Today, I'm gonna to be making art with...
this thing!
The July 2019 Scrawlrbox!
Let's find out what's inside!
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We got paper.
AHHH!
I love this! I love this!
I love this!
Scrawlrbox sticker.
tissue paper, a blue sucker!
this 2b Derwent
graphics pencil.
oh they make their own paint brushes?
a number ten flat brush with
the Scrawlrbox Logooooo
the menu listing
all of the art supplies in this month's
box and by this month, I mean last month
because I never get these on time
hssssssssssssssssss!
we have one, two, three paints.
The Cobra water mixable Oil color.
so they're like oil
paints? I've never used oil paints before in my life
I just realized they're red,
white, and blue
[patriotism intensifies]
[drops blue paint]
We've got primary magenta,
titanium white, and ultramarine
We have this
funny little credit card with like
little scissors and like dotted lines
to cut on
so it looks like they're
suggesting we try and use this to create
art it's actually really thick and you
can use it to scrape art, mix paint, and
cut it into different shapes and use it
in all sorts of ways is what they
suggest.
We also having this tiny
little square sketched canvas
test it out:
sounds good
we have the print this month by Katie
Jopling and Katie lists some tips for
using oils like "always start with the
darker color first" and "remember drying
times are much longer than other paint
types like three to five days"
eeee!
that's fine
I like that it's kind of abstract
but you can tell that it's like flowers
I mean unless I'm completely wrong but
it looks like pretty flowers
there is this piece of parchment or wax paper?
[reading:] "a vegetable parchment impervious to oils
and acrylic making it perfect for a
temporary art palette," "we can use it to
mix or save colors safe in the knowledge
that it will not bleed or leak through
onto the surface below."
I'd swatch these
in my 'squatch' - [laughs] - Squatch?
I'd swatch these in my
sketchbook but I do plan on using it in
the next three to five days so I'll find
something else
I do have this cardstock
that I can do a little bit of swatching
on then we'll do our final illustration
on this tiny itty bitty little baby
canvas
[paint swatching montage]
here we have the paints
pencil
okay they
feel a lot like paint, which is good
because that's what they are
kind of
like mix them together - I wonder if it's kind
of easy to do a gradient
okay I can see
why people might like oil paints they do
seem to blend really nice and I don't
even know what I'm doing
now like it
said on the packaging you mix it with
water instead of some kind of oil which
makes it a lot easier for someone who's
used to acrylic
here we've got I think
that's the French flag after it's been
through the washing machine
I'd like to trying to come up with an
idea they did include a prompt word
which is "abstract floral" so I kinda
would like to incorporate that idea but
at the same time draw a character of
some kind - let's just see what I can come
up with I'm just gonna start sketching
anything it doesn't really matter and
we'll see where that takes me
got to love a classic 2B pencil
so what if her
hair is made out of flowers kind of like
what Katie painted over here
kind of
like this and then the background can be
really dark
gotta also remember we're
working with a square canvas -oh my gosh
it's gonna be this small I'm gonna need
a finer brush
then maybe there's a
little bit of flowers as the dress or
some kind of a article of clothing
now I've never used oil so let's kind of
see how they interact with like pencils
underneath them I'm gonna start by what
did what did Katie say? 'start with the
darker colors first' I'm gonna take some
of that magenta and put it on our little
palette here as well as our ultramarine
and mix these together
how do we use
this thing?
this is very different than like
acrylics I would usually start with a
lighter color - although I don't know if that's
correct
when I do that so maybe this will
teach me something
next I'd like to add a little bit of
white to this same purple color actually
probably a lot of white let's be honest
and kind of fill in the skin and then we
can get lighter for highlight
try to get
whatever detail I can with this wide
brush for now and then actually take the
straight ultramarine for the backdrop of the
hair just to change the color up a
little
I'm also just testing to see
which colors look good where because
this is our first thumbnail so we have a
lot of room to experiment
now we're
looking at the this, I feel like it was a
really good reference of the way the
colors and the contrast look I might be able to
use this to kind of figure out what I'm
doing
I grab a little bit of this then
grab some white and make a new color
and start blotching some more - try and
create those flower shapes just blotching
cuz we're looking for abstract
here kind of think where light would be
hitting flowers I'm no entirely sure what
I'm doing
all right here's what I'm
working with playing around I switched
to a smaller brush this is a number 4
round
kind of wish I had a bigger canvas
to work with you get a little bit more
detail
sometimes limits can really
heighten your creativity because it
makes you have to really think and come
up with something that you wouldn't
necessarily choose on your own
may come up with bad results but it's never a bad
thing for your brain
I'm getting a little
better like feel for how to use them
like if you want it to blend more you
add a little water if you want it to be
much more shapefull you use less water
I'm slowly figuring it out, one
blop at a time
kind of losing the sketch
so I kind of want to try something else
let's start by drawing bigger it looks
like the graphite doesn't interact with
the oils in any way so we're safe to put
as much detail into the sketch as we want
(you're just never gonna see it again)
♪ [quick sketching montage] ♪
I'm not sure where I'm going with this just
be very soft and loose - maybe incorporate
some floral blobs here
let's try and not
include arms maybe that way we have more space
for just trying to figure out what the
heck I'm doing
I'm gonna switch back to
the larger brush this time I'm going to
fill the background in with a light
color and then use darker colors maybe
for the subject
see where that takes me
ohh...we were suppose tos start with dark colors
weren't we? - well then
we are supposed to start
dark so let's start with the dark color
then - color in the hair
everything's just
ended up purple so far
do I want to
keep that?
I'm gonna be really crazy with
[the highlights] at first so it's gonna look like she has
like a goatee here of very light colors
but I'm kind of trying to just blotch in
the highlights before I forget where I
wanted them hopefully we can go from
there
add a little bit more pink around
the nose and maybe the eyes and lips
maybe even the chin
add some eyelashes I
think I need to add some blue to the
background here because right now her
face is kind of blending in so I'm
thinking if I use blue which is a cool
color it'll kind of push the background
you know backwards maybe add a little
water and blend out the edges (not that
much water) thats better
doesn't need to
actually be blue, it just needs to
be bluer
it's my second attempt using
these paints think I'm definitely
getting a little bit more hang of it I
think the hardest part is trying to like
maintain your sketch which there's
something I've kind of been 
struggling with a lot lately
in general I'm like doing little
swirly motions to kind of try and pull
out the color that's underneath of it
some places the paint underneath a
little wetter which makes it a lot
easier looks like a schmancy dress I like
that it's kind of abstract but there's
like enough detail to tell you what
you're looking at
it's time to move on
to the canvas!
that's almost the right size I wont have to
draw too much smaller I don't
think so pencil I think I'm gonna change
the direction of the face just to give
me something more interesting to do try
to figure out what angle we want
erase some of these mistakes
I really like
that
swoop they like follows the scalp
well I like face we got one thing right
although wait wait wait wait the way
that it body is angled that doesn't make
any sense
how can I fix this?
how can I
make it more interesting?
more like this
oh yeah I like this better
it still need something a little extra
you know bashum-shum-shumph
I
just don't know what that is
I like imitate the shapes of her hair in
this section of the dress kind of feel
like going for it
the head is really
really big but I think there's some
charm in it and if I make it any smaller
I'm gonna have a really hard time painting it I
try and get the shapes right while I can
still see the sketch I should probably
be using the bigger brush for this
start
adding in another color here maybe just
add just a smidge of white and start
coloring in the skin
no, more white then that
because we need contrast
between it and the hair
oops just bumped
into the hair there
these first few
steps are so creepy looking wonder if
there's a way to make that so that it
looks good on step 1
use a little water
make sure I'm filling in all the little
white spaces
it seems to be easier to fill those
in when you have a little bit more water
on your paint brush
a bit of a slow
process but it's important to make sure
you're actually coating all these little
white sections or it's going to look
real messy when you're done
at least I assume... I say that like I'm
privy to some sort of important information
now I'm gonna go in and add really
blatant highlights maybe even mix a
little pink into it and these have to be
like really big and clunky and then I'll
blend in later
so like anywhere that a
lot of light is hitting cuz my light
sources like here
the bigger I seem to start
with these the better it looks in the
end cuz I end up like blending them to
oblivion so I need to be really
exaggerated with this
I also want to
like darken up inside the ear
alright so
looking a little messy I kind of like
the way the pink looked in that oneas its drying, so I'm gonna mix a little
more pink in around the nose
I'll just
see what happens
usually like to get a
little redder near the eyes just makes
sense to me
I'll let that sit a little
soak in while I work on this shirt
section I want the dress to be that like
dark red so it's basically the purple
mixed with some more magenta
fix these eyes a little
still working on this
plugging away
I feel like it's slowly improving - it's one of
those things you just gotta work at
it's slowly looking like a human
kind of
slowly becoming very glad that this is a
small canvas or I might be here for
like a few years
what I think is the most
difficult for me to grasp is that these
are not I'm not using hard lines to
describe every small detail because I
just do a little subtleties
let's fill in the background
switch back to
the paintbrush...wherever that one went
remember that one I think
I'll fill in the bottom of the
background with the dark hair color like
this and then move upwords to this color
kind of like that texture kind of
blend it as I go
oops that was supposed
to be not filled in
good thing this is an opaque art supply
darken up the corners
a little
make sure we get those edges I
wanted it to be a little darker at the
bottom I'm going to switch over to the
smaller paintbrush kind of paint in
along the edges I don't want to leave
any white of the canvas it just looks
sloppy
add that blue around the face to
make that red in the skin pop a little
more
we have to do the same over here
where the shoulder is
blending in a
little
it's creating this really
cool gradient!
I added a bunch of white here
and it's like mixing with the colors
around it
it almost kind of looks like a
flower
oh no I did my camera die?
uhoh
I think that means its time to take a break
this feels like frosting
okay welcome
back I just charged the batt-tree
I'm ready to keep working on this what I did, I'm
working on it the same way I did this
which now I'm really liking this better
but I went a little overboard and then I
started stretching it all around and now
she's got a very large collar made of
some kind of flowers I want to add some
blue to it now all right so let's take
some light blue kind of just put it in
here and there may be some dark blue at
the same time
not sure what I'm doing
I'm just trying to add some kind of like variation
in the way these flowers look
cuz right now they're just blobby and
we're trying to go for abstract flowers
because that was the prompt word
keeping the paintbrush pretty dry is
helping with the flower shapes I have a
little too much paint to be able to get
these kind of strokes I'm trying to
change up the direction of the strokes
maybe might help
I think the white looks
pretty good though
I think I'll keep doing that
I like that better
I feel like it should
be darker in this section like Katie
said it's hard to add darkness once
you've already got some light there so
I'm gonna try and just glob it here see
what I can do
and change up the
direction just wetting this brush and
then I'm gonna do a little blending some
of the new colors that I added to the
face
maybe it might be time to call this
one quits
feel like I'm just kind of
making it worse
here's the mess I made
today with the art supplies from the
JulyScrawlrbox!
it was really fun
testing out these oils for the first
time
I wonder what the difference is
between water mixable oils and regular
oils I'm not really that experienced cuz
I've never really looked into them cuz
they just seemed like a lot of work and
that's three day drying time [eeee] that's not
my speed
I'm a quick lazy artist
don't ask me to wait three - days - to add - another - layer
I think Scrawlrbox for sending the box
my way for free to try out and to share
with you guys - ooh when did this happen?
thank you guys for watching I'll see you
guys all next week and I hope you have a
delicious evening full of waffles!!!
BYE!!
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