 Hello and welcome to this video. It's kindly sponsored by BetterHelp. Let's get into why you're here. I got a mini art supply haul from CassArts. If you know CassArts, it's basically an art shop in the UK. I don't know if you have that in America, maybe you do, but it's kind of just like a chain and yeah usually has some nice stuff. Quite expensive so let's just go through everything that I bought. First of all I got this little packet of goodness. You can see I've already opened it because I already know what's in here and I had to take out this pencil that Chris bought. This is mechanical pencil and I didn't realise this until I got home that it cost 10 pounds. What? What in what universe? Okay and I'll never stop going on about it either. Okay so first up, first up we have my favourite polychromos pencils. I just had to you know top up the collection with a few more colours. This is my current collection. I think I have a few more in my other pencil case and stuff. I really like using these over the tops of alcohol markers so in they go in the collection. I think this is the same colour. Uh short top. It is literally the same colour but it looks different probably because this one's dirty but it doesn't matter. It's nice to have repeats. I was picking the colours thinking I hope I haven't already got some of these but because I tend to pick the same colours over and over again. This one is cobalt green and this is cobalt turquoise so it's quite different. I got a new paintbrush because we know all my paintbrushes are destroyed but this one is like a small rectangular nib which will be really nice to just kind of paint with I hope. I want to get the chance. Um and also this Posca. This is a brush Posca and I had one of these before and I really liked it but it ran out and um yeah so I got another one as simple as that. Then what did I get? I have been thoroughly influenced by one Meghan Wang and uh yeah she influenced me. She had this video that was called uh gifts that you get for artists and I was like you know what okay let's do this Meghan let's do this. I got these Cranon I don't even know I'm not even going to attempt to say that name. Pesto please we're trying to create here and I actually I don't like oil pastels but there's something about these that she makes them look so fun and easy to use. I mean I've been influenced um so I got them to try them out. This video is in paid partnership with Better Help. It's something interfering with your happiness or preventing you from achieving your goals. If you have any issues like depression or anxiety or if you're just a person that lives in this difficult world and trying to navigate through it then therapy can give you the tools to approach your life in a different way and that's why I'm excited to tell you about Better Help. 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So if you're struggling consider online therapy with Better Help, click the link in the description or visit betterhelp.com forward slash average artist. Thank you again to Better Help for supporting this channel. This was the smallest set and they're quite expensive £45. Luckily the studio sponsored so there we go but I really wanted to try them. Again I guess I don't think I ever really gave oil parcels a shot but apparently these are like the bees knees so it's a little bit a little bit different than trying a cheap art supply sometimes we try cheap art supplies and they're not really like it's for us. I also noticed that not necessarily Megan but a few people have been doing some stuff on like wood boards and stuff and I just thought I'd get like this canvas board to try something out because I was thinking I did this drawing I showed you guys the last video of this cat and uh books and cats kind of girly is like the the slogan and I was thinking I want to try and draw that on this wooden board or maybe like pesto or something but maybe with the oil parcels but anyway let's try them out first before I get ahead of myself because I might not even like these. I'm nearly running out of this sketchbook. I started it in August of 2022 so it's been quite a while but then again I always think I take longer to finish a sketchbook when I've done when I'm doing a comic because obviously I'm doing a lot more arty stuff outside of the comic outside of the comic outside of the sketchbook but okay let's try these out. Come on Megan don't let me down now. You said these were good so let's try them. Imagine if she watches she's like I don't like you. She's like who are you? They go down real smooth. I guess this paper as well is super super smooth paper the Midori paper. Do you guys ever buy art supplies and you're like now I've got this art supply these ideas are just going to start overwhelming me and it's going to be really easy to just create with them and then you start doing stuff with them and you're like hmm it's going to actually require effort on my side okay but yeah okay well yeah the oil parcels you know I kind of knew what I was getting into so let's see if we can create something with these they are exciting it is exciting to try different things I feel like you get your child like wonder back when you branch out and try to do different things with different art supplies and you just have fun with it which is very difficult to do I'm aware it's a difficult thing to do um but we're gonna do it. So I'm really dumb and I went back to watch that video from Megan to see if she had any tips and then like maybe watch more of her videos just a triple check that I'm doing it correctly and I bought the wrong pastels didn't I I bought oil and hers a water soluble which make more sense and I remember at the time being like oh those look nice and then when I was in the shop and I saw these I was like oh those are the ones that Megan was talking about I wanted to buy those but on Amazon it was going to take too long so I bought these and now I regret my life because I hate oil pastels I was like no but other people say they're fun what I've done guys look what I've done oh well we're still gonna have fun with them we're still gonna test them out and try and uh probably the thumbnail and the title of this video has changed because it's probably gonna be my nightmare art supply I watched a couple tutorials I know right I will link down below the tutorial I've watched and what I think I want to do is I definitely want to do something on this canvas and I think I still want to stick with my idea of doing the cat with the books and things but maybe just don't write that but yeah I think I'll paint a picture of one of my cats 2,000 pictures of cats okay that's normal okay I like this one because she's wearing her bib and I think we can incorporate some of the flowers and stuff in the background I really like the idea of it being a bit impressionistic as well because it would be fun with the art supply to just kind of smush the paint around a bit and just have like this shape of a cat which could be quite funny I don't know if I'm explaining myself well but hopefully you'll see what I mean and I think the good thing about oil is that you can go over and over again so I think this is looking quite cute already even though it's just a little doodle but I think maybe if I use my pencils as well we could we could do some stuff with these pens so um so this is with a turpentine and it just smooths it out maybe I could get into this accidental pickup of this art supply I don't know I'm kind of enjoying it so far so at the time we had because Chris does like warhammers and stuff so I guess he like that's always cleans his brushes and I had linseed oil because of when I made ink that one time in case you guys saw that video either probably need to stick something over the top of this now so I can shut my sketchbook not a great idea to use oils in a sketchbook because they take so long to dry yeah it leads by a core because it's like metal yeah but am I just going to breathe this in if it's open like that there's nothing in there that when I pour it in Chris it's just white spirit hello amable maybe fatal if swallowed enters airway may cause drowsiness or dizziness if medical advice is needed the product container keep out of weird children hot services sparks open flames any what do you mean Chris if I breathe back in it's gonna be awful for me so yeah Chris has this thing that connects to your border gas that he used as a teenager he used a lot of oils as a teenager I didn't so I'm a bit scared to use them go shut that because I feel like you shouldn't breathe that in but I'm also into the idea of using these um this was just a little practice so let's see if we can do a nice image of pesto with these oils I never thought I'd say this oil pastels so I actually remember the sketches I did of the cats a while ago and I really like this one of mochi so that's what I'm thinking at the moment I wanted you like a really really light um layer I think I'm going to take this plastic that the canvas came in just make a little area to put my oil I know this is probably not the way to use them put my oil pastel down maybe we can sketch with it if I really really thin it out so much is basically pretty sure do it this way yeah you want to make it bigger so let's just sketch out basic shapes of mochi and then what I want to do is like do the underpain of this color so then it's looking like I mean then it will just like blend in hopefully and you probably can't see it that well I think what I'm going to do is just like this wash something that's different as well to this sketchbook is that it's very toothy I feel like her back is much more curved than this I'm just working really really lightly um where I can because I remember when I first tried to use oil colors I just went in like I would kind of with gouache where I just bulldoze my way through it and I think I think oils you need a much lighter hand um and slower I think you can't just go through it and that's kind of what I always do so I'm gonna have to be careful see also I remember I said I wanted to do that color scheme of purple and stuff but I think I've gotten lost in the process where I just want to kind of just paint mochi I just do some like color here I don't know if it's looking that way too light for you guys but it's kind of looking like watercolors at the moment which I think is not really the point um but what we're gonna do I think if I keep building on top it will work out fear fear control me but maybe the fear should have controlled me a bit I'm not sure we'll find out with some of these colors so I'm just gonna go in with my pencils like in practice and I think that might help a little bit this red is way too red yeah I just need more orange maybe if I can just mix some more of that orange color I really do like the white in her eye as well it's way too much white oops I don't know what this huge mess is um it hasn't really worked out I feel like I'm working away at this and the more and more that I do to it the worse it looks um I'm not really sure that this is for me but it was fun uh I don't know whether to keep going or be like yeah this is this is it because I feel like the more I'm doing to this definitely like the worse it's getting and the more that I do the more kind of weird what she is looking and I don't think I really understand um oil enough to make anything good but an attempt was made you know and it's always good to try new things I just there was like one point where I thought oh this is looking kind of cute and now I'm like it just looks like a mess to me and I don't know if it's an intriguing mess or not it's kind of me I might work on this another time but I think this is my attempt at oil pastels on a board I do love the textures that you can get and I like her little face I think it's quite sweet and I might work on it a bit more but I don't know if I'm just making it worse and worse I'll probably see it also I did this that I wasn't but it feels like I am so this is kind of what she looks like and I think it's quite cute so let me know in the comments what you think and I hope to see you next time please like subscribe and all that and uh yeah bye