Travel Journal: Mini objects and Landscapes

1. Introduction: Oh, hi. Welcome to my class. I was just burning something I love to do on my travels at home. What do I mean by at home? Well, local travel journals, of course. So I always love the idea of a travel journal, but I don't travel that often. This series is all about doing sketches in your hometown locally every day, finding those super cool little treasures in your everyday lives and documenting them on paper. We will be starting out easy. We're going to be recording things like our morning tea and our coffee. We're going to be doing really small, little easy landscape dose, which are small landscapes. I'm also going to show you a quick little tutorial on perspective just to help with those tables and ellipses that you would see inside of a month. To join me and we will get started on our local travel journal. 2. Supplies: Hi guys. I wanted to show you the supplies that we will be using in this class. You do not need all of these supplies, but I'll go through what I'm using each one for and then you can decide from there. So start off with, I have a sketch book, You can use a sketchbook or a piece of paper. I prefer to use sketchbooks. I love sketch books. I think they are the best thing and you keep everything in one spot and it's great. This one is a medi five. I like this book because the pages are super smooth colored pencil will glide over top of it so well. Like pens, it's not the best for watercolor because the paper doesn't absorb very well. However, it does work for watercolor, I found this is probably the closest book I have to being able to handle as many supplies as I would like to throw at. It works for fountain pens. It works for colored pencil, tolerates color, works well with quash. The next item is my Tambo food and suc brush pen. I love this pen because it is, I don't know, something super magical about it. Show you how it draws. It just gives you this dark line and if you go slowly, it's dark. And if you go fast, then you get a textured effect. So I love those, it leaves a mark. It's really nice. That is the brush tip in black. The next two supplies I'll be using are also tombos. These are full on brush pens, so when you pull off the cap, you can see that they're quite smooth there, they're pretty light. They layer over top of each other. I have two different darknesses, this one the lighter one is the 95, that one's pretty light. Then the little bit darker one is the 75. I'd say this is about a medium gray and this is a very light gray. I like to build up my shading with these two pens. Let me explain what I'm going to use those for this pen. I'm going to use for most of the drawing. I'm going to outline my teacups and landscapes and it's going to really stand out. Then these I'm going to use to color some of my little landscape. To then I have these colored pencils. I have quite a variety here, but it's still quite a limited. A few of these I use in my limited color palette. I think I have these ones think I use for my limited color palette. And then the rest I use just for other fun coloring earlier on. If going into a drawing it feels very intimidating for you, you can always use something called a non photo blue pencil, which is going to show up super lightly on your page. If you can see that you can go darker with it. If you just draw really lightly, then you might not need to erase. After, which is pretty cool, then I have my tiny little watercolor palette. I do use some guash in the tutorial that I show you guys. I have since moved it back to a mostly watercolor palette. It's up to you what you want to use. The way I use it in this video is very watery. So it's basically like watercolor anyways. But I find this is super helpful for having on the go while you're traveling. Then I use this water brush which is Pentel. It's great because you just have the water in the actual handle. And then as you paint with it, the water comes right out of the brush pen and you can make marks and then you just squeeze it out and then wipe it off on a tissue paper or something to get all the color off. Just a piece of papers. It's my ideal, but you're good to go for your next color. There you go. Those are all the supplies that I will be using in this course. Join me for the next class and I will be showing you just a little hint at perspective just to help us out with our everyday drawing. 3. Perspective: I thought before we jumped in to all our beautiful everyday sketching, I would just give you guys a little presentation or lesson on perspective. We're not going to go deep, we're just going to touch on it so that we understand how to draw things, maybe that are circular or square when they are looking away from us. Here is our square object. If I'm looking at that straight on like this, I would draw that as a square. If I took that same object and I looked at it from this side, that same table would be flat like that. Once we start to move it around in different ways, that's when we're going to see more than one side of it. If I was looking at this and I could see a little bit of the top and a bit of the side, we're going to get something that looks like this. Each of these sides retreat into the background because they are farther away from us. If we're drawing a table, we're drawing something else that has that shape, then that's what it's going to look like. As we adjust that this way or this way. We're going to see the differences in that. Say I saw it from this side. We would see a little bit of the side here. And that's going to go this way, because that's going away from us and we'll see more of this side, but it still is going away from us. Just think, if an object like this is going away from you, it typically gets smaller than if it's coming towards you. It's coming bigger here, because it's close and smaller, far away. If we were to draw a square to the side, we have our square. If we turned it, we would get the side. This is two point perspective. If we were looking at that same object from above and the side, then we would get something like this. That is three point perspective. This is even a little bit off, I'm going to redraw that so it's more accurate then if we have something like a plate, something that's flat and round, it's a similar thing. We're looking at something from top down, we have a circle. If we start to tilt that circle this way, it's getting skinnier. The width is the same, but it's not as tall. We're going to go something like this. This is called an ellipse, we're going to use that a lot if you're drying plates or the inside of mugs or anything basically that is flat and round. If you keep going, get skinny like that, saying the other way, if you start with the circle and you turn it the other way, you're going to get this. And here we have a mug. If we look at it from top down, we see that it is a full circle. If we start to tilt it, notice how that inside shape changes into an ellipse. Yeah, our first activity lesson that we're going to do is drawing our tea mugs. That's a really good thing to think about when you are drawing your tea. Think of the shape of the inside of the top there. Good job guys. Thanks so much for watching this perspective lesson. If it's hurting your brain, perspective can be a lot. Don't worry so much about that. Just close your one eye, look at the objects, and do your best. But that might help out a little bit. If you're a little bit unsure how to draw something, join me in the next lesson and we will do a warm up for our tea or coffee. 4. Tea Warm up: Let's get into doing a tea warm up page. If you drink coffee, you can definitely use your coffee cup as well. We're going to keep this page pretty loose, and we're just going to draw our tea in multiple poses and using different tools. I'm just starting here with my regular Tombo Fudenosuke brush pen and I'm just drawing it from parsley side. Parsley top view. Then this next one I'm going in and doing more of a top view just to give a different perspective. I'm not worrying too much about making this perfect. It's supposed to be a little bit wobbly, a little bit whimsical. This next one is more of a side view. You can only see a little bit of the top of that tea cup. I'm just adding in a little bit of details, a little dots for the texture on the mug. This next one we're getting a little bit looser. We're keeping our pen on the page and just going over certain spots multiple times, that gives you that loose, scribbly look. Now, I'm going in with colored pencil. I'm just going in with the blue because that's the main color of the mug. Keeping it really loose, again, really wobbly. I don't care that this looks different than the actual mug. I'm drinking green tea. I started out with a neon tealish color and then went back in with the more green underneath. I'm just adding some pink for a shadow and then some purple on top of that. Mixing colored pencils looks really cool. Yes, it's one of my favorite techniques. I'm just adding a little title here. I like to do that with colored pencils and just push down really hard with the pencil. You get this childlike whimsy in the text. This next one, I apologize, I totally cut it off. But basically, I'm just keeping my pen on the page and going scribbly with it. I will move it soon and you'll get to see it. There you go. So it's really scribbly now, just writing, oops, on the page, and adding some of my tea to the bottom. You honestly can't even see it because this tea is so light. But this just reminds me to keep this page really loose and not get too worried about it looking perfect, because this is a warm up and we're wanting to draw things that have a lot of personality and just record what we're drinking for the day without worrying about it looking too perfect. 5. Layering coloured pencil: Okay, so we're just going in here. I drew a new tea cup, but I thought I would show you how I color this in a little bit more detail. So just a simple line drawing and then I'm just going in with my lightest blue pencil. I like to start light with colored pencil, then build up the colors on top of that, I'm just doing a solid base. Then I'm adding in a little bit more of a Teo color, which is still light. But I really like this color. I just wanted to add a little bit of that as well. Then I'm taking a bit of a darker blue, just going over top of everything. I love the look of colored pencils when you have multiple colors on top of each other. I'm just going to go in with this scribbly circle technique to fill the whole thing. Just going on top there, getting in the nice shadow areas. Going back over it just a little bit. I'm taking the pink, I'm not going to go over everything because the pink mixing with the blue gives you a bit of a purple look. And purples are really good for shadow colors. I'm going along the edges, but I'm coming into the mug a little bit more than I would if it was just a shadow. We're creating some depth. Then I will go back in with the purple. I realized I started with the really dark purple. It's magenta color. I'm going back in the areas. I'm doing less and less with each color. I'm just adding in the magenta purple, given a little scribble for some varied color, then I'm grabbing the darker purple and I'm just going to go around the edges and just a little bit in to the mug to show where the light is coming from. In this particular image, I'm imagining that the light is coming from the left side above. All the shadows are mostly going to be on the right in the bottom corner. But I'm also thinking about the inside of the mug, and I want to get that pretty shadowy as well. I'm just adding a little bit of yellow here. It's just going to add some extra color. Yellow is opposite of purple on the color wheel. It's going to help add to that shadow. And it also goes really well with blue. Just a little bit more of a rainbow look. I just added in some yellow at the top for the green tea. Then I'm going back in with the darker purple to give that shadow. I love using purples for shadows. I think it just looks so much better than using black. Black dulls it, but purple gives you a really cool color. I'm just adding in a really light green for the green tea. Then I'm taking my bluish green and going in the corner. I'm not going to fill the whole thing, I'm just going to add where the shadows are. But then I thought I'd add a little bit more to the cup just for some varied color as well. I'm going back over that shadow as well just to darken it. There you go. There is our mug. If I looked at this in person, it would not look like that. But I think having it like that is really fun. I'm just going to do a real quick scribble pass on this one, which is similar to what we just did, but with less layers and less detail. And I think it gives it a really fun look. I started with the base blue, going in with some purple where the shadows are. Then I'm adding in some of that green for the green tea. Then adding in a little bit darker green just in the corner there for the shadow. Then just for fun, I thought I would add some fun stars to the page in that green. There you go. That's a lot more simple version of that colored pencil scribbly look. I'm now just going over another mug with my Tombo gray brush pen. This is if I just want to add shading real quick, separates it from the background on this other one. Instead of filling in the whole mug, I'm just going to do the shadow areas that's going to give it a cool look as well. I'm just leaving a lot of it white to show you where the shadows go, which is a really good exercise to do. If you're practicing shadows, then you don't have to worry too much about color. Now that we're done all of our warm ups, I'm just going to add some fun additions to the page Using my colored pencil, I like to add rainbows in a color scheme and then little lines and swirls stars. This is a exciting zigzags. Do some more stars, you can just get creative here. Just fill in little bits of the page so that your eye has areas to go to. I'm just highlighting where that tea spill was because I cannot see it. Then I'm just going over top of some of the lines with another color just to give that fun depth. Then at the top, I'm just going to write tea warm up that I remember what I was doing. I'm just going back in with another color. You get some really fun mixes, fun depth. There we go. I hope you had fun doing this warm up with me. Stick around and check out the next video and we will be doing some really easy little landscapes. 6. Landscapitos draw: All right, so as you can see, I'm just sitting in a little coffee shop and we're going to do some simple landscapes which if anyone has watched any videos by John Mra. Laws, he calls them landscape dose, which just means small landscapes. I'm not talking about like big rolling hills, I'm just doing small little bits that I see around me. I'm going to fill part of the page with squares and I'm not going to worry too much about what size these squares are. I just want enough space in each one that I can draw a little something. But I'm not going to pre plan what the size is to what I'm drawing. I'm just going to fill a whole bunch of different sizes, different shapes. And then from there I will decide what I'm going to draw and then fill it out. This is the view from the cafe I was in just to show you what I could use for my drawings. That's out the window. Then just down in front of me, I have my art supplies, my T little tissue over in the corner. There's a coat rack with some clothes on it. For the first one. Now that we've done our T, I'm going to use that because that's the easiest way to start. I'm just going to draw what's in front of me if you're having trouble seeing the flatness of the object because we see in three D, just cover one of your eyes and you'll be able to see it a little bit more in two D. We're going to use a little bit of the perspective that we learned before this when I draw the table in a second, it's going to be on an angle. If you just think about the table that we drew, I guess you can't totally see it here, but you'll see it in a bit when I draw some more tables. Here's my tissue. I'm not going to get too hung up on the details of that then. I'm just adding little bits here for the wood, little dots on the mug. More wood spots. I don't want to draw all of those wood spots, I just want to hint at it. Otherwise, it would just get too detailed. The more detail you put in a spot, the more your eye is going to go there. I would put the most detail on the focal point of your drawing. I'm just zooming in here, drawing my pencil case. Just a few pencils and I'm just cutting it off wherever I like. You don't have to draw the whole pencil case. You can just zoom in, Zoom out as you like. I'm drawing the foreground elements first and then drawing in the background elements. As I'm not going in with a pencil, I typically like to just go in with pen just because it's fun here. I'm just drawing the balcony ledge. I'm not worrying too much. But again, I'm just choosing a small part of it. I don't need to draw everything. Just start with the main front object and then just work back from there. Now I'm drawing the post outside, just right there. I'm just doing a little bit of the grass in little bit of the crosswalk. I like to skip my pen around. I don't always just make a solid line and that helps me choose what I'm looking at and what I'm going to draw these shrubs, again, I don't want to add too much detail, but I want to show what leaves are in the foliage there. Just a little bit of the grass behind the cross walk. A little bit of grass details. Then lastly, I'm going to draw that close rack. I'm just going to start with that because that's my focal point. And then in the front, I'm going to add those umbrellas for a foreground element. But I want to leave that space so that I don't have to draw on top of what I've already drawn. You could start with drawing the umbrellas first and then drawing the rack behind it. That might be a bit easier. I'm just drawing some plants as nearby. Yeah, there we go. 7. Landscapito shading: So I thought with these landscapes that we just drew, I'm going to use my two tambo pens to get in there and just do some shading. That's a good place to start because we don't necessarily want to worry about color right away. I'm just going in with the lighter brush pen, I'm adding areas that I want to stand out, but I'm not going to worry as much about the main, main focal point. I'm going to do the secondary coloring. I'm just doing the objects on the table and then behind the table. Now for the pencil case here, I'm going to color the whole pencil case just to show the darkness of that, that the tools stand out. Then for the railing here, that's pretty dark. I'm just going to go over it. Go over the coat rack. I just go over all the foreground elements. Color those in. Again, I'm still using the light tombo pen. The more you go over stuff with this pen, it will build up the darkness. But I'm not going to worry too much about that yet. I'm choose items that I want to stand out here. Obviously my focal point is the pole. I'm going to do that, but I'm going to do the secondary bit, which is not the crosswalk but the sidewalk. Then this whole front area, I want the shrubs to stand out, but I also want it to attach to the front garden area to separate it from the sidewalk. Now I'm taking my darker pen and I'm just going in and adding in some shadows. I want the main focal point of this one to be the mug. I'm just darkening that, adding a bit of shadow that really stands out. Going back over it a few times and I'm just going to leave the rest. Now I'm going in and I'm just darkening up the foreground here that way you can see that that foreground is in front of the back. I'm also going to go in and just color in all the tips of those pencils to give the contrast a little bit more zing. I'm going to go over the beams with this, there's a shadow on that one side. I'm just going to go over the shadowy bits and then lightly go over that back area. And I'm just going to leave it there. Then I'm going to go back over that pole. I'm also going to go back. Just kidding. No, we're just going with the pole for that. Then this next one, I'm just highlighting that pole to make it a focal point. And I'm just going to keep that contrast with the button that I didn't color in at all. Then the shrubs here, I want those to be the main thing that stand out. I'm just coloring those in so they stand out from the garden and the dirt, But underneath them, I'm just building that up a little bit so you get a little bit of shadow in there too. There you go. That is our landscape page. Join me in the next video, and we're going to use a limited color palette. 8. Limited color palette: We've moved coffee shops, now We're now at a cafe called 49th Parallel in Vancouver. It is adorable, but I came here so I could draw some more landscapes, and then we could use those to go back in and use a limited color palette for our page. Here's me just starting to draw my T. I'm just using these main colors to start out with. I'm just choosing the main color I want to use here. That color is on my T. I'm starting with the lightest color. Just adding in a bit of a darker blue for shadows and depth because that looks really pretty. Then I'm going to use my yellow for the table, but I'm going to mix that with the pink. I'm making a orangey color for that wood. I apologize, my hand is covering up the image for a lot of this, but just bear with me. I do switch it. At some point, I'm using that same color combo for the T, that's a brownie color as well. Then we're going into the second image, and I'm just adding that yellow for the warmth in the light. And I'm going to add a little bit of that pink as well. Similar color that I used on the previous one. Going to do that for the other, but I'm not going to color as dark for the lamp that's behind the other one. Then I'm adding some of that blue, even though that's not the actual color, but I'm sticking to these main colors. I do add one more purple in here just for a bit more shadows. I'm just going over the blue and adding in a little bit of the darker blue there. For shadows, I'm keeping the foreground elements darker than the background here. I just added some of that purple back into the blue for some shadows. Now this table, we're just going with that same color scheme of the yellow and pink to add that woody brown color. Going in with the purple underneath for shadows and then going in with the yellow on top. I'm doing some blue even though the chairs are a silver color. That's all right. This is the table I'm doing color scheme of the yellow for the table, doing the darker blue for the shadowed knives. Then this was a scone that my friend was eating. Started off again with the yellow and pink, but I'm pushing down harder so that these ones stand out a little bit more. I also wanted to stand out more than the background. I'm adding in some shadow underneath and some shadow to the rest of the elements to give some depth. There we go. There is our limited color palette. It really helps to tie a page together. But we're also going to practice coloring with water color and not using a limited color palette. Stick with me and we'll do the next video. 9. Watercolour: So I'm just going to use my to go from 49th parallel as the object that we are going to color in with some water colors. So I'm just going to color the same color that I see. I'm not going to limit it this time. I'm just starting off with a line drawing of that mug. I try to make smooth ish lines, but every so often I just pick up my pen because I am not drawing it first. If you're feeling uncomfortable with drawing your feel for you to draw it with a pencil or a non photo blue pencil first and then just add your darker lines on top. I personally, I'm too impatient for that. I just tend to go in with my pen, depending what it is. If I'm doing something more detailed and I'm not sure how to draw it, then I'll start with pencil. But if I'm doing something I've drawn quite a few times and I'm pretty solid on what we're doing, I will just go with pen. Here's my little palette. I am using guash here, however, I'm using a lot of water with it, so it acts pretty much like water color. At this point in time, I happen to have guash in my palette. Totally up to you whether you want to use watercolor or gash. I like both. I'm just going in with the base teal color. The cup I have is as beautiful teal. I added a little bit of white to it just to lighten it up. If you're using watercolor, just add a little bit of water to lighten it up. I'm just going over the base. I'm not worrying about shadows yet. Just adding in the black of the oh shoot. What's the name of those things that keeps your drink from burning? You know, you got it? I'm just going in with gray. It is black, but I find black itself is just a little too dark. I'm adding in a little bit darker here, just on the sides. I do get a little bit messy, but that's okay, because I'm going to be adding in some shadows. I'm just adding a little bit more darkness to that gray. And then I'm trying to mix up some purple so that I can make a nice shadow color. I don't want to make it too dark because I am painting something that is white at the moment. Even this I later realize is a bit too dark. I go back over it a little bit. Yeah, just start off with light and you can always get darker. I'm using that same purple going over the teal for some shadows, then I'm going to add a little bit of a darker blue there just to go back in, get a bit more shadow in the corner then I'm just using some water here just to pull the shadow out. So it lightens it up just to touch. I'm adding a bluey gray here at the bottom. And I'm imagining that the light is coming from the top right side. I'm going to keep that shadow on the other side. Here you go. Here is my mug. Give you a nice top down view, just to show you a little bit more. I also drew and painted my friend's tea cup. Again, I'm just going into those colors with the purple, getting a bit more shadow in there, making sure the lights coming from the same side. And then I'm going in with a purple underneath just to give you the shadow of where it's sitting on the table. There we go. There's the two objects I just painted. Give it a try to some water color of your own space. I would start with something pretty light. Good job. 10. Closing: Thank you so much for doing this class with me. I hope you are a little bit inspired for your travel journal. And we'll go out there and just fill, fill your pages. But if that's not enough, don't worry. Because I'm making a bunch more classes on how to do foliage, trees and buildings and water and skies and everything that you could want. On travel journals, don't forget to post photos of your sketchbook as you followed along or any other travel journal pages that you have done below. Also, if you want to find me on Instagram, my Instagram is Freckled page and my website is Freckle Fox Sign.com So all the information is blow. But thank you so much for taking this class and stay tuned for the next one. By