 Literally, you would know that I am a professional YouTuber because of my camera issues. You're literally perched on a jar right now. Anyway, welcome to a new video. Okay, for either of these techniques, you're not going to need expensive materials. I use just your regular inexpensive ballpoint pen. This happens to be a bit crystal, which is my actually, fun fact, my favorite drawing pen. I do also use colored highlighter pens because they're transparent, because there's a couple brands that come in really great colors. These are some that I have here. I have two brands that I like. So I have the Java Powerline 2500. You can get a set of 20 different colors of these for very inexpensively. I'll put a link in the description below. Also, the Zebra Mildliner. They also aren't super expensive and come in a lot of great colors. These are double-ended, so if you prefer having a chisel tip sometimes, but then other times having a fine point, the Zebras are double-ended. The Java pens are not. So anyway, I'm going to get some pens together and I'm going to use this journal today and we're going to do a sort of Rorschach style ink blob drawing, therapy drawing in this journal on this page. I can already kind of tell you what I see, but let me gather some pens first and I'll be right back. Okay, and before anybody asks or says anything, the reason you're at the angle you are at is, one, that was the best use of my space on my desk at the moment, but two, I understand that it may make it difficult for you to see some of what I'm writing if I do any writing on the page. I'm going to be very cautious about what I do write to try to keep some things private. I don't have a problem necessarily with sharing anything with you all, but there are some things that for right now I just need to keep private and I want to give you an idea of what I'm doing and help you do something similar if you're feeling so inspired, but at the moment I again just need to keep some things to myself, so the viewpoints kind of semi-intentional. Anyway, alright, so I want you to take your journal, once it's dry and everything's set, you've gathered like a couple of pens and you're going to just open it, we're going to just look at the first page. So you can of course not start at the beginning, you can just sort of open the book, see what inspires you and work on that page. I tend to be a front to back kind of person, so that's what we're going to go with. Plus I looked at this shape right here and for whatever reason I see a bird head, at least the head of the bird. So I don't know why, I don't know what that means, but we're going to just go with it. You can sit in silence and do this. You can turn on some music and do this. If you have a podcast that you listen to to help you with things or that you enjoy, maybe put that on. I tend to normally either have nothing on or sort of a podcast type thing. Nothing works, so I can just blank my mind and really focus on what I'm feeling and what I see, and so we're going to do that. I'm not going to speed forward through that. What you saw, it was in real time. It doesn't necessarily take a long time and I just drew what I saw and I was always drawing it. I was inspired to write those words down for whatever reason. I kind of know the reason, but I won't get into it. Anyway, for me it's very therapeutic. I did forget that you probably want to have something hard. This is a piece of a dollar store cutting mat to stick between the pages anytime I'm drawing in any of my journals, whether it's thicker paper or not. I always have something hard underneath the page I'm working on that helps prevent any possible bleed-through from bleeding through to the journal, but also if I'm pushing hard with a pen I don't make any dense remarks on the other page. It gives me a little bit of control, anyway. So try this in your journal and see what you think. See if the process works for you. You can do variations on the theme with this and I would love to see what you all come up with. Do share if you do videos. That would be great. Please let me know. Tag me or something or send me the link or something if you're on social media and or in my Facebook group. Definitely tag me in your post and share the video links in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression because I'd love to see what you're doing. This is what I did. I love it and I feel really good about it which is the whole point. That's it for the minute. I will get on with it because I've got some other stuff I'm inspired to do now. That's it. Please stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative. Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye, guys.