Hi everyone, it's Alisa from Small Thicket. Today we are doing a field guide sketch of some mushroom floorkin. So a floorkin is a plant spirit. They have very half plant and they live in small thicket. And they can really take on all kinds of different forms, either from the plants themselves, mushrooms, you know any sort of flora, and even florakin from the same plant can look a little different. They are very impish. I find though that the mushroom ones are a little, little lazier little sleepier. So these are just a handful of floorkin that I've sketched out and I'm coloring using a watercolour sketchbook. Some watercolor ink inside of brush pens. And I'll be layering alcohol markers and color pen on top of them. So this yellow is actually the yellow I just used is one of my favorite yellows. I really love using the brush pens with these watercolor inks. It's so easy to use them. You know you can just sort of pull them out and you know just grab them. They're create a form whenever I travel and like I bring my sketchbook I don't have to bring. You don't have to worry about anything really spilling because everything sort of self contained which is nice. I'm using some of the markers here. I like to layer them one on top of the other. I like a lot of texture in my pieces. I'm using that little piece of paper under my sketchbook to test colors. I like to find that the sticker or the little plastic bit on top of alcohol markers isn't always super true to color. I like to test them first. Also I like to layer colors. So sometimes I kind of like to see what I'm getting into before I actually commit it to a page. Even though it's just a piece in my sketchbook, you know I still like to sort of experiment and see what I'm getting into first. I love this red too. It's like a bright poppy colored red. So one thing at least with these I can't get like super fine details. So I do a lot of the details in colored pencil. You know because I can get a really nice sharp point and it has like that beautiful texture to it because the water color paper is gold press. So it has that texture. You know that sort of like nubbly, ribbly texture to it. And this paper holds up really well to all sorts of media because I like to you know do a couple layers. Like here I'm putting alcohol marker on top of the watercolor ink. It doesn't ripple and it doesn't like pill or you know start to get all mushy or anything. It's really nice. Another thing I like about the brush pens is I like to sort of put down concentrated color and then I have a brush pen just full of water. Like you see I'm doing here and I'm sort of pulling the color down. His watercolor ink is new for me. It's something I've just been playing within the past couple months. Before that I really liked gouache but I really enjoyed the ease and versatility of this watercolor ink. It's basically just liquid watercolor. That's what it is. It's liquid watercolor. About the brand I'm using called the water coloring but it's just liquid watercolor. I really fell enough with that blue mushroom floor again. I really did. I like layering the lighter colored pencils on top of darker places and I'll do it a couple times. At least the more pigmented colored pencils just because I like again lots of texture, lots of layers. And lots of color variations like even using contrast and color like here I'm using the orange on top of a blue character. I like the difference in color there. And here I am showing the brush pens. They have like a reservoir in the back and then that's flexible and you sort of push on that reservoir and in whatever you choose to put in the brush pen and sort of squeezes out into the brush. And sometimes you can get them prefilled. I think this one's a prefilled one. And sometimes you can get them empty and you can put whatever you want in them like I have on the has water in it. So like again I'm sort of blending it out like I put the base color down and I was like wow it's really bright pink so I'm going to blend it out with just the water brush pen. So there's just nothing but water in there. I like how nicely these blend. They come in different tips too but I prefer to just use round brushes. I think they're really versatile. I can get smaller details even if I'm using a large round brush pen because it gets a good point. And I'm adding some details here with colored pencils. This little guy here gave me a lot of trouble. I think he's a shapeshifter because I couldn't figure out what color to do for him. And he just kept changing his mind. I don't know why I struggled with him. That's okay it's just a field guide sketch. See I'm just layering and checking colors again. At little piece of paper is almost invaluable. Almost as invaluable as some of the tools you know for checking colors. I love soft colored pencils but they break sometimes and it's frustrating. So I've got a pencil sharpener that allows you to sharpen it not to a super sharp point but a wider point which I found helps with a lot of the breaking issues. It doesn't eliminate them completely but it does help so I can salvage a lot of the pencils that I already have. They're not just garbage. I hate having a sharpen like six inches of a pencil down that's very frustrating. Yeah because I really like working with the softer colored pencils. They give just as much texture but you can layer them nicer. So I'm going to do the lighter colors. See I'm using the white here over the pink to add some really nice texture change and over here over that yellow purple. A lot of times I do these field guide sketches that sort of helps inform the dolls that I'm going to make. So that blue one over there just has me really raptured. I'd really like to make a doll of her. See this little guy. I like using the really opaque colored pencils because his face I was not happy with his face. I just went straight over with a white colored pencil and then redid it. So yay. Because there's not a lot of erasing here like I can't paint over it because it's watercolor. Those are my mushroom floor I can. Just adding a couple little buck dots of color. There we go. There's the finished sketch. Look how cute they are. They're also different. That's what I love. They're also different. So thank you so much for watching my sketch and I hope to see you guys soon. Remember small thicket and small thicket dot com. Bye guys.