 Hello and welcome to my YouTube channel. My name is Sandy Allnock and I'm an artist. I work in a lot of different mediums and I create projects from small and mailable things to large and frameables and everything in between. I am going to be celebrating Trinity Stamps today. They're just celebrating their fifth birthday today and I'm really proud of them. A lot of businesses never make it to five years so make sure you leave them some big congratulations on their website and all your social media. I'm going to be working on a project today with the most adorable little walrus. It's one of their new release stamps and he's so cute and he's got donuts so I had to color him up because I love donuts and I love walruses so put them together and I'm a happy camper. At the end of this video I will show you how to complete this card because in this video you're just going to see the coloring of this guy and we'll talk about using colored pencils on top of alcohol marker but the rest of the scene you can learn how to do that in a different place and I will give you that information at the end as well as showing you if you're somebody who already is really great with your Copic markers and using pencil on top of them got a challenge for you. All right let's get started. The stamp set that I chose from the new Trinity release today is this little guy. Oh my goodness he's fantastic. I'm not sure that I can actually say that three times fast but the sentiments are full of puns which is great because I love puns and I stamped it using my MISTI using some ink on three no lining which means it's just a light ink if you don't have an ink like that you can very easily just use a very light color and do second generation stamping which means stamp it once on a scrap piece and then stamp it onto your finished paper and it'll give you a nice light line and the nice light line for the most part will disappear. There's only one spot that it's actually going to remain in this drawing so I'm going to color it in first with an E43 and then start putting some shading in with my Copic markers. Generally I like to put some color down just to get rid of the white first for the most part and I often choose the very lightest color but in this case the E43 I expected to be lighter and it wasn't so it's going to be my second lightest color and I'm leaving myself highlights instead. Thinking of the light coming from above off to the right just a little bit there'll be highlights on top of each of the shapes and then some bounce light on the chest and then I put a little bit of that color into the cheeks and chose a different marker an E31 which will be a little lighter and a little more saturated in color because it's got a lower first digit and a lower second digit so that's going to achieve both of those. So now the body is all colored in and I can start working on some shading so I'm using an E49 one of the darkest of the browns to put in some of the very darkest shadows. Now I'm starting off by putting a line on the left side of the donuts because there's going to be shadows behind them but I don't want them to be just linear lines. If you put just lines there it's going to look like you drew a line in so I'm going to add some color next to it and then I'm going to switch to a lighter marker one step down an E47 from an E49 and carry that color out it'll blend the E49 color and start to round out that shape very much in the darkest areas as there are shadows within dark areas and the E49 carries the excuse me the deepest darkest color and now I'm going to move around to the rest of the walrus and give that some shading so put shading behind the legs and then behind the chest area that's going to make sure that the chest looks like there's a little bit of bounce light highlight you'll see how that plays out as I get finished here so the E47 again is going to blend out those E49 sections carrying that color across the body this front paw front front flipper I guess it's a flipper I left without any of the E49 on it so the E47 will be the darkest because that may be out mostly into the sunshine so it'll give that flipper a slightly different look which will be fine and then we've got a dog hair on my my artwork that happens a lot I don't know if it happens to anybody else but you will catch a dog hair here and there that would be a Vienna hair and I'm using an E44 which is stretching out the shadow from the the darkest E49 and E47 into the lighter areas and so then I'm going to go back to the E43 and just slowly carry all of these colors out as we get closer and closer to the light areas and then go back to the E31 the original color that I made my lightest color and go over each one of these so that then I get that nice blend now the blend is not perfect but I'm going to be doing some pencil over it so I'm not worried about that I'm going to take care of that later a little shadow with this light color on the left side of each of the tusks and then some color in here some YR23 is what I decided to use for the cake part of the donuts and I had an idea that I wanted to do for the frosting so I'm going to do a little rainbow because it's June and we do rainbows in June and I'm going to put a little bit of shadow in here but I can do my shadows also using the colored pencils because I'm going to do a little bit of color pencil work there so on some of them I did put some shadows in marker and for the most part though I'm just going to do that in the colored pencil when I get to that point a little bit of a pom pom on top and then I used a black pen this Copic SP Multiliner and it's a .2 and I'm just going to draw some eyes back in now when you're drawing eyes back in if you've left the white of the eyes you can make the eyes look like whatever you want you can make them big eyes small eyes they can look different directions etc for the pencil color I chose a pencil that's going to be darker than the lighter color than I'm trying to blend and lighter than the darker color that I'm going to blend the reason that this works is because most pencils are going to have some opacity to them which means they're going to cover up some of the dark that you've already put down this may flatten some things out so it's going to give you that smoother rounder shape but you can fix that in the second step by adding the darks back in but at least this gives you some nice control you can get a fine point use a good sharpener to be able to get a really nice detailed blend going from the lightest to the darkest but you're softening the whole overall look of the overall shape which is one reason why a lot of people love using colored pencil on top of alcohol markers you can use them on top of Copic markers like this or on top of any alcohol marker so here's a little different view where you can kind of see that the color is getting darker on the top area and it got lighter on the bottom area so we're just averaging out the difference between those once I got everything else all evened out then I had to go back in and add some deepening of the shadows using the black pencil and that's going to give me a chance also to refine some edges working on Stonehenge drawing paper which has more tooth than some other papers you might have tried if you haven't tried this yet highly recommend and that's going to clean up those edges make them a little sharper because on a textured paper you end up with a little bit of a rougher edge to the pencil lines so tidy all that up including up there by the nose the nostrils by the way were drawn in the pen so I got nice sharp nostrils and now it's time for the donut frosting so I'm going to put a shadow on the left side of each one because the light's coming from that upper right a little line around the bottom of it and then a highlight using a white gel pen all of this though led me to realize that the cake donut portion was not really dark enough it was just looking like a glowing orb of yellow cake so I'm using the same 941 pencil that I used on the walrus itself didn't want to introduce a whole new color necessarily on that and that gives me the depth around the body part of the donut the cake part of the donut as well as the frosting so that I'm going to do the same thing for each of the frostings on each donut shadow on the left a little bit of a shadow at the bottom and then some highlight using the gel pen on the right hand side that makes the frosting look nice and shiny draws a lot of attention to them and when you've got the contrast of those really nice darks in the walrus in contrast to that really bright color and all of those nice white highlights those really stand out from each other gives them really nice pop of contrast use the same shadow color on the yellow as I did on the orange and then I decided to add some shading onto the hat and the right side of the hat is really the only part of the original ink line that's going to show on this so I'm going to even add a bit of polka dots using the white gel pen in order to add some interest to that and maybe distract from the line and then we've got whiskers which I'm adding back in in the black pencil and I'm going to give him some freckles too these are actually something called whisker pours which animals have on their whiskers pours that the whiskers come out of and there is an actual name for those and a little bit of extra color in the nose to make the the little highlight on the very top really pop the colors that I used are all listed on the blog this picture of this little chart will be there the main one that shows the difference between trying to blend a really dark into a really light of course is the brown but the others are just slightly darker or can be used darker when you're coloring over top of alcohol marker but here is the finished little walrus isn't he adorable he's so cute happy birthday to trinity I also gave him a little special setting though I have colored him up with an entire background of a donut shop oh my goodness so much fun to color you could learn how to do this in the five dollar class called donut shop perspective over at art venture and that's art venture it's not at art dash classes.com it's only five bucks and it's part of what I talked about in a recent video if you saw the superpower video you'll understand what that's all about now something else related to the superpower video but also available for those who are maybe a little more experienced with your markers and your pencils is the drawing on nature series there are 10 animals in this class that I released a few months ago I guess it was and they're all done on drawing paper with alcohol markers and the color pencils you can learn how to draw just one of these animals just sign up for one of the classes or two of them or something or you can do the whole group of 10 little expensive but all of my adult art classes at art dash classes.com are on sale right now the month of June June 2023 10% off using the code superpower so be sure to take advantage of that whether it's this class or anything else there's a whole series of craft classes so I'll put a link in the doobly-doo down below for those who are card makers some suggestions that I have for things that you might be interested in so I hope you'll find something that will tickle your fancy. Thank you so much for joining me for this video make sure you go visit Trinity and wish them a happy fifth birthday and I will see you again tomorrow actually there's another hop coming up and you're not going to want to miss that one either take care see you later