- Hi art friends! - Hello art friends!
- These were sent to us from a subscriber called Charlene.
- [Adam] Which you may have heard about
and seen about in our mail video.
- Yeah.
So the main reason we wanted to do
a video on this is because,
since the beginning of our channel,
which feels like a dawn of an age ago...
- [Adam] When I was a lad...
- People have always asked us why I, particularly,
sketch in red pencils.
I haven't even opened these yet to see--
- [Adam] It'd be hilarious if there was no red in there.
- You might've noticed that a lot of, like,
concept artist people who do traditional work
tend to sketch in red and blue.
And we get asked, quite a lot, why this is.
My own reasons for it are probably different
to the reasons why it was popular in the first place.
- [Adam] Yeah.
- Originally, I've heard that animation artists
got really into using blue pencils,
and there was a specific shade of blue or something, where,
when they drew the pictures and scanned them in,
you wouldn't see the blue drafting lines.
And you'd only see the lines--
- [Adam] The finished stuff, which is like perfect!
- Yeah, so it's sort of like pre-Photoshop days.
It was a way of doing, like, an underlayer,
and then you could draw on top with said pencil.
Now I really like sketching in red, and,
just between you and me, guys,
I think it's because red's my favourite colour.
(Adam laughing)
It makes my sketches look really cute when they're in red.
But another reason why I started sketching in red is because
I like painting, and using markers sometimes, as well,
and I didn't like the way that the grain lines looked
when I drew on top.
- [Adam] Yeah, yeah.
- I like the way that the red pencil sketch lines look.
So it's just a personal preference.
It's kind of, I guess, part of my style.
- [Adam] It's just aesthetic goals.
- But if you are someone who doesn't like
sketch lines underneath your drawings,
you can always use something like a light box.
Then you can have, like, a sketch layer,
get a light box or a window or whatever,
and put the piece of paper on top, and then you can, like,
clean it all up, and voila, no sketch lines.
- [Adam] Hooray!
And we've shown you how to use
a window before, guys, it's easy.
- But the coolest thing about these pencils,
and I've really, really wanted to mention this in a video
for so long, 'cause I've noticed a few people
in the comments have been trying this with ordinary pencils
and then being upset that they can't erase.
They have erasers on the end, every single one.
- [Adam] All of them do.
- All of these Col Erase pencils
all have little erasers on them.
- [Adam] Yeah!
- These are like magic special pencils,
where you can colour with them,
and then you can literally erase.
As long as it's not too hard, if you push down really hard
you might have a bit of a hard time.
Same with pencils--
- [Adam] If you're, like, using these to carve into stone,
it's not gonna work.
- But we wanted to draw some pictures with them today,
'cause we've never tried to draw a picture
entirely with Col-Erase pencils.
- [Adam] Yeah, that's true!
- But first of all, I just really wanted to sum up
what they do, because we get so many questions about them.
- [Adam] Yeah, guys.
If you're ever curious, it's these.
Col Erase.
See? These.
- I'm not sure if there's any other brands
that also do the magic of erasing coloured pencil,
but if there are any, stick them down in the commments.
We'll check them out.
- [Adam] We're always open to, like, new suggestions
and trying new art supplies.
So if you use anything similar to these,
let us know, because we'll probably make a video on them.
- Yeah.
And now, I think secretly, off camera,
Adam's got the fun job of sharpening all these pencils!
- [Adam] Gimme!
- [Stephanie] So here's Adam, with his trusty,
handy dandy sharpener.
- Oh, the fun we have behind the scenes.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, we'll end up cutting out
a lot of this footage,
but I just really wanted to share his pain with you.
- Thumbs up (chuckles) for sharpening pencils.
- [Stephanie] Yay!
All our pencils are all sharpened!
- My hands!
That took so long!
Oh my god, but none of them broke so I think we'll be--
- [Stephanie] Well that's good news!
- I think we'll be okay.
- [Stephanie] So do you have any idea what you want to draw?
- Well, seeing as we have so many colours, right,
I do have an idea of someone who is very colourful.
- [Stephanie] Who is it?
- He's very shy, so you have to be very sweet to him, okay?
- [Stephanie] Okay.
- Here, Monty! Here, Monty!
Come on, boy!
You came to me!
You guys have been asking so much for Monty recently.
Whoa, easy boy!
I figured because we haven't had, like,
anything with Monty in a while,
and we have so many colours that match him pretty closely,
I'm gonna try and draw Monty and maybe some pinata friends.
- [Stephanie] Oh, that's gonna be so fun!
Every time we have a rainbow theme, now,
it will be a draw Monty special.
- "Why didn't you invite me to the rainbow party?"
- [Stephanie] So as you can see, we've got our sketchbooks.
We've got a beautiful live model.
- Keep still!
Can't life draw if you keep movin'!
- [Stephanie] Oh, are you setting him up
so that you can draw him?
- Yeah.
- [Stephanie] Keep still, Monty.
- He's really excited.
So what are you drawing?
- [Stephanie] I just want to fill up this page with,
like, a few sketches.
- [Adam] So you gonna do like
a lot of little different ones?
- [Stephanie] Yeah, I have no idea how I'll end up
polishing or rendering them.
- [Adam] So which is your good side?
This one?
Or this one?
Oh, that looks really good.
That looks like, because Monty's in focus
and you're blurred behind, it looks like one of those
dramatic thumbnails.
- This'll be the thumbnail of this video.
- [Adam] Pinata prank gone wrong.
(both laughing)
"I didn't do it!"
- [Stephanie] I'm excited, because I don't like the way
that the arm looks.
And normally, in a video, this is a terrible thing,
but this is a Col-Erase video,
so you can watch me erase the arm!
Look at that!
- [Adam] Magic!
Look at that, whoa!
- Gone!
Just like a pencil.
- [Adam] When you first discovered Col-Erase pencils,
you were so impressed with the fact that you could just
erase a coloured pencil.
- Yeah, because I saw lots of online artists using them.
And I was one of those dinguses
that thought it was just an ordinary red pencil,
so we went out to our local Hobbycraft and I picked up a
Faber-Castell red and blue pencil.
Came back, started sketching them and was like,
oh this looks so cute!
In, like, the red and blue,
then I went to erase and I was like, why?
(both laughing)
- [Adam] "This Col-Erase doesn't work!"
- But no wonder!
'Cause I remember when I was seeing all these artists
drawing in red and blue and stuff,
and then erasing and stuff, I was like,
I'm sure I've tried that as a kid and it didn't work.
And I was like,
but if other artists are doin' it, then okay.
- [Adam] Time to give in to artist peer pressure.
- Yeah, I felt like I got pranked.
I thought I'd be able to talk you through
a few sketching tips and techniques that I have.
My first draught of what I do is so light
that you can basically barely see it.
And I just do that until it's all tightened up
and I'm happy with the way that it looks.
And then I'll push down a lot harder to get,
like, a more finalised sketch.
Another cool tip for sketching
is if you flip the page and hold it up to the light.
It's difficult to see on camera,
but if you've got a strong enough light source,
you'll be able to see.
Or you might have to push down on your lines a tad harder.
But not as hard as I've done this eye here.
And that will basically give you a reverse image
of your drawing, and that's really cool
because you might be able to spot some mistakes.
It's similar to this when you, like,
flip your canvas in Photoshop.
And that's just, like, a traditional version of it.
I also had a friend recently tell me
that her way of spotting those kind of mistakes
is by holding her drawing upside down.
She can sometimes spot mistakes.
- Oh, really?
I've never even heard of that one before.
- [Stephanie] How's your drawing going?
- I had the idea, right, of him being in like
some kind of action movie.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, he does, he looks like a ninja!
- Yeah!
Recently, you guys have been asking for Monty,
like, so much.
I figured like, hey, why not put him in a movie, right?
- [Stephanie] I think he needs to have
some form of alliteration.
Like Monty Eats a Melon.
- Is that why he's jumping off a building?
"I'm gonna eat that melon!"
(both laughing)
The Melon Man's in town!
We even got sirens.
- [Stephanie] I know, there's a siren in the background!
- He was a pinata with a vendetta against melons.
"I lost my mother to a melon!"
That'd be pretty cool, actually.
Maybe his mother got killed by, like, a rogue melon,
and now whenever the Melon Man comes to town,
he finds the closest building to jump off of
to look dramatic,
and then he pursues the Melon Man.
Maybe I could try and put the Melon Man in here somewhere.
And his head could just be a melon.
- [Stephanie] So before you get too carried away with
melons, 'cause I can tell you're getting very excited here.
- Yes.
- [Stephanie] Do you have any advice for sketching?
- All I can think about is this man with a big melon head.
Similar to what you said, I mean, when,
this is going back to when I very first started drawing,
guys, when I first started drawing,
I would press on the paper way too hard.
- [Stephanie] That was one of the first things
I told you off for.
- I made the joke earlier about, like,
carving into the paper, but I really did, so.
- [Stephanie] He pushes down so hard,
or at least he used to,
that if you flipped the pages of his sketchbook like this,
you could go through two or three,
and you'd still get, like, an imprint.
- You could make, like, a rubbing
and it would be the same thing.
But yeah, just sketch lightly.
That alone would be such a huge help to you,
if you can learn to do that.
- [Stephanie] A good exercise for learning to sketch
lightly, let me just go to the back of my sketchbook.
So try and get in the habit of going from light,
and then pushing down darker towards the end of the stroke.
- [Adam] You told me this, I remember this.
- Because then you're making, like,
a conscious effort to learn to control between your
light strokes and your darker strokes equally.
Also, doing an exercise like this,
where you do a bunch of squares,
and then start off really light,
try to do the next one a little bit darker,
try to do this even darker,
and then try to do this one very, very dark.
Now, it might seem so basic, and you're like,
oh I don't need to do that.
But it's like muscle memory, and it's the same as watching
someone do like a really basic exercise on the internet,
and being like, oh I can do that.
But that doesn't mean that you've done that workout, too.
You need to start building the hand-eye coordination,
and the more you do little, basic, silly things like that,
eventually it works.
Oh!
I didn't realise he was looking at me!
- Why aren't you drawing pinatas?
It's time for Melon Man!
He's gonna be down here.
It kinda looks like Monty's got, like,
explosive diarrhoea, but that's his tail.
It's, like, flapping around.
He's not trying to get in with, like, a diarrhoea attack.
(laughing)
"I had spicy food last night, Melon Man!
"Prepare to meet your maker!"
(both laughing)
"The spicy food's too much!
"I need to lay down!"
- [Stephanie] And with my sketch at the moment,
I'm just literally going round and trying to just, like,
darken up lines.
Do you want me to give her a melon-themed dress?
- [Adam] That'd be cute, yeah!
- [Stephanie] When you next check in,
she might be looking a bit more melony.
- [Adam] Can she be a bit evil?
- [Stephanie] Melanie!
- [Adam] Oh that's awesome!
Melanie, that's perfect.
- [Stephanie] That's such a good name.
I bet so many people have already discovered that pun.
- [Adam] She looks like the kind of person
that would throw a melon at someone.
- [Stephanie] Let me have a peek at what you're up to.
- [Adam] You wanna see what's going on so far?
He's confronted Melon Man.
- [Stephanie] He reminds me so much of,
is he called Waluigi?
- Wow. We're going deep now.
I think it's really poetic that he has a baseball bat,
'cause it's both of their weaknesses.
- [Stephanie] I'm starting to darken up the lines
so you can actually see it on camera, which is nice.
- [Adam] I like that dress!
- [Stephanie] I've got her holding a watermelon.
I like watching the way your hand moves when you sketch.
You're very sort of fidgety when you sketch.
- [Adam] Well that's how you draw, you can't keep still!
- [Stephanie] Yeah, that's true.
Imagine trying to draw while doing the robot.
- Is that a new challenge that we've just come up with?
(Stephanie making robot noises)
The robot art challenge.
- [Stephanie] It looks like I'm trying to murder
you with a pencil in this view.
- I have a question.
- [Stephanie] Yeah?
- What colour is Monty, oh dear...
- [Stephanie] Just poked him in the eye!
- What colour is Monty's eye?
What colour is that round the--
- [Stephanie] Monty has brown eyes.
- [Adam] Oh!
- [Stephanie] You know, someone noticed before,
and I'm surprised some of the details that you guys notice,
someone pointed out that Monty's got two different eyes.
If you look, one of them has a shine and a sparkle in it,
and the other one looks a bit dead.
- [Adam] Hello?
How many fingers am I holding up?
- [Stephanie] Maybe it's because you just
poked him in the eye.
(Adam imitates fart)
- Have you ever had a fart
where you just had to lay down for it?
(both laughing)
We relate on so many levels.
It's okay, we've all been there.
- [Stephanie] I think you two can
speak for yourselves on this one.
- Where have you been all my life?
I see another lady has appeared.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, it makes me laugh that we've got
all these different coloured Col-Erases,
and subliminally, I've been--
- [Adam] You haven't used any of the others yet!
- [Stephanie] I'm still using the red one.
Maybe I should try and alternate to a different colour.
- [Adam] That a blue one?
- [Stephanie] It's lilac, I think.
- [Adam] Yeah.
Oh, one thing to show you guys,
'cause we always say when we do colour things,
these are colour named.
It's like vermilion and carmine red.
And black.
But yeah, they have the little names on, too.
So that's helpful.
- [Stephanie] It's very rare that I'll ever just,
like, leave a drawing as a sketch.
Because I'm someone who really enjoys, like,
the colour aspect of art.
- [Adam] I'm really bad for sketching something
and just leaving it.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, that's kind of your style, though.
You're into a lot more sketchy kind of stuff.
It's fun kind of trying to approach something
in a more Adamy kind of way for a change.
It's interesting 'cause I've got like the red underneath.
And it's sort of showing through my purple a little bit,
which I kinda like.
It sorta gives it that,
you know those old 3D movies
that used to be like red and blue?
- [Adam] Oh, and you had the special glasses for them, yeah.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, it's kinda got
that effect to it, I think.
You're actually giving him a red nose.
- No, it's a slice of watermelon.
- [Stephanie] Oh, I thought you were giving him,
like, a Wario nose.
- [Adam] Nah. (laughs)
It's not Waluigi!
- [Stephanie] It is!
It's Waluigi trapped in a melon's body.
- And he has the little skin of the melon, there.
It was meant to be like a melon nose,
because he is Melon Man,
and in not way affiliated with Nintendo.
Right, he's gonna be a watermelon, so I need the dark green.
- [Stephanie] There you go.
- 'Cause he's meant to be kinda stripy.
I'm going for, like, a watermelon aesthetic.
- [Adam] Oh, we're finally getting a melon dress.
- [Stephanie] Yeah, I couldn't resist putting in,
like, a soft little layer of colour.
It's not normally the way that I'd usually work,
but I think...
- [Adam] It looks cute!
- [Stephanie] It's always fun to try new things
in Doodle Date.
- [Adam] And you love using red Col-Erase pencils
to give characters red cheeks and red noses and things.
- I like doing it digitally, as well.
I'm gonna steal this green from you.
- [Adam] No!
Watermelon Man needs that for his face!
- [Stephanie] I've only just realised
you've put Monty in a little bandit mask.
- Well, if I'm gonna go out and whack someone with a
baseball bat, I don't want people to know who I am.
- [Stephanie] And you think that
will mask a pinata's identity?
So if we do this we'd never know who he was?
- It's like Superman and Clark Kent.
The only thing that people could tell, it's the glasses.
When he wore glasses, he was Clark Kent,
and when he took them off, he was Superman.
- [Stephanie] This is one of the most cinematic things
you've ever drawn in Doodle Date.
- I think it is, yeah.
- [Stephanie] I'm just sat here sketching cute melons.
I like how he has teeth.
- They're like dentures that he stole off somebody.
He can wear something blue.
He's a janitor.
He was a janitor before he was transformed into Melon Man.
- [Stephanie] He wasn't just a melon?
That turned into a man?
- He was just a melon that decided,
"you know what, melons don't normally have jobs,
"so I'm gonna become a janitor."
- [Stephanie] Follow your dreams, melon!
- "I'm gonna make my mother proud."
- [Stephanie] Can this be his mum?
- [Adam] Only if she has a face.
"My mother had a big nose and whiskers on her chin."
- [Stephanie] This can be his mum in her younger days.
- [Adam] That actually kind of looks like Melon Man's son.
- [Stephanie] Can that be his son?
- [Adam] She's eating him!
"Melon Man, your son's delicious!"
"Kill me now!"
- [Stephanie] If you're interested in coloured pencil videos,
I'll link another one up here that we did with Prismacolors.
Here's a button to subscribe.
- You're gonna put it there?
- [Stephanie] Yeah, right next to your face.
- Next to Melon Man.
Subscribe if you want to live.
- [Both] Doodle Date.
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