Good morning, it's Monday and it's a new week!
What to do?
First of all I wanna say thank you
to anybody who decided buy something from my shop
last week when I launched my Autumn update.
There was a few glitches like I do not
put up the strawberry or the potion bottle on my shop
for anybody to buy but I also didn't put it,
or wasn't planning on putting it in my
Autumn collection thing on the website, so.
Nobody bought any individual stickers that way
but loads of people
supported me on the Autumn launch
so I'm really happy for that
and grateful so thank you so much.
Another thing that I wanna mention,
is that on Tuesday I didn't post a video because I couldn't
[Laughs]
I might still be able to make one
but I don't think I can
in fact no wait, it's Tuesday today isn't it?
It's Tuesday today.
I thought it was Monday.
but it's not, it's because I had a break.
I went to a little place (Castle Semple)
in Scotland I can't remember what it's called
with my dad on Monday, yesterday.
and I shot some things. I don't know what I got
but I will put them in here just now.
♫
Oh!
[Dog panting]
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I'm really sad, also, because
I filmed a lot of packing orders
and since this is mainly Studio Vlogs
that I do on my channel
I thought that it would be a good opportunity
to do something like that
But then...
I deleted the footage.
Because I went on a little thing yesterday with my dad
and I deleted a lot of footage
so that I knew that I had enough memory card space
for the videos and photos that I wanted to take there.
So, I completely deleted that footage,
so you're not gonna get any packing of orders
unless I get more but I think the brink of the packing is
already done and shipped off
to the people who bought them
again, thank you so much for the support
but you will not be seeing your order packed
which is a shame.
So hopefully in the next launch, I remeber to do that
if I get any orders, to pack them up and actually record it
and actually not delete them.
So I'm Excited!
For those to get to thier owners
but right now, I... I mean it's Monday, not it's not,
it's Tuesday. Oh my goodness!
It's Tuesday and I - My whole house is a mess
During the whole process of making that shop update,
I kind of neglected the house
and I didn't really wanna talk about the house
I didn't really wanna do anything to do with the house
I just wanted to focus on my update so today,
I think I'm gonna take a day off of Studio Vlog stuff
and just clean the house
You won't have to see that, don't worry./
But just clean it up , clean up the mess and try -
Try and start again tomorrow.
So I am going to, this week,
work on planning what to do for this week.
I do want to do my mini shop update in the next 2 weeks
So I am hoping to work on stuff for that
because I do want it to be a mini update but I still want there to be several items available for the shop launch.
And I still have things to illustrate so.
That's probably what these videos are gonna be about
Uh, unfortunately I, uh, you know,
when, when you're working on stuff like that.
you just have to keep rolling with the punches.
And working on stuff for your shop.
But I do wanna continue working on the 100 Day Project
and the mini update but I also wanna start working on
my winter stuff soon
because even though I gave myself quite a lot of time
to work on the Autumn stuff,
I still felt a little bit rushed at the end
So I want to make sure that I am creating things
to do with that just sketching things and ideas
and stuff like that here and there
The ideas that I've got so far is a
drawing that I don't wanna tell you about because
I'm actually gonna make a full video to do
with that illustration
and... Um, penguins.
That's literally the only ideas that I've got. So.
[Laughs]
I wanna come up with some other ideas.
If you have any idea for what you want to see from me,
to do with sort of wintery theme,
then please do tell, I would be happy to know that
But other the course of the weekend
and the past week or so,
I have been thinking a lot about my art style
and the way I want to take it.
And I was looking at my favourite instagramer.
She's my complete favourite instagramer,
I absolutely love her,
She's Chinese and I can't pronounce her name.
Yaoyaomava?
I don't know how to say her name
and her Instagram is not loading.
So I can't show you her illustrations
but she makes gorgeous illustrations based on life stuff.
And I've been saying this for a while,
back when I started following Schmoedraws.
That I want to draw things based on life stuff.
But I thought that I couldn't do that because
I didn't really experience life that much.
I didn't go out or I didn't really do anything
that required an interesting -
or that resulted in an interesting drawing concept.
So I think I wanna start illustrating the way that
my life should be or that I want my life to be,
just little things like going places and discovering things
and interacting with people
and interacting with maybe animals and stuff like that
Just fantasy based stuff but not too fantasy like.
As in like, fantasizing about reality. [Laughs]
Basically
and hopefully, by doing that,
I can actually see what I really wanna do in my life
and actually do them and have a good time so.
Instagram's broken right now.
This instagram account is not loading.
That's her name there.
So if you wanna go and follow her,
definitely do that because she is my favourite illustrator
ever and I don't wanna copy her exactly but
I'm really inspired by the way that she dooes backgrounds
and she always has a character
and the character's always doing something
and it's always mundane, I don't wanna really say
mundane but her illustrations make mundane tasks
and things look interesting and exciting.
So [Laughs]
I want to do that kinda art work but em,
because I'm kinda stuck in a way where I wanna do
easy shop stuff and easy YouTube stuff,
I kinda don't think I have the time for that
but then again, I do, I just need to make time for it.
And if I wanna record the digital illustrations
I can do that and then I can put them on
other social medias,
it doesn't actually have to be for YouTube.
And then for YouTube I can just do the studio vlogs
and update you as I go along.
So I dunno, there's loads of things going through my mind
as usual,
I'm hoping that you're enjoying my crystal speed paint
because I am doing some crystals
and then we're gonna try
and do something else this week
which I'm not sure what it's gonna be
but definitely the crystals
I'm gonna make sticker packs , sticker sheets
and a print out of that I think and it's just gonna be fun,
well actually that's gonna be my thank you card
for the mini shop update
but I do want to make stickers out of them as well so
They'' be for the thank you card which will be a print
basically a free print, a FREE, free,
print
and then the stickers and stuff will be the crystals
I can't actually see very well because of my glasses
situation I left them in the bedroom.
Anyway, yeah, so I think today it's good to just chill out
and clean the kitchen, clean the living room,
clean the bedroom just clean everythin'
and just have the house ready to be used again
because it just seems to be a big pile of mess
and it's building up and it's really annoying me
and I can't concentrate because of it.
So if I do that,
and then I start working on art stuff,
I think I'll be a lot happier.
There's just so much things that I wanna do
and that I wanna try
and there's just not enough time in the day but
one thing I can stop doing, is during the night,
well, not during the night, but in the evenings.
I can stop just watching Modern Family
and I can watch Modern Family
and do illustrations at the same time
So yes, there's a lot of things I wanna do.
Over the weekend I also did a couple of
draw this in your styles
I didn't pay too much attention to them,
I didn't put that much effort into them.
I just used one brush, didn't even do any shading or
painterly styles. I just literally drew the thing
and then coloured it in like a colouring book basically
and uh, yeah but
that was kinda a nice wind down
to kinda get me out of the mindset of
making Autumn products and
just drawing whatever I felt like at the time
So that was fun.
and then...
I tried to make a video today
for Tuesday to to review some paint markers that I got
in the mail, well, my mum got them
for free on Amazon
And I was gonna do a little sort of
review video  on Tuesday just as a little extra thing
but this is why I didn't, I didn't put it up
I think I might
get in with the crowd and do some actual
[Paint marker rattling]
Fruits with faces, let's try that because those are easy,
so I'm just gonna do some tropical fruits on this paper.
They're not gonna be astoundingly amazing
because I'm just doing it free hand
just to test these markers
and
they are very like Poscas
So you
draw on a bit of paper
and they tear up the paper a little bit
but I think that they are actually
exactly the same, if not better than Posca pens
I had loads of trouble when I tried Posca pens
They were really hard to work with
I wanted it to be a half peeled banana
They're not very thin.
They're quite thick tipped. so.
Ah!
Ok, this is a disaster, hold on, hold , stop, stop, stop.
So I have a feeling that this video is not gonna be
very substantial.
So,
Let's have some questions in the comments
Do you like Posca pens?
If so, what kinda things do you draw with them?
Do you make your art a little bit more simple than it usually is?
Or, do you just do whatever you want with them?
Let me know in the comments below.
Ok, let's do a little line for our melon
I wanted to do a watermelon
But I don' think I have enough space
Let's see.
We could do a water melon here.
Takes ages to dry and I just smudged it again.
I don't really like
to have to dumb down my art
I know people do art like this and they make it look lovely
but like,
look at this, look at this.
[Chuckles]
This isn't lovely.
What was I gonna do with this? Oh yeah, put some little-
I really wish I moved that up a little bit
It looks so silly.
Hmm. I wanna try something else.
Let's try something else.
I wanna try a little landscape .
I dunno, I just don't enjoy
doing this as much as I enjoy painting.
and I dunno if that's just me
because I'm not using them properly.
I'm not using them on the right surface
Or if I just don't like the medium .
I don't think I'm a marker person and I think that's why
I don't really like
doing illustrations like this.
but.
It's just a bit of fun I guess.
Is this starting to look like a sunset to you
or does it just look stupid?
I think stupid is the answer.
So yeah, you can see that I was having struggles
and I just didn't like it,
didn't like the way the video was going
the way that I was talking was really annoying and
I just couldn't, I couldn't do it so.
I do wanna do videos like that though
where I
play with art supplies and just draw something
or just make art out of it
like what Rin does as I keep saying
But, It's just not my style right now.
I can't do it I don't know how  to. So.
And I'm realising now that there was so many things
in there that I wanted to show you separately that I
probably did not have enough time to put the
[Laughs]
the crystal speed paint in there so
maybe I'll put that in now and you can enjoy that
while I figure out what the hell I'm gonna do with my life.
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Ok.
[Sighs]
So I actually forgot that it's September now and
usually I post a newsletter on The 1st of every month
and it's the 1st of September now
so I actually have to do that by 6 o'clock,
otherwise it's gonna be a little bit weird
So, I'm gonna do that and I also need to write a blog post
which means lot's of typing.
[Laughs]
I forgot that I do that, I don't know why.
Usually I have it in the back of my mind all month
that I need to do that so I'm gonna do it in a minute
So that I can get that over with and done with
Shopify actually has a built in email campaign thing
that's actually free
so I probably could move that over to my website
rather than having it done separately with sendinblue
but I dunno, we'll se, we'll figure it out.
[Laughs]
So I'm gonna dabble around with that.
I've already cleaned and tidied the kitchen
I kinda tidied up a little bit of the mess around here
still a little bit you know, messy but,
in the background, you can see my desks are a lot tidier
I've just got my bullet journal there
ready to make some plans
and that's the only reason I figured out
that I needed to do the newsletter
was because I seen it in my bullet journal
so I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna set up this month
as well, although,
yeah, that's what I'm gonna do
So, a lot of admin things today
And it'll probably be admin for the next couple of days
because I need to do some CC as well
but we're not gonna talk about that
we're gonna talk about arty things
which I haven't started yet
And hopefully I will be able to eventually start that stuff
'cause I'm really excited to start it.
I feel really weird vlogging right now
like I'm doing it wrong or something, I dunno why but
One of the things is, I got a new camera
and I can't actually see what's happening
I might et a new monitor to stick on top of my camera
so that I can see what the hell I'm doing
but I actually like the fact that I can look
straight at the lens and not even worry about
weather I am in focus or not
But I do have my iPad
over to the side that I can see that I'm at least in frame
and in focus
before I start talking and then I kinda just leave it there
and I don't look at it but I have been looking at it
a little bit [Laughs]
So We'll se, we'll figure it out
But it's making me feel like I'm doing it wrong because
it's a heavy camera and I can't
I feel like I can't be mobile with it
because I obviously need to make sure that I'm in frame
and stuff and I can't just carry around my iPad
or my phone and the camera at the same time
and make it look genuine and normal
so I'm trying to figure that out
I might just, since it's on auto, everything should be ok
So I should be able to just take my camera off the tripod
and just like, carry it around
but yeah, I'm thinking about waiting until I get a wider
focus, a wider lens so that I'm not scared about weather
my face is in the camera or not or too close or whatever
Plus.
It's just heavy. It's just heavy.
[Laughs]
So I might just leave it attached to the tripod
and take the middle part out and just -
It doesn't matter, you don't need to know about this
but anyway, I am going do the newsletter
and I'll catch up with you probably tomorrow now 'cause
I'm gonna have to go an pick up Caiden soon
what time is it?
I don't have my phone!
Yeah, it's 20 past 2 now.
So I actually have go and pick, well it's 26 minutes past 2,
so that means I'll have to go and pick up Caiden
in the next 10 minutes
so there's no point in starting anything else
so hopefully I can get the blog post done
I've gonna work on it for 15 minutes and then
when I come back after picking up Caiden,
I will work on it a little bit more then.
This day has gone in so fast.
Let me tell ya that
Good morning!
It's Friday today
and I am super excited
because I actually feel better now
I don't know if you follow me on twitter,
but if you do, then you'll know that I had a rough week
I just didn't feel myself,
I felt really upset for no reason
And stuff like that but now I feel a lot better
typical, because it's the end of the week
and I've gotta stop filming stuff but
I was today, going to print some crystal stickers
and I still might, but I was looking at them this morning
trying rearrange them on the page
to make them, or to put them where I want to put them
and they seem to be a little less crystal-y
than I wanted to, they're not as sparkly
or as, I dunno, they're just quite flat.
some of them are really cool and I like them,
they've got different colours in them and stuff but
the other ones are not so great
so I was thinking about fixing that
but I think that it'll actually translate better
if just leave them and print them the way that they are
because they're gonna be smaller than they are on the
screen anyway so, even if I did add sparkly details,
or crystal like details,
they might not show through in the print.
So I want to just test them to see if I like them first
and I'll use them up if I don't and then I'll play around with
them and obviously print better one when I can
So, I'm pretty excited about that
but, omg I thought my camera,
cause I got a new camera and I can't see myself,
like I can't see the screen, it doesn't look like it's on
although it is because
here I am here
Uh oh.It's flashing really badly
That looks awful
Anyway, yeah.
So I am going to do those crystals today
so you'll see that before I end this vlog
which is really exciting and I'm just quite happy today
t's a nice sunny and I think one of the problems
and this sounds so trivial
but one of the problems that I was having this week
was that I never opened the blinds
Ever.
this week so I've opened the blinds today
It's quite nice outside, it's sunny
blue skies, cloudy, cloudly blue skies. [Laughs]
And it's just nice outside so
I think that that really lifts my mood
when I'm inside quite a lot
is just to open the blinds.
I might even open the windows as well to
let the fresh air in and just air out the place
and just have a better time
So, I'm excited about that.
I also did a lot of things that you can't see cleaning
Like under the bed, in the cupboard,
just things that niggle at the back of your mind
knowing that you need to clean them out and
I felt really good about that.
I've got two boxes and a christmas tree underneath my
bed now . I need to go through one of the boxes
But I couldn't reach it yesterday and I just left it
and the other box is actually an easel
which I'm trying to figure out what to do with that
because I don't actually use it
It just stores random art supplies in there
and then the easel that's over there
I just use for storing
sheets of things that I wanna use as backgrounds
so I don't actually use that either but
I might use it in the future so I keep it around
and then I've got a table top easel
down there as well that I don't use
but I think I need to start using them more
because it helps my back
It's just because of the recording set up that I have
I could angle it so that it does
do a straight down view on the art but
it's just too much hassle really
and that's the only reason why I don't use them so yeah
but I might use them when I'm not recording
just to have some fun with it
and - well not fun with it, but just
you know, have a better time painting and stuff
♫
Glossy crystals just finished printing
and I actually prefer
the glossy look to the -
so these are the matt ones
which, they're lovely
the colourings probably not right because I'm facing
against a wall that doesn't have any light, yeah.
The
The glossy ones look really good.
So I'm happy about them.
They're a lot more saturated than the matt version
And I think that
eh, this is the glossy and this is the matt
I think that em,
It's good, I'll show you a better picture, anyway
The reason I started this clip was because
I got a delivery from the washi tape place
It took a while to come, I think I ordered them on the 26th
of October , eh, no. I didn't cause it's not October yet
[Laughs]
26th of August and it's now the 3rd I think
No, the 4th of september
So it took a while but too long
I thought it was gonna take even longer
they come in these little boxes like this
They are, so that's the box that this autumn one came in
Which I was actually buying for,
sorry, I was actually buying for my Autumn launch
obviously so that I could package them up
in cute Autumn washi tape colours
But it's cool, I can use these for other things
It's fine
The quality of the tape seems to be really nice
I think they are, yeah, they're definitely paper ones
I like the ones that you can rip off
The ones that you have to cut are really annoying
they're more like plastic tapes
But they come in all these lovely colours
So it's like a gradient of em,
Autumn colours
Sorry, I got ink on my finger
I'm so annoyed.
but anyway, yeah, they come in awesome colours.
And then I got the rainbow set
which are all scattered about
so they're not gonna be in pleasing order I'm afraid.
Really sorry about that, I know that will jip some people
that really annoys some people,.
So yeah, but that came in this kind of box which
is very
broken, so I just took them out of the box
So that they didn't get anymore damaged than they
could have been but those are those colours and
they are really nice, I like them.
I actually got these for my 100 Day Project
So these aren't gonna be used for anything
like packaging or whatever but I just
liked the thinness of them,
so that I can put a thin strip along my paintings
so that I can get a nice clean edge.
And I wanted the thinner ones
and they seemed to be cheap option
I also got this
washi tape and I got two of them
because - I dunno why I'm doing that
I don't have to do that with this camera.
This washi tape because that's like my
[Clears throat]
Sort of branding that I've went of so
it goes with the tops of my sticker sheets
And I have grids in a lot of things and I really like it so
I wanted to buy one for actually packaging things
and one for photographs
I think I probably should have bought more
But I'll see if there's any cheaper version
I don't - these weren't really that expensive but
I don't want to have to, like if I run out of this,
buy them from a chinese company .
They don't seem Chinese.
But then I think it's one of those companies where they
sell you -
Like it's a middle man so they order from China
and they ship it straight to you
So I think that's what it is
But yeah, these are really cool. I really like them,
And then the third thing I got was also for pictures
I wasn't sure if I was gonna like it
but I really do like the pastel colours that they come in
So I got a blue, a yellow a pink and a gray.
So
This is the weirdest way to show you
stuff [Laughs]
I don't know how to hold them!
Help!
There we go, that's better
So yeah those are the (four) ones of those
so those are also for pictures
I think I might like stack them up nicely
and then have one on the side and stuff like that so
Most of them are for pictures
but some of them are for actual packaging
which these ones are definitely for packaging
And these ones were also for packaging as well so I think I'll use all through out August and September, too.
Em.
I kinda wish that I got purple and blue
These ones are purple and blue
but they're really small so I don't wanna use those
for packing 'cause I wanna use those for my,
like I said my paintings.
But I'm really happy with this purchase
I think I'm - there's a lot of - On Instagram,
there is hundreds of Kawaii Washi tape branded shops
And they have kinda the same kinda vibe
They've got different washi tape things
and I just feel like it's a rip off and it's just -
well not a rip off but like as in plagiarism or something
Like, just they've got a few designs
and they've made a bunch of washi tapes
or they directly get them from China
I would really like support actual businesses like me
small businesses on etsy or online
to buy washi tapes from
so if you know of a company or of a person that sells
a bunch of washi tapes that are all different colours
and different shapes and different patterns, like these
then please do tell, cause I would really like to support
those instead of just Chinese manufacturers because
You know, it's nicer to support
artists and businesses
that are small and that are more local
doesn't have to be local, local,
if they ship here like from America, Canada
New Zealand, Portugal, where ever
I just, I wanna support them
but it would be nicer to support UK
because I would get them faster
and it's just supporting my own people
Not that I'm
bothered about support my own people verus not
Ok I'm gonna get myself into a hole here so
I'm gonna shut up about that
but I'm really happy about the stickers
I hope that you are too
I hope that you like them
I'm kinda just gonna quickly cut these em
crystal ones so that you can see
exactly how they go
I wasn't recording that whole time
Oh my goodness [Laughs]
I've moved you over here, hope that the light is good
These are the
Eh,
glossy sticker sheets I'm really sorry about my nails btw
and these are the matt ones
so the matt ones are much lighter
I was gonna print with the same settings but I decided to
print with the glossy settings on the glossy paper
because I knew that these were crystals
and I wanted them to be a little bit more saturated
on the glossy paper
I'm still trying to figure out weather
I like glossy more vs matt
I just like to have the options for people if they want both
but I think that they do go really well with
the witch essentials sticker sticker sheet.
Although I am thinking about
changing these witch essential sticker sheets
so that they are
a little bit smaller
and you get two of each sticker, rather than one
because I feel like it's just not enough
If I was gonna make stickers this size,
I probably would
make this a pack instead
I'm still gonna have these available,
I'll probably just stick one in orders until they run out,
there's only six of them anyway
or just keep them for friends and family
because they're perfectly fine,
it's just that they're a little bit too big for my liking.
Tell me what you think.
Would you prefer them a little big bigger, or,
would you want them,
well, this size or would you want them a little bit smaller
with two on them
more for your money really
because I'm selling them all at the same price
because they're all you know, priced
depending on how much money I per sheet I spend
so yeah,
So far, we have these three things for the mini update
and then obviously
because I'm a ditz,
and I forgot to upload the potion bottle
and the strawberry,
those are also gonna be in the update
and then I will be putting - what else is there?
That I'm gonna be putting in to the update
Something else, I can't remember, oh yeah, mushrooms!
I kinda wanna do -
hold on, hold on, let's change our situation here
Mushrooms, I wanna make the mushrooms
and they're gonna ve rare mushrooms
or made up mushrooms basically
they're gonna be fitting with that colour scheme
they're gonna have purples, blues
and kinda greeny bluey colour as well
So I think that's gonna be exciting too
So I'm really excited to make those
but I need to do the sketches and stuff for those
and I think I'll do that in the next vlog or so.
I wanna end this vlog here though
thank you so much for watching
please remember to comment like a subscribe
if you haven't already
if you have, thank you so much for your support
and I will see you in my next video, bye!
