 Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm going to show you how to color a backlit Halloween scene And when there is a moon out and especially in a spooky setting You might find some instances where you want to know how do you light something from the back? Where do you put the highlights and shadows and we're going to do that today? I'm going to use the Lawn Fawn set called costume party as all these cute kids dressed up in costumes and Of course a pumpkin with lots of smiley faces and stuff But I wanted to point out the fun-sized bar versus the King Choco bar And there is a king-sized sentiment to go with it and there is nothing fun about a fun-sized Bar they should call that a snack or a tiny size or a mini or something should never be called a Fun-sized anything because it's not fun. You need more chocolate in your life, right? So what I did here to stamp all these images is stamp those three kids that I just pointed to the middle and the two Outside ones then I stamped their extra bits and don't worry about that He I'm not looking like it's holding things yet And then I stamped her pumpkin and mask those out and then I stamped those last little kids and all the other stuff And so I thought I would talk you through how to make a sign out of those words I stamped them all kitty wampas, and yes, I did have to cut some of them apart. I don't think that's a sin I think that is okay in crafting because I just put them back on the sheet so I can Use them again in a line if I need to But I'm just drawing sort of wonky boxes around these based on the direction of the stamping when I stamped them all Crookedy So this is gonna look like a signpost With a whole bunch of boards tacked onto it With all of the different sentiment parts It's a real fun way to make a unique and interesting sentiment on a card if you have a lot of little words to make whatever your Your sentiment is so I'll just look for where I might put the vertical so I have a signpost For all these things to sit on Now I'm gonna put a moon on here and the way that I'm doing this is I die cut a hole I die cut a circle figure out where I want that and then I can put my Outside paper in order to trace the circle because it's a lot easier to trace a good circle Around the inside of something that it is to trace it around that the whole punched one or the circular die cut one And I'm always looking for the easy way to do it and not have my pen go off The image and do weird things So I'm zooming through the initial coloring here, which is just coloring one layer on each one of these These items and don't stress out about this if if this is as far as you get with the coloring Just coloring the images themselves Everybody's gonna think you're wonderful if you just put the first layer of colors on anything My coloring always takes it to the next level because I worry about all the shadows and the backlighting and Where the moon is at and all those sorts of things But if you're not into it, there's a lot of color on here This does take a while. So even though I've cut this video down to be a 12 minute video. It probably took me I Would say about an hour almost an hour to color the whole thing So these things do take time if you don't have time then just do one layer because if you have a lot of images and You even put a solid background in it and don't do all the details that I'm gonna do then you're still gonna be Better off than a lot of other things you can also of course look online For the stamp set and find lots of other ideas that people have given But I like to color all the stamps and include them all and I like scenes. So that's what you get when you come to me so hopefully You're a subscriber and you like watching things like that So for the ground you can always make a horizontal But it's it's just a little bit fun to add a hillside and make it a round thing Instead and it's gonna be the first of the shading I'm just gonna try to make it a little darker down here at the bottom and I'm not being real careful about it. I've got some more stuff to add. So it doesn't have to be super smooth Because there's gonna be more stuff on top of it because I like to layer colors And if I put a little bit more dark color down at the bottom Before I get moving on because I I want that there to be some more dark later on that's going to cover over top of that And so it'll help if I just have this much done at least So I'm trying to get a little more smoothness to it if you end up with a large area like that That's not smooth then add some texture to it Take a paper towel and put some colorless blender on it and make it look like you meant to be all wonky with it and Make dirt out of it that way because if you just press a a textured paper towel on it it'll actually make a cool texture and You will look like you were a genius Just be careful and do that first before you do all the other coloring because it will also put all that texture on The little kids and you don't want to do that, right? We want to make sure we get the texture just on the dirt so you could color the dirt first and do that portion Now I'm just gonna zoom through real real quickly here as well and just do a solid background on the sky and When you do something like that On on a sky it's really hard to get it super even you can go over it a bunch of times And especially on video it always ends up looking worse than it does in real life But I do have something that we can put over top of this when we're done You can do it with stars and distract from the fact that it wasn't really perfect Or we're gonna add some trees at the very end and it's gonna be a fairly simple way to do trees That I think you're gonna enjoy and if you do like to do trees then you may want to consider looking at the fall scenes class The mini Copic class. I think it's called autumn scenes are now fall scenes and that one We'll show you how to do a lot of different trees and you know different kinds of beautiful fall trees Not these trees that are in this but there are some related things So When we start coloring the white objects these two the unicorn and the little mummy would be white And look what happens when we use just a C1. We just use a real wussy kind of C1 color and It it's just not dark enough because it's nighttime out and it's nighttime. These things will be really dark So instead I'm using a C5 And all of a sudden that makes it go dark It starts to fit in with the scene a whole lot better And I'm leaving my highlight just on that left side that's pointing toward the moon because that's where the highlight will be And the the skin tone and I'm doing the same thing I'm coloring it darker which doesn't look all that dark here on video But I'm coloring it darker than I normally might because this is a night scene And I want to have just a few highlights peeking out Like with this little unicorn the only thing the only place I'm gonna have that highlight Is gonna be on that right-hand side because the right hand is now facing toward the moon Same thing with the face. There's a little highlight over on that right-hand side And each one of these objects I'm going to be leaving just a little bit of highlight peeking out as It's facing toward the moon Because and and if you were doing something with strong sunlight you do the same thing But in this particular case the objects on the left Since the moon is in the center the objects on the left have their highlights on the right the objects on the right Have their highlights on the left because it's all where it's pointing toward the moon So you just kind of draw draw a mental line going from the object you're coloring toward the light source And that will help you to find it You may also notice that I've got brighter colors as my base color than I'm using for these shadow colors that I'm adding Because the shadows are all gonna be grayed out kind of colors Anything in the highlight might have some brightness left to it So I'm leaving some of those those little bright colors just in the tips of things where they are facing the moon on This little girl in the middle since she is entirely in shape because the moon is just behind her head She would have no highlight on her face and She technically her whole outfit would be dark, but just because I don't want to make the whole outfit completely dark I'm gonna leave the tips of both sides of her arms with a highlight on them and then just two tips on her dress at the very bottom and Then I'll leave more highlight on her hat because her hat is kind of right there right up next to the moon So I'll let that sort of look like it's glowing. There's a little light coming out from the side of it Again here, I've got my my yg 9 9 which is a very dull kind of a green as well as dark And I'm just leaving a few spots where that that bright highlight is gonna come from the moon and The only stuff I forgot my other parts of the greens and I'll use a medium green to blend that a little bit further And if your green is too dull you can always add a little bit more of the other green in order to intensify it up a little bit more And then I'll just do some final blending with it one more time So now I'm gonna put the shadows and this is like if you can just do a real quick move like this People will think you're a genius So I'm looking at where those things are coming and pointing at the moon and making lines out from their feet If their feet are far apart, then you'll do two separate legs And if their feet are close together, then you can just make it look like there's just one leg showing But they're all pointing toward the moon It's almost like you can draw a little line from them to the moon and it that dark color that I had at The bottom disguises the fact you don't have to draw the rest of their shadows Just make their feet in shadow and no one will know When I did my coloring on the dirt you might have noticed that I went right over top all those candies on the ground So I'm erasing a little bit of that color with a light brown and then I'm just gonna throw in some other color on top of it and That'll give them just a little bit of color But not a ton and you you save all that extra effort of trying to stay in between those lines and you still get that smooth ground going across the whole scene and Now is where I'm adding the trees and I'm just kind of drawing in some thin tree lines and then a few thick tree trunks and Nobody's gonna know that my sky was uneven Once I put all this in there nobody's gonna notice and Tree trunks are they can be a little challenging to draw But if you concentrate on doing a couple of big trunks, don't make them all perfectly straight trees Rarely draw or rarely grow perfectly straight and then give yourself lots of little branches and little tiny branches Coming off of branches make sure some of them cross each other and that sort of thing so that you don't end up with anything That looks too regular and then I'm just gonna do a couple taps to add a few trees or a few leaves to my trees So they look a little bit lacer and have a little more detail in them So there is the finished card which I think is really a lot of fun And like I said, it does take a while to do this you have to be kind of committed But I recommend you stamp several of them because you're gonna stamp them and do all the masking You might as well do a couple and it'll give you a chance to practice on a few So thank you so much for spending a few minutes with me you can subscribe to my channel by clicking on my face There's the fall classes That are listed here that are on the screen as well as in the description down below You can watch more videos and I'll see you guys later. 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