 Hey everybody, what's up? What's up? I never say that. Welcome to my channel. This is collaboration with Xanthe Simmons, Casey Golden and Dina Norland. How did we get them again? They just wanted to do a collab with me. That doesn't make sense. These amazing talented women decided that they wanted to do a collaboration with me and we came up with the name Pen Powell Artists. I had to think about that one then. And I sent them a lovely package over the seas to them and completely forgot about it. Not really. I was like, wait, when are they gonna get it? They're gonna hate it. They're gonna think it's rubbish and they don't want to do the challenge and they're gonna be like, bye sir. You suck. Bye. But they didn't. They got the packages and they've all done the work and I thought it would be only fair if I joined them in doing that as well. So what you're gonna see here today is the challenge that I sent them. So if you haven't seen their videos then just ignore me and go on down to their videos below and watch what they have done because it's a surprise mystery challenge and I don't want to ruin it because I think it might be quite funny when they open the boxes. But okay, are you ready? Because I'm gonna spoil it. So pause the video. I'll give you till now. Spoiler. Go. Okay. I created them a project where they had been taken on board a ship and they had to create a map for a pirate captain to help him bury his treasure because they happen to be cartographers. That's right. I bought this through. They could use whatever they want and they could interpret the way to make the map however they like. They just had to include three things which was number one. What was it? Oh yeah. Number one, a scene from their favorite book or a building or something. Some kind of landmark from their favorite book. The last item they purchased and number three. And number three, a mythical creature. So they had a lot of fun with this. I had a lot of fun with this as you will see at the end when we all have a little discussion about my map that I made and on their videos we have a discussion about their maps that they made so you definitely need to go check those videos out if you're interested in this project and yeah. I sent this project out a few months ago. I've had months to work on this and I left it till the last minute. Here's the process of me making my map. Also guys, if you're new to my channel please subscribe because that'll be really cool because I'm just a little baby channel and I'd really like to make friends with you guys and have all people see my stuff so that'll be really pleasant. Pleasant. Okay it's voiceover time. Hi I'm voiceover Steph. I'm slightly different to the stuff you saw before because I'm going to be talking and watching the same stuff that you're watching but commentary on it. That's not a word. Whatever. I picked out my favorite paper because I was going to send these free papers to the guys, the guys, the girls and they were going to use the paper as part of the project but then I thought that was quite limiting and hard work so I was like nah just I'll make it more free. So I used this brown paper and what I started out doing was I just swatched some gouache and pens and pro markers onto the paper to see how the paper reacted with that and tested out what I was going to use. Then I sketched out my map and I wanted to have quite a bit of a modern type-esque map you know when you see maps of a country and it's all cool and graphic and stylized. Yeah I wanted to do that and I took a while to pick my favorite location in a book but in the end I chose The Shining and The Overlook Hotel because I love that book. It's very creepy and it's very good and it was the first horror that I ever read and I realized that I like reading horror after that point so I wanted to put it in because I think it would be something that people the other girls would not put into their map so I wanted to make something completely different. Obviously I have a lot of different favorite books and I could go on for a lifetime about that. If you're new to my channel you don't know but I put a lot of book-esque like booktube stuff into my videos that's why I added that into this project because I want to relate books to the channel as well because I'm a writer and an artist so I like to do all my favorite stuff. Anyway that was a complete tangent. As I was saying I was testing out what to use and I think Wash kind of just left the paper kind of weird even though it painted down nicely it just left this weird texture so I decided to use pro markers and these tiger markers if you haven't seen my recent video I went to Tiger and bought these markers which are really cheap they're like a euro each and yeah so I used them and they were a bit streakier than I thought they were going to be but hey I just went with it it's fine I used them and it's too late to go back on that. I quite liked the way that it turned out in the end it gave it a little bit of a texture and sure it was streaky and that's probably you know a bad sign for alcohol markers but I praised these markers before and they work well on other paper I think this paper just reacted a bit weirdly to it because it's kind of like cardstock type paper so maybe it was like oh no we're not absorbing this properly and yeah I'm gonna blame the paper sure I don't know I think it looks quite cool anyway the texture of it it looks kind of like intentional and I'm gonna pretend that's intentional now that I've said that because I didn't think of saying that before yeah it's intentional to lie so I'm just coloring in everything I did a generic kind of map I traced out different places and the second thing that I needed to include was the something that I purchased so the last thing I purchased were actually flights to London and I thought I could do like this cool weird like mud kind of village that would look like it belonged in a fantasy setting and just call it town of flights and have that in there and I had quite fun time doing that because I was doing some patterns like this in my sketchbook previously so I knew I wanted to include some sort of image like this and I think it looks quite cute and you can imagine these people living in these little like mud caverns I don't even know what they are like just mounds of mud and living there living their best lives and these mounds of mud I'm sure that's not really a great thing to do but they like it and I don't know who they are but I'm rambling mm-hmm so I'm just coloring in the rest of the the rest of the overlook hotel I'm using pro markers and then I went in with my fine liners and I decided that I wanted to use outline because previously I was thinking that I was just gonna color in and have like really block colors but then I thought I wanted to add a little bit more detail to it so I went in with fine liners and you know lined up that she is did some cool stuff with it I did a pirate ship because obviously this whole project is kind of revolving revolving around being on a pirate ship so I thought maybe that could be the ship that we're on right now and I want to include it obviously I had to include generic whale number five his name is Paul and he likes to swim and he was put too close to that that's country but it's fine I like how he turned out anyway he's super cute I wanted to add more stuff to the water but I think I just I was running out of time like I said I am the queen of procrastination and I kind of did this last minute I had lots of other work to do and if you don't know recently I did a Kickstarter and actually all the comics arrived today so I have to like parcel them up and it's been a bit hectic a couple of weeks so I'm sorry about this I've learned not to procrastinate anymore but anyway that's my reasoning for for things and not adding more stuff to the water I want to add like fish and different things but you know maybe maybe I'll do this project again and learn from my mistakes and I think when you make mistakes and you learn from them then that's great you know so I just had so much fun with this project and it was really great working with these gals we talk a lot on line and stuff and we chat about our art usually and it's great to know that they're there if I need to discuss what I'm what projects I'm working on and YouTube stuff so it's been really nice working with them and I hope that they want to work with me again because we want to do this project again but maybe in a few months so we'll do it like quarterly or something and yeah so I'm just going around with the fine liner and lining everything up because I think it worked better it just made everything pop out I was thinking this country on the left was looking a bit empty so I wanted to add some different so I added this rocky landscape and forests and trees and a lake and then I added a lighthouse because there's a lighthouse in my recent comic which is kind of the main focus of the story so I needed to have that little little thing in there because you know why not and it was fun to do so I needed to I needed to basically fill up this area and I really liked the graphic style of the way that I drew the light hitting the ocean so I wanted to kind of make that in the typography I wanted to have fun with the typography and go with a certain style but I wish that I had fought it out a little bit more instead of just going for it because I think some of it looks a little bit wonky and I wish it was straight round the island and stuff I think you guys probably can see what I mean there would have been nice but I think the writing kind of turned out nicely as well when it add more stuff to it and make it bulkier and more of a bolder text I think it works better especially with this kind of chunky style that I've gone with with the illustrations if that makes sense to anybody I hope it does I realized that I didn't add a mythical creature and for ages I was like I've got to make that whale mythical somehow and I just realized like how how am I gonna make that whale mythical and just gonna add some wings to it what am I gonna do so instead I just added a little dragon in the middle of this countryside and he's protecting his gold and I think that was the the thing I liked least oh here's a little pesto cam because she likes to sit and ruin you know the lighting of my shot but yeah um sorry side note I think I liked the dragon least of all the things that I wanted to include because I I like mythical creatures and I was thinking I really want to see the other girls draw mythical creatures because I think they can all do it really well and then I was like ah I have to draw a mythical creature now and I was like no it's going to be a dragon isn't it yeah so popped a dragon on there and it's quite interesting to see what the other girls have drawn and maybe if you've seen their videos already you know what I mean and if you haven't then yeah you hopefully will understand what I mean by this is interesting I just added some more texture to it I wanted like shark fins coming out because I wanted that classic look I just added little details so let's have a look and see what these guys think I'm here with Dina and Casey and Zanthi I'm going to show them my maps so here we go oh proper intro yeah professional those colors oh my gosh it's so you oh yeah you always have the turquoise in pink it's like the best colors yeah I think I'm a bit addicted to like this color scheme I love your trees that's my takeaway I love your trees this yeah you're really so cute so my book is The Shining because I had like loads of different books that I are my favorite books so I was like the overlook hotel would be quite funny because it's from The Shining it's the haunted hotel oh another haunted thing yeah and then I put Town of Flight because the last thing I bought were flights oh so I was like yeah I'm gonna make a weird like weird city thing at the bottom left that looks Town of Flight I don't know that's really cool it's really nice I really like the whale yeah I realized that he's too like close to the country though I'm like I wish I could have just centralized him in the ocean a bit oh that's fine no he's sweet he's going to across the ocean so it's fine he's just chilling he's just started his journey I love it I love the lighthouse from your story is that like a little Easter egg yeah that's so funny pop that in I was like you have a lighthouse because you know you know you know why wink walk it's great these are so different from each other it's like yours is more modern cases of like super cute fantasy and like my like fantasy yeah now I'm curious about Santa's yeah exactly speaking of let's uh wait wait wait clefts for Steph oh thank you well that's it as you can tell we had a lot of fun making these maps and discussing them afterwards so again if you haven't seen their videos go check them out down below I've finished this video and wow it's the end so bye guys thanks for watching please like and subscribe for more content and I will see you next time that was stupid