 Hi guys! This month in my creative year our topic is old and new and we're here for a week two video in which we talk about selfies and not in the way that you probably think. I have done a lot of work for different classes and things over the years where I've made stencils of my face, I've drawn my face, painted my face. One of the favorite things to do in my traveler's notebook or my journal where I'm documenting my journey for the year is to just every now and then of course add pictures friends and family but also myself. That being said I'm not super keen on looking at my face all the time and I know you're like but wait you're on YouTube. Yeah that doesn't help. Anyway one of the things that I really like to do when I'm painting from anybody's faces or adding anybody's face to something is alter it in an app on my iPad before I do anything with it and there's a couple of them that I used to use that no longer work with the current version of the Apple operating system called Auto Painter. So if you have an older Apple operating system and you can download those I do recommend them they work really well. With the new Apple operating system there's a couple that work there's Mobile Monet and so I'm going to open the app and then I'm going to go to my photo library and I'm going to pick up my face and it'll automatically turn it into a pencil sketch and then I can go here to the oh wait I can go to here and I can adjust the brush size to be smaller or bigger kind of depending on how abstracted I want my face to be and then yeah there we go and then I can slide it like to the color that I want leave it as the drawing if I want or I can sort of do this you can adjust the vibrancy and brightness contrast I forget what this little button does oh it takes out some color it's been a while since I played with it so you can just play with it until you get something that you're really happy with and then once you are you can click up here and save it to your photo library there is another one called well I have this one called Auto Paint but it mostly I think works with live pictures so like right now you're looking up at the camera um which might be interesting actually if you're looking up at the camera talk about the ultimate selfie um you have me and the camera that actually might be interesting but I'm not really I don't know I'm not great at using this one so I'm not sure uh and then we have clever painter which I actually like so clever painter is interesting so in clever painter you go and you find a photo I have to scroll back to the beginning where my selfies are and you click on more and you have these choice for colored backgrounds or you know abstracted random color backgrounds let's pick the teal one this time and then different kind of brush styles um I'm going to choose the scratchy one number eight and then you go back and you're thinking okay but where's the photo because it's not there so it reveals the photo and then you can refine the parts of it that you want refine the shapes detail when you're doing a face even if you're doing an expressive face you kind of want some details well in my opinion I mean there are artists out there that can do figures and faces and you know do a great job with it and not really have any realistic features at all I'm not one of those um and you could leave it at that or you could keep going until you get something you like and then again click on let's see right uh action photo library safe to photo library once you've created a selfie that you like and there was a text message from my cousin there I'll have to answer in a minute um go to your camera roll and find the one that you like so I did a few different ones let's turn it the right way around turn this one the right way around so I I like this one I think my favorite one is this one it's just a turquoisey colored um pencil sketch of my face and I really like that one so I'm going to choose that one I'm going to turn on my lg pocket photo you don't have to have one of these to do this you could have any pocket photo printer or regular printer um just print it um to a size that will fit in your journal this one has small paper already in it if you're printing it on a regular printer you're going to want to size it to be appropriate for your journal I'm going to go here to let's see I think it's up here yeah here my pocket photo printer has its own app allow so I'm going to go to I'm going to go to try to find that photo hang on I'll be right back okay we're going to switch to my phone this nice thing about having apple devices um so we're going to switch to my phone um and lg pocket photo because the pocket photo doesn't want to sync to the iPad right at this moment which is fine here we go so here's the picture that we want oops sorry here's the picture that we want I've opened it in the pocket photo printer app if you have a different kind of printer you're going to have a different app um or you can just um if you've done this with your phone or iPad and you have a pc then take your photo that you like download it into a dropbox file um and grab it on your pc from there or easier yet email it to yourself and grab it off of your email on your pc and then print it from there just again make sure that you resize the printer I mean the photo to fit in your journal I'm using a traveler's notebook and the paper that's in here is a good size for that already so I can bypass a couple steps so now I want to click on this and again it's having trouble connecting to the device why is it there we go okay so now it's connected I'm pretty well known around here for not having this charged when I want to use it like I'm always complaining about myself and not charging it so anyway so I clicked on the little printer icon and then this came up I like the way it's positioned in everything so I'm going to click print the photo and it's sending it to the printer and while I'm waiting for that to print we're going to zoom back out again there we go I'm going to open my traveler's notebook here I need to add some more words to my little dashboard give you all a little little flip through how it looks so far I really love this page where are we going to put our selfie I think we'll put it that's February I need to put the calendar in here but I think I'm going to put the selfie right here well that's printing I'm going to grab a piece of canvas from last week's video and try to remember if I can where I put the little calendar bits and bobs for my traveler's notebook let me find a few pieces I'll be right back you know you put things away and then you forget where you put them so anyway I found the March calendar so let's give it a little trim I could drag out the paper cutter but I don't feel like it right now so I'm going to stick this in with um tape runner as I'm filming this February is not quite over yet so I think actually I'm going to skip a page and I'm going to go here and you can see there's already some like washi tape um embellishments on the paper just trying to use up some bits and pieces I'm going to I think take this piece of canvas which is from obviously a bigger painting as I said last week happens to have a little silhouette of a bird on there I'm going to just staple it in I like staples so I just got one piece of paper not to oh no I got two well that's all right it's going to stay that way now um and then I'm going to I like that don't want to fold it over I like that it sticks out I think I want to fold it over make it like a tab yeah um and take my selfie right over here this is now this paper happens to be sticker paper for my pocket photo it's a little more expensive than the regular paper but I don't have to worry about tape or glue and it's especially handy when I'm traveling so there we go I do also have this um pocket page thing that was sent to me I think by Cindy Utter I kind of want to stick this in here somewhere there's a lot of stuff going on next month and I think I want to get this in here so I don't think I want to be too crazy about how it goes in I think we're going to just use elastic speaking to that no that's the wrong one a midori I don't know one of these a little midori rubber band it's a big rubber band for putting things into your midori or adding um journals in it this is not a midori this is a generic traveler's notebook I think that company name is zilch or something um but it's the same size as a midori so that works and I can I have some upcoming events and things I can stick tickets and like pamphlets and memorabilia in there and I like that idea so that's coming along very nicely now let's go back to the center my thing came off so and then I have these dashboards that I've made to put underneath the paper so that it makes it nicer to write on here when I'm going to write on here so that's how my creative year journal looks so far um I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do with your journals with selfies in your journals you can do something like this and especially if you're like me and you're like god I don't want to add my face to anything else turn your face into a drawing or a painting and try working with it that way um I really love when I'm going to paint a face to turn it into a drawing or a painting and then paint from that picture rather than the realistic one I get too caught up with trying to match the photo exactly and then being frustrated when I can't or don't so if it's already abstracted and painted like a um a drawing or a painting that's easier and less stressful for me there's so there's another tip so I hope you have fun with this week's prompt I would love to see what you do join us over in the Facebook group my creative year to do that and to get all kinds of hints tips help materials lists and that sort of thing the link is in the description below the most important thing of course besides liking sharing and subscribing is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys