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1. Intro: Hi everyone, This
is Megan and I'm a watercolor artist based
in Bangalore, India. And in today's class, we are going to try three cute and fun
Christmas illustrations, which I have a rustic dodge, a little bit of farmhouse style, and a little bit of
vintage vibe to it. And also, we are going to choose three beautiful
Christmas colors, so which is red,
green, and blue. And I'll quickly show you. So for red we are going to
do this cute little norm. And then for the blue, we are going to do this cute little rustic
snowman with fluffy, had a cute little scarf. And for the green one here going to do something really fun. An iconic which is
this ugly sweater. And I'll be taking you step-by-step and telling
you how to mix your colors, how to turn down the
colors so that they look a little bit of farmhouse
and vintage style. And we will not be
drawing anything. So this is just brush only and it is super easy,
simple and fun. I'll be explaining you
how to go about it. So I am really excited
about this class and I'm sure you are do so
without any further delay. Let's go ahead and
start with this class. In the next part,
I'll let you know about all the materials
that you will be needing.
2. Materials : Alright, so good. Let's go ahead and have a look at
all the materials that you will be needing for this Christmas illustration car. Plus, I have this four by
six gods here with me, 100% cotton watercolor
paper, 300 GSM. Then number eight,
round brush for all the illustrations,
a watercolor set. You can use any watercolor, but make sure that you have red, green, and blue in it. Some tissue for wiping
off extra paint. Two jars of water, one for washing the brush, and one for clean
supply of water. So I'll be taking
you step-by-step. And this is a no drug class. We will be just
using the brush and painting all three of
these illustration. As we go along, I'll give you all the
instructions that are needed and so excited for this. So let's go ahead and move
on to the next part of the class where we are going to paint our first illustration.
3. Blue Snowman : Alright, so let's start with
our first Christmas color, which is blue and v are going
to do a snowman with it. And we are trying to be, I'm going to keep it
simple, analytical, rustic, and also a little bit toned down because we are trying
to do something vintage, something very, very elastic. So what I'm doing is I'm
mixing a little bit of black, a little bit of purple into
my blue so that my blue pale. And what do you see? A little toned-down
starting with the hat. So what I'm doing is
I'm doing the rim of the hat and I'm just using the tip of the
brush and doing tap, tap, tap, tap like this. Just to get a very
rough and raw edge. And then just wash your
brush, dry your brush, and pull that color in
and just fill it up. Add more color on the
outline if you want. Pick up, picking up color like this adds a little
bit of highlight. And then again you
can go ahead and add some darker shade and
just finish that. Finish the rim. And then I'm the top
in the same way. And just in the
outline with the blue. And then I wash my
brush and just pull in that color and then fill
it in very, very lightly. And then again, we use
the same technique. And I'm going to do a little
bit of an oversized bom, bom so that it looks cuter and moving dead
style and more cozy. You're just using the
tip of the brush. Again, tap, tap, tap, tap and adding dark color
one more layer of it. And then just filling the
whole thing like this. So when you do this,
you'll get a nice texture. It won't look flat
as you can see here. And it gives, that, gives it a nice 3D look. And you can also see
how our blue is. It's very, very
muted and tone down. Okay, so now let's
do the face now. If you are comfortable,
I'll suggest, since it's a nor
no draw thing you can via using only the brush, find it uncomfortable or you are not very well
versed with it, then you can always
go ahead and draw. Also, you can
always go ahead and correct If you are
not very happy, just take some clean
water on the brush. Just scrub it very gently. Be careful with the bristles. Take a tissue and
just soak it up and then you can go again. Right. So just a little outline
that same bluish color. Yes. So this time it looks better. And then we just
drag the color in, soften the outline a little because it's supposed
to be white and snow. So we're just highlighting the outlines thing. We will do a nice little
body theme, blue color, a little bit of highlights, and then just dragging
that color in, softening it up and filling
it, filling the insight. All we want is just a
little bit of shadow and highlight and very light color. You can use your tissue also
to pick up the extra column. I be adding a little more color where the body and the neck are joining just to create a
little bit of shadow here. And then just blend it nicely. Just like that. You have
to blend it so that it doesn't look like a hard line. Once the face is completely
dry to latte black eyes. Just like this, you can leave a little white dot
for the highlight. And the same brownish
red that we used before. I'm using that for the nose. Just a tiny little
triangular shape. Nose. I'm just using the tip
of the brush, the outline. And then just filling it in. Let's now add a cute
little scarf here. Again, I'm using
a darker version of the same blue
that we used before. Starting with the neck. A little outside of
the body because just to show that it is on it. And then again, creating a little bit of design
by picking up the color. So this kind of bleed or
checks are dots on anything. If you do, it adds and gives
a more vintage rustic look. So just by lifting
a little color, you can see how it starts
to look like a 3D, like a 3D object. And then again, I'm
adding a little bit of dark to give it
even more 3D look. Again, a little bit
of play here as well. And then a little bit
more of the scarf, just dropping down like this and then we'll add a
nice little fringe. So what I'm doing is just
pulling that color down and creating this nice
and lovely detail. Now, just use the
tip of the brush and continue with the
blade here as well. So to make it a
little bit more cute, I'm just adding little bit
of pink blushed cheeks. Just drop in some color, pick it up with the
tissue and then just nicely blend it in with
the tip of your brush. Use a clean brush. So we just need it for
a little highlight. Next up are the hands. So we're just going to do
very, very simple pigs. You can use the
same brownish color that I used before and more red. You can keep it a little bit of more brown towards
a more brown side. And just adding to this
tiny little twigs. So nothing much. Just use the tip of the brush. Make sure you have more
pigment and less water so that they don't bleed
and they are more defined. And just if you'd
feel it's lighter, you can add a little bit
of darker tone to it. And then lastly, the
most important element, which is too tiny buttons. And don't forget to leave those two tiny button
holds for added cuteness. Alright, so that's about it. And the next one, I have a sweet little
cute the norm. So we'll start painting that
in next part of the class.
4. Red Gnome: Okay, so now let's start
with our second one. And this time we're
going to try the red. But what I'm gonna
do is I'm just going to tone down the red algae bit so that we get that nice
rustic and vintage fields. So to tone down the red, you can add any kind of brown to it or a little black to it. If black looks too much, then you can always add brown. A little bit pink
also I'm adding because I don't want
it to be really, really bright red,
but a very muted, nice maroon, kind of a red. Maybe. You can look at your colors and
your color palette, what you have
available with you. And according to that, you can just turn it
down a little bit. I'm starting with the head. I'm just going to do an outline. And since we are keeping the illustrations really
simple and fun and cozy. So I'm using very
simple techniques. I started with an, with a brush outline and then I'm just filling
in the color. And we'll be adding a little
bit color here and there. The darker parts and
lifting lighter color for that nice and
beautiful highlight. I'm going to use
the same color but more pigment and create
a brim of the hat, which is more of like a
Fourier kind of a thing. So I'm just using
the same color tone, but a little bit darker. And I'm using the tip of the brush and we're
just creating a sort of a border like this. It is going to bleed a
little bit into the hat. And I really want that effect. But if you don't like that bleeding and
bleeding off the colors, then you can wait for the top bar to dry
before you do this. Usually I'm just
using the tip of the brush here and
doing this step, tap, tap, tap and giving
it a nice rough edge. And the look of that fluffy
kind of a look and look. And the same for the
bom, bom for the hat. I'll start with a
bottle and then fill it in by just dragging the
color from the border. You can see already we can see that nice and fluffy
look on the head. And the red is also a
little bit toned down and not that, not very bright. So now let's go ahead
and start with the face. So again, I'm using the
tip of the brush and less, very, very less black. And I'm me, I painted
the nodes like this. And then we're doing the build. So we are just trying to
do the shadow parts of it. So make sure that the
black that you have on your brush is
very, very light. Don't want to overdo it because it's very hard to lift it up. So very, very, start with very light and just a few
strokes here and there. And you are done like this. You can also lift up any
extra color that you have. I think I'll be adding
one more layer to this just to highlight
it a little bit more. Now let's start with the rest
of the body for the norm. And it's very, very
simple and easy. We just have to do just
the shape of the robe. I'm just using a little
bit of brown here. And to meet the brown
a little bit brighter, you can add a little red
to it or add pink to it. So you can use any of those, the burnt sienna or burnt umber. Again, very simple technique. I'm trying just outlining it. And then after that, just dragging that color inside, wash your brush and then
just add the color that you put in the outline inside. And it really gives you a
nice and beautiful effect. Liftoff the color, add a
little bit here and there. And that techniques, or this
technique always works. So same way we do tiny
sleeves also like this border and then
just fill the color in. Wash our brush, lift it up if you aren't adequate
color if you want. Just like that. And then for the gloves, again, the same technique that
we used for the beard. I'm just going to add a very light gray
highlight just to paint. And that's enough for
painting the gloves. You can drag the color
inside a little if you want. Otherwise you can just
leave it like that. Also. For the nodes, I'm
going to use very, very less ocher yellow
or a little bit of pink, mix it in it and very, very kind of a blush, kind of a tone. And just fill that up in
the nose just to give it a nice little bulb
and a little highlight. So the head is now nice and dry. So let's do some
final touches on it. So I'm just taking
the darker pigment. And again with a very, very soft hand and free hand. And just using the tip
of the brush and dab, dab, dab, just to
create that flighty, fluffy look of the hair, then did some fringes and
for coming out and flowing. So for both the rim of
the hat and the Bumppo, i'll I'll I'll add
some lines to the hair just to give it that
vintage and rustic touch. So just like this, use
the tip of the brush with the darker paint and
just draw in some lines. And you haven't done it into
some checks are played. And just again, after
horizontal or vertical, you can do horizontal
lines as well like this. This kind of a play
look really adds to the vintage feel that we wanted and that cute
farmhouse look. So I hope you enjoyed that. Lead to the next one.
5. Green Ugly Sweater: So here we are on our last
Christmas illustration and last Christmas color that be
using today, which is green. So make sure you use a little
bit of tone down green. So use the darker green that
you have in your palette. Or you can add little black or brown to tone it down a little. So it's very, very exciting. This one is an ugly
Christmas sweater. I try my best to make
it as ugly as possible. Starting with the trees with three triangles
stacked on each other. Very, very basic. Just like this. Then do little brown trunks. Now we'll start with the
outline of the sweater. So I'm just doing the bottom. Like this again, I'm using kind of a yellow green
on darker green that I have with using
the same technique of doing the outline
first and then dragging the color
in to fill it up. Again. If you're worried too much about the colors bleeding, then you have to wait for the Christmas trees
to completely dry. And here, I just want
to get that kind of look where there are fibers which are mixing
and blending in. So I don't mind the trees
bleeding in a little bit. And then I'll start
with this leads. Making them a
little bit shorter, like kind of threefold sleeves. If you want full,
then you can start, make a start painting
these leaves right where the obese of
the sweater is. For this, I've just
done an outline of a border and then
fill it up again with lines so that when
we are just going to leave as is and you're
not going to blend it in. It's going to be a little
highlight for this lease, the same technique,
outline and then just blending the
color in a little bit. You can keep this
leaves a little bit darker than the sweater
just to give it a nice on trust and highlight
some more color for this one. Let's do the neck
with a nice border. So again, the same
green I'm using, if you are mixing color than make sure that you have enough. What the technique
that we did in the sleeves and the border of
this leaves the same thing. I'm going to try here. Nice outline. And again the same lines, the tip of the brush
that we did before. Just like this. Then just let it dry a little. And on. So this is dry. You can add some more
details because we have to make it a
little bit more. Over-the-top are
too many elements. That sort is a signature
style of the ugly sweaters. I'm just adding some more
stars here and there. You can add hearts
and add more lines. Maybe one more Christmas
tree here and there. So it's up to you. I'm just going to i'm I'm
using the same green, very, very dark
and adding a few. So I'm just doing very basic
star shape with the brush. So let's add the
same border that we did for the
sleeves and the neck, the bottom as well. The same thing and
then the word lines. I think it needs a little
bit more stars. Here. I'm just going to add that little bit of more detailing
onto the powder. Just ending that using
the tip of the brush. Just like this. The same thing. I'm just touching the brush. The same thing we can do
for the neck as well. If you don't like it that much, you can always take some color blended in
and just remove it. Okay, so I think I'm just
going to highlight the trees a little bit because they have
become really, really light. Just adding a
second layer on it. And this time this
done in the triangles, I'm just adding a
little bit more detail and swell that very, very geometric triangle shape. Just with the tip of the
brush as if the branches are coming out. Just like this. And then finally
the tiny drunks. Okay, so that's about it. I hope you enjoyed doing these three cute vintage
style illustration, Christmas illustrations with me. You can use these in
your Christmas cards. You can cut them out, make ornaments out
of them, gift tags. There are so many
creative possibilities and I really enjoyed
painting them. And I hope you had as
much fun as I had. And in the next
part of the class, I will let you know about
your class project.
6. Class Project : Alright, so that's about it. I hope you enjoyed the class. These are the three
illustrations that we painted in red, blue, and green. And for your class project, I want you to paint any
one of these if you want, you can go for all three. But as a project
you please submit, can please submit
any one of them, which is your
favorite illustration or your favorite color. You can swap the colors like
you can do red for snowman, you can do blue for the norm. Like that. You can
also swap but follow the same techniques that
I have taught. You. Choose any one of these, choose any one of
your favorite color, and then please submit it
as your class project. I'm so looking forward
to your submissions and if you have if you
have any questions, please let me know. I wish you all the best and I will see you in my next class. Till then. Thank
you and bye-bye.
Megha Cassandra, byTheArtBug - Artist, Crafter & Educator
