 Hello everybody! Welcome back to another nerdy draws. Today, I am drawing a gem-sona of mine. Her name is Chalcedony. I really hope I'm saying these gem names right because you know, I'm really bad at these, but she, me and my friend, Turquoise Tea, we were, which actually they're supposed to be a little surprised from us coming up soon. That's gonna be in July, but anyways. So, me and Turquoise Tea, we're looking at bad gem-sonas after we saw this really, really funny one. I'm not gonna say it because I'm not gonna shame anybody's art, but like, it was frickin' so funny and we just sat there laughing for good five minutes, but so it inspired me to, and this is gonna sound really bad, but it inspired me to make a gem-sona of my own and so I looked up the gem list and I saw Chalcedony and I was like, let's do an all-white, almost-pearl-y gem and we'll have a good time and so that's what I ended up doing, and I found out later on that Chalcedony actually glows, so you'll see that in the later of the video, but that was fun to do, actually. A glowing character. I haven't done that in quite a while. It's too bad that this program doesn't do Lumosity like Sai used to do. I used Sai for a while, I don't know if you guys know this, but I used Sai for a while and it ended up going to put on me so I had to stop using it. It stopped reading my tablet and everything, so I started using Metabang and Metabang ended up being really good to me because it's got the whole comic thing and stuff, but Sai had Lumosity setting and this does not have Lumosity. I don't really remember. I say everything wrong, so let's just make that clear now, but so when I was creating her I wasn't really thinking much about the design. I was like, let's put something here and there and just give her this kind of sword and I think this would look good with her, so I wasn't really thinking about the design concept, but one of my friends actually brought up that she looks like a pirate and so because of this I came up with the whole backstory, well not really backstory, just kind of a concept as to what she is that's me looking up at music, but I kind of came up with the concept that she is an explorer and she's trying to find worlds for homeworld so that's what she ended up being and she's also a soldier because she's a court and she's got to protect her people, but she would be the explorer and she was sent off by homeworld and I think she maybe fell in love with not earth, but a different planet and I haven't really gotten any of the details clear because I didn't actually plan on making her you know a big gemsona, but after listening to a couple songs and creating her backstory I think I actually want to keep her like use her more often and I created another gemsona a while back and I don't have a picture of it because I don't remember where I put it but I created a moonstone and um I didn't like her as much as this one, the sketch I actually like, I always like the sketches more than I like the digital drawings but I didn't like moonstone as much as this one because this one I just went all out and instead of planning anything I just kind of drew and hoped for the best and this is what came out of it also I am doing um I'm taking AP art next year for in my high school year and so um I'm not saying that I'm gonna post less, I already post less than I do can you guys really keep me on top of that? I'm so bad at keeping on top of my youtube channel and it'd be great if you guys could be like hey post more videos because I could do that but I just I need, oh sorry, I need somebody to kind of push me to do that but I'm taking AP art and I don't know if I can upload the sketches but if I can upload the sketches I'm gonna do a couple speed draws using those sketches but as far as I know right now I can't because the teacher said uh don't because basically people could steal your art and use it for the final which is really sucky if people could like not do that that'd be great so I can post my art but you know people aren't like that they do what they want so I will clarify that before I actually do anything but for the meantime I'm gonna be doing some regular speed paints and just you know kind of chilling with this um there's gonna be a new Steven Steven universe not Steven universe there's gonna be a discussion posted um about I'm trying to think ah I cannot think oh it's um Alice matters returns I really want to play the game for you guys online by the way but I can't find it on steam but anyways there's gonna be a discussion posted on that soon um and also with the uh with the coloring on this I thought I'd just bring this up why do I keep pausing like that huh anyways with the colors on this I was actually really happy with the colors on this because I used a little bit of purple instead of like using a dark gray or anything and I think I should really keep doing that because that's what why why is just just staying still but um I'm gonna start using that I know Turquoise T told me to do that a long time ago but I've been kind of having trouble with it even though she's tried her best to teach me so I'm gonna be practicing that a lot more and practicing my colors a lot more because I've noticed anything I do with colors is just bad like my friend had to teach me how to do my makeup because I use the worst colors ever like I was like oh hey I like blue let me just put blue eyeshadow on and no it just it doesn't work not for my skin tone especially it just does not work so I I don't know why I just went off on that little tangent there but I really need to work on colors because I'm so bad at using colors at any place in my life ever I apparently am really bad at identifying colors I'm not colorblind but I'm still bad at using colors so I'm gonna practice that a lot more and probably do a lot more color studies especially when I'm doing my AP artwork because I know we can and if you can hear that that's my brother laughing at YouTube videos back there yep he's got his headphones in and he's doing a good thing he's probably watching some of my graph videos but anyways so um coming near the end of this video I put my signature on there thinking I was done but then I realized that there was actually a lot that I had forgotten like if you notice because I usually what I usually do with the um oh I remember what I did here okay just sit through with me because I accidentally left the recording on while I closed out my computer so this kind of stays there for a while so just sit with me in the discussion but um so usually I'll color in the lines because right here they're black they're black outline and usually what I'll do with the lines is I'll color them in I'll like put a clipping layer and then I'll color them in with different colors so this way it just looks more natural because black is a really harsh color when you're when you're line arting and if you're gonna if you're gonna do it for like manga and you're gonna line art with manga then I can understand that are comics and if it's just black and white then black is a totally fine color in fact it's probably best that you do that see there's my block screen don't ask me why but um when you're when you're using actual colors like this I highly recommend actually coloring in the lines because it makes the drawing look a lot better so that's usually what I do and I guess I just um I forgot to do that I actually like the way it looks without lines but you couldn't really tell which was which so I ended up just coloring it in with the lines and stuff it's too bad next time I think I'll do a line artless one because I really like line artless but we're coming to the end of the video guys so I hope you guys enjoyed this bee paint if there's something you'd like to see me draw next put it down in the comment section below bye guys