 Hi there, my name is Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube And I want to share with you today some storybook style coloring light fresh child like and it uses some my favorite things Stamps and products. I'm gonna color it with my Prismacolor pencils And I could have done the sky with them But I opted to do some Copic airbrush because that was a lot of sky to cover So I've stamped everything on a 4x4 piece of Nina with my my favorite things hybrid natural colored ink So it'll keep it really soft and I've masked everything out using some post-it tape. This is removable labeling tape It's two inches wide you can stamp on it and then trim the images out bloom down super easy I'm masking off the areas. I don't want the air brushing to go on and I've got this all ready to go I've got my Copic marker ready. This is a BG05 and I'll put it into the air grip from Copic This is attached to underneath my desk my air compressor You could also use a can of air and at the end of this video There's gonna be a video linking you to my getting started guide So if you want to get into Copic airbrush, it'll tell you all about the equipment you might need to get I'm holding my air grip high up and That's because I want a really soft coat the closer your air gun gets to the paper You're gonna get a really strong little blop of color like on my little test piece down there at the bottom So you want it nice and high up so you can go over it a couple times and try to get some even color It does take some practice so I would suggest taking some practice paper and Trying to see what it takes to get some even coverage But this worked out really well for the look that I wanted so I want to just a nice plain blue sky something really simple and bright Now you can see my masking wasn't perfect whether it was my trimming that didn't cut out quite right or If some of the air got underneath of the edges if I didn't have them pressed down perfectly But I can go in with my pencil and the Prismacolor number 905 that seemed to match it pretty perfectly So I was able to disguise that and go around each of my areas that didn't quite work perfectly And I think it was my trimming by what I was looking at here that my trimming wasn't right on But it was easy easy easy to fix and fill in all those areas now. Let me talk about my sharpener before we get on There's another video that I'll link you to Which is really important and it also gets it really sharp lots of people wonder how I get them really sharp And there's a link to the video at the end as well as in the description down below if you need to get that sharpener Because it's amazing and now it's time to do the color pencil coloring I'm going to start with a yellow balloon because lots of my artwork has yellow in it It's my favorite color and I'm using a yellow and two orangey yellow types of colors If I were trying to make this balloon look really realistic I might have gone for a violet or a blue violet type of color because that's the Complementary color to yellow but since I wanted it to be really fresh and bright and childlike I just stayed with colors that are very similar because it's going to give me that really soft bright child like look You can see that my pencil is very sharp and I'm going back and forth Over each of the areas to try to fill in those white spots There's little tiny white dots because of the texture of the Nina cardstock that I'm using and depending on what paper you are Using you will have more or less of those little white areas Some papers will have a grain in them So you'll have little stripy type of areas and at least the Nina It's not a real regular pattern that you get so It's really a good paper. I find to work on this and Bristol's are some of my favorites So I'm going back and forth with the different colors and I'm trying not to get waxy I want it really light layers because the light layers allow you to keep adding more layers to it and filling in those little spots if you picture Like looking really Microscopically had a piece of paper and it has all those raised areas It's got a real texture to it and the raised areas is where the pencil goes across when you just move it across the paper If you have it really sharp You can get that pencil down into the little nooks and crannies That are in that paper texture And it helps it to look a little smoother if you get very waxy with it too soon Then you'll end up with your pencil not being able to get down into it Because it's got a wax build up and it won't allow your pencil down into those cracks So I colored the faces and the little little claws little hands little feets With some pink and then I'm adding some brown to it for shading Now I could have used just a pink for shading But I wanted to start making those lines that I had stamped disappear a little bit just ever so slightly so I'm I picked a color that matches that ink pretty well When I color with it really light because it allows me to make the eyeballs darker Because if I color heavy with it then the brown gets darker So whatever color you're stamping in you can find a pencil that has that variability So if you color with it lightly it will make the the little lines disappear Now here's a place where I added a little more pink on the face because I wanted To bring back more of that pink color because it got too brown But since I'm doing light layers it's possible to recover those kinds of things To disguise those stamp lines all the way around the edges I'm just going to go and add very very light brown all the way around the entire sheet And it's going to make him look all poofy as well as give him a little bit of depth I'm going to have some of the brown around all sides of the image because he's white And I want to disguise all of those lines But I can have it a little heavier on one side or another to make it look like there's a little shading But really my shading is all From the top center. I'm not really worrying about left source Left light source right light source none of that in this one because it's just a simple simple Sheep image and trying to just go for cute not for realistic here Because what's the realism of two sheep exchanging balloons and hearts, right? That's not not in the realm of realistic But you can see how the The development of this goes and and I just keep getting softer and softer as I get toward the inside of the sheep Heavier lines to the outside so that I get a little bit of depth and not a whole lot, but keep it really soft Now the ground I could have messed out again and done some air brushing in that I was like, I don't feel like messing with that. So I had it super light green just a tiny hair of green to the hillside And adding a strong green would make the sheep pop out more But I wasn't really too worried about that because I was just going to add some shading underneath of them To increase the fact that they are standing If you look at shadows outside in the world around you You'll start to see that if you look at an object from the side like we're looking at these sheep from the side The shadows under them. They're not sheep shaped. They're generally just like a flat oval That almost comes to a point on either side So that's a really easy way to make a simple shadow under something So I was messing around with how much green I wanted to add or not add or what directions And I wasn't really pleased with some of that. So I got out my prismacolor kneaded eraser I've had this thing for 20 years All I have to do is stretch it and it cleans it. It's kind of self cleaning, I guess And you can also make a little point out of it So I almost make a pencil point out of my eraser so I can go in And either very lightly buff over some areas that I want to lighten If your sheep doesn't come out like with a really smooth blend You can lighten some of that really easily with that pencil So then I wanted to add my sentiment and I wanted the will you be mine With just the word you ewe to be on to the balloon So I put it in my misty And I'm masking out either side of the sentiment So I just get the ewe And then I have to slide it over a little bit now my my stamp has ink on it I don't want to make a mess on it and get it all over my paper So I've just put the plastic from the stamp set On to the image and then I can slide it over very exactly where I want it Close the misty up And then open it back up and it picks up the stamp And then I can remove my plastic and I can move my Little post-it notes to block off the area that I don't want to have stamped So get it lined up just perfect And then I can stamp the wool on the left And press it down and bada boom bada bing And then I'll just do the same thing on the opposite side And get the will you be mine sentiment ready? So I've got it on the plastic again so that I can see through what I'm doing Remove the plastic and add my little mask And one of the great things too about using the airbrush and the colored pencil together Only the word you is going over top of colored pencil It's hard to stamp sometimes on pencil But it's really easy to stamp on the Copic airbrush background So I was only fighting a little bit with trying to get the you to make sure it It worked perfectly I've die cut this with a really fun die Which is also linked in the description down below and on my blog from my favorite things And popped it onto a yellow card base because I wanted to emphasize that yellow on the balloon I've got a few more videos for you here with colored pencil if you're interested There's a video on the right hand side that you can click on to get more on the pencil sharpener that I talked about And my pencil storage doing some quick tip videos over on my second channel With little quick questions that people have You can subscribe for more videos You can find me all over the web as sandy all knock on instagram and periscope and whatnot and I will see you guys Next time. Have a great day