today i'm going to be painting on some starbucks cups i don't actually
drink starbucks but i was watching mirabiler's painting on starbucks
cups video and she mentioned that the cups were free so i got in my car i'm kind of introverted
and when i went to the starbucks they didn't have the cups just like laying out on the counter like
i thought they did so i just went home then i convinced my girlfriend to go with me and she went
up to the starbucks girl and asked for cups sounds easy enough but she got redacted hey can i have a
free empty cup please no and that's why i don't even ask the starbucks girl wanted to charge us
two dollars and twelve cents per empty cup with no coffee involved what starbucks is really
protecting those cups i think they're catching on to mirabiler so yeah we left and went to another
starbucks let's go cutie pop okay third time's a charm we finally secured some cups for free
so for this first cup i started off by painting it purple my original idea was to like blend a dark
purple into a light purple things didn't quite work out though blending didn't go as planned
the starbucks cups are not easy to paint on i don't know if it's the texture
the texture is kind of weird or if it's just the shape of the cup so yeah i abandoned that
plan and started over this time i painted the whole cup a light purple there's no footage of
that but it's fine it's fine i'm sure you get the idea i just painted it purple so then i
had to come up with a new concept um i wanted to incorporate the logo into the design because then
how would you tell it's a starbucks cup i actually don't know why you have to leave
the logo that's just what i've seen a bunch of people do so i did that too
i'm sure there's some logic behind it i don't have all the answers there was a character i made in a
paper squishy video it was like this green booger alien inside of a donut spaceship hold on oops
it's at the bottom it's at the bottom
okay i thought it would be cool to base this cup on him so my plan is to draw him flying through
donut space with some cookie asteroids sprinkled in i started off by sketching out the basic shapes
of everything before going in with posca pens the original donut alien spaceship had a closed top
this time he's got the sunroof pulled down i did go in with a little bit of purple on the
starbucks logo to make it look like there's been a bite taken out of it that's kind of
why the booger alien needed the sunroof down every road trip requires a snack break i don't know the
logistics of whether he can breathe in space or not he doesn't look like he's dying to me though
in fact he looks a little too happy but i guess i would be too if i were flying through donut space
i felt like the logo wasn't really popping enough so i outlined it in black then i started filling
in all the cookies and donuts flying through space some of the cookie asteroids also have
bites taken out of them i guess the booger alien's been making his rounds i didn't include more
alien buddies i figured they'd just distract from the star of the show i know cookies and
donuts don't necessarily scream evil or dark side but they're one of my guilty pleasures
especially donuts plus i feel like aliens in general can be considered evil you
can't really picture an alien frolicking through a patch of rainbows and unicorns
i went through and outlined all the donut planets and cookie asteroids in black to help them stand
out better i did just realize the cup is purple and the background is purple oh i'm sorry i
could have planned that better i added some white space dust to help it look a bit more like space
just some swirling stars and galaxies to set the mood i also added a bright pink galaxy shooting
behind him and some icing drips falling down from the top i don't really have a metaphor for the
icing it's just icing in space there's also some sprinkles added to the icing they're a little hard
to see maybe i could have chosen darker colors i guess it's alright since sprinkles shouldn't
take center stage on the dark side anyway just focus on the booger alien that's all that matters
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i started off this cup by painting it black
it's actually a really dark blue i didn't want it to be black but it looks pretty black to me
so we'll just call it black this one looks kind of satanic and murderous people always
want me to put warnings before everything like before i show my snakes or before any noises
which might be a bit difficult for me because well i use a lot of noises um yeah here's a little
warning for all your sparkle butts out there i know you're out there this one's gonna get bloody
there's no real blood things just might look a little bloody and they might scare you if you're a
severe sparkle butt my condolences if your case is mild though you should be fine it's fine it's fine
continuing on with the theme of incorporating the logo into the design i actually painted
the starbucks lady on this one as best as i could it was pretty tough i couldn't really use poscas
because i wanted the color on the lady to be a perfect match to the background color poscas would
have made things a lot easier but the color would have been off so i just couldn't not this time i
mostly just reversed the logo from white and green to black and red i didn't realize it would turn
out looking so satanic i really didn't intend it to be that way maybe that says something about
this since it was already looking pretty satanic i figured i'd add in some blood
i don't know i just thought they'd go well together or something i don't
really do much demonic stuff on my channel that's the other dark side
i mean i did unintentionally make some demonic things a year ago when i started youtube but
yeah that was completely unintentional i was trying to make it look good but
obviously that didn't happen i think in my opinion at least i think i've made some improvements since
then i'm not saying i'm an expert but i think we can agree things are better than they were i
like to keep things creepy cute a little cute a lot of evil this cup heavily leans towards
evil but i think it looks cool and edgy and hip i wanted it to look like the blood was dripping
down around the starbucks logo and splashing into a pool of blood at the bottom of the cup
almost like some sort of blood ritual or something you get the idea you know what i'm talking about
and to give the blood a wet look i painted some highlights around that way you know it's fresh
blood and then i felt like maybe she could use fangs to complete her look maybe that
even explains the blood she's bathing in you would think painting on starbucks cups would be fast and
easy and simple i just did do a squishy makeover which takes forever so i thought this would be a
good chill video to do after that i was wrong though painting these cups took a deceivingly
long time and it was pretty tedious didn't take nearly as long as the squishies but longer than
i expected by the way that last squishy makeover was a collab with socraftastic
i'll link her video down below you guys should check it out i sprinkled in some red dots in
the blood i thought it would add some detail to it some blood clots to really sell the idea
anyways moving on i wanted some variety and color so i uh i chose pink for this one is pink and evil
color can pink be evil i'd say so i wish i had gone for more of a graveyard theme for this one
now that i'm looking back on it maybe even call it loon's graveyard i really liked that idea
thanks again tatch guthrie but unfortunately that comment didn't exist yet when i filmed this
video otherwise i would have done things a bit differently i'll definitely be saving the idea
in my memory chip though i started off by drawing trevor holding the starbucks logo kinda like he's
peeking out from behind it and then i added some pink goo or something to the bottom that's not
frosting you can tell because there's no sprinkles and then i decided trevor gets too much attention
and he's pretty annoying so i drew a whole swarm of ghosts they're all just kind of floating about
chilling i originally planned to make a bunch of colorful ghosts but i thought that might just
start looking like a game of pac-man especially because trevor already is a wonky looking pac-man
ghost that i stole from the internet in the free use section of google like i've said before
it was when i first started out on my channel and i didn't realize how effective his threats would
be in getting people to click on the videos and liking my vids and commenting literally
if trevor doesn't specifically tell people to do it i get significantly less likes and comments
i guess he's got his charms so thanks trevor for keeping us afloat i made the other ghosts look
pretty simple just some little black eye sockets nothing too fancy i also kind of regret not giving
each of the ghosts different personalities they all just look like standard runt of the mill
ghosts definitely would have been cooler with a graveyard backdrop maybe even with some chopped
off doll heads and hair trimmings and boogers that i've gathered but it's too late now instead
this cup ended up looking more like a strawberry milkshake i don't even like strawberry milk to be
honest i didn't completely have a plan in mind while painting on this one i just kind of let
it happen and i guess this is what happens when little planning is involved normally i plan out
pretty much everything more planning than it looks i was just having a chill day having a little fun
and this is what i ended up with not that i think it's bad i mean there's trevor in there and he's
fun to laugh at i just like the other two cups better i forgot to film the before and after
and take the thumbnail picture so i actually ended up going to a different starbucks yet again
to secure a final cup just so you guys could see the original cup next to my abominations
the reason the pink one's at the back is obviously because i don't like it that much
i told him i'm very convincing click on the top right or bottom
left nerdy crafter's cat got a raise i want one too you