 Well, hello there friends. This is Sandy Onok artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I bring you the next in the 24 tags of Christmas series for 2015. We're on day five each day this week I have been sharing four tags a day different variations on the same tag in each day So there's 24 all together. There is a giveaway on my blog You're welcome to click on the link in the description down below to get more information on how you might win Alright, let's get started on today's project. I'm going to be using Prismacolor pencils today This is the storage I use for them I'll have a link for you in the description and on my blog for the pencil case and Lots people ask me about that my technique. I'm going to show you real quickly in this initial section With a slow piece and then we're going to speed it up I'll link you to another video in the description down below if you want to see more of my technique But I keep a really super sharp pencil and I use a very light touch So I have a gray color. I'm using first for this polar bear and the gray color is Going to be in not in the darkest areas, but it's going to be like the mid-tone Because I want this polar bear to look white So I'm just putting a super light coat I'm going different directions and I'm trying to fill in all those little spots Where the paper texture is and to just make it look really smooth by doing that It's something that takes a lot of patience cards like this take a while for me I almost did color pencil for the entire background too and I decided not to so please don't worry that this is going to take Forever, but I am going to show you four different ways to color this bear Because the little girl is going to stay the same in all of them, but I the variation will be on different ways to approach the bear So I'm using my gray still just going to add lots of layers to him All over his whole little body that lighting is basically going to be from the center for the most part so I'll put a little shading on the right and the left and Just keep working it. It's one of those things that takes a little bit of extra effort But boy does it have an effect when you finish a card or a tag or an image I think color pencil has a very unique look that people recognize as art right away There's no mistaking it for any kind of other fancy technique I'm adding more shading in his belly because his belly will be receded and there's shading underneath of his Scarf a little bit for right now be adding more to it and underneath of his arm because those are shaded by the light that's coming from above and Little bit more over there on the tummy a little bit behind the little girl because she's going to cast a shadow on the little bear I'll use something on some of the shadows on the arm. I even left an undersized Highlight underneath that shadow that you can see there. There's just a little bit of bounce light Which tends to add a little bit of interest to an image So I'm going to do the same thing down here on his underside like on the underside of the feet there So you'll start to see that develop as this image gets colored So I'm just smoothing out that color layer layer layer layer layer layer just keeps happening it's just that's just the way my pencil rolls and Now I'm going to go in with a little bit of a darker color and I'm just adding Deeper shadows underneath each one of those areas where I already said there were shadows You can see they're just getting a little harsher a little stronger and if you use really light layers You have a lot of flexibility to change things up You can take a kneaded eraser and press it over an area I wouldn't rub but press it into an area and you can really light and color up if you start getting very waxy And you get a waxy buildup. There's really not any recovering from that So you want to keep your layers as light as possible if you're going to use this technique There are plenty of techniques Showing how to how to do it with a waxy buildup There are some people that rely on that as their technique, but for me, that's not something that works all that well So you need to find out what works for you I was debating about her hand whether or not that was a mitten or her hand I'll make a decision later It's one of those things that happens as you start working on something You can see I'm building up layers with a darker peach color and purple for her skin And now I'm going to use some white Some some blue to create the white for her hat And she's going to be colored the same across all these so You won't have to watch her being colored repeatedly, but I'm just going to try to make her light blue color as even as possible across her whole little Outfit her little jacket and I'll add shading to it with a different color But I'm constantly as I work in colored pencils stopping to sharpen my pencil I've been looking for a long time and announced recently I finally found one a pencil sharpener that I really do love the Panasonic that I had for just decades I had it since college Still works great, but I couldn't find a place to send anybody to to go get one So I did a lot of research And in the pencil video that I'm linking you to in the description down below I will share with you in that video more detail of the pencil sharpener But it is a a bow stitch. I was looking for something in particular that had an auto stop A lot of them have something called a pencil stop and it's not the same as an auto stop I didn't know that until I kept buying pencil sharpener after pencil sharpener after pencil sharpener, but You can definitely tell you I'm happy with this one. It works very well It is giant just give you a warning if you don't have much space It won't be really good for you But there are some nice small hand crank ones that work well as well I took a knife and I was able to scratch out a little color there because I had Gone back and forth about what color that was going to be and I wanted to make it flesh colored so With I I always keep my little knife with me When I'm doing my pencil work that little finger knife because if there's an area where I suddenly get one little Flake of really dark color and I don't want to make the entire image dark in order to blend it in I can if I'm going really lightly I can take that knife and just flick that one little piece and Remove one little dark spot and it sometimes saves my bacon in trying to get some colors to blend So she's all done and now I'm going to start adding purple for my little bear's scarf You could do this kind of thing in whatever colors you wanted And whatever matches your gift wrapping if you're going to put this on gift wrap Whatever your favorite colors are lots of different color schemes you could use but I thought a purple and a blue seemed really fresh compared to what I normally use on my Christmas cards and Christmas tags and things so I thought Doing something a little different would work And when I get to the backgrounds, you're going to see I totally went outside of the norm of color Because these these tags were actually I think one of my favorites throughout the series. Wow. No You know that one was the fit. No, that one was the fit. No Well, okay, it's one of my favorites in the series this year It's kind of hard to decide when they're all your babies and you love them all So off to sharpen the pencil again. I sharpen often as I color It's just something that I've gotten in the habit of doing And it makes the technique work so much better if you keep it very sharp If you're trying to get the pencil into one little teeny tiny area You can always hold it very vertically, but since I keep mine really sharp I can hold it at a little bit of an angle and be more relaxed in my coloring It's just harder to hold the pencil when you're trying to hold it really super vertically I decided the package would also be the purple and the blue So add a little bit of that and then take the same shading color that I used On little girl's dress for the shading on the package And then a darker purple to start adding some depth onto the scarf All the colors that I use the specific prismacolor color names will be listed in The blog post so if you're interested in that, um, I just didn't get them Put into the video the process for doing that and putting colors in is A little on the elaborate side and ran out of time on that one So they will be listed however in the blog post for you I'm adding some shading and you can add just along the bottom But I decided to add almost a different stripe of color So it looks like there's a fold in his little scarf Which adds a little bit more interest to it as well You could also do all kinds of different designs On her dress on the scarf lots of different ways you could decorate it up and personalize it as well So now I have her colored and the scarf colored and everything on all the others And I'm just going to add some different coloring to the bear You know bears in cold climates could be any different kind of bear I mean polar bears black bears this one's going to be a black bear They could be grizzly bears brown bears all different kinds of bears And there's like the the funnest one is the last one I'll save that I won't give it away because it's darling and cute And I'm just going to add the same shading the shading is in the same place You'll notice as I did on the polar bear So all that light gray shading is where I'm putting my dark pencil Basically the the gray pencil Covered the entire bear and now I'm just going in basically with another layer That looks like the same shading from the first bear And I'm gonna just keep the same lighting. I don't have to think about that anymore And here again, we have the brown bear the lighter brown is covering the whole bear And here I have that one spot that was too dark. So I just flip that off with the knife And then I'm adding all my shading with the darker brown pencil You could make bears all different kinds of colors. I mean all kinds of crazy colors You can make pink bears and blue bears and green bears and brown bears and all sorts of kinds of bears And just use the same kind of shading Easy peasy to do Now this bear I colored like the the polar bear I colored another one like him and then I'm gonna add polka dots. Oh my gosh This is like a little polka polka bear I think he's so cute And you could do this with any animal as well Wouldn't that be fun with a lot of your different animal stamps to just make them look like their giant cuddly polka dot bears and polka dot foxes and polka dot whatever's Whatever kind of animals you have I can add more shading to some of those spots that have the gray shading with my pencils And just make them look really cute All right next step is to do the backgrounds and I'm going to mask off my bears So I could do some distressing backgrounds and the tape that I have this is a masking tape And it's made by post it. So it's basically post it weight and post it stickiness So it's very lightweight and easy to work with but I have to use two pieces of it a little bit There are different kinds. I think that have full sheets But with just that little extra bit of the The scarf it's super easy to just mask that out and add it on just do it in two little pieces And then fussy cut it all out so that I can put it over each one One of these masks will last for maybe these four. I mean once I got to the fourth one The masking tape was pretty much toast once you put a lot of ink on it It just is going to start getting weird and it's going to lose it sticky as well So I'm just putting it down on top of the already colored image. You could also do your image Last and get your backgrounds right first if you're worried about your backgrounds Or do the coloring if you're more worried about the coloring There's different theories depending on what you do well And I'm just going to use these four colors To put a bunch of different inks on here So picked raspberry mustard seed peacock feathers and then a little bit of blueprint sketch And you can do them in stripes like this. So I'm making something that looks a little bit like the aurora borealis Or you can go in here with the round tool and make polka dots. Oh my gosh polka dots and polka bear Did just made me happy. This was an accident because I was planning on making all aurora borealis is and when I saw like I made a goober with my pencils or with my My little tool I went oh that looks cute So I'm repairing a little a few little areas where my mask covered with some colored pencil and then going in with a white pencil To create some glow around some stars All the aurora borealis is I don't know how you pluralize that word And then putting a star in the middle of them and then you can add extra stars as well with a white gel pen of some sort so Lots of fun. Look how playful those are. I just love that little polka dot polka bear Oh my gosh, I think I'm going to be making more of him Because he's so cute All right, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and got something out of it If you did, please click the like button down below and you are most welcome to click up on the The top section where the playlist for this year's 2015 series videos are being uploaded and in the bottom is last years You can check out either one and you can also click on the links in the description for my blog and for more information On the products used in this video Be sure to subscribe because I wouldn't want you to miss out on tomorrow's video because it's the last day of the tag videos I'll see you then. Bye. Bye