 Okay, hey guys, we are back for part two of sketching our bunny for the CAC hashtag event. Poggast. Yay. I will try to include a text frame somewhere in here that has the actual hashtag in it. Don't forget to go to the search box on YouTube, which if you're watching in a desktop browser is up above the video and put the hashtag in and you'll find a bunch of other videos, really great videos, some really great content specifically geared for this event. And if you have a specific kind of creative interest like painting or art journaling or something like that, you can add that hashtag with the other one and those specific videos should come up. Also, don't forget to go to Shannon Green's channel. She's got a really great video channel kind of hop going on over there with a few brand new YouTubers that have some really great content. And so it would be great to go over there and watch their videos, join in on that hop and show them awesome love. Alright, so we are going to finish with, not finish, we're going to continue with our bunny. And for this step, you're going to need the blending stump. I'm going to use a 6B pencil and a charcoal pencil. Now, if you have stick charcoal like this, you could definitely use that. I have the pencil so I'm going to use it. It's a little bit less messy. I'm going to start with the 6B pencil which is a softer darker lead pencil. And I'm going to continue with my drawing and I'm going to start putting in some, you know, lines that suggest hair for. I'm going to also start working on coloring in and refining the shape of my eye, working on all those dark spots. You don't actually have to draw all the hairs. We just want to suggest them. And right now what I'm doing is looking at the bunny and looking at all the dark areas of the bunny and adding some shading with the 6B pencil. And also I'm going to be going around some of my lines and refining them, cleaning them up. And I'm going back and forth with my eyes between the sketch that I made and the picture I have in front of me. And I'm just, again, just going with the shapes that I see. And then I'm going to go in with my blending stump because this is a soft graphite. It's going to smudge and blend. And my blending stump is not clean. It's dirty. So it's already sort of pre-seasoned with some charcoal and graphite on it. So it can add a little bit to those shadows and aids me a little bit in adding some smudgy dark spots to my drawing already. See, that was number 2 pencil and that was the 6B and it doesn't blend very much. Okay, so let's continue on. And again, I'm just going to bury in the shapes that I see, the colors that I see. And one thing I'll start to probably do is put something that suggests grass. His paws are kind of hidden by the grass. And I don't necessarily want to draw grass specifically, but I just want to hint at some grass, suggest the grass. If you get some graphite in the wrong place, that's why you have your kneaded eraser and it will blend itself very nicely to erasing those marks that are not in the place where you want them to be. Looks pretty good. Now, I am by no means a realist artist. By any stretch of the imagination, it is not what I normally do. And I won't say this is going to be a completely realistic artistic expression of the bunny, because that's, again, not what I do. But it's a fun expression of said bunny anyway. So I am going to go in here a little bit more graphite. And now we're going to go in with our charcoal pencil, which is really dark. We are going to go in and really darken up some of the edges where we see the blackest parts of our bunny, like the eye. Now, if you put too much charcoal and you end up putting charcoal over something that you want to leave white, for instance, the highlight in the bunny's eyes, that's okay. Charcoal erases very well with the kneaded eraser. Dark shadows underneath our bunny's neck. Spots here. I'm just following it around. All those places where I see those dark spots. I'm adding a little bit of charcoal, which I'll go in in a minute and blend and smooth, like I just did with the eye. And it really gives it a really great look. So now we're going to go in with our blending stump. I'm holding it on its side. And I have it parallel to the paper. And I'm just going in with the tip and side of the blending stump. And I'm pushing that charcoal around on my paper, smoothing it out, getting rid of some, maybe not all of the marks from the pencil, but smoothing out and spreading the pigment from the charcoal to make it something more suggestive. And after you get your charcoal smoothed out, you'll have a nice, fair amount of charcoal dust on the blending stump. So if you want to go and add some, you know, sort of medium, darkish tones to anywhere on your bunny, you can do that. See, like here on its fur, I can blend these bits out that I put on here. And I can also spread some of this charcoal dust out and really just leave the part of his back here that is white. Do the same thing to his face. Now if you get maybe too much charcoal somewhere where you don't want it, you can just, like I said, go in with a kneaded eraser. And you can erase all of it or you can just erase some of it. It gives you sort of an interesting look. Some darkness between the bunny's feet. So just like when I paint, if as you're going, you lose some of your lines, you know, bring one of your pencils back into the mix and firm some things up as you feel you need to. Now you can go in with a stick of charcoal or lead or graphite. I have both in this kit. I think for right now we're going to just stick to charcoal. Lay it on its side. You get a different look than you do with the pencil. And again, as I'm drawing with the charcoal, I'm looking at that picture. And I'm just layering my marks on top of each other. And you just want to keep doing this until you get something you're really, really happy with. Make my kneaded eraser into a point and see if I can get in here and erase some of these too many marks I made under his nose. A little more blending now it's not necessarily necessary when you're being suggestive with a drawing or a painting to blend out all of the brush marks or pencil marks. Leaving some of them, well, age you when creating a suggestive piece of artwork. Something that's really interesting. I like that. He's turning out a little bit more hairy than the inspiration photo. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get rid of some of these wispy bits. At least for right now. Not completely, but I'm going to erase them a little bit because I kind of like some of them. Okay, that's pretty good. The other thing I'm going to do is create a light spot on his belly. And that's good. So we will be back with part three and final part for a our creative arts collaboration hashtag event. I hope you're having a lot of fun. Don't forget to go out and check out some of those other videos. Have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, my information is in the description below and subscribe. And you know, let's start a conversation. Tell me what you think in the comments about this bunny and I will see you all later. Bye.