2D Wet Felted Fox - Part Three: Finishing with the Needle

[Music] you you [Music] this is where we are it's pretty dry it's pretty pretty dry and I was just packing some rocks down so what are you working on that surface wise oh good question I have a 2-inch piece of hard insulating foam which comes from Lowe's or Home Depot or you know a hardware store okay and if you don't have that and you have a felting mat or stab at web or you know you can you can move the piece around on a smaller surface it's just it's kind of nice to have a big big surface that you can you know stab anywhere and you're ready to go it's extra noisy and the stabbings apartment so I figured people might wonder so this is a great time to use your punch tool you know if there's places that you really want works great but I want I wanted to show you everything that's left from the kit it's about three or four ounces which if you exclude flat mat is still about half your fiber you would probably if you wanted to make a second project you would need flat mat and you would definitely need those three initial colors the natural olive and tartan and I mean you might have to be a little more selective about you know how you use the rest of this but I know you're left with definitely left with plenty of fiber so I want to pick out some things that I'm going to be using more specifically for my fox so I'm getting out these sort of foxy colors we still have a couple of pieces of blends yeah you want those you want those a little bit of this dark in case I need it no hair oh my gosh that's a lot of wax here's a little gray um I did not mix and should make a gray a couple of threes because I know I'm gonna have to work on the face all right I really just want to get rid of all the locks and stuff leave the rest over here so you're keeping the Purple's whites I'm pretty much done with greens gonna keep out colors that I might use on the Fox but I'm pretty much done with locks the only reason you might need a green or sky is if you need to sharpen up sharpen up an area around the Fox so for example if I didn't like this this line right here I could I could take a nice light sky color and and you know put it right up against there and sharpen that up but I'm actually and I've had to do that I've gotten where the head's just sort of spread out and I wanted to tweak them tighter again but I actually like this and I like this this is the mohair in the rough of his neck here and I love the way it gets all curly like that so generally what I've been doing is just punching up details on on the fox's face and I think we'll just go ahead and do that you know what I need is my Stillman I need my reference picture definitely okay face is pretty good already those of you out there don't don't be troubled if your face doesn't quite look like that so much can be done I'm always thinking everyone's like hers is great - crap that is how I feel when I work on my projects so we're gonna get down to like really small amounts of fiber little details you can you can really do a lot I mean you can you can get as particular with this as you'd like to I try to not get super like I do feel like the here mile come over here I do feel like the needle felted parts look different a little different than the wet felted part so just keep that in mind it will look a little different so I'm just busting up some black for the nose trying to make it as small as possible so that when I stab it on I'm using my needles to ultimately shape it a little bit more as it goes on feel like whole thing is shaking [Music] honey I don't know how I hand it up this dark chestnut here not the right color fine I have a lot of tweaking to do and my I ended up like all huge and vague so I'm gonna try and get that I really just get why it's it's little distracting [Laughter] why is it shaking I mean it's like you're moving we gotta get that we're so professional Hey looking really foxy already I like under his chin here it's a it's a little later spot but it's pretty warm so I need my amber and then maybe a little bit of purple just to shade it up oh that's better I'm mixing a a warm gray to go under his chin and I'll probably end up using it in a few spots and then like I said you might either need to break or cut the fiber smaller to make it go where you want to go I mean I I try to avoid running everything you know in a long fiber redirection I try to get things to have fringy edges too to blend them together because whenever you run something a fiber in a length it's gonna have a very distinctive edge and we want a lot more kind of subtle color changes here somewhere ahead mixed I probably used it but I just want a nice bright white but that's what that's what's in here I got a little polluted by this Orange nice bright light coming off the chest here as loud isn't it it's a little noisy and I just think maybe more just if you look at the cord here as you stab you'll see it goes shake shake put a little brighter weight on the parts of the muscle that the Sun might be seeing it's got a little more chin here than I have so I'm gonna add that and then I start popping highlights where I see them great the rim of the eye here so people should have the reference picture in front of their face mm-hmm definitely now they're watching this and they might need like their phone with the reference picture on it of all your devices out so that you can see what the heck we're doing at this point your piece can look different and mean will look different different tweaking so this they all look different you're not necessarily doing this your new already what your piece what you need it's very small amounts of fiber that were working with right now so you're looking for the brighter spots and the darker spots just trying to start with what's darker and then work towards what's brighter so people just keep mixing mixing their mixes and getting the right yeah well looking at the Fox and then I'm looking at my picture like the Fox is maybe a little more challenging in the hummingbird in this in this part but foxes can foxes have such a general kind of look to them that it can be fairly stylized and like it you know really look cool so if if you're not getting the same amount of you know realism or detail or that's okay it's gonna be it's just gonna have a slightly different vibe to it just trying to sharpen up this line a little bit white into the edge here to neaten that up so I have this light blend here and if i cut a sharp edge so I could either lay it this way to get along that line or I can cut it and then that also gives me a clean edge brain which goes out into the sky I'm gonna hit that with the punch tool lateness up here I think I'm gonna cut this too because it's just a real small little Ridge upgrade out light on top of his head he's got a little bit of deep deeper color colors so you have some brown and the dark swings around a little bit of the dark mix that I had it's mostly brown Oh just stab myself um this guy I'm pretty happy with all this like oh my other one I I mess with that a lot but really it's just the just the face here I'm trying to tweak a little bit sometimes you can tease things into place you're sit to be careful on your needles I wonder how the reverse needles would work pulling you know pulling some stuff out maybe try that so adding the lights and the darks and the brights makes it go from flat to kind of give it more dimension to your eye and yeah exactly you're you're creating the the form you know the roundness and the so by adding this c-shape of light color right here I'm creating that touch sheet and then he's got some pretty good orangey highlights in there so you're pulling some of your light light mix and the medium mix yeah we have to cut this have some silk in it it's such a small amount of fiber I think we get in trouble when we try to get too much you know because you just you just don't need you don't need that much to make a big difference and then you're trying to figure out how to stab it on and where it goes and later color down in here but it's muted so it doesn't have to be super bright so I'm taking um America and ash and a little bit of that mix that I had cut it make it easier to blend here tall little bit dull that's low relative to the eye but not not too far out of whack like this your fringe here is pretty important so I'm gonna brighten that up with a little bit of amber I guess I can make a say in this I sort of got it with the wet felting but I feel like it can be better all right so it's really just a little highlight on the nose and eye details spot in here I want to is almost entirely black but I just see a little bit of amber towards the back of the eyeball so I'm using up one of my brighter orange mixes that I already had like I said it is a small small amount probably too much even and my head in there no I'm way zoned now she has a pen tool but it only has two needles yeah so I can I can target you might need to you might need to use a single needle and now I'm pulling a little bit of a lighter brighter color that I want to put towards the front of the eyeball here and this Fox's eye is a little it's a little tricky sometimes it's looking over to the left at me like the viewer and sometimes I get it to where it looks like it's looking forwards but I having a hard time controlling that switch to a single needle here so I could really push this fiber around and get it exactly where I want it to be now I'm gonna take my dark up into the top of the eye I'm just gonna get some black cuz his his his little eyeball is a little bit hooded by his brow and if you've got the bulb going all the way around that it makes him look surprised and like he's got his eyes that's what's wrong with my crazy wide open yeah well something you can play around with and of course we want that white dot in there so in this case I'm putting it a little forward in the eyeball because I feel like the Sun is hitting it on the forward side not on that backwards side I want a little rim on the edge of the nose so believe it or not reflections are often sky colors so I took a tiny bit of blue and a tiny bit of purple just mixing them together often on reflections on black out when I'm painting I'll dance around Till's and rust colors they work well to create that shine it's just not quite black on top of the news people are having a lot of fun with the 2d portraits you know oh yeah the will does something really neat huh I'm not crazy about this hard-edged here see if I can and then I just want to deepen right there a little bit I would say one of the main takeaways if you will is keep blending yeah and blending to get just that right shade the more variety you have then we're realistic realistic it looks yeah take your time with this and you know enjoy it I'm I'm not rushing exactly but I'm you know I'm aware that I'm shaking the table and making you know making a video and um trying not to we can't we can't fill up all of YouTube alright try as we might I feel like this outermost edge of the lip should be light not I've got I'm getting kind of a dark effect from my wet felting that was underneath but feel like this what do you think how does it look in that how does it look in the screen look at whoa does look pretty good cool pretty nice gonna highlight this ear get a little get a little golden rim around this here like the Sun King handle and light you up and right here didn't quite get this the punch that needs okay if I wasn't so handsome myself I might be jealous but a lot of fun yeah I just it's fun haven't I have three here and it's cool to see how different they they just different and there's a lot you can do especially with the sky choices pretty simply so I hope you guys had a good time with it and get excited about more 2d whether it's wet felting or needle felting because we definitely want to do more and you can share your projects and your any kind of felting news on Sarafina felting fanfare on Facebook that's our group very supportive if you have any questions - great great group of people there to help answer one anything else to add what's going on I slacker well I think I think that's okay we'll get back to it we'll get back to it on the next one we talk to her to our friends in the UK about that yeah all right take care we'll see you next time [Music]

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Published: Tue Dec 17 2019