 These little cards you just saw me do on a speed through with a kid's spin art machine on watercolor paper with watercolor paint and I just rigged up my spin art machine so that I have a piece of double stick tape in the center of it and I can stick the paper down and then I applied the watercolor paint with a brush while the paper was spinning to dry paper. I didn't pre-wet the paper or anything and we're gonna paint some little blob people and we're gonna play with painting some blob people and they're just what they sound like, blob people. So here we go. So I always use a round brush. I'm gonna start with just you know a head shape and pull down a neck, put in some shoulders, torso, suggestion of some arms. I'm gonna rinse my brush off and I'm blotting it off on a rag off camera. You can't really see that and I'm just gonna use the damp brush to pull the ink down. It'll give you sort of tones and shades of blackness and you're just being, you're suggesting a shape. You're doing something really primitive, really suggestive, really loose. We're not drawing anything too complicated here. We're just really suggesting our shape. So I'm gonna rinse my brush off again and it's just damp with a little water and I want to pull out some of this ink to suggest sort of a ground and a shadow. Let's have him holding hands with somebody. So let's put another shape here. Again we'll start with the head and the neck and shoulders and this time we're gonna bring our sort of triangular shape down further. Rinsing my brush off. Now if you watch a lot of YouTube, there's an artist here on YouTube called Chuck McLaughlin. I'm not sure how to pronounce his name. He calls these blob people. They are kind of blob people. So now I'm just, I'm not adding any more ink. I'm just pushing the ink that's already here around with water down brush. There you go. So that's really cute. I like the way that looks. So we're gonna set that one aside to dry for a minute. Let's do another one. Try not to think too much about the position that your figure is gonna be in. Let the ink tell you what the figure wants to do. Let the ink figure out where it wants to go. We just have water, no ink, or water, no ink. Just think of basic, basic shapes, you know, from elementary school. Just suggest your shapes. Don't worry about drawing them literally. Okay, in this next step we're gonna use a white gel pen to give our blob people a really big pop. I think this really makes them stand out. You can do this on any painting abstract background. I do think it works best on a watercolor background, but if you're gonna use Sumi ink like I did, you can definitely do that over acrylic paint. It works just fine. And I'll show you some examples at the end. I'll have some pictures. This is a white uniball signal and I'm just gonna use it to highlight some of the parts of my blob figures. This does not require lots of fancy drawing skills. And the little bit of gel pen really makes some pop. You can do these big ones. You can do little ones. I've got some tags here that I've done. I have some little small squares. These could be used as embellishments on your journal page. Like I said, this one is ATC card size. So give this a try and have some fun with it. Some of these are done on acrylic paint. Some of them are done on watercolor. Because I use the Sumi ink and it dries permanent and it won't smear, it will work on both kinds of backgrounds. So give it a try and see what you think. When you're done watching my video, go to the participant list in the description below for the other people on this video hop. And click on the first one and watch their video. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and of course leave comments and let us know what you thought. When you're done watching their video, then click on the name on the top of their list. And keep doing that with every successive video. By the time you get back to me, back to this video, you'll know you've seen them all. And I hope you have a good time on the hop. I hope that you discover some great new channels because these are some really great new channels. Show them some love and some support. And don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself.