I don't think I've opened one of these in a while
and to be honest, It's been too long.
This is the Zenpop Stationery Mystery Art box.
So it's full of art supplies and stationery from Japan
and it's so cute.
I don't know if you're prepared for the level of cuteness
inside this box.
But I can't wait any longer, so
and I like to do an extra little something
when I unbox these
and try and create some kind of art or illustration
inspired by the contents.
Let's jump in and see what we got this month.
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All right, so first up we have some literature,
coupons,
winners of recent contests.
This is, I believe the menu and it lists all the art supp-
Did I just see a unicorn?
I won't look, it's spoilers.
Although I usually have to look to read stuff
because I don't know Japanese, but
we'll put it off as long as possible.
Are you seeing the amount of purple and pink and blue?
I don't know what to grab first.
How about this thing with the cute little bow?
We have some washi tape in a little cute packaging.
It looks like it's going to be unicorns and butterflies
and music notes and flowers.
Sometimes I use the packaging in the art project.
It was glued in, I was like, why isn't the plastic cutting?
Isn't that pretty?
I think that's what the washi tape looks like.
I love the rubbery feel, makes me think of fruit roll-ups
or fruit by the foot, actually.
Eeek!
Can you see the cuteness?
It's a little pastel and difficult to see
but I bet like on white paper, that's beautiful.
Great start, next it looks like a pencil but
it's mechanical!
0.5mm, one of my faves.
I don't know what kind of lead.
It's probably HB but as you can see,
it's got a beautiful pastel gradient with unicorns on it.
I am sensing a theme.
There's another one.
This looks like a notepad.
Dear my unicorn with more pastel blues,
unicorns, gummy bears, roller skates.
There's some cute cutout versions of the notepads
with unicorns.
A unicorn named Lucky.
♪ So lucky. ♪
She's a star, but she cry, cry, cries in her lonely - ♪
Moving on.
There's a second set of washi tape.
Suisaaay... Suisai? Suisai.
Looks like it might just be airbrushed pastel
cloud texture.
[Packaging rustling]
I think it's the same texture as the background there.
Reminds me of like the inside of my shoes growing up.
I feel like they had that color.
But it's very fun.
Little harder to see when it's open
because it is transparent.
A lot simpler than the other one.
I think those look really nice together.
That's a really good, uh combo.
Next up we have this -
What is this?
An empty container of nail polish!
I'm wondering if it's maybe like a pencil sharpener.
Let's find out together
Oh wait!
It's a marker. [Laughs]
The pastel manicure marker.
Time for your mannackerr. Mannackerr, what the frick?
It's full o f lots of sparkles
You'll get one of two colors, neon pink or mint.
We got the pink one.
I think that'll probably come in handy for our illustration
when I need art supplies
I like to try and use as much as from the box as possible.
Sometimes I have to go outside the box
which is totally fine.
This is really reflecting on camera.
So let's take care of this.
We have some gorgeous aquatic pastel stickers.
Oh, they're like jelly.
Got like fishies and seashells and dolphins.
They're very unicorn colored.
They fit the theme of the box,
even though they're not unicorns.
Next up
It's a little baby.
Is this a pencil topper or just an eraser?
Unicorn and Pegasus eraser?
Looks like we got the unicorn.
Ah! The tail fell off!
Her butt's naked.
Kind of looks like all the different colors
are a different part.
It's so small!
I love the little legs.
So I'm guessing if you have the other one,
you can like switch out the pieces, maybe.
Ooh, I don't like the way that looks.
Oh and the body's two pieces.
It's a little puzzled.
My friend, growing up, had a miniature horse.
This reminds me of her.
Stick that right here.
How do you use erasers when they're that cute?
I had a hard enough time using this one
which came in a previous Zen Pop box
and you're supposed to use it
to make it look like Mount Fuji,
but mine just looks like a hard-boiled egg
that's gone bad.
All right, next up!
Is this a car?
Doesn't really fit the theme.
I mean, I suppose the fishes don't really either
but they're like glittery and galaxy looking.
Does this clean up eraser shavings?
Usually just [woosh, woo, wooh,]
There's little rooms,
so as you...
What even!? [Laughs]
We need some eraser shavings.
It's supposed to sweep them up into the back dustbin.
Oh, you just pull it down.
It caught a few.
A little gimmicky,
but oh my gosh, how funny is that?
It's kind of noisy.
[Car making noise]
I'm getting distracted.
Next up, I see a little stationary letter set.
It's got unicorns, of course.
The envelopes are purple with pink unicorns.
The paper is white and lined with unicorns.
And it looks like there's some kind of card in there
that's like a pastel turquoisey blue.
So that's envelopes,  purple ones.
They have like a white square on the back
for writing an address, I'm guessing.
Here's the letter pad of paper.
There's a few stickers for sealing the envelope.
They're clear and then they have like a silver unicorn
or like a cute little phrase
and then there's three blue envelopes.
So we got three purple, three blue,
and then I just realized there's rainbow!
Those are rainbows!
How cute. I love the pink, purple, blue, combination,
beautiful.
I like this box a lot. It's so cute.
It's like right up my alley.
As these boxes usually are.
There's one more thing.
Do-do-doo!
The number two Kokuyo Beetle tip soft color,
dual color, blue and then there's yellow.
Looks like you could have gotten other colors,
but we got the blue and the yellow.
So it looks like as you draw -
Oh my gosh, it's like a highlighter.
It draws in two colors.
That is the last thing in the box,
so we can move this cute little box out of the way.
Let's try her out
and the actual nibs, they remind me of portal.
You use it straight down you get  -
Oh, you can't see that.
Use it straight down, you get fine point.
Otherwise you have to use it at an angle
and get one color at a time.
But it's super handy if you're like studying or in class
and you had to switch between two colors.
Look how fast, look how fast.
The colors don't quite fit in to my little theme here.
If it was more of a yellow instead of orange.
I think it would work.
We might still be able to find a way to use it.
Let me surround myself by the cuteness.
See if I missed anything important.
This unicorn themed pack is filled with fun
and sparkly good times.
The way that's written,
sort of it makes me want to read it like
I'm doing like a Skechers commercial for kids.
We've been dreaming of this special collection for so long
and finally our dream's come true!
This unicorn theme pack
is filled with fun and sparkly good times.
Let's party together.
(Demonic voice) Let's party together.
All right, so obviously,
I need to draw some unicorn themed things.
Unicorn princesses
I don't know.
Let's just start sketching with that pencil.
Then I'll probably end up grabbing like some other colors
because I don't think these three colors are gonna
quite cut it.
Let's just go ahead and start doing that then.
We're definitely gonna want some purples,
some blues and pinks.
I think I wanna look up like references of horses
but let's see what happens first without,
that way, I can compare them and see my progress.
I never drew ponies growing up.
It's not a unicorn if it doesn't have a horn!
It's requiring a lot of concentration, clearly.
Let's do nice swirly hair.
Oh, we didn't swatch this guy.
I kind of wish the marker was on this side,
but I guess you'd have less room for the ink barrel.
Like that's what my brain wants to do.
Not:
Like when would you ever do that with actual nail polish?
Ooh, that's more like a rose color.
That's really pretty.
Look at that with the white. Oh, that's beautiful.
What about with like some blue?
Layer them you'll get purple!
Definitely gonna avoid the orange though.
I do want a reference though.
'Cause I wanna draw a good-looking unicorn.
Start with like horses,
and then maybe we'll simplify it from there.
I'm, like, no horse girl, but
I appreciate them, that's for sure.
That's a good reference of the head.
It looks like their heads are flat on the front.
Then the nose is like here.
Mouth is about here.
Chin kind of comes out this way,
connects to here where there's an ear.
Back ear.
More lower.
Then the eyes like here-ish.
Nose was here.
There's a big thick neck.
I love everything about this with like the flowers.
Have you seen these?
Move this out the way so you can't see it.
Get that eye shape right.
A bit of like an eyebrow.
Then the nose.
Their mouths are really weird
and I don't know what I'm doing there.
I also shortened the head a little
because I ran out of space!
That eye is massive!
That looks like the worst drawn Charizard.
Luckily, it's a horse.
I think I need a better reference.
Here's a white horse.
So I can kind of see the features a little bit better.
I'll just slightly erase this so it's not my way
and I don't rub my hand all over it.
To find the shapes, essentially, is like, our first goal.
So there's like this whole mouth, nose area.
Kind of droops a little in the front
and their nose - Nostrils are -
They like, fold this way.
Then there's like a piece here.
It should be all dark
and the eye ends up, up here.
Okay, so that's like the eyebrow.
The eye would be here.
So the other eyes behind that
and you won't be able to see it.
They have really big eyes.
ooOooo!
Mostly pupil.
It looks like their head actually comes out
a lot more up here.
Mane, mane, mane.
Just like this, but then there's like extra flesh...
Up here.
I guess this is probably where the horn would come out.
See if you just simplify things, you can draw anything!
There's more of a shape like this.
This is more like this.
I'm getting giddy. What is this?
This looks so good.
Probably add a line here.
So that I can kind of see the 3D structure
a little bit better.
I kind of want to draw over this
because I don't think it's necessary.
Why don't I take that and what I learned from that
and draw over top and see if anything has changed
So basically there's a section back here
that's like the back of the head
and you have this which is the jaw.
It kind of juts out in its own way
and then you have mouth area,
sticks in, in the front and comes out into the sides.
This piece comes up like this this.
This that goes down to like here.
Here-ish.
That would mean the eye should be right about here.
This comes up this way.
Not sure about the neck
because this perspective doesn't really show me
where the neck comes out of here.
[Nervous screech] That doesn't look right.
But anyway, this comes up like this
and that's about where the ears are supposed to be.
I like it a lot better.
♪
This nostril's a little high.
If I connect these dots here,
I think it would end up being about here.
Let's make it a unicorn
It - Wait.
Like that, let's find another reference, like the head.
See where that actually is supposed to come out of.
I think it's right here.
I think we can pull this line up here, too.
Shows like the muscle structure.
Almost like that should be like this, too.
Looks like a horse to me!
Well, unicorn. Pfft.
Just add a little bit of a mane.
Maybe it comes around the backside.
oooOOooo!
Do you ever get like,
when you feel like you're learning something
that's like the most exciting and exhilarating moments.
I wonder if we could use like the washi tape.
Let me try something.
There's that.
Let's just follow the sketch.
I've never had washi tape that was a see-through.
So it works perfectly for this.
It'd also be cool as like skin of the unicorn.
Scraps over there because they're still pretty!
Makes me want to do one of those washi tape
art challenges.
I didn't realize it was this easy.
I thought it was gonna be something that was
like really difficult
but if you have the right washi tape,
it's got that see through and
then you can see the sketch underneath
Now, how does it like connect?
Feel like they have really low kind of torso areas.
I'm not gonna just take up this sketch area.
I'm just trying, I'm just trying something else.
Interesting.
Okay. Now do I want to try and simplify it a little bit more.
Do I want to keep it in this like style
I've already got going here?
Definitely going to use this for color inspiration.
This might be a more inspo.
I really like the idea of the like floral
because that seems to be a theme
with a lot of these horse photographs
is like floral and horses.
Let me try thumbnailing something small.
They're a little unicorn.
However, their bodies work.
I have not drawn any legs yet.
Oh word.
What about really long horn?
Looks a little bit more like a deer in the back.
I want like stars up at the top.
So maybe like a flower -
Flower crown would be cute.
Just have to figure out how to draw a horse's body,
and I think this would work.
Since this is a sketchbook.
I'm just going to go all in and draw in here.
If it doesn't turn out, just turn the page.
Maybe the head here-ish.
Eye, eye.
Mouth thing.
Probably should have sketched the rest of the body first.
Not working.
Let me try and make fit it on the page
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Then take what I know about drawing the head,
pull it in here
Should we like pull one of the legs up a little?
That's kind of cute.
Like the neck's not long enough.
This is kind of a similar angle as that.
Take those lines, use them again.
The neck's too short for the size of the head
or make the head smaller?
That's not too bad.
I'm not sure what I'll do with the hair yet.
I kind of liked that little swirl.
There's the hip.
Just seems a little too squishy.
Doesn't have the leg leanness.
I think that's kind of what makes horses
look very majestic is just the fact that like,
how does something like that exist
and why is it so strong and powerful?
And this looks a little pudgy.
I'm not gonna give up on it yet.
I just wanna like point that out.
Probably slim everything out.
I also haven't drawn the body before.
I've only done the head
It's gonna take a little time here.
I'm actually using this reference of a statue
because it's in an angle that I want to draw.
So it's not the most realistic thing
and I think it's actually a little pudgier than horses.
So that's probably attributing
to the problems I'm having here.
♪
Push that further into the background,
helps me see it a little better.
I haven't had this lead break yet
and I'm usually breaking mechanical lead like crazy.
I'm liking that this.
This is too short?
I don't know if I can move the neck over.
Maybe if I just shrink it down, slim it out.
It'll look smaller.
The knee.
Ankle down here and the hoof.
I've yet to figure out what shape that is .
Back leg.
Ankle thing.
Hey! A little uh, inwards just needs to -
I think I'm learning something there
with like the shapes.
Starts wide
gets a little skinnier, then there's like, the knuckle,
then it's skinnier again and gets wide again.
I think back here, this somehow connects to the hoof.
That's the part. I'm a little confused about.
Push that into the distance.
I mean it's horse-like.
I think the head's too big though.
I'd have to redraw that which I'm not too worried about
Dang horses are hard to draw.
Remember trying to draw one as a kid
and just being completely overwhelmed.
♪
Chiseling away.
Still too short but I think that's her.
You know, what if I move this leg further this way,
maybe it'll look like they're standing angled.
Let me draw a square back here, be something like this.
It looks like I need to pull this leg down a smidge.
Should be here.
Then this leg should end up right here.
Does that twist it a little bit more maybe?
♪
I don't like how spread out it looks,
maybe if I move both these legs forward?
Maybe right here.
Try it out.
It's a little less twisted looking.
Still an improvement on what we were at originally.
Let's try and shrink the head down a little.
So we want the mane to come down this way.
What do we think about this?
I want it to be like short up at the top.
So it's like a mullet and the horn will poke out of that.
And then it gets longer as it comes down this way.
Maybe the mullet doesn't work
His tail should come around a little bit more forward.
I think the head's still too big.
Just try and redraw it a little smaller.
It looks pretty good.
So I'm a little nervous about this.
Whole head needs to come down.
Now we have more room for a longer horn, too!
♪
Neck should have gone up a little.
Oops.
Pull this shoulder down.
Okay, nostril, nostril.
♪
It's supposed to be turning its head
so the neck would be lower on the head.
♪
It's time for some mane action.
I don't really like this one anymore.
Then we want stars up here.
Fit it into like a circle shape.
All the stars outside that can go.
Little ones.
Back to the mane.
♪
If I just skinny up this.
Probably actually is helping.
A bit more horse-like, right?
That's working.
What about the hair?
Make the eyeball a little smaller.
I think whatever I need to do next
Is what I'm gonna have to do next.
That made no sense.
[Car making noise]
I'm thinkin' this circle, I could do in that washi tape.
Then I'll have a white horse.
With some colored hair of some kind.
Pink and blue I'm thinking.
What I might do is just start doing some line-art.
Grab my kneaded eraser
and we'll see where this takes me.
What would be fun for the line-art
is one of those pencils that like slowly changes color.
It like, changes color as you use it.
So it's like rainbowy.
If I use like a really dark purple for the hooves
That would probably work.
That's P2 from my Ohuhu markers.
That's too red. That's P1.
That's way better.
Can always go over this with something darker
if I need to.
Hooves, done!
I should just use my purple pen for line-art.
This guy
It's the paper mate round stick grip in purple.
But it does bleed with alcohol markers,
so if i'm going to do that, it will have to be last.
Do I have like a light pink?
Well, you know what might work?
Those Ohuhu pens.
These guys.
I don't know if they sell these anymore.
They're kind of ancient at this point.
There's like a purple.
these I can use with the markers on top so.
Then we'll be able to erase more
before we put markers on it
and since most of this is white,
I would like to erase as much as possible because
the 
graphite is going to muddy up any markers we put on
especially pastels.
Let me try erasing where those legs are,
see if it cleans up any better.
It's like this pinkish white marker.
It's a little bit of shading.
But I do want it to be mostly white.
So maybe something a little lighter than that,
Try pink barrel.
Interesting.
So it's not like white, white, you know,
oh this little knee should have been higher.
I don't know, don't look at that.
I'll just add the line-art to everything else
and then we'll come back.
Another leg down, just erasing as I go
I liked the sketch. I always like the sketch.
I just love seeing all the possibilities
and the multiple lines
and everything, tells a story that line-art never could
The face is the most important part!
Ahhh!
It's not going so bad.
But AHH! It's scary.
Oh that looks all right.
They all seem to have butt dimples so, adding that
Erase what I can here and color in the horse section
with our two pink colors.
Oh, we have pinkish white and pink barrel.
For the front areas, I want to use a lighter pink.
Just kind of round it off, make it look less flat.
♪
I'll use the darker pink for inside the ear
and shading that back ear.
Maybe inside the nostrils, pop it around the eyes.
There you go. Got a little pink horse.
Now, the hair, the hair, the hair, the hair.
What do I do about that?
I didn't really plan out the color scheme.
But I do like the pink, purple, blue idea.
Should I use the markers they provided?
That seems like the better idea.
This mane is so voluminous!
♪
Got a little mane!
Then just do the back tail.
I'm glad I didn't go with black line-art.
I like the soft pastel look that this purple is providing.
It doesn't look like all my other art, you know.
♪
A little bit.
I tried to make a conscious effort to keep specific
hair strands that follow all the way through
so that I can like, alternate colors
because once you add like, a highlighter
or an alcohol based marker of any kind
on top of graphite, it seals it
and you can't really erase it anymore.
Start with the blue!
Let's find a strand and follow it
all the way down to the end.
Kind of hard to get a point without getting the orange
It's kind of hard to see where I'm drawing with this
because it's got such a thick nib.
I don't think i'll have that problem with the pink one.
♪
Nail polish.
I like this color. It's not like my normal pink highlighter.
It's more reddish but I do want to take the blue,
fill in some more areas so we get purple.
Kind of wishing I used Copic markers.
It's from this box
So I feel like it's fair to just use this, right?
Even if it doesn't look its best.
Okay, take  back what I said about this highlighter
I really like holding it like this
and you wouldn't be able to do that if they did it
like a real nail polish.
Put some purple in there, blend that out.
It's not pastel enough
So I think for the tail I'm gonna try my own thing
And see if I like it better
and they won't match but,
my sketchbook my rules, man.
Yeah tender pink and like a blue.
That's what I'm thinkin'
♪
See the difference? It's a subtle difference.
It just looks a little cleaner.
Darken up the hair in the background.
Just the way they layer
It's prettier because I think that's water-based.
I need a little bit of shading though under the tail.
I'm gonna take our darker pink of the pastel pinks.
And add it back here.
♪
And I think I want some purple in here.
oooOooo
This will work for like the end of the nose
because I wanted it to be a bit grayer.
I think this will do it without being too gray.
So it's like just the color change in the coat.
Maybe a little shading.
We use rounded shapes
to kind of give it a softer rounder appearance.
Quite happy with this!
[Gasps]
Definitely like this tale better than that mane.
Now what I want to do is add the washi tape back here
Do I want to use the unicorn washi tape,
or do I want to like alternate?
This is a bit bluer and that's a bit pinker.
I think I want to be able to make the stars white.
I'll just go with the one without the unicorns.
Just have to let these guys in, cut it straight for now.
♪
Save a little, never know if I'm gonna need it at the end.
Oh I'm glad I went with this color. Look how cute!
♪
I'm getting a little tricky down here.
I'm not sure what to do with all those legs.
So many cuts.
Alright, so I've laid down all the washi tape
Now I just have to cut out the shapes.
Start with the outside edge of this unicorn.
I don't have to be perfect on the first pass.
See if I can peel some up.
oooOooo!
My favorite part, peeling away the excess.
Those small spots are a little trickier,
but so much more rewarding when you peel it.
Just like how it's like colored on the unicorn
and then when you lift it, it becomes a white unicorn!
I said it becomes a white -
It becomes a white -
It becomes a white unicorn!
Oops, I cut into the paper a little bit there.
I might have to just put a little scotch tape.
These little spots that have like a little white,
I think I'll just go over it like it was meant to be!
Be careful when you start a new piece of washi tape
because it's easy to peel it up.
You can also cut out some of the stars, like the big ones.
♪
Wow look at that edge!
♪
I honestly kind of like the little edge on it,
but I want to stick to the plan with the circles.
Okay, I'm really digging washi tape as an art medium.
It just looks so cool because it's like a pattern.
[Gasps]
Wowsie!
I want to try with a white gel pen first,
see what those kind of stars look like
and then I want like the bigger ones to be cut out.
This washi tape honestly has little dots
which only add to the sparkle!
We missed the leg.
It doesn't look that bad because it's in the distance.
Vary the sizes of the sparkles.
Try one of these big stars.
I have to find a way to peel it up.
Yeah, that sticks out a lot better
and just draw a big star here,
look like they're part of the same theme.
Wow! This looks cute.
I'll add a little scotch tape over this little area.
This purple is almost the same color as this.
Okay, let's color over it.
Maybe try a darker purple for shading.
♪
See if it adds a little -
This was so fun and it turned out!
The first horse, the last horse.
Little improvement there I'd say!
The hair blends in a little bit with the background.
I can try and go around it with the white gel pen.
I don't know if that's making a difference.
I gotta said a big thank you to Zen Pop
for sending this box my way.
I had a lot of fun with it
and I love the theme!
If you're interested in getting your own
Zen Pop Stationery box.
I will have links in the description.
Thank you guys for watching.
I hope you enjoyed coming along with me
on my little uh, horse drawing journey
and I'll see you guys all next week.
I hope you have a delicious evening for waffles!
Bye!
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