 Hey guys, right, so we're gonna embark upon a new Little series of videos. They're gonna be quick short videos Playing with a new stencil in my Etsy shop. This is called four faces for obvious reasons And I'm not gonna just release a stencil and tell you about it We're gonna actually do a few different things about it And I'll show you kind of what I had in mind with it when I was designing it Which I hope you all find interesting So I was thinking about doing a series of videos Experimenting different ways to do faces and our art and different techniques different materials and I thought you know For a lot of people out there myself included especially when I was first getting started It would be really handy to have some sort of guide that you didn't have to necessarily Stick to religiously in your work and your finished piece But that you had some sort of like guideline of where different facial features should be the basic ones anyway That was the idea behind creating this stencil and then I thought as I was creating it I was going to just do one face and I have other face stencils in my shop. I Will include some pictures of them Here somewhere in the video And they're bigger they take this is a six by six so they take up the whole Stencil But I thought if it would be great if we had a smaller one and that each one of the faces was a different shape and They were generic or semi-generic so that they could be male or female That was the idea behind this so I thought okay, so I sat and did some drawing got with my stencil cutter What if and and see And I will link their Etsy shop in the description below They not only cut stencils for themselves and sell them at their shop and cut them for me They will cut them for just about anybody. So if you're interested, I'll leave their Etsy shop and contact information below and you can Contact them and see if you can work something out. Anyway, I talked to her and She said she thought that was a great idea Let me see what I could do and we came up. This is what we came up with and They're positioned most of my stencils with four images on them like this are positioned in a way that you can cut them apart If you want to lots of people myself included if I'm at home Like to just use them as a whole stencil But when I'm traveling especially and sometimes if I'm working in a small journal I do like to actually cut them apart and the this is what they look like when they're cut apart individually And especially if you're traveling with your stuff Then having them cut apart is handy. It fits in a smaller bag, right? You could even tuck them into the cover of your journal So we're gonna play with these today. I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna show you a page We're gonna do a lesson. I'll encourage you all to do something similar now I'm not saying you have to have these to do this because you don't you could Definitely use what you have you could sketch out something in pencil to start with on the page You could actually use carbon paper or graph or art transfer paper and a picture of a face from a magazine to Transfer the basic shapes of the face onto your page before you get started. You just Want the very basics, okay? So we're gonna fill this journal up here over the coming weeks with just faces done different ways using the stencil and Each one's gonna be an experiment each one's gonna be a different technique and I think each one's gonna be a lot of fun Now this journal is made with 70 pound drawing paper These are the ones that I make and I do sell some of them in my Etsy shop and I don't know how many are left I don't think there's any left with white paper. I could be wrong But I have usually white paper black paper tan paper and gray paper So I'll whatever is left in the Etsy shop at the moment. I'll link below I had to actually make a white paper one for myself because my personal stash didn't have any in it So Anyway, it's just a homemade journal. You could use whatever you want this one measures about Ruler I need a ruler 7 by just under 5 And this is my actually favorite size of journal to work on I do work on smaller ones and slightly bigger ones But this is actually my favorite size So the first thing you want to do is find your face or face stencil that you want to use I'm gonna use today this one with a square jaw And I'm gonna use just a plain number two graphite pencil. I'm gonna sort of sense center the Stencil in the page and I'm gonna use my pencil through the stencil to trace out the basic shapes of Where things are going or should go in the face when we're done So when you're done, you'll have something like that. Let's zoom in just a little bit. There we go See just a very light touch. I didn't go very dark with the pencil. Don't dig any holes to China Let me grab a piece of Hard plastic which I like to have between So this is a little like journaling trick. I guess you could call it that I do I Have lots of these little sort of plastic dashboards that want to work in different sizes and Whether I'm working like this or I'm downstairs with my daily drawing, which is downstairs by the couch I put one of these between the page. I'm working on in the next page I do tend to be a very messy artist and sometimes I'm working on paper that While it can take most things if I get it too wet things leak through and then get the next page dirty I also it also gives you a harder surface to work on and press down on Okay, the next thing you're going to need is a black pen. This is just a regular big crystal black pen Nothing special Nothing, you know fancy just a plain old pen You just want it to be something that dries down completely and doesn't stay wet for too long Also Before we get started Okay, so the first page that we're gonna do in here We are going to just do a technique where once you get started drawing your face You don't lift your pen up off the page The goal is to not lift it up at all I always find myself lifting it up at least once but the goal is to not lift it up at all It's not to create a perfect neat pay a face. It's to Do actually to do a messy fate you're gonna do a messy face and If you do it with a pen that's water-soluble After you do your face and maybe we'll do maybe we'll do two on this video Now that I'm thinking about it and we'll use Not that one my other pen is downstairs Pilot varsity pen, which is water-soluble So if you do it with a water-soluble ink Then you can go in with a water brush and you can smear the ink or blend the ink a little bit to create some shadows So you know what I think we're gonna do both ways. We're gonna do dry and then we're gonna do wet So you ready? All right, let's get started. I'm gonna speed forward through well I'm not gonna speed forward through it, but I'm gonna I'm not gonna talk I'm gonna focus on what I'm doing and I'm gonna put some music and we'll be back when I'm done That was done in real time. I didn't slow it down I didn't fast-forward it and you could you end up with something interesting like this He's pretty cute. All right So now we're gonna turn the page and this is where this little hard piece of plastic is even more important because we're gonna do one with ink that's not Waterproof the other thing you could do when the ink is dry is you can go back So the idea is for the stencil to just be a guide, but then when you're done and your ink is dry go back with an eraser and Erase all the pencil lines You don't have to do this night if you've been watching my channel for a while You know, I just generally don't bother with erasing But there you go, and then you just have something that looks like you just did it freehand with no guide Cool, right? All right, let's do one with the water-soluble ink And let's pick a different shape face Maybe maybe the round one and I need Scrap piece of paper because this pen has been sitting for a while. Let's make sure it's working. Oh, yeah It's working. So this pilot varsity ink. This is a disposable fountain pen and The thing about it is it's water-soluble and When you get it wet it does this So it's really great to add some shadows and things to your work. So we're gonna use that to our advantage And again, we're gonna start with The pencil. I'm gonna think I'm gonna flip it this way. We're gonna trace our face shapes Now these were sized in a certain way that say you wanted the round face But you wanted to do these eyes or these features that you could totally Use the features from one stencil in the shape of the face of another most of them you can do that with Helps if you hold it down and it doesn't slide out from underneath you. So that's our face So now the technique the basic technique is gonna be the same All right, so I'm gonna do this in real time and then I'm gonna take a water brush to it And we'll be right back. Okay. So there's our second face. So first face Second face now. I did take the heat gun to it to dry it once you've done that if if there are any visible pencil lines You can go in dry it dry it first But you can go in and erase them Then you'll see because I got the paper wet. It's warped a little bit I don't really mind that at all But if you're gonna do this and you that does bug you then use a journal that has maybe a thicker paper like mixed media paper You do kind of want the surface to be smooth And you don't want to use something textured like cold press watercolor paper because it will make it can make your pens sort Of skip over the paper. That's fine. If you don't mind the added texture you're drawing But for these kind of practice little pieces that might drive you crazy. So anyway, I want you to try These first two techniques for faces Of course using my stencils if you Want to buy them? Let's zoom out a little bit But using what you have you could of course make your own stencil if you have a silhouette cutting machine or something similar But if you aren't so inclined I have these and it is you do get all four faces when you buy the stencil You get one of these so and you can opt to do it package free naked and you save a dollar. I'm gonna put some Information in the description below. So do check it out. We're gonna have these videos I'm gonna do one or two faces in every video for a while until we fill this journal up We're gonna be using the face guide to do collage and to do doodling over paint and all different kinds of things so That's it for today. I hope it gives you an idea of what you can do Practicing your faces creating something new fun and artistic and filling a little journal all at the same time That's it for right now. 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