 Hey guys, so if you're watching this then you have seen the short video where I have shared this probably first if you haven't This is my Piece of work that I'm going to do for the first month to start start our journals off for 2017 the first prompt is a new step forward the details with the prompt and everything should be listed in the post post that you're watching this video on and It's sort of a post that connotates visions of creating a resolution list or a vision board or something along those lines What do you want to do with your year? Where do you want to go with your year? And what would you like to accomplish in the year for me a resolution list? Well? You know resolutions I never keep them up I you know it just seems like failure to me resolution equals failure Because I never accomplished them all and a vision board I just have no patience for cutting out a bunch of different images to paste on a little card or something to tip in my journal I just at the moment today that I'm filming this I just have no patience for that But I was in the grocery store recently and I saw a little girl character sketchy character on a greeting card I thought was really cute, so I thought I would do my version of her and in and around her I've put symbols and words To inspire me and remind me of different things that I want to accomplish with my year And we're going to tip her into the journal before we do I'm going to show you how I drew her so we're going to set this aside and I've got a Ranger tag here. This is a pretty big tag. I think it's a number 10 Let's see really quick Yes, it's a numbers 10 manila tag you of course can use anything that you want or you could draw her Directly on the page in your journal if you want I'm going to use a dip pen and some sumi ink and a water brush to start now You of course can use a pencil you can use a regular pen Think about using a pen that is not waterproof. That's water soluble and as we Do the drawing you'll see why but all this shading on her the gray shading. That's the pen ink And if you've seen my videos before you know, I like to do that. Okay, so this is my new little ink jar isn't it cute? All right, so I'm going to just dip my pen in here and we're going to start with the eyes And I'm going to zoom in There we go So she's pretty sketchy and I'm just going to do kind of a dot for the eye and then a long exaggerated Eyelash put another eye. We're going to put a little nose Just a little half moon and then we'll put some lips and then we're going to put her head in and I'm going to start her head In from the end of the eyelashes we want her eyelashes to be exaggerated her head It's just really just a ball and she's supposed to be you know Exaggerated and sketchy. So I'm going to give her kind of a long skinny neck and Just a round neckline Shoulders I'm going to now come in and do some hair and in the original sketch. I just gave her kind of a short bob Now Sumi ink is not waterproof. It's water soluble Even after it's dry it will reactivate So I'm going to come back in here and just make these eyelashes a bit darker I drew this one's head a lot bigger than the other one every time I've drawn her She's coming a little different, but that's okay So then I want to give her kind of a long skinny arms just the hint of a hand. It doesn't have to be You know, this is just this is about being loose and sketchy This is not about Perfection by any means Now because she came out a bit bigger. I'm not going to have room to put her legs But on the original one I gave her legs However, your turn yours turns out. There's no wrong way I'm going to come back up here and I'm going to put some little ear lobes in and I did give her sort of a shopping bag a little line here So the shopping bag looks like it's got some depth to it now before we go any farther I'm going to take my water brush and I'm going to Use the ink that's on here Sort of as if it were watercolor paint To add to the interest and the shadows and Like here up here on the bag. I'm going to darken the inside of the bag I'm going to darken the edges of her dress. It also helps Sort of disguise anywhere where you've kind of made a mistake, but she's not about perfection She's just about expressing yourself in your journal And I want you to have fun with it and not worry about if you've done it perfect or not I'm going to Bring some of the shadows around to the side of her face to give her face some depth Also on her hair. I'm going to Darken the upper lip. I'm going to get the ink up there wet The upper lip is usually always darker than the lower lip. That's pretty good And whether you draw her smaller and you get legs in or not I think it doesn't matter either way So then I want you to think about what are some things that you want to accomplish this year So love popped up on mine a couple of times once in a word and once in a symbol. So I did draw a heart on her Dress. No, see there's the ink again. I'm constantly getting myself Inky and I Also want to try to be more Smart about money and spending next year. I know that's you know, we're artists. We like to spend money It's kind of contraindicated, right? But I gave her dollar sign earrings Maybe you for you. Maybe you want to give her like paintbrush earrings or you know, something like that I also wrote some words in her dress so travel Create harmony peace. I of course drew words on her bag Inspire learn Inside the bag is a yt for YouTube. I got to work on YouTube Right. I also did some fun things like I drew a little palette and paintbrush hanging from her bracelet over here Let's see if we can zoom in a little bit more So that was kind of fun. So first I just drew a little line Then I drew sort of an old found it fashioned Palatee shape Put a little hole Some hole drew some little blobs Okay, and then I took and I drew a line that I then darkened in dashi liner and then I drew sort of a Think of it as a sketchy teardrop, right to symbolize Art make what make more art next year. That's important, right? So she was pretty cute. She's pretty cute. Just the way she is. I'm going to zoom back out again So she's pretty cute. Just the way she is. I was happy with her, but I thought hmm All right. Well, let's go a little farther So I have the recollections Watercolor gel crayons and I really only need two colors a pink and a yellow So I got the pink and the yellows and first I wanted to just add some color to her face just a little like Hints of color so cheek a little bit to the cheeks and a little bit to the heart and At first I used the baby wipe, but I found that it's easier and more controlled to use the water brush At least on the on some of the parts on the cheeks. I did use the baby wipe to get in here You just you get a little bit of a softer look and then the yellow to just brighten up the manila paper around her and You may get parts of the ink wet and it may smear into the yellow I Was okay with that. I didn't mind the way it turned out if that bothers you you might want to Use a water brush for this and you may want to use a water brush for parts of it anyway And I'll show you what I mean Okay, so like right here under her arm if I got in there with the baby wipe I can guarantee you that I would smear the ink around In a way that even I was not okay with Loops see I did it anyway Now you just have to be you know You just this is not intended to be perfect by any stretch see there we go. I just made a big mess But you have to just live with it and that's fine. Maybe a word needs to be there I did it on the other one too a little bit, but I ended up kind of fixing it and by fixing it I don't mean I I got rid of it. I did it right here to her shoulder. I just I You know put more color over the top of it in this case. This is a bigger blob So what I would do is I would probably write something there. So art that works right there It's a little bit wet so it's smearing, but that's fine. I think she's cute anyway So once she's dry then she's ready to put in your journal and we're gonna do that next and What we're gonna need is we're gonna need some washi tape so I'm gonna set her aside and And we are gonna need my journal and Tape I'm gonna use I think Maybe the cloud tape Maybe Ooh, I have this bee tape though. This bee tape is cute. Let's try that one. I don't think I've used this one yet This is a bee bumblebee washi tape. This is a scotch brand Don't remember where I got it from but isn't it cute So we're gonna tip her in so the question is do I want to tip her in the front which is not my In my instinct is to put her here, and I think that's what we're gonna do So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take her And I'm going to put some washi tape on her card in a way so that I'm not covering up Part of her drawing Okay, so like that. I'm gonna put two pieces like that And then I'm gonna take my journal And I'm gonna line up the bottom of the tag with the bottom of the page and then the edge of the tag with the edge of the page And I'm gonna wrap the tape around cool Then I'm gonna open it up, and we're gonna put more tape here and this this one You can put it all the way down if you want, but some of the sticky might show on the other side So now she's all taped in and ready to go for the new year. Look at her She is just ready and raring. So there you go. There's one way to do your first prompt of the new year I hope that you enjoy the process and have fun with it Don't forget over the Christmas holiday and new years especially to save some bits and pieces to use in your journal And we'll be back mid-month To work on the January part of our journal with another prompt. That's it for right now Don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys