 Well, hello there and welcome to my studio. I'm Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and I work in lots of different mediums and make all kinds of different things And I want to say a special welcome back to those of you who somehow got the idea in my last video the social media breakup That I was leaving YouTube and I think you must have misheard something or didn't watch the end or something But if you're interested in finding out what I'm doing with social media in 2024 I will put a link in the doobly-doo to that video But today is an actual tutorial. I'm going to be coloring some latte in different mediums because it's cuddle-up day and Drinking something warm sounds like a good thing to do Each of the three sketches today are going to be about Three three and a quarter inches or so. I made two circles using a compass and then colored in a cup For the latte, which is really what we're going to focus on not the cup itself I'm just taking a very light marker first and sketching in a rough design And this is instead of doing it in pencil because pencil can drag when you're Going over it with alcohol markers because especially with light colors. They'll just make streaks of gray all over the place so I use kind of a Skin tone very light skin tone there so you could see it you could do it in something lighter if you want and Then switch to a yellow kind of color YR23 The yellow and the peach are going to show through in some of the foam and give it a little different color than Rather than just all the browns that are going to be used on top So it doesn't even matter that this under part is on the messy side because there's going to be a lot covering it up So I'm going to start with an e3 5. I wasn't sure if this was the perfect right color but I wanted to go from darker on the left side to a bit lighter on the right side and What I find in drawing latte is just go slowly and build up your colors So start light and then get darker. There is going to be some darker on here But I decided this was going to be kind of the middle dark and then I'm going to switch to an e3 3 Which is going to give me a little lighter of a dark color I wanted to get a little bit more of this e3 5 in here before I switch over Because I wanted some of the little swirls in the foam to have some dark Sections in between them that sort of thing So I got the e3 3 out and that starts giving me that overall Kind of color shift from the dark on the left side to the lighter on the right side And I'm even coloring over top of some of this foam Really the little heart in the center can be the only thing you leave because it's real easy to get carried away with your marker colors But all the layering of the color pushes some of the phone back underneath the surface of the coffee So it starts actually looking more realistic and before we continue. Let me bring you a word from our sponsor This latte video is brought to you by the fresh brew alcohol marker class Over at our dash classes comm in this brand new course, which is a level three an Intermediate course you will learn how to draw three different cups of coffee one is overhead One is a somewhat side view and the other is a more angled view in each one of them We will be exploring how to layer the colors how to recognize the shapes how to look for where one area Begins the other ends how to make that spoon look like it Finds how to make the reflections sparkle You are gonna have so much fun in this class You're gonna learn a lot that you can apply to other drawings of coffee cups So if you're interested, there's a link in the doobly-doo. I now return you to our regular scheduled latte video. Oh My silly marketing radio voice. I Hope that was not too jarring for you But I figured if you are watching a video on how to draw a latte foam You might be interested in drawing cups In the class there are no lattes. There's just coffee But no now that you know how to draw the latte foam Just a note if you try to draw the latte foam on a cup That's not a direct overhead view you have to distort the hearts and everything because those will also be at an angle So what I'm doing here is just kind of continually playing around and refining my shapes putting in a few darks and Trying to blend in some areas so I get softer Kind of transitions between some of the colors. I'm not too worried about making the heart perfect So if your heart is not perfect, you know, a Latte foam is not gonna be perfect anyway So here I'm using an e2 9 because the side closest to the light is gonna be the darkest side So I wanted some dark up in that corner, but also remember the shadow is gonna cast across the foam So you may need to darken a little of the foam to not just the coffee and Then at the very end I use my colorless blender to soften out the areas that are especially right around the whites The colorless blender won't erase it all the way back to white, but it'll get it close ish and it looks fantastically like a swirl on a latte So that's the alcohol marker version now for what I think is my favorite version out of these three You can decide which one you like better the colored pencils on stonehenge paper totally gave me the texture of What you can find on the top of a cup of coffee And I don't drink coffee like that's not my thing I you know if I go to Starbucks or to our local coffee shop or anything for me It's like a hot chocolate or a cider or something But I I love watching them make latte art I love watching videos on latte art because it's just fascinating to me that you pour this thing in this liquid And it just makes these shapes So this one is done entirely with two colored pencils there is a looks like the number on here is one oh three four golden rod and Sienna brown nine four five both in Prismacolor But you can use any kind of gold ish pencil for this first layer so basically what I did was sketch in the design with the Golden rod pencil and I put like a heart at the top and then a wider heart underneath of it and a still wider heart underneath that just kind of nested them and then made some Almost leaves I guess that kind of go up and curl into this thing. So it all looks like one big heart I saw a lot of variations of this design on the Googles So if you want to go find some designs rock on and see what you can locate for some inspiration You could also go to a coffee shop and get some inspiration that by the way is where I Recorded the sound here. I went to my local coffee shop and Turned on my recording device so that I could have a little coffee in behind what we're doing here today We can pretend we're sketching in a coffee shop so I'm taking the sienna brown and Reinforcing some of the darks that I want on the interior of all of that yummy Foam but not everywhere and don't put it absolutely everywhere because that's not what latte foam looks like It's kind of mishmash and it goes from dark to light in all different kinds of ways So again, I'm putting the shadow on the side kind of to the upper top and left Where the shadow is going to be cast from the cup or from the lip of the cup onto the foam So it's going to be darker up there And I'm just going to use massive numbers of layers of this because when I do layers I can slowly build it up over time Instead of trying to find one pencil and then pressing really hard My hands also don't like pressing really hard because they get tired By the way, you may be wondering what the glove is doing on my hand. I have a spider bite on that hand and I'm like one of those people if somebody has like a big weird thing going on on their their hand I get like really freaked out and I can't watch the videos. Oh, I just thought well I'm gonna wear my glove today So you don't have to look at my spider bite. At least that's I'm assuming it's a spider bite. I don't know It's going away, but not fast enough So I'm continuing to build up the layers and as I get toward the end here I'm going over top of each one of these dark sections and Going in circles with my pencil So I start getting almost a bleeding out of the dark lines because I want them to be soft And then the very last step was to use my electric eraser to Lift up some of those spots. They got a little too dark So an electric eraser on the Stonehenge paper works phenomenally So there is the latte in colored pencil The final latte is going to be in watercolor and this one the design is going to end up being a lot simpler Than the other two because it's a little tough to get all that kind of detail in in watercolor But you can certainly try it. I'm going to initially just paint in a rough heart Using my brush not worrying about trying it trying it pencil first I could do that, but then I could trap some pencil under there So I figured I'm just going to paint it very thin yellow ochre paint Because this can also serve as some underpainting as well But I want that center part of course available for a heart I'm going to dry it completely and that's going to mean the next layer I can really get into painting all kinds of shapes of swirls So if you're going to do a complex design, this would be the time to do it But I also decided in here that I wanted to change the shape of my heart and look how I can do that when I'm staying very light with my layers That yellowish part at the bottom Doesn't matter if I start painting over it to carve my heart into a different shape I can totally do that and use some of that underpainting to Enrich the the various layers of the entire latte itself So I got that layer in and then dried it And then started using some thicker and darker pigment. I added to it To the yellow ochre I added a little bit of transparent red oxide or you could add some burnt sienna If it's too bright then add a blue to it to kind of dull it down And I'm just painting right over all of those under parts. So see how it's developing that kind of nice foam under the foam sort of thing I got out my liner brush to even add a few very tiny lines But you can use like a number two brush to do that And then I went in with some darker pigment. So again using that transparent red oxide almost full strength here And creating the shadow part that goes behind the lip of the cup And then I'm just kind of making more shapes in here You can stop before you get to this point. You don't need to make it this dark But different kinds of drinks are going to be made to different depths of color So, you know, just kind of play with it and have fun These would be great for valentines, by the way Just put one of these like cut out a circle And hand somebody a circle with a latte on it and then tape a gift card to the back of it So they can go get a latte. Wouldn't that be nice? Um, so I'm just kind of painting some shapes on here You can see the brush is just kind of making these nice wiggly lines And then as I'm finishing I'm using thinner paint to fill in in between the lines Because that's going to smooth it all out a bit And leave the heart being the thing that's floating in the center without quite as many of the white parts around the outside edge But look how much it looks like foam that sunk into the coffee That was kind of what I was looking for Because with watercolor that's almost an easier look to do than Trying for some of the fancy things done in the more controllable mediums because water watercolor is not always as controllable So reaffirming the shadow up at the top side with some dark pigment and there is the watercolor version And reviewing the colored pencil one. There's still pictures of these on my blog if you want to go see that And yeah, don't forget the fresh brew class is waiting for you I don't serve coffee in it, but we do have some of the ambient sounds Of the coffee shop that you're hearing in this video I will see you guys later on Like tuesday next week next video is coming up for letter writing week. I'll see you then take care and create something every day Bye