Learn How to Paint BAD HARE DAY with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home - Step by Step Painting Tutorial

hi there i'm michelle the painter from berkshire paint and sip and this is paint and sip at home [Music] all right so today i'm going to be painting bad hair day and i'm also going to be sipping on a little spike seltzer and if you enjoy this video i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you'll find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so what i'm going to be using for my materials today is a stretched and primed 16 by 20 inch canvas if you're painting along with me you can certainly switch up the size but that's what i'll be using for my paint today i'm using acrylic paint my colors are titanium white burnt umber which i'll call brown mars black chrome yellow and fire red and of course you can switch up those colors if you'd like to but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a standard number two pencil and then i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number eight round brush and then i have a number one round brush and i will refer to these as small medium and large as we go through the painting process and of course you can switch those up as well if you'd like if you're painting along with me you'll probably want to have a cup of water for washing your brushes as well as a paper towel for drying them and down below this video in the video description i do provide you with a couple of additional resources that can help you up throughout your painting process one of them is a link where you can purchase the same paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas even right down to the paper towel you get one of those on your kit too so that's down there but there's also a link where you can download a free image of the final painting so you can print that and use it as visual reference as you go through the painting process and there's also written step-by-step instructions down there for you as well and that's all we're going to need today all right so what we're going to do for the first step is we're going to be drawing ourselves an outline for our rabbit and we're going to use our pencil to do that and how we're going to do this is i'm going to give you a couple of markers we're going to connect those markers we're going to be doing some basic shapes and then by the time we're done we'll have um an outline that is going to be nice and representational of this super cute bunny that we're going to be doing so what i'm going to have you do is you're going to come down to the bottom of your canvas and you're going to make yourself a couple of marks at the bottom of the canvas one of them is going to be over from the right hand corner about a quarter of the way you'll just make yourself a little bit of a mark and to figure out where a quarter of the way is you can kind of eyeball there's a piece of my hair you can kind of eyeball where the halfway point is and then just go about halfway between there and the end and make yourself a mark and i'm going to do the same thing over on the left hand side so about halfway between here and here i'll make myself another little mark and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come up from kind of the center of those two marks about a quarter of the way up my canvas and again to figure out where that quarter way is you can say all right well this is about halfway up my canvas and it's about halfway between there and the bottom make yourself a mark and then you can we're going to connect these three markers with a semi-circle so somewhere in this vicinity i want this to be pretty darn big i'm actually coming out farther than the bottom dot so something like this and you can see i'm just kind of sketching i want it to be really really wide and then it's going to kind of come around and meet my my marker so something like this it's almost kind of flattish on the top and then it just kind of bumps out along those sides then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself a couple of additional markers one's going to be about here and then one's going to be about here i'm going to come up from here maybe about two inch two and a half inches or so and i'm gonna do another little semi-circle something like this this is going to give us the top part of our head like that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make two more markers on the top of this head these are going to be maybe about i would say an inch and a half to two inches apart something like this these are going to be the inside areas of the ears and then i'm going to come down the side to you don't need to come very far down so maybe uh maybe about two inches or so make yourself a mark oops and do the same thing on the other side so somewhere about here this is going to be the outside of the ears now what i'm going to do is i'm going to just draw one ear at a time so i'm going to work on the right ear first so the tip of this right ear is going to be way up here so i'm about an inch away from my canvas and i would say maybe four or five inches from the top of my canvas so i'm going to make myself a mark there i'm going to connect that marker to this one in through here with a curved line so you can start at the bottom or you can start at the top wherever you feel comfortable starting just going to make myself a nice long curved line in through there and then i'm going to do the same thing with this marker is going to connect to here only this time i'm going to come in a little bit at first and then i'm going to kind of get it to bump out just a little bit and meet this inside or the outside marker and through there and then i'm going to give myself a little sliver of what will be the outside of the ear so i'm going to come from this corner in through here and i'm going to give myself a little bit of a sliver so this will represent the outside of the ear and that's going to be the inside of the ear so now i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to do this one so the tip of this ear is going to be way over here so if this is about my halfway mark i'm about an inch away from from that above it and i'm about maybe an inch and a half to two inches in from that left hand side that's going to be my edge of my ear this is going to be an ear that kind of flops over so i don't want it to be proportionately too much bigger than this so in order for me to do that what i'm going to do is i'm going to give myself another marker this will represent where i want the top of this flop to be so this is going to be i would say maybe two maybe three inches above here and then maybe an inch to the right that will represent the top of the flop so then what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect this marker to my tip and it's going to be just a long curved kind of line it's going to go pretty similar in an angle as this one and then when it gets about into this vicinity that's when i'm going to start to really kind of curve it around and then it's going to go ahead and meet my little point in through here so then what i'm going to do instead of working on the outside of this ear i'm going to be working or the outside marker here i'm going to work on this part in order to give me that exterior flop so i have a good position to put um this other line on so what i'm going to do is i'm going to come from wherever i landed this part in through here i'm going to kind of gauge and come almost directly over from there that's going to be the starting point of the exterior part of the ear so i'm going to take this and i'm just going to do another curved line that meets that point now what i'm going to do is i'm going to come in from here about equal distance to whatever you have in this vicinity so you could even use your hand you could use your pencil you could use whatever you want to give yourself about an equal distance over in through here and then you will go ahead and connect because your ears might be wider than might have ended up a little bit wider than mine so that just gives you a good kind of gauge so they look like they're similar in size and that is all we're going to do for our outline so when you get that all done you can do any adjusting that you need to and then you can put your pencil away we'll use our large brush for the next step so you can just get ready all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our background so i'm going to use my large brush and the colors that i'm using are black brown and white and i'm opting to just go for a kind of a medium warm gray for my background just to compliment my bunny and get it to pop out a little bit but you could really go with any color in the background you could do a sky if you wanted to you could do you know a meadow or you know green background whatever kind of works for you is totally fine i'm just going to go with a nice neutral background so my focus is on that super cute bunny that we're going to be painting so how i'm going to do this i'm going to be going for a color that's similar to that so what i'm going to do i know that i want some of my brown to be used later so i'm going to just kind of separate some of that out so i can use it later and then i'm going to take the rest of my brown i'm going to add a little bit of white and a touch of black to it and then i'm just going to kind of keep mixing it around until i get a color that i enjoy so you might want yours more on the browner side you might want yours more on the grayer side i do want to just forewarn you that it will get darker probably about a shade or two darker when it dries so just kind of plan for that whatever you've got when it's wet especially when you're using brown and black in the equation it will get darker as it dries so i'm just kind of tweaking mine to the value that i that i'm gonna be happy with on it and again i'm going for something on the medium kind of warm gray so it's got definitely some brown tinge to it tint to it um along with the gray type look in through there so maybe just a little bit more white to give it i know again because i know it's going to turn much darker when it's dry so i'm just i'm just kind of tweaking mine on the fly here and i think that's pretty good for me and you'll want to mix enough for a good first layer you may even want to do a second coat on it so just kind of prepare for that because sometimes the paint tends to be a little bit streaky or translucent at times or if you've got a lot of paint in one area and a little in the next it might turn out to be you know darker or lighter in one area versus the next um so just make sure that you kind of plan for that and you mix enough i'm not going to be using a ton of paint while i do this um this application because i may opt to do a second coat and this way when i don't use a lot of paint what will happen is i will have a nice smooth surface so if you use a lot of paint on a solid color like this what may end up happening is you may end up having like almost bumps within your paint which is not necessarily a bad thing if you want it to look like there's texture to it but if you wanted to have a really smooth finish what i recommend doing is multiple thin layers even if that you know when you're applying it on the first time even if it ends up kind of streaky in and you can see your brush strokes don't worry about that because when you do a second coat on it you'll end up being able to get rid of those but if you use a nice thin coat what will happen is it'll be really nice and flat against that canvas and you can get a really nice smooth finish to it but i will probably most likely do two layers so what i'll do is i will put this first layer on and you can see i'm not really terribly concerned about my the direction of my brush stroke sometimes i'm going up and down sometimes i'm going horizontal and that's because i know that when i do my second coat those brush strokes will be eliminated so i'm going right up to my pencil marks i even bumped into it bumped into my pencil mark a little bit which is totally fine because we're going to be um doing much detail on the bunny so if you end up bumping into the pencil mark it's okay you'll be able to hide that hide that later and then i just have that little section over to the right that i will take care of and again i will most likely do two coats on mine so after i get this coat done i will either just sit and wait for it to dry before i do my second coat or i will take a blow dryer to it get this first coat to dry and then go ahead and add my second coat on top of it and then it will be all nice and smooth and it will have one um solid color throughout it so if you feel that you want to add a second layer you can certainly go ahead and do that right after you do this first one and then we're going to actually be using let's see what we're going to use for the next step we'll actually be using our medium paint brush for the next step so once you've got your background all nice and fully executed you can put your large brush away you can take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're painting the first layer of the inside of our ears i'm going to be using my medium brush i'm going to be using red and white paint so what i'm going to do is i'm going to pre-mix myself pink so i'm going to use some white and some red and i'm going to pre-mix myself a pretty vibrant pink you could use pink if you have it but i'm going to want a couple of different shades of pink so for me i i just like using my red and white to achieve um those those colors so i'm going somewhere in this range for my pink and once you've got a nice pretty um vibrant pink what you're going to do is you're just going to paint a base coat into the inside of those ears so there's no fancy brush stroke i am i'm going kind of in a in a vertical type brush stroke but you could certainly do really whatever whatever brush stroke you want at this point because we're just getting the base coat on later when we um add the details to it then you we might have more direction onto a specific brush stroke but right now it's just the base coat so there's not really anything special that needs to be done i am bringing it all the way to my exterior but it doesn't have to be a clean line because we're also going to be putting like a little edge around the ears as well so if you don't get it perfectly up to um that background no worries i'm gonna put a little bit underneath here like we can see a bit of the underside of the ear as it's kind of flipping over here so just a little little edit added extra detail in through there and then i'm going to go ahead and do this ear pink as well and then we are going to be using this same brush for the next step so once you've got the inside of these ears and you probably also notice and i i know that i mentioned it in my last step but when we're doing base coats like this it's okay if our edges are not clean which you can clearly see what like around my ear i hit my pencil a little bit with my background color i did the same thing over here i know that we're going to be adding much more detail on top of it so i'm not terribly concerned about things being perfectly executed on this first round so just to give yourself a little vote of confidence if you if you were unable to color within the lines it's all right at this step and then again we're going to use the same brush for the next step so you can wash it and dry and just get ready all right so what i'm going to do for the next step is i'm painting the first layer to the outside of my ears i'm going to use my medium brush and i'm going to be using a lighter gray color so whatever if you have some remnants from your background you could really just use that and add some white to it but if you don't have any of that left you can certainly just create a lighter shade of gray than this so i've got some left i'm just going to add some white to it and i want it to be noticeably lighter but i don't want it to go all the way to white because i want there to be some contrast between the white fur that i'm going to be putting on top of my bunny to the what we're making now kind of like the undercoat so the gray that i'm making right now for the outside of the ears is also going to be utilized as the base coat for the face so you want to make yourself enough of this lighter gray color at this point to utilize for the base coat of your bunny as well so i'm going somewhere in this vicinity is going to be the the tone of the gray that i'm going and again just keep in mind it will go a little bit darker as it dries so just kind of account for that i'm just making sure i've got it all nice and and spun around here so i have a nice um well mixed paint mixture here and then once i've got what i want i'm going to utilize this brush and i'm just going to color in this exterior portion of the ears so we've got a section already outlined for us these little parts that are flopping over but we're going to kind of improv the outside edges of the ears in a second so i'm going to just get this part done first and then i'll show you how i'm going to paint a little layer on the exterior part of the um of the ear as well and if your pink on the inside of the ear is not fully dry yet that's okay too because they can certainly mix in with one another a little bit so i'm going to do that one and then i'm going to go ahead and do this one and you can see i have it's the contrast between the color of my background and my gray that i'm using right now is very noticeable so that's definitely a good thing and i'm just getting this little part over here and if your ear grows a little bit in this step that's okay too it doesn't have to be the same exact size as mine this is in fact an imaginary bunny rabbit it is not meant to resemble any specific breed of bunny so yours can totally morph into whatever little cuteness that it may um turn out to be so now that i've got those two sections done i do want to have a little bit of an outline uh for the exterior part of the skin around the sides there so my i'm using kind of a bigger round brush so for me in order to kind of control it and make it a little bit pointier what i like to do is i'm going to take it and i spin it in the side of my palette or in the paint on the side of my palette so what that does is it will get it nice and pointy for me and once i've got the point as much as i want it to be now i can just take this and do a line that's going to straddle between the background and my and my pink section of my ear and it can be thinner in some areas and thicker in others it's it's okay because the skin on the exterior of the rabbit's ear can be thicker or thinner in some spots so whatever happens just let happen and once we get done doing this step we are going to be utilizing our large brush for the next step so once you've got this done i just had this little tiny section over here once you've got this done you can put this medium brush away wherever you'd like to take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our bunny face bunny face fur fur on our bunny face our fluffy fur on the bunny face i'm going to use my medium brush and i'm going to use that light gray paint that we just used and i'm going to be applying it with a dotting type technique so it's pretty straight forward throughout the middle of the face but when you get to the exterior edges you want to just kind of maintain that light almost fluffy look around those edges you don't have to have a smooth brush stroke that's why i'm doing this dotting type technique because i want it to look like there's little fluffy edges to that fur and because we're using a dotting technique it will provide with a nice textural look to it and you may even detect some light spots and some darts dark spots because the paint is going to be thicker in some areas and thinner in other areas so that's the intent here so we have some good kind of dimensional elements to the bunny's fur and the only again part that you want to be mindful of really is just around those edges i don't press really too hard around the edges which allows me to utilize the um texture of the tip of my brush to get those little nice soft fluffy looking pieces around the edge and then when you get this step done we're going to be switching back to the medium brush so you can put this large brush away wherever you'd like to take out your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing the inside of the ears i'm going to use my medium brush and i'm going to be using brown pink and white and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to be using a little bit of my darker brown and i'm going to be putting my shadow areas in and then i'll get them to blend in with the main section of the ears so for me my sha my darkest shadow areas are going to be deep inside the ear where it goes into the head it will also be underneath where the ear is flopping over and maybe a little bit coming up the edges of the ear just to make it look like the ear is kind of rounded and kind of um dips in in the middle so i'm starting with just brown paint on my brush and you'll want to make sure your pink is dry it should be dry by now but just in case you have some wet spots you want to go ahead and make sure those are dry first so i've got the dark brown on my brush and i'm just kind of making it meet where that gray area is in kind of a messy fashion because i want it to appear that there's a little fur in through there and we will add additional fur along that portion of the um of the head so don't worry about that if it's not perfect yet and then i just kind of get it to rub up the sides of the ears and then into that middle section i'll add more pink on it in a minute i just want to get it on here and i'm also going to do a little bit up in that top um corner that dips in into here so just getting a little bit in through here i've got my brush pretty wet with the brown right now and i'm just kind of trailing it along this edge right here and i'll get it to blend in with the pink in just a second here if you feel like you have too much paint on your brush like i feel like i have a lot of paint on my brush right now i'm just going to take it and wipe it off on my paper towel and then i can get this to blend in a little bit with that pink and then what i'm going to do is before i leave this section i'm picking up without washing my brush so right now i have the remnants of the brown with pink on my brush and i'm going to get these two areas to blend in with each other so if you need to you can pick up more brown you can pick up more pink whatever you feel is necessary to get these two colors to kind of naturally blend in with one another so you might at times feel like you want to pick up brown and pink on your brush at the same time so whatever again you you need to do to get it to blend in and i am using a directional type brush stroke this is going to be um in a vertical type line to emulate the the direction of the ear and the shape of the ear so that's where the brush strokes start to come into play um what way that you're doing them will help to tell the story of the contour of the the ear and then if you want it to be even more dimensional you can add a little bit of a lighter pink or just add a little bit of white with your pink in that center area of the ear and you can just kind of keep tweaking it and blending it until it gets into a value that you like either being light or dark or somewhere in the middle and then once you've got that ear nice and finalized you can again just keep tweaking it if you want to add more shadow or more pink you just keep tweaking it until it's as pretty as you want it to be and then you can just move right on to the next ear but if i do recommend if you have a lot of white or pink on your brush just wash your brush first so you can start back with your clean brown like you did on the first one so just brown is where i'm going to start i'm putting my little shadow or my darkest shadow i should say right inside the the ear canal i guess this is the right terminology for this part of the ear and then i'm going to pull that shadow up a little bit along those sides it can even come up quite a bit in this center area so whatever whatever works for you and i just hit my gray a little bit which i'm totally okay with and then just bringing this up like this making sure it kind of blends in a little bit before it dries too much and then i'll put a little bit underneath that the little um floppy part of the ear right in through here and again i'm just trying to concentrate on where the shadow would naturally be if i've got the ear flipped over the shadow would definitely be underneath it so you can really tell a lot of the story just with these little details if you wanted you know a light to come from underneath then i suppose the shadow wouldn't be underneath the ears but or underneath the floppy part but you can certainly use your your best judgment on that part now i just picked up some pink paint to get this brown to to blend in a bit with the main section of the ear and if you find that you have you know too much brown on your brush or you're not able to get it to blend as much as you want you can at any time just wash that brush because you don't have to always muscle through with a dirty brush like i do you can certainly wash your brush whenever you feel it needs to be washed in order to give yourself kind of a clean slate on any particular section and then again if you want that elevated um look to it like it's kind of a skin consistency you can add a bit of white into that interior and just keep playing with the pink and the white until it gets into that um value that that definitely gives you almost almost like a three-dimensional look inside the the ear itself and then we are going to be using let's say we're going to actually go back to our large brush for the next step so once you've got your interior of your ears all nice and complete you can take out your or put your medium brush away take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're adding the second layer on our fur so i'm going to be using my big brush and i'm going to be using this lighter gray i'm also going to use some of my darker gray and i'm going to use some of my pink as well so how i'm going to do this is i'm first going to start with a little bit of the darker gray on my brush and i'm going to give these almost little like indents um think of it as the the front of the nose is going to be in through here and we're going to have like these little shadowy areas on the sides of those um of that area so i'm using a little bit of this darker gray i'm going to be using my dotting type technique and i'm really just going to kind of do this little bit of a crescent area about an inch or so in from my exterior cheeks then without washing my brush i'm picking up some of this lighter gray and i'm going to get it to just kind of blend in towards that outside area so something like this this way it's not a really firm line but it is definitely kind of a shadowy type area that'll be on the right and on the left of our um fun fluffy area that's going to poke out on the on the face so now that i have this lighter color on my brush i have the lighter color right now and i'm gonna i kind of have both on my brush a little bit i'm gonna do a little bit of both of them in through here so it just gets a tiny bit darker than um the original color just in through here so this is almost like between the eyes it'll be just a little bit darker not much just a just a smudge and then i'm going to pick up my light color with a little bit of white so now i have the light color plus white and this is going to give me just a little bit more dimension throughout the rest of the fur so this way we've got uh kind of a softness that we're adding to the rest of the fur it doesn't have to be just white i'm using some of that original color plus white i don't want it to go all the way white at this point because we're going to be utilizing the bright white as our exterior fluffiness that we're going to be using later so when you're doing fur the best suggestion that i can give is you work your way from the dark fur that's underneath to the light fur that's on top and you always want to make sure that you have some kind of contrast in those colors so you don't if white is as light as you can go you have to every layer before that be darker than white and then you'll get that um that real good pop of the brightest highlights at the end so while i've got these grays on my brush i'm going to start the long hairy pieces that are going to be shooting out the sides of my bunny again i don't want it to be white white white so i have this tan the the lighter gray plus white on my brush right now and i'm going to do it in up in the ears the top of the ears i'm going to have a little bit coming in on either side of the ears and then i'll have some coming out the face so i'm using the corner of my brush and i'm using almost like a dry brush technique i don't need a lot of paint on my brush i'd rather just use a little bit and have to add more strokes than to use a ton of paint on my brush and lose the look of the individual pieces of fur or pieces of hair i think these i think this long stuff on on bunnies is technically called hair bunny hair i could be wrong but i think it is technically hair as opposed to fur but i'm not a bunny expert so maybe maybe somebody else can can figure that one out for me and i'm going to have it coming all the way you know along and you can see i'm not doing a a ton of it at this point because i'm going to be doing the brighter fluffier layers later but this just gets it started so we can see that there is some sort of um texture and light pieces that are coming out of the the ends of the ears so i kind of mashed a few um bunnies together in order to get this style and this bunny for this painting there's these bunnies i think they're called lion face rabbits or something like that and they have such long hair everywhere that people actually kind of groom them and they look like these big lion fluff balls they're so cute but you can't see their facial features so i decided i i would steal from their ears and put some another bunny's face on their face so again i've got my my light gray with some white on my brush and i'm just adding a couple of cute pieces coming out these ears in through here and again it doesn't have to be anything terribly consistent just just make it have fun make it have some movement to it i don't have much paint on my brush at all this again this is gonna just give me my my starting point for this beautiful fluffy stuff that i'm putting you can even pull a couple of little pieces up in front of these ears again i'm using my light gray with white on my brush right now i'm going to put a little bit coming out over in through here the sides of the face just to get this again get it started and you don't always want to have them coming out at exactly the same angle you can have some longer ones some shorter ones some coming out at different angles you can make these super duper long if you want you know just really have some fun with this it's there's no um there's no rules because this is an imaginary bunny so you can have yours being as exciting as you want or as subtle as you want so make it super duper fun and then before we're done this stuff we do need to add one more little one more little piece to the um to the fur puzzle here which is going to be on the face i'm not going to wash my brush i'm just kind of tapping it on my paper towel and i'm picking up a tiny bit of pink paint i want to give myself a pink kind of um muzzlely area where the where we're going to stick our our adorable button bunny nose so i'm using a bit of pink and my gray on my brush at the same time and i'm going to get this to intermingle with the with the neighboring first so oops that was a little bit of dark one dark right just picking up a little bit of the lighter gray um so just if you need to you can pick up some of the original light gray you can make this as vibrant as you want you can make it as subtle as you want so have fun with the intensity of your pink little your pink little area in through here and then we're going to use our small brush for the next step so once you've got your cute little second layer of fur on you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're painting our beautiful bunny eyes so i'm gonna be using my small brush i'm gonna be using black paint white paint pink and maybe some of my gray but we'll we'll figure that out when i get to that part but i'm going to start with black so i've got my small brush i'm going to put black paint on my brush and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to give myself kind of an outline of where i want the entire eye to go so i've got the top of my cheeks in through here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to follow the curve of the cheek from that corner and bring it in about i would say like an inch inch and a half and then i'm going to do that on both sides so i'm going to start at the corner of the cheek following the curve of it and bring it in like that then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come from the bottom corner of each ear and i'm going to do an arcing motion that's going to end up meeting this inside corner in through here so i'm going to start up in this at the bottom of my ear like this and i'm gonna do an arcing motion that meets my inside corner of my eye in like that and i'm gonna do the same thing over on this side so you could start at the bottom or the top whatever place makes you more comfortable to start so i'm going to start this one this way so you could see both ways i guess and it's going to end up stopping up at the corner in through there so then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself the the the pupil part of the eye so what i can do is these are going to be big ovals so i'm going to on the inside part of the eye i'm going to give myself a little curve like this i'm going to go ahead and do that on the other eye as well so a little curve like this and they don't have to be exactly like i think i'll bring this one in just a little bit more something like that on both of them and then i'm going to come down from here maybe to about here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself a big crescent on the outside you can bring it all the way to the edge or you can brighten it a little bit back it it either way works we're going to be putting little fluffy fur on the edge of there anyways but what you'll do is you're going to bring it all the way down to the bottom part of this crescent something like this so you might end up with a little sliver open here or not whatever you know either way is going to work and then you're just going to color this entire midsection in with black paint it does not have to be super duper thick you just want to have a nice kind of even coat throughout this section of the eye so i'm just coloring it in black with my small brush like that and then i'll go ahead and do the same thing on the other side so i come down this curve maybe to about here and i'm going to give myself this big oval type shape make sure it comes down to this crescent like that and then i'll just color this in and again they don't have to be exactly even you know i if you look at your own eyes on your own head maybe one of them is bigger than the other one mine definitely are not even on mine but if you i guess you don't want them to look too out of proportion so if you do want one of them to be like this one looks a little bit taller to me so maybe i'll just bring this one up just a little bit but you can certainly have fun with yours again they don't have to be exactly symmetrical with one another but once you've got that part on there what i'm going to do is i'm going to add just little bits of detail all around the outside of that eye so right now i just have black on my brush i'm going to pick up some of that gray whatever i'm using some of the light gray with black on my brush and i'm just adding these little bits of details or information along the exterior of that eye so you can have like little eyelashes you could have just some little bits of fur popping out that edge maybe you want to use a little bit lighter of a color and you've got you know just little flecks of pieces of fur flying out over there so you can use your imagination on this because i saw bunnies that you could it was just all i there like you couldn't even see the other side of their head so you can have fur or not along this edge so that's totally up to you so i'm just kind of squiggling in some little lines of fur in through there and then i'll do the same thing over on this side just so it gives it like a natural transition into the rest of the bunny so i'm just adding little bits of maybe little fluff that's coming out from the other side but again not necessary just gives an another little dimensional element if you've got something happening over there then i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of pink and my light gray to give a little bit of a skin type look on the inside of this eye and through here so i've just got a little bit of my pink with maybe a touch of that gray again doesn't have to be anything extreme just something that gives that little corner of the eye then i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to add the um the dimension to the eye with the reflections in it so i'm going to use a bit of my darker gray to add what i refer to as like the the glaze or the fog on on the front of the eye so you'll want to want your original black coat to be dry i can see that mine's dry i did a nice thin layer so it was drying while we while i was doing the other little details and then what i'm going to do is i've got that dark gray on my brush and i'm just going to rub in this bit of a haze so to speak in the top portion of that that eye and i just get it to kind of fade down into the bottom i'm going to go ahead and do that on the other eye as well so i've just got a bit of my dark gray that i'm using and then i just kind of rub it in until it fades into the black and if you can't get it to fade into the black you can certainly pick up a little bit of black to get it to blend in a little bit more if you want to and then what i'm going to do is without washing my brush i just wipe my brush on my paper towel i'm picking up just white paint and i'm going to stop start up in this top region of the eye and i'm going to give it a reflective mark from the top coming down it's going to follow the same curve as the eye and i'm going to leave a little tiny sliver of the black along that right edge so you can detect the exterior edge of the eye so i'm going to start up in through here and i'm going to take my reflective mark and just bring it i had some sometimes i just have to stop talking for a minute i just stop talking for a minute there and i'm just going to kind of bring it down in through here and it doesn't just have to be one mark you can certainly because it can be reflecting anything so i could certainly pick up some more maybe white and black and add maybe another streak of something so you can really when it comes to reflections they don't just have to be uniform and have one distinct look to them because they're reflecting anything really and these bunny eyes are really round too so i'm going to do the same thing on this side but you do kind of want to keep one eye pretty similar to the next so i'm going to start up here oops i still had a little black on my brush so i wiped it off on my paper towel picked up some white paint i'm going to start up in through here and i'm going to bring this reflection on the same curve of that eye just bring it down towards this left and i'm getting it to kind of fade out and just kind of disappear at the bottom of the eye something like that and then maybe i'll do another little lighter one kind of next to it something like that and again you can certainly keep tweaking these and making them into whatever way you want and then let's see what are we gonna do for the next step we're gonna use the same small brush for the next step so once you've got your beautiful little eyes in here you can wash and dry this small brush get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're putting our cute little bunny nose and mouth into place so i'm going to use my small brush i'm using pink red black maybe a little brown maybe a little white but i'll call out the colors as i'm as i'm using them so i'm going to use my small brush i'm going to start with that pink that i pre-mixed to get these areas in place and i want my bunny to look like he's you know kind of got his mouth open a little bit and he's a little surprised what's on his head and maybe not so happy about what's on his head so i'm going to try and make mine a little expressive but you can you can make yours happy looking if you want to or however you want so how i'm first going to do this is i'm going to make myself a v with my um with my pink paint that i made pre-mixed up from above so this is going to just kind of get my get my shapes into place so this is maybe about an inch and a half away from the bottom of my canvas kind of centered between my um my eyes but again you can have yours wherever you'd like to i'm going to draw a vertical line down maybe about a half of an inch or so and then i'm going to draw an upside down v and the corners are going to come out farther than um the top ones so this is going to be coming out maybe in through here and mine are kind of arcing in a little bit of a downward motion something like that and then i've got the bottom lip that i'm going to contend with so i'm putting a little bit of pink down at the bottom and then what i'm going to do i think i'm going to make these just a little bit thicker these little this is going to be where the nostrils are going to be so just making them a little bit thicker in through there i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel and i'm putting a touch of black paint on my brush and i'm going to color in the inside of my mouth with a little bit of black paint and again it doesn't have to be perfect this is just meant to look like a fun cartoon kind of bunny rabbit i'm also going to take a tiny bit of that black and give a couple of little tiny nostrils so something like that and it's okay if you're working on top of wet paint that works also i think i'm picking up a little bit of brown and red right now i didn't wash my brush i want there to be a little bit of a crease between here so brown and red are what's on my brush right now and then i'm wiped my brush off of my paper towel i'm picking up a little bit of red because i want there to be almost the look of like skin or something so i want there just to be little flecks of red in through here that's going to help to make it look a little bit more realistic even though it's a cartoon kind of character i'm going to put little bits of red maybe by the by the black area too and again i'm just doing this so i can have a bit of a dimensional kind of element so just a little bit of red is is play is what i'm playing with right now and then let's see what else a little bit of a highlight so i've got uh white paint on my brush maybe a little highlight on the top of his cute little pouting lip in through there and then i think i'm gonna i think that might be it you can play with it a little bit more but maybe a little bit of the um gray color just to give it a bit of shadow underneath these little nostrils in through here so a bit of the brownish gray color you could use in through there and just kind of tweak it however you see fit i am gonna when we do our final layer of fur we'll add a bit more of a highlight on top of the the nose itself and around the the mouth itself we'll add um little bits of fur and stuff like that so they don't just look like they're sticking out here with with no um place to go but you can again just kind of fiddle with this as much as you want to and then we are going to be using our medium brush for the next step so once you've got your nostrils and your mouth in place you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're doing the first layer of our little chicken our little tiny baby chick so i'm going to use my medium brush and i'm going to be using yellow and white paint when you're doing this think of this as kind of just like our primer coat for the bird it can be a pale yellow um we'll be putting the more vibrant tones to it in a little bit but what i'm going to do is i'm going to take some of my yellow and a little bit of my white and i'm just kind of mixing them together think of it like a nice like a lemon yellow nice and soft but it's got some good white in it so that way it is it provides us with some good opacity where you're not going to be able to really see through it too much so typically when i teach to paint birds i say that we've got two specific shapes an egg for the body and a circle for the head but when i'm referring to the egg the pointy part of the egg is normally where the tail is we're not gonna see the tail to this bird so we're gonna do two circle slash ovals and then we'll put a little wing on the side so what i'm gonna do is i've got my first one my first kind of circle type shape is going to be in through here it is above my my the top of my head by maybe about an inch and then it's maybe i don't know an inch and a half wide and i've got it on here in its particular shape and then once i've got it on there i'm going to do dots so i am starting the textural process of my of my feathers or of my fluff to my little to my little bird and then i'm gonna do another type of shape on top of here which is pretty big in comparison to the body because it's just a cute little chicken that's got a almost like a square kind of head to it and it's going to be almost as far out as this the edge of this one in through here so something like that i've got my shape on and then i just kind of start dotting away to give it that textural kind of element to it and then i'm going to have a little tiny wing coming off this left hand side so i've got we'll call this the the like shoulder area and then i'm gonna have a little kind of wing just kind of flipping off on the side into here something like this and of course you can certainly get yours to go whatever way that you would like to and that is all i'm going to be doing for my little for my little chickadee or chicken kind of bird into here we are going to be using let's use we're going to use the small brush for the next step so once you've got this base coat of your chicken in here you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we're going to do for the next step is we are painting our legs beak and eyes on our little chicken i'm going to use my small brush the colors that i'm using are red yellow white black and brown and how i'm going to do this is i'm going to first pre-mix myself an orange color because that will be utilized for the beak and the legs and a couple little spots on the sides of the eyes so i've pre-mixed mine so you can see where i'm heading but what i've done is i've taken a little bit of red and a little bit of yellow and a tiny bit of white and i've spun them all together to make myself an orange color so you can certain red will take over red is very powerful so you need very little bit of red to make this mixture and you want to use white in your mixture so it doesn't so it's not too see-through on you the white helps again to make it so it's not so see-through so once you've got the orange mixture that you would like i'm going to be doing very small details so i have my small brush and again to to keep my brush nice and pointy i will put it in my paint and spin it on the side of my palette that makes it nice and pointy and i will reload my brush often so that way i always have enough paint on the tip of my brush which will prevent me from pushing hard because if you don't have a lot of paint on your brush your your tendency is to just push it really hard and you're going to get a big wide line so if you have enough paint on the tip of your brush you you won't tend to to go too hard so these little chickens have long toes so when i make this toe and tell you how long it's going to be don't worry that it's it's pretty much in the right proportion so i'm going to put two feet in through here one of them is going to be kind of sticking out this way and one's going to be kind of underneath the body but the toes are going to be sticking out to my best knowledge of little chickens they have four toes so i'm going to be doing this little leg coming out in through here and i'm going to just extend it to the edge of where that kind of middle toe or the second to the left toe is so i'm going to go out this is going to be about an inch and a half it's coming out about into the halfway point into my ear and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to add my other little toes so i have one coming kind of out in i would say about this direction the side toes don't have to be as long as seemingly that front toe was but they these these front three kind of come out at the same spot almost like a little fork and then there's another little one that comes out over here on the side so yours might not come out exactly as mine do and they might end up looking a little bit different but that's all right there's you know that you can have diversity in your chicken feet and i'm sure mine are you know 100 accurate we're just we're just going for a good enough cute rendition of a little chicken so this one i'm going to have a tiny little leg coming out here it's just a little tiny mark and then i'm going to make my my big toe coming out or kind of my first solid toe i guess coming out here to the left like that then i'm gonna have one coming out somewhere in through here so again these first three toes um kind of look like they belong are coming out in the same spots and then i have this little side toe that just kind of sticks out into never never landing in something like that so again mine might not be exactly perfect but we're gonna we're gonna roll with that then for my uh beak i'm gonna be having my beak is gonna if this is where my neck is it's kind of the center of it is in line with that and then it's gonna come poking down in like a triangle type direction so the triangle is going to come a little bit past that neck and then i'm going to bring it up into another little triangle area up the forehead a little bit so this is this isn't not the beak it's like a little um shadowy area in that forehead so that's going to help with that there's going to be a couple of little eyes that we're going to put here but i'm also going to put this orange type area over on the right hand side and you'll see why in a minute this is going to be a little dip in the side of their head of his head so i'm just doing a little bit of an orange area over in through here and then what i'm going to do is i'm washing and drying my little brush and i'm going to add black paint to it so i can put my tiny little eyes in place so my eyes are going to be almost if you were to travel up the corner of this of the beak in through here i would say somewhere in through here and it's going to be a little bit of a diagonal little oval type shape with pointy edges to it with pointy corners almost like this the shape of an almond so i'm going to go up diagonally from the corner of this and make myself a little bit of a almond type shape something like that and they can be of varying sizes you can pull that down in the corner a little bit too if you want to that'll give that little corner of the eye that is always so cute and then i'm going to wash and dry my little brush and i'm going to put some brown paint on my brush and i'm going to put some little shadows underneath my toes so a little shadow shadow shadow shadow i'm going to put a little shadow underneath this leg so these are on the actual little toes and leg themself the bottom side of them i'm going to do that to my beak as well i've got a little bit at the bottom edge of the beak like it's shadowing onto the fur there's a little nostril kind of things coming in this left and the right something like that and then i'm going to put a little shadowy area behind the eye all of this is done with just a little bit of brown paint on my brush the shadow can go into that orange area like this and then i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to add white paint to it and these are going to be the little highlights of my toes and my beak so i've got a little tiny bit of white paint and just going to add a little tiny sliver of white paint on top of the orange and again it doesn't have to be a hundred percent this is just giving you the little illusion i'm gonna put a little bit on the beak is going to be he's got these little cute they're almost like air holes or something well i guess that would be nostrils right that's a silly thing for me to say air holes are nostrils so something like this he's gonna have a little twinkle in the eyes i got a little little tiny twinkle in the eye and then if you feel like you've got any other little areas we're gonna obviously add a whole bunch more feathers and all kinds of other stuff around the bird but that's going to get us started with those little features and then we are going to be using oh i'm putting a little white above the eyes too and we're going to use the same small brush for the next step so once you've got all your little features done you can wash and dry the small brush okay ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our little cute chicken i'm going to use my small brush this is going to be the shadows which is the shadow underneath the bird as well as the shadow that is cast upon the head and it's going to be all the little tiny feathers there's going to be a little shadow underneath the chin and then all the little cute fluffy feathers that are going to be accounted for so i'm going to be using black brown my yellow my orange and definitely my white and if i use other colors we'll put it up on the board and i'll call them out so i'm going to start with my shadow that's cast upon my bunny's head i'm going to use my small brush and i'm using black and brown paint with a little bit of water on my brush the key here is to not have much paint on your brush and to use it with a little bit of water because you want it to be able to see some of that fur that's underneath it and it can be darker where it hits the um the body of the bird and it can get lighter as the farther away it goes so here we go i've got a little bit of black and brown on my brush and i'm going to bring this in through here and then i'm just going to kind of get it to fade out and fit maybe maybe there's a little bit back here where the where the wing maybe is casting a little bit of shadow onto the head and then i'm going to i'm adding a little bit of water to my brush right now so i can get this to almost fade into the actual um fur itself and maybe i'll pull a little bit over in through here and of course you can tweak it as much as you want we're going to be doing another layer on top of the fur of the bunny as well so if you don't get this perfect you'll be able to utilize the step that we do of the bunny to kind of disguise it a little bit or make it look a little bit more natural so now that i have that on there i'm using black and brown as my shadow feathers underneath my bird as well so again you don't really need a lot of paint you don't really need much to do you don't need a lot of paint to create a big effect on this type of step because it's a really small bird that we're doing i want my darker feathers to be underneath the bird so that would be underneath the wing i'm doing these little sketchy curved lines to indicate that they are of a feather type sort but i don't want to cover up all the all the yellow that's down there so water on my brush really helps me to get those soft marks without overdoing it and i can i can really control the quantity of paint while i have the brown on my brush i'm picking up some of that orange as well and i'm going to add a little shadow underneath the um the bird's chin so to speak so i've got a little bit of brown i'm just adding um that plus i'm adding a touch of orange if i can get some orange on my brush and again if you do something and you're like oh that was too much don't worry you can you can disguise it or work on it by adding feathers on top of it so i'm just adding this little bit of a shadow in through here and then i'm gonna start adding my lighter feathers so i want over on this right hand side to be light but i want the lightest of my feathers to be on the top of the bird and on the top of this wing as if my light source is coming from above so i'm not going to wash my brush i'm just picking up some of my lemon yellow which is what i started and a little bit of orange and i'm going to start to fill in these feathers over on this right hand side if you want them to be more visible then you need more contrast in your paint so i just picked up a little bit of white so you could actually see a couple of the individual feathers the the only tricky part about this is getting the feathers to look like they're feathers and not just one solid color so if you're going about it and you're like well this is of a good color but i don't see the definition between the feathers that just indicates that you need to add lightness or darkness to it in order to get it to um show the contrast between those little feathers so i just added a little bit of brown to my brush so i can get these underneath to make sure that you can see them and if you want you can add a little bit of brown in through this upper area too just again so you can see the diversity in those little pieces of feathers and then i'm gonna do the same up in through the face so i just don't i have that lemon yellow on my on my brush right now just making sure i have a good coat in through there maybe i'm gonna add a tiny bit of brown to give maybe these little these little cheeks in through here something like that and then i'm gonna really start to utilize my lemon yellow and white to get these brighter little feathers to just pop out over here on this right hand side on the wing i want a lot on that wing maybe a little bit more orange in through here so you can see the difference and again i want to make sure that i can see the difference in in um that those bright feathers really or the light feathers really stand out so sometimes you have to add that diversity to it so again i'm going to add maybe a little highlight underneath these eyes make sure my nose works which it look the beak looks like it works but i want to make sure that i have enough feathers in through there so i'm just kind of adding these little dots and dashes for me the feathers are going to be of a more of a kind of a scooping type brush stroke that has a little bit of a curve to it but i definitely want that top to look like it's really really highlighted so i'm doing bright bright bright white at the top of this head in through here so you can really detect that it's getting um some some sunshine on it maybe a little bit of white over here on the edge and again i'm i'm really right now for these bright edges just adding white paint just to give it that look of it being highlighted and then as i get towards the these edges especially on the top of the head i'm going to add some um some little fluffy pieces but first i want to make sure that i have this head all the way that i want it so i'm adding a bit more lightness in through here just so we can make sure that head looks like it's bubbly enough that's looking pretty good oh my god he's looking so cute i like little chickens they're so cute um but on the top of that head i want it to almost look like he's having a bad hair day too so i've got my small brush with some white paint on my brush and i'm just adding these little tiny um itty-bitty pieces of hair just kind of sticking out the top and because i'm using white it's really going to have nice contrast against the the background so you can you know you could use a a smaller brush you could utilize just the tip of this brush and sometimes it takes me a minute to get my rhythm going to make sure that i've got all of the little fluffy oh my god he's the closer i get to him the cuter he looks um but you just kind of keep working at it until you feel like you've got enough of this fluffy stuff on the top of his head you've got enough dimension within the rest of his body and then once you feel like you've like you've got it then we're going to move on to the next step which will be with our large brush so once you've got this all nice and done you can put your small brush away wherever you'd like to take out your large brush and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we are finishing our fur on our rabbit i'm going to be using my large brush and i'll be using mostly white but there will be at times like maybe when i'm around the nose that i use a little bit more gray or a little bit of my pink but for the most part i'm going to be using white paint this is going to be those final really vibrant highlights that i was referring to earlier when we were talking about the fur so similarly to when i did this first fluffy layer i'm not going to use a lot of paint on my brush and i'm just going to be using the tip if you feel more comfortable using your medium round brush feel free to do so it's really just kind of a preference where our hand feels most comfortable with doing these you could even use your small one if you wanted the really tiny lines we're going to be doing whiskers as a step in a few minutes with our small brush so i'm reserving my tiny little lines for my whiskers in a little bit so i'm going to start with white paint on my brush and i'm going to be using a series of my long strokes versus my dots so depending on where i am will really depend on what brush stroke i'm using so right now i want to try and concentrate on where where i want the like contour marks and things of that nature within the face so i can make sure that i have all of the dimensional elements in the face so i definitely want to lighten up the area right next to my eyes so i'm going to just take the corner of my brush and give myself these light areas around the eyes so that's going to draw our eye as the viewer to the to the eyes on the bunny rabbit but i don't want it to be a really solid type line so i want it to still look like it's fur so along the edges i'll just pull that brush out a little bit and give it that that little fur look to it and then i'll go ahead and do it on the other side so i'm going to bring a little bit of white paint right towards that eye like that i want to bring a little bit underneath the eye as well in through here like in that cheek kind of area like this and just kind of pull it out and then same thing with above the eye and again this is just one of those areas that i don't want to forget to do i want to make sure that it is nice and visible and that it is one of those areas that really stands out and i don't have a lot of paint on my brush and i'm just using kind of the corner of my brush i want to make sure that this white area that i did does look like it belongs with here so if it's just looking like a single line for you what you can do is with that little bit of white paint that you have on your brush you can pick up some of the lighter gray and just kind of start to dot it into that main section and this also helps to make it look like it's not so flat so if you need if you don't have enough fluff so to speak in this area in through here just go a little bit lighter with white and your lighter gray add yourself a nice an additional little fluffy layer you can oh great my dogs are at it again so um it's amazing it's like they always at some point in the video just say uh we want to be part of this too so they they seem to have stopped already so but if they keep going i might press pause um but i'm just going to work my way around these little ears in through here make sure i have some little bright pieces that are represented so again i'm not covering up that first layer i did a hundred percent but i definitely want there to be some additional little lighter pieces you can even just bring it up into that that ear a bit so if you want you can add little bits in through here and just bring it up in through here if you even along the edge of that ear if you wanted to you do want to make sure that um around the ear and through here that you've got little tiny hairs that kind of cover it and it's not just a solid line and through there so again i'm just kind of using the little corner of my brush if you needed to work on your shadow area you could do that right now as well now i'm going to go ahead and just kind of fill in the face so again i just have my white and maybe a little bit of the light gray but again i'm using for the majority of it i'm using more just white and i'm going to work from this outside and i'm going to work my way in towards the the bunny and through here and again just the tip of my brush i'm using these in a variety of different kind of curves i've got the furs going to come on this bump of the face as well as off of this bump of the face so you can really have it as fluffy as you want i'm not gonna put the for too long on the nose part but i will definitely put some long um fur coming off of the other edge as well so something like this is where my my fluffy little bunny is gonna go i think i want a little bit more up in through here so again right now my brush is almost dry so by utilizing a dry brush in addition to you know it having a lot of paint on it you can get these really soft edges to it and give it a lot of um those tiny little pieces in in there so less is more sometimes when you're doing these this type of step especially on fur when you want it to look like there's several different pieces involved you can use a fan brush you can use other brushes that have these little separated bristles to them again it's kind of wherever your comfort zone is my comfort zone is definitely with these bristle brushes because i i'm just so used to using them and i like the way that they kind of get these messy edges to them and then i'm just going to kind of bring this paint out in as many little fur directions as i want to making sure that i do something similar to this side so it looks like it's in the same animal and then i will in a minute work on this nose area or the the muzzle area so that has a little bit more dimension to it as well but right now i'm just kind of taking care of these longer pieces so i'm going to start working in through here so i'm going to pick up some white with a little bit of my lighter gray just to do something like i did up on the top or i'm just giving it a little bit more dimension and again you can utilize any shades of your gray that you want to give it a little bit more um fluff by just doing your dots and your and your streaks and when i get on top of the nose area itself i want that to be a little bit lighter right on that right on the little tip so it looks kind of like a little button nose and again if you feel like you need to utilize a smaller brush to account for this feel free to do so if you want yours more pink feel free to add a little bit more pink to it so just you want to bring it into whatever place is visually appealing to you i'm adding right now a little bit of white and pink onto my brush just a tiny tiny bit so i can add just these little bits of almost like a textural kind of effect as it's meeting that mouth and that little button nose area maybe a touch more white on the on the tip of the nose i really want this little tip of the nose to pop out a little bit so just making sure i've got enough yeah there we go he's got a cute little button nose now and again if you if the bigger brush is a little bit too bulky for you in this type of area feel free to move to the smaller brush oh my god that's so cute um and you can certainly make any adjustments in that area as you want and then all i need to finish my little fluff on the top of the ears so i'm gonna utilize this brush just making sure i've got all this feather or furs the way that i want them to be so i think i have too much pink on my brush i'm just gonna wash it real quick then i'm gonna add some white paint to my brush i'm going to do the same thing that i did in through here which is just adding with a little bit of the paint on my on the tip of my brush i'm going to add these little streaks i think i have too much paint on my brush and my paper towel fell on the floor so i've got to reach and get another paper towel for the moment there we go i just want to make sure that i don't have too much paint on my brush and i'm going to extend some of these pieces farther than the original one so that way it gives even more of a um of a dimensional element to it but i know that the the fur is going to come out of the the side of the the ear so i'm just constantly putting that fur in the direction that i feel that it would be growing out of for for the from the ear and this of course i've got it leaning over so it's kind of popping over the edges of here so that adds a cool little effect to it and then i'll go ahead and do the same thing over here on the left hand side and again i'm just really utilizing that the tip of my brush and making sure that i'm not over painting the other layer that we did earlier so you could certainly extend this and make it a bigger ear you could make it you know it of a different shape but what you don't necessarily want to do is cover over all of that first layer that we did because that's we put it there for a reason we put it there to act as almost like a layer of shadowy kind of fur underneath so you want to keep some of those darker little areas evident and i definitely want him to look like he's having a figurative and literal bad hair day so i'm gonna i'm adding some extra little fluff coming up in through here so you can certainly have fun with this make it yeah he he looks like he needs to go to the groomer right now it's hard for me when i get into these um fun steps where with hair because i just i'm so always taken back to the 80s when i grew up where we just had the bigger the hair the better and it was always hair sprayed out and although it may have looked like a bad hair day to most people it was a good hair day the bigger your hair was so when i get into these steps of animals and and all kinds of fun stuff where i'm adding the hair to to them i like to sometimes get a little carried away so if mine is a little bit more carried away than you want yours to be then you can certainly tame yours down a bit but we have one more tiny little step to go so once you've got all of your beautiful bright highlighted pieces of fur on here you can wash and dry your tiny brush because that's what we're going to be using for the next step and now i now i just want more i just want more more brightness more fluffiness i think that's good though all right i'm ready i know i am okay i'm ready small brush next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're painting ourselves some whiskers i'm using my small brush and i'm going to be using black and brown paint with water so i'm going to use all three of those on my brush at the same time i'm going to have my whiskers coming out of this central area on the left and the right of the nose and i'm going to be utilizing a very kind of thin brush stroke and i like them to come out in different directions so you can certainly have yours coming out all straight and all in the same direction and if you've put almost too much water on your brush don't worry about it you can always do a second layer but my trick is that i'm just not pressing hard that's how i'm able to achieve these really small lines and that seems pretty good to me so i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to do some on the other side and by using water on your brush what will happen is you'll have some of them that are naturally lighter than others and darker than others because if there's more water in it it'll be a little bit more translucent so that will make a nice natural look to it as well and you can have bigger ones and shorter ones and have them coming out from different spots on the um on the face they don't all have to come out in um in a beautiful line they can come out in different spots and remember this is an imaginary bunny so you can put yours wherever you want to and then if you want to hide any of the ends that come into the face just pick up some of your gray or some of your white and you can add these almost little pieces of smaller fur or hair going right on top of them and then we have one tiny little step left to go and it will be with this small brush so once you've got your whiskers on there you can wash and dry that small brush and get ready for the next step alright so we are on to the final step this is the final step of every painting which is to sign it so i usually sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right corner but you could certainly sign yours wherever you want to i'm going to be using my small brush and i'm going to be using black paint i think i'm going to sign this one in the bottom left corner so i use my initials for my signature but you could certainly use your first name or the date or a symbol or whatever you would like to be your identifying mark is your painting you get to do anything you would like to it and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you painted yourself a really adorable or two really adorable little fluffy fellas and i hope you enjoyed the process and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime you

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Length: 88min 15sec (5295 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 16 2021