FREE, FUN & EASY Fairy Drawing Challenge with Karen Campbell [Week 1 of #50FunFabFairies]

This is the first

week

of the fifty fabulous and fun hashtag fairies

challenge

this is how it will work, follow the lessons there will be 10 and all and they will be delivered every two

week

s starting May 18, 2022. I have this luxury dancing squishy so that you follow the lesson there are 10 and all and after each lesson you do four additional performances and you have two weeks to do it so there is plenty of time for you not to get overwhelmed so step one follow the lesson exactly as step two was designed . do another interpretation change something change the nose change the lips add color maybe you could change the ears you could add accessories you could do it on a different art material but whichever way you decide to do it do it four more times, that's a lot of practice, which means you'll be really good at the end of the series.

Okay, to make things super

easy

, I also set up a totally

free

classroom on awesomeartschool.com because along with the series and all the lessons, supply lists will be given out. uh links to the PDFs not even links just to the PDF so you have all the things you need to be successful so you're going to have um you're just going to have PDFs to the resources we have links to the books that we're using but also I'll give you a picture of the resolution of the references we'll use for our own pieces, plus you'll receive the little scorecard so you can stay accountable and mark your progress as you go.

I'm doing it too. monthly giveaways for those who are going to participate this will last four months so that's four chances to win books, hoodies, t-shirts, we're going to have a lot of fun so let's dive into today's lesson and don't forget to head over to awesomertschool.com and join the

free

classroom. In fact, you can go there every week, but if you don't want to miss it, you can also subscribe to this YouTube channel so you don't miss anything and don't forget to click. like it if you're having a good time leave a comment if you have any suggestions for future lessons or future series if you're just having a good time want to say hello we'd love to hear from you let's get started let's make our

drawing

This project will use a piece of what We call toned paper, which is any paper that is not white, it could just be craft paper.

You can use a grocery bag if you want to be fancy, just search for the word toned and any type. of art paper this is my favorite literally nevermind this is my favorite this is um this is a giant size and I actually cut it out because it was so big nevermind grab a piece of paper that's not white and you're ready to go. These are the references I am going to work with. I thought this was very interesting. I love Christopher Hart. I've highlighted it here on my

drawing

channel several times. And reviewing. The books of his I thought were really fascinating I saw this reference and then I was looking on Pinterest and I thought this looks like it, you know, a thousand times.

I thought, oh, that's the best look, they look almost identical. each other, so she will be our starting point. I have all the references and supply list for everything set up. In a free classroom at awesomeartschool.com, just look for the 50 Fabulous and Fun Fairies Challenge Bomb Series. It's totally free and everything you need. The need is there for 10 weeks full of lessons, so let's dive in, okay, I mean, I know how to draw faces. I just like working from references, it gives me focus and direction so we're going to start by making an oval um and actually we're going to make an oval but we're going to make it a little bit um her chin is very pointy.

I'm going to try to push it down a little bit darker so you can see, okay? I'm working with a black brim pencil, they're soft and squishy and fantastic, they're not necessary at all, they're very expensive, but they replace a whole set of pencils, so I love them for that, so we have this oval, okay? then I made it like a pointy chin, oh and by the way, you're drawing like I'm not here drawing alone, go get your grocery bag or your colored paper, if you don't have colored paper. just use white, that's fine, just use a plain old piece of paper.

We'll make the neck a little different so it's not like a popsicle stick. We'll have a little something on the side here just to make it interesting. Okay, you are with me until now, yes, you are okay, no matter how many times you draw a face, always set the guidelines, so draw this now, don't like pretending to draw a picture, draw a vertical line all the way down. the face that keeps everything nice and centered, okay, put one hand on your chin, put another finger up here on the top of your head, okay, the midpoint here is the eye line, now, this is a

fairy

, so it's okay if your proportions aren't the same, okay, we're not going to make a human face, so if this moves, you're still very good, okay, normally I'm going to elongate your nose a little more because I'm looking at the proportions of Christopher's heart.

Look how low that nose is, I like it, I'm going to borrow it and that's why we use references or take little bits of information and then paste them into our own drawing, so normally a human proportion would be half way to be the nose. that's going to be here, I'm going to bring it down a little bit because I like this kind of interesting ratio and then I'm going to stick the mouth right under it, okay, so now we know where we are. Now let's go to the eyes. I love this. It passes through the eyelid, it is never drawn as a straight line because the eyeball is round and therefore the eyelid must stretch to curve around it, so it teaches us how to have these eyes.

More or less. flipped, so I feel like we're going to do that, so if we were to do a human face, it would be three in a row like this, one, two, three, it's our alien part, okay, but since we're a

fairy

, we'll take these. and we're going to make them up a little tilted now she's really an alien, okay holy alienae, don't ask me what eliane means, it's like Italian for alien, I have no idea she really looks like an alien, although she's fine now. we have for the nose, let's make a circle here and we'll do like a um, just one movement on each side and then the mouth will be here somewhere, so I always start with the guidelines because then you know our proportions are good.

What's going on? I love the alien phase. Okay, now these ears. What's going on with these ears? Okay, so they start anywhere between the nose and the eyes and then this is, we're going to have a little lower eyelid and then a lower eyelid. I don't know the part and then this shoots up and then we have this kind of thickness and again we have holy talk about aliens again and then we have here, you can come over here and then I'm using the center. eye line to the top of this and then this even I don't really want it to shoot right, I really don't want it to come off the page, so we're going to have to tuck it in.

This is so alien. maybe let's make this one a little shorter so we can have them with us on the page, this comes to nothing now the hair is super beautiful, I'm going to do Christopher Heart's hair because the braid is a bit advanced for this quick tutorial YouTube, so I'm going to do the Christopher Heart version again, so he has these amazing bangs that are coming down, so I'm going to start here. Okay, so the hairline always starts at the oval here and we. I'm just going to start, I made a horizontal line, we're just going to move some kind of bangs here, we're not going to fully develop this yet, but this is where we are, this is the direction we're going.

We're going in and then we have the bun at the top, so I'm going to take it anywhere like behind the ears, it's going to come up and it's going up and around the oval of the head and her hair is kind of piled up. in a bun, a fairy bun, if you want, okay, and then there are all these little loose bits that we can have here there and everywhere, okay, so now we have the whole kitty caboodle type caboodle, and now We're Let's go and we're going to shore up these areas, okay, so let's zoom in, let's start in the corner somewhere, okay, I'm going to look at Christopher Heart's eyes, he appears up, we have this tilt tilted and then we lunge up and then this tilts out and again and lunges up okay now let's do one on this side so just draw a little line so you know you're starting in the right place and Again we're going to follow the top of that and then we're going to rotate up and then the bottom part goes down and rotates and that also moves up to help make the irises, which is the color part, you know, nice. and uniform and symmetrical, you can use um, I like to use a circle template which I never used, but then when I started using one, I actually thought, you know what?

That's actually very useful, just choose a random size. um, this one is a little extra big, but I imagine it's a fairy, it's going to look extra fairy, so I'm going to give it some extra giant eyeballs and then we can put, we can even put the pupils inside them, now one of the magical things that I like about this reference, the color reference is that. Like his eyes were very ethereal, some kind of crazy spirit, so right now it looks like a crazy city. eye line goes down a little more, look, we fixed Crazyville, a little hot tip, a little trickster artist trick, trick tip for you, okay, just cut it, we need more, yeah, now come on, now she It's a little sexier, but it also does that.

I don't have crazy eyes. Crazy eyes are never good, so let's make the nostrils. I'm going to make two little squashed ovals on either side for her, hers little nostrils here and then I'll just do it to remember. We lightly draw like some lines of the bridge of the nose, but we don't draw them, we don't actually draw them, that's going to become our shading in a second, but it's there to remind me and then we'll have on top of it her eyebrows. up, so I'm going to draw a line from the corner of the eye and we're going to have some fuzzy caterpillar eyebrows, same thing here, so we have one that goes up a little bit and then another one that goes over here. we can give her a little attitude, we can even make this one go high just for shits and giggles, make her have a little attitude, oh, oh, lala, she's like a french alien fairy, oh, and of course she is , and then we need to prop up her lips, I like this look at her sexy, sensual lips, I'm okay, so we have just below the nose, let's make a little v, okay, now we have our v, obviously, that proportion is very, very close, but This is not a human being, my friends, so we can do whatever we want here and down here and here and then, ooh, she has a very pronounced m-shaped mouth, she literally looks like a block m and then I love these mouths. they have the oh hi that has the little um rise at the bottom before they come out like this these are very sexy fairy lips and then yeah we're okay now we need to add a little bit of definition on the ears so I'm going to make this have a little bit of thickness and then it looks like there's a little lump there and there's even some cartilage.

In fact, on my mixed media channel I have a tutorial on how to draw fairy ears. It's like I take it very well. Seriously, I show you how to draw a human ear and then a fairy ear in case you need to draw precise ones, so this is the same one, we have the thickness and then we have the bump something like that and then we have Actually, you could leave it like this and not worry about all the cartilage on the inside and we'll just shade it in, let's make life simpler, okay? So now we'll just take our pencil and sharpen her face. shape and now comes the exciting part with the tone paper, which we're going to add some very very dark parts and then we're going to add some highlights with a white, so I'm going to erase these guidelines, some of the Gobbly Guck that's all over my newspaper yes, there is a lot, she looks beautiful, there is like a line crossing her head, we can delete her headline.

Oops, I keep forgetting to turn off the ringer, okay, and then we have to grab some drawing utensils that are black. You can go to the pen right now. I'm going to go get some. I'll be right back and show you what I grabbed. I like to use a black and white porcelain marker. You can use a black and white pencil. Okay, don't worry about getting them, just these sit really well on the paper, that's why I use them, but they're just black and white pencils that work well, so don't stress if you don't. I have these um and again the links to all of these materials are in that free classroom at awesomeartschool.com.

Okay, so I'll start describing the only thing I don't like is that sometimes these stupid threads get in my way. I have to hold them back so we're going to line her diva eyes so we give it some definition here and the downside to these is that there's no point, they're pretty blunt but this is a very big drawing so she can handle it I feel like we need to give her some fairy lashes I'm just throwing inthis in the air nothing no skill required everyone can do that I'm just going to outline your features outline your gigundo um irises and your pupils and I'm going to doodle scrabble or fairy eyebrows um I don't want this hair to fall out so I'm going to put it on now , so I have to finish because I can see the eye that I should have drawn. a little strip first because I want it to look very realistic and if I have it, if I have the big clump of hair and you can still see it, it looks weird, it looks weird, but it's too late, so we have these strands that are. very carelessly falling over her eye here and then we have her eyebrows here, you'll have this kind of flow there, so we just made ourselves a kind of coloring sheet and now we're just outlining everything, this is the kind of freedom and ease. part and then we'll add some shading and then the highlights at the end is where the party starts it's the last thing we do oh my gosh that's so annoying oh maybe we'll have our little adventure and if you notice with the The hair I'm really pulling it with very sure and abrupt strokes, it's actually almost like pushing it against the paper.

His hair looks like a pumpkin. You make pumpkin hairs. I guess it's very much in the fairy realm, if you do. I enjoy learning about fairy lore and folklore, a sort of Celtic tradition. I actually have a podcast with my best friend Lucy Brydon, who will also be teaching a week for this series or at least a week. Yes, and it's called One Scott One Knot. I'm going to do some eyelids up here I didn't even give eyelids and all we talk about is fairies and folklore it's ridiculous uh there's a lot of bad words so if you don't like bad words listener discretion is advised there's a lot drinking and boisterous behavior while we talk about um, just cool Scottish Celtic myths and legends, uh, evil and crazy supernatural creatures, we talk about ghosts, green ladies, so if you like all this, you will definitely check out our very inappropriate and super fun podcast called again it's a scott one knot and that's what the number one uh one scott knot is and the number one knot oh, I just did some pig nose.

I'm still outlining guys, just tracing everything I did with my pencil. I'm tracing it with this china marker, so we're two steps away from finishing. You look good girlfriend we're going to add shading and then we're going to add the highlights so for the shading I'm just going to use the side of my china marker and I'm going to look at my reference so this is what informs this and I'm going to use the side and I'm just going to loosen it up slightly like a scribble in these areas to give it a little bit of shading, so up here just follow me, oh, and I'm actually going to give it too, I always like it when they have that kind of line too. under the eyes, um, so here we go, sorry, let's do this, do this, um.

Right here again, I'm just scribbling lightly with the side of my triangle marker and I remember I had made those lines very light before, so that's where we're going to put our shading on the nose, so this is a very symmetrical shading , meaning the light source is turned on directly, meaning everything on this side will match everything on that side. It is the easiest way to do shading. You can't go wrong, just match them to this and then we're just going to Go up a little bit here and the nice thing about the toned paper is that she still has a crazy eye.

The good thing about toned paper is that the paper does most of the drawing for you and you only have to draw, you are only responsible. for the shading, the highlights and the paper, everything else is fine, so let's come over here, oh, actually, take it back. It looks like there's a little bit more shading on the left than the right so no need to worry just follow me and we're going to have this she's got some cool shading on her cheekbones and then let's see her note oh my gosh that It's such an annoying thing, his nose goes up here and up and then the shading of his nose, I'm taking this color again. reference, it looks like it goes like this, she's up on the side and under the ball of her nose and then it goes up to her lip and the same thing appears on both sides here, so shady, shady and then, which is also cool .

I love when the shading does this, it's just that this right here is actually shading and when you do it it ends up giving the ball of the nose this super ultra highlight and makes it look like it's jumping off the paper. fun and this is the useful part about references is that it gives you the kind of information that you wouldn't otherwise get and just wait until we add the highlights it will make a lot more sense okay so we have our lips again. our shading we're going to add something like this and we're going to leave the middle part alone and then it's like the top of the bottom lip is shaded and then we leave the middle part alone and then there's a super dark shadow underneath under the lip and then yeah, there's some shading, same as on the nose, like when you have shading around places and then there's like a knot shading here when you add the highlight, it's like, oh, she's so pretty.

Now we're going to do the under the neck it's always super shadowed because the chin sticks out and keeps the light off, so we have the ears of it. I know this is YouTube. I can't take long. YouTube has no patience for super long videos. I'm going to finish this in just a second so we have some sort of shading here and then we can do a big highlight, but I don't know if we have time, let's just fill in with some doodles and scrabbles to make it look. like she has some hair and it all goes up into the bun because it's, oh stupid thread, because it's, you know, stuck to the top of her head, so again, this is our

challenge

, what is your job and this is which really grows your skills.

After you complete today's drawing, you can do four variations of this so you can do the lesson again in a different medium. You can do the lesson again and make his ears a different shape. You can do the lesson again and make her hair have a different light. Let's say the lifestyle hairstyle is okay, so you're going to modify it again and the idea is that by drawing the same face over and over again five times for each lesson, you really start to develop your drawing skills and it really works. I did it. a fun 100 fashion faces drawing challenge a few years ago and the people who followed the instructions and the lessons and did their four variations and modified them in a different way, their skills really started to skyrocket, it was a cool transformation and, yeah , To this day, I have students who report that the kind of life change that it meant following all the lessons and then repeating and repeating them several times had a huge impact on their lives. skills, so I highly recommend you do the challenge the way it was designed because we have seen amazing results.

She still has a crazy eye, but that's okay. Always, if you have a crazy eye, she lowers the eyelid of her upper lip. Okay, that will always be your kind of saving grace, so now this is the most exciting part of all. Now is the part where we add the highlights. I'm going to do one more. I forgot the padlock I was crossing. this way, that she covers her face and why she doesn't have much shading here. Actually, this should all be pretty shaded here because it's like under her hair. I know we weren't going to make it symmetrical or we were and then. now we weren't doing it again, that's just because, uh, just because I say so, it adds a little bit of shading to the top of the eye, so now that's the really powerful part and that's when we add the highlights, so we are.

I'm going to add the highlights, we're going to add it to the chin ball right here and we're going to add it to the nose ball. You see? What ends up happening is they jump at you, which is cool, okay? We'll have a little bit on the bottom lip and a little bit on the upper lip. We also have a little bit on top and if we can't do this with our china marker, we'll usually pull out a uh like. a paint pen and make it so that we have the top of the lip which should also have a highlight and then we can do even the sides of her nostrils and we can have the bridge of her nose and again if you want more. uh, lessons you can check out.

I have a playlist of toned paper drawing lessons on this channel that you can check out. Okay, so we have the whites of her eyes, her eyelids here, the top of her eyelid, the same thing here with the whites of hers. In the eyes we have their kind of shine and a lot of times we can also do like their upper cheeks because they stick out, so you can do as much or as little as you want for these highlights that you can have. some kind of peek out from their tufts above their ears, you can spread them wherever you want and if you want to give a particular area more oomph then you can take your paint marker and really hit oh her.

He's got crazy eyes that you can poke in different directions and really add a little bit of glamor and he's really fun, I mean just a little bit sometimes really goes a long way, he also has this um like highlight under his chin and this is where they come from. the references and they tell you what to do because I'm like, oh, I see she has that, okay, so I didn't go too crazy, I didn't do much definition to her hair, we can go on and on. Come on, but wow, she's a sexy alien mom, so if you wanted to punch anything too, you can also use it as a highlighter or something super black to accentuate any part of her features and her hair is a little, just complete that. a little bit more, but you get the idea, so again, your task is to do four more variations and I'm going to do a few more to show you what that looks like between weeks so these lessons come out one by one. on Wednesday because I have two channels here on YouTube and I post weekly, but I alternate the weeks I post on each channel, so what I'll do is between weeks, I'll give you an update or we'll do some giveaways. so make sure you subscribe.

If you like this series, go ahead and click the like button to let me know that this is something you're enjoying and would like to do more of and I can't wait to see your drawings also join my Facebook group which is , I will put the link in the description box for you and then we will do it. I always do monthly prizes and giveaways and all of these drawings will automatically enter you to win in the weekly and the monthly giveaways as well, so thank you for drawing with me today. I hope you had a great time, you learned a lot and I can't wait to see your five variations in the Facebook group, okay, bye.