Sketching Jack-o-Lanterns...Plus Future Seasonal Video Ideas

In October, I kept thinking about Halloween. I uploaded a video where I painted bloody letters and another where I painted a jack-o-lantern. I filmed multiple makeup looks and making Halloween decorations, which I will upload next year. I also sketched the jack-o-lantern in the photo above in pencil days before Halloween.

While I only uploaded two Halloween videos this year, I plan to make eight for next September and October. I am also going to make more seasonal videos in the future. I uploaded a video where I drew feathers last week, and am going to do a feathers realism challenge next week. The feathers are roughly for Thanksgiving (turkey, feathers ;) I am also going to have winter themed videos, like one where I paint a knitted scarf and another with a tree without leaves. Not all of my future videos will be based on the season though.

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Drawing a Tree on My Whiteboard...while planning future videos

Yesterday, I was brainstorming ideas for future videos on my whiteboard. Bloody letters and a jack-o-lantern in acrylic paint for October. Feathers in pen for November. A knitted scarf for December. I needed more video ideas to fill a gap in late November. I thought about how I have drawn trees before, and began to sketch one on my whiteboard with marker. I made little curved lines to add bark, and drew the outlines of branches. The tree looked like it did not have enough branches, and I wondered how to add branches that would be behind the ones I had drawn if the tree was three dimensional. I was able to draw light lines with my marker for branches that were towards the background. This looked okay, though I want to experiment more with shading if I draw a tree on paper.

Here are more photos of the tree on my whiteboard:

What do you think? Should I turn a tree like this one into a how to draw video? Do you have any requests for future videos? Please leave a comment, even if it is anonymous.

You can find the how to draw videos that I have already posted on my YouTube channel, Varietygirl1.