Hey everyone!
I am back with a new video and this going to be a real time sketchbook drawing featuring
the goodies I received from my Secret Santa.
And so I just want to say a few things then I'll briefly talk about my process with
the watercolours.
So in this video, I want to thank Mira Byler for the awesome goodies that I received for
Christmas.
She is my Secret Santa, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, basically a
few of us at the YouTube Artists Collective decided to do a Secret Santa gift exchange,
and if you don't know how that works, it's where you pick out a random name and buy that
person a present, and someone will pick out your name and then buy you a present.
And it was actually all very digital in terms of picking out the names, so major thanks
to Amanda for organising it.
And so Mira ended up picking my name and she sent me a bunch of things.
So I just wanted to show my gratitude and that I super appreciate the goodies she sent
me.
For example, she sent me mini prints of her artworks, which are amazing by the way and
really good quality as well.
So if you don't know who Mira Byler is, definitely check out her work, I will link
her shop in the description, which at the moment is closed, but to anyone watching this
in the future, definitely check out her shop as well.
Although I'm sure you guys have already seen her art and her videos, but just in case
you haven't I'll leave a link in the description box and on screen as well.
She also sent me magnets with her artworks printed on them and oh my gosh they are literally
perfect for my workspace.
I don't think I've mentioned it yet but my family and I actually moved houses way
back in June and my workspace looks so bare.
It's already been months but it still looks like I haven't settled in.
I haven't decorated or anything, so at the moment Mira's artworks are the only decors
I have since I have this metal bar in front of my desk where I can put the magnets on
and it's perfect.
She also sent some art materials and little goodies including the watercolours I am using
in this video.
So I am using the Sakura Koi watercolours in the Pocket Field size and it's super
cute.
I've never tried the product before she sent them to me but I've seen other artists
use them and give great reviews, so it's nice to finally be able to try them.
And it's great because it comes with a water brush as well.
Another thing that got me really inspired and excited was her packaging.
Seriously, she wrapped everything in the cutest tissue paper ever.
I definitely want to use it in a future journal or sketchbook page.
So yeah!
It's always really fun to receive stuff in the mail.
And Mira if you're watching this: thank you a million times for the awesome presents.
I hope you had a great Christmas and New Years, and to anyone watching this, I also hope you
a wonderful time during the holidays if you celebrated Christmas or if you didn't, or
if you celebrated New Years with family, friends, if you stayed in or went out, I just hope
you had an amazing time.
And if you received any presents or if you got yourself something for the holidays, share
them in the comments below.
Like did you get a new art material that you're enjoying at the moment and something that's
gotten you really excited, I'd love to know.
Also I'm super curious about your New Years resolutions, which can be art related or something
personal, or something related to health, or something related to work.
I don't know; feel free to share those down below as well.
Like I have my own list of resolutions, and there's so many of them but I decided to
focus on what I feel like is on the top of my list.
I really want to improve drawing backgrounds this year.
I've kind of started doing backgrounds in 2016 especially when I joined the YouTube
Artists Collective, so I feel like that's pushed me to incorporate backgrounds in my
artworks and this year I really want to dedicate more time into it.
So I want to practice drawing landscapes and buildings, rooms, or like a setting, stuff
like that.
I mean backgrounds really help set a scene and to tell a story which I want in my artworks
as well.
Plus I've also seen other artists create those landscape studies and it's just very
inspirational.
I want to do it as well.
I've seen them do it with paint – something like gouache or acrylics, so I think I want
to use it with gouache as well or maybe watercolours, I still need to work out a plan as to how
I'm actually going to achieve this goal of improving backgrounds.
I feel like I made a video at the beginning of 2016 stating how I wanted to get into gouache
and as we can see now, that didn't really pan out well.
I still ended up using watercolours, which I'm not really complaining about since I
noticed an improvement in my watercolour skills.
So it didn't really matter.
This year I still want to use gouache hopefully a few more times than I did last year but
I'm not going to beat myself up if I don't fulfil that because it's not a main priority.
I want to focus on backgrounds whether that's using ink, watercolours, pencils, markers,
or gouache.
Yeah, I feel like if I try to achieve multiple things at a time I'll just get overwhelmed.
Another resolution that I have is to make content that I am proud of.
I haven't mentioned this yet in a video, but YouTube for me is starting to lose its
spark.
Like I remember when I was just starting, I would get super excited about uploading
a video.
And I would even go back to the video every few minutes to check if I received a comment,
how many views it had, stuff like that.
Now, whenever I upload a video, I actually don't look at the video until a day later
or maybe even a few days later just because I get really scared that what if there are
many dislikes on a video, or it doesn't have as much views or likes as the previous
video, or what if I get hate comments?
Like instead of being excited that I put up the video, I get really scared that it's
up there, that's been made public.
I start thinking that maybe I should take it down, that's it's a crappy video anyway.
Why would anyone want to watch it?
And I realised that I was feeling all those things because I myself wasn't happy with
the video I was putting up.
I mean I was glad because I ticked it off my to-do list, but I put it up there because
I felt like it had to be up there.
Honestly, it felt like I was just completing a chore every time I put up a video, and as
far as I know, it shouldn't feel like a chore.
So this year, I really want to find that spark with YouTube.
I want to enjoy the process of making videos because that's one of the reasons why I
started YouTube.
I really found it as a creative outlet.
If I had just wanted to share my art, then I could've just posted photos of my art
on my blog or something, but I didn't just want to share it, I actually had fun making
videos back then, so I want to focus on creating content that I will get excited to share.
I don't think I'll ever stop worrying about the number of views or likes or comments
on my videos though, but I feel like as long as I am enjoying doing this, I can get past
whether or not a video doesn't have as many views as my previous video or something like
that.
And I always have to remind myself that you guys are super sweet and always so supportive,
and as cheesy as it sounds, whenever I read comments about how you're proud that you
improved with your art, or that you have a personal project you're working on or that
you find my videos helpful, it really makes me realise how I'm letting insecurities
stop me from doing what I actually enjoy doing.
And I don't think I say it enough, but thank you so much for the positive feedback and
all the love.
It truly warms my heart.
And with that said, I do hope that this is a resolution I stick to because I definitely
don't want to stop making videos just yet.
So now I'll just briefly explain my process with watercolours.
I really just use two techniques.
The wet on wet technique and the wet on dry technique.
For this particular painting, I used a lot of the wet on dry because it's pretty much
my favourite technique.
I love laying down the paint and letting it dry then adding a new layer of paint over
it for shading which I am doing right now.
The reason why I do this is because when the layer of paint dries, it creates that harsh
outline and it's honestly one of the reasons why watercolours interested me in the first
place.
I love that effect if gives.
The only time I when I lay down water before adding paint is when I want to create a flat
base colour or when I want to blend colours together in a seamless way.
I also use that here when I was doing the hair and when I add the yellow highlights
to the painting.
You'll see that as I placed that new colour on the paper, the paint from the purple layer
was still wet or damp.
It was dry enough that the yellow wouldn't completely blend into the purple, but it was
wet enough that it would create a gradient between the purple transitioning into the
yellow colour.
But of course a lot of the time, I do just wing it with watercolours, especially when
it's just a sketchbook drawing.
This took around 30 minutes excluding the drying time in between layers, so not a lot
of thought was put into it.
That's another thing I like about watercolours and paint, is that it really has moments where
the paint just acts as it would and sometimes it works out to how you want it to be and
sometimes it doesn't but you just have to work with it.
Another thing that I keep in mind with watercolours is of course how much water I am using with
the paint.
In this particular case, I used a lot of water so you can see that the colours look very
soft.
That's definitely my stylistic decision; I didn't want the colours to be vibrant
so I put in a lot of water.
If I did want vibrant colours, I'd use less water and more paint or pigment.
So adding more water into the paint even as it's already on the paper also allows me
to create a blending technique.
It doesn't technically blend the wet layer with the dry layer underneath, but because
I've added more water to one side of the wet layer, it create a gradient effect where
the colour becomes lighter and more transparent therefore the dry layer underneath shows through
a lot more.
I used this around the neck where the dark shadow was.
I felt like it was too harsh so I added more water to the edge to kind of spread the colour
out.
That's basically it.
Once everything has dried, I move on to adding the final touch with my Daiso brush pen.
I swear I love this pen for my sketches.
The fibre brush nib is super flexible that it helps create intense or subtle line variations
in one stroke.
It does take some time to get the hang of, but I can definitely see why other artists
have been raving about brush pens.
I mean, I'm one of them now.
Watching their reviews and videos has convinced me to try brush pens and it's one of the
best things to happen in my art.
So yeah!
That is pretty much it.
I will simply leave you guys here with some music.
I hope you enjoy the rest of this video.
If you do, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't already.
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I wish you a wonderful and creative new year.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one!
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