 Hey guys, how are you today? All right, so we are here on my really messy desk with my large delusions journal and my binder of the stencils of my own design now if you all didn't know for those of you who Didn't know I have my own Etsy shop in which of course I sell art and reprints of my art There's digital downloads that you can get and all sorts of things I also have my own line of rubber stamps and stencils and I Also am as a side note in the process of accepting applications for the 2018 Design team of my products. We have lots of new and exciting things coming up for 2018 including Some work with other artists and companies so it's going to be really exciting And if you're interested in applying Please do so the link for the design team application will be in the video description below Along with all my social media links my Etsy store link my tip jar link my happy mail address all that stuff So check it out. You don't have to have a YouTube channel I know it says in the application that you do but you do not As long as you do other social media and if you're brand new to YouTube or you're thinking about you doing a YouTube channel Well, we can help you as part of being on the team. We can help you get that done All right, so anyway, I have a number of current stencils in my design line These are them there's a few in the back here that are prototypes of new designs that aren't out yet But I am looking for a particular To so I have two They're called bare-bones faces. Obviously I've used that one because I'm not great about cleaning my stencils And they're usually covered with schmutz And so here we go So I thought I would do a tutorial. These are called the bare bones face and bare bones profile. They're just basic face outlines There we go. You can see that one a little better Really just very very basic and absolutely no details They were developed in order to aid those of you who are unfamiliar with adding faces or drawing faces as part of your journaling work To help you accomplish that without you know in a little bit of a shortcut So anyway, I also have stencils that are full faces if you would prefer to use those But I thought I'd do a tutorial on how to use these We're gonna do the full face face first because it's easier You can of course do these in paint or pen or pencil I'm going to actually do pen and I think I'm gonna just use my favorite Pilot varsity disposable fountain pen. I happen to have these two pages in my largest illusions journal that are blank Which is perfect So I'm going to center the stencil In the page. I'm just going to eyeball it And then I'm going to hold it down and I'm going to trace around Like one side of All the openings like on the eye. I'm doing the upper edge. You can do the lower edge I tend to like girls with wide faces big eyes full lips and All my stencils of faces reflect that so when I'm done. I have something that looks like this Yeah All right, so I'm going to set that aside Now All right So to fill in the rest of the face the first thing we're going to do is kind of map out where our Forehead should be so I'm going to line my whatever happens to be on your desk up that I have a sharpie here So I'm going to put the bottom of it at the base of the nose here And I'm going to just put my finger here about to where the top of the eye eyes are and Then I'm going to line up the base of the sharpie with the tear ducts here And I'm going to put a little mark then I'm going to take my same sharpie and I'm going to put it underneath this base of the nose and Put my finger here about where the bottom lip is and Then bring it up and line up the base of the sharpie with that lower lip and put up dot Okay, so this is about where the chin should be this is about where the Bottom of the hairline should be the top of the hairline should be somewhere up here So when you're doing this you want to remember her face should be some sort of egg or oval shape You don't want to make the top of her head so low. She looks like she's got a flat head right and You could when you do this measurement you put measure at the same way, right? put it back up here and Line that finger point up with the top of the eyes and put another mark up here So the top of the head should be up there somewhere and that you know if you're going to put bangs or some More there should be around there the nice thing about this pen is it's water soluble So after I'm done writing I can add a little water and make it look really kind of artistic a little bit, right? All right, so now let's start to put some features in and The first thing I'm going to do is put the iris which is the colored part of the eye in Which should be something like that. It won't be a circle because If you look at yourself in the mirror the upper part of the iris is usually covered by the upper eyelid and Then I'm going to put in the pupil and your eye is around and there's a tear duct there and you know I wouldn't worry too much about Trying to get them exact If you look in the mirror, you're not exact you're not, you know symmetrical and You just don't want the bottom of this circle too far past where these two lines where the invisible part of this line is down here I'm going to add some ink here and before we get too far I'm gonna get a little flat brush And I've got some water right here off just slightly off camera And this paper isn't really made for this. This is at the large delusions journal and It doesn't really it's not great about taking water media, but that's okay, right? So I'm just gonna let that ink bleed a little bit in the parts of the eye that would be darker That would be in shadow to just give our face a little bit of dimension. That's pretty good It's smearing a little bit. I I like it. I'm okay with that All right, so now to We're gonna go to the lips I'm gonna fill in that little spate that seam between the upper and lower lip if you look at yourself in the mirror You have a little bump here, right? And it goes up in that way Try to curve the edges of your lip up just a little bit so that your girl doesn't look like she's frowning These lines don't need to meet so I would just leave them and then I would start here Away from the eye and if you're doing this in pen or pencil on your page, and you're gonna add paint to it later Definitely, don't worry about any lines that are off Don't leave your girl with just a floating head on the page though. Give her a neck There we go And then we're gonna come up here and I want to at least be here But I probably want to even be a little higher than that because if you think of as her head If you look at your head, it's around right then her head's gonna at least come up there So you don't want to start the top of her head down here Then she's gonna look like she's got something wrong with her head. I Generally do something Scribbly with the hair It's kind of my thing if you've been watching me for a while, you know that You can get as detailed as you want to be add color if you want We're just doing this in this black pen so that you all can see and we're doing this in real time I'm not speeding it up or anything now. Don't forget to give her some eyebrows That's probably a little too far into the bridge of her nose there, but that's okay Okay, so let's get in here with our paintbrush and move some of the pigment from that ink around The nice thing about using a pen like this something that's water-soluble is if you do make a mistake You don't have to worry so much about covering it up. You can just kind of move the pigment around and Make it work with your drawing and make it look like it's intentional And I'm pulling some of the pigment into some of the areas of her face which would be in shadow To give her some dimension I should tell you I'm sitting down doing this and The book is flat. So to get a really good perspective on what you're doing I probably should have her tilted, but we're on camera doing this doing this for YouTube. So Yeah Hopefully she's gonna be good Okay, we're gonna let her just dry a little bit And I'm gonna come over here with the other stencil, which is this one and you can flip these this one either way I think that I want to put her put her this way So I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna hold it down Now you can of course I said already you can paint with these they these are stencils You can paint you can spray ink and then fill your details in So you want to do something similar you want to make sure that Where you start her chin on the profiles a little harder so put out a picture from a magazine or Look at yourself in the mirror take a picture of yourself sideways Something like that. Okay, again, though You don't want to you want that space to the top of her head to be you know about This much so up here her head with top of her head would be appear Somewhere around here Would be an ear Which you don't have to draw in and honestly, I don't usually draw it in and I When I do draw it in I don't usually like the way it looks so that may stay or it may go I don't know. We'll have to see Again, we're gonna take our brush and the thing I like about water-slave ink or even like charcoal is you can do a Lot with fixing a drawing suggesting shapes without actually drawing them by just moving the pigments around They're very forgiving So while we're doing this one this one's drawing a little bit you could do this with a bigger brush I like the control though of having the smaller one now the upper lip is usually darker than the lower lip So that's a good place to add extra pigment. I also want to put the suggestion of an eyebrow I need to check it. Let's see She's still a little bit flat headed over here. This one's good. This one's a little bit flat-headed. So Yep, that's better. Okay. Now I'm gonna grab White paint pen. It's kind of dirty white, but it is white. It's kind of it's kind of goofed up But it is white. Let's see and Kind of bolder black pen. This is a feud ball pen The first thing we want to do also have a few oil pastels out there just off camera So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my white paint pen As soon as I get it to work Need a scratch piece of paper that didn't really show up very well. So let's actually Move on to something else and let that drive from it. This is a Another different black pen. It's got a little bit wider nib. I'm gonna go over the lines that I like and Want to keep I'm going to Emphasize them darken them I'm gonna keep it loose and sketchy If you've decided you don't like the change of your the shape of your face, you can change it a little bit I'm gonna add back some marks into the hair that we kind of lost from Blending out the pigment as you can keep see I'm even keeping that Loosen sketchy because that's that's my thing. I'm gonna take a white Oil pastel now the white oil pastel is not opaque This one is a children's student grade one. So it's a bit transparent. So it's pushing Some of the marks are tinted to the background, but it's not covering them up completely. I don't really want it to I'm gonna take a gray one. I'm gonna use that to help me with some of the shadows while that oil pastel is fresh. I can Blend it out with my finger if I get it wrong or I get too much or Make her look like she's got whiskers. I can You know fix it a little bit by adding some white and whitening Right now if you want to add a little bit of color for a pop We can go with blue for the eyes and again, I think that greens a little dark So I can go back in here with some white and Lighten the tint a little bit by just blending it on the page So you want to work pretty quickly. I don't want the oil pastel to dry too much It yes is like a crayon, but it also will dry and then it's more difficult to move and The delusions journal doesn't really like being rubbed on so so there's that It tends to pill it's doing that right now. I got it wet Plus I'm rubbing on it and doesn't really like that too much You could use gelatoes. You could use um gel crayons Whatever you have. I like the dry mediums. They're fun to use Especially in a situation like this. I'm actually liking this green. I wasn't so sure when I first put it on there If I just made a gigantic mistake And that you guys out there in youtube land are never going to see this page because it was horrible But now I'm liking it so it's good So we're all good And y'all may not agree with me But you know that's okay I like it so that's important thing and these by the way are just this one is a Prima oil pastel and this one is a color peps. So These are not expensive brands by any stretch of the imagination Man, I really like that page Who knew I don't really think I want to add anything yet too much else. Maybe a little bit here Had to stand up So you can always tell when I'm doing something like this for you all and filming it and I stopped talking That's because I'm really into what I'm doing whether it turns out good or not I'm having fun and enjoying the process And honestly as my friend Cindy utter says that's what life's all about I think that's pretty good. I could keep going. You know, I'm not always a huge green fan So this is kind of surprising me. I've just used blue and green And then the shades of black From the pen and then some white. That's all I've done I like that. All right, let's see if we can put a quote on there I'm looking in my quote box Because it's just completely full and I'm just going to grab a load of things that are on top that looks I think that one works Some of these you all sent me Yep, there we go. We found two things. They're going to work well together I am going to use some matte medium. I have some matte medium that's almost empty So I'm going to take this part of this one. I cut this one apart trim it a little bit. We will get some matte medium, which is like Just about past it and I think we're going to put them here Now the matte medium may reactivate some of the ink, but it won't do anything to the oil past all This one word here Because it won't make sense Just then all at once A true oops Okay, and then I'm going to take My frosting scraper. I'm going to spread out that excess matte medium Push the words down and there you go Just then all at once a true original. So there you go my barebones face stencil I hope it just at least gives you all a starting point of what you can do to create faces for your journals Simple quick easy And yet unique and truly you If you want to buy them the link is in the etsy is in the description to my etsy shop And um, that's it for today. Don't forget to check out that description Have a great day and most importantly do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later Bye guys