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Watercolor Illustration. Whimsical Butterfly

teacher avatar Ekaterina B

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      5:07

    • 2.

      Overview of the Process

      8:39

    • 3.

      Graphite Sketch

      7:10

    • 4.

      Ink Outline

      6:46

    • 5.

      Tonal Wash

      3:28

    • 6.

      Watercolor Wash

      8:05

    • 7.

      Details with an Ink Pen

      12:11

    • 8.

      Details with Watercolor Markers

      11:08

    • 9.

      Fine-tuning and adding details with a white gel pen

      14:35

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Sketch a whimsical illustration of a colorful butterfly following my lead. 

Watch over my shoulder and follow along this step by step simple process that you can apply to sketching anything you like - animals, nature, streets.

We go from a black page to a complete sketch in just over an hour - from composing the sketch in graphite to creating a basic outline with an ink pen, then adding depth and tone with watercolor markers, then going even deeper with all kinds of details with markers and white gel pen.

This class is designed for any skill level. I personally usually gravitate towards a realistic art but sometimes I want to loosen up and get a little "messy". And since I like many different styles and mediums I  enjoy experimenting with all of them by combining them in unexpected and creative ways.

This is an opportunity for you to play and have fun. 

Feel free to add any other mediums you prefer - instead of watercolor paints you can use color pencils or pastel pencils. Instead of an ink pen you can use a ballpoint pen (I LOVE LOVE LOVE sketching with a ballpoint pen!)

If you have any questions, feel free to email me or contact me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/art_ing_around_/ 

Be Happy and Sketch with me!

Love,

Katie

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1. Introduction: Hello everybody, my name is Katie. And today we're going to sketch this whimsical colorful butterfly with many different types of media. I would like to tell you a few things about me. So I prefer to work with soft bus stills. And I gravitate towards a very realistic styles. So I like to draw animals, people, people within most. And I like to create very realistic art. But sometimes I feel like I want to play around with different markers, pens and create something loosely. Like for this drawing. It took me many, many hours to achieve this level of realism. For this butterfly. We're going to create this in under an hour. So that's what I want to do. Sometimes just play around, draw Something, sketch something very quickly, but colourful and pretty and would like to walk you through the process that I do. So another of my favorite mediums is ballpoint pen. So then I have many markers and watercolor paints. I love working with graphite pencils, so sometimes I combine them all in one project and I will show you a few of them. So right here, this is a ballpoint pen with watercolors. Loose. One is a sketch of I'm Jaguar, and it's done with a regular ballpoint pen and soft pastels. So just make sold the mediums I have at my disposal. So here is an urban sketch. Don wave, a ink pen and watercolors. This is my sketchbook. Ballpoint pen and graphite powder, which you can create by transcended paper. So here's an example of ink. Ink blocking Finn and watercolors and watercolor markers. Plus let me show you white gel pen for highlights. So mixed media is amazing world of possibilities. So once again, I invite you to follow my process using your tools that you have. If you don't have something that I'm using here, replace said, Look, if you don't have watercolor markers, but you have watercolor pencils used those if you want to use pastels. Use pastels. So I'm going to work on papers called printmaking paper. I chose it because it can take lot of water. Because we're going to apply watercolour paint, watercolor markers. We're going to use a lot of water. In printmaking paper is also, and for that you can use watercolor paper or paper for mixed media. So this size is eight by ten. I didn't think ahead. So my butterfly is a little too big for five by seven frame. You see a little too big. So you can think strategically and make it a little smaller. Or you can place your paper this way and work on it this way so you could put it in a bigger frame later. So think about that. And this is the reference photo of the butterfly. It will be attached to the lesson. And now I would like to show you a few things that it would go in to do during our creative process. We're going to make a few decisions on the fly. Like I didn't know I was gonna use salt for this project, by the way, a good idea to consult. And I didn't know how I was going to that. I was going to draw a frame around the butterfly. Gotta happened. So don't think too much. Just have fun. And that's all pretty much just have fun. So let me walk you through a few steps that we're going to take, you know, process. 2. Overview of the Process: So the first thing we're going to do when we go into sketch with graphite pencil. So I'm going to create a loose sketch right now to show you the steps. So it's whimsical butterfly. We're not going to be too precise. So just going to be something simple like this. For the next step, I'm going to use ink. Ben and I have two of them. So this is 0.4 millimeters. And then later I will need 0.6 milliliters millimeters per liters. So for the next step, I'm going to hold my ink pen like this far away from the tip. So I have less control because I want my lines to be interesting. I want them to be alive. So I'm going to press on my pan harder and then release the pressure, then move it like this. I want my butterfly to look very, very interesting. So you see something like this. Not worried at all about the likeliness. Just a little bit. So it looks like a butterfly. So I'm just going to look at the reference photo and do what I see there. But in a loose, playful manner because it's a fun project to loosen up to use some color, something like this, right? So, so that's the next step. After that, I'm going to move to a grey water color marker, which will help me to, to work on the tonal value of the butterfly on going to darken the areas that look darker on the reference photos. So like I see something here, I went to darken the edges of the butterfly, do that. And again, you see I'm doing it in a very, very loose manner and not even trying to stay within the lines. It's a watercolor markers. So I can use a water brush, which is filled with clean water. I can squeezed the brush or at least some water into into it and then clean it on the paper towel and then weapon it again in Boolean and all this lines. So I don't have any hard edges. I don't want hard edges one butterfly to Luke. Well blended. It's just my personal preference if you like hard lines and you know how to use them, it's your choice you can do with them. So very personal creative process here. So that's the next step. So it's our third step. So after that, I'm going to use a wash of watercolor. Just regular watercolor paints. That's what I have there in pans. So I use a spray to wet my paints and I'm going to use a wide fled brush. Don't forget to prepare clean water to for your brush. And then I'm going to dip my brush, work it into the bristles, add a little more water. I wanted to flow easily and need a lot of water. And then apply it loosely on my butterfly. I want the watercolor to dance on my butterfly. Or you will try to stay within the lines. But I don't have to. Because it's a very creative process. And I want my butterfly to look fun. To look a missing some yellow. Looked at him making a project. Now, I just wanted to walk you through the steps. So you have an idea. Up to this. Up too polite. All my watercolors and it's still wet, has to be wet. I'm going to sprinkle some salt on my butterfly. Would like to create this kind of pattern on the butterfly. You see those bunch of little dots and I thought that salt would help me do this. So I apply some sold once one adult dries out. That's what it looks like. You see? It's like snowflakes order, very interesting pattern. So that was the next step. So for this step, will, I needed watercolor paints, clear water brushes, and then we're going to let it dry. I used a hairdryer. Here's a human patient. You can just take a break and wait till it will dry. For the next step. I think I needed to bring up some lines back and darken the areas on the butterfly that are completely black. And I worked with what, a watercolor markers. Those are all very simple steps. In the end when everything was dry, I just iterate a few details and I use white gel pen. I have two of them to add another layer of interesting lines and kinda went right next to the black lines. And I wanted to create the iridescent look for the firefly. So I thought the white gel pens were awesome for that. Also, I used actually a white pastel pencil. You will see kinda when I went over dry butterfly, it created this velvety kind of texture on the body of it. If you don't have a pastel or chalk, white pencil, you don't have to do it. You can use a method called stippling. When you place little dots to create this kind of texture or just little lines with a wide-open. If you don't have wide-open, maybe you have another grant, a white pencil, just play around. And that's pretty much it in the end, this process becomes kinda personal. You know, I never know when I'm going to stop, but at some point I reach two to point. At some point I just see that there's nothing else I can do here, so and that's when I finish. And once again, if you don't have the tools that I have, use what you have colored pencils, watercolour pencils, pastel pencils, markers, alcohol markers. I think watercolor was fun to do because you were able to do this kind of pattern. Look how interesting it's getting already, it's drying out. So that's pretty much what I wanted to tell you before we begin. I hope you have a lot of fun and I can't wait to see your drawings. 3. Graphite Sketch: So when we're looking at our reference photo, we noticed that we can put this butterfly and sort of a rectangle. So, so if we want our drawing to look uniform like one piece and old bunch of little pieces put together artificially. We want to start with big shapes. So first we're going to draw a rectangle using pretty hard pencil, maybe all USO self to one so you could see better. It's just a graphite pencil. So I'm gonna draw a rectangle in which I'm going to place my butterfly. This is a sketch. It's not a realistic drawing. I would like it to look whimsical and fun. So I do not want to be very precise or join his Butterfly. I just want to use it as a reference point from which ONE create my own variation of how I see it. And it will be combination of how I see my skills and also the tools I'm using. So I see the butterfly is leaving at an angle. So I would like to capture that angle in place, that angle on my deeper. So something like this, again, would not need to be very precise. So I'm actually off so, but it's OK. Then there is a midpoint. It's pretty symmetrical except for difference in this wing right here. So we can just do the best we can. So again, this is going to perpendicular or viscerally. And so we're going to George symmetric roles both sides. So now we can capture and go here, here and here, the length. So I'm just doing it from observation. And I'm using very confident lines because they look much, much better. So bird here is the length over the left-wing. I'm going to place the same approximately length here. And the angle here is one. Here. It gets shorter and shorter and narrower. Again, perpendicular to this line of symmetry. So. The butterfly has body, so sticking out a little bit. But also the wing curves so we can draw something like this. So at this point I'm just working on drawn large shapes for my butterfly. It helps us to unify all the little details we're going to do later. So this one is a little off this and this one split in half, circle this and connect those points. Cure we can also measure like dot. So this is the large shape number we can add. It looks like the head. The body split in half, looks like an oval. And ten is edit sickness towards to a. And so the top wings lodge also actually takes the whole half of it. Those little curves. So we can make here is if we don't have to draw those lines yet. So here we go with a drawing or sketch over butterfly in graphite. I don't want it to be that obvious, so I'm going to use a kneaded eraser, clean it a little bit by meeting with my fingers. And I'm going to lift some of the graphite. And I'm thinking I'm going to leave those lines there because they kind of create a very interesting frame for me. And I might use it later. Maybe they will be my ground. So I will allow only the butterfly. I'll leave them on paper, everything else over the lines I'm going to erase in lift some of the rooms. All the lines I built to help me sketched a butterfly. I'm gonna erase them. And we're just going to stop at this point. For the next step, we're going to use a liner or technical pan. It's just a black gel pen. 4. Ink Outline: Well, the next step we go into use for Joe pair or ink PAM or the different ones. I like this one. It's point. I would like to use 0.4 millimeters pen and ongoing to use very awkward kinda lines to outline all the details on the butterfly. Because I want my drawing, my sketch look whimsical, so I don't know. I want this lines to be straight. I want them to be alive, but one of them to be creative. I went some parts of those lines to be thicker and thinner. So usually what we're going to do, we're going to place our pin on the corner and I'm gonna draw a line down. But we're going to hold it far away. So we don't have a lot of control like whew, we're doing withdrawing. Something very precise or when we're writing, we're going to hold it far away so we don't have as much control. So we could create a beautiful live kinda line that is interesting. I'm going to press hard on the AM and then release the pressure towards the end of my lie. Again, part the beginning actually. And then release. Press, release, press again, release. Make the line interesting. Always. Make a larger point. The beginning of the line, they look interesting. One it's like this. Again, brings hard release, hard release. And I don't care how wavy my line is. This is not a type of realistic drawings. There's a sketch, it's a whimsical type of sketch, the same I'm going to do with the wings. And I'm standing upright Now, if I sit down, I will have more control in my lines won't be as interesting as I would like them to be. Look at the edge of the butterfly wing. It's kinda broken and that's what's interesting about it. And I'm going to try to create the same wavy lines there. So I am watching my reference photo very closely. In even if you'll look mostly at your reference photo, you would actually do a better job in creating interesting lines. And don't forget to release the pressure. Going like this. I am observing my reference photo and I made the week too large. But it's okay. I'll just make this one is a larger as oil. And think the wing was supposed to go there. So I'm going to make it symmetrical. Sorry now node look kinda this butterfly, I'm looking at my other wing because I want to make it symmetrical. So let's see. If it does. We'll just start right here. There you go. Imperfect lines. And they end up looking perfect for our purposes. Here. Again, I'm just look in my reference photo. In playing with my lines. I don't want them to be too precise. I want to make her bottom right wing symmetrical with the others marched ICANN. And now to the body. And release, press and release make those lines interesting. And I'm only looking at the most obvious shapes in her body. So right here, see the one going this way. And interesting pattern, weighing the same here. The big circles part of this pattern here. And tennis, again. Interesting. Pattern. Also can create my own. I don't have to follow exact lines on the reference photo book. There's so unique butterfly wing patterns. I would like to use them with guidelines for sure. Lines, no perfect and with different pressure. We're done with this step. 5. Tonal Wash: The next step I'm going to use a water color marker. And I'm going to dark and all the errors that are the darkest areas on this butterfly. So here, here, the body around those round shapes towards the bottom of the body, edges of the ways. And that's all for right now. We're gonna sit down now because it's not as important to, I have my main event already hap pens on paper now I'm just going to, again holding you far away from the end. Go into and I'm not precise at all because a one is to be fun. And we get two watercolor part MSU. So I can see that this wing is lighter than this one. So I'm just going to go under it to create this illusion of the bottom wings are underneath the top wings can also use mined water brush filled with water, just clear brush. I'm gonna clean it by just releasing some water into the bristles. Just lightly blur all my lines. Because it's a watercolor marker. Super easy to do. Because his paper can take lots of layers of water. Hopefully. I can apply this kind of washes of u times. So right now I'm just making this bottom wings pretty much darker than the top brains. And again, it creates this delusion that the top wings are above the bottom wings. Here. I didn't hear you grow. And again, I am pretty loose with my recoloring. I don't care if it gets out of there. It's fine. So now we're going to let it dry. And then after this, we're going to apply some watercolors. 6. Watercolor Wash: Now I'm going to bring my water calls to play with. This is the set I use. It made our pans so I'm going to just breathe in soon to wet them. I don't know which colors I'm going to use. I figured out four acres here. I don't want to use I'm sorry. I dropped all my markers. I'm going to use a larger brush. Maybe this one, smaller one if I need to put some details on. So I like this red color. I'm going to start with the red color. I'm gonna use my palette to collect as much pain as I want to. And I'm going to mix it with some orange because I can see some orange color and near besides around. And now I'm painting the butterfly on my iPad. Alright, so again, low strokes. Not very important. They get out of the line. So what I see is and what our drawer loosely in 75 more water, that's not enough water right there. I wanted to be saturated with water. You see little bit redder and here I see some like see you color. Right here. I see some very bright blue, lose my bright blue right here. Dolby is bright when it dries, so no. So you're called to do iridescent effect? Right? And you see I don't want it to look perfect. Losing just clear water. So no, no hard edges. Or as much as I can to get through those. I can lift up. Some of the puddles are creating with a dry brush. It's a dry brush, awesome. Just dipping in those puddles and picking up the color or the puddles, excess water. I can do a little bit spraying. We would like to add some yellow. My yoga was dirty, so it's a bit green, just fine. I'm using smaller bursts now because I'm going to place my paint in a precise locations. Intensify this read or hear it over here. The bottom wings, certain darker song can use a bit of a combination of brown and red. Here I would like to stay with a yellow. We see, you know, color. Just so the butterfly. Much as I can stay within the lines, but I don't have to look how beautiful books. We lost our white spots, but we can bring him back with some white pencil or gel pen. So what else would I like to n, I do not want to add too many colours and make it look weird. Oh, a little bit of purple. Yep. Makes it very interesting. Here. A black kindness. But if we put some purple, it will in interest to that. What else do I seem? So right here, the butterfly has like little white dots. How are we going to create there? We're going to sprinkle some salt on them. So I have some salt always nearby. Whenever quit watercolors won't yet because I'm all done. I'm going to put sold in the very, very end here. Or else we get some yellow will be done. A little more. Make some yellow line, some RED. Sera, here's some blue. Maybe you don't see it. I see it. You can put whatever color you see on your Butterfly. And I want to do something with this frame that I created. So we want to create some kind of a light wash. I'm thinking, pale pink kind of color. So what I'm gonna do, I'm just going to use my big brush and wet areas. It's okay. Some reddish, brownish color. Blue. Oh, now it looks much better. So let's do the same. Just a little bit of blue. What would the toh toh interests there? In oneness? Spray a few more times with different colors. Do some yellow and thinking green. Be bold and brave. And now we're going to put some salt. I don't know if it's too late. We'll see. There is a point when it's too late to put salt. It will not create the patterns that I want, but, you know, doesn't hurt to try. Now let it let's just step aside and let it dry in. We'll continue with details. It looks already very beautiful to me. 7. Details with an Ink Pen: Alright. It's pretty dry except for a few little spots over there. But look, the salt created that little pattern of white dots on the body of the butterfly. All the areas that we don't want those white dots to be, we'll just color it with markers. Right now we're going to use a brush and get trade-off. We're going to get through the salt. Stopped by the where I used on hairdryer to dry my butterfly. Horizontal and patients who have a lot of times. And you know how to check your march of oh, well, we can do something with it. How to check if the paper is dry, you just release your this part of your hand. And if it doesn't feel cool to you, it's drawing. Except for that spot. I could use white paying like acrylic paint and get rid of that spot or maybe even white pencil. Just make it. So they don't go there. And we'll figure it out later. So right now we're just going to start working on the details. With our I'm gonna use markers. Markers, they have brushed point and they have a pointy tip. So it's very easy to use. Just like I would use me pen. So first, let me think. Let's start with darkening. Again, the areas where which are almost black and we're going to use my blood panel and I'm going to just hatch it like straight lines on those black spots. And look, I'm not being very precise. I'm not staying within the lines. Sometimes I go outside the lines. It creates this blurry, greener illusion. Though those spots on North, very sharp, they kinda Floating known the butterfly, we can always make them harder, sharper the edges book look. They are not, they don't have hard edges there kinda have very blurry edges. So that's what we're doing. Here. Can go over it again. Very slight angular phone too. But I don't really like just going in the same direction. And I'm leaving some space between those lines, it creates the illusion of a hairiness So the bodies kinda hairy, fuzzy. And we'll go into how much? Just like the shape of the body. So it curves. The next spot is here. And it's hard for me to turn her on my paper because I taped it for the video. So I'm just going to do the best I can. This angle. Here's another dark spot. There is like a virus inside NIH know throne spots. Here are one that may come darker. So it can go different. Human goals until I get the right tone. So what else is dark current heresy? Dark line. And symmetrically on the other side as well. Over the edge looks darker. So I'm just going to go very quickly. And I've been practicing a lot so I can do it quite quickly now. There's no rush. You guys don't have to rush. You can take your time, make the lines pretty. It always looks better when the lines look confident. So when you make a line at one go, it's harder for me to turn around, so I'm gonna get up and do just wait on it. So right here, we'll leave more space between the lines. Imitating both North replication. So here we can use a technique that's called stapling, which is placed in many, many little dots. We already have a very light color, medium tone color. And now we're going to put a darker color. And here, like this, just in the shape of what we see here. So it's called stippling. I've done some stippling, but it is kind of boring for me. I rarely doing this. But I think it would look very interesting if we do it here. And I'm going to use a Brown marker as well. To add more dots. We're gonna add more darker dots on the bottom, again to kind of visually place it underneath those top wins. So the more dots your place in the same spot, that darker blue loop. What we're doing here. Here, the body, again, kind of hairy, so I'm just going to give me Tate hair. See little Potter. Wanna make this dark spots even darker by going over my lines one more time. Also, I would like to create the illusion of a shadow. Bye the continuous line. Just decide. So I'm going over this side. Few times. Djoser's part. And know right here, again, I'm going to create an illusion that there is a shadow there because butterflies on some kind of surface will. So it's very interesting when you wear it adds interest to your drawing. When you make some areas darker than other areas. And the best place for that is where two lines meet. So here two lines meet, I make it thicker here, two lines meet. Here. Again. Two lines meet darker. Here. Two lines meet darker everywhere where you can see a few loans meeting point. If you emphasize them by making them darker, it will add interest to your sketch. So here, I didn't dark ages, so this sort of go. And I'm gonna do it drawing no. Then I'm going to switch to my markers. Drm. Happy with this part. So again, the meeting points of different lines. The interest two hours get, look. It's coming to life. Well, we're looking at it. Well, we destroy. Over this lines. I'm hoping you're five, emphasize this part. This will be less noticed. Symbol could also make it a little bigger. But remember, it's a symmetrical anymore. So we do it on both sides. So perfect. I think that's all I want to do with the blog. 8. Details with Watercolor Markers: No, I just grabbed a few workers that I think I can see in this butterfly. And I'm going to just add brighter spots on the butterfly. So when you look up this red spot, when I seize darker red right here, more orange or red right there. And that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to start with my red. And I'm going to use the pointed tip. And I'm going to use hatching technique because I think it looks kind of interesting here. So it's just a bunch of lines in the same direction. Direction I chose seam here and still do a wrestling. What we did on one side, on the other at the same time. So we don't forget introduced. We don't know yet. I want to add water to this. I think I do. It looks too. Graph G. So I'm gonna grab my birth. I'm gonna let it, clean it and just smudge it. This way. I think I like the lines only on the blacks fought in this side. Oh, I didn't apply too much water here so it can continue working on the other part, which I see red or here. And since I am using water to blend, you're going to use no brush part of the marker. This away, it will cover a bigger area. And I'm using clean water to blended into what is above this color that are implying. So it doesn't have any hard edges. You see the marketers, they add vibrancy to the initial watercolor sketch I did. I'm kinda losing those little white spots there, but that's OK. I can use on white gel open to apply later. So since I decided to use my bursitis in my markers, nor was gonna go faster. In Luke, I'm doing it at the same time, both sides. And I use clean water to blend it into the rest of the butterfly. Just to make it pop political. And I see a bit of war from pole. Right here. Doesn't look very early because we lost white, bright on white. But that's okay. We're going to use again white pan and it will help us make it brighter. So what else? There's a little orange right here. That's what I wanna do. So where did the director blended with other colors? Gently. And know, the dark brown. That's what I wanted to do. More. Little more stippling, darken this scenario is going to rise. Blurred image for yourself, you will see areas that are the darkest, so just darken in those areas and using my brush to blend them together. And I can use the tip of my brush to pull water color the errors that are want. So here we can use a broad brush with the tips of the antennas and then pull it down. And this way popped right away. It's as if there's some kind of shadow on the ground from the antennas. And it makes our butterfly more 3D. Even though we don't really have that desire to create it realistically unless you do, but I don't. So, and one more thing right now, I would like to make this bottom wings again do a little darker. I'm going to use this brownish red marker and I'm just going to use it underneath those weeds out. Pull, pull the darker color all over the bottom wings. Avoiding the round shaped areas. Though there was only polite everywhere. But when those colors a little more. And watercolors, so fun, you can see all the layers that you already created before. Kinda creates new combinations of colors. So frontier can make a little darker. Just weren't womb b2. Just purely Bulaq. Although that could look darker message with a marker are bras. And now I would like to add some interest to the pattern inside the wings. So those areas where the lines connect, just kinda put little Burrow, you know, like go moving yet. Pulls your eyes into those spots and creates interest. Use the burst side or this sharp point. Doesn't matter because you go into law or the mother knew or maybe just the births makes them little moral views. And it also creates this beautiful transitions within the same color, red. But there's a little bit of brown. No. It's kind of fun. I think I'm going to go around is my marker to apply that edge. And I'm just gonna blend it out. Seeing here. Once again, it's just a clean brush with water or keep cleaning it all up. Blend the paints. This is the last part. And what I'm gonna do now also, I'm going to apply the same Brown to the corner. So my so-called frame and do the same what I did with the pattern inside the wing. Clean water. So don't stick doesn't get cartilage is you can just do one at a time so you don't get in trouble like I did. And look up this login, it allow it to dry. 9. Fine-tuning and adding details with a white gel pen: So I'm not lovingness meso created by accident. Hopefully you don't have it. So I'm just going to use a whiteout and see if it will fix my situation. Just not sticking. And there you go. Oops. A little thicker.6 millimeters. So this way I can dark in a few areas. Kinda doing it inside the white dark spots. It's adding contrast and didn't want to do this. But there we go. We making creative decisions on the fly. And that's what's fun about art. Because the body of the butterfly is around, it's closest to us. So it would be most in focus for us. That's why I am darkening it. Because the objects that are closer to us, we can see them better and done. With this particular lighting, it looks darker. So I like this transition right here would like to make it a little lower. So I'm going to use a different pen. Very, very thing. 005. So it would be barely there is ETL layer of Kinda darker area. Just a hair darker. That's why I'm using very thin point. All right. What else can I do? Yeah, I would like to darkness to burn here, right here. And it's not hatching, it's just kind of black. I mean, it all out. Because I do love contrast in art. It's a difference or protocol. It would, would that baby. It's presence of both very, very light colors and very, very dark colors in your drawing. Contrast. Right here. You can wear lines meet. We create some interest. Meeting points. We emphasize them. Make the drawing more interesting. Maybe likely only just go like this. Because the very, very same marker or a pendant, Do it for me. Oh, wait, Joe pants. Also, you can use white pencils. I might use them because they create Dom, Interesting texture when Joe pens they're pretty precise or correct here as a white spot in. Can do it like this. Where the pants so we'll create a lighter area in its container. It's not Eve limits, so creates a scratchy surface. On our butterfly. Phone is I can use pencil next to all my black lines. So right here I'm going to start with a gel pen. And I'm going to go in this kinda chaotic scribbly lines. So right here, you can do the same. Kinda is credibly lines and dots. Dots prolly better was criminally lines. Here. See those dots. Some white lines are there. We're making it whimsical so they are all over the place, different angles. Seen some white right here, so symmetrically turned here on this side. What else? Do the same with gel pen would we did with the pencil? It's kinda like we're inviting the viewer to pay attention to that pattern. Creating interesting. Let's do the bottom part. Here, the void line or mine. I'm holding it far away from the tips to make her kinda uneven lines and on newborn not only pressure but also not straight. And that gives them iridescent kinda Luke to the butterfly. When we go with a white Joe open all around the edges that were initially black. So here, the body of the butterfly, it has little clears, dots, dots everywhere. Now it looks like going around all the dark spots are creating. Blinds kinda go everywhere. So maybe we'll just use a white pencil to kinda drag it or creating some textures. Lighter. Maybe. I just working in this area a little with a pencil. That creates you see texture there, kinda velvety texture actually. So now it appears that it has hair. Also because I'm using it like that everywhere. I am pulling all the pieces together because I couldn't hear the few dark lines and cannot emphasize them with black markers, just meeting points of the lines. And we're back in business. Now we still have our texture, but also I wrote back lines. So this look too straight, Tommy, they'll look like a fan. So I don't want that. Maybe drug a black pencil or pen, lingo, kinda make weird looking lines and there you go. Much better. We don't want any fences. We don't wanna boring straight lines everywhere. We wouldn't fund lines. So again, this is a thicker tip and I'm just gonna go over a few areas to add thickness to the lines because they're kinda lost them with a pencil. And ongoing foster care about precision. Only care about creating this whimsical luke. No. Let's make this frame liberal sicker. Again, I am going over a few times at the beginning of my line in continued sinner, blood pressure. And then release works. Dark in the tips of the antennas. Go over the antennas. And I'm done. What else can we do here? I think I'm good. You see something you want to fix it more, spring, a little more paint over it, go for it. But I'm going to sign in and we're gonna assign it this Messi's pond. So it's not as noticeable. Couldn't actually add some dots. Again, stippling, it's constantly adding you to balance it off from this side. So it wouldn't be just concentrated on one side. I can put them in different parts of your drawing. Like this. Corners can make a little darker. That's it. Now we can just use a little. Let's see. We have ourselves very, very pretty butterfly meter. We need a bigger frame. But you get the idea. You can claim it like this, like this. You have a bigger, we'll maybe learned that. It's think it's perfect.