 Hi everybody, note to self. When you're wearing a mic when you're filming, it's helpful if you remember to plug it in, turn it on and stick it on your shirt. Having it off, unplugged, and in a box, doesn't do any good. Anyway, welcome to another year of explorations of me. The links for everybody else's video who's doing it this year are always gonna be in the description below on all of my videos. And we're gonna start off 2019, I think in a positive good way by pointing out the positive and letting go of the negative. So it's really easy in life, especially when talking about yourself to point out all the things you dislike and all the negative things. Super easy, I could name five right off the top of my head, probably more than that in the space of a couple minutes. But what are five things you like about yourself? Maybe even love about yourself. I would love to see us start out this year on a positive note rather than a negative note, emphasizing the good qualities and the things we like rather than dwelling on those things that we don't like. So we are gonna create a journal page that reflects that. I think I'm gonna keep it pretty simple. I'm really inspired to use these painting pages. This is my Dia Wakeley journal and this is just a couple of wipe off pages. I've got actually two different kinds of substrates here. I've got some canvas on one side and some watercolor paper on the other side. So that's gonna be interesting. And I've got just some neon colored and a little bit of black wipe off paint on the two pages. I think we're gonna just start out by doing a portrait of myself. I've done them before a lot of different ways. It's not the first time I've drawn my face or created my face or collaged my face. I think we're gonna try sketching it and drawing it. I'll probably do a crappy job, but it's my face if I screwed up, it's fine. And then we're going to create something on the page that displays I think the qualities about myself that I like that are positive. So let's get started. We're gonna speed forward through the process. I think the plan is to start. We're gonna use the Uniball Signo pencil. I mean, holy cow, that's not what this is. This Tabilo All Pencil, which is water soluble in black. I've got my Pentel water brush. I have next to me, right off camera, a bunch of Distress crayons. I do have my Uniball Signo, oops, pen and a bunch of other favorite black pens and colored pens right off camera. Along with a whiteout pen. And I've got some word stickers that right off the bat, I can tell you have some words in it that are ones I'm gonna want to use on my page. And some glue and all those sort of things. So let's get started and I will be right back. Okay, there's some real work for you, real journaling. I didn't hide anything from you all. Is it the best portrait of myself I've ever done? Not by any stretch of the imagination, but at the moment it's what I'm gonna do and I actually love it a lot. I maybe would put, if I can get it to work, there we go. I maybe would put back some of the bits that, it's a little dark. Yeah, that actually makes a big difference. It's a little dark. Probably because I was dreading the exercise, to be honest, like most of you, and I said earlier, it's really easy to pick out things you dislike about yourself. It's really a lot harder to pick out things that you like. And I am by no stretch any exception to that statement. I can find lots of things I dislike about myself. There we go, that's better. It's less dark. And with the whiteout pen, you know, if you think that the whiteout is too harsh, you saw me doing this earlier before it dries, get in there with a wet brush and you can just soften it up a little bit like that. That's much better. So anyway, I can always find things I dislike about myself. Those are really easy things that I like. That's a lot harder. But I do think I'm good with all of these and I do like these particular qualities about myself. And this one was a stretch because I don't think of myself as physically attractive, but I think that I have a beautiful soul and I try to be a loving kind, heartfelt human being, a decent human. And I am nothing if not myself. I just be, I'm just me. I'm done and way too old to pretend to be something I'm not. So, and honestly, I love that part of my journey at the moment. So I would love to see what you all do with this prompt. I can't wait to see and hear from you all. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe and watch the other videos and see what they come up with because this is gonna be a really challenging exercise for everybody, I'm sure. That being said, go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. You know you do. 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