 Well, hello friends. It's Sandy. Welcome to my YouTube channel here. I'm gonna show you an inside outside card I love little things like this that have a surprise on the inside and this make my tailwag set from MFT is So dang cute and totally lends itself to that. This is the inside of the card We're gonna color this image first with Copic markers, and then we'll color the outside one I'll show you the rest I got out my hex chart because I want to play with a bunch of different browns And I want this portion of the dog to be the e3 9 and e9 7 and I picked out an e1 8 to go with it for the shadows And what I like to do is pull out that hex chart if you haven't seen it before go to my blog There's also a link in the doobly-doo, and you can pick one up for yourself and color it in and it really has Transformed for a lot of people how they color And if you have a testimony of how it's helped you color Then leave that in the description down below because I'm sure other people who are on the fence about it Would like to know if it's actually helpful to you And I am finding I'm learning a whole lot from it as well because this is not necessarily a combination I might have tried for a dog like this, but there are so many dogs on this card I wanted each one to feel very different. So that's what I am working on. So this one is he's our focal dog He's like the most important one since his butt is here and his face is on the other side And the lighting is going to come from that upper right-hand side And I'm just going to add lots of deep shadows along that left side And I'm blending it out with the lightest color again I always start with my lightest go to my darkest my medium and then start blending with the light color again. I Decided I wanted to add some fur to him So I'm using the e39 which is the middle color of the three And I'm going to keep making these little furry hash marks until I get to the point where they blend in you can't see them anymore And then I'm going to go for the darker color And I'm going to grab that one and start making a little bit more hash marks and go up into the area above it And then that little outside I kind of left a little highlight area on the outside of the image because that allows for bounce light I do that a lot lately. It seems that's my thing and Then I started working on the other color for him and I decided I would go for warm grays and I'm doing the same thing with that. I'm just going to make some little hash marks for the shadows on him And you can't forget his little butt down below That's going to be the same color That would be the color that would go around his tummy too if you saw the front of him on the other stamp You only see his head But now I've got his ears colored in and I decided I wanted to go for House colors and I didn't want to go into that kind of grayish color so I'm going down here to these sorts of browns more traditional browns and Trying to figure out which ones of the browns are going to work to make the the house look different I'm going to do shingles on the outside of the house and I want to make it look Different than him there's a lot of times where I try to pull the same colors all around the image and I do that a little bit in Some areas when I pull some colors around to the different dogs But in this particular case, I wanted the wood to look like a very different brown than my dog So I'm adding my really darkest shadow right underneath the roof ledge that's going to be one of the deepest darkest shadows and Underneath of that sign on the front of his little doggy house And then I'm going to put some shadows underneath each one of those those shingles those little lines there Blend them out with a mid-tone color And make that a little bit softer And do that across the entire house and then I'm going to blend the whole thing with the lightest color again just going over that again with the the e3 5 color and Then I decided I want to add the shingles so I'm just doing little uneven hash marks and You can see that kind of adds it almost looks like there's a little kick to the ends of each one of those Little little pieces so it looks like a shaggy shingled dog house I'm using toner grays for the inside of the dog house, but you can use any grays and The lightest part on this would be near the door because that's where the light Would come in from the sky so the darkest part would be at the top you might think that would be different Otherwise, but no it's not so I decided to use just a simple gray on the the roof ledge and a really simple color here on the brown little little doggy bone sign His bed since he's a boy dog. I'm not sure why he's a boy dog I suppose could be a girl dog, but I decided it was a boy dog and he's gonna have a two-tone blue bed and I did go a little bit to my hex chart for it just to find two different blues But the colors that I mixed with them I wasn't really happy with what I was seeing there So I just kind of waned it this is a b2 6 that goes with the b2 1 and there's gonna be a b2 4 in between That's a natural blending group. I still go by the numbers even though I have the hex chart I still go by the numbers on a pretty regular basis because you can see how nicely those go together the b 1 8 is being used here because there is no dark dark in the b0s Wish there was like a b09 it would be really nice So I jumped over one number and started using a little bit of that and then I'm just going over it with the b0 5 again and That's going to keep a little bit of the shading underneath I could have used a gray to add a lot more depth to it, but it's not a super important part of the picture So I didn't worry about it. I'm also only using two little reds here on my little doggie bowl Because the emphasis is not on those now the fence I wanted to go for something that was gonna look a little bit like birch and I went for this e8 one I don't use this color very often. There's a bunch of colors I don't use very often and the hex chart helps me to figure out exactly what shades I want to use You can see this is a brown that has a little bit of a green tinge to it And I'm going to make it a birch fence by adding some pencil lines to it This is my crazy rule that I got when I was sailing and it has wheels on it So it stays straight and even across the card. I'm not making my boards spaced equally and you'll see it Won't really matter at all But I'm just gonna draw some lines and I am going over it with my marker Generally, you don't want to go over pencil lines too much with your Copic markers It can ruin the nibs and you know just color them and that sort of thing And I haven't had a huge experience doing that I've just heard lots of other people have had that issue But what I'm finding is if I use it gently and I don't go really heavy with the pencil I can kind of get away with that especially here I'm using a gray and the gray marker is covering gray pencil So it's not really going to hurt it at all So I'm adding some extra shadows underneath the dog where he's standing and back behind the dog house And blending those out and then I'm going to add texture to the wood And here is where the fun and the magic begins because just some squiggly lines They're uneven and sometimes I almost make them look like the the lines are going around a little knot in the wood If you pull up some pieces of wood on Google or something You can find all kinds of very cool textures to make all different kinds of wood And you can see what the grains look like and if there's other colors that you can bring into them to make it look Like the kind of fence that you want to make it For the ground I decided to go for some of the E3's And I'm just using the E3 natural blending group for this so E3 4 I'm going to jump down to an E3 1 and then to an E3 0 and just keep going down I'm adding a lot of color to this and I'm just scribbling. I'm not really I'm just doing vertical scribbles And one of the things that this is doing which we normally don't necessarily like is adding a lot of that modeled texture to it I'm just adding a ton of ink to it And that is going to add it enough color that it's going to make it look like dirt too So there's sometimes when you can make the marker do things that are going to actually help you And here I'm just going to add some super deep dark shadows under the objects that are in the picture And then blend them out really softly with that E3 4 color again You can see how quickly it blends out when the paper is this saturated and this wet Now it's time to move over for side two of this card This is actually the front of it and I've got three dogs on there And they are just ignoring the fact that our little star doggy wants his stick So sad this poor little guy wants his stick He's going to be in the same colors that he was on the other side And I have the colored piece off the screen here so that I can make sure that I get The left right side on his spots correct And that sort of thing in order to stamp it this way I used my misty I'll link to that in the doobly-doo down below The misty is a stamping tool that allows you to do some cool things one of which I didn't film in this one I stamped my image on a piece of tracing paper That way I was able to flip it and line up the dog on the other side So that the head of the dog lines up on both sides of the pieces of paper Hope that makes sense if it doesn't then maybe I'll find another image I can do this with and show you that lining up technique later But it worked really cool for this and I was really pleased with how it came out Because it allowed me to do this card the way it was in my head So we're on to the next doggy and I wanted different kinds of colors But I wanted him to feel like a white dog. So I went for some of the e4s The e4s are a little weird of a brown family In that the lightest e4 this e4 zero Is nice and light the e4 3 is a little bit, you know, considerably darker But then when you get to the e4 2 in the middle you can see it does a little different thing The color in it is a little bit more on the yellowy side So look at what you've got here now and it's almost more peachy than the existing colors And it's sandwiched in between them. You wouldn't think that it would do that, but There you go. It's just a weird anomaly with the way the markers work And the hex chart really helps so you can see those things and see the differences in between each one of the shades of color This little doggy I wanted to make him a black and white dog And I did start with a relatively light gray this t4 Lots of people start with much lighter grays and then they end up with an object that looks gray I'm going to color cover up as I color most of the t4 there because I want him to really look like he's black and white And I want a little bit of highlight in the grays, but not a ton So if your grays your black areas are feeling more like their grays then definitely Try to try to bump up the numbers on the colors a little bit So I even decided to add a little c3 To him to his black areas Instead of that t4 to kind of change the color a little bit as well And I'm using the c markers on his little nose And his little underneath his legs that sort of thing because I wanted his white To feel different than the the white dog next to him and the not so white I mean, I guess our other doggy our star doggy is a little on the dirty side dirty white Now for the last dog. I wanted to go for a more traditional brown So I went for the e ones e one three one five and one eight Which is a natural blending group again When they have the the first digit being the same that makes them a natural group because they're in that family So they'll blend really well the most part And I'm going to add my shadows next And I used to way back in the day if you watch any of my really early videos I used to color my darks first and then go to my mediums in my lights And it worked. I mean my coloring was certainly fine So if that is the way that you color you're shortly welcome to do that This is just what I found works better Because once the paper is really saturated with that light color the other colors just blend easier and faster And so that's why I made the switch when I started realizing that that made a huge difference So here's our little brown doggy coming together And I like that all these dogs feel like they're very individual dogs. They're all very different They have different tones to their brownness And I really like that about Having an image with multiple animals in it and trying to make them all feel like they're very different However, they all have the same nose colors and I didn't do any pink noses So I took my darkest marker and I made some little whiskers for him because he had this big open space That seemed to cry out for it and then our little white doggy He wanted whiskers too. So I got him some And now for the stick our poor little dog who lost his stick. No one he will help him I'm making the stick the same colors as him. So I wanted to tie that to him visually that way. It's one of those subtleties. No one else will notice, but I know it's there I'm going to do the same thing with the fence. So I'm not going to repeat showing you every detail of it because we saw the fence on the other side But using that same ruler making the lines and creating the texture on that bark And adding shadows underneath of him because he's hanging over the fence So there's going to be a shadow under him And then just lots of lines all over the entire thing for that beautiful wood texture And I'll use the same dirt colors on this side and the same pattern of Scribbling as I did on the other side. I'm even going right over that stick So I don't have to color around it and that made it a whole lot easier to do the coloring I'm not a big fan of coloring around a whole lot of little noodley areas if I don't have to So adding some shadows the deepest darkest ones under some of our pooches And spreading that out Making that all looking beautiful And now we get to start assembling this fun card So I started by trimming out the front. I trimmed out the dogs and the fence And just that whole section across The top there and I did it only on one side for a particular reason because as I was doing this I realized see this little dog with his little nose sticking up What's he what's going to happen on the other side of the card? I'm going to see just a little point of his nose and that's not going to work very well So his this dog is going to line up, but he's going to just stick out Now there's also that little point on the dog house that I should have taken into account over here But it's just going to have to be the way it is In order to make sure I'm lining everything upright I'm first going to trim out our hero dog. That's the focal point of this card And I'm going to trim him out with my little fussy cutting scissors And get that done first so I can line it up on the back of the other piece And get that all is I'm just temporarily sticking it together with a little bit of A tape runner in between And I'm going to trim around that little doggy so I can draw his nose onto the other side So when you're looking at the card from the inside, there's a little nose sticking out And it does chop off the top of the little dog house, but you know, it is what it is, right? I've made a mark where that fence line is so I want to cut off the part that's above the fence line That may not make sense at this very moment, but as soon as I put it together, it's going to hopefully become clear So now I've got lots of tape runner along here and The fence goes beyond that place where I cut it off on this card front That the one that I just chopped off with my tonic trimmer And then I line up the other piece on the other side And now that part's all done I'm going to put a little corner rounding on the back panel And I decided I also needed some sky in the back panel because now the inside was all empty So I took my Copic airbrush And tossed a little color onto that just some really light I used the same b05 marker that I used on the little doggy bed and Just airbrushed some color on there to make a little happy sky And you can see here now how this is going to function. This is going to close. So you see the sky And I'm going to add a few little things to it that you'll see in just a moment I punched out some clouds and a little sun so that there's a little scene behind The doggy's heads. Oh my gosh This card came out even better than it did in my imagination And I thought sorry you're having a rough day. It would be really cute because our little guy lost his stick. He's having a rough day Poor pooch Alrighty, I hope you guys enjoyed this. I know it was long But here are some more videos if you have more time to waste and I will see you guys again next time Have a great day. Bye. Bye