Hi everyone!
I am back with a new video and this is going to be another video for the Generation project.
If you don't know what the Generation project is, it is a personal art project where I will
be drawing 12 faces – 12 different faces.
And with each drawing, I will use the selfie submissions from my subscribers – you guys
– as a reference photo to "generate" a face that is inspired by their ethnicity
that is from the top 12 most populated countries.
So I will put a link in the description box of the playlist for this project if you want
to know how it came about, and why I'm doing what I'm doing, as well as to simply follow
along in this project if you are interested.
And of course thank you to everyone who sent in a selfie submission to help with my reference
photos or practice sketches.
Your help is definitely appreciated, but of course I do apologise if I missed anyone who
submitted his or her photo to my Facebook or Twitter.
So yeah!
This is going to be a long video because majority of the video is going to be in real time to
show in more detail or at least in a slower pace, my colouring process.
I also understand that this series is very repetitive.
I mean, I'm drawing faces with very limited space to create a variety of poses, so I want
to find ways to spice things up or at least have each video offer something different.
So I have briefly explained my colouring process in previous video, but hopefully it'll be
clearer in real time.
You'll be able to see the different layers and how I build it up to give the end result.
And I will once again explain it in this video for the sake of anyone watching this video
that isn't following the series.
I mean, you might've just stumbled upon this video by chance or maybe you're new
to my channel and this is the first video you're seeing.
But before I get into that, I do want to explain a bit of the process related to the sketching
and coming up with the face that you now see on screen.
This panel is probably different in its process because I didn't have a clue or an idea
of how the face is going to look like in the end.
Usually, I tend to have a vague idea in my head before I even start sketching.
So what I would do is I would go online, and find a reference that resembles the face I
have in mind.
This would normally act as my primary reference.
Then the selfie submissions will act as secondary references, which confirms some assumptions
I have, and it also helps with observations.
But the thing is, with this panel I had no idea or there was no direction to lead me.
So I decided to jump straight ahead onto the sketches of the selfie submissions and use
my subscribers as my primary reference.
Any observation I would make will be noted, and for example, if I noticed that rounder
eyes and really defined eyelids are somehow recurring in the sketches, then it'll be
what I will draw in the panel.
So that's kind of how I "generated" the face.
Using that process, I'm actually not super happy with this panel, there were a couple
mishaps in terms of the inking process, and also some of the decisions that I ended up
making.
I realised towards the end, that I could've done something better but you know what I
decided that instead of wallowing on the things that went wrong, or the things that I could've
done better, I'll simply call it finished and move on the next panel.
I mean, there's still a long way to go.
I'm not even halfway yet with this project, so I feel like I just really need to get a
move on.
But I did end up fixing the things I wasn't happy with two days after filming the video,
so at the very end of this video, there's a clip showing the changes that I've made.
After the adjustments, I am quite content with the piece, so I feel like at least that's
enough for me to leave it at that.
With the colouring process, I like to work in layers where I build it up from the lightest
colour to the darkest colour that I use for shading.
It's pretty much the same technique that you can use for colour pencils and paint.
The main thing with this colouring technique however, is that I try not to blend the colours
as much as possible, and I especially don't want to achieve that smooth blend of colours
from dark to light.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I used to colour and at times I still colour like that with markers, but this particular
series, I just wanted it to be different.
So the first thing that I do is create a fairly flat layer with the lightest colour as you
saw me do in the previous clips already.
With this layer, I tend not to care if it's very streaky like how it is here.
Eventually I will be adding layers over it that the end result won't look super streaky.
So you will also see that the first couple of layers are very messy, but I feel like
that's the thing with layering.
The first couple of layers are never how it'll actually look in the end.
As you build it up, the colours will technically blend with each other, therefore softening
the overall look and eventually getting rid of the streakiness of the layers underneath.
So this part of the colouring process probably takes the longest because it's a gradual
build up of the different shades of the skin.
And the thing is, it might look like a lot of different layers or a lot of different
colours, but I actually only use a handful of colours that I alternate between as I try
to achieve the look I want.
And by the way the colours I use are listed in the description box in case you're curious.
Afterwards, I then add the colours purple, blue, pink and yellow.
I usually don't treat these colours as shading colours.
I actually use them mainly to add interest or just to add an effect, but at times I still
take into account the value of that colour, and it can affect where I place that colour.
For example, blue tends to be a lower value colour, but of course it depends on what kind
of blue it is.
For this particular panel, I used a low value blue, which means that it's a darker kind
of blue; therefore I decided to place it on the darker areas such as under the chin and
around the eyes.
And it helps gives the drawing more depth, therefore in this case it acts as shading
colour.
Sometimes though, if it's a high value blue, which means that it's a lighter blue – kind
of like a sky blue, I will place it in the light areas and it'll act as a highlight.
I didn't use a high value blue in this panel though.
However, the purple colour and the yellow colour of markers that I picked out were high
value colours, therefore I mostly placed them in areas in the face that receive a lot of
light.
But then again, I sometimes break that rule as well.
And I will end up using it however I feel like.
As I said before, I mainly use these colours to add interest, so you can see that I also
used that high value purple colour in dark areas where the blue is also present.
So majority of the placement of these colours really just depend on how I feel and where
I feel like putting them.
For the inking process, this is where I made the mistake of inking before adding the background
colours.
I actually should've added the line variations and the hair colour towards the very end because
the ink I am actually using is not compatible with Copic Markers.
And unfortunately, I only found that out whilst doing this piece.
Once I found out that the ink actually smudges when I colour over it with the markers, I
had instant regrets that I didn't test the ink out first, but on the bright side, at
least now I know that the ink isn't marker proof.
So hopefully I can remember that to avoid what happened in this drawing.
The ink I am using is the Daler Rowney Calli ink, which is waterproof, but it's not marker
proof, therefore when I was fixing up the colouring of the skin and the background,
it would smudge the ink.
It's not really that big of a deal in terms of how it affected the overall outcome of
the drawing, but I do fear that using ink like this with markers can potentially damage
the nib of my markers.
So the nib becomes dirty.
Like I said, it's not that big of a deal.
I managed to fix some of the smudges so it didn't ruin the drawing.
But I just really like taking care of my art materials and trying my best to retain the
quality it had when I first bought it.
So after the inking process and also colouring the background, I start to add the pink fineliner
for the final details.
And using pink fineliner kind of came about in an interesting way when I received my first
SketchBox and I was doing the challenge of only using fineliners.
And I wanted a way to represent blush so I used the pink fineliner to help represent
the circles on the cheeks.
And I kind of just went crazy with it.
First it was only on the cheeks, but then I decided to also draw a bunch of lines all
over the face and the body.
So you can see it on the neck, and on the collarbones.
And it's just a bunch of squiggly, curly, wavy lines
And this is again one of those things that aren't really functional and in the way
I use it, it's also not very necessary.
But it's something that I find is fun to do and I actually like how it looks, so in
the end it adds to the style that I have in this series.
This is basically where the video was supposed to end, but like I said I wasn't super happy
with the end result so two days later I tried to fix it and make adjustments to the hair,
the shape of the lips and the skin colour.
I did add a layer over all of the skin to make it darker or at least alter the undertone
of the skin.
Because originally I used E00 and E02 which is more on the pinkish side of a skin colour,
but I decided to change it be more of an orange brown skin colour.
And afterwards, I am fairly content with this panel.
I mean it's not perfect, but it's done.
So that's about it.
Once again, feel free to check out all the other videos in this Generation project.
They are all linked in the description box.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
If you did, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't already.
Also visit my social media, which are linked in the description box.
I've got Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next one!
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