 So we are going to do some work in my eyeball journal today I Wanted to give you guys a little tutorial. I know we kind of went over eyeballs not long ago But I didn't really do an in-depth tutorial. This video may end up being a little bit on the long side just some forewarning so I'm working in this small journal and It's a Pentalloc watercolor journal How big is it? So it's something I don't have at the table when I start filming and that noises my wheels of my chair rolling across the floor Okay, so it's about five and a half by three and a half It's a good small size journal enough for one small piece of work And I've been using my travel watercolor kit because number one I have it But I don't just do this upstairs in the art room. Sometimes I do it downstairs in front of the TV So I can just grab these two things and take them downstairs, which is easy And there's brushes and everything in here Which will go over in a minute, so one of the couple things that I've been doing is At this point I've done quite a few eyeballs in here and I'm Up to like there I'm about what I don't know halfway So I've started making a list of whose eyeballs I've done because I do have friends and family sending in eyeball pictures and That is great, but at some point after the first couple of eyeballs I started to lose track of who's I've done So that being said I put some sticky notes in the cover and I write down the names of the ones I've done And then I started out and I was going to do them all this way And I was going to sign and date them all and I signed and date a few of them, but I think I stopped doing that Yep, I need to sign this one. So actually I'm pretty doing pretty well on that one So I started out by doing I was going to do them all this way sort of semi realistically and Then I thought well That's all well and good, but it's kind of boring So why don't I do one version of the same eyeball this way and then one this way That's fun. So then one this way and one this way This is my dad's with his crazy Einstein eyebrow hairs sticking out everywhere so I've done these ones so far and one of the other things that I do and reason that they're signed is I try to remember to scan the person of Inspiration whose eyeball that is that's my soon-to-be son-in-law polyus and I send them copies of the finished work of their eye what they may not like them they may delete that it doesn't matter But I sent them I scan it and send them a copy. This is my daughter Rebecca and then I Just keep I've kept going It's been a few weeks since I picked up this journal to be honest There's been a lot of stuff going on and I've gotten let myself get distracted and you know all of those things I will say I like working in this journal. The paper is really nice I'm not having any issues at all with pilling or weakness or too much warping It's a really nice journal. So that being said we're gonna do another eyeball and the only difference between this one And this one is the doodling to be honest. I I go a little crazier with the coloring and the doodling and You know like in this one, it's a green eye, but I make it more green and You know do crazy crazy things around the eye to just make it more fun I'm gonna show you how to do one of these in this video We'll do one of these in a different video. That'll be in part two One of the things besides the journal that you're gonna need is a little For lack of a better term, I just call these a little dashboard. That's not really what it is It's like a protective sheet. It's cut out of a piece of plastic in this case. This is a plastic Like Dollar Tree cutting board cutting cheap cutting mat and I just cut it about the size of the journal I have a million of these I cut them all the time to fit in different kinds of journals And then I hold that down and hold it open with some of these small binder clips that just You know, then you have a nice flat work surface if I get sloppy with the paint I don't have to worry about Wrecking this eyeball that I've already done because it's protected with the plastic. So that works. I have a pencil I've got some regular paint brushes, although that's not normally what I use to paint these I usually use what's in the kit, which will go over in a minute And then I said I have friends and family sending me their eyeballs Including a couple from family pets eyeballs are going to be included. So This is our grand dog Lily and Then this is we went and found a picture of our deersuit bandit So I'm going to be adding his eyeball to the journal and honestly, I think that's why I To be really real with you guys I think that's why I haven't painted in here for a while because I realized I was going to add bandits eyeball And I think that just stalled me out Because I'm still getting over that so Yeah, so there we go Today we're going to work on my friend Carla McCants' eyeball. That's that's her eyeball. I believe And then I have it on the iPad and I have the eyeball in question open One thing I do on the iPad is I don't want it to keep going to sleep because that's annoying It does have a hundred percent charge. So I have plenty of time. So I'm going to go down here to display in brightness I'm going to take the auto lock and turn it off. So it's never Then I can go back to the photo album and Carla's eyeball and I can set it up here where I can look at it over here For inspiration and it'll just stay on Then in my travel kit, this is from art toolkit and I've modified this to suit me This isn't what comes in it But I will link their website in the description below and you can look at they have this little pocket one And then they have a bigger one. I have a scrap piece of paper here to try Different colors on and wipe my paintbrush off on and this is you can tell this is from doing the eyeballs because it's mostly skin tones and grays and I Always have a little piece of mr. Clean magic eraser You can use a lot of things to lift water and or water color from your work And including just a plain wet paint clean wet paintbrush I find the mr. Clean magic eraser works really really well So I just buy one eraser and cut slivers off of it and the one eraser lasts me a long time You can get them at the dollar store. I Have a mini mr. Type of thing that I used to spray down the watercolors that are in here and activate them I Have a water soluble black pen a permanent black pen a black paint pen and a white gel pen Those are all for making marks making corrections And adding interest to your watercolor, I don't ever hardly ever just use just watercolor on a piece I'm a mixed media artist by trade. I love my watercolors, but I'm by no means a watercolor purist So I love these. I also have a few colored pencils you can see over here And I use them for the same thing. I have a Straight edge ruler a short one like a six inch one And I have a piece of a gift card. Actually, it's a piece of an insurance card And those are just for scratching in the paint and making marks in the paint and also for getting a straight edge This is the watercolor palette that's in here my travel palette, which we'll go over in a minute on this side As I said, I have colored pencils. I've got one short ballpoint pen This is from like a keynote table or something somewhere. I picked up. I Have a habit of doing that a white crayon for preserving the white paper, which I'm not very good at This is a blacks to be low all pencil, which is water soluble These short colored pencils. These are kids Cray Paws I can't I can't read it, but I think it's cray paws and they're from hobby lobby They're just the mini colored pencils. They come this this small. They fit right in here I have those and then I have a couple of stubby Prima watercolor pencils in here, too And then I have one short plain graphite pencil. It's from that place because yeah, that's a thing These are the brushes. I usually use these are Water brushes these are the Sakura ones and then a couple of a couple of Bottoms and a couple of different nib sizes. Usually these are what I use to do the what the eyeballs I have a medium and a fine point. Yeah, those usually work for me I don't usually use the super large one, but sometimes And then of course I have a pencil sharpener. Everybody needs a pencil sharpener in their kit and then on this side I Have a rag because you always need a rag and that one. Wow that one is really dirty that one That one I need to put a clean rag in there. I have a piece of wax paper which helps again protect your work When you're working in a journal like this if you don't have your little piece of plastic And I have a couple pieces of that. It's just wax paper or deli paper Some plastic wrap This is good for scrunching up and putting in the wet watercolor and pushing it down and letting it dry and it creates Interesting texture in your watercolor and then a little plastic sleeve with a needable eraser and some salt Packets the salt is also for leaving in the wet watercolor to leave interesting marks and texture And then you just let it dry naturally and then wipe it off So that's what's in here Because we're at the work table and we're upstairs. I'm going to use regular brushes and I have a Faber-Castell number nine round I Have a Princeton select number one round which is super little and My favorite brushes the Princeton Neptune's love these and I particularly Love love love particularly love the half inch flat so I'm gonna put those in my water and get them wet and We've got our pencil. We don't need this little spray bottle effect This is almost empty. I've got to fill it because again, we're upstairs and so I can use my big bottle This is my travel watercolor palette it has a combination of Koi and Daniel Smith watercolors I've taken the tray insert out so I can get more colors in it and this little tray has been a lot of places I'm gonna just spray it. This is a mixture of water and oxgull liquid Which is in the rewetting of the watercolor Put that over there and just let those get nice and juicy Make sure we're on camera. Okay, so there's a lot of ways you can start your eyeball now I know you're gonna say I need to tilt this a little bit. I'm right-handed I know you're gonna say, you know, I don't know how to draw. How the heck am I gonna do this? Well, there's a shortcut to that of course print the eyeball in question to the size of the journal page or the size you want on the journal page and then use a piece of art transfer paper or carbon paper to Trace the shape onto your page in a pinch Rub the back of the print once you have it printed in size the right size Rub the back with a pencil with some graphite Lay it graphite side down on the paper and then trace your eyeball shape onto your onto your page we really Don't want lots of you don't have to go into lots of detail on the pencil marks because we're gonna paint things in We're gonna doodle them in or add them in with white pen But you want the basic shape and the basic basic landmarks of the eye So we're gonna go with my friend Carla's eye and her eye is very rounded on the top and the bottom With a depth you can definitely see where Okay, sorry guys my Notifications only start going off when I start filming so you can see how my friend Carla's eye is Very rounded on the top with also slightly rounded on the bottom. It's amazing when you look at the eyes How different of a shape they are so this is my friend peg peg Robinson's eye and it's very almond shaped Carla's is more round This is Cindy's eye hers is flatter at the bottom and It's almond shaped, but it's it's almost like a teardrop a teardrop almond shaped And oh, there's my eye all I see are the bags under my eye I haven't done my eye yet. So so you get the idea each one's different and I don't ask them in Reality what color their eyes are I go by what I see not what I think I see So like okay, so for instance my eye my eyes naturally are a very dark amber brown Color really really dark. I don't usually First of all stare into my eyes and see what color they are But I also don't see what looks like in the picture is this like rim of gray dark dark gray almost black I don't see that when I look in the mirror, but I see it in the picture So when I paint my own eye, I'm going to paint that This is my husband's eye. He's got very very blue eyes, but here they look almost like a green I'm not even sure you can see that on camera. Let's see. Can you see that? I don't know It's a lot of glare But you get the idea. Here's my dad eyes now My dad has very brown eyes, but here there's some green in going on in there So each one is different depending on the photo that was taken and I go by what I see in the picture You Carlos I forgot forgot for a second whose eyeball we were doing. All right, so With the picture in front of me I'm going to just sketch the eye out first. I'm going to sketch the upper eyelid and then the lower lid I'm using really light pencil strokes short sketchy strokes and The lower lid a little space where the tear duct is we're going to put in the iris the color Which is the colored part of the eye for those that don't know That's a little big little fleshy part of the tear duct over here And there's usually a little fleshy part over here. She's got this hooded eye He's definitely see the ridge So we'll draw that in Sort of map out her eyebrow Again, you notice I'm barely like making marks on the paper I'm not planning on erasing these I'm planning on leaving them and having them add to the piece But at the same time that doesn't mean that I want them To take over and you know, I want them to work with the watercolor not overpower the watercolor So I'm going to draw in where the pupil is there is some highlights. I think that looks pretty good Now we get to start with the painting So the first thing we need to do is mix up some flesh tone and I mix up a new one for each eyeball because everybody's flesh tones a little bit different Carlos is A little bit of a in the picture a purpley purpley flesh tone. I usually start with Um like a nickel nickel azo yellow Then I'll add some crimson lake red And I'll shoot for something that's a peachy color and With watercolor, it's going to be lighter or darker depending on how much water is there and Then in this case, I'm going to want to put in some like purpley blue colors Sometimes I'll add in something really bright like a little teeny tiny touch of opera pink. I think this is pretty good so I'm going to go and Put some of this on in the darker spot of Her eye Then I'm going to rinse off my brush And I'm going to add just water I'm going to have my Mr. Cleaney racer close by I'm going to try to not get the sclera the white part of the eye With any paint on it because it is Usually not as white as you think it probably is but at the same time I want to be more controlled about where I get the paint. I'm going to take I'm going to make some of this brighter. I'm seeing sort of these purpley pink tones around her eye Rinse my brush off and it's all really about layers of paint So adding layers taking them away. I usually work just like this a brush in one hand that eraser in the other hand I also am not Super worried about like perfect blending. I'm not about that I'm I like suggesting shapes rather than trying to stress myself out about drawing them exactly Now these colors are blending into each other because everything's very wet, which is fine All right Now we're going to take a little bit of what's left of this color. Let's bring it down into the tear ducts We're going to let that dry for a minute Let's work on the iris and what I see in the pictures are some brown and gray tones Maybe a teeny tiny touch of green. So I'm going to take some burnt umber I'm mixing it with some Some grays and blues that are already on and greens that are already on the mixing part of the palette I probably should switch to the round brush because I do think it's time the outside of the iris is always darker generally Then the I won't say always but is generally darker than the center part towards the pupil I'm going to add Let's add some of a million a little teeny bit of vermilion to it. Oh, that was a lot of vermilion That's a little bit red Well, we'll just add some more brown and I just work my way around the palette mixing colors Adding them to my painting, you know with watercolor. I've said it before you work lighter Start lighter and work your way darker Usually at least I do I can control what happens better if I do it that way I'm going to take a little bit of some of these colors and we're gonna I'm also going to take some of this darker color and Here and blend the bottom of it You got to work kind of quickly because sometimes the pigments really stain and stick and then they don't want to blend out with the water so Depending on the paint and the pigment Okay, we'll put our first layer of black in the pupil I'm not going to go all the way to the edge because the iris paint is still wet I do sometimes do this and refer back to other works and What have I done to suggest different shapes colors? I've used Marks I've made like that Once you get a few of these done you can do that I do want to make a darker brown So I'm going to take a little bit of the black and mix it with the brown that we have on here Take this and it's pulling out the pigment and helping me create the eyelashes That was kind of a lot of that. That's better. Let's try that again That was a lot of paint. Okay, there's also some interesting shadowing on her face So we're going to mix up A shadow color here. I need to add some more blue to it Let's use cobalt Oh, that's a lot of blue. Holy cow Can you see that? Yeah, you can see that the corner of your screen So let's go back to the brown Let's I was shooting for something that was more brownie bluey green I'm what I got and there's like a dark spot like right here So I'm going to put a little bit of pigment there and just use just water And again my eraser I don't want to go too far with the eraser Drawing the shape that I see in the photo Drawing painting. What am I doing? Painting painting painting Now you'll notice when you start doing these that the white part of the eye is not completely white I said that before There's always a shadow on the white part of the eye from the eyelid at the very least So you want to put that in it'll help your painting look more realistic. Sometimes there's a shadow below I like to go in and take some of the upper pink And a little bit of whatever flesh tone I have Or neutral tone I have that I'm using on the particular painting To make some kind of bright ish pink color To add that to the tear ducts Even if that's not necessarily a color that you see a lot of in the painting it helps aid In the realism of the painting We're going to go in and add some more um dark color to the iris because it's time now Put a little bit of pigment and then again with the water It's bleeding a little bit because I didn't wait long enough for it to be dry. It's all right We'll work with it. It'll work out Something I don't think you can see on camera is when I'm pulling the water out of the Uh, the brush sorry the brush out of the water is I'm dabbing it off on my rag That's why that other rag looks so dirty That's something I do a lot of When I'm painting So I said before there were some I don't know. There's this bluish brownish gray tone that I see in the photo So we're going to add that The other thing I don't always do is make the um irises as dark as they appear in the photos I've received Um You know, we're all taking these with our cell phones So a lot of times the flash does weird things to the color of the eye Which I don't necessarily mind for these paintings, but it also makes them darker than they really are sometimes So I made it too green Okay, actually, you know what I'm really liking that. I'm going to stop there I'm going to I do want to add a little bit of this one of these dark colors To her eyebrow Her eyebrows aren't super dark, but they're not as light as I have them in the painting either. So Just I'm barely touching the paintbrush to the paper and then I'm going to take a little bit of it Okay, we're going to dry that and we'll be right back Okay, so now we're going to go in and we're going to add some more marks And really bring our eye to life the first mark that we're going to do are the highlights or the white spots from the flash I'm going to just use a white gel pen. You of course could use a white paint pen um and You know, you're taking inspiration from the photo that the person that you asked to send You a photo sent you you can you're taking inspiration from that that doesn't mean you have to copy it exactly You can of course, but you don't have to This pen is just about dead. So it's not wanting to write very well Because it's been very well loved on my eyeballs I need a new New one try one of these I go through lots of uniball signal pens Just fyi Yeah, that's much better Okay, so not only to put the highlights in the eye Sometimes there's a highlight on the sclera the white part of the eye and you may not necessarily be able to see this on camera Um, but it does make a subtle difference To your painting Um, sometimes there is a light spot on the skin or a reflection on the skin So then I will go in with The white gel pen. This is one dead too. No, it's working And I will add and again, you may not be able to see that on camera There's usually a reflection on the lower lid Sometimes in and around the tear duct and sometimes I just want to go in and Do a little bit of color correcting where if things bled So what I'll do is put a little gel pen and while it's Still wet I'll go in with some water And it won't completely disguise the boo boo, but it makes it so it just works better with the painting And there we have it An eyeball in the eyeball journal So I hope that you all give this a try and you Um play and experiment I am planning on filling up this whole journal with eyeballs and then I think I have another one of these I think I'm going to fill it up with lips um, so I'm having a lot of fun with it if you would like Um to start one and you want an eyeball I will put a link to my eyeball in the description below and y'all can paint my eyeball if you so choose Um, I think that would be a lot of fun. So there you go Have some fun with it And play and experiment don't forget to like share and subscribe hit that little bell icon If you want notifications when a new video comes out Don't also forget to check out my link tree in there You're going to find links to all of my social media sites if you want to follow me Places where you can support the free content here on youtube and over on facebook Like patreon and my amazon affiliate store Where to buy my book my etsy shop where you can buy my stamps and stencils and all of that kind of stuff Um, so check it out The most important thing of course is to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys