 Hey guys, how are you today? We are here to do some more work in our four faces journal The stencil that we're using for the journal to create the journals a new one in my Etsy shop the listing For my shop. I'm sorry the listing the link for my shop is in the description below and I'll link the stencil specifically But look around I have over 80 stencils. I've designed in my shop along with sets of rubber stamps and a bunch of other stuff So look around In the last episode we did this one where we didn't lift the pen up at all And we used our stencil as a guide for where our features were going to go in creating our face Then we decided to do something similar again. We used a different stencil We used the round face one this time and this time instead of The regular big crystal pen I used here. I used one that had water soluble ink the pilot varsity disposable fountain pen and Then once we had our face on there We used water to smear the ink and add some shadow and interest to our face to create this one Now we're going to do another one now on this page I've started the background with just a smearing of some of these pastel acrylic gouache paints by Holbein, oh, yeah Holbein These are acrylic gouache so they don't reactivate with water number one And which I didn't understand why we needed that product for a long time And I take back everything I said about that because these are wonderful Especially if you're using them as a basis for something that you're going to draw on top of because they've got a very smooth Matte finish to the paint when they're dry. They're a joy to draw on top of You don't have to have these specifically But I do recommend if you're going to try this use something in the background. That's a matte finish paint If you use your standard acrylic paint most of them have a glossy finish And if you've been doing mix media for a while, you know that the glossy finish paint can be a challenge to draw over Y'all know that already So we've got our matte finish paint here in the background I just use some sort of random coolish colors in the set of pastel paints that I have and I'm going to pick another face This is one of the four faces stencils as I said in the other video that has been cut apart I think we're going to use this one And I'm going to put it down over my Painted background and I basically it just looks like I wiped my dirty paint brush on that on the page And that was exactly what I wanted. So I'm going to center this on the page And we're going to use a standard number two graphite pencil And we're going to trace our shapes lightly So the one thing about paint is your pencil may not erase very well So you want to be aware of that. We're going to just basically put our shapes on there Like that. Let's zoom you in There we go It's getting late in the day. So the shadowing it might be a little bit interesting. So can you see that? There you go So we've got our basic shape here and again this stencil is created so that it doesn't give you a complete face and head This is just to help you as a guide over where your features should go when you're Experimenting with creating interesting artistic faces. This is supposed to be a guide so that you create some artistic maybe muscle memory and at some point at some point you hopefully you won't need this but If you've never done faces before or you're you're new at it This is a guide to give you an idea or suggestion over where the features should go And this is to make it less stressful It's also a shortcut for those of us who just don't want to be bothered. This is a good shortcut all right, so then I'm going to take My bit crystal pen I think Do I want black though or do I want a color see Hang on a second. I'm gonna do black so we're gonna do black And you're gonna put on their old reading glasses I really like the technique of doing messy faces. This is really my thing at the moment I find these very interesting Um, I'm just always looking for different ways to do them I'm not looking for them to be perfect or Um, neat and clean By any stretch of the imagination You'll notice that although I'm doing it kind of in a messy fashion I am um, I am lifting the pen up Then I'm going to take some of my Gel highlighter crayons And some warmer colors than what is in the background to add a pop of Uh, lightness brightness I'm going to do pink the warmer colors pink yellow orange My, um, computer is pinging in the background. Sorry about that I forgot to turn the sound off Then I'm going to take my wet brush I'm going to just dab. I'm just tapping it off off camera on a rag which you can't see to get some Of the water off of it so it's not soaking wet I'm going to take a baby wipe I got that a little bit too wet Which is fine So you'll notice I'm having trouble, um, getting the color to be where I want it to and to look the way I want That's because the background's not absorbent the background's covered in paint So you want to remember when you're doing this and you're working on top of something other than your bra paper or raw canvas um be aware of The properties of that substrate and what it may or may not do and I am not scared of it I don't have a problem with that but It does mean sometimes you have to do a little bit more fussing To get the look that you want which is fine Because the all the colors are going to just sit on top of the paint. It's not going to There's nothing for it to absorb into So this part's always challenging. I'm always trying to add white on top of things After I've got paint and these gel crayons on it It doesn't usually work very well, but we're gonna I usually try any it never stops me from trying It does make me try a couple of different things though at times I really have a love hate relationship with whiteout pens I have an old video about this. It still gets crazy amounts of views About unclogging them This is a sharpie paint pen Use what you have try different things see what works for you and keep playing with it Until you get something that you aren't like and you're happy with It's the whole point of this whole thing. I get messy always work with a baby wipe close by because You know, if you don't like something or you've done too much of something While it's wet you can move it around Okay, let me give this a dry and I'll be right back Okay, I like the way that looks but I lost some of the black lines So I'm gonna take my big pen again A little bit more carefully I'm gonna try to bring back some of those scribbly shapes Does it matter if they're not exactly? No, it doesn't matter Yeah, she's cute Oh, I need to stop touching her Maybe Yep, she's cute. I'm gonna stop touching her So there you go. There you have it. There's another face in our four faces journal Um, I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can try now. I want you to I I don't want you to feel like you have to have any particular product to do this You saw me pull out a few things, but ultimately I used a cheap big crystal pen This is a big white white out pen a sharpie paint pen, which is also inexpensive Some gel highlighter pens. I haven't used anything That's super expensive. Maybe the one thing would be the acrylic gouache paints But there are matte craft paints that you could use For this particular page. I chose pastel colors, but you don't have to Do use whatever colors that you want in the background try to keep them to cool colors That's the shadow and then put your face on and then add your warmer colors And your white to pull her out a little bit and put some parts of her in the bright sunlight Yeah, I'm the so then the background colors become the shadow And that's it. I hope that's um something that you can do With your little journal and that you're having fun following along I'm not sure exactly what we'll do next week, but we'll figure it out And uh, it didn't bleed through too badly on the back side, but we had our piece of plastic in here So we're all good. So that's it for today if you want to Get the four faces stencil or um buy one of these little journals or something else They're all available over in my Etsy shop. So check it out and a lot of other stuff Don't forget to check out that video description down below for all the relevant links my happy mail address Where to follow me on social media all that jazz and don't forget to leave any questions comments or concerns here on the video I do reply to my comments every day as if I can and um Like share and subscribe. Did I say that already? Don't forget to go out and have a great day everybody and do something nice to for yourself Because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys