 Hi there, I'm Sandy Olak, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and this is gonna be called Don't Give Up, Repairing Copic Problems. I had a whole other plan for this video, but some of you guys have really liked when I have boobers happen and I fix them during a video, so I'm gonna use this really cute stamp set from Art Impressions and show you some mistakes. Yeah, gonna show you some booboo's including a giant bloop. Lucky, lucky you, get to see me make a total fool of myself here with a marker. Anyway, let's start by coloring bunnies. There's a couple different ways you can do bunny fur, and what I'm doing since I wanted to blend into white is starting with my darks. Usually I start with my lights first, but on some of these, sometimes it makes sense to me to start with a darker color first and then work toward my lighter color because that gives me a little bit more control sometimes in terms of where I stop if I if I can stop my darks well ahead of time but you can see I can also go over that dark area with the lighter marker and when I do I start getting it that modeled texture that a lot of times we don't like, but on a bunny look how cute it looks when he looks all furry because it has that funky texture to it. So don't always worry about making everything perfectly smooth. When you're talking about animals and really cuddly fur, it can really be helpful to use those textures to your benefit. I'm gonna go back in and add a little bit more shadow area in just a few spots with my darkest color and you could go darker than a four. You could also, this is a neutral one of the ends. I always tell people you don't really have to have the ends. You could just have the C's and the W's and be perfectly fine with the grays. I just happen to have ink in that one and that's what I ended up using. And I'm gonna do this little guy with the W's, the warm grays and I'm just gonna put the color all the way around the outside edges. I'm not stressing out about the light source and all that kind of thing so gonna go with my next lighter color, my medium tone and soften out the areas that are the black, black, the dark gray sections. No, there's no black on my bunny. Although doing a black bunny would be kind of fun. I might have to do an Easter card with that. This bunny set, I'll have some more stamps or stamped images colored with it so you can see different bunnies on Instagram because I like to do additional colorings of the same images from my videos on Instagram so you can see more options for how you can use them, how you can color them, different ways to combine them in scenes. This is three of the stamps that are in that one stamp set from our impressions all used in one image. I just stamped them all really close to each other and I'll create something to unify the scene as I move forward with this. Now here I'm taking my mid-tone color and softening things out and making it a little smoother so you can see the difference between what he looks like versus the little fuzzy guy in the front so you can go all different kinds of witch ways with your bunnies depending on whether you want them to look fuzzy or not. Now this one I went out of the lines whoops so when you're using your colorless blender you may have to do it a few times in order to kind of make that make that colors blender work. It's not always going to work the first time because you want it to sit dry so I did one coat of it I'll go back and do it again later to try to keep pushing that color. This little bunny is going to be in my lighter browns and this E31 that I'm using is overfilled. I know it's overfilled it's blooped on me a couple other times so I was scribbling off before using it because I didn't want to bloop so remember that in a few minutes because that will be an important fact so I'm blending that out with an E30 and I wasn't positive exactly what those little shapes were whether that was more of his tummy or his little paw so again remember that part in just a few minutes because you will find out you'll find out the error I made so there I go with the zero marker trying to push some of that color back into that ear on the second bunny in just successive layers little by little continuing to add more of the color of slender we'll just continue to push that back into the gray now here I was going to add a little bit of E31 and I went oh no yes that is dramatic gopher panic freak out deep breath okay so before it dried I thought let me throw a little bit of color splendor in there and then I'm going to move on with the image and see if I can fix it as I go so I'm gonna let that dry let it sit there big goober not gonna not gonna flip out over it as of yet and I'll just move on and color some of the other pieces when you have a goof up like that don't throw the piece of paper away right away don't give up go practice on the rest of the image so even if I screwed this up at least I'm gonna get practice on what colors are my gonna use for my my egg what colors am I getting used for my flower I can sit and practice all the other images re-stamp it and then do it again if I really need to but it's always possible that I could save things so don't don't write it off right away just save it if you if you can see here I am going in with the zero marker again just like I did before just push that color back in little by little and you know kind of let it work into itself when you do have a goober like that depending on what the color is that is a fairly light color the more other colors you have on the card or on the drawing or whatever you're using that are dark rich colors the less important that goober is gonna become so if I were to make that flower maybe a red color that might totally cover up all of that brown and make things better right away I decided to try to leave it yellow because I wanted to see what would happen if I just kept building up the scene all the way around the rest of the image first and just see if I can keep pushing that bloop back in and removing it until it was not a distraction anymore so I'm gonna add some shading to my green and using a nice nice rich dark green that G14 which is the base color that I used is a a really good medium type of green so if you're looking for a good spring green that was pretty pretty bright and intense works well with a lot of other colors and then I'll take a G17 to do some blending and blend some of that that G28 G28 and G29 by the way are almost the same color so let's stress out if you have one you pretty much have the other one bunch of the colors look pretty much the same if you have my hex chart you'll know that they are right next to each other on the chart and it's easy to see on that hex chart what isn't going to be very different from from each other so that you'll be able to save yourself some money and buy some markers that are different that are gonna help you in your coloring rather than buying ones that are the same so going over with my light color allows all of that color to blend in mix a little bit better another layer of that zero marker and I'm starting to not see that anymore other than you see a little haze of gray that's where the paper is just wet right now and that will continue to dry and lighten up so I'll move on now go back to coloring my pinks in my flowers and a little bit more in my egg adding more color onto it on the egg I'm doing kind of darker colors around the left and the right and then I'll have the lighter colors in the center so give a little dimension to my my egg and I'm just going to use a dark pink I'm not going for a red because I don't want to have too much color on here but kind of a dark or medium I guess medium red or dark pink not really sure which you'd call that but giving a little bit of shading and dimension and blend it out a little bit go one more time over that area that blooped and see how how that works seems to be disappearing my goober pretty well I did decide to go over all of my yellow my lightest yellow had been a Y zero zero but the Y zero four has more punched to it and I wanted to have like I said more intense color to distract from that area where I goobered and now I'm taking out the bad pen bad e3 one bad bad bad pen but instead of just punishing it and scribbling it off on a piece of scratch paper why not use it so I'm just going to scribble some background underneath of here so I'll have some area of dirt where my little bunnies are going to be sitting in the garden amongst the flowers and I'm going to make it look almost a water coloring type of ground situation underneath of it I am going to put this into a dye I'm going to cut out a dye frame for it so I don't have to go all the way to the edge so you can decide how far up you want your seam to go I want it to sort of fade out into white toward the top but I'm trying to just use up that e3 one so it doesn't bloop on me anymore because that was a problem right and now I'm gonna use it a light one shade lighter than that to soften out more of these edges and I'm not being real super careful I'm just filling in color because I'm gonna add some texture to it some dirt as I go I'm gonna use a dark brown to put some shadows underneath each one of my characters that are here and I know this looks like big and weird and goofy right now but hang tight my stuff always looks like a hot mess until it doesn't so giving it a nice rich color because that rich dark color is going to allow the other colors to look like they really pop up off of it and now we go for an e3 four which is two shades darker than that gloopy e3 one and I want more of my heavy color to be toward that center so I'm gonna try to do some blending to soften out that really dark brown dark brown color by adding this medium brown all the way around it and I'm scribbling you can see I'm just making kind of scribbly scrunchy types of marks and then I'm gonna use that e3 one again and go around those edges because the more color I put on here the more it's gonna bleed and blend and move around and I want it to be soft because the soft look is gonna be what makes it look like dirt and I also don't want it to have a lot of hard edges necessarily because as hard edges will compete with the hard edges of the stamps and I want it to just kind of disappear and be background so it in with an e00 to try to pull out some light areas just kind of throwing in some more texture in here a lot of different ways that you can add texture you can do this with a zero marker as well but an easy or zero just lightened up some areas on the way around and up toward the top I'll use the easy or zero because then I can get it to do that getting lighter thing toward the top now on top of all of that now that I've got my shading down the way I want it I'm gonna add my texture and I'm basically just making little lumpy shapes and I'm not gonna make it even and perfect everywhere because if you make it even and perfect it's not gonna look like natural dirt but in the darkest areas I'm using the e57 so it's a darker color in from the dark into the medium area because that will show up but if I start getting it into the lighter areas using this e57 it's gonna start looking too contrasty too dark so I want to keep that in the lighter areas and then I'm gonna switch to the e34 and continue on a little bit more of that same texture because that's gonna give the illusion of that slow transition of color across the whole dirt area and it'll look a little bit softer than just having that that dark brown stop at some point and if you get too many if it looks too fussy then go over the whole thing once with that e31 I'm not gonna do that here but if you end up with just too much detail and you've over-fussed it then use just one more quick pass of another color because that will blend it all and soften it just a little bit I'm gonna leave mine as is for now the one final touch I'll do here though will be using a zero marker to make a couple of little stones and it helps if you have enough color underneath of it for the zero marker to show up against this is the Averyal dotted rectangle set I use this thing like constantly so it's got a bunch of different shapes in it I've made a frame to go around my bunnies and figured out exactly where that's going to fit but I wanted a sentiment that also had that around it that little dotted pattern that this die set has I had to make my own because my sentiment didn't fit in the one that came with the set so I've just cut a couple different pieces around my sentiment until I created a rectangle of the shape that I needed it to be so you can do that with any size that you need for your sentiment or your image on your card here's the finished one with its darling little three bunnies and we all know where the big brown blooper is okay you see it there if you look carefully but nobody else is gonna notice that that's just a secret between us so don't tell anybody just hit the like button if you like the fact that I recovered from that and I was brave enough to put it on YouTube and share this with your friends you can click on my face to subscribe to my channel you can click there to watch a couple other videos my Copic Jumpstart class is also listed here if you're interested in seeing that and supplies are in the doobly-doo as well as on the blog and I'll see you guys later bye bye