 you guys haven't known pain until you've drawn with crap you found outside hello and welcome back to the average i'm steph on the average artist and today we're gonna be drawing with crap i found in my garden let's have a look at what i found um it's looking so beautiful here is a twig i did see a bug on this before so now i'm like where are you little little i thought that was a snail like thing then i was like you another twig some may say and uh i thought this could be good for like splodging spots or something or i could carve it i don't know who i think i am but i could carve it into some sort of like shaped to do fine lines with i don't know we'll see i thought it's better to have rocks then not have rocks and regret it you know uh regret the decision to not pick up rocks and this thing which it was like oh that looks nice and then i picked it up like this and loads of bugs have just come out of it so i might throw this one out the way into it well i felt bad about that leaf action because i thought it would be a good little tool and i wanted to test it out so i went outside again and found a fresh one that was not covered in bug and gg came to say hello maybe warning me not to take that one inside but i took it anyway bye gg it's time to go painting let's test these out i've got my little sketchbook here that i take for adventuring and around town and stuff so i thought this would be an appropriate little sketchbook to try i'm just using random like acrylics and inks here and acrylic wash i just picked like random colors and stuff i don't know what i'm going to be using or what i'm going to be doing yet but i'm just going to test out these so did you ever have to do this in school or like art class or something when they were like go and take random stuff from the garden and let's paint with it and it seemed like it just seems a little bit nonsense see doesn't it um it just seemed a little bit artsy fartsy but i do think there's something to it because i've been feeling a little bit blocked because i've been doing my um comic this is very nice this is a nice little drawing tool it doesn't make quite a nice sound i've been doing my comics so i've been a bit like art blocked other than drawing cats so i wanted to just do something a little bit more a little bit different a little bit more loose i guess um yeah so i'm just going to be trying some stuff out but this is how the twigs i'm planning to use the twigs kind of like this as sort of drawing tools i guess rocks i'm not quite sure what i'm gonna do with these but they might make some nice texture it's like a nice lip if uh i was drawing a person which i might i might ink is a fairly forgiving medium to use with these uh tools get some nice uh lines of it i still i don't know what i'm gonna do with it and um this is just a mess at the moment so i painted a girl with a pearl earring before using limited materials that came from an art supply box they've got sent to me i'll post the video here if you want to watch that what would be interesting is try to recreate this well not this but the original and compare the two because i do like this one a lot so it would be fun to see if we could do something similar let's let's stick to these colors that i have and i think i can mix them together to make that like dark brown because i think girl with a pearl earring it's not like a black color behind her it's like a brownie color but it kind of reads as black and uh what tool shall i use i did say i was gonna carve this and i do regret saying that but you know very nice look at me a woodsman is it a woodsman someone who lives in the woods i don't know if you see me in the woods go just run away look at this gonna get a nice shape let's see how that works i'm gonna put some water in it let's just get the shape of her oh that was way too in oh well okay so this is her head i'm thinking if i block out the shapes then it will be easier to figure out what's going on here her scarf goes down to where her ear is which is like here eyebrows but they're non-existent okay so this is so much wider than that i wonder if i can get one of these and sort of well that didn't really work but how i intended but it's kind of working in a different way which is fun this is going to be a very um haphazard attempt to make go over pearl earring oh wait i do have some white acrylic so i could go in and try and rectify this blue undertones to this painting i guess let's give another one of these little poppits things just smooth it out the edge there just smooth it out her earring very important the earring is like here i've definitely drawn her way too far down the page as well but it's too late to do anything about that i'm thinking if i make this shadow first as it dries it will be it will work i don't know i'm i'm hoping that layering is my friend in this uh challenge so far this is looking a bit crazy but stick with me guys it might look better in a minute okay it might so i said might i didn't say it would i said might okay good thing i have a perfect mixer right here um this can go here because it's very blue this part of the head wrap scarf just remember that this is supposed to be fun guys this needs to be darker here and here this needs to be super dark so i'm gonna get that red it's a little bit darker i might need to add a bit more like maybe red acrylic to it because i want it to be almost black kind of kind of getting there not quite but kind of maybe if we add a little bit of this pink in it will be a really nice contrast to the rest of the painting i'm just dying to go in with a paintbrush and be like but we can't do that it's not the challenge okay to calm down you know out right go in love with these guys because i feel like it's helping but it's also blobbing too much uh paint on the page maybe i don't know like i said layering is going to be my friend in this uh travesty of a idea okay okay it's very hard to control these as i loosely say but it is fun she looks crazy now but i'm hoping that i can get some definition in there so it doesn't look as crazy weird blob need some yellow in there right okay it's totally fine guys i got this under control don't let the demon get you as i was drying i was sort of looking more at the form of the actual painting of go over part earring and trying to figure out what my next steps would be here so i was just thinking to block out the lights and then maybe that could help me a little bit to just block out shapes of course it's very difficult with these tools but it's gonna be fun okay say it with me guys we're gonna be having fun on this train of adventure train of adventure Alex i'm looking at the camera and that is looking absolutely nice this is the ugly stage of all ugly stages you gotta stick with it okay you just you can't just give up let's do the eyelid to just uh give a little bit more form i'm just gonna port ink on and uh use one of these little things again being a very handy tool this one you guys haven't known pain until you drawn with crap you found outside all right it looks crazy but i still i'm still thinking i can salvage it a few moments later i'm still believing in this project even though it looks absolutely crazy maybe that wasn't my intention all along is to just draw something super unsettling seeing as i am working on a horror comic you do it you you don't know maybe maybe that was my intention could be i found that these things have just been really helpful these little seed pod things so i'm glad that i went and got like another one because now i'm trying to do her lips and it's impossible to do it with just any sort of shape now she looks like a clown brilliant i think it's more this the uh the colors that i've chosen as well just look really weird like for instance on this one they're not specifically like correct colors but it just looks super weird on this one i don't know if i'm just polishing a turd now you know that's a really interesting mark baking in it but i'm not sure about it okay so i think i know what's wrong with this um pretty much everything also i went to dry it and the hair dryer just like zoomed the ink across the page so there it is that's that's how my day is going done this side of the face a lot darker where it should be the light side of the face so that's maybe not helping with it looking like a demon like as i'm going it's just getting worse and worse and uh yeah it's not as loose as it was i'm getting more trying to be more controlled with stuff that's supposed to be you're supposed to be loose with this experiment right because it's the whole point and as i go i'm just finding that i'm just not being loose i'm just trying to get something that looks like go over pearly ring which is just so stupid because how are you gonna recreate that like perfectly nobody could do that that's well maybe someone could but it's impossible uh it's super hard so i don't know why i'm being so harsh on myself because this is supposed to be an exercise in looseness and now i've just found myself getting really careful um but yeah so that's the final look because i feel like if i keep going it's just gonna get worse and worse but as you zoom in there are some like interesting mark making and textures i feel like it was more interesting before i went over it with that pink like some of the marks were so nice but altogether it looks like a crazy demon and i'm aware of that but lesson to take away i've loosened up it was fun i had fun with art and just mark making i there was no pressure to this except to show you guys um this is the two together there's something about it that i quite like but it is scary as well maybe that's why i like it but yeah that's the end of the video and let me know if you're going to go out and try this and have some fun with it but yeah uh please drop me a like if you would like to help me with my pain and i will continue to make youtube videos that satisfy your curiosity okay thanks for watching guys bye