Happy Sunday! These cuties sketched in pencil and color blocks colored with Ohuhu Markers

Materials Used: Prang semi-moist watercolors, various brands/colors India Ink, Mossery Co Sketchbook

Materials Used: Dr. Ph. Martin's India Ink (lots of color mixing to get the warmer/more muted colors), Winsor & Newton Ink (for black outlines), Qor watercolors, painted on Arches 140 lb, cold pressed, watercolor paper

Some preliminary sketches. First in my sketchbook and then with erasable red colored pencil on the watercolor paper.

Sketchbook Sundays are back in business! As many of you know, I'm not a writer and part of the reason I stopped doing these is because the thought of having to explain myself produced way too much anxiety. So from here on out, I'll probably skip the pleasantries and just give you a few sketchbook pages a week.
I'm also going to be offering a more in depth look into my process (videos, comments, tutorials, etc) on my Patreon, so if you're interested in learning more, check me out at patreon.com/foreverwhitneyyoung.
And let me just get it out of the way now, for lots of my drawings, I have no idea where they come from or what they even are. This one is a perfect example of that. So enjoy this girl and her iguana and don't think too hard about it. Love to all!

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Trying to keep up with Inktober and dealing with a sinus infection has had quite an impact on my sketchbook, so this week it’s just a one pager. I sketched this a while back and finished the sketch today. Then I inked it with a Pentel brush pen in between sneezes. Haha.
Tip: Brush pens are so fun!. The variation in line weight is achieved through putting more or less pressure as you draw.

Hello all! Sketchbook Sunday is back (a day late). I missed last week because life but this week is all flowers and watercolor. I taught a beginner watercolor class last week and was reminded how much I love painting with watercolor. The red/yellow wreath was painted using Qor watercolors and the green/gold was painted using a Prang semi-moist pan and Fintec gold watercolors.
Tip: When painting wreaths, get something round (like a glass or a bowl) and draw the circle first. Then add your leaves. It’s easy to lose the shape if you just start drawing leaves.

46 Days! At the beginning of the week, I wrote down a few Halloween-y things and then drew from that prompt list throughout the week. In case you were wondering, the green on the left page is bleed through from the previous page. 
Tip: Sometimes it's easier to start sketching when you have a prompt list like I did on this page. Think of a theme, or just write down random words/objects and start drawing from there! 

It's spooky season! So here's a couple pages of vampires for ya. 

Tip: When you're drawing hands, always draw the fingers longer than you think they should be. Hands are super tricky to draw, and the most common mistake is making them too small or making the fingers too short.

I know it's Monday, but it was a holiday weekend so it's technically Sunday, right? Anyway, this week, I wanted to practice with pretty and natural poses but I really didn't want to draw eyes because it takes me forever to get them accurate and I just wanted to practice body types anyway so I just couldn't be bothered. SO I drew all these girls facing away and focused primarily on getting a natural, flowy pose. Also stars because why not?

Tip: When drawing bodies, don't be afraid to make lots of lines for your initial sketch, but make them super light until you have a solid shape, then go back and make darker lines for your outline so you can see where you need to make changes. Sometimes drawing lots of darker lines makes your drawing jumbled and difficult to decipher, so stick with lighter, fine lines until you have a defined shape.