hello everybody welcome back to my
channel my name is Sarah and I've been
making up videos every Friday
in today's video I'm gonna be coloring
in this piece that I drew
traditionally and with a color and
Photoshop so I drew it traditionally a
few weeks ago in my sketchbook I used my
lightbox to draw it onto bristol board
and then decided to scan it in so I can
collect it digitally so I've been doing
this a fair bit recently Korea like
coloring things digitally but I'm still
getting the hang of finishing sketches
and things digitally so it's all drawing
it traditionally and coloring it in
digitally is a quite a good combination
for me and while our time lapse this
piece I wanted to have a quick chat
about the reason why I decided to
council my scroll a box subscription I
was originally going to record a
traditional piece for this using
suppliers from a smaller box but I don't
know if you can hear from my voice I
ended up getting really ill and then I
also rearranged my entire living room so
I didn't end up having enough time to
like recovered anything at all so I'm
just gonna do it this way instead so
I've had a scroller box subscription on
and off for probably around two years I
actually looked back over previous boxes
and I figured out that my very first box
was the July 2016 box and I only know
that because I still have the art print
for it which I found recently while
rearranging my living room so I feel
like I've had a lot of because I myself
had you know a few years of being on
school milk like having a good place to
talk about it I felt some kind of mystic
or a box expert so I can be looking at
all this review I feel like I've had a
good run and I'm not saying in any way
is that scholar box is bad or that you
should get it like I'm not gonna like
dish it like this it I think you know
that's not my style I'm just gonna
explain like why I don't think it's all
about foods for me so I first started
using scholar box I was looking for a
cheap way of
experimenting with different art
supplies and pushing myself after my
comfort zone trying new things and
school a box is really great for that
because it gives you a taste on how to
use a lot of different mediums and I
would say if you're a new or a young
artists scroller box can be really great
you know because it gives you that sort
of experience on how to use different
mediums that challenges you just sort of
think outside the box it is good for you
know newbies and youngsters but I
personally I started feeling this is
kind of what happened so every month you
know I would get the art box I would
feel kind of like meh about the art
supplies and then I would go out and I'd
be like well I won't council it because
I want to see what next month is and it
was like I was the excitement of getting
a new box meant that I would just
postpone canceling my subscription but I
wasn't actually like enjoying the
contents of the box and it feels like
hours and that push paying for like the
experience of being excited to get
something at the post and like that's
know I'm actually trying to pay for you
know I was sitting 15 pound a month for
that experience when I could be spending
15 Parliament's on like actual art
supplies that I'm going to use and be
excited about especially because you
know art supplies are expensive so that
kind of that was sort of like my main
reason also I think like school of boxes
kind of on and off so sometimes you'll
get something that's like really really
good like there was a really good box in
December 2017 which was like these gold
art supplies like the gold gansai tambi
paints and they would be beautiful and I
loved them and that was like that's
probably like my favorite ever scholar
bucks that was like wow moment for me
but then it was they also get things
like this to be all something this is
the majority of the time you'll get
things like like the last month's box
that I got was in the December box I got
was was like highlighters
that's to me that's a stationary that's
not an art supply and well you
absolutely can make art with everything
and I absolutely agree that you can make
art with you know like whatever like you
can make art with like sticks and the
stuff what you don't even have to buy
art supplies I don't feel that getting
staff that would be considered like a
back-to-school supply and their art box
that you're paying a significant amount
of money for it's really worth it to me
especially because I have a bunch of
highlighters you know I have a bunch of
stuff that I can use I don't need to get
that in a subscription box because I've
got that in my cupboard you know so I
kind of I think for me it's called a box
originally it was all about like getting
new art supplies and getting the mediums
every month and now it's kind of veered
away from that and now it's more like
let's challenge you by including things
that might not be our supplies and
seeing what you can do which is great
because it really challenges you and
pushes you out of your comfort zone and
makes you think about how to make art
but it isn't what I'm looking for in an
art subscription box you know I'm
looking for art supplies and I think
when I was first certainly how this
color box as well I was still kind of
unsure about which mediums that I liked
I didn't know enough about myself or
about art what kind of artist I wanted
to be and it was a fantastic way to like
to learn about myself and to grow as an
artist I was constantly using new
supplies I was constantly you know
getting new challenges and learning how
to use new mediums I don't even like
finding out which art supplies were good
so like you know instead of getting you
know a cheap set of watercolor paints
you know the smaller box would tell me
these really nice walk on the paints and
if you like learning the difference
between something that was you know kind
of good quality but like cheap 2x
liqueur the tteyuu that's a bit more
expensive and and that was something
that I really like didn't think about
before getting good splashes in scroll
of ups so that was really good thing to
learn
but now I know what kind of I like to
make I know what kind of surprise I
enjoy using and so if I get a box it's
like it has something that I already
have in it like oh it's like another
wall kind upon it well I've got like ten
of those already yeah you know I don't
need it
and I have I have so many art supplies
now which are all from school a box and
a number of other things like I'll buy
art supplies because I like them I have
a lot of art supplies now and I don't
use them and I feel like I never
actually will use this many like I've
got a couple of scroll boxes it all my
feet a few months ago in school books I
got these twin tip magic markers and
first of all there's only two of them
and they're both in like pretty colors
but like they clash horribly look I'm
not gonna use those if I was gonna go
out and buy like the twins hit my magic
markers and like a set of like six or
seven or you know I've got more than
that maybe but you know a set of them
then I might use those but I just have
these two I'm not gonna use them because
they're the colors don't really work
together and now I've worked Copic
markers or Copic markers or Harvey flats
them so I don't need to buy more markers
because I don't need them am I making
sense you know I mean I think I've also
got like five or six or seven or ten
hundred pencil sharpeners of varying
shapes and sizes like I just keep
finding them in my house because
scroller box keeps on sending me that's
okay it's for sharpness I don't need
that many pencil sharpener it's like one
pencil sharpener I'll do you know like
maybe another one if I lose the other
one but like I don't need I don't need a
pencil sharpener but you know like I
said f you are new artist like you're
gonna want that you don't want to have
like a different better optimism you
know different lots of different grips
and different sizes and stuff and that's
important but for me it just doesn't
feel like for me like the other thing
and like something I'm talking about
like I'm just sort of ranting now other
things like about the art supplies that
you know aren't really art supplies is
that like a few you think it wasn't
November's box last year 2018 and they
sent me it was all black art supplies
and one of the art supplies was I mean
different shades of black like all black
them in a warm black or whatever and one
of them was like literally a CD pen like
it was a pen that you use to draw and
she'd like to write on CDs and I like
that's fine and I like maybe that is
like you can make art with that but it's
still like why am I being given this and
a box of arts of like a subscription box
or art supplies so yeah I I don't think
it's from me and like I'm not saying
that I'm never gonna go outside of my
comfort zone again because like that's
ridiculous I know what I enjoy making
and I do love to try out new mediums of
new things but now I feel like I can
spend more of my resources on all my
money on like getting new mediums that
I've not tried before like I've never
tried oil paints I'm going to super out
I practice with acrylic paint you know
like there's so much that I don't know
about art but I feel like I've got the
knowledge now that I can make those
sorts of decisions about how to spend my
money on my own I don't need to call a
box to send me stuff now because I know
how to look for out myself so I'm still
gonna be looking at trying new mediums
and trying new things like challenging
myself and I might even like look at the
website and find out what the challenge
is for the month I still do the
challenge is just not with the art of
life because I love using prompt words
but I don't feel like I thought I could
spend my 15 pound a month on something
that I know that I'm gonna use and the
other thing that it's great is that you
can you can actually buy individual
smaller boxes so like if you go on the
website and you want to look at previous
boxes you can and if you like the look
of the box you can just buy that box
without getting a subscription so I can
still like oh this is you know this is a
box that I like I'm gonna buy that and
also like it lifts all the supplies that
they fit in the box and you could go and
find out like more information about
that box and
and that thought let's apply and you can
buy just that thing so like I'm still
gonna keep an eye on it because I think
it's a good way of like I'm like
learning about Miata supply so I'm
probably still going to be like you
using the website I don't think I'm
going to be renew my subscription for a
while like I'll probably keep an eye on
it if it's got like a consistent few
months of like really like I'm really
impressed like for the fact like a few
months like I'll take it out but I'll
take it on like a monthly bimonthly
basis I'm not just gonna renew it and
then just leave it like I was before so
yeah that was sort of my my rant about
to go on a box and if you're thinking of
getting a scholar box for yourself I
don't want to put you off like I think
it's still worth it especially like I
said if you're a young person or a new
artist if you're still learning about
what kind of art you'd like to make and
still learning about like what supplies
you want to use like I think that's the
smaller box is the cheaper subscription
art box out there I think and it's a
really good way of like building your
collection and learning about what you
like to use so yeah I think it's good
it's just not for me so you know and so
yeah let me know what you guys think
like you do you used color books already
like happy for like the most recent box
is good or are you about to use called a
box and like we're looking for someone
to tell you like whether it was worth it
and how am I put you off if I have like
sorry if I have to hear you know what
you think what kind of art you've made
with like the boxes and that sort of
thing so let me know in the comments
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