 Well, hi there, I'm Sandy all-knock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I am going to make a birthday shark with the sea prize stamp set for world water curler month And yes, I know it's water curler month, but I'm coloring water. So doesn't that count, right? So I'm gonna use the shark stamp and they also have this cute little puffer fish and I'm going to I stamped him on an angle I'm going to make a wave. So I'm gonna show you how to make a giant wave for him to swim in I did wipe off that the right hand side of him You can see at the bottom there I wiped that off when I stamped him after I got the ink on just so I can soften that edge a little bit You could do it on both sides if you want as well. We'll just make things easier and Help you to make him sink into the water and I apologize for the bottom of the image being cut off But there's really nothing down there. It's just gonna be more of the same color So you're not missing out on anything by not being able to see that very very bottom And I'm what I'm doing here is establishing just the curl of the wave first and Wasn't really sure exactly where I was gonna put the The full back and how how far around the top of the wave was gonna cascade So it gets a little crazier as I go, but it's it's kind of how I work I think through things as I'm doing it and Then I just put little almost C-shaped little marks All over the place where I'm where the shadows are going to be and this is before I decided I was gonna make that wave Really cascade around the whole card But then I'm adding some BG 0 0 you can do a lot of different light blues with that And I'm doing it with the same cloud technique that we learned in the hex art class If you've taken that one, it's kind of the same sort of thing We're just making little flick marks with the side of the marker to make that soft cloud of Seafoam so now I'm gonna take some darker colors and start working my way down that wave and You know trying to decide how far I want to go with darks and lights So do I want to leave some of those whites on the surface of the water or do I want to add more color? And I just kind of keep adding color This is one of those techniques that as long as you get that general curve of the wave You're gonna be good to go as as long as you make a lot of water color and a lot of That that spray then it's gonna communicate what it needs to But notice how some things have changed like that little triangle shape on the right hand side of his head Was larger before I was thinking about making that a larger area of dark And I changed that just made it smaller by not coloring over it when I got to my darker colors Switch to a different marker, and I'm just kind of continuing to make more and more strokes Now here's where I kind of started to commit took out my B4 5 and made a much deeper shadow on this this backside now and Even I'm gonna soften up some of the area where the the wave starts to crash in that section and Even might be 9 9 to really go in there with some rich deep shadows Because with everything the more contrast you have the more realistic it starts to look and look at how already That syncs to the background Instantly it just disappears in the distance by the fact that it's just darker. It's it's a darker color It's not a bright blue even if you used to be to wait It wouldn't be as as much in the distance as this is because it's a b9 something so b9's are your desaturated colors So now I'm gonna add some of those desaturated colors in the front as well with just a few strokes going up the wave And try to decide how many of them and again this is one of those Keep working until you You beat the paper up because even if you screw this up You're learning something you're trying something new which is great, and it's only paper If you don't spend all the time coloring the image and you just work on the background the background doesn't work Then do it again and try it again. It's just paper So I'm playing around with adding more colors onto this trying to decide how much of that Lighter color. I even want on there, and I just keep removing more of it because I'm really liking how everything's coming together with much darker colors and it just has more pow to it and Slowly I'm gonna work my way up the bottom of that that sea spray with the dark colors at the back and More of that that mid-tone color here in the front so that I can start making That sea spray and look like it has a shadow because it does have a shadow It's it's a physical thing. So it's gonna have a shadow even though you think oh, it's just white No, it's not just white. It's got tons of color in it tons and tons So just keep kind of adding more flicks. I'm just using sideways flicks of the marker and pretty good pressure on them and the cool thing about You know like sea spray is it doesn't have to look like anything as long as you can fake the eye and You know change your mind as many times as you want because it's only the final result that matters It doesn't matter how you get there. So my stuff it as we always say is a hot mess till it's not I've again changed that shape behind his head. It was a larger triangle that I made a smaller one Now I've made it a larger one again And I'm gonna add more of that deep shadow because now he's starting to really look like he's inside this way There's wave behind him. There's wave in front whereas it didn't look as as Dimensional as that before so you can see the difference in just being able to Be bold and add a little extra contrast to something then you think you might and be willing to try it Because it makes a huge difference So now I'm just gonna add a couple colors to shade in my little happy shark And he has a seriously happy shark, you know, there's tons of really scary shark Stams out there with you know, they might have a snarky look on their face and that sort of thing This one is just seriously happy. He's just like a cheerful birthday shark So to make it look like he's almost partially in the water I'm taking my dark marker and in a couple of those spots not very many I'm adding the places where his body would continue underneath the water so it starts to look a little transparent Get his head all blended out nicely Put a nice red mouth in him because he's a shark and he's got to have a big ol red mouth And of course his hat will be red because that will pull more of the red color around somewhere else on the picture At first I had trouble figuring out what that red thing was Until it suddenly dawned on me. He had the string of the hat the party hat underneath of his chin I'm like, I don't know why I didn't see it didn't see that at first Took me a while to realize that he's just wearing a birthday hat. He's going to a party so get some blending done here and then Switch to my signal white pen or whatever white pen works for you I'll add some decor onto his little happy hat Etc and then I'm going to switch over to my colorless blender marker And if you use a really juicy marker, you can actually put some nice dots Into all this foam now. So there might be some areas that didn't blend all that well Previously or you know, you didn't get a transition from one blue into another very well This is where you can now fix those and just add lots and lots of those dots all over And if you take your white pen and add almost a C shape on the top And then move it with your finger just slightly Just like down here. I'm trying to add a few white highlights back in And I can blend them almost with my finger while it's wet. Don't wait too long Just do it right away Then you can soften out the edge of one of those kind of lines And let it just be a soft highlight on top of that wave And there we go put them on a red card base and he's done I added on the embossed sentiment. Hope your birthday is swell Because he's in the middle of a swell So there we go another world watercolor month video coloring water And here is one other use of this stamp set from the underwater mini copic course at art-classes.com If you're interested in taking that this is just a sample of one of the backgrounds that you will learn How to make that kind of water and that's about it for me for today. Thank you so much Click the like button if you enjoyed this supplies are in the doobly-doo And I'll see you again in a couple of days with another video