 Well, hi everybody, it's Sandy welcome to my YouTube channel today I'm going to be doing a little bit of no-line coloring with some digital images Primarily coloring with Copic markers, but I'll have a watercolor section at the end as well so you can see both Work with the same technique. I'm doing this to celebrate my friend Kathy's 30-day coloring challenge that she's now done a second time For this month of June. There's links in the doobly-doo. There's lots of discount codes and coupon codes prizes giveaways fun stuff Follow along on that I'm going to use my edgy-digy series one of them today, and I thought I'd show them all to you This is the ones that are done so far there will be more added to the series as I get some time But I'm exploring each of the Copic color families in these For just the five bucks you'll get two digital stamps and those are images that you can print out on your computer Plus you'll get a multi-page PDF handout that talks about that color family And if there's a color family that you just can't seem to blend or it really bugs you or there's just something you need to know About that color family. It's a great reason to get these or if you just like the images Some people are buying them just for that, but they're a really great educational tool in small bite-sized chunks about those colors I've done videos on two of them already There's no voice-overs with them, but shows you different ways to color them I plan to do all of them eventually when I get to that but today I wanted to use another one and not use the colors that are in the PDF but I'm gonna be using the cosmos from the red violet one and I'm gonna be showing you a little bit about how you can color it with different colors But also how to use this as a digital stamp to do no line coloring As you can see I wanted my butterfly to be really strong and originally I was just gonna color this in I Printed it out and look how fat the lines got when I blew up the digital stamp So if you have a stamp that you want to just highlight a certain area It's hard to do that without getting a big chunky line around it So I'm gonna use my light box This is a little light pad links for all the supplies by the way We'll be in the doobly-doo down below and I'm just gonna trace it onto my Nina and my watercolor paper And I'm gonna do it with a number two pencil nothing special here But you want to do it as light as you can Super light touch and I keep my pencil really sharp so that I have a really thin line The Copic marker and watercolor will both trap the color underneath of the pencil line Trapped a pencil underneath of the color, so you want to make sure that you have as little getting in your way as possible let's start with the Copic marker version of coloring this and What I decided to do was go to the web Which I often do when I'm trying to figure out what colors I want to use on something and I found this beautiful photo of these Multicolor Cosmos I have planted Cosmos in my garden for eons and eons and eons I really love them and I once in a while get one of these and Like all the other ones are single color ones or something or the ones There's Cosmos that have color just around the edge so they almost like like every pedal is burned a little bit with the darker color They don't look burnt, but you know what I mean, and I once in a while we get one of these and I found out It's a rare adaptation that Cosmos make but look somebody apparently had a whole seed pack that planted them some cosmos That were all multicolor like this So I've just picked out a couple of different ones that I wanted to try on this card So when I took my digital stamp and blew it up I used just there's a whole bouquet of these flowers in the digital stamp and I just blew them up really big and then I wanted to have the butterfly kind of fluttering across them and And then I just went through the the flowers and started picking out the colors that I wanted And I'm trying to create a little striations in the petals themselves because they all have these they're kind of wrinkly petals they all have these These lines that go up in them up and down the pet the length of the petal But whenever you're looking at any flower some of them radiate outwards toward the side of the petal Some of them are curved. There's all different kinds of lines in them So it's fun to look on the web and see what kind of interesting flowers you can find and what the petals actually look like And how you can make them look a little bit realistic Now you can probably tell that was one of the yellow flowers But now I want to do that pinkish purplish one off to the right-hand side So I'm looking on my hex chart Which is also available on my blog to try to find some colors in that that color range so I'm going to pick a lighter pinkish color and then a darker pinkish color and Try to figure out how to make a color that's going to match Approximately at least that flower on the right-hand side and that's one of the things that the hex chart has really helped me with and I originally developed that just for me. I wasn't really intending to make it a big deal to share I just wanted to compare some colors for myself. It's hard to know when you're looking at the caps of markers Which ones are going to make a pinkish red and which ones are going to make a purplish red and which ones are going to be more of a tomato orangey red and all different types of shades of every single color and The hex chart really helps to show you the difference between them as well as to give you a little bit of an idea of different colors That might blend together that you wouldn't normally think of because they're all arranged on the hex chart in visual order rather than in numerical order so on my Hex chart page and links to all this of course in that upper right-hand corner as well as in the doobly-doo On my hex chart page I've been collecting videos that I've done as well as I've been finding a few that other people have done If you do any that show how you use the hex chart be sure to ping me some way either email me or Send me a message or something somehow so that I know and can add the valuable information To that hex chart page so people who use it That RV 6 9 that I was looking at on the chart is a color that I don't think I've actually ever used it ever ever I own all the markers But there's some that I just never get any love and as soon as I saw that one sitting next to the RV 2 9 that I Used I went off that's gonna be perfect for making some really Increased dark shadows on these flowers and look at how it's making that pop immediately Just to add that super dark color Now some people are afraid of dark color. You know me I'm not I'm a little crazy about my dark color and I decided to even instead of using the brown that I used on the first one I thought let me try this dark reddish color for the inside because those insides of those flowers when you zoom way way in which That photo is not zoomed way in but when I zoomed way in I could see there's a little more reddish color in there then just the brown and Different ones have different amounts of it some of them have small centers some of them have wide wider centers But they all have a little bit of that pinkish brownish color mixed in the two of them Now I wanted to do one of the white flowers and I started adding first my shadows and I'll show you why as this goes on because if I had ended up using The grays after I did all the stripes like on these other flowers I did all the the striping first and then I added the shadows Then the gray would potentially pull some of that color in so if I colored and Touch the gray marker to some of that red in the stripes on that that red white flower that I'm coloring I would probably pull some of that color through the flower and I wanted them the petals to remain pretty white But the shadows you can see you're going all the way through the yellow and the red areas So when I go over them with the the actual colors that are in those stripes Those shadows are still going to show because you can see there. I'm getting some depth in that gray those gray spots in my yellow Even though the gray was colored first it'll be a little less obvious on my reds But you can also see that I'm making a little jumps Right there where the the red stripes can kind of go around different parts of different petals So you can add a little bit of fun to them by making those sort of differences as you're going around a flower petal And that's just when you're doing flower petal stripes like this though But most people don't do crazy flower petal stripes. It's hard enough to do a flower by itself But I hope this inspires you to try some multicolor flowers at some point I will have a link in the doobly-doo to this photo as well and have it on posted on my blog So you can see what I'm doing now the oranges when you look at the oranges You can jump over to the reds to do some shadows and some darker colors And that's what I'm gonna try for first because I wanted to push this orange flower more toward the red than toward the browns and On the hex chart it kind of shows them closer to the browns, but without having it in three dimensions It's not possible to have every color that's could be next to every other color on one chart I would love to have some sort of a 3d model. That would be amazing I have seen it on some watercolor websites some sort of modeling that they've done to try to you know Build color families and stuff for paints and when they do the manufacturing and stuff But I don't know how to do that. So you get a PDF with a flat chart to color in the hex chart package that you buy So here's what it has what happens now when I've got my r 08 There's the r zeros tend to be a little more on the tomato red side So they go well with the oranges Because they don't have a lot of purpley-bluey content in them and you can see I'm getting some nice dimension here and The the colors that I'm using with the YRs blend really well This flower is turned kind of at an angle. So I'm trying to create some sort of places where the petals flip And that sort of thing you can make them a lot simpler than this. You don't have to color it quite that crazy And I'm gonna add my center and I for whatever reason went back to my brown instead of my reddish color That I had liked so much But I'll add more on top of it as well and just kind of blend multi colors together But now I want to look for a dark color and if I go to the darks and the reds they go purpley So I want to go for a dark in the brown section To add to this orange flower to add some real pop to it because I liked the pop that I got in that red Violet flower over on the right and I wanted the same kind of contrast on this one So if I had I could go with the purpley-or reds here certainly possible But I found that for this particular one since I wanted it to feel more orange Then I wanted it over on the other side And I'm going a little bit over my butterfly right now You can see I've colored over the edge of him because I'm gonna make the outline black anyway So it's not gonna matter that I'm coloring over top of it And here I decided that having a little bit of differentiation in the centers pulling out that dark color from the From the center and into the division between the petals really made a difference For my little butterfly I decided I wanted to have some colors blending and I'm going over the pencil now This is making some of the pencil drag and it's definitely making it mushy You're not gonna see a lot of that once I get done because I'm gonna add a black outline But I went for a B BG 1 5 YG 1 3 a Y 1 3 You notice although the 1 5 1 3 1 3 1 2's these are all numbers that are similar to each other So when you're trying to get a blend like this picking numbers that both of them are around the same number works really great Now these are my new Copic Multiliner sp's that means the sp's are Replaceable you can replace the ink you and refill the ink you can replace the nibs and stuff and I've put my little cheat sheets on these There's gonna be a cheat sheet download on my blog So you can print the full size sheet of paper and know exactly the width of these if you want to buy Just one of the markers and know what size you need to get because people have been asking me What size would be an average number that you would need so I'm gonna use the point three here I'm gonna just trace around the outlines you can see there's a little mushiness from the pencil lines But you're not gonna see that again. I've got my butterfly Digi stamp right next to where I'm at so I can see What the original stamp looked like but I'm also modifying a little bit. I'm making these shapes really simple I'm not adding multiple layers You know like multiple thicknesses between some of these shapes I just want it doesn't need to be that complex when I'm drawing it by hand And then I'm just gonna draw some shapes on the outside here Since I'm using Multiliners these are Copic friendly and this particular one is a brush nib look how tiny that brush nib is They're Copic friendly, so it means that I can color back into some of those areas after I'm finished And so some of those spots that may not have blended as well or if I want to add a little different color I can do that after doing my work with the black pen if you use a non Copic friendly pen Your ink is gonna bleed and you could ruin your nibs So just be careful if you're gonna do that make sure that you don't do this black work until you're absolutely sure That everything is kosher with your with your line drawing All right, here is the finished Copic card and I've added some sentiments from a Simon says stamp set and Put it on a layer and added some may arts ribbon And I think it came out really pretty. This is gonna be for a friend of mine who just needs to know she's not alone And now I'm gonna use my Holbein watercolors. These are new. I haven't shown these yet I have a whole video coming up on Thursday, I think it is Friday. No Friday with a whole thing on the Holbein watercolors and then this weekend a whole lot more on Watercolor, but I thought I'd show them to you. They're really fun. They're very expensive But they worked the same for coloring these flowers as far as using the digital stamp Adding it to the watercolor paper using the same tracing technique And I'm adding my colors in layer after layer after layer letting some of the ones down below dry first That's why I'm going around a lot of it And I also don't want to touch things to something wet next to it so that it doesn't end up bleeding Before I'm ready for it to bleed so trying to control when it actually does that when it doesn't and You can just watch the build up of layers Which I think they find really fun when I'm doing it at speed because even I'm amazed that this actually comes out Really nice at the end. I loved how this whole thing kind of worked out It was it was pretty special to see that this worked I wasn't originally intending on doing both the watercolor and The Copic in this video because I haven't tried no line coloring And I wasn't sure especially about this butterfly and the amount of detail in it But it came out really pretty as well And I was really excited with both of these and now I'm gonna wait for another friend to need to know that She's not alone. So I have another card to send to her Alrighty, so I am going to jet now. This has been a ridiculously long video. I hope you will visit my Other videos here that I'm sharing with you one is on marker maintenance And if you're getting started on the 30-day challenge marker maintenance might be something that you want to do And I'm also showing you on the right hand side some clean color pen work Which is a whole lot of fun new product out there, and I'm really enjoying those All right, I will see you in a couple days. Take care and bye. Bye