 It's not gonna focus. Why is it not focusing? Well, I don't know what's wrong with my phone y'all It's not focusing. I don't know what I'm gonna do Let's see. Maybe I can turn it around. Oh There we go I'll just have to do it backwards For some reason my front camera is not focusing Like so Basically, this is gonna be backwards See if I can move this a little closer for y'all What's up? How's everybody Sunday? Say her I started this last week Hopefully y'all can hear me. All right, I'm not gonna be able to see the Comments for some reason I I've got to get a new phone this My camera on this phone whenever I go like to snapchat or to hear It completely acts up and then it just disappears Wonder if I can get The laptop and just I don't know. Maybe I'll be able to see all your all comments here in a minute I have to step over bullies. I'll show you guys what I've been working on today This is a portrait Basically what I did I'll show you what I did with this So I have let's turn off all the layers And this is the original Cedar So it's of a girl smoking And I just kind of wanted to practice with this with the pen and Doing shadows and whatnot. So I just did a bunch of layers So I'll show you kind of the first layer So if you take away the original You can kind of see what what I've been what I was doing And then you can add another layer that I darkened and I added some More dark and then there's a layer with some Color, which is a lot of fun this is something that I could do and just totally forget about what I'm doing and Forget what time it is kind of thing But this is fun. This is I would love to do one of Erica. I have a picture of her Where she's let's see here. I might be able to find the one Of her face this one That I want to do I Want to make an NFT Piece with this Somehow if we can ever figure out how to do that on our own very difficult What's up, everybody? I'm sorry. I'm not reading the comments cuz let me I'm gonna bring up on this Where is? So at least I can see him on here Oh god Sorry about that. I know there's probably gonna be echo in there. All right, let's pop this out We can We able to pop it out. All right, at least I have some of you I can see your comments now. All right, so Originally for this piece I wanted this to be the whole piece which as you can see is a very It's a pretty good size piece. It's like I want to say 18 by 36. I think So it's a it's a pretty good size piece And I wanted it to be up with just eyes nose and a mouth And I really like this picture of Rock-hell Welch that do that is that's right walk out welch So We'll just go in and I'm just darkening I did these the other day This is supposed to be hair but the way I did it. It looks like Maybe she's wearing something and I liked it So I'm just literally just darkening I'm going from a graphite pencil to basically Softer graphite and charcoal And then using this this to kind of get some good shadows and my finger to kind of get some shadows and An exacto blade to kind of Scratch off and then I took a white Posca pin just a little bit And kind of put it where the highlights are So feel the rent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay Sorry about that so What I wanted to do I wanted to see what this would look like if I just Wipe this It does That's what's fun about charcoal. You could put a dark charcoal down and Just wipe it and it lightens it so then therefore It's not, you know, you're not defining a line You're basically just giving yourself a shadow of a nice Of a nice reference where stuff should go And then you could darken it in if you like and what I use there is this big old piece of compressed charcoal Hello from Idaho What's up, Chris? Thank you What is that Mike I really wish I could pop this chat out For some reason It doesn't let me pop it out on the laptop. I don't know why How's everyone doing tonight on this Sunday? Let's not mention the Cowboys today. They had an off day I Really off day and see what's fun with this charcoal stuff If I wanted to I could probably erase that right like if I didn't really really like it Yeah, look at that. We can kind of erase that But as you can see It still gives you a little reference of Where everything is that let's work on this eyeball here Like I said, you could take this charcoal Like get some on your hand and where there's where there's a lot of dark Just give yourself a little bit of dark So that you know Where these dark parts are going to be Sometimes I work backwards I Feel like I'm sitting way too close right now And that's a good thing with this too. You can get in here Get your dark parts in here. You don't have to make these super dark lashes Eyelashes are fun. I like doing the bottom and the top You can define them and then just kind of smooth them out So you can kind of get an idea of where that bottom eyelash is eyelash line And then you can go in with a little bit heavier and define your They almost gives them a shadow where the eyelashes are give yourself a little bit of a I need to remember to blink When I don't blink what I'm doing this my contacts dry up. Oh, yeah What I've done here where it's really really dark I took a Posca pen and I basically just kind of made a line and then just kind of smudged it So that it wasn't a solid Line Yeah, Green Bay. I know it Green Bay in Kansas City Whoo, I think I need to get some Like glasses just for my artwork so I can be close Because when I get close it gets kind of blurry Especially when I have my contacts in because they're more for Far away I Think the left one is for up close just because I have such a bad bad left eye I really my left eye is like it's not blind, but it's It's definitely There's not a lot of detail in that left eye I'm talking about my left eye not this left eye. I'll show you guys mean I'll show you guys what I mean But when I say the Posca pen Normally You want to go a little darker before you start doing any solid black But then again I would love to try I know I've done it before It's just do just the dark parts. I'm talking solid black the blackest you could get and then Do do some detail with pencil and some charcoal and then go with airbrush and blend it all in I'm sure that would look awesome. You see when you when you get dark like this. What is this? See, this is just a 6b, which is it's pretty it's pretty soft. It's very dark I mean for a 6 for a 6b. This is This is still pretty dark, but I love it because you can smooth it in so if you don't want it to be so dark It doesn't have to be what's up everybody. Welcome. Welcome nice little 22 Person Sunday. I probably shouldn't move this You see if we can maybe move it a little bit closer to what I'm working on Why that arm doesn't go over there, so We can make these eyebrows a little darker and and I've been doing faces for so long portraits That there's certain parts of a portrait that I love to do I love to do all the shadow in here I love to do this shadow and even if it's not on the picture and it can still make sense I would I'll do it Look at that. That is just oh, I think I put some charcoal up there. I think I put charcoal in all of this Huh hi from the UK. What's up Martin? Well, thanks for showing up. Go have some awesome dinner and your awesome Sunday in Australia right on Beethoven I Rarely do portraits of men I have before but I I have to want to Like the the the reference So I guess if I if I like the reference of Beethoven, so then this thing is the smudge You tinsel I have it to where it's kind of like I flattened it so I can get bigger smudges like up here if I wanted to Get some shadow up here. See look at that. I Just shadowed all of this right here The thing is I got rid of those eyelashes But that doesn't matter because the darker Stuff will come in here in a little bit and I can just go back and put those eyelashes back in there again Not a problem right on I appreciate it everyone But portraits like this I have to stop every now and again just stand back and just kind of squint my eyes because if you I see this all up close and I'm doing it and It doesn't look right, but if you step back Have your reference up next to your piece and you'll see what's wrong. You'll see what you like what you don't like Let's see. Where is the Sorry about that y'all you're gonna see a earthquake here in a second I forgot this So now I'm gonna go ahead and darken up all this stuff. I have a 10 B This thing is like right over my shoulder y'all. So I apologize if I hit that again I got myself a drink full Sunday night sippy sippy. Nothing wrong with Beethoven here Well, I I didn't say anything was wrong with him. I just said I Have to want to paint the painting paint the picture of him All right, so I'm gonna do this. So I apologize if I don't read somebody's comment But I'll definitely keep talking See look at that. This is just a little bit softer. So it's gonna be a lot darker So now I can go in and get these eyelashes but what I'll probably do is Take the Paintbrush when I'm all finished I'll probably get the airbrush out sometime at some point and Just hit it with a Like a smoke gray just to kind of blend everything in and then take a fine airbrush or a fine paint brush and do like the eyelashes the Eyebrows Get these creases. These are these are really dark right here, too as well You can get some of your shadows From the creases. I love to do all these shadows No shadows, it's what really makes a Portrait come together when you when you can get these shadows just right especially the nose This is tricky right here You guys can't even see the nose. Can you? There you go Ontario we don't get a lot of Canadians over here What's happening? What's happening? Tink-tink y'all Tink-tink I see people are thumbs up. I appreciate that. Thank you so much Now in a second, I'm gonna get the exacto blade And I'm gonna show you guys how to make highlights And to and to make an eyelash stand out and to make a shadow really stand out Like right here See what I should be doing is doing this with the airbrush But I'm not at that point right now that I feel like I want to do that Like I said in the beginning. I wanted this I wanted to use this piece with all this color For a big or a bigger piece. This is this is pretty small and All these all this stuff kind of Muffles your artwork kind of if you understand what I'm when I mean Yeah, we are almost to 50,000 subscribers And I'll show you how I did this eye and it's funny because it's already that color which really bothers me I did I did this eye with a posca pin as well Basically all I did was I dabbed it and then just kind of dabbed it with my finger so it kind of Smudge it a little and then as I would put it more towards the top it just kind of faded and then I just took some Some of the dark and just kind of blend it down so it kind of You can kind of see you can just blend that all that in But here I'll show you guys what I do with the exacto blade and it kind of We call it it definitely gets dull pretty fast because the the tip of these are They're very sharp, but they're also these are really crappy exacto blade. So What I do is go wherever there should be white And I just scratch away Just just enough just down to the original white paint that I have on here because I Painted this white first and then spray painted it But what this is doing you're just going back down to the original white Just so that I think it looks a little bit more realistic when you just kind of scratch back down You're not putting a jet white on here Which that's what that stuff is and I I feel like it just makes it look cartoony, but when you have this background You're not going to get much white out of that So you do that in between your eyelashes and you get your eyelash highlights Because there is a little bit of a highlight right here at the crease of her eye. I probably could use Some white charcoal too, maybe even right and then you get really good detail when you do Let's see here I'm trying to get this as close as possible Just do I'm just outside of your eyelash one little mark mark Just to separate them from the other eyelashes and It makes it stand out a lot See that and there's like a little highlight right here. There's If there isn't I normally put one just because it makes it stand out a little bit more So what do you guys working on anything new? anything old Did you have a chill Sunday? So I'm gonna take this Posca pen and hit this highlight right here. You just kind of dab it just to kind of Take down some of that white You just barely hit it and then you could go back in with your with some charcoal and kind of Make that not so not so bright Sorry about that. Mike Is texting me right now? We are going to Hawaii At the end of this month To go see Mike and the fam and see there's a little highlight right here I'm gonna risk it but just a kind of a bigger dot, but I'm gonna match it out. You see that You get rid of that and but it still gives you that nice little Whoops Nice little highlight on her nose tumble ores for Christmas Right on I have yet to do a tumbler. Let's do some of this Her lips right here and see the airbrush would work really good with this as well See you get rid of that just just so it's not so harsh But it's just a hint of The highlight on her lips and she's got like some highlight right here And some of the highlight doesn't work because there's color behind you So if it doesn't work, it's definitely because of this color Which I shouldn't be doing anyways But I Wanted to highlight. I wanted to get some more definition in there All right, so what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna take This is like a really really super thin Posca pin like pointy very pointy What up Phoenix art flow welcome If you guys are new to the new to the our channel artist till death Welcome. I am Jeff Thornton Normally Erica would be here doing some sort of amazing Resin or alcohol ink or something She is out visiting Our fairy art mother See what I'm doing is I'm just hitting just the dark parts that I Like and then I'm gonna smush it. I'm gonna smear it because I don't want any super hard lines Especially with this This is just gonna Give me just enough To give a little bit more detail in the really dark parts of this portrait here And I'm not telling you how to do this. This is just how I do it. I could probably get away with doing The eyelashes with this because this is a very fine point Let's see. I'm gonna Think it wants to this doesn't want to work on this where there's pencil And my eyes are getting blurry right now. I Think I'm just too close to the canvas But if you can see you can see that I'm just fairly darkening these in so that it just gives it a good definition I Might just get that airbrush out just Give this crease a nice dark Gives it more depth, you know And then we can do just the center of the eyebrows because I don't want to make them stand out too much I feel like my eyebrows don't have any direction So What I'll do I'll just fill in what I think where the eyebrows should go And look and then take the exacto And give it just a little bit more definition. Where is that exacto blade at? What Jeff? That is absolutely amazing Well, thank you very much Melissa. Yeah, we we might just have to stay there I'm telling you what see you can get some really good detail with this I'll bring that camera in a second to show you like you can really shape eyebrows And give you some good detail You got a really a nice sharp Can you see that? So what I need to do now, I need to darken in that eye Because it's very this is very dark eye right here. This is why it's looking so Different here because I don't have any shadow, but I could also do that with the airbrush, so So you just darken it all in All right here. I'll show you how I do that What's up? What's up Stephanie welcome and fortunately? It's the same color as this basically, right? This is just a Posca pin, but I want her eye to stand out a little bit more than what it is So I just tap just blend this color in Would that be fun to make it brown? Or maybe blue Should I make her eyes blue stick out a little bit more? I think that would be fun So Let's blend this in this is very not blended in here. I put the Marker on this and never blend it in I think it's really it's bugging me because I know there's a lot of shadow on her lip here And see with airbrush, it would be so much faster so much easier Sometimes I just don't feel like getting the airbrush out and I like to challenge myself. I like to I've done airbrush for so long that I feel like I just kind of It's kind of the easy route To blend stuff like this So I'd rather challenge myself and see if I can get a nice nice gradient with them With this, you know with a paintbrush. This is fun to me Trying to make a decent lip gradient If that's what that's called, I don't know How are the chiefs doing? Not bad little This little softness here and originally I I didn't want to do any hair detail Which I'm probably not going to do but I'll do a little bit here just to kind of Have the face in something I might do this to where it's like a cloth or something like a hood All right. Have a good night 13 7 awesome Right on This would be a lot easier with airbrush right here because this Her jawline is so gnarly her cheekbones Look at that like that's such a That's so rad What to do with this right here because I don't want to do a bunch of hair I don't even know what I'm going to do with this like This is probably just going to be a practice thing Thank you phoenix art flow I don't know why this is Take this again And darken Now let me draw on some parts very 80s art Very 80s art desk And I'm not doing it but always look at your reference Especially if you want to make somebody look like somebody Always look at your reference Yeah, it's just What's really bugging me is what I wanted to do with this and that is Make this make this image bigger Because when you do little stuff like this all this color background it muffles your artwork so That's it really I'm not really happy with that. I was going to do some eyelashes So Sorry about that. That's my text messages and it's not gonna stop unless I go check the text message and I don't want to get out of This because I'm afraid my camera is gonna. Oh, yeah, definitely Emma. She's a little brighter Yeah, I think I want to stop on that part Because I don't I don't want to keep darkening it I think this is fine and I'm just I don't know what I'm gonna do with this If anything, I'll just spray some matte over it And then maybe put some more 80s Like some Some streaks like kind of how Erica does her stuff Maybe put like a big neon piece right here So, yeah, I think this is pretty cool As far as A practice piece I've been uh Gosh, that's gonna drive me insane I've been uh Wanting to do just larger pieces just up close stuff detailed Heavy contrast heavy shadows And this is not it So I think if I just continue to do stuff like this at the beginning and then go forward Maybe Doing the same thing because I've I've just done it on a bigger scale because I know where stuff goes How it should look I think that would be a An ideal thing a lot of texture in this that's for sure. Let's spray some I'm gonna spray some Workable fixative over it and it should darken it it should make it darker But but then I can go back in I could still go back in with airbrush Or I can go back in with Anything and be able to draw over this Charcoal because there'll be a layer of film in between it But once you put this stuff down You're sealing in everything I can't erase anything anymore. I can't Nothing Even these like I could probably get rid of these lines If I wanted to I could just wipe them down and erase it With this kneaded eraser because it's charcoal like it's very Very forgiving But I think I'm going to seal it in With this stuff here And this stuff always brightens everything makes a little stuff a little darker I'm gonna open the window real quick It was very very nice day today here in Dallas Whoo, I just picked this up and was about to spray it All right, make sure you pick up the right can Thank you, Joellen All right, so I'm just gonna spray this over everything right now and this does darken stuff in it like kind of Makes it very it kind of highlights the darkness, right? Oh Where's my respirator at I need that I would definitely Use a respirator It darkened it didn't it you have to turn the fan on Yeah, this side's a lot darker than that side. Thank you everyone. Thank you very much See I want to do this I have this piece that I put Alcohol ink on I'll probably do just a Shoot I knows in a mouth like just something oversized I don't know we'll see But that's originally I originally wanted to do this one And I started it and I hated it so I painted over it It was on a big round, which I'll probably do Because I really like this image. I love the darkness here the contrast But what I I started doing all the light parts And it just your your mind can't see it yet I mean, obviously you can see it here, but when you're working on it, there's just a It's it looks like a weird shape and Like I literally think I have to start this Like just use a black And just black and all this stuff in and just barely hit where this stuff is And then go in with airbrush and fade it all in I did not know that was energy or jolly and her name is right there That's how you can tell my My contacts are acting up All right, I think that's it. I think this is Let's see. Let's dry Look if we put some Look at that Fun is that Do some splatter with this I could totally turn this into an 80s 80s piece real quick And see now this is wanting to Because there's something That it can draw on now Literally, it's almost like I'm airbrushing this just because I'm doing dots I end up messing that up and then I'm not gonna like it So What do we got? What are you guys saying? Thank you casey. I appreciate that Judy Erica's on the way home awesome. All right Well with that said I am I want to stop because I'll end up doing something to this and I want to add something to this I'm not sure what but Let's just stop here and on a good note So I don't end up Smashing this thing or painting over it or something And then that way I can get this text message Um, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for hanging out with me um Especially on a sunday night. I know people are Getting ready for work tomorrow or just getting up if you're in australia So I appreciate you guys be kind of one another you never know what somebody's going through and always remember Here at artist till death studios we do the test So you don't have to You guys are awesome