 everyone and my name is paw and welcome to my vlog so a bit about me I'm in first year in MPS and my main hobbies are art radio and sport so in this vlog I thought it'd be good to choose one of them and the one I've gone for is art so in the in this vlog I'm going to go through a few of the techniques I've used and show some of my pieces I'm gonna do a quick tutorial and I'm going to just show some of the some of the what I take inspiration from and yeah hope everyone enjoys for my pieces I like to try and find different stuff around my house that I can use to draw because I like I think it's a great break from looking at screens all the time so what I chose was two cards that I could base my graphic design around so the first piece I did was a graphic design and it's of a Joker cut from a card pack and I got inspiration from this after I went to a talk with MPS and they're talking to Eva Malley who's a graphic designer and I after after after going to that I I got the idea of trying to create something so I tried to mix a lot of different colors and different patterns and bring together the two designs from the different cards and I did a bit of like rough work up at the top to kind of choose different colors so kind of some vibrant kind of oranges and stuff which think is really cool for something a bit different I decided to work on some some my kind of skyscape or landscape art and what better to it to find inspiration than this this this is a great picture from the Northside people so yeah I chose to base on that so in this I kind of looked to have a bit of a contrast so I had the kind of black and white telescope against the colorful background and that kind of gives a really nice backdrop to it so the technique I use is kind of a fading technique so going from from a darker to lighter and I think and then leaving some gap with where it's just white down the bottom so that kind of that's kind of the light so it kind of it kind of works out well that the it's if fades into each other and then the yellow is the kind of brightest down the bottom so that's that piece and next I'm gonna do if you do a close-up tutorial okay so the next thing we're gonna do is to do a tutorial so I'm gonna do a quick drawing from one of my earlier earlier designs and I'll just talk through it and remember our drawing is only one way to be created there's so many other ways to be creative whether it's making something or even designing logos and stuff online but I'm just gonna show you one way to do it okay so here is the tutorial and I've kind of got it was actually quite hard to fill in my thought would turn out a lot better but however I just want to show you a bit maybe some of the kind of shading techniques I use to do so I did a kind of rough outline in pencil and then I just kind of lightly lightly add the add a bit of color color into the different parts and yeah so then then I kind of looked to try and get in a few different colors so it started with a kind of blue blue and just kind of curving the lines and it's kind of easy to do just to kind of fill the whole space and yeah one thing also to try and do is to get that get that eyes kind of doing that kind of shape so that you can see that looks like the pupils are kind of looking ahead and it kind of gives a slightly evil look to the to the Joker that I was trying to get so to finish it off I just get try and make sure that I got all all the all the color in between all the lines so I kind of went for blue and green and yellow and red to make it kind of stand out against the white background so all those steps to do then at the end is to sign my name which I've done which is something you should always do with your work another place I like to get inspiration from is this book awesome things to draw it has a lot of really good step-by-step drawings and one in particular was this one of a plane and that and that inspired me for the next thing I've done and so this plane that I've drawn is the Blackbird SR-71 which was a warplane that was incredibly fast but I tried to put a modern twist on it by putting different colors in obviously wouldn't be a great great color if it was an actual warplane because it'd be far too easy to see but I kind of just wanted to to draw something that that's kind of modern that looks modern because one of the main things about modern art is to create something that someone can't go and take a picture of and I think I've managed to do this in this one so I like but not least I've done an animation and I decided to do it on Woody the Toy Story character and I got the picture from from this book and I tried to as best I could to recreate it so I really enjoyed drawing this because there's a lot of cool different colors and a lot of simple shapes but when you bring them together can create a really effective piece and yeah drawing animations are always a fun thing to do and one thing in particular to work in that is a bit more difficult is the face so what's trying to do is to do that lightly lightly at the start until you get more comfortable with it because getting the face and the eyes right is very important for the overall piece but yeah there you go that was a pretty brief overview of of the kind of art that I'd like to do and so yeah you can probably do stuff that that be much better than that but I think it's really important just to try and enjoy art and not be too hard on yourself if it goes wrong and just there's always things in your house or something that you can find that you can draw so I love to know what you thought of this video or if anyone if anyone has anything any art they've been working on I'd love to hear so yeah cheers everyone for watching and so during this time and so along with art some of the things I really enjoy doing are my radio and podcast which is outside opinions on DCU FM every Wednesday at 4 so if you get a chance have a look have a look at that or any of the other DCU FM shows there there's some really good good stuff on that and yeah just just try and get try and get involved in the stuff you like doing and have fun see you