Phew.
I just woke up with this like insatiable desire to draw something
so I thought I'd take you along with me and I hope you'll enjoy, let's get into it.
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I'll probably grab my sketchbook, that might be a good place to start.
There's got to be a blank page in here somewhere.
[Pages flipping]
Nope, something on that one.
I don't know if I'm like the only one
that accidentally skips pages every once in a while
but I like have to go page by page just to find it,
it's usually because I like have markers
and the sketchbook shows markers on the other side
and then I'll be like oh, but I want to use markers today
so then I have to skip a page
and like I don't want to like, you know, ruin a previous marker thing
with a marker thing on the other side so I end up like skipping a page
and then I forget about it and then I do a sketchbook tour
and I'm like well there's some empty pages, oops!
I guess, I'd rather not do that.
I don't know, just personal preference.
These all seem to be pretty full, good grief.
Oh I guess we're on the last page.
This side has a little bit of marker on it
so it's not going to get like really awesome drawings on there
but we do have this whole page which isn't really a page, it's the back of the book.
What do I want to draw though?
There's so many options, so many awesome things.
I suppose I need to start with a pencil though.
Do I want to use this pencil?
I actually filled this with pink lead but I think it's empty.
Oh no, there's one, that's having issues with this, it kind of just doesn't work
but it is cute and has little unicorns on it.
I guess we won't be using that one.
Oh I could sketch in pen.
Why doesn't this one have a lid and what happened to it?
That one's gross, I don't want to use that one.
Oh I have this, this is like the chunkiest mechanical pencil on the planet,
can you see like, oh it's a normal mechanical pencil, nope! It is 2B which is nice
but like look, look at that, like that's more like a normal pencil.
Nope, twice as thick.
I could use that I suppose.
I found this.
[Laughs]
But I used the eraser and he needs a sharpening.
Give that a little twist.
Oh beautiful but I don't have an eraser
so if I should find an eraser.
I have this one which I loved but I don't know what happened.
I don't know if it just got a little old but it started to like crumble
like, so now when I use it, like large chunks will just like fall off
and then like I don't know, it's just like gotten dry
but it is still useful, so I keep it here.
I just prefer, which I've been using a lot more lately this um, this eraser
I don't know a brand, it's from japan and it's been working really well,
it's not dried out yet,
maybe if I keep the paper on that will help the center from drying out.
I don't know if that's even a thing, I've never heard of it before.
I guess I've never actually used an eraser to the point where it died on me.
I always lose it, it's kind of like chapstick, you know erasers very similar
and what's actually cool about this one is it smells like strawberries.
[Chuckles]
Yeah, I've been using this one a lot more because this one just started crumbling
so I probably should retire it but it's here.
Okay, eraser, pencil.
Oh but if I do want, I can use markers on this page though right.
So I might want to use my col-erase pencil.
I've been using the um, pencil extender which is actually lovingly sent to my p.o box
and has been extremely handy so thank you.
As you can see, that's where my little rose color,
my rose colored col-erase pencil lives
and there's the reveal,
he's gotten to the point where I literally can't sharpen him anymore.
I've actually cut into the metal which scared the crap out of me
because I was using my absolute favorite sharpener
and I freaked out because I really don't want to damage its integrity
because it's just so important to me so I did switch to this guy.
I think we've got a good sharpen left in him.
There we go!
Nice.
There that's what I call useful!
I was on the Blick website
to buy more of these because I didn't want to buy like all the colors,
I just wanted to buy the rose which I like the best
and it kind of looked like they were being discontinued,
I could be wrong but that would make me very, very sad
so I'm going to have to make sure I buy those.
How did I get eraser shavings? I haven't even started drawing yet, get out of here.
What should I draw though?
I feel like I had something in mind, let me think, let me think.
Whenever there's like a shadow,
I'm always so tempted to just like draw the same thing on top. [Laughs]
I don't know why,
you think after you draw something you're like,
oh I don't really want to draw that again.
I don't know, it's something about having the color there already
and then you just want to like
[important redrawing noises]
Oh, Iwas gonna use a pencil over here... actually.
[Humming]
Did I tell you I've got little, little butterfly glitters in my nail?
They're a little too wide so when I put them on, they're little pokies
and so what I ended up doing is putting like a top coat on and it was still pokey
and then I like filed it so that it was smooth
and then I added another top coat,
which felt a little like overkill but now it's smooth.
Anyway, I digress, I was going to draw something.
Thinking about food, I could draw more food.
I feel like I draw food a lot though, you know.
I'm kind of hungry though, I do have a snack!
[Laughs]
Grandma over here is gonna eat a snack.
I don't know what it is, I'm just craving it.
I remember being at my grandma's house and eating these
because she told us they were cookies,
which to be fair, their genetic makeup is very cookie like.
Delicious, honestly I don't know about delicious but hits the spot, you know,
like you're not gonna always want one of those
but when you want one, there's nothing else that will suffice.
Alright, I keep getting distracted.
I should start with a circle, that's always a pretty good place to start
because you have a circle, it can literally become anything,
anything you draw is made up of shapes like circles and squares and triangles
so if you just start with a shape, you've started
and then you can go somewhere, you know.
Probably start here so that we have like a more room
and I'll probably like save this little spot for like my final illustration.
Alright, I got an idea, I've got a lot of requests for this.
I'm thinking a dragon.
Oh what if it's a food dragon.
What if its a dragon inspired by food?
I'm thinking we'll start with a shape or square.
I kind of use circles and squares interchangeably for the most part.
It probably doesn't matter
but it's kind of just like get grounded and just start somewhere
so it really doesn't matter what it is
because you're gonna turn it into what you want it to be
and like if you think about it too much,
it's gonna get harder and harder and harder
so if you just do it without thinking, I feel like it's a lot better, too
because then like not all that like pent-up anticipation,
you know, you just start drawing.
That's why I would usually recommend just starting with like a circle,
like even drawing a dog.
Kind of the cool thing about drawing
is that you just sort of turn it into what you want.
I think the biggest issue is when you like start and draw too hard,
or like, hard to erase, or you use ink or something
and you're not entirely sure what you're doing,
then it can be difficult but if you start lightly, no matter what you draw,
it's gonna work, you know, like, you can turn it into what you need it to look like,
like I'm thinking of when I was drawing all those dogs
like a lot of time, I just start with a circle where the head was
or if it was like a more complicated animal
that like didn't have the legs and stuff that like I normally knew how to draw,
I would like start with a big oval for the body
so I could just see where it laid out on the page
and then from there,
you can kind of figure out where you need things to extend from
but I was talking about just shapes on a page, you know,
if you just start with something, you'll get somewhere and it's wonderful,
you know, that's what I think anyway and I can show you
if I just figure out where I want to, what I want to draw,
I'll probably start with the circle.
Oh, if we have a circle, yeah, then I like to like cut it in half sometimes, too
or this is where you can also, see you can like turn it into a square,
when I do draw squares, I usually have like a curved side, too
because I feel like that just helps me feel like it's looking a specific direction,
it's not just straight at me, see now my square,
I feel like it looks like looking a little bit that way
and then from there, I could literally draw anything.
you know, I could turn this simple shape into anything
as long as I know what it is, you know, that I want to draw.
No, my camera turned off.
[Laughs]
So yeah, that, that was my idea of an April fool's day joke
and that might have been entirely insufferable.
How do you like my uh, strong bear?
He's muscly.
I've always been like very self-conscious about
like, making sure my intros weren't too long before I did start drawing
so honestly, I was suffering right there along with you, too.
Even though in the back of my head I was laughing.
Anyway I'm still talking and not drawing.
I just meant to say goodbye,
now I've gotten in the habit of just talking, it's hard, I kind of miss you,
I want to like just film an actual video now.
I will be back tomorrow with a brand new video
and I promise I draw something and actually,
I'm really happy with tomorrow's video, it uh,
has something to do with this page this being the last page in my sketchbook
so I think you'll like it, too.
Anyway, thank you guys for all the support,
probably not on this video, specifically,
but in general, especially with me being in the hospital and everything,
you guys were very patient and I really appreciate it.
I will see you guys tomorrow with a brand new video.
I hope you have a delicious evening full of waffles,
bye!
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