 Well, hi there. I'm Sandy Ola and I am going to introduce my friends pencil and airbrush And make a Christmas card using the Santa Paws stamp set from art impressions It has all kinds of cute dogs in it. It has this whole dog choir that is already one stamp so you do not actually have to Stamp and mask everything which is really great because I know a lot of you don't like to mask I love to mask, but I also love it when I don't have to do it all So I'm using Nina card stock some solar white and my my prism color pencils just putting my my colors down and Getting them somewhat blended and somewhat even but I'm going to use the gem salt on it So I'm not really stressed out about whether it's perfect or not Just going to add some shadows now the Scooby-Doo looking dog here is holding the lantern And that's going to be my light source in this And I'm going to do some fun airbrushing that you can also replicate probably if you are wicked and Talented at using your distressing so you can probably do the same kind of thing So don't think that just because it's airbrush that it's undoable if you don't do Copic airbrush But I am going to put a little bit of this this color this orangey type of color on The dog and on all of them I'm going to put a kind of goldish color in the direction of the light But you can see all his shadows are on his far left side because he's holding that Lantern off on the right-hand side and So I'm going to add this yellow color on pretty much every every dog on the surface It's facing closest to that lantern Because I want them all to be able to Be lit by it So whether it's a black dog or brown dog or whatever it is It's going to have some gold color on it And I'm using it that dirty gold looking color instead of a bright yellow Just because on a dog that's brown you wouldn't get necessarily a yellow glow that would be a true yellow It's more like going to get this this kind of brownish Brownish yellow color. Not sure what you would actually call that. It's probably baby poop That's probably the best name for color like that Um, yeah, it's it's that's the kind of thing that I think about when I think about what colors are So even this little dog, I forgot to put his yellow highlights in there. He's going to be a little black dog I'm still going to put some yellow on him So that he ends up looking like he's lit by that same lantern Yeah, I'm doing all of my pencil work first before I jump to the gamsel later So I'm going to get it all done on complex images like this that are already masked together And they have lots of little parts the only part that I actually added Was this little dog down here at the bottom who is running And I figured I'd make him running inside or into the scene from outside because there's always That one friend who's not in the picture and decides to go do something crazy and that's that dog So everybody has that friend and for some of you you are that friend just like me We are that friend that photo bombs a great picture But anyway, when you are making complex images like this, sometimes it's hard to tell Where one leg ends and another leg begins and which part is that is that part of this dog or that part of that dog And I try to do the ones that I'm sure of first And then work my way towards some of the complex areas if like there's it was hard to try to figure out this dog's feet next to the scooby-doo dogs feet And which one which body starts and ends So just pick one arm to follow and then follow that arm And if you need to then color the other dogs around it And then eventually You'll end up with just a few pieces left On a scene like this if you make it dark enough because you can make it a nighttime scene Then you can hide a lot of those details if you can't still figure out which way It's supposed to go and which leg is belonging to which dog I must say sometimes I think that Bonnie over at art impressions knows me really well because she's putting out lots of dog sets I think she knows I love doing dog sets And there's one sentiment in this stamp set that says from the dog Which is really cute and I'm not sure if I'm going to do any that say from the dog I probably should And see if I can do some that look like my two dogs But do you guys send cards to people from your dog? Like do you do cards for your kids or for your husband or anybody from the dog? Because I think that would be actually a really fun idea I mean I would end up sending cards to myself from the dog Which would be weird because the dogs wouldn't really send cards to anybody else But maybe we'll have some dog friends that they'll have to send cards to but you know if it's not family Maybe they would have to sign it instead of to say from the dog I don't know. Maybe I'm overthinking it because dogs don't send Christmas cards That could be a problem. Maybe I'm just overthinking and that happens And I probably shouldn't overthink Especially because I'm getting close to finishing the coloring on this And I decided on my coloring that I was going to do all of their hats And their scarves in the same accent color in that same red Because if I were to add a whole bunch of different types of colors If I were going to do every hat different every scarf different different textures and different colors The image is already really complex And kind of keeping something the same throughout Is really going to be helpful in trying for other people to figure out which dog starts and stops where It's going to really make a difference in making that image really really clear for other people too when they look at the card And I like to make them things look pretty obvious to folks Don't like don't like it when they get all confused and it just looks like there's too much stuff on the card So adding a dark red so that I can have some shadows on all of my beautiful red colors on here And we are getting close to the gamma sol phase now Gamma sol is A liquid that has I don't know something in it Maybe it's gamma sol that it has in it. I should probably look at the bottle and find out what's in it And is it something it's going to kill me but look at how smooth and rich it makes the color Which is kind of cool that you can take colored pencil and do that with I normally when I'm just doing illustrations, I will do pencil without doing any gamma sol on it But I'm kind of thinking I might do some finished art pieces And use gamma sol because it's kind of fun I often spend more time trying to even my color out And this would save time of course and be faster But it's also sometimes first Excuse me for some folks. It can be an attempt to make pencil look like copic and try to make it all perfectly blended and That's not always a good thing because then you're telling yourself that your pencil work is not good enough I like the texture of pencil in a lot of cases Okay on to the next part Which is taking that giant roll of masking paper And I masked the image out and cut it all out and then I got my airbrush out Which is this little gun thing and it's hooked on to a air compressor that's below the desk And then I press the little button and color comes out And sometimes my hand's going to be off screen because I'm trying to be high up and above so I don't get a a big leap of color But I'm putting on a couple colors to create a halo around that that little lantern So I put the yellow down first and then I'm doing a blue green color And then I switched To having something else underneath of it because I didn't want to ruin that board that was under it and it's not cleanable like my craft assistant is this craft assistant is a 12 by 12 piece of black metal and It's really easy to clean with like all the stuff you might get on it. So if you do a lot of inking and stuff It's a good product in my mind I use it a lot for airbrushing as well because you can clean copic off it in a heartbeat So my big fat hand is going to be in front of the camera. Sorry about that I'm trying to get my angles right because when you're doing airbrush if you keep blowing from one direction And you have a mask on it the mask has a little bit of thickness to it. It's only the thickness of A sticky note, but it's still thickness So I'm going to turn it around And put my my little mask back There's just a scrap from another project that I had And I'm going to airbrush again pointing that direction so that I cover up some of those areas So when I pull the mask off, I don't have as much to fix So there'll be a little bit of fixing that'll be required, but this will limit that a little bit because I can push some of that color into there For the snow down at the bottom. I'm just using very light pressure Very very very light so I can get a few layers of snow down And Trying to to kind of even things out a little bit And it's hard to get even skies and stuff with airbrush But I've pulled off my mask and now I'm just going to take pencil Which matches that airbrush texture pretty well And I'm just filling in a few of those areas where my mask either wasn't trimmed well enough or it was just sticking up A little bit and look how fun that is I added some white snow coming down from the sky in a white pen a white gel pen And I added some polka dots onto everybody's scarves so they'd be all decorated up And that was that here comes santa pause From the dog I didn't put the front the dog on there But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video if you did click that like button If you would like to and I would love to see you another time So watch some more videos and come on back. Make sure you have my videos sent to you by email So we can meet up again. Thanks. 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