Learn How to Paint GRUMPY CAT, CUTE KITTEN with Acrylic - Paint & Sip at Home - Step by Step Lesson

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 grumpy cat cute kitten and i'm going to be sipping on vanilla chai tea and if you enjoy this process i do hope that you like and subscribe to my channel and that you also check out my patreon page where you're going to find additional painting perks so let's get painting and let's get sipping all right so for my materials today i'm going to be using 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 i'm going to be using acrylic paint today my colors are titanium white burnt umber which i will call brown mars black deep yellow fire red and green oxide and of course you can switch up those colors but that's what i'll be using for my tools today i have a white piece of chalk that i'll be using for some drawing and then i have three brushes i have a half inch wide flat bristle brush i have a number 12 round synthetic brush and i have a number one round synthetic 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 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 your brushes and down below this video in the video description i will be providing you with a couple of additional resources that can help you throughout your painting process one of them is a link where you can purchase the same exact paint kit that i'm using from the large canvas to the same kind of paint and the chalk and the brushes and all the good stuff in between so that's there for you 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 painting our background i'm going to be using my large brush and i'm going to be using black and white paint what i'm going to do is i'm going to pre-mix myself a gray color and i'm going to be doing the majority of the background with that gray color but i'll put a little bit of a light area down in this vicinity so what i'm going to do is i'm going to pre-mix myself a gray color and i've magically done that already so you can see where i'm headed so i'm going for like a medium tone for my um gray and how i got there was i just used black and white so i'm going to separate out a little bit of my white that i'm going to want to use later so i don't want to mix all of my white into the gray because i know that i'm going to need a little bit of white for later and then what i do is i'm going to add my black slowly into it so just little dollops of black paint into the white the black can very easily go too much on you so you just add it a little bit at a time and as i'm mixing this i am in my head saying okay well i know that this is going to get a little bit darker as it dries so i want to make sure that i don't go too too dark and of course if you do you can always add back a little bit of the white but i'm just adding my black paint a little bit at a time as it's sliding off of my palette here let me just turn it this way there we go we're getting it we're getting it now and then once you've got the gray color that you desire this is looking pretty good to me what i'm going to do is i'm going to start up at the top of my canvas just making sure that i've spun this all around as much as i want to i'm going to excuse me i'm going to start up at the top of my canvas and with a left to right brush stroke and work my way down the canvas so as i'm doing this the reason why i'm going from the top to the bottom is because i just want to have the majority of it fully painted up at the top with this darker gray version and then i'll steer it down a little bit lighter as i come down the canvas and it's easier for me to just kind of do my gradients from dark to light so i'm starting with the dark up at the top and i'll move my way towards that lighter version and if your paint isn't mixed a hundred percent that's okay too because we're going to have lots of elements on top of this that are going to allow for any disguising if we need to and great will typically cover pretty darn well so you'll most likely only need to do one coat for this background color but if you want to change it at all or if you feel after you've got this color on here that you want to make any adjustments you can certainly do a second coat to it so i came down about three quarters of the way down my canvas now what i'm going to do without washing my brush is i'm going to pick up some of that white paint so i can get a lighter area right in through here i didn't wash my brush i just picked up white paint and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to blend it up into that previous section so just keep going back and forth left to right with my brush until it feels like and looks like it is blended well enough for me if you want it to go lighter you can certainly add more of that white to it but that's about as light as i'm going to go and then as i come down towards the bottom what i'm going to do is that last little section at the bottom i'm going to pick back up that original that gray color so i went from dark to light and i'm going back down to a little bit darker in through here what this will do is this is just going to provide us a little bit of dimension atmospheric dimension behind our cats so it allows for this to look more like a room that they're sitting in as opposed to just a flat color sitting behind them so it's just providing a little bit of a optical illusion for the viewer and you can certainly make yours into whatever you'd like and then we are going to be utilizing the same brush for the next step so once you've got your background done make any little adjusting um blending that you want to do and then we'll go on to the next step with this same brush so you can just wash it and dry it and get ready all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be painting our pine christmas tree i'm going to be using my large bristle brush the colors i'm using are green and black i do want to forewarn you that this is going to be a much easier step if you make sure that your canvas is dry before you start this step so this is that time where you get to take that extra long break if you like to or you can find some kind of fun fanning method to get it dry or you can do as i did and just whip out a blow dry and get it dry that way so pine trees are typically in the shape of a triangle where they're skinnier at the top and they come down um wider at the bottom i'm going to be doing just a portion of the pine tree so i'm going to have it a little bit wider at the bottom and shorter at the or narrow at the top but we're just going to be seeing the outside so i'm going to make myself a couple of markers i loaded my brush with green and black and what i'm going to do at the top of my canvas is i'm going to come over about a quarter of the way so if you eyeball kind of halfway it's about halfway between there and the edge of your canvas so just make yourself a little marker and then at the bot on the left hand side i'm going to come up about a quarter of the way and make myself a marker and then i'm going to come almost halfway into my canvas and maybe a little bit higher than here so maybe about up an inch and almost halfway somewhere in through there that's going to be the corners or the exterior area of my tray so as i do this i'm going to be doing a down and out brush stroke like this and i am going to alternate green and black so right now i have both green and black on my brush but the next time i go to load paint maybe i just pick up green and then i'm going to just give myself some green areas then maybe i just pick up black and what i'm going to do is just continue to do this until i have the entire tree covered so because i am doing this kind of down and out type of brush stroke this is going to give me a nice natural looking um tree that has different light spots and dark spots and it's going to give you the traditional look of the pine needles and branches just kind of drooping down and kind of curling out a little bit and yours doesn't have to be exactly as mine we're going to put lots of lights on it i'm just going for something that's nice and fluffy along the edges that's going to give me a good representation of a pine tree and then we are going to be utilizing our piece of chalk for the next step so once you've got this done you can certainly make any little modifications that you want and then you can put this large brush away take out your piece of chalk and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be drawing an outline for our cats and our present box i'm going to be using my chalk and of course this is time where you definitely want that tree to be dry as well because it's easier to draw on dry paint than it is on wet paint so i'm going to start with my present on the left hand side you could certainly place yours wherever you want or make a different shape or anything like that but i'm going to do just kind of a generic square rectangle type of box for my um where my little kitten is going to be coming out so i'm going to have the box in through here so it looks like it's kind of underneath the tree so what i'm going to do is i'm going to give myself a couple of corn or markers for the corners of the box and then we'll just connect those markers so i've got my box if this is about halfway up or down the canvas i'm about two inches below that and about two inches in so that's where this first corner of the box is gonna go and then i'm about maybe four and a half to five inches over to the right where the next corner of the box is and then you can just come directly down i would say maybe about an inch and a half to two inches away from the bottom of your canvas and then you're just going to connect these four markers creating a square type rectangle shape something like that then i'm going to make another rectangle to represent the lid of the box so your lid has got to be about as wide as the box itself so you can use your fingers or you can use a pencil or your brush or something to kind of measure however long that is and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to tip it up like this and i'm going to push it down just maybe about a half of an inch past my um my box in through here i'm gonna make a little marker right about here and again just re-measure it like this so i can make sure i have the right length i wanted to overlap the box a little bit so i'm going to do that and then my other marker is going to be right about here then what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself two more markers this is going to be up and to the left so up about an inch and just a little bit to the left maybe about a quarter of an inch and then this is going to be the same thing so up about an inch and then over just about a quarter of an inch something like that and then i'm going to connect those so i'm going to connect these two like this like this like this and like this so that's going to be the top of my box i'm going to so i don't get confused i take my brush and i dip it in water and i'm going to get rid of this little mark in through here so i know that that's going to be the outside box and then i'm going to just draw a carefree kind of um ripply type of marks for my ribbon that's going to go on top of my box so i just do a little ribbon like that a couple of little bumps this will be a nice decorative kind of ribbon of sorts on the top of my box then i'm going to section out where my cat is going to go i'm going to come inside the box this little corner maybe about three quarters of an inch give myself a little bit of a curved line like that and then i'm going to put the head the front part of the head over here so i come back inside the box at the top of the box maybe about a quarter of an inch and i'm going to come in here maybe about um almost an inch like this and then i'll connect these with a little bit of a curve there another little curve for the cheek and then the forehead so not nothing really major just a couple of like bumps to give that cheek the chin and then that's the top of the head and then i just need to close off the back of my box so i just do a little diagonal line in through there and then back here i'm going to do a little horizontal line so it looks like that's the back of the box that's all i'm going to do for that one the next cat is going to be really large is going to take up a whole bunch of room over here but i'm going to first start with a circle type of shape for the head so the bottom of my circle is going to be about halfway up my cat head so if you just find the midway point of your cat head travel over to the right this is if this is the center of my canvas left to right i'm about two or three inches to the right of that so that's the bottom of my circle then i'm gonna go up i would say maybe four or maybe like halfway between here and the top of the canvas so somewhere about here is where the top of that's going to go and then i'm going to have my width you're going to kind of find the center point of your canvas like that on that side and then over on the right it's going to be somewhere i would say maybe in this vicinity and then i'm just going to connect those with a big oval type of circular kind of shape doesn't have to be perfect this cat is got a lot of a lot of movement in the first so this doesn't have to be a perfect um shape then i'm going to put the hat on so i want this hat to be kind of floppy into the right and covering part of the face so i'm going to come down i would say maybe about halfway down the head on the right hand side and then just make a ripply line coming over and through here which is going to give me the side of the hat and then i'm just going to kind of give myself a rim to the hat like this going to bring it up here again i'm going to take my wet um my brush and put a little bit of water on it so i can erase my chalk in this section here so i don't get confused that's going to be the rim of my hat then i'm going to put a big floppy part of the hat starting in through here and the um it's going to kind of just ripple over like this i'm going to have it coming in this direction over here you can have your hat whatever kind of shape that you'd like something like that i'm going to have the pom-pom part of my hat it's going to resemble kind of like a a santa hat or going for pretty similar colors for my santa hat red and white and then i'll just put a little pom pom part down in through here i need to tackle the body now so i'm going to start with the torso or the front part of the cat which is going to be the legs so i'm going to start right about if um a little bit up from the bottom of my circle somewhere in through here i'm going to give myself a little bit of a kind of a curved little line coming in through here so this is about i would say about halfway up your your box so if you come about halfway up your box that's about as far as i do that on the right hand side i'm going to start somewhere in this vicinity as well and then give myself another kind of curved line and come right about the same height as that i'm going to then come in maybe about an inch and a half to two inches somewhere in through here and just give myself a couple little markers where the inside of those legs are going to be i'm going to close this off at the bottom this is going to be where the the red part of the shirt is going to end somewhere in through there then what i'm going to do i'm going to put some little cuffs of the shirt the the the fluffy part at the end somewhere in through there i'll do the same thing on this side let's give myself a little cuffs and then i'm gonna put a couple little paws underneath here so that's a paw this is a paw and then i'm gonna put a little place this is going to be the um the underside of the body so something like this will give us the underside of the the body i need to put the the back side and the um tail on so i'm going to come about midway up this little cuff give myself a little horizontal line and then i'm going to connect this to up in this corner with a big old curve something like that i'm going to put my tail on it's going to come out in through here and here i'm going to just give myself a ripple line like that on that side and then over here i'm going to curve this right up almost to my um my pom-pom and then just curve it right back around like that and that is all i'm going to be doing for my outline so you can do any little tweaks or modifications and then we're going to be using our medium brush for the next step so you can just get ready all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to be doing the base coat for both of our cats and this box in through here i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors i'm using are red black brown and are gray maybe a little bit of white too but if i do that i'll let you know so i'm going to start with red and i'm going to do all of my red areas so my red areas are going to consist of my present over and through here so i'm going to bring it right to the edge this most red paints that you use will be a little translucent so as you're doing this coat don't worry if you can see through the paint even if you can see your brush strokes it's not important at this point we're just really putting the base coat on allowing for ourselves to have the the start of all of our details that we'll be putting on later so as you're going through the process if you can see your you know your colors behind it don't worry about that i'm going to do a little red line on the edge of the exterior part of the box and through here just bringing this all the way across here going a little slow so i don't bump into my cat and then i like to you know when i'm doing straight lines like this sometimes it's easier to just put that outline on first and then color in the middle because you can kind of go a little bit quicker when you're once that outline is on there so i just slow down a little bit when i'm making these straighter lines i tend to use brace my hand on my easel or on my canvas or something so i can get the lines a little bit straighter but this is a present and presents come with wrapping paper on them and wrapping paper tends to be wrinkly and bumpy and stuff so if yours doesn't turn out really perfectly square or rectangle and it has little lumps and bumps on it we'll just blame it on the wrapping paper and then once i've got this um this red piece or the red box done what i'm going to do i'm not going to wash my brush i'm going to be doing the red sections on my um on my other cat so the red sections here are going to consist of the top part of the hat so i'm just bringing this all the way to my chalk mark and if for whatever reason if you don't cover up all of your chalk mark don't worry about it because you'll you can erase it with water or with a future step with different colors we can certainly get rid of that we've got another layer that we're going to be doing on all of these sections so don't worry if you know you don't cover up all of your chalk mark or anything like that so that's going to be a red section i'm going to do the shirt as a red section the only thing that's going to be different on this shirt is i'm going to leave these two little kind of leave a little section in between the leg and the belly area so that way when i go to paint it later i will have that visual separation you don't have to do that if you feel that you can um that you don't need it but i'm going to do it so i don't lose that area and in through here i know that i'm going to have a whole bunch of hair that's going to be hanging down in front of my my shirt so i'm not really concerned about that being perfect and then when i get to the edge of the leg again i just like to have organic kind of wiggles in my clothing so that's why i don't i purposely make sure that that's not super straight and then i'm just going to color this whole area in with my red paint and then do the same thing on this side where i have this one chalk mark in through here i'm going to leave a little section between that and the opposing section so again that way when i go to paint in the um the other information i won't have lost that i am noticing that i um did not separate this the back of the shirt to the um to the back of the cat so i'm actually gonna just uh bring this red line down about halfway um i must have missed that when we were doing our drawing but that's okay it's an easy thing that you can follow right along with me so we're gonna have a piece of the shirt on the back like this and then what i'm gonna do these are all my red sections so i'm gonna wash and dry my brush and the next section that i'm gonna go for is i'm going to do the a little black section inside my box so i just washed and dried my brush i'm putting a tiny bit of black paint on in through here so this is going to be just the inside of the box so just coloring that with black you could certainly use a smaller brush if you wanted to it to get into that little sliver of an area and then the next color i'm going to be using is gray so i don't even have to wash my brush i can just either kind of spin it in my existing gray or i could use utilize it to make more gray so whatever you want what i'm going to do is i'm going to be using gray on my brush plus a little bit of white so this is going to be the fluffy parts on the hat and on the um on the clothing down here so what i'm going to do is i'm going to kind of just dot it like this i wanted to use it with a little bit of white so that way i can see the difference between that background gray and this gray and then i just kind of tap it with my brush so it has this little like ruffled type of look to it or fluffy type of look and if you bump into a little bit of wet red along the edges because we're doing these back to back don't worry about it if you end up with a little bit of pink in your hat it's okay because we got another layer that we're going to be doing so again just consider this to be the base coat and if it doesn't go perfectly don't worry about it and then i'm just doing the same thing on this little fluffy part in through here and i'm gonna just make my edges nice and fluffy i'll do the same thing to these two little cuffs so in through here just a little bit of my gray and white is going to give me a little bit of fluff on these and go ahead and do the same thing with this one and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put the base coat for the fur on so i'm just going to be using brown paint for the base coat for the fur it will it will provide us with a great starting point for all the details and everything else that we want but again it will tends to be a little see-through so this just provides us with a place to start i'm leaving a tiny bit of my chalk mark along the edges of this face because i can see that this two is dark so that's just going to help me stay within my lines and i'm not doing any special brush stroke i just really am coloring this whole area in with brown paint so don't feel that you need to do any special brush strokes at this point i'm going to go ahead and move to my cat in through here i'm gonna start with my tail so again just brown paint is where i'm starting i'm gonna put this on in through here and then as i do this i am as i'm doing the tail and the fluffy part gonna give myself these soft edges to the um to the fur and i bring that brush in the direction that i feel that the fur would be going so i'm gonna just kind of bring this in like this and if you were doing a different color cat you could certainly change up the color if you wanted a black cat you could certainly be using some black paint right now and then just use gray as your highlight colors later and then i'm going to go ahead and put this brown in this little section i think i wanted a little cuff of the shirt in through there i might go back into my gray in a second so it looks like the other part of the clothing so i just i'm putting my brown in through here and i'm bringing it in a downward direction maybe with a little bit of a curve to it i'm going to put this brown right underneath here this is going to be the little part of the belly that's going to stick out of the shirt underneath here and then i'll do the same thing for my paws so i've got my little paws in through here and then just bringing out a little bit of a ruffled edge down at the bottom to make it look like that's the start of little pieces of fur this is a long-haired cat so he's got a lot of a lot of fluff everywhere whereas the little cat that's in the box he's a short-haired cat so he's gonna he's not gonna have so much excitement around the edges of his fur and then when i get to the face this is all i'm going to be dotting this throughout the middle part of the face and then when i go to the edges i will be doing a little bit lengthier of a brush stroke but right now just in the center of the face i'm going to do dots because i wanted to have a little bit more of a um of a shorter look to the fur in the face so this is just giving me that ability to do that and then as i work my way towards the edges of the um of the face i'm going to start bringing it out a little bit past my chalk mark you don't have to bring it far out but i do know that i want to have some fur that's past where that shirt is so i definitely want to just start bringing out little edges to it i'm going to do the same thing on the right hand side so just going to bring a little bit past here a little bit past my chalk mark and it's going to kind of fl you know go past that shirt a little bit and then as i work my way into here my red is dry right now or predominantly dry so as i do this i'm going to overlap my red a little bit i'm not going to bring it too far down here so you just want to you know bring it down as much as you want to you're going to be able to see through it which is great but it so don't be alarmed if that happens like you'll be able to see through it here but this is just our starting process so it helps us to build these layers and make them look nice and natural as they're overlapping that clothing and then i'm going to just wash and dry my brush real quick and put some of that gray right over here in this little spot so wash and dry my brush and pick up a little bit of gray and white and just tap in this little bit of the edge of the shirt to match what's going on on the cuffs of the shirt as well and then we're going to be using our um our let's use our medium brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry your medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish our tree and any little decorative information we want below i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors that i'm using are red yellow white for my lights and i'll also use a bit of black and brown and maybe some red and green in whatever little shadow or carpet that we want underneath our tree so i'm going to start with the lights on my tree i'm going to be doing a nice fun carefree display of lights so i'm just going to be doing some dots in curved type of um lines so when i make my dots i'm giving it this curved kind of look to it and i'm really just doing polka dots so the more uh paint that i have on my brush the more vibrant the color is going to be i do like to put little dots at times past the tree itself so that's going to provide a look that makes it kind of glow a little bit around the edges like the lights are on the other side of the tree i do know that i have um the tree is not the focal point it is just an addition to the painting to kind of set the stage and give the information that this is in fact a holiday tree and this little kitten is a nice present underneath of it underneath it but you could certainly make yours into whatever kind of decoration you want if you want your tree to be the focal point then by all means make it huge make it grand make you know lots of information on it i'm gonna wash and dry my brush now because i want to add a different color so i'm gonna wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put yellow and white on my brush at the same time so i know that my yellow will be see-through unless i use it with white so you could pre-mix yourself like a light yellow but i like to use them on my brush at the same time so i've got some good brights some brighter spots and some duller spots so you can certainly have fun with however bright you want your yellow to be and then again i'm just kind of moving through my tree with these arcing type of lines they don't even have to connect to one another you just whatever you're feeling on your tree maybe you want to have big huge um holiday ornaments on yours it's going to be totally up to you on your uh you know desire to make this really bright maybe you have a thousand little lights that are all just k in in a chaotic kind of way they don't have to be in this organized kind of arcing way but i wanted to be able to sell the story of this being a pretty decorated tree and then i'm just going to start picking up white and i'm going to do a whole bunch of white ones too so i didn't wash my brush because i was hoping that maybe from time to time that yellow would also come off with some of my white but right now i am just kind of dotting a whole bunch of white strings of lights throughout my tree and of course you can make yours into whatever you know display that you want i'm slowing down because i'm like do i want one here do i want one there and you just it's hard because this is one of those steps that's really fun because it's carefree and you just get to kind of explore your own kind of design wishes on it but it's tough to stop but i think i think i'm good there i think i got enough on there so now what i'm going to do i'm washing dry my brush i'm going to put on the essence of the bottom of my tree so i washed and dried my brush i'm going to put a tiny bit of black and brown on the on my brush at the same time and i just want to give the illusion of a little bit of a tree trunk in through here so i'm only going to bring it down about halfway down my box i don't need it to be anything fancy and i don't even need the viewer to understand that there is um a water holder or anything like that maybe there's just a a carpet or a cloth or something so just give the illusion of the bottom of the tray then without washing my brush i picked up a little bit of red and brown and i'm just going to kind of um in a very impressionistic kind of way color in this bottom area maybe as if it's one of those pretty um like draped blankets at the bottom of the tree i'm now putting some black and green and i have not washed my brush i'm going to put this as if it's maybe coming underneath the box a little bit and maybe just kind of coming over in this direction and then i'm just going to move my brush left to right giving maybe a little decorative look to it and but i wanted to make sure it looks like it's going behind that box so if you bump into the box a little bit while you're making this decoration at the bottom of the tree just know that that's okay if you bump into the box because we'll be able to disguise it or we're going to be painting another layer on the tree so that or on the box so that'll help to eliminate any weak spots that might have happened i just put a little bit of red on my brush maybe to sell the story more of like a little carpet underneath here and then we're going to be utilizing our medium brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry the medium brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish our box and our clothing i'm gonna use my medium brush the colors i'm using are black red white and that might be it if i use any other colors i'll let you know so how i'm going to tackle this is i'm going to start on my box first i'm going to do my dark areas or my shadowy areas and move my way to the light areas so i'm going to start with red and black on my brush about equal parts of both and what i'm doing is i'm going to put a shadowed area on the left side of this box with a little bit of black and red and my shadow is going to travel all the way from this side of the box and just kind of make its way lighter and lighter so once i have the black and the red on there i picked up just red to get these two colors to kind of blend in with one another as they're as they're drying i can blend them together with a little bit of extra red on my brush and then i'm just going to kind of work my way towards the right side of the box which is going to be the lighter side of the box so i'm working that red and black off of my brush right now and now i'm just picking up some red paint to get this right hand side fully red and then i will add a little bit of a highlight on it so i've got red paint i'm bringing this down in through here i i see it got a little piece of chalk still evident but i'll get rid of that in a minute and once i've got my red on here i can without washing my brush i'm picking up a little bit of white paint so i take my white and i'm gonna um while that red is still kind of wet i add it onto this right hand side and the tippy top and then i can just kind of pull it into the darker area and blend it in a little bit and then you can just kind of keep manipulating and adding to that as much as you need to i'm going to do the same thing to my ribbon just making sure i've got this little red area over here taken care of and making sure there's no unpainted areas before i move on to the next section so then what i'm going to do is i'm going to start the next section in the same way so i'm going to i have red on my brush right now i'm going to pick up red and black and i'm going to start over here on the left hand side just put a little bit of a shadow or a darker side to my um to my top in through here i can also put a little bit of this red and black inside my ribbon so down at the bottom of my ribbon and maybe up in between some of the brighter areas that we'll put in a minute so just these little streaks of darkness will help to make that ribbon look almost three-dimensional and then what i'm going to do i feel like i have a little bit too much black on my brush right now so i'm just going to wipe it off on my paper towel i'm going to pick up some more red and that's when i'll get these colors to the the darker area to start morphing and getting into that lighter area which will be the right side of the box lid and so i've just got that red on there i'm going to do the same thing just bring it all the way this just the red all the way to the edge and just kind of pull it back into the darker area of the box and while that's sitting for a second i have the red on my brush so i might as well do the same thing to the ribbon so just kind of again just adding more red to the equation and red being translucent will again be brighter the thicker the paint is or more vibrant the thicker the paint is so you can just kind of keep adding these layers of the red and you can see it just gets brighter and brighter and brighter the more that you have on there so now i'm going to just wipe my brush off of my paper towel and picking up a little bit of white paint to give myself this brightness over here and i'm running through wet red paint and that helps me because it lets me kind of blend it on the fly like this and i'm not using much pressure on my brush to get these to blend in and then i can just take that lighter color and start swiping it in in a couple of strategic areas in this bow and again i don't need to do much just kind of selling the story that there's some light areas and dark areas and then i'm going to approach the clothing in the same way and if you don't get this you know perfect on the first shot let it dry for a minute sometimes doing a second layer will help you to get um those areas as vibrant as you want or to get them to have as much dimension as you want but that's about all i'm going to be doing on those i'm going to move over to my clothing so just to make sure that i have a clean brush i'm washing and drying it i'm going to put my shadowy areas on first so that's going to be underneath here and underneath the hat over here maybe a little bit where it meets the brim of the hat and then maybe a little here and under here so red with a little bit of black is where i'm going to start and the black can very easily overpower so you don't need much black just a little bit to kind of sell the story i do want this to look like it's kind of um we've got like a chest area and then a belly area so i'm gonna put a little bit more darkness down here in in this area down here so that's gonna make i'm gonna in essence kind of give myself a little bit of a chest area that is a little bit lower than where these um the legs started and i'll show you why in a second and just kind of bringing that dark dark red down in through here and then what i'm going to do i'm loading my brush with a little bit more red i'm going to give myself this little bit of a shadow area between the chest and the arms so it almost looks like it's bumping out a little bit in through here but we still have some of that arm to um to contend with so it almost looks like it goes underneath the the cat so if yours doesn't end up translating as that that's okay i'm just trying to give mine as much dimension as i can providing um a little bit of extra information if if at all possible picking up some more red and this may be one of those steps that you might want to do a couple of layers just in order to grasp what you're doing or maybe you you find that you just want it kind of all one color and it just works out that way for you and you don't need to add this extra bit of dimension but once i've got it kind of started in through here i'm just going to pick up some red paint and get these colors or these sections to start to blend with one another and i want it to go brighter and brighter as it's kind of working its way up into the chest and the arms in through here so this is just red on my brush right now just kind of giving myself that second layer and making sure all of these areas kind of talk well together and then i'm going to put a little bit of shadow underneath where this fur is and then over on that right hand side and we'll do a little highlight in a second too but right now just kind of getting those to blend in well together i'm going to do a little shadow over behind here so red plus just a teeny tiny bit of black i have a very small area i'm working on right in through here so red with a teeny tiny bit of the black maybe a little bit more black i'm cautious when it comes to the black because i know how quickly it can take over so that's why i proceed with a little bit of red on my brush because that helps to kind of keep me in control and then just wiping my brush off on my paper towel adding some more red to my brush so i can get these to blend in and then just bringing that red all the way out to the edge something like this and then i'm going to put a tiny bit underneath that the the fur so red with just a little bit of black i don't really need to do much because i know that i will be adding even more when it comes to putting the fur on there but this is where you can start to kind of separate and cross over from one another the the hair fur and the chest fur or the chest color something like that and then i'm going to wash and dry my brush to put on the highlight because i know that i have black paint on my brush right now and i don't want the white with the red to make gray so i'm going to pick up red plus a touch of white paint to give myself this highlight over here on the left side on the left arm and on the right arm and maybe just a teeny tiny touch over there on the back of the shirt and then i just wipe my brush off and just kind of blend this in with the leg itself so if your red paint has already dried on the actual leg itself you could certainly pick up a bit more of the red paint just to get them to blend in i'm using a really soft touch to just kind of maneuver these around so they start talking to one another same thing over here and this is the area of the leg that i feel that would pop out the most so that's where i'm putting that highlight i'm going to do the same thing on the hat so again just wiping my brush off or washing it starting with some black and red on my brush giving myself a nice shadow underneath this edge over here picking up a little bit more red so that black doesn't take over on me and then just kind of rubbing this in until it kind of dissipates into the red area i'm going to put a little bit of this underneath or as the hat the top part of the hat meets the rim in through here so a little bit of the red and the black is on my brush and then just kind of rubbing these in and then i'm going to start just picking up red paint to get the rest of the hat nice and red and then we'll put a little bit of a highlight on it in a minute and then we just have the little the little white parts of our clothing to tackle on this particular step so this is just red paint i've got on my brush right now and you could certainly just kind of dab it if you wanted it to have more of like a fluffy kind of appearance to it if you dot it that'll give you more of a textured look as opposed to a smooth look if you want it smooth you can kind of rub it as opposed to dabbing it so this is going to give me this coverage in through here and i'm going to just pick up a tiny bit of white paint with the red on my brush decide where i want those highlights so i feel like i'd want one in through here and maybe up in through here and then maybe on this side over and through here and then i'm just going to wipe my brush off and just get these to kind of talk to one another and just blend them out with just a little little soft touch on my brush because they're really wet right now so the soft touch allows me to kind of keep control as to how much i blend it or not i think i want another little kind of highlight over and through here too and maybe a little bit more in the hat into here the more highlights that i have on the top of the hat the more it's going to look fluffy and like it's got some form and some shape to it so sometimes i just kind of keep adding these little these little bits of highlights until it says okay you've got enough now so you can certainly do the same thing on your part and then i'm going to wash and dry my brush so i can hit these gray areas and really the the dominant part about this is adding some good white but i do want to just maintain that shadowy kind of area at the bottom so i'm going to put some brown i don't know if i said i used i was going to use brown but i'm using brown and gray to start at the bottom with this little tapping motion and then once i've got this started i'm going to do the same thing at the bottom of here i'm going to do the same thing at the bottom of these guys just a little bit of brown and gray and then i'm going to pick up white paint and the white is where i'm going to get that fluffy real textured type of appearance and i'm just dotting it so the dotting again is going to give you that um real texture textured look to it and you want to just make sure it kind of blends in with that that brown area that we just created or that darker area that we just created so just the white paint is going to allow it to kind of build to the lightness and then you can get it to go as light as you want i'm doing it kind of strategically with some really bright areas like over on this left and then maybe maybe a little brightness as it's coming into the hat and through here and of course you can manipulate yours as bright as you want and i'll do a little tapping of this br this lighter color on the um the wrist areas down in through here you can overlap the um the red area so this is going to give it that extra little fluffiness just make sure that it blends in with the with the brown area that we put do it in through here as well and don't forget the little area along the back side as well and the fluffy part on the head so just a little you know you really hardly have to do anything on these just something to make sure that they're brighter than um the area that they sit next to so if you've got to add that extra bit of whiteness or lightness to it and then do the same thing on here and then we're going to be using our small brush for the next step so once you've got the clothing in the box done make any little adjustments that you want put your large brush away take out 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 going to be doing the facial features on the kitten i'm going to be using my small brush the colors i'm using are black white yellow red and maybe some brown too if maybe but definitely the first colors i said so i'm going to start with black paint i'm going to be putting the eyes in place and where i want my nose and my mouth so i want this kitten to be kind of looking up at the other cat so i'm gonna have the eyes a little bit turned or a little bit tipped and to the right side of the head so i'm going to put my first marker is going to be for the eye that's closest to us so this is almost dead center left to right i'm kind of cl maybe a little bit closer to the top of the box i'm using just black paint to give myself a nice solid base a lot of the exterior part of the eye and the pupil are going to be black so this just really gives me a nice base to start on i'm going to pull the inside corner of the eye down a little bit like down towards the right and i'm also going to put a little bit of a black kind of stripe coming out the side of the face the eye in through there i'm going to do the right eye is going to be close to the edge of the head in through here and it's going to be of a similar size to this one but it might end up looking a little bit smaller because again it is kind of tipped to the side and we're seeing it at a little bit of an angle so something like that and then again i'm going to kind of pull down the corner of the eye and i wouldn't see the stripe on the other side because that's that's gone it's on the other side of the head and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to kind of travel between these two in a diagonal kind of way to about here this is where i'm going to put the end of my little nose in through here i'm going to color my nose right now just a black color i will be able to add a little pinkness to it in a little bit but i'm just going to start with that little bit of a black and i'm going to do the same thing for the mouth so i'm going to bring this little bit of a nose down at just a tiny bit i mean these are such small little details i'm just trying to get it in a good angle and then just bring this little tiny mouth down in through that direction and then over on this side so again just tipping it so it looks like it's to the side then what i'm going to do is i'm going to wipe my brush off on my paper towel i want to try to give the edge of the nose or the contour so i'm just going to rub a tiny bit of black paint in through here just so i visually know where the side of the nose is on this side the other side is going to be kind of like a little bit of a highlight but if you need to put a little marker you certainly can i'm going to wash and dry my brush now and i'm going to put the colored part on the inside of the eyes so if your black is not dry the base coat is not dry you might want to give it a minute but mine looks to be dry so i can just kind of work right through it i'm going to put yellow and just a teeny tiny bit of white paint on my brush the white will help so the yellow is not so see-through and i don't need much at all so just a teeny tiny bit i've got a really small area that i'm going for so i do want to preserve a little pupil so i'm going to give the center part is going to stay black and i'm going to give myself the yellow part to the eye down towards the edge leave a little pupil in the center and i'm going to do the same thing on this one so i'm leaving a lot of the black oh not a lot but a good amount of the black around the edge of the um color part of the eye so that way it looks like the eyeball is kind of sit set into the head a little bit and then once you've got them on there i'm going to pick up just a tiny bit more yellow paint just so i can get a little bit more color in those eyes and if you wanted to you could tweak that all you want i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put a little sparkle in the eye so wash and dry my brush picking up a bit of white paint and my sparkle is going to kind of go right across my um pupil part so i'm just going to kind of add a little kind of dot and a little pull down dash something like that so a little dot and a little pull down dash like that and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to without washing my brush i'm picking up a little bit of red paint so i have white with a touch of red i'm going to give myself a little bit of a pink on the tip of that nose and then that's about all i'm going to be doing for my for my facial features so you can certainly tweak it all you want we'll put little details of the fur and stuff around them in a minute but we're going to use this small brush for the next step so once you've got this done you can wash and dry your small brush and get ready for the next step all right so we're going to do for the next step is we're going to finish the fur on our kitten i'm going to use my small brush the colors i'm using are brown yellow and white and if i need to use a little bit of black i certainly will so i want mine to just be a cute little maybe like tiger kitten kind of alley cat type of cat i'm not well versed on the names of cats but it's a cute kid and that's what i know what it is um and i'm gonna have it have like kind of a light grayish brown color i'm gonna have markings the the um chin and the cheeks are going to be kind of light where the whiskers will come out have some markings around the eyes and then the rest is going to be kind of like a tan color maybe with a couple of stripes so what i'm going to do is first kind of put my light aries in place so what i'm going to do is i'm going to make myself a pale yellow color so i've already pre-mixed it so you can see where i'm headed so how i got there was i used white and a touch of yellow so i don't want this to be all the way white for me because i do i am going to be adding some white details in a little bit and so this light yellow color will help me get these um light areas started and this fur on this cat is really short so i'm going to be using a lot of little dotting stippling type of brush stroke so i'm doing the chin first and i'm just really dotting in this lighter color and i'm going to bring this all the way to the edge of the um of the face i'm also going to put this in the little cheek area in through here just very gently going near that mouth you don't need to do anything really really vibrant with it just kind of gently tapping it in and leaving a little bit near that mouth so you can see that line that you did but you don't need to do anything really too much to it i'm reloading my brush i'm not going to blend it in yet because i want to kind of shift colors but right now just kind of getting the idea of where i want these real light areas i definitely want some lightness underneath the eye the eyes so i'm going to put a little bit of this light color and then just kind of pull it right up along the edge i'm going to do the same thing down in through here give myself some nice lightness at the bottom of the eye and then just pull it near where i have that striped area that i started when i did the eyes so i'm just kind of pulling this out in through here i'm going to put some up on the inside part of the eyes as well near the near the nose so i'm going to bring just this light kind of streak in through here and then just bring it out in this direction like there are little pieces of hair going or fur going around that eye so something like this and if you do too much don't worry about it because we're going to be adding some darker color in a minute this is just really just starting the process of where we want these lighter areas to go and putting some lightness above the eye in through here so just these little kind of um pull brush strokes is going to get me started in through there i'm going to start to incorporate a little bit darker of a color in a second here but i just really want to get this markers kind of situated for myself and for myself to understand where i want those brighter areas so now that i've done that now my next colors that i'm going to be using are my original brown and a tan color so how i got to this was i just took brown and mixed it with a little bit of white so this is going to give me another tone of brown that will have some good opacity in it which will allow it to show up on top of this dark background background you can also use some of your gray so i might get to a point where i want to add a little bit of the gray in there to give some more texture so that's another color that i will be using so i'm going to start with some of that tan color just to get my my additional fur on in through here i'm also going to pick up i just picked up a little bit more of my brown so i have tan pulse brown on my brush and this is where i'm going to get these lighter areas to start talking to the darker areas and i'm just doing these little tiny brush strokes to give myself the direction of the fur so this is you know we're just kind of going around this cat it's going to get a little bit darker as it goes into the box so i really don't need to do a whole heck of a lot i'm my big focus is just getting that face to be super cute so i'm just giving myself a little bit of this darker fur in through here i'm going to go up the nose here i think actually i'm going to pick up some of that gray i want this little face to be a little bit different than the side of the um head so i just picked up a little bit of gray as well i'm going to put a little bit of this in through here now i'm picking up a little bit of brown to get it to mint to blend in a little bit and i'm going to be using a combination of little streaky brushstrokes plus dots so this way um i will have some good texture on the edge of the nose and on the the top side of the cat so it looks like it's got a little bits of fluff to it i keep kind of picking up a combination of the tan brown and gray at this point and as i work my way up towards the top of the cat as it goes under that box i know that i just want it to be a little bit dark in through there so it almost disappears behind or underneath the box something like that and then i want this right side to just make sure that it's got some kind of texture on it so it looks like it's a little got some little fluffy fur in through there he's looking pretty cute but i think i want to elevate these light areas a little bit more so i'm going back into that light yellow and maybe a touch of um white just so i can if i can manipulate myself here so you guys can see i might have just kicked the camera a little bit so if it jiggled that was my foot and i'm gonna maybe put a little bit of extra lightness in through here and maybe in through here just to get these eyes to look super duper cute and like they're sparkling with their light fur and he's all excited that he's gonna meet his new friend i don't think his friend is excited to meet him but he's excited to meet his friend the new guy the new guy on the other side of the tree and then you just kind of keep manipulating these little pieces of fur until you feel like you've got a good representation of what you want if you want i think i'm going to add a little bit more fluffiness to the bottom of the chin in through here so a little bit more white and that will help me to get the the edge of this this face as it's going into the box get it to represent nice and well and if you feel like you made the chin too big just pick up a little bit of black or brown and just kind of skinny it back up if you feel that any anything needs to happen you can reshape it as much as you want to get it to represent that cute adorable kitty that we all at some point in our life wanted to have hidden under the christmas tree and then once you've got all this adorable fur on here and he's looking as cute as you want him to we're going to be utilizing this same brush for the next step so you can just wash it and dry it oh he's cute wash it and dry it and get ready for the next step all right so what we're going to do for the next step is we're going to paint facial features and wrinkles on our larger cat so i'm going to be using my small brush i'm going to be using black brown yellow white and red so all my colors except for green so how i'm going to do this is i'm going to first anchor kind of where my eyes are going to go and then we'll make some nice sketcherly kind of lines for wrinkles and we'll put our nose and our mouth in so i'm going to start with just black paint on my small brush so these faces are super cute and and grumpy looking um so we're gonna have some some droopy kind of eyes so i'm gonna have my eyes right about in through here so what i'm gonna initially do is i'm gonna give myself a couple of curved lines so i did that maybe about a half of an inch away from the edge of my canvas and i'm about i would say if this is with my shoulder i'm about an inch inch and a half up from that and if this is the center of my circle i'm a little bit to the right of that so then i'm going to mimic that over on the left hand side so somewhere right about in through here and then i'm just going to give myself a curved kind of line similar to what i have on the right hand side then i'm going to give myself the eye part the eyeball part of it so i'm going to come in from the edge just a little bit and i'm going to give myself a little bit of a semi-circle for the bottom part of the eye and then i'm or for the eye and then i'm just going to color it in with black paint and i'm going to do the same thing on the other side and they don't have to be exactly the same if they're symmetrically one is a little bit different than the other one that's totally okay so i'm just gonna paint this in like this and then in order for it to not just look like you know this object is underneath that i'm gonna give it a little bit i'm gonna pull out this area a little bit and almost kind of give it a little bit of a shadow in those little crooks of the wrinkles by the eyes so just kind of soften that edge just a little bit so it's not too dramatic then what i'm going to do is i'm going to come down i'm going to continue from this line and i'm going to make my nose my nose or the the bottom part of it is going to be somewhere in in this vicinity so i'm not going to have it too wide so maybe just a little arcing line in through there and then these two kind of meet one another it's almost like a little flat kind of nose so something like this and then like that i'm gonna pull this down about a quarter of an inch and then give myself a little wide area in through here then i'm going to kick this out for the mouth so the mouth is going to be really grumpy it's going to come down in this direction i pull it down the edge of the face is going to be almost as wide as the outside part of the eye so you're almost pulling it out in in that width but again it doesn't have to be exactly the same as mine your cat could be shaped a little bit different than mine and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to put some wrinkles in place so i want to use the black but i don't want it to go too too black on me so i'm gonna put black and brown on my brush so i can have like these sketcherly type of lines from my wrinkles on my forehead and you can have as many as you want i'm gonna put some kind of at the the bridge of the nose something like this maybe one in through here i'm gonna just kind of pull this up maybe there's one underneath the um the hat coming out like this and then maybe we've got another maybe that one kind of comes out like that you can really make these as many as you want or as grumpy as you want but what i'm doing is kind of just giving myself these sketcherly type of lines that will help me when i put the fur on there these lines will help me to understand where that um where those wrinkles are so i put a couple in through here and then in through here then what i'm going to do with that brown and black is i'm also going to kind of excuse me put the wrinkles under the eyes so again just brown and black and the black can easily take over so if you're if it all is just a hundred percent black at this point just maybe wipe your brush off on your paper towel and then just use a little bit more brown so i'm just kind of pulling it out from the inside corner of the eye and then just kind of wrapping it around the bottom of the eye in through here that's going to give me some extra grumpy wrinkles in through there and then just maybe bring this down and just blend it in and then what i'm going to do i'm going to wash and dry my brush so i can put the eyes on so i'm having a similar color eye so yellow and white is where i'm starting both on my brush at the same time and again if your black is not totally dry just give it a minute my black seems to be pretty dry so i'm going to go for it i don't need a lot of paint on my brush and i'm going to give myself a arcing type of colored section i'm going to leave a little pupil up at the top like that and also a little bit of black showing at the top and all the way around the eye like this and i hardly have any paint on my brush i'm really just kind of using a very minimal amount just to make sure that i've got good coverage and i can kind of manipulate it and move it as it is um as it's drying so that looks good i'm going to do the same thing on the other eye just leaving myself a little tiny bit of a pupil up towards the top portion of the eye and then just bringing this colored part down in through here and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick up a tiny bit of white paint and i'm going to put my sparkle or my light part of the eye down in this colored part so just a little swipe of white on my dirty brush now i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put a shadow up at the top of the eye with a little bit of brown paint so i put brown paint on my brush and i'm going on top of that colored part just a little bit and just adding this little shadow up at the top you could use brown and black or just brown wherever your comfort zone is if you want to add this little bit of a shadow up at the top that's going to make him look like his head is a little bit more down and it's going to give you that more realistic look on the eyes and if you felt like you needed to amp up the yellow any just pick up a little bit more yellow and put more in that colored part if if you feel that you need to and then i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to put on my nose so my nose is going to be just like a little peachy pinky kind of look so i'm going to go for some red yellow brown and a touch of white and just make myself this almost like a pinky type skin color we'll call it peach for lack of a better terminology but i'm going to just kind of twist it like this and that's a good color for me so that was red yellow brown and white and i'm just putting a little lightness on the edge of this nose and just going to rub it kind of up and get it to blend in with that brown and i'm also going to put a little tiny bit of this color right down the center of this black area so that gives me the little um bottom part of the nose now i'm going to wipe my brush off and pick up a little bit of red and white and give myself a little pouty bottom lip so i've got red and white on my brush and just going to give myself a little pouty bottom lip and you could if you like i feel like i want a little bit of darkness underneath it i brought it down a little bit farther so i picked up a little bit of brown and black just to have that lip kind of sitting within the darkness so it's got dark at the bottom and at the top and that's all i'm going to be doing for my facial features you can certainly end my wrinkles and you can do any little tweaks that you want then we're going to be using our medium 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're going to finish the fur on this cat and we're also going to put a shadow underneath this cat and underneath this box in through here so i'm going to be using my medium brush the colors i'm using are black brown red yellow and white that that's about it no green um so what i'm going to do is i'm going to first load my brush i'm going to do my shadows first so i'm going to put a tiny bit of black paint and a tiny bit of brown paint on my brush at the same time and i really just want these to these two objects to look like they're grounded so i want there to be a little bit of darkness underneath them the cat is pretty fun because it's got fur so we don't need a straight line underneath it so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to kind of wiggle my brush a little bit underneath these objects and you can if you want to you can add a little bit of water to your brush which will help to make the the paint move a little bit more and you can also that will help it to blend into the floor or the the bottom if you want it to so i just kind of added a touch of water onto my brush which makes it darker where it touches the animal and then you can get it to go a little bit more see through or transparent as it works its way away from the animal i'm not going to have the shadow travel too too far because i i think the light source is coming from the christmas tree um and i don't know really how much light it's giving off so i'm just going to give just a little bit of shadow underneath these um objects and then so i put the little darkness in through there with the black and the brown and then just kind of wiggle my brush a little bit to get that shadow to pull out a little bit maybe to the right i guess maybe if the trees over here on the left we'll just pull it out a little bit to the right that'll give us some nice natural look to the shadow and if you went too much you can always pull bring some of that original gray that you had used for the background you can use that to blend in with this shadow so i'm just kind of rubbing mine in here but again you could certainly add a little bit of that um gray if you needed to so again just loading my brush with a little bit of black and brown i'm putting a shadow underneath my box over here and i think i'm going to use a little bit more black because i know that this is going to be close to the light source so maybe a little bit more black in through there and if you felt that you wanted to pull it out a little bit you could certainly do that with a touch of water on your brush but i'm not going to do much just kind of get this to blend in through here and then i'm going to go ahead and start tackling the fur on my um on my cat and through here so i'm going to start with some black and brown so i can get my shadowy areas or my darker areas to be rendered so that's going to be down in through here i have the edge of the shirt in through here so i just want to make sure that that's nice and dark and this whole underside in through here should be dark because it's underneath the cat so i'm just making sure that that's nice and dark i also want some darkness in the face where the chin meets this longer hair so with that brown and black i'm going to kind of outline where i want that chin to be and then start pulling this fur down and away from that darker area so again just a little bit of brown and black this is going to help to outline where i want that face to be and it's also going to start or help me to put some little shadows within this longer fur that is on the outside areas of the face so bringing it kind of about halfway up that cheek and then just kind of pulling it out and this is also where you can certainly start to again continue to overlap that fur into the shirt so that's going to help you to really get that some good dimension on in through there and again that black can really overpower so if you feel like you've got too much black just wipe that brush off on your on your paper towel or whatever or you know just kind of manipulate it and get it to have a different quantity on it i also i'm going to put a little bit of shadow underneath this hat so again just a little bit of that brown and black on my brush is allowing me to put a touch of a shadow underneath this hat i don't need much just a teeny tiny bit is going to help to sell that story of this hat having a little bit of a three-dimensional type of look and because it's a rough fluffy hat i can have a rough fluffy um shadow underneath here so i don't need anything really fancy at all and again just the brown and the black is how i'm accomplishing this just making sure it kind of makes sense with the fur that it's next to and then where else do i need shadow maybe a little shadow over here underneath the shirt in through here not much maybe just a little bit and then i'm going to close off the bottom of the fur down into here with again just a little bit of that brown and black just making sure that this fur looks nice and natural and isn't just a straight line i think i want a little bit more in through here too i like i like things to look nice and natural so in order to do that with a fluffy cat i need to make sure that my edges have some little um shadows and stuff up that that fur so then what i'm going to do and a little bit of this dark fur in through here as well now what i'm going to do i want to create a little bit of a lighter color for the fur that's going to be on top of this fur and to give that dimension so i'm going to wash and dry my brush and i'm going to create myself like a um like another tan color but i want to be a little bit different than my cat here so i'm going to be utilizing red yellow brown and white to create this this lighter tan kind of color it's almost like what we did for the nose only a little bit lighter so how i got there was i used quite a bit of yellow just a little bit of my red and a little bit of brown maybe a little bit more brown and then some white and then i mixed it together until i've got this golden type of tan color and you can adjust it like that's a little red for me so i'm adding a little bit more of the brown and yellow and i just kind of keep mixing it until i feel like i've got a nice complementary golden type of fur color that's going to work well on top of my brown so i will utilize this light this this golden type of color plus my brown as i am working this fur to have its next layer so i have that golden color plus brown on my brush at the same time and i'm going to give my self my fur texture so i'm just putting the fur in the direction that i want it to go i'm not really going to put too much underneath here because again i want that to look like it's in the shadow so i'm going to add some more of this on here and you don't have to color it a hundred percent i'm really just looking to give the cat some real some good texture on the fur so just a little bit in through here and you can see i'm not painting it all the way i will be adding a little bit of an additional highlight in a minute but right now just kind of giving myself the second layer of fur with this golden color plus brown on my brush at the same time so using these multiple colors on your brush at the same time is going to allow you to naturally get some some light spots and dark spots within the paint texture so i still have that golden color plus brown on my brush i'm going to tap it into my wrinkles so this is going to give me the appearance of them having form and they're going the skin part is gonna not the skin part but the part that's not inside and wrinkled is popping out so these little areas of fluffiness that i'm providing are um are working giving visual cues to the viewer that these areas are popping out a little bit i'm going to put that in through here and then maybe a little bit on the nose so i am consciously working on giving the entire cat a second coat right now and i don't need to cover up all of that brown that was underneath this is just meant to be an additional layer of fur to enhance that original color that we put on there the original color was intended to be like the shadowy areas of the fur i'm doing this all along this um the facial area and then what i'm going to do when i get to the longer fur is i'm going to start pulling it out like this so the longer fur is going to get those longer strokes to it which will allow it to to look like it's got more length to it and you can pull it out in these varying directions on the side of the face i'm pulling those more in an upward direction to be more representational of this type of of cat and then as i get down towards this area in through here i'm conscious that i want these areas to look like they're that they work together so if it looks like it's too separate of an area just pick up a little bit more of the brown and the black to get these areas to really look like they're blending into one another so i don't necessarily want it to just look like this is one section and that's another section i want them to look like one is merging into the other so i just i'm either picking up black and or brown to get these two areas to really work well together and of course you can and same thing with this little side of the face so almost you want to get that line that we put there to almost disappear make it look like it is part of that transition from the short hair to the long hair and that's what's going to give you that um that appearance of the the face kind of dipping in through there i'm picking up my light color again i'm doing another kind of layer on top of it so the more layers i put the um the brighter it will look and this will help me to kind of build those high spots within the wrinkles if i want them to look like they're popping out a little bit more i'm thinking i want a little bit lighter on this this these cheeks in through here and then on the mouth and through here and you can also utilize a little bit more red if you want these areas to look like they've got a little bit more of that pinky look like the nose had or a little bit deeper or richer of a color you could certainly take this tan that you had or the golden color and add a touch of red to it so that'll make it look a little bit more richer and it'll give you another tone to the fur so just feel free to you know explore the colors that that are speaking to you so this is just a little bit more on the vibrant peachy side but again you can certainly make yours into whatever way that you want it will turn a little bit darker as it dries so just you know visually plan for that and then what i'm going to do now is i'm going to use i'm going to wipe my brush off not all the way i still want some of that on there and pick up a touch of white as well and this is going to give me my highlighted spots so if i want a little bit of a highlighted spot on the top of the paw i can put that golden color plus a little bit of white and just give myself a couple of additional light spots on top which will add to again that that appearance of it being three dimensional and then i'll do the same thing on the back side of the body so i have my light golden color plus a little bit of white and i'm not overdoing it just adding a little bit i'll do the same thing on the tail just giving myself these couple of bright spots up at the top of the tail so it looks like they're being illuminated and it gives you that extra length to to see in the fur and maybe a couple of little pieces in through there that's looking pretty good and then any additional places that i want on the face so a little bit of that golden color plus white on my brush will help me to maybe pop out his little his little chin a little bit something like that any area that you want to pop out a little bit maybe a little bit more on parts of these um these little wrinkles that are coming out maybe a little bit more on the eyebrow bone that'll get that to pop out a little bit more so just a little lighter version will help to sell the story of those pieces popping out a little bit more maybe we've got a couple of extra light pieces over here as it's working its way towards the holiday tree maybe you know maybe a little bit lighter in through here and here so wherever you feel like you want those pieces to pop out a little bit more that's where you're going to add those lighter tones into it so you can keep fiddling with yours as much as you want to we've got one little step um to go on these cats so once you've got yours done you can put this medium brush away i might fiddle with mine for just a couple more minutes here just make sure this transition also down where the shirt is makes sense too you don't want to still see a vibrant red line underneath there you want this to kind of just work itself into each other as well and then just fiddle with it as much as you want and then we'll be using our um small 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're painting some whiskers i'm going to use my small brush the colors i'm using are black and white and if i need any of my fur colors i'll do that as well so the first thing i need to do is i just need to put some little dots for where i want my whiskers to have the appearance of coming out so i'm going to put just a teeny bit of black paint on my small brush i'm going to give myself just a couple a little tiny little tiny dots in through this area you can have them in rows you can have them just polka dots whatever works for you i'm also going to do the same thing i'm a big guy over here on the right so on his little cheeks excuse me i'm going to put some little just chaotic type of polka dots i am really just kind of lightly tapping my brush to get these on here and if at any time you feel like you've done too many you can certainly just pull up some of your original fur collar and certainly work that in as well so that's looking pretty good in through there it looks like plenty of little spots for me then i'm going to wash and dry my brush i'm going to go put the whiskers on over here on the left side so what i like to do is just make sure that i have enough moisture in my paint so what i'll do is i'll take some of my white paint and i'll add a dot of water into it so it's nice and thin and then i take my brush and i spin it on the side of my palette so that will point my brush so it's nice and pointy it's got some good moisture in it and then i just cross my fingers and i pray that i don't make whiskers that are super duper huge but if i do i can always you know back it off but you know small brushes work a little fluidity on your brush and a good old prayer will help and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to have them coming out in several different directions from my little whisker spots so i like to go fast and i don't press hard oh that was a good one and then i'll just kind of keep oh yes i got two good ones maybe i should just stop and then i'll just kind of keep making some little ones uh in all these different directions i do like to kind of make sure that they come out in different directions so that way they look more on the natural side and sometimes just going fast makes me go a little bit more better i'm going to add a little bit of water on my brush right now because i feel like this one was a little bit too wide for me so if you can catch it while it's still wet with a little bit of water on your brush you can thin it right out so that's looking pretty good yeah that works so we're i'm going to move on to my to my other guy in through here just a little skinny one through there and i'm gonna do the same thing over here so my watered-down white paint a little bit of a prayer and i'm just gonna go for it so i'm gonna do the left hand side first and it's always the first one so that the first one that's the scariest so in and that was a short one that was a short one there we go okay we got it now and sometimes it just takes a couple of little get me up you know little power strokes to get you in the running for these little um these little whiskers yeah there we go and coming out in different directions and again if you feel like you did one that's too much you just you know come come in with a little bit of water but you could also utilize a white with a little bit of yellow if the white is too much for you i also brace myself on the side of my canvas with my hand so that way it helps me to at least sometimes helps me to not make them these ones are coming oh of course i say these ones are coming out great and then that one goes a little wide on me um but bracing yourself sometimes will help you to not push too hard in in the painting and it will allow you to get the skinnier lines and you can always like this one i think is waited too long i'm going to just take some of my original tan color and kind of dab dab dot that in there in there so that kind of gets that back into a thin zone and that works out for me that looks like it's pretty good and then we have one tiny little step left to go and it's going to be with our small brush so once you've got all of your super cute whiskers on in through here you can wash and dry this 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 typically sign mine in the bottom left or the bottom right i'm going to go with my small brush i'm going black paint and i'm going to go bottom left so i sign mine with my initials but you could certainly sign yours with your first name or the date or a symbol or however you want to mark yours is totally up to you and that is going to conclude this painting i hope you enjoyed the process i hope you painted yourself a really fun and whimsical winter holiday image and i look forward to painting and sipping with you again sometime [Music] you

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Length: 90min 8sec (5408 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 28 2021