hi everybody welcome to this week's art
studio vlog. i started off this week
on like saturday and sunday so kind of
working on stuff over
the like "technical weekend". i was working
on some drawings for the #doggust monthly
challenge i am not really into those
like draw one thing everyday kind of
challenges that seems really
intimidating to me. i've never been able
to get fully into inktober and stuff
like that.
i just find it really really hard to
do so
with doggust it was something that i
really
wanted to still participate in because i
love drawing dogs and i thought that
this would be a really
fun way for me to get to draw some
different breeds that i
haven't really seen before or i'm not
familiar with
and it was really fun!
so i did pretty much all the drawings for the entire month in
about three or four days, so these are
just a couple time lapses of me working
on a handful of dogs. i had a lot of
fun with it i'd like to kind of put them
together into like one big poster or something
like that maybe.
i don't know i probably won't really do
much with the drawings but it was a
really nice
exercise and something kind of just fun
and relaxing to do and get to draw cute
dogs.
as you know i am a big dog fan, i do have
three cats, but i think about my future dog pretty much
all the time.  i recently got a new job
working
at a like pet food store and they also
have
like dog grooming there so i get to see
a lot more dogs
in my life now so that's really exciting
for me! i love
dog watching and meeting all these
different kinds of dogs. i've really
grown to like
a lot of different breeds of dogs that i
hadn't really liked before or known too
much about before
so that's been really fun. so drawing
these for doggust was
kind of in line with all the dogs i've
been seeing lately and
really liking that. monday i did a lot of
stuff
for my etsy shop and i usually
spend quite a bit of time on my etsy
shop that's usually
the bulk of what i'm doing during the
week when i'm considering my time for
like
"working" on art. so here i was cutting out
some art prints
and then cutting out some
other prints and business cards for my
kpop shop.  i do have a separate etsy i've talked
about it a couple times but you still
might not know or maybe this is one of
your first videos you're watching of
mine
kpop is one of my like my main hobby
and i just love it and i have a lot of
fun with it and i do
fan art and i make decals and stuff. and
i don't really worry about
the business aspect of that i'm not
really doing it to make money, i just
truly do it because it's fun. so that's
kind of a nice,
low stress project for me to have and i
have a lot of fun running the shop
and sending people little little
stickers and notes and pictures of their
of their faves. so that's a lot of fun
for me. then
i'm just moving on to packing up my
orders and getting them ready to ship. i
like to give
a handwritten note to every order just
to make it feel a little more personal
and then they have a business card with
all my information on it too
if they ordered but maybe found me
through etsy or something so they don't
know about my artwork.
then i'm printing out and cutting out
some new sticker sheets
and some prints. this is the lovecore
print and sticker set for my etsy shop
and i had this
up before but i just had like paper
stickers but i don't really like
that type of sticker paper so i really
like this translucent sticker paper so i
figured
i would kind of redo it and re-list it.
then i just worked on
editing some new pictures and kind of
updating some listings i like changed
some of the background pictures just to
make them look a little fresher
and a little bit better quality then
i figured out a couple days ago that i
was completely out of business cards,
and like i said before i write a note on
every
like business card to put in with etsy
orders and so i was like well
i guess it's time for me to make a new
one. i wasn't crazy about
the old business card i had so i knew i
didn't want to reorder that one,
so i figured it was time to think up
something
and come up with a new business card
concept.
i came up with this like letter kind of
look
you could see my sketches at the
beginning i wanted something kind of
whimsical
or in a shape or it to look like
something else
so i thought maybe like a soda can or
like a bag of candy or something
but i ended up doing this kind of
letter envelope looking card and i
really like it. i had to do yellow
because i feel like that's the color
that represents like my brand the most. i
don't know
i feel like people associate it with my
art. i went with a bright yellow envelope
and then i
made these little like stamps and i
wanted to do
one that was a raccoon because they're
my favorite and i draw them all the time
so i felt like
there had to be a raccoon stamp and then
i did like a floral stamp and i used
pansies because they're the flower that
i'm
loving drawing right now. they're just my
current favorite so
i came up with that and i am overall
very happy with it!
i was really excited to order these and
then they came in the mail really quick,
you'll see them even later in the vlog
tuesday was actually kind of a rough day
and i pretty much just spent the morning
watching youtube videos
and like doing nothing and just
feeling like crap *lol* so later in the day i
did end up working a little bit
on a zine project i'm working on which
i'll
talk a little bit more about here.
hello everybody it is friday today
so kind of the end of my
week i don't know i might work um
over the weekend on some stuff i just
wanted to vlog
today because i got in my new business
cards and i got in some new postcards
that i'm going to be listing in my etsy
shop
hopefully some stickers will come in the
mail today too i got some from stickerapp
and i actually had them redo them
because i wasn't super happy so
hopefully those will be in the mail.
today i had kind of hoped i could
already get those
up my etsy. i did a lot of work on etsy
stuff this week.
so this week i've just been kind of like
struggling i don't know i'm just in kind
of one of those
lulls where i'm not feeling
super inspired by by a lot of stuff and
i don't know i just feel like i need a
break or like a reset or something.
basically i had to delete instagram
earlier in this week because
i was just really sick of using it and
i feel like with the new update the new
like algorithm or whatever is terrible
it's really bad
especially for artists i feel like i
don't see any of the creators that i
actually want to see
anymore and that there's just a lot more
ads
you can just really feel that grip that
facebook has
by owning it that it just it feels like
facebook now and there's a reason that i
left facebook
and i'm starting to feel like that's the
reason why i'm gonna leave instagram.
and i don't know i don't want to
really leave because it is my biggest
following on social media
so that makes me a little nervous
that that's the place where most people
see my work
i mean i really like using twitter but
um
my i guess my presence on twitter hasn't
really picked up
yet because i did just recently start
kind of an art account on twitter so
not a lot of people follow it yet. so
i don't know it's just it's a struggle
and i don't really know what to do and
i'm sick of playing
the games that instagram makes you play
to try to figure out
what people actually want to see how to
get your posts seen,
how often to post, how much to post on
your story, to use
igtv, there's way too many features and
i think a lot of people are missing it's
like basic chronological order.
here's what people are posting you post
a video or pictures or whatever.
it's way too much and it's really
stressing me out. i've just needed a
little break from that i mean i'll still
probably log on to post stuff about this
video and stuff for my etsy but
for the most part i think i just need to
step away from it for a bit.
and yeah i just need to like take a step
back i think
i've been just kind of burned out and
when you're burned out it's hard to
really see the point of making anything.
i don't know if any of this will make
any sense, hopefully it does
but just kind of speaking in my uh my
opinions.
you would have seen a clip of it in
whatever the last day was that i was
working on stuff,
i am working on a new like zine or
art book. i thought of it actually last
year i think it's almost been a year now
wow so after uh my chemical romance
announced their reunion i wanted to
start working on
um an art zine with kind of all of my
old
fan art that i did and i had like
drafted up kind of a rough idea of what
i wanted to do and then
ended up just kind of scrapping it
because i felt like i didn't care enough
about the project
and it wasn't really going the way i
wanted to and
kind of with this week's burnout i guess
i kind of went back to it and i looked
at what i had written
and what i wanted to say and kind of
reformatted it and i think i'm going to
move forward with that project
and still make it i think people will
still care
enough about it. one of my biggest fears
is that i'll put all this work into it
and i'll put all this money into making
this and then like
my four friends will buy it and they'll
be like this is really cool but
i will have put all that time and effort
and money into it and
might not really get any not recognition.
it's not about recognition but
it's about people seeing my work and
caring about it so
i don't know i was just kind of afraid
that not really many people would care
about
it and i'm not big on social media or
anything
so i don't know how many people will see
it but hopefully
it would still be something that would
be interesting and i still really want
to make it so
if it ends up completely flopping then
that's that and i won't do
projects like that again. but maybe it'll
go well um
that zine that i made a couple years ago
for frank's album went really great
and i really had a lot of fun working on
that and felt really proud of it
i want to try at least so please hold me
accountable for that and be like "hey you
still working on that zine" or
whatever just make sure i finish it i
really just want to get it
made and put out there in the world and
have people see it because i still am
excited about it
and i kind of started doing some like
layout stuff and i have an idea that i
want it to be more of like
a collage style book not really collage
but
really to test my like layout skills i
guess
and just do something kind of creative
and fun with that. so i've been looking
at packaging a lot on pinterest lately
i've been like really inspired to
like design some cool packaging so i
think i'm even more excited about that
than the actual
like product itself but whatever gets me
to
get it done is great so that's kind of
what i'm working on
and i'll probably work on that more
today i have a couple of orders to go
out
today so i'm gonna get those packed up
and sent out.
that was kind of a lot of talking but
there wasn't really much other
stuff i needed to include in this video
i just wanted to do sort of like
a vlog for this week to i don't know it
makes me feel more productive
to be filming what i'm doing and look
back and be like oh i actually did do a
lot of stuff i wasn't just sitting
around
doing nothing and like feeling bad.
so i did get my business cards
in the mail and i'm super excited i
think they came out really cute!
those are my new cards
they turned out pretty much just how i
expected them to so
i'm quite happy with them the backs are
blank so
i can use these as note cards for etsy
orders to
like write thank yous on the back. very
excited and then i also got
some postcards too which i'm going to
open up and list
on etsy these are the postcards i had
printed the little
heart cows that i had in my sketchbook
people seemed to really like them
so i thought a postcard would be cute
i can list those today. super cute i
love them.
i really need a better place to put my
camera but this is just gonna have to do
for now,  this is just gonna have to work.
pulling out my orders on my computer
this is like my little
etsy work station. so i have six orders
to go out today
so here are the stickers that i got that
i need to get reprinted
so apparently i thought the whole thing
was gonna be mirror
and apparently if you upload it with a
white background they just make the
parts that are in white
mirrory so only some of it is mirror so
i don't know if i'm gonna like give
these away with orders or if i'm gonna
save them for something
i haven't decided yet but hopefully the
new ones that are printed correctly will
come in today
and then i have like a bunch of
old postcard prints that i like pulled
out of my
storage area that i figured i'd just
start throwing in orders because
i've listed them for sale before and
nobody buys them so i'll just start
giving them away as freebies so i don't
have to have them sitting around.
i have a lot of stuff like that that
i've ordered and
like it either didn't work out or i
don't sell any of it or like i sell like
10 of them and then like i don't sell
anymore so i just take the whole listing
down
i'm a master of etsy clearly. *lol*  i just
listed these again the little
like love core print and sticker sets
except i printed the stickers
on kind of a transparent sticker sheet
they're those
they're the matte transparent stickers
that i've been using which i really
really love.
i should order more of that paper
because the stickers just come out
really nice and it actually works with
my cricut.
and i could probably like film a whole
rant video
about how much i hate the cricut
software. if anybody actually wants to
see me
just like go off on cricut let me know
because i have a lot of like
internalized rage for that company and
for that software it is
TERRIBLE
this order's going out to a friend so
i'm gonna throw one of these misfit
stickers in there
hopefully they'll like it after i
shipped my orders
i started kind of cleaning up my general
work area.
i found these drawer things in the trash
at my apartment complex and it was
actually exactly what i needed
for my etsy work area. so my partner is
using my pink desk right now which had
all of this stuff in it but now that
they're here i can't really use it
so i got these drawers and i just like
reorganized all my stuff
and now i just have like a little more
elbow room
for doing things. i kind of finished up
by
packing up a bunch of stickers so just
like getting them packaged into their
rightful places and doing some more
organizing
and then editing this video. and that is
it
for this vlog so i hope you guys enjoyed
it
make sure to say hi in the comments and
then make sure to check out my etsy shop
because as you saw i was working hard on
getting some new stuff
uh posted up there so you can check that
out and i will see you guys
next time :)
