 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Allknock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm gonna make a Christmas tree pylon out of alpacas today I'm so excited to be part of the Sunny Studios birthday blog hop So I decided to use the alpacas stamp set. So thanks to them for sending me the stamps So I could make this big Christmas tree pylon. Originally I was thinking of a choir and then it just turned into a fun Christmas tree I'm stamping from the front to the back or the bottom to the top Masking things out and then just adding more alpacas in behind repeating them Till I get that triangle shape throwing in some of the gift packages and stuff in there as well And you can always draw in some if you have a gap somewhere that looked a little weird just draw in another box I wanted to use my Prismacolor pencil So I went to my Prismacolor hex chart picked out some really intense kind of blue greens and some two different purples and Then some blueish gray colors to use for the alpacas themselves And this is all gonna be speed coloring because I want to talk about some general things When you're coloring a really complex image, this goes for any medium you're using not just for pencils But on something like this, I know the alpacas are gonna be white So I'm not gonna start by coloring them because I'm gonna miss a leg or an arm or an ear or something But I can tell where all the gift boxes are and all the scarves and hats So I'm gonna go through and first do all of my gift boxes Those are gonna be in heavier colored pencil So I'm using a little bit heavier pressure for those who've been in the Copic or color pencil jump start class it's you know, you know what I mean about heavier pressure giving you more intense color and Then when I get all those done and I'm finished kind of filling in those blocks I can start working on the scarves and The hats and things and those I'm gonna use a lighter pressure for and in this particular one right here There wasn't any little detail on that side So I decided to use stripes on his scarf That gives me some real balance around the whole image because if you look at the whole thing right now There's little detail everywhere and then there's empty spaces where there's alpaca bodies and all that fur and What I'm trying to do is get a good balance across everything so I'm switching back and forth between all of my pencils so that I can kind of get an idea of Where everything is going to be and get it all filled in and then I know how much pencil to use when it comes to the alpacas themselves Because in something that's this complex you might decide that you don't need anything colored other than the hats and the packages and the scarves maybe you don't need any more color in them and Doing this part first before you start diving into all of those little little bits of fur might be helpful to do So I'm just gonna run around each one of them. It's so fun watching colored pencil in speed coloring It makes it look like magic like it's just pouring off of your pencil But this whole thing took me like two hours to do so there you go The colors that I picked I wanted some non-traditional Christmas colors That's why I went for blues and purples and and a little bit of blue-green in there because that just made it feel a little more wintery as well and Now I'm adding my light blue for my alpacas and I'm going to go in and add some dark as well some that darker blue-gray color And that's going to help me to create just a little bit of dimension because I decided on mine I could do that and just have some really soft color. I just needed to not have heavy heavy color except in that little Alpaca that I just did it got a little bit heavy, but I do have a solution for it but I decided I'm going to continue fixing all the rest of this and getting all my My alpacas colored in prior to my final solution here Which is to take a white pencil and go over all the areas in my alpacas That's going to lighten the color as well as blend it a little bit since those are the areas that blend more into white than the others Some of the other colors are lighter in the amount of pencil overall But this will help the alpacas to be all nice and light My finished card nice and simple just added a little flag to do part of my sentiment And then I also decided since I stamped this a second time While I was doing it that I would color in a different color way You can also scan something like this to reprint for yourself and make multiples of this if you have the patience to do that Much coloring so there you go That is all I have for you today Be sure to click on the link in the doobly-doo to go see the sunny studios blog hop and see what everybody else is making And I'll see you guys again next time. Bye. Bye