 Well, hi there. My name is Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today we're going to do some non directional coloring Most of my coloring typically has a light source in the right or left-hand side But here I'm creating these topiaries with non directional lighting. So I'm shading from the outside in Lots of people do it that way perfectly fine But I'm going to use these cute stamps from purple onion new Stacy Yacola's nude art and for the Sun I used one of the topiaries I just masked it out when I started doing my stamping and then finished it with a little circle template You could just draw it yourself with a circle But I wanted it to feel like it had the flavor of this and since it was a sketchy look It allowed me to just take my Copic multiliner and finish off that circle and add some dots and things So it looks like it kind of fits with the rest of the stamps For the coloring I decided I wanted some bright and happy colors not just your green topiaries But I wanted to make them all different colors and I chose some pinks And this is a bunch of the RVs I chose a medium a dark and a light and I always put my light color down first and I decided on this when I wanted to at least with this color Get it sprinkled across the image and when you have the same color across the image in a couple of different places It sort of pulls it all together and that's what I want to do with all these colors You can see here I'm doing my shading completely on the outside edges all the dark colors going all the way around the outside not really worrying about light source other than maybe a little bit more on the bottom than on the top Because generally that makes things look a little bit more grounded, but you can Certainly color without a light source Don't feel like just because you don't understand shading That you can't color and it won't look perfectly beautiful because this image is gonna look really cute when I'm done anyway Even if I'm not doing directional lighting on these little triangles I'm just gonna put shading on either side and on the mouse I'm gonna do a little bit on the inside of his ears just to make it a little bit deeper in there And then take my mid-tone and soften those out and then I'll go over it again with my light color That's my traditional routine with most of my coloring is to start with the light to go to the dark medium And then the light again to smooth things out Next I wanted to use some greens and on this one. I'm gonna use some YG colors and I'm You know going to do the same deal I'm gonna put my light color down first I'll spread it out across the image so I can make sure that I get some decent color all the way around I was careful to make sure that any of the colors that are going to be in the mouse or in his outfit are not Going to be in that little circle behind it. That's the same circle as the Sun So you can't see much of it, but I want to make sure that that one's going to be yellow down there So I'm not going to use any yellow in him Because that will then take away from the effect of of him being the most important part of the image Now this color that I'm using here is a G 9 9. It's not a YG color It may not be a color that you would normally pick to go with a YG 0 3 But what I want to share is that when you're choosing your colors You can pick anything. I mean honestly, you can pick anything This is not even something that is on my list of favorite colors that I put on my website I posted this chart with a bunch of favorite blending groups and I'm Choosing some colors that are from these groups some colors that are not Maybe I will maybe I won't sometimes it doesn't really matter just because it's on that favorite list people always want to know Favorites what colors do work? I said suggested a YG 1 7 as the mid-tone for this blending group and a YG 9 9 But I suggested that because I think a YG 1 7 has a little more flexibility because you can mix that one with your regular Grass green type of colors as well as with the YG's. They really light olive greens like these So there's an unlimited number of colors you can choose in the Copic Jumpstart class I give you some alternate colors for a lot of the ones that I'm I've selected for class But it doesn't mean you have to use them. You can go outside of the charts. You can go outside of the lists very easily So if you've wondered about whether or not you should take that class You're welcome to do it with the markers that you have The object was to try to get us to use the colors that we already own and not have to go out and buy a Vigillion new markers the list was really there for those who've never bought anything and just wanted something to start with It's very difficult to make up a list of colors to give to anybody for anything because Your colors that you like are going to be different than the colors that I like But anyway, I am continuing along with my shading on the leaves on him I did my shading from the inside to the outside Just to make some variance on one part of the image The rest of it is all shaded from the outside to the inside So just so you know why I did that I wanted more emphasis on that little leaf because I think him wearing a little leaf on his head is hilarious Next I wanted to do my son and that little topiary that's behind him with the yellow and I wanted to add a little bit of the orange color to it Because I wanted to make it a really nice rich Yellow now, you know me if you've watched many of my videos Why one seven makes it into just about everything putting the orange around the outside edge gives me the opportunity to use Why one seven as my mid-tone? So that's what I'm doing. It'll make my son feel a little bit on the orangey side But I'm leaving some of that yellow highlight in the center So that I end up with a nice glow to it That's one of the things that directional a non directional lighting does is make everything almost looks like it's glowing from the center I'm gonna apologize for my raspy voice for whatever reason today. I am sounding like a frog For the orange one I wanted to do an orange topiary But I wanted to use the yellow as the highlight that why one seven so I put that color down first And I'm gonna do the same thing on some of the stripes on this little little cone topiary Put that base color down and then add my RV one for yes Oh my gosh, I'm gonna do orange and I'm gonna use an RV for the shadow color And you can certainly get away with that so think outside the box when you're looking for colors I was looking for colors that were just already out on my desk And I could have gone and picked another red that sort of thing And it would have given it a different flavor if I used a different red But it still would have worked because they're on the same kind of colors on the color wheel on that same Same side of the color wheel. They're almost analogous Quite but they are close And it was fun to just see how that would work now when I went in with my why one seven I was getting kind of flat because that why one seven was starting to erase some of that color and It's one of those things you have to keep an eye on that you don't use too much of either your medium tone Or your light tone because everything can look the same So I went in with some wire zero four and that flattened it out even more So then I had to go back in again with a little bit of the red on the outside So I use that RV one four again And you can go over Copic markers over and over and over again And you generally will not make the paper pill up or anything So feel free to continue to work at it I keep my eyes peeled and look at my image the pieces that I've already colored because as they dry They change a little bit because the alcohol ink inside of the the pens Begins to evaporate and it leaves just the color behind and Therefore you may see a little bit of different things once things get a little bit dry on your paper You can also see whether things have bled or not whether the blending state or whether it got funky on you Well that sort of thing Yeah, and so now I'm going to do my BG shadows And I found something interesting on this when I was using BG 2 3 for my light and BG 1 3 For my medium. I was not expecting. I don't know why I just never noticed it that BG 2 3 is lighter than BG 1 3 Doesn't make numerical sense, but it is what it is So you need to play with your markers to find out exactly what each of the colors is going to do and which ones you want to select And just because somebody posts use a certain number you want to try it yourself and Test it out and see what happens and get to know your markers the colors that you have and That sort of thing in order to Know what is going to happen when you start doing your own coloring On my mouse. I'm using a very dark w5 for some of my dark areas You may feel uncomfortable about using quite that much dark color to put around your mouse And I want to show you that I can lighten up that dark color. So if you start too dark You need to be careful so you don't get bleeding going on, but you can go over it I'm going over it with the w2 and it is going to soften a bunch of that dark color so places where it felt like it was way too much the lighter markers act like colorless blender sometimes and they can Erase or push away color, but remember they're pushing away color So if you get a lot of ink in there and you're not allowing any time for it to dry It's going to start bleeding on you, but you can see his face didn't come out really dark after it looked like it was going to I Wanted to add a little bit of a base to this so I took some yg's and Made a little line of the darker color and then just blended it out toward the bottom with a super light color the more zeros the lighter the color and Then I added a little bit of glow around my son as well With a y zero two and then I went around that with a little bit of colorless blender I mounted it onto a piece of white cardstock with the front panel popped up a little bit and Here's another one with it other the other set of topiaries that they've just come out within the release again Another perfect little shape to use when you're practicing your directional shading Which you'll learn in the Copic Jumpstart class, which is in the description down below if you want to sign up for that it starts May 27th, and I hope to see you in class because it's gonna be a lot of fun And here are a couple of other videos using some purple onion images If you'd like to check out any of those all the supplies are linked in the description down below as well as over on my blog And you can hit that subscribe button if you're not yet a subscriber and I'll talk to you later. 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