I'm gonna do three different combinations, but for this drawing, I'm gonna do warm. So I'm going to stay on this side. So remember, warm colors come forward in space and Cool Colors go back and space. I'm using this as my starting point again. And I'm going to use warm colors to show value. So when a, when I do my drawing, I'm looking at the grades that I see. So for example, if I see a really light gray, I'm gonna do a yellow, a darker gray or yellow orange, a darker gray and orange, a darker gray or red, orange, darker gray or red. A darker gray or red violet. And if you want, you can do only warm or you can do warm with black and white. Because no color is equivalent to black and no color is equivalent to white. This is subjective color, meaning it's not realistic. But we're learning that colors have value on their own. So you can lighten or darken colors, but they have value on their own and you can use pure color to shade. So my first drawing is just gonna be the warm. So I'm just getting ready. I have my colored pencils laid out and I did a sketch to block in the face. This is going to move it over a little bit so you get a really good view. And I'm going to start with kind of a medium. So this is like a reddish orange color and it would be equivalent to like a medium gray. So I'm going to start blocking that color in where I see a medium gray on the drawing and I'm looking right here. So I'm just going to start blocking in colors as values. This is just the first, very first step of the drawing. I'm just getting some color in there. Obviously, this color is not realistic. But it's something that you should learn in Color Theory, and it's also something that you might want to learn. So for example, like if I was making this woman into like a fire throwing woman, I could use value of color as the color scheme. But it's also something that's important to learn and know when you're doing Color Drawing in regular colors or objective colors, It's something that this practice assignment isolate the way that you see color and see color as value. So it's fine on its own, but you're also learning something that's a valuable skill that you will need to know when you're using color in your drawing. So I'm just blocking in some areas of color, it's going to take me awhile. And I'm just going through with a kind of medium value would just like a red medium dark. This is where the medium dark gray and it's a kind of a red, orange color. Again, you don't wanna go too dark. Right? Because it's harder to lighten it. So I'm just looking for areas. I know I'm going to use more of this. I just pause to kind of look at the drawing for a second. You can do this in any medium that you want. Colored Pencil, chalk, oil, pastel. I'm gonna do three drawings in this series. And I may use different media. So I'm just looking at this Shading and I'm trying to translate the grays in a black and white image into Colors And it's going to take awhile. I'm kidding. Go with the kind of a lighter yellow orange because I see a lighter gray right here. So I'm just looking here. I was kind of working around with this color and now I'm going to go up to this for a lighter gray. You can also leave some areas black. Again. I'm sorry, some areas white and you can use black if you want. You don't have to. So I'm just blocking in colors. I haven't really done any blending yet. I'm just kind of getting base colors on the drawing. I'm gonna put some up here. I'm probably going to use black on this drawing. I'm not quite sure yet, but I'm just trying to block in areas of value. Just to get started. Again, this is going to look weird. I actually liked the way it looks. It's called, again, subjective color, value of color. But it's something that's important to learn, even if it's not something that you'd like to draw in, some people actually do like to draw in this combination for certain drawings. But even if you're doing something totally realistically, you want to learn how to draw in this combination because it's going to help you see realistic colors and how to use them in a way that you probably won't be able to. It's just going to isolate a skill and it'll help you see something that you may not have been able to see before. Let's put it that way. When you isolate skills and focus on them, then you get really good at something. And then when you go back and do what you wanna do, those skills are just going to come back to you really quickly. And they'll click in, in a way that they haven't before. I'm doing the hair. Again, this is a drawing that's gonna be in layers. Just kind of looking at the picture and trying to get it right. I just did a really quick pencil sketch before I started. The pencil sketch, used some erasing. I'm just trying to get the right shapes for the clumps of hair. This gets a little shorter right here. Again, remember you're always erasing and revising, just trying to make sure it's kind of like everything's kind of in the right place. Before I go darker. This doesn't look quite right. So I have my pencil again. I'm just erasing some of these pencil lines and correcting. Just making that a little bit of a different shape. Then I'm gonna come back in here. And I'm going to lighten this right here because there's a highlight over here. Then I'm going to put in going to erase again And put in. Okay, so now I'm kinda come in with a really light yellow for a second. I do think I want to leave some of the areas white. But yellow is the lightest color and value it's the closest to white is equivalent to a really light gray. I may want to get some of those pencil lines off before I finish and get the yellow again and come up here. So again, just to reiterate, this may seem weird to you if you've never done this before, but we're doing subjective color and more Using Color as value. And it's just to really get you to learn this skill really well. So I'm just working around the image. I'm looking at a black and white image, and I'm looking for areas of light, medium, and dark. Then I'm looking at my warm color chart and I'm putting the color next to the gray that it is to have it translate as Shading with color. And I'm trying not to go too dark too soon because it's gonna be harder to lighten it. I'm not really blending right now, I will later, but I'm blocking in areas of Color. This is really going to help you see the lights and darks of Color. Get a regular orange. I have used red orange, and yellow, orange, but I haven't really used a regular orange. So I don't want to just like go around the woman and not do her neck. So I'm kinda putting some Shading and on her neck just to kind of keep moving around, the image gets a little bit lighter on this end. So I'm going to come in here with some yellow, orange. And just looking for areas of light and dark and translating them into color. Again, this has a long way to go. I'm gonna take a look at the eyes for a second. So the eyes are a lot darker than most areas. So I'm going to come into the eyes with some red violet. Just wanted to see how this looks. On the warm. The red-violet would be the darkness. And of course you can do variations. I mean, like if you want to put in a violet or blue, but I'm just isolating areas to let you kinda focus on one aspect of color at a time. Like it would look really nice with blue eyes because it would be contrasting the orange around them. But I'm just focusing on one thing at a time. So on the warm side, red-violet is the darkest color I may use black though, because I may want to go darker than the colors that I have here. These are just kind of exercises. I mean, you may wanna do a finished piece in this combination, but they're exercises to help you learn different things about Color and then you'll have no problem working with color. Later on. I thought I liked those two eyes for a start. And now I'm going to look at the bottom of the nose. So again, I'm just looking at color for different values of gray that I'm looking at in the picture. So again, we're translating a black and white to a value of color. I haven't used any pure red yet either. I will. I'm just trying to block in areas again. I'm going to look back at the hair for a second. I'm gonna come in here with the violet, the red-violet, because there are some areas of the hair that are particularly dark. So I'm using the red-violet for that. So it's starting to look, I mean, it needs a lot of work, but you're starting to be able to see the color as portraying different values. And I'm gonna go here with the purple, the red-violet, the red purple. This is not as dark as I would like it to be. So I may mix later a red and violet to make it darker. But I'm just going to start out with this. I'm just making a block of hair, kind of fitting it in here. And I'm going to erase this. I'm just looking for a second. That's why I'm stopping. I'm just kind of stopping and taking a look at it, seeing what I did wrong or what I need to change and I want to come back into the lips for a second. I'm just kinda checking them out. Seeing if they kinda look like the picture or are they maybe a little bit too big? So I'm kinda changing them with my pencil before I delve into color with them. I think I made them a bit too big. There, that looks a little bit better. Okay, so now I'm going to come down here. Underneath. This is a jar, but it needs to be darker. So I'm actually going to get my regular red there That's a little bit darker. So I'm going to use that for parts of the lips. And then I'm going to take a look up here at the Shading right here. Blocking in areas of light and dark. I'm going to get the darker red, orange color. Okay. So I'm looking trying to see what I need to do. I'm gonna get some yellow right here. Okay? So I'm, I actually like this, but I think it would look a lot better with some black in there. When I do these types of drawings, I usually add black. It's your choice. You can do it without black and just use pure color or with black. So I'm gonna put in some black just for the darkest areas and just to define still, it's Warm. Value of color with black and white. Just helps give it that Punnett defining dark that I feel like it would look much better if it had it. But, you know, some people prefer not to use it. Just defining the eyes. You might think that that messes it up. So I mean, it's up to you. The way that you want to do your drawing. I'm gonna put in the people. Okay. Now bottom, I'm going to have more black in it. I'm just kinda getting an outline right now. You could use a dark violet for this as well. If you, if you didn't want to get into the black, That's a star. And then I'm gonna take a look at the lips because they're actually pretty dark compared to the rest of the drawing. I mean, that's not that lives a little weird because it's not really totally defined. I'm gonna come into the hair for a second. I know I move around, but I think that helps. I feel like I sort of mess it up with the black, but I'm gonna just keep going with it. Starting to look a bit better. Okay, So I'm gonna come right under the neck with the black. Needs a lot more work and blend the black and do the colors on the neck at certain areas. And I'm going to look right here because this is pretty dark. I'm just using the blockers that kind of the darkest part of the Shading and kind of an outline as well. I'm actually going to stop and restart because if the videos get too long, I can't upload them. I may do a little work in between, but I'm actually, we're almost at 30 min, so I'm gonna stop here 4. Adding a Layer of Warm Colors: Okay, So I did a little bit of work on that year and blocking in some values. And now I'm going to work with some, I'm going to finish up the drawing in this video and I'm going to work with some black first to put in the darks. Then I'm going to enhance the colors. But what I mean is that this would help you in your regular drawing is say I tested this and then I put a skin color over it, just like a peach. If she was confusion, these colors would show under the peach and they would also give value to the skin without using black and white and say I wanted to put a brown over there. Here. These colors would show under the brown and give value to the brown. So that's what I meant, that it could help you with objective colors. Well, what we're doing right now is in subjective Colors. And I'm also going to do a different series on skin, but not too one way you could do Shading with skin. Using color with value as the under drawing or undertone. And then putting the color over it overtakes it. But let's it show through. So I'm just kinda putting in the darks with a black. I'm just doing kinda clumps of hair. And remember I did this one in black and white as well on the portrait in black and white. And, and I did it on a piece of inquiry, a paper. Sometimes they repeat the same things and lesson so you can see it in a different format. Hi, So I'm just kind of getting some of the Harrington. I'm kinda doing chunks. And then I'm going to maybe do strands will see. I'm also looking for areas that are darker and I'm kinda Shading them in with a black. Again, no color is equivalent to black. I'm going to kinda outline the face just to give it some depth. I'm going to come back into the face with another layer. I'm just trying to I'm just getting shapes for the hair. I'm looking for areas that are lighter and darker. Kind of went in the wrong shape there, but that can be corrected later. Just getting some areas that are darker in the hair I put in that year. It still needs work and I haven't done the top, so I'm gonna kinda look at that and then I'm going to come back into the face. She's wearing a head band, kind of outlining it first And then I'm going to outline the top here that's above the head band. Wow. Okay. So now the hair that's coming right out underneath the headband is darker. So I'm just making that dark right here. And it still needs a lot of work, but it's getting there. This is darker right here. Okay. And as well, There's dark up here. Okay? Now the hair needs another layer, but that was kinda of my first layer. I'm just going to kinda outline this. Okay, so now I'm going to come into the face and I need to do I need to make some corrections on the face. So I'm going to get, so this is pretty dark. So I'm just going to enhance the colors and maybe darken the colors that I already have here. And I'm going to come back to this color and maybe darken it a bit. And then here I'm just putting in the lines for the under ice circles and the kind of eyelid. So I'm coming back to my red and I'm just enhancing areas of light and dark and blending. So if I want to blend it into another color, I kinda press hard at one area and where it goes into the other color is pressed later. This is a part of the shadow that's a little bit darker. And I'm gonna get my yellow orange and maybe just enhance the yellow orange right here. And right here. Now again, the, the I is not pure white. So I don't want to leave it pure white. I'm going to come in here with this. Maybe. Some of this. Just kind of when it's pure white, it looks kinda weird. It looks really different from the rest of the drawing. I don't know if that looks good, but I'm gonna leave that alone for now and I'm gonna come over here. I can always try to erase it if I don't like it. And put this in over here, is that Does that make it look her eyes look to read. I don't know. I'm just trying to figure that out. Okay. So I'm gonna come over here to this I and again, put in the eyelid and the kind of under, I guess circle or bag. Then I'm going to actually, this side is darker, so I'm gonna come in with a red, orange instead of a red. So I'm trying to differentiate between colors like I would differentiate between the graves and blend. So to blend it, I'm of lightening my touch as it goes up. I'm going to come in, It's a little darker down here, so I'm gonna come in with a red. Let's see. Alright, so I'm gonna come over here because this needs to be kind of Enhance. I'm just darkening this Color. Pressing harder. There we go. So I need to do that for the other colors I used as well. And to get a yellow, orange right here. And I'm going to bring that down here. And it's actually starting, I'm actually starting to like the way it looks, but it still needs a lot more. See how it's working in layers. So I mean, it doesn't happen in just like one. I mean, of course, possibly for someone, it could happen in just one sitting, but I use a lot of layers to get my drawing done. I'm gonna come back here with the yellow. But it's actually started until it. Okay. Not great, but okay. Remember I'm trying to leave maybe some areas white. I'm not quite sure about that yet. I'm going to come into my orange and my kinda more reddish orange right here. And I'm actually going to get right in here. There's a part where it gets darker, so I'm going to bring it a little bit of pure red into that red-orange. There's like a little area where it's a little bit darker and try to blend it in All right. I'm just kind of give me a second. I'm kinda see what I need to do here. Alright. So I'm going to take a look at the nose for a second. I need to I want to erase that pencil line right there. I don't like that. Try to get that off. Okay. Good. I did. I have like this is a warm yellow and this is a cool yellow or this is kind of leaning towards yellow, orange. So I'm going to come right here with my cooler yellow and bring that right down here. Just enhancing this yellow, orange right here. I'm just trying to looking at what I need to do here. So the bottom is quite, quite a bit darker because it's in shadow. Oops, I made a little mistake there. Alright, let me get my eraser and see if I can fix it. It's actually erasing. So I wanted it to get lighter up here and then that here it's a bit darker. Hold on. Let me get the red. Righty. So now I'm going to come into the lips with I did a red, but there are some areas that are lighter. I'm putting in a red orange right here. And here I'm going to put a yellow because there's a highlight right here. Just making this yellow a little bit more. Then I'm gonna get the lighter yellow. I'm going back to yellow, orange. A bit of shading right here. Hopefully you get the idea. I mean, I could spend a couple of hours doing this, but it's already been almost an hour. So again, I'm equating the the colors into, I'm changing the colors into values and trying to do a value of Color Drawing. I'm using warm with black and white. And this area needs work right here. I'm going to go a little lighter than that. Hold on. Okay. Let me get the kind of red, orange color. It still needs. A lot of work. May take up three videos. I'm just trying to finish as fast as I can I'm getting my red out again. Dark kinda continues all the way down here. The red violet should be a darker value than the one I have. That's why I got the blackout because this red violet but I have is not very dark. It's pretty light. And I'm using, again, I have just a collection of different kinds of colored pencils from different brands, so it's not really consistent. Alright. Let me get the light yellow. The darker yellow. So you see how many layers that it is. If I come in, I'm gonna try to press really hard with this red violet, but it's still not really dark enough as a true red-violet would be. Just when I stop, I'm just kinda thinking I'm gonna put some yellow on here. The hair needs work. So I'm going to I'm going to dark in the colors again that I have in there. This hair is not perfect. I mean, I could go into every light and dark and every strand, but that would take too long for this demo. So I'm just doing it as detailed as I possibly can for what I'm doing. I'm just trying to make a kind of there's like the here is curved. So it's kind of like a sphere and it has a generalized highlight. And then it also has strands within that generalized highlight. Okay, let me go with the yellow, orange. Then the orange. Yeah, that should be good to type those two together. This one to two. So when it gets darker, I'm gonna go with red. And then I'm going to try to make the red-violet a little bit darker or delve into black. We'll see. Okay. I'm just taking a look over here. And over here. And then I need the orange. Okay, so now I need to look into it still needs a lot of work. Might take one extra video. So I'm going to look into the I don't know. I'm thinking should I stop here? No, I need a little bit more, so I'm gonna try this for a second. Actually, let me try this. There we go. That's more of what I wanted to see. How much darker, I mean, that's a violet, not really a red violet, but see how much that's giving me a dark more than this kind of red violet pencil that I had. So that's adding a bit of Cool, But I'm just going to accept it into this still primarily Warm. And I'm actually were at a half an hour, so I'm going to stop it and restart it 5. Final Layer of Warm Colors and Shading: Okay. So I didn't do anything in-between. I just found this darker purple, which is leaning towards cool, but I'm just going to use it anyway. It should be a dark red violet. If I really wanted to make it, then I could pull a read over it. That makes a big difference. It's what I was trying to make dark, but the violet I was using was too late. So I'm going to work with this for a minute. Just kind of enhance the areas that are supposed to be darker. Let's look at this over here. Since gonna be that two. Again, you don't have to use black. You can if you want. But that really makes a difference. Compared to the red-violet. I was gonna do something to it, but it's fine. I'm not really I mean, since there's a time limit and and I've already gone over an hour. I'm not really doing every strand of hair, but you could, if you wanted to spend a couple more hours on your drawing, that makes it look a lot better. So amazing what one little Color can do. It's looking a lot better. Okay, so let's look at this up here. It still needs a lot of work, but I don't know how I could go on and on, but I don't know how long I want to make this video. It's still needs more. I'm just going through with the purple right now to come up here with it. And I'm gonna go through again with a black. I mean, I don't want to make it too long. I'm gonna make it We'll see we'll see what happens. I don't I'm not going to go over another half an hour. So I'm looking at this hair right here. And I'm gonna come in with its darker. So I'm going to come in with the darker purple. I'm omitting some detail because I'm trying to finish fast. And then the hair right there is a bit lighter. So I'm going to get this. So I'm brightening on that second layer. I was brightening the colors because they were faint, but I wanted to start out with them faint because I didn't know if I was going to make a mistake. I'm gonna get my red for right here. And for right here. I'm going to go and kinda, alright, so now I need to look at this thing, headband because you can't leave it like that. I'm going to come right here with the purple. There's areas that are darker and lighter. And then I'm gonna get this value for right here, or this color which I'm using as a value. And it's kinda white or over here. I'm gonna go with a yellow, orange over here. And maybe on top all to the lighter yellow. I'm improvising now just because I'm trying to get it done quickly. I'm not really being too attentive to do it imperfect details because that would take me another couple of hours. And whereas Okay. So this needs a little bit more darkening. Again. I mean, it's not done by a formula or I guess this is First-time I'm saying it, so not again, it's not done by a formula. I'm just looking for areas that are darker, in areas that are lighter, and then adding. It's not like perfectly like scientific, but I am using color as value. So I'm going to come in with a black and really try to enhance parts of the drawing, especially the hair. So here it takes quite a bit of time. Then I'm do I want to put in strands. I don't know how it's going to work. Let me put it in one and see. I don't know. Let me just all figure that out later. I don't know if we have time for that right now, but that's something you could do. The only thing that like when there's highlights, it would be hard to lighten this area that I already made dark. So that's something you would have to think about beforehand. I'm just looking at it in terms of clumps because of time constraints. Yeah. Dealt black really like makes it popped out. That's why I wanted to use black and leave some areas white Yeah. So just adding the black to just enhance some of this Shading and just enhance its going to make the right colors pop out more. I'm going to bring this black down a little bit just for variety. So now, I mean, I know I started with the drawing and I've said this before in other videos, but now I'm kinda just, I know it looks like the person, but I'm just adding things for compositional value, which is Creative License like so if I think that dark needs to be popped in somewhere, I'll pop it in. I'm not totally copying the picture perfectly. Some people wouldn't like that, but I mean, I think that's fine if you're using a photo reference and we're using photo reference right now to learn. But even if you were doing a model and you popped in some areas of dark or light that weren't what you saw to make the drawing look better. That would be Creative License and that would be totally fine. Not year needs a little bit of work. I'm just darkening the darks that you're as a really dark area because it has all those crevasses. These, since this is curved, this dark. There's a dark on the edge and it kinda gets later in the middle and then dark on the other edge. And then there's like these deep crevices inside the ear. Let's come over here for a set. I'm just enhancing areas of dark. I'm pressing harder with the pencil. Okay. Alright, let me call top and then I'm gonna go back into the face of about 15 more minutes. The top is really kind of unfinished, but remember that? Well, in some drawings, you want to leave. You wanna do some areas finished and artists do this on purpose and leave some areas unfinished. And you want to choose those areas for to make the drawing stand out. Nothing wrong with that. It's totally fine. I mean, some people would want the whole thing completely finished, but it's something that you use as an artist. For artistic license. I kinda use it here in the hair. I didn't put in all the details in every strand. I would but it would take me another like five 6 h Couldn't believe that. That'll kinda looks good. I'm done right there. I'm thinking I didn't put black in here like a second layer, but I like it like that. So now I'm just going to take a look at the face. I think the face needs a little tiny bit more work and then we'll be done. I'm just enhancing the eyebrows. They look to like graphite pencil lead. I'm kinda maybe adding a little bit of hair to and making them darker. Okay. Now, just kinda making trying to make them imitate each other or symmetrical. Actually, I didn't use hold on. Yeah, I'm gonna come into the eyes with the darker purple. It's still the lighter purple. I'm trying to leave it white in the middle. Now, I'm going to include a little black and some other Shading. I know I'm not using pure color, but I think it's going to enhance it a bit. Just enhancing some of the Shading. I don't yeah, I need a I'm just thinking to myself, I'm going to use this color. I need to get a darker color right here for this. There we go. Then I'm gonna come in here with the yellow outline, the eyes a little bit more. Just enhancing this kinda outline right here. To that too dark. I'm just, I'm thinking to myself. You should always be thinking to yourself when you're drawing was outlined to extreme. Well, there's nothing I can do about it now, but I'm going to make this outline of the eyes a bit darker. I'm thinking to myself, does that make it look too cartoony? And then or two outlined instead of like real Shading. I'm gonna come into the lips. But I already started it, so I'm gonna go ahead and finish with it. This part is really dark, so I'm just kinda enhancing out with a black. I could've done a dark purple, so maybe I'll go in there with the dark purple as well. And I'm gonna put some purple on the top lip so that the real red-violet would be the red and this dark purple. I'll show you Hold on. So like I'll do an example right here. So that's kinda violet, so that's leaning towards Cool. So if I wanted to make it truly warm, I would go in there and put red with the dark purple, which would make it kinda looks good. A true red violet, which would be warm. So the purple is kind of on the cool side, but it still has red in it. So it just depends how much red is in it. I'm not gonna go back into that to all of them, but So you get the idea. Just looking for a few more mistakes or few more things I need to correct on the face, not mistakes. Or enhance, maybe that's a good word for it. Enhance. More shading around the lips. Get the regular orange. Hands like I don't know, an area of Shading right here. Just looking for any last-minute things that may need a little bit of fixing. I could do this for hours, but I mean, I don't want to write about right here. There's some Shading. Let's go a little darker right here. Hold on. See, I told you I can start looking for something and then it will just go on and on and on. Little C, I can keep finding things. I'm going to put a little black right here on the nose because it's pretty dark. This is something that you have to practice. And once you do something like this, you start seeing it in different drawings that you do. Even ones in regular Color and you can use it. Anyway, I think, I think let's see. I want to go a little darker here. I mean, anything that I do, I can totally mess up the drawing. So just something to keep in mind when you're drawing. I think I'm actually this needs to be a little bit darker. See, I told you I can start messing with it and never stopped, but I don't want to mess it up. I mean, I think it looks okay. I don't think it looks wonderful, but I think it looks okay right now. So I don't want to do something that's finished, totally mess it up. I'm just going to enhance this red a little bit. Sorry. I'm going to just enhance this color a bit. So see how many layers you could do to actually get this to be a really nice completed trying. And I'm enhancing mass. I know I keep going by just showing you the process that I would go through when I was to a mess. I could do another couple of hours, but I don't I think you kinda get the idea, so I'm going to stop it here. 6. Blocking in Cool Colors : Okay, so now I'm gonna do a value of Color drawing using cool colors. So I'm looking at my value of color chart and I'm using this half, so I'm using Cool. So again, the warm colors come forward in space and the cool colors go back and space. So I'm look, I'm doing the equivalent of a color to a gray. Again, this is just practice. I recommend that you use a black and white image when you do it. So I'm using this image by Raphael. So I'm still using the classic Renaissance drawings just because I liked them. They're just for exercises. When you do your own Art, which I'll do later on, probably a lot later on, because right now we're just doing skills. Then you need to be more creative than just using the I did a sketch here just to help me get started and a rough sketch. And I'm going to use my cool colors to lock in this Shading on this. So again, here we are using Color as Value or understanding which colors are lighter and which colors are darker. We did a Warm one and now we're gonna do a cool one. And again, this looks kind of weird. You can use it and original drawings and paintings, it's a skill you should have. You can also use it under skin tones or browns to create value. Instead of using black, white, and gray, you can use either warm or cool. It's something that we're isolating as a skill. But then later, you'll use it in your color drawings, realistic or abstract. So I'm going to go ahead and start here on this side of the fabric. And I'm going to get a violet and a dark blue. And kind of a lighter blue. And a lighter blue and a lighter blue and some green. I'm just looking at my greens. There's a yellow green. I'm going to start with that. Okay, so I'm going to start with my violet and I'm going to start putting in areas. This is kind of a blue-violet that are dark. So violet is the darkest color. Yellow is the lightest color. Since I'm working with a darker, I'm trying to be careful about where I'm putting it in to the drawing. And I'm just looking for areas that are darker than other areas. I kinda put in the lines that are helping me realize where those areas are. I could do each part individually, but I'm just coming in and putting in a series of darks to help me get started. And things, again, we'll need to be corrected. Like the line drawing wasn't perfect. It took me about 20 min and I move stuff around a lot. I'm still gonna be moving stuff around. On this layer. I'm just looking at it for a second. Harmony come in here. There's a lot of variation. I'm just putting in some major areas of dark to get started. I'm kind of making this a little bit bigger. Again, you can use just cool colors or cool with black and white. This I, I like renaissance drawings. I like them in terms of using, of practicing portrait and figure. I think they're really good for that with the Shading. Just kinda straightening this line out a little bit. Okay. I'm going to come up here for a second and then come back down here. Just because there's certain things that are telling me where other things are I'm going to erase some of these pencil marks. I didn't really get erased because they don't want them. I mean, I have some pencil marks that I left on here, but I don't want some of them showing through the Colored Pencil. Just again, looking for areas that are darker right now. Just getting a start on the Shading. You can do something simple or something complicated. I tried to do something a little bit more complicated. All right. I'm just looking just really initial phases of a drawing. I'm not really pressing all that hard in case I need to make changes or erase. So again, I'm doing value of Color using Cool Colors. You can't see what I'm doing. All right, so I'm gonna come and look on the legs for a second thought needs a lot more work, but I'm just getting started. Or the fabric around the legs, excuse me. Again. You can see the figure through the fabric. Again, I'm using the chart just to, so I'm looking at the cool side and I'm looking at, I'm just looking right now at a violet and that's the darkish gray. So I'm putting that in. And when the gray gets lighter, it'll be blue-violet, lighter blue, lighter blue-green, lighter green, lighter yellow-green. You can add white and black if you want, or you can just leave it at that. This is actually this whole areas lighter. So I don't know what if I wanted to use the purple there. We'll see. And this, this whole side is kind of lighter except for right here and this shadow area around the arm. So I'm gonna put some purple in here. See this goes a little bit higher. So again, we're Shading with pure colors. If you were to do this just as another option and you didn't like the way that it looked with pure colors. You could do the whole thing as a tint, the whole thing as a tone, or the whole thing has a shade. So meaning, this is just an exercise. But again, if you're gonna do like poseidon or Neptune and you wanted it to be the colors of the ocean. You could use this for Shading. But if you thought the colors were too bright, you could add white to everything, black to everything, or gray to everything. Alright, so now I'm gonna get, I think I'm gonna get a medium blue. Let's see what I can do with this. I just wanted to see how this looks. I may need to add a dark blue in between that. But I'm just kinda putting this in right now and blocking in some areas of Color. There we go. That looks a bit better for this lighter area. So you're looking at values of color in relation to each other and probably blending them if you want. But right now I'm just blocking them in. I'm just finding areas that are lighter and darker and kinda blocking in color to help me get started. I'm just, I'm just looking at the drawing trying to figure out something. Just going to erase this pencil line a little bit. Sometimes you can get lost in the fabric folds. I'm going to get a light green right here for this part that's slightly shaded. Yellow, green. More. You make a mistake, you make a mistake. We're just, we're just trying something out and practicing. So down here, just looking at this folder right here, it's final coming up here. Now it is a little bit darker over here. So I'm gonna come back to the violet. Gets a bit lighter right here. Again, this is just kind of a Ralph blocking in of Color It may need to be corrected, but I wanna get something in here to help me get started. And if this is as far as you want to go, then, you know, that can be as far as you go. So I'm gonna come back up top. That needs a little bit more work down to here. And I'm gonna come in again with the blue. So I'm just looking for a gray that's a little bit lighter than the purple. And that's where I'm putting this gluon. I'm not doing a really dark blue because because the purple is pretty dark. And I want to make something a little bit lighter. So I'm trying to use something that's a bit in-between. Sorry, I paused because I was looking at the drawing. You really need to focus when you're doing these things. Some people like it totally quiet. Some people like to have music on. This needs a lot more work. This is just a first layer. I haven't done anything on this. I to, I need to focus on that next because I'm doing too much over here. I just again, looking for areas of light and dark. And remember you can always dark in a light area like I can always add purple to blue. But it would be hard to lighten the purple and it would be hard to lighten the blue if I wanted to make it say this light yellow-green. So just keep that in mind. So again, err on the side of caution when you're going dark, right? You can always make it darker later. Okay. Now I'm going to I need to work on this side because it's just getting it looks uneven. So let me get my violet for this area right here. And now I'm looking at the value of this arm. This is a gray, so I'm gonna put into blue here and there Shading. So there's another, there's a Light And then, uh, dark, I guess we're seeing the bone through the skin. And I'm just seeing which parts of the fingers are darker. It has more sophisticated Shading and not That's just a starting point. Okay, I'm gonna get my violet for this other, this angel is supposed to be an angel, but I don't see the wings, but that's what it's called. And I'm just going to outline this part of the person is holding onto a piece of wood, I believe. Okay. Again, just blocking in areas of value with color. This can be trying to leave a little white showing. And I'm going to get my violet because it gets darker here again. Again, this is not perfect. I'm just doing the best that I can to block in areas of color or a value with color. I'm gonna go with the blue right here. This is the other I guess that other knee. That's one knee. I think this is the other one that looks a little too big though. I want to change the shape. There we go. So I can get that blue out with the purple already. So I need to look at the persons. I'm just getting my regular pencil because I feel like I made the hair. There's more area of neck showing. So just little things again, when you're doing a drawing, you're always correcting. So I'm gonna come in with some blue right here. I want this to be lower. I'm just trying to get some values in here. Again, corrections can be made later adjustments. And there's also Shading on the face. I'm being very sparing with it. And I want to leave that for a second. Okay. I'm gonna get my yellow, green and come into the areas that are a bit lighter at this house to be a blended. This is just kinda first Layer. Do I wanna leave some areas white? That's what I'm trying to ask them. I'm probably yes, I don't necessarily like just having the colors. I'd like to have that. The contrast of having the white image and a black. So now I'm looking here. I'm going to stop soon because I'm almost at half an hour and then I'll continue. It's actually really dark right here. It's coming along. Just comes out more. Again. You see how detailed you want to make it for what you're doing? I'm actually probably we're almost at 30 min, so I'm going to stop and restart. I may do some shading in-between 7. Adding a Layer of Cool Colors: Okay, so now I just sit a little bit on the bottom. I just added some a little bit of green on the top, but I'm actually going to come in with a black. And I'm going to define a little bit and then I'll go back to my blending to find an outline. So this is just a black colored pencil. I started with a regular graphite pencil. So this is a little bit different. That's really helping me see. I liked that transition between I like to go to the contrast of the really dark, dark. I think that makes it look nicer, but you don't have to. I'm going to probably mess with the hands last because they're a little bit more complicated. This is still the arm right here. Let's see how much definition that gives it. And I'm still going to use my Value of Color Shading, but I just want the black to kind of define. That's a good word for it. And actually do a little bit of the really, really dark shading. It still needs a lot more work. So again, this is a time-consuming process. Even if you do something simple, like a couple of spheres, it's still time-consuming. Getting the layers and the Shading. I'm going to deepen the purple later. And as I'm doing this, I'm also correcting things that are not quite correct. This is by no means perfect. Not everything isn't the perfect place. But this is just so like I kinda go through and layers. I go with one color and I kind of go through the whole drawing and just kind of fix what needs to be fixed. But I make adjustments while I'm doing now. I'm seeing some things here that need to be that I haven't really blocked in. I'm putting those in now. That needs some work in Light. Alrighty. Who's going to need a bit more blending as well, but see how much that defines it. I'm defining and also outlining. You don't have to. I mean, you might like it better looking like this, right. So it's up to you. And right above here it's dark. So I'm gonna put some black in there. Kind of blended up The black too much. I'm trying to figure that out now. But I can't really go back. Kind of moving some certain folds around that I feel like are not totally correct. Just looking for areas of dark and you see how many layers you could do to kinda make this look correct or right? I'm not I'm leaving some areas to shade with color because they're not that dark. Now I'm coming down to the bottom part. It's kinda dark down here, but light over here. So I may not include black over here all decide that later. So one thing at a time, I just move through the drawing and just add to it, take away from it. See what I need to do. Just looking for areas of dark and of course the colors still need to be corrected, right? So you just wanted to see how how many layers you want to do. Of course, like if you have time, by all means spend like five or 6 h on it. I mean, that's what I would like to do, but I mean, I don't want to make the video that long because that's a little bit too much. So I just wanted to make it far enough for you to get the main idea. But with each layer it starts looking better. Looking at this bottom part down here, which has darks and then there's a light up here. But you can see how much time you could possibly spend on this. This is dark as well. Let me get my purple The blue. So there's areas that I missed because I was just kinda blocking in areas of Color blindly. Okay. So I don't want to ignore the starting wafer. This this area is lighter, so I don't know if I'm going to put black in there, but I'm gonna come up over here onto this side because I just kinda left this side alone. And just kinda making a shape for the hair. The hair is a little bit undefined. Again, this is a practice thing. So you just do as much as you want. The more you do, the more practice you'll have. Yeah, I just wanted dark around the face, but I'll probably do that. There's some here right here. It's kinda hard to see. This looks like it's another part of the shirt, but it's darker up here. I'm going to come into the arm with the dark. And over here as well, this is pretty dark. Okay. So now I'm going to come into the hand. It's kind of outlining the fingers, just like they were with the pencil. Whoops. It's harder to erase Colored Pencil than Pencil. So just making an outline of the outfit over here. I'm going to come up to this hand for a second. So the fingers I treated again just a shapes like where does one rectangle meet another rectangle? And then I tried to make them look like fingers. Okay, so now Do I want I'm just thinking to myself for a second. Do I want to put a yellow wood? And I know yellow was on the warm side, but it could still be considered this side for the really light areas. I just wanted to see how it looks. Yes, I think I do. Just giving it a bit of light to some areas that are not totally white. Then I'm gonna get some yellow green for the middle of this. I'm just looking at it, just taking a little I need some delineation down here. And I'm trying to think, do I want to use a blue or green? Let me just see what this looks like. Just testing out. So this is a bit of a darker green than the yellow-green. Yeah, that looks good. Okay. Because, I mean, there is a dance there. I'm just blocking in colors, but right here it doesn't have any line work. So there is a pro to having some line in here, but I don't want it to be black because it's a lighter area. I want to define. And I'm just using a regular pencil, but it needs to be dark. And outline. Golfs better. Alright, So now I'm kinda come here. There we go. All right, so I'm going to come back up to the top. That was, well, let me do a few more greens here. So you can see the body through the clothing. This bottom part needs work, but I want to come back to the top for a minute. Okay. So on this arm, I'm just looking for lights and darks. Again. It wouldn't be white because it's a light gray, right? So I'm trying to again use color as value, gets a little bit later and here. And Again, I'm doing it as to try to show you as much as I can in the short time that I have. There are some areas that are a bit darker on the fingers, so I'm coming back into the blue. Again, this could take me a couple of hours to kinda get this right. I'm undergo with this right here. And in here. Like this whole side is like kind of in Shadow and then it gets lighter on this side. And I'm trying to, well, down here, it's darker up here, it's a bit later. It needs a lot more blending, but I'm doing as much as I can. When I go yellow right here. Let me erase first because I see some pencil marks. It's kind of lighter right here. And I'm going to bring in cool green. There's some folds in here, but they're lighter. Okay? Now, I'm going to come up here with some yellow, but I'm going to erase some of these pencil lines. I'm going to add some green. I'm just blocking these, all these weights on this part in right here with yellow. The yellow is the complement to purple. So that's gonna make a nice contrast. I'm just adding this green in for blending. It needs, it needs some work. Like not all the values are exactly right. I was just kinda slapping on lights, mediums and darks, right? But it needs a little bit of adjustment. I'm going to put in some yellow here. And I'm going to bring in some green. I'm going to come into the face with some green right here. And some yellow, some yellow in the hair, and some purple right here because this Harris darker. I'm not really, I guess in these drawings I haven't really done anything about background, but I'm just putting them in. And I'm gonna come in with we're almost at 30 min. So I'm going to stop and then all do like a final Layer. I might do a little bit of work in between 8. Final Layer of Cool Colors and Shading: Okay. So now I did a little bit because I thought it would take more than half an hour, but I'm just going to do a little bit more. I put some some blue up in here to make it darker. And I worked on the face and I added some yellow to this area. And I'm going to come I haven't really focused on the bottom part. I mean, you could leave the drawing like that whenever you feel like the drawing is finished, just when it's finished. But I might just do a little bit more to this just to try to fix it up a bit. So I'm going to focus I actually also yeah, let me just focus on the bottom right now because this looks a little bit undone to me. Again, you could leave it like that, but I'm gonna come down here for a second. I'm just looking for areas that are darker because I was going really like because it is later but it gets a little darker down here. So I'm just trying to get the correct values in. Again, it's never perfect. This a little bit more, kind of messing with it. Again, I could do this for hours, but just trying to make it a little bit more realistic. Just pushing this alphabet. I'm gonna go. I know I'm moving around, but I'm going to bring you yellow up in here. Just trying to see what's going on right here. Okay. Just kinda of a dark that I kinda didn't really put in. More defined. I'm just darkening this blue. Again. I could go over this whole thing again, just darkening the colors I put down. Because remember, I was trying to be cautious when I was putting the colors down because I didn't want to mess them up. And I'm going to go darker right here. This is too light, so I'm just getting like a royal blue. I put in some royal blue up here in-between. Okay. And see what's going on right here. I'm gonna put some royal blue right here. Right along. This food was a dark that's kinda coming out of the fold. Okay. I'm getting my yellow-green. There's some very late Shading here. So I'm leaving some areas. White. Dot needs a little bit of work. But I'm going to come down here with a violet. See if I can erase that Colored Pencil right there. So I did. So you can erase, It's just a bit harder. I'm just trying to solidify this area. Let's see how this looks. There's a lot more blending. I mean, again, I'm not going to make this 5 h, but there's a lot more blending that I could do on the whites of the fabric. But I just don't have time at this because we're doing value of color right now. Maybe I'll make a video on that later. Okay. Just looking for areas of and dark. Okay. I mean, it's not perfect. Just not I mean, it's definitely could use more work. But I'm going to come back into the drawing with a deep, right now. I'm going to come in with a deeper purple. A darker purple. Just to enhance some of that dark purple because the purple is used again was to light. So just darkening some of the purple areas because they're lighter than some of the other areas. And I don't want to go too far and mess it up. You know, I just like this area. Let me come in here with the purple. There's a couple of areas that are bothering me, so I'm going to try to fix them. This is a dark. So what I mean is like this value is too dark in the picture to be a light green. So I'm going to add my light blue. So I'm kind of alternating the value, the value that, the color that I paved for value, right? Sometimes that's off, so you have to be willing to make adjustments for that, right? Like this part is really dark. I'm gonna do that here too, because this part over here is pretty dark. Right, and not Light yellow-green is too light of a light to be over here, right? Because I want the correct relationship between values even though I'm using color, right? If that makes sense. When I do it here to there are some areas that are lighter right here, but I'm just trying to get the correct ratio of light areas to dark areas. So I gave that. I hope that makes sense. And this area right here as bothering me, doesn't look quite finished here. So you just work through their drawing one layer at a time, one step at a time, when color at a time. And you see where that goes. Okay, and let me get the purple. Again. This could use like a couple more hours, but just trying to get you the idea of value of color here. But like there's a lot of little things that I could blend in and just I mean, I'm actually, I think it looks pretty good. But, you know, again, it could use just take your time and you keep working on it. You can take break because I know these are long sessions that I'm doing, but you can take a break for a day or a couple of hours and come back to it. Okay. So I'm just going to go what this area right here, just trying to define some of these folds a little bit more with this turquoise. Bring this kinda Shading up. So these folds kind of fade into the Shading. That looks better. You know what? I feel like? Let me see the face. I feel like if I do anything else on this, I'm kinda totally mess it up. But I might do a little bit more shading on the facial area. Not much. Feel like I've done almost as much as I can. And again, I don't want to mess it up. That's not really a detailed phase. It's just kinda going with the figure. Alright, so there's my drawing. I mean, it's not perfect. It could use a couple more hours. You know what? Of course I see something else that I think needs to be fixed. So I'm going to come up here. I feel like This needs to be darker right under any thing that you could do. I mean, the reason I was sparing with this is because anything you could do could mess it up. Okay. I think I'm going to leave it alone. So that is the cool colors value of Color Drawing. I'm going to stop it here. 9. Blocking in Warm and Cool Colors : Okay, So the last drawing that I'm gonna do in the series is all we did one Warm, one core and you can do also, you can use colors from both sides. You don't have to limit yourself to warm or cool. So usually I kinda do this and this because this goes lighter and this goes darker. But you could do any combination, combined combinations, whatever way you want. So you can use both warm and cool colors to show value. To image that I'm using is by Torno and other Renaissance artists. And I just did the head. I did a sketch right here of the head to get started. And I am going to still use colored pencil. I'll do some other things, other media, in other lessons. I'm thinking I'm gonna go for like the light colors warm, the dark colors cool, but we'll see what happens. So I'm going to start out with a violet and I'm just putting in the areas of dark And Shadow. You don't have to do portraits for these you could do still lives are plants. The eyes are dark. Maybe I'll go a little later on the inside. I focus mostly on portrait and figure, but I also do still waves and stuff like that. I will focus on those later on. Okay, so I'm looking at their face. I'm just gonna get a nice yellow, orange and orange. And yellow. Just getting some warm colors. Okay. So I'm going to start out making the hair. I didn't really sketch as as detailed as I did in the last ones. I just wanted to do some of it with the Colored Pencil. I'm just getting some of these pencil marks out. So you can be creative with this. Meaning you can pick and choose, like there's no set rules you have to follow. You can pick and choose where you're putting your Warm and your cool colors. But I'm still, even though I'm being more creative with the color, I'm still using the color to show value. Like I'm still putting late colors where there's light gray. So you want it, if you're working from an image, you want to choose a black and white image was Shading. So I'm just doing the hair yellow and I'm going to add some warms to it. But I'm just putting a Cool Yeah. To get started. And she's wearing a maybe I would call it a veil. So again, this may look arbitrary, but I'm still using color Show value. I'm getting a red. I'm just trying to figure out what color I want to make this. I'm going to outline it in red. We'll see what color it ends up. This veil or turbine. So I'm just kinda getting an outline here to help me figure out where I'm going to block in my lights and my darks. Again, I'm doing some of the drawing with the Colored Pencil because I didn't really do it. That I mean, I did it with the Pencil but it was not as in-depth or detailed. I did it pretty quickly. It was just a sketch. So many erase some of these pencil marks. I'm inventing the top shape because it's not really in the picture. The picture is kinda cut off. Okay. I will do one on real skin tones next, my next series. So I need to focus on the face for a minute because it needs to get something more into it. But I'm gonna put a little bit more here right here. Kinda going over the ear. Lighter, yellow. That was a little bit warmer. This is a little bit cooler. Alright. I'm going to, let's see how I'm going to do this. I'm looking for darker areas on the skin to skin is pretty light. But I'm going to start out with a yellow orange for the areas that are shaded. And I'm just looking for areas that are darker than other areas. Again, I'm just blocking in big areas of color as value though. So I'm looking at the grays on the picture and I'm having those helped me figure out where I'm putting the color. And I'm just doing one color right now. Just kinda looking for areas that are light to medium gray. I'm going to come into the lips with a red I'm just pointing and just figuring out which areas in ellipse our darkest. I'm going to come back to that. I need to, I'm gonna kind of focus on the eyes for a second. So I'm gonna come in with a black. Again, this is subjective color. And using color as value. Not high enough. I'm gonna come in with my violet again. That's more of a blue-violet. Now I'm combining warm and cool within the face. And I'm thinking about, well, I don't know. I was gonna say I might add brown but I might leave that for maybe not. I'll leave that for the regular skin tones. And I want to see how our blue will look around the eyes. Again, I'm not really like in case I need to switch something, I'm not really pressing that hired. Okay. I'm gonna come down into the neck with this blue color is something you have to practice. And that's why we're isolating different color schemes. And again, this is not really a color scheme, is using color as value, but that could be considered a color scheme. I'm Clara of doing a black outline. I just Will add to it. Okay. I'm just, I'm just taking a look at it and seeing what I need to do. I think I'm going to work around the image for right now. This is a pretty light image. Like there's a lot of white in it is what I'm trying to say. There's some dark, but it's kind of high contrast like cannibalism in terms of Shading. Sorry, you couldn't see that. I was just working on that. Outline. This two this is another part of the veil or Hood or drapery. There is some Shading and this one just looking for areas that are darker there. This is kinda the Shading on this as kind of weird. Maybe I should have picked something else, but I'll just go with it. Meaning there's a lot of areas that are white. It needs more work, but I'm just kinda looking for areas of light and dark and putting in color to show that. I think I'm going to use some brown in the hair, which is a dark brown, can be warm or cool, which will learn in the next video where this is just a brown colored pencil. I would say this is slightly warm. Brown is somewhat neutral and it's darker. It's a dark. It depends on which bone you're using, but it's usually a mix of some colors and it's pretty dark compared to the other colors. Usually. It's definitely darker than yellow Alright, now I need to figure out the rest of this fabric that she's wearing. I'm just going to make some lines that define it. This is the neck. G has all this fabric wrapped around her. Getting these lines in, helping me see where I'm going to put folds, erasing some of the pencil lines. Okay? Again, this is not perfect. I'm kinda changing now and open. Simplifying it. The last two videos, we're kinda long, so I'm trying to make this one shorter. We'll see what happens. Alright. Okay, so I'm going to work probably around the face with fabric for awhile. Pieces red. I'm probably going to alternate between warm and cool. But since I already have this piece right, I'm gonna keep this little area, red, orange warms. I'm just putting in some of the Shading from the boards in the fabric. You don't have to plan everything out before you draw. Like I didn't pinout what colors I'm going to use. I start putting some colors down and then I see what looks nice next to each color. And this needs a dark up here, so I'm gonna go red. Then I'm gonna come against the lighter down here. So I'm coming in with a yellow, orange. And I wanna do. I mean, since I'm using all the colors, Let's see. Since the neck kinda goes later, I'm going to put it in some green here. And we're almost at half an hour actually. So I'm going to stop and restart 10. Adding a Layer of Warm and Cool Colors: Okay, I didn't do anything to it and that time. So I'm gonna put some green in the eyes. I may make that a darker green. I'm trying to make the colors work together. So right here, I'm gonna go, since they have so much warm up here, I'm going to go Cool right here. Let me get the other purple. So there's creases and boards in the fabric. That means I'm going to bring the purple onto this edge of the neck. I'm blending by not pressing as hard and going over another color. And I'm going to get my black because this right here is very dark. Okay? So right here, dark. I'm gonna get this is kind of has some darks in it. So I'm just making some of the folds and the fabric. And I'm gonna get some blue. So again, I'm using colors to create values. I'm trying to isolate areas in Cool So they play off against each other. So this is the same thing I was doing. What I'm combining, warm and cool. And it is also dark over here. And I'll have this be warm. I'm going to get my red. So I'm trying to alternate actually, like it's not a strategy. I mean, you can use it if you want us. Just something that I came up with. An SRE started drawing, I thought it would look good because the warm and cool play off each other. I didn't plan it out. I didn't know what I was gonna do when I started. I didn't really, I just knew I was going to use the colors in some way. But if you're putting groups of Warm next two groups of Cool, Then you're getting kind of the complimentary kinda thing going on with the colors next to each other. Okay. So this is gonna be Cool. I'm just looking at this. Yeah, I'll keep it warm over here. No. I mean, this is gonna be warm, but I put the violet in there because there's some areas that are really, really dark and I may go over that with black leader. Okay. And then in here as a dark this is like her shirt underneath or her dress underneath the the veil. Okay. Now, I'm gonna come back into the S with a red. Actually have kind of a pink color that might look good where it's more of a cool red, not a pink. And then I'm gonna get orange, red-orange. So I'm trying to use color to create the folds. The colors need to be enhanced. Dark and okay. And There's a piece that folds down right here. So I'm gonna get my purple. And I'm going to come back and actually with a black at this point, I know that I need to do more work, but I think there could be more use of black and here, and I'm going to actually focus on these folds right now To see getting those really deep darks that I'm not able to get with the Colors. I'm just finding those really deep dark crevices. And this is one of them right here. They're kind of enhances right here as well. There's no right or wrong way to do this. I just want you to learn how to use color as value. Okay? Right here. Again, you don't have to use black. I just think it enhances. I like, I'm a big fan of black and the drawings. So I think it enhances the drawings. This is gonna be a dark gray here on this edge. There. I'm liking the black. I'm liking how it looks with a black. I think that really just gives it a little bit more jab contrast and it doesn't look so rainbow. Now, if you wanted to look green buoy, that's fine. I do like it to look rainbow, but I like it not to live to rainbow you if that makes any sense. Okay. Alright, so let me leave that for a second. I need to come back up here and work in the face. I just wanted to get some idea of the colors that I would have for the the veil. So the face would complement it. Instead of doing the face first and then doing the veil. So the face is actually, there's a lot of weight on the face, but I just have a few more things. I need to put in over here. I'm just going to sharpen this Pencil Okay. I'm going to put in this actually, this darker, this pinker or cooler red over here. I don't know you like that's the warmer red? This is the cooler red. I think it comes down right here. Area. All right. So now I'm going to move over here to this side. Sorry. Sine. Again, just looking for areas of light and dark. Again, this needs a lot more work. I don't know how much I'll be able to do. I'm going to get my orange for this. Okay, so now I'm going to move into my black. For, just for this. There are some real darks right here. Just needs a lot more work. Okay, I'm gonna come up to the face though for a second. Okay. So there's a bit in this area, but that's dark room and I'll put in some red and then I'm going to work around it. I'm just again looking for areas of light and dark on the face. I'm going to get to be I'm kinda moving around. Sorry about that. I'm gonna get the violet for the dark in ellipse Let me come back to my that needs to libs need a little work. I start messing with something that I moved to something else and I can just be. But what I'm trying, I mean, we're learning about using value as color. But one thing to notice about all of the drawings is how realistic they look when you're using color in the correct value, even though they're not in the correct color scheme. If that made sense. I'm going to come into the face with yellow. And this is not perfect. Of course it needs adjusting but, but just something to notice if you're getting, when you do a drawing, if you're getting the values right, it looks pretty realistic. Now I'm doing this and like totally nonsense colors, but I'm trying to get the values right to make it look realistic. If that made sense. I wanna leave some of the face white, but not. I'm trying to figure out where I'm trying to leave the brightest areas white, but I'm putting in some yellow. This is not even this is not even really detailed. But since I'm trying to do the correct the values correctly, even if it's not detailed at will look realistic if that's making sense. Alright, right about 25 min. I'm actually going to stop and do a little bit of work on it and then restart 11. Final Layer of Warm and Cool Colors and Shading: Okay. I just did a little bit of shading up here. And I'm going to come in with my black. I'm going to see how much more I can do. This is definitely gonna be the last video will just, I think you let the idea. But I'm gonna come in with my black and enhance some of these crevices. I just think the black really adds to it. I told you that before. And I'm going to come up here. Okay. I'm going to put a little shady right here. I'm not really for say necessarily looking at the picture right now. I'm just trying to make my drawing work as quickly as I can in the amount of time that I can. So just trying to enhance it a little bit, and I'm starting with the black. I added some shading to the face. And I'm gonna put some black Shading up here. I didn't shade what I'm gonna leave that alone. Never mind. I'm gonna make a line for the bag, for the underlying circle. To kinda define it. It looks a little cartoony, but that's okay. And I'm going to get my darker purple. The purple that I was using before was too light of this little tiny purple that's kinda darker. And I'm just enhancing the eyes. Now I'm going to get my blue and kinda just make it a little darker. So we have like the cool in the middle of the warm. So I'm gonna get the black and come back down here. Okay? Now, I'm gonna come down from the top of the eye with a black, make it darker on the top there should be probably some shading in the eye, but I haven't done that yet. That's what I was gonna say before, but I think it looks okay like that. Alright. I may leave part of the face white. I'm coming to Love at this right here, and I'm gonna go black right here. I'm deviating from the picture, but I'm trying to make this image, but I drew work. And I'm going to bring this in and Shading. Sorry, you can't see I'm going to leave that there. This is pretty light. Okay, So about right here. It's darker. So I'm coming in with this. And I'm gonna get my darker violet. Let me bring this black and right here. And then come back to my red. So I'm layering colors over each other to blend them. Okay, so right here is gonna be dark. So I'm coming into this area just with a black like a deep crevice. I'm kind of stylizing it or making it a bit cartoony, just to get it done quickly. And I'm thinking, I'm going to pull some yellow in here. Like I neither putting yellow in here or here. So since this is darker, I'm going to pull some yellow into this. I want to leave some white showing, but I want to have some with the bright yellow. So I'm kind of letting the color like I'm not Sometimes I'm looking at the picture, sometimes they have not. But I'm letting the color. Now. Like I'm letting a drawing like I'm not trying to totally copy the picture all the way. I'm using it for reference. I'm letting the drawing kind of take on a life of its own instead of just copying everything right? And, and trying to make it exactly like the picture. Once you have enough down, you can do that. Sometimes your picture won't will end up not looking like the original picture at all. Right. So I'm not even I mean, sometimes I'm looking for areas of light and dark, but I'm just kinda seeing what looks good. What would look good next to this color? What would look good next to this color? And I'm just blocking it in. So I'm just letting my imagination kinda takeover as I'm drawing. And I think this area needs a little work. The faces, okay. And this area needs a little bit of work. And this area. So let's start here, since there's not a lot of green, I'm gonna put some green and over here, I'm actually going to dark in the blue first. That may not be dark enough. But let me just jargon this blue I have in here. Or maybe I can work out. I'm just thinking to myself, which you should be doing when you're drawing. I was going to see maybe I can work with a dark and light green to make something a little bit different. Let me see how it looks. That's a kind of a dark green. Yeah, that's going to add something different to the drawing. So that was just an intuitional choice. Wanting to have something different in the drawing and see how it's going to pan out. Again. Sometimes it doesn't pan out I love this dark green, so I'm going to kind of enhance the eyes with it a bit. Leaving the light green. And the middle. There we go. And coming back over here. So let's see what Green's do. I have, I have another kind of like sea foam green. There we go. Kind of changing it up a little bit. I'm going to come in here actually, for the base of this whole thing, I'm going to go yellow, green. That one's just a little bit darker. Then I'm going to adjust just to have a cool area. This is to light. How I move around too. I'm just darkening. Again, this could be layers and layers. Layers, but I've done we're on about little over an hour now. So I mean, as long as you guys understand, all stop doing this. When this video hits 30 min. And then you can work on yours for quite a bit longer at home. I'm just going to get this green in here. I'm going to adjust this, but I just wanted to get that as a base just to kind of like I just feel like the green would look really good. The eyes or green, the neck is green and then that would set off some of the warm colors around it. Now I'm going to come back into my see this color, darker green. And I'm just looking for areas of this, this is a piece of fabric. Areas of this fabric that are a bit darker. When I'm trying to blend this in to make kind of crevices. I'm gonna go right over this purple on the edge. You can take pictures of your drawing as you're working on it. And then if there's a stage that you liked more beforehand, then you can, if you really messed it up, you can go and redo it and then go back to that stage. This is not perfect. I mean, I could do another five to 6 h on this. What I really want to do, I'm probably not going to have time to do it as drawing, but just to show you how my thought process works, I think a blue, starry sky around the warm colors like the oranges, the complement of blue would make it really stand out and look beautiful. So I know we're just focusing on exercises right now with color, but the background is also really important. I haven't done a lot on backgrounds or composition. I will do those later. I'm just using on skills right now. Hold on 1 s, finding my black. I just want to OUT1 this line. When I'm drawing a kind of my eyes move around and see things that need to be fixed. I'm going right over this purple again. Just looking for areas that are lighter and darker and I'm putting in the darker Green and the darker areas. That needs a lot of work. But your idea, and I'm going to come into this area doesn't seem quite finished to me, as well as this area, but I'll see how much I can do. I think you guys taught the idea by now. So I'm going to get my yellow here. Just because I'm leaving this part of the face white. I'm going to add color over here to contrast that. Okay. Do I want to be thinking to myself, would you should always be doing when you're drawing. I want to put a little black right here to make the white of the base stand out. What I'm, what my intuition is telling me right now is that since I have this beautiful green area, I want to bring that green into the white silver here. We'll see if I have time. I'm going to bring a yellow in here. I'm having a Colors, having them work as value, but I'm also looking at the way that they're sitting next to each other. And that happens with practice. That happens. You learn that by practicing. And it happens when you're doing it like you don't necessarily like a plan isn't necessarily the best thing. Like you're working in. You're saying, Oh my gosh, cool would look really good next to that warm, right? And it's easier to see or to, to kind of come up with once you have something down on the paper, right? Because you can physically like put something next to it and see how it looks. Okay, I need to do with this little area. So again, that happens with practice, practice and practice. So I'm gonna go yellow for the light areas. I want to do the same down here just to give it some consistency. Then I think a nice blue sky behind it would be really, really nice with those colors. Okay, so now I'm gonna get some orange and yellow orange. I'm just enhancing this area of yellow orange because it's not really dark. Just brightening some of the colors that I have on here. Enhancing and brightening. Okay, now this needs a little help down here. We're back to my red. This is kinda messy. Want to bring the read, write and here over the yellow. I'm gonna, just, since this is so messy, I'm going to connect this. I'm not even looking at the picture, I'm just thinking it will look better on this trying. So part of it is using a photo reference. I mean, that's definitely something you need to do for this, but I want you to know that once you use a photo reference, you want to let your own style emerge and takeover the drawing, right? Because otherwise, I mean, copying is an important part of learning. But otherwise, if you're not developing your own style than you do develop that while you're copying. I'm just going with it now and seeing what happens. Okay. Now, what do I want right here? My my, my intuition is telling me to grab a green. I don't know why. Let's see how it looks. Oops, I need yellow down here. Sorry. I'm gonna go for the C green. Like a sea foam green. That looks kinda weird, but I just want to have its balancing out the green on the other side. Okay. And then get a little yellow-green to kinda balance that out of it. Okay. And do I want to leave this white? Well, perhaps, I mean, I don't know. I'm I'm trying to figure that out right now. Drill or do I want to put some yellow in there? I don't think green in this whole area. I think that little bit would just be enough. Just have the white on the face. Put a little yellow, orange in here to make the transition. And get a little bit of regular orange. I'm going to enhance this red a bit. So I could go over this for another couple of hours, fixing layers during the sky and the background, and everything else. But I think you have the basic idea. So this is value of color with both warm and cool. So all black and white. And kind of letting the drawing, not focusing so much on the photo reference, but letting the drawing take on a life of its own and developing my own styles where I'm not being so picky as if does this fold go here and this go here. Instead, I'm just trying and seeing what looks good next to each other. So it changes from the original image. I'm going to stop here 12. Value of Color- Outro: Okay, So for the project gallery, you're gonna do three drawings. You're gonna get a black and white image. And you're gonna do one. It can be the same image if you want, but I did three different images, so one in the warm colors, so you're translating the values of black, white and they into color and your Shading with color, this one is just warm. Then you're gonna do one in the cool colors. So you're translating the black, white, and gray and your Shading with cool colors, you can add black and white to either one if you want. You don't have to. I did. And then Last one, you're going to combine both warm and cool