 Well hi there, I'm Sandy Olnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to talk a little bit about choosing your Copic marker colors. In today's card I'm going to use the Fall Friends set from MFT. Cute little kids hanging out with their pumpkins and there's critters that you could add to it as well but I decided to keep it kind of simple and I'm glad I did because by the time I got to the end of this video you're going to see a hot mess develop. I'm really glad I didn't have other things to color because this one went a little sideways but I know that lots of you have been telling me you like it when I include my messes so if you are one who likes to beat me up for having messes and hit the thumbs down for having messes you guys can just go move on to another video right now because I'll warn you ahead of time that there's going to be some craziness on the scene itself as we get to the end but I'm going to do a little human rainbow work first and I started by trying to use a V12 for her shading and it ended up not being so great so I put some BB00 on top and I was much happier with it. I'm going to use a little darker colors now and have a little African American girl over here and I'm going to change up her hairdo and everything on her now both of these little girls I don't know if they should be wearing leggings but I'm just going to pretend that they're wearing skin colored leggings little stockings because I wasn't sure whether they're supposed to wear pants or not so there you go hopefully it's not too freezing cold out there so I'm going to add some shading for her too and I've added a nice heavy shadow across their faces so there's some real strong sunlight overhead and that's just going to give me a little bit more dimension. Now for this little girl I could color in just her hair and her ponytail and do that with a C8 marker but I decided I wanted to add a lot more to it so I wanted her to be a little bit I don't know little little more ethnic so I wanted to give her some little curls so I gave her some bangs and gave them just kind of wiggly curls and then decided she needed a big old ponytail hanging out the back so instead of that little tiny braid she's got a nice big thick ponytail but her little friend now also has rather stringy hair that's one of the things I'm not really keen about with some of the stamps is that they kind of look like I have stringy hair and I thought this little girl also looked like her ears would be cold so I put some hair over her ears and increased her bangs a little bit just to change it up and you can change up all kinds of things when you're coloring your people stamps make them look like people you know why not and especially if you're using dark enough colors that you're coloring over those black lines no one will see them then it doesn't matter if you actually stick with what the stamp designer had on them as long as you make it look really cute so the stamp designer is proud of you when they see your card posted online somewhere now I wanted to talk about choosing colors and my I'm gonna talk about my whole colorway and for her I wanted to use a green color because she's standing next to a pumpkin so I wanted her to stand out that little curve on the side of her hat the left side of her hat I left light I left it the YG 9 5 so that it separates from the black ponytail of the girl behind her because otherwise it's gonna kind of mush together so I'm using a real simple colorway on this just all three of the dark YG 9s and that's gonna make sure that they all blend really nicely together and you know choosing a green to go with the the orange pumpkin is gonna be enough of a contrast that it's really gonna kind of help to set her off her skirt I'm gonna use just the same basic color as her hair and once you start coloring things in I just want to I haven't reminded you guys in a long while that once you start coloring things in if you can sell somebody on the most important thing which like their faces their hair the hat the jacket don't even worry about all the blending on everything else I didn't even add any blending in her her little skirt or anything so just kind of give yourself some permission to let some things go now this little girl I wanted more orange on here so I gave her an orange scarf so that's gonna tie her to the pumpkin but I needed another neutral and I couldn't figure out another neutral to use with the green that was gonna be enough contrast I was thinking about a neutral blue but that just didn't seem like it was gonna work so I decided this little girl is gonna wear a warm gray outfit then kind of a pale ish warm gray I'll add a little more shading to it she's gonna hold a nice bright yellow leaf so that then I have the bright punch of the yellow leaf the bright orange on her scarf and the pumpkin and then the yellow on the other girl scarf and that's gonna give me a couple punches of color across the image but it's gonna leave the others neutral a lot of times we tend to use way too many colors on things and we try to incorporate all of our favorite colors in every card just let your signature color whatever your favorite color is put a little bit of that in all your cards and especially like I know that there's some people that are trying to up their Instagram game and that sort of thing if you always have a little bit of your signature color in all of your artwork it's gonna tie your whole profile together so if if that's something you're working on then that would be one way you could do it so I always have just a tinge of yellow if I can in most of the stuff that I do not in everything but I try to include some why 1 7 all over the place and if you've watched me long enough you probably know that now you may have also noticed something else funny that's been happening if you go back to the beginning of the video the image is slowly sinking downward because apparently my tripod was just very very slowly releasing itself it was starting to slide off the bottom of the camera so you will see me readjust will pop up here in just a second and will have the same struggle again and next time I will make sure I check everything but I didn't want to go redo everything after I did all this coloring so I thought well we'll just we'll deal with it so I've got a couple yellows that they're standing in and I wanted to add leaves and in my autumn leaves class what I have found is that a lot of people are trying to put the leaves on the ground but they're ending up with polka dots instead of little lines little lines are going to give you a little more of a leaf look than polka dots because polka dots can look more like confetti rather than looking like like leaves so try to include some that are like kind of little little tick marks or something something a little horizontal but not all horizontal you don't want it to look like they're all streaky either and what I'm going to do also is let the color be heavier on one side than the other and slowly build up the color over time and again here I'm sinking back down on the paper little by little it's sliding back down but I'm putting a more neutral color toward the back that wire went to is just a softer kind of yellow and it's gonna kind of push toward the the far distance where I'm going to have a row of trees just going to throw in some wire to three and go over a couple of the trees with just a little poof of the R22 that's just going to indicate some trees there now this front is where the hot mess comes in and I started them like really speeding up because it took me forever to do this was like crazy long but I started making all my little swish marks and I wanted to make them bigger toward the front and smaller as you get to the little girls the problem with that is that then you end up with all these really giant marks and then it doesn't look anything like leaves unless you're gonna draw them as leaves then it looks really stupid but I wanted to blur it out and then you're like sitting there forever with a million colors layer after layer trying to blur things out and it took quite a while just kept bouncing back and forth from color to color to color and trying to figure out what I was going to do to fix this and had I ruined it had I totally messed up the card and clearly you know that I was pretty happy with it since I am still posting it on YouTube so I have not totally trashed it but boy it was a hot mess the whole while going so I'm trying to build up the color so it's heavier on the left and and darker on the left lighter on the right and I'm just trying to soften out those marks just kind of scribble into them while they're wet and then I gave up and I went I'm just going to go over the whole thing and that's when it started coming together is when I just started covering over the whole thing with darker color because now you you're kind of getting the feeling that we've got this blurry thing up front and it has more detail as it goes back and I'm just layering some darker colors I mean you could go really heavy dark in the front too and be fine with that but now I'm going to add a little more dark and detail and a little bit of grass and stuff right around them in the pumpkin because now your eye doesn't get stuck on all that lumpy stuff that I've put in the front it goes straight to the little girls and all that stuff in the front is layered with color and it's layered with texture but you don't get stuck there you go straight to the girls and when I first started it you kind of got stuck on the oh my gosh texture how crazy was that so there you go a car there was a hot mess on the way through and now it's not so feel free to click on the links 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