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1. Introduction and Supplies: Hi, Welcome, My name is Ken. I'm a self-taught artists
with over 20 years of painting experience
and acrylic and few years of painting
experience and watercolor. And today I'm going to
share with you how to draw this lollipop in
a more realistic way. And for this class you will need some watercolor paper,
some watercolors. Any kind of palette
that you have is fine. And some water to
wash your brushes. And of course some paper
towel and some brushes. I'm using the round brushes and some pencil or
mechanical pencil and eraser and a ruler and a marker. We will go over in class in
detail what needs to be done. And if there's anything
else that's needed, I hope you'll enjoy this class as much as I enjoy teaching it, and I will see you in class. I hope you've had fun. Thank you.
2. Step 1: Planning the Illustration: Hi, Welcome to my class. So today I want to go over how we're going to approach
this painting. So initially we're going
to be drawing the, the lollipop with a pencil. And then we're gonna go
over it with a marker. And after that, we're going to be painting this
with watercolors. As you can see, this is a
round shape and this is more of a cylinder or a
rectangle shape. And so you're going to be
needing some kind of object, like a cup or some circle
like a cap to draw this. If you are not comfortable
drawing freehand. If you are comfortable
drawing free hand, that's easy to do as well. You will be doing sketching and slowly creating
this round shape. But for the ease of this lesson, I'm going to be used
in a cup to draw this. The way we're going to
approach the painting is that for me it is
very important to plan the drawing and the painting before I
even started. That way. I'm not trying to fix
it in the middle of the painting or come up
with some other idea. I sort of know what
I'll be doing. Of course, there's always
going to be a little bit of deviation from what you had planned and you may have to come up with
something right away, but you sort of have an
idea of what you want, where and what kind of colors
you're going to go with. I'm actually choosing yellows and orange and brown
to create my popsicle. And here I'm going to be
using some grays and blacks. So let's think
about this drawing. So a popsicle, I'm
sorry, a lollipop. You will see that
it's a round shape. And when the light hits, you're going to need to
leave some highlight to show that it is like a 3D object. So here you can either go with just completely white spaces or you can add a
very light wash, like the first wash of
a very light color, then you can build on it. And this one seems to be, this little band here seems to be coming out from the lollipop. So we're going to add some
dark colors underneath here, maybe even a little bit here. If you'd like to create
the effect that it is not a part of this
original sphere. Okay, and same here, a little bit of
darker colors here. From going to light to dark, I'm going to need several
colors in between to blend it. So I'm gonna be using maybe yellow and light orange and darker orange and
then go to Brown. So there's a bit of
transition going on there. And the same goes for here. Then for this part, I'm using a very light wash of the
gray and I'm gonna be using maybe darker gray or maybe even black to go to
that light to dark effect. And here I added completely solid color of black to show that
this is like a shadow. This sphere has a
shadow on the stick. This is going to help us
create that fact that this is on top of this stick. It is common actually, this part is actually coming
out on top of the stick. So that's what we're
going to be doing. And planning is very important. And again, you may
plan something, but while you're painting, you may be faced with
different challenges. You can approach it as it comes. And this happens
to every artist. Sometimes you may see like you, while you're painting, you make a small mistake or
something like that. But even those can be
turned into something else. So oftentimes I will
be painting a piece and then I would drop a pen or something like that on
top of the painting. And I could turn it into a
bird or something like that. You're gonna be
adjusting as you go. But it's just important to know what you're going to draw, where you're going to
put it on the paper, and how you're going to
approach the whole drawing. So I hope you'll
find this helpful. So let's get started
with a drawing and then we're going
to paint this. Thanks for watching.
3. Step 2: Drawing the lollipop: To draw the lollipop, we're going to use
some circular object like tape or a cup or a cap on. Any of those will work. Whatever you find around
the house is fine. You can also draw it
freehand if you like. In the beginning, because
I'm using a pencil and maybe a little bit difficult
to see the outline, but once you use the marker, it'll be easier to see. So the next thing
I'm going to draw is the lollipop stick. And I'm going to use a ruler and pretty much
draw a rectangle, two lines, and go
ahead and close those two lines with a
little curve at the bottom. Drawing with a
pencil first is very helpful because you can erase it and edit it as much
as you want until you get the drawing that
you really like, then you can move on from there. So here I'm going to add a band on the
lollipop, the circle. So it's going to be
basically two curvy lines. And I'm going to close
it on the sides. But because it is protruding
from the lollipop, we're going to try to
erase some of the sides of the lollipop and extend those lines out a little
bit and then close it. I first draw the two bends
and then I'm going to erase that little
portion of the lollipop, the first circle that we drew. And then I'm going to extend
those two bands out a little bit and then
draw another curve following the same pattern
as the first circle. Once you're happy
with your drawing, you can move on to marker. I'm using a marker
with a thin tip, a very fine tip. And we're just going to outline
the whole lollipop again. And while you're welcome to adjust it as you
go with the marker, you may find that some
lines that you created could be improved while you're
drawing with the marker. So that's okay to do that. Here I'm going to follow
the outline that I had earlier and I'm just going
to go over it slowly. Just take your time and try to get it just the way you want it. And I'm using the cup again to follow that bottom
and the top of the circle that I already had. It would just be a little bit quicker and it will be helpful. You can also move your painting upside down if it
is easier to see. So here I left that
Ben area open. I'm going to draw it by hand. And again, I'm
using a ruler to go over the outline that I
already had for the stick. And add in a little curve
at the end for the band. I'm extending out that
little line that I had earlier in calming down following that circle
that we had already. So that's pretty much
the lollipop drawing. Now we will add
some colors to it.
4. Step 2: Painting the lollipop: Now we're ready to
start out painting. I'm going to be using
number 12 brush, which is the largest
brush I have. You can also pick
one that you have that it's a large size brush. We're going to add some
water to the lollipop. Now, don't add too much
water in this step. Try to just wet the paper. This is important because
if you have too much water, it's going to pile somewhere in your drawing and you
don't want that. So try to just wet the paper evenly and just make sure the outlines are
properly followed. Once you're done with that, you can add some water
and we're going to leave some highlights. The white part. I'm starting now with
the lightest yellow that I have on my palette. Again, you can create a completely different
lollipop if you like. You can completely
change the colors. Or you can even do
multiple drawings with different colors
just to play around. I'm adding yellow all around in leaving some white
parts on the left side, assuming that the light is
coming from top left or so. We want this to be as
smooth as possible. So again, my paper is still
wet and I'm just doing the first wash with very
light color of yellow. As you can see all my palette, I've got multiple yellows. We're not mixing colors yet, but we're just using the, the colors that's coming
straight out of the palette. I'm going up to the next darker color and I add it to the exist in yellow. It alter that second
yellow a little bit. Making it a little
bit more brighter. I'm just going to keep
building up on this. Now. I'm moving on to a
more yellow, orange. And I'm adding it to that exist in colors that I had earlier. And just adding a few dots here and there to
create that blend. Because my paper is
still slightly damp, it is easier to draw. To paint this and to mix the
colors on the paper itself. I'm still leaving all
that a little bit of highlight on the left side. Now what I started doing
is to create that band to be more coming
out of the lollipop. So what I started doing
is adding more colors underneath the bin and
on top of the band. And if you need to
remove some colors, you can rinse your brush
with clean water and then tap it on a paper
towel and then go in with a clean brush and remove some of the colors
to get more highlights. That's what I'm
doing with the band. I'm removing some of the
colors from the van, so it already had that first
wash. And I'm removing some of that color that I
had put in earlier to create more highlight. And what I'll do is
I'm going to add more color underneath the
band to make it pop more. And you'll see me going
over it multiple times, building up the same colors. Every time you want
to remove some color, you can, again clean the brush. Just don't touch it
on the paper towels. All the water will go into the paper towel and
then you've got this dump brush that's clean and you can wipe off some of the paint
that you already have. And now I'm adding
some dark contrast. So I'm going in with more
of burnt umber color, brown color, but I'm
still adding it to my existing mixture to sort
of follow that gradient. I didn't want to change
colors completely. So I'm trying to
make it a smooth transition from bright
yellow to darker brown. Add more paint as needed. And now I'm adding that contrast using the
brown straight from the palette rather than mixing
it into my existent wash. I'm using a, a dump
brush to get rid of those extra paint that is falling on the
band of the lollipop. Try to stay within the inside of the outline that you have. But occasionally
you'll find instances where you go out of
it a little bit. And in those cases, just use a clean
water and go over it multiple times to get
rid of that excess paint. And for the the stick
off the lollipop, I'm going to be using very
light wash of the gray. I'm going to fill
it in the hole, stick with that same wash. And we're going to
build from that. So if we assume that the light
is coming from the left, we're going to make the right
side a little bit darker. I'm going in with black
and gray sort of together. For the right side,
I'm gonna go ahead and outline that line already. That already is there. And because my
paper is still wet, it's sort of blended. And together with
that earlier wash that I had, the light gray. And you can add as much dark
gray or maybe even black as you want to get that
very defined contrast. Again here, I had some paint on the left side
while I was holding it. So I'm just adding
some clean water over that paint and rubbing it off with a paper
towel to remove it. Now these kind of things happen in daily life
for every artist. Not every painting is perfect
in the first shot, um, and sometimes you have
little mistakes along the way or a little
accidents along the way. And you just have to improvise and try to create
something out of it. So don't take it
too harsh and say, I messed up my painting
or anything like that. It's okay. It's okay to have
such instances. I've had this all the time. Sometimes you could save
it, sometimes you can't. And this is just how it is so accepted and love your
drawings regardless. So I added really
dark brown here. It's almost black, but it's darker than the previous
Brown I hat and this one, I am adding it to the
corners of the right side. And I'm leaving the band
completely alone too. Show that the shadow is
falling on that right side. Because it's really dark. It's sort of hard
to blend in with the previous colors
that I already have. What I have to do is rinse
my brush with clean water, tap it on the paper towel, and then come back in and try to blend them
together a little bit. I may even need to add some
yellow on this left side. 2s would have
balanced the colors. Again, this is sort of just
building it up that gradient. Luck. If you have a
good watercolor paper that's that can hold
a lot of water, then these things
aren't easy to do. But if your watercolor
paper is very thin and it cannot hold a lot of water
if you keep going over it, you may see that the
watercolor paper will start to tear a little bit, or maybe the material of
the paper will come off. So be careful with that step when you're trying
to lift off the colors. And now I'm adding a shadow underneath the popsicle to sort of say that the head of
the I'm sorry, I did. I just say popsicle Lollipop. The head on this lollipop is creating a shadow
on the stick. So that's what I'm
trying to show. And again, I'm
adding a little bit yellow to the left side to create that balance
when you're looking at it, if it's true pail
on the left side, then it's not going to pop
a lot when you finish. So it's okay to
adjusted as you go. Look. Sometimes it's okay to step back and take a
look at the lollipop, like look away from it and
then look at it again. And you'll see
what's wrong with it or what needs to be
improved because you, when you focus on it too long, you can't tell anymore
what needs to be done. So it's important to do that. Once you're happy,
we're pretty much done. This is our final piece. I hope you enjoyed it.
5. Bonus Lesson 1: Preparing the palette: In my own art journey, I learned many tips and
tricks along the way. Today I want to share
with you one tip that I find helpful
when I'm painting. Watercolor palettes tend
to be dry and cracked, even dependent on where you keep them and the temperature
of the room. I use a spray bottle to spray some water on the
palette evenly. Before I start
using the palette. This allow all the
paints to be moist evenly and this
is just a missed. If you let it sit for a minute, it will be ready for use. If you do not do this tab, you may need to use
a brush a lot to get the paint wet and get
the paint on the brush. So I hope you found
this tip helpful. Thank you so much for
joining my class. I hope you share your projects
on the class project page. I will see you in
the next class. Thank you once
again for watching.
6. Bonus Lesson 2: Getting to know your palette: Today I want to share with you some tips regarding
watercolor palettes. As you know, when
you started out, you may start out with simple watercolor palettes like these. Then as you progress, you may go to more
student grade watercolors and then maybe move on to
professional-grade watercolors. And whenever you get a palate, it is good to be familiar
with the colors. So if you look at this
palette that I have here, you'll see that these
colors are pretty obvious. When you paint
these on the paper. You'll probably get
exactly what you see. Now, when you get to
these darker colors, it can be confusing. This one here looks very
much like a black color. This one also, this one. You're not sure exactly what color you're going to
get when you paint them. So it's easy to have
something like this where you draw some
rectangles or squares, whatever you want to do. But just sort of follow that palette and exactly paint
these colors on the paper. When you look at this, you'll see that, for example. So I have white here and then light gray and
then there's black. And this one actually, which looks a lot like black, it's actually a brownish color. And this one is
even lighter brown. So you can see whatever
you see on this palette is not exactly translating to
the same colors on the paper. So it is important
to create this kind of chart with any
palette that you get so that you can immediately know what kind of color it
will show up on your paper. So here I have another palette. The same thing. This palette here I
have multiple colors. So I went ahead and did a little chart and I even
wrote some names on it. Again, when you are painting, names aren't very important and you may forget those names. But it is important
to know what kind of colors they show up
to be on the paper. So when you're mixing colors, it'll be much easier to think through in the
process of painting. So I hope you find
this tip very helpful. And it doesn't matter what kind of watercolor palette
that you have. You can create this
kind of charts and you will really find these
helpful when you are painting. Alright, thanks so
much for watching.
Khin, Artist | Designer | Educator
