 Hello everybody so it's been a while since I filmed a vlog and I thought I would do one because it's not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoy making them. I'm sorry about the noises outside. Anyway today I am at work, that's my work, but it's lunchtime so I was just hand-painting some of these Patreon rewards. So last month we were, if it wants to focus, we read Mexican Gothic. You guys have probably seen this image on my Instagram maybe, but I thought it'd be fun to like send a mini print out to all my all my book reader patrons and I'm gonna put them in this little antique envelope which I find really cool because I bought some antique envelopes and they're all really old and interesting so I thought that would be really fun to do with these prints because this is kind of a dated, it's not dated but it's set in like the 1950s I think, the book so I thought it'd be cool to send them with these antique envelopes and then I'm using these shimmery dot shift cards that maybe you saw on my YouTube channel, I don't know, to hand-paint like some of the glitter onto some of these so they're all gonna look different and I think they're really cool. I'm really having fun making these and yeah I think they're nice and I'm gonna hand, I'm gonna write a message on the back of them I think, either the back or I'm gonna put a message in these envelopes so I'm gonna put them in the antique envelope and then in a proper envelope to send. Oh my god, also I don't know if you guys have seen this, come on, focus camera. This kind of washi tape before, this one is like movements and basically each little bit is like a fake kind of stamp and they're all different so I want to use those as well on on top of the envelopes because I think those would look really cute and they're really pretty and I didn't know this was like a fake roll of stamps kind of thing. I thought it was just normal washi tape so it really surprised me and I'm really happy with these. I got this in Japan so I wish that I had picked up more of them but I've got a little thank you stamp. Here's all my little, I keep the washi tapes and stuff here for when I want to pack little things. Oh my lunch break. Yeah so that's that's my Monday. I'm drinking coffee and yeah that's basically it. A little update on Pesto if anyone's interested? A little update with Gigi if anyone's interested. Yes, yes a good stretch. It's a good stretch. This is currently like mostly my 2bred pile. Lots of these books I have read but most of them I haven't so I really want to read that 6-4 book next. It's supposed to be like quite a big hit in Japan and it got translated to English and I need to read it because it's interesting but this month we're reading a different book on the Patreon so I'm a really slow reader so maybe I can manage two books a month maybe if I actually read. Sometimes I just put off reading a lot so I'll just watch YouTube at night and then I'm like oh I should read something and then I'm like no I'm gonna watch YouTube and I'll watch another like silly video. I'm just reading. This is a really cool book because a lot of House 5. I really enjoyed that. I said I haven't read most of these but actually I've read this. I don't know if this is interesting to you guys by the way. Read this. This is a cool graphic novel. It's LGBTQ LGBTQ and yeah it's really nice. It's cool style and I also have this one. You guys have probably heard of these because they're quite famous or the gene keeps breaking up with me and I really love the artist of this one. I think it's I don't know how to say her name. Mariko. I don't know why that was so hard for me to figure out. It's relatively simple. Mariko Tamaki yeah is the artist and I just I love this style. It's really cool. And yeah I've read Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning. I got it and I was like sounds interesting and they never picked it up. But yeah oh this book is really good. Hostage. This is a big graphic novel by Guy D. Leslie I think his name is and I've got a few of his books because he kind of does like autobiographical stuff because his wife works for Doctors Without Borders and so he writes about all the different places that they go to. But this one is somebody else's story about this guy who got kidnapped and his story and so it's it's a true story but not about Guy. Guy is just the artist and it's really good. I like that book a lot. And yeah I've got this Jerusalem one by him too. Yeah so there's some books of mine. I hope that was interesting. A little talk for you. Pesto found them interesting because she woke up from her nap and came over. Alright signing off. I'm also gonna put in some of these stickers that I sent to my patrons before but these are like different ones I think so everyone should kind of get different ones this time. They're just based on patrons favorite books so we have Spinning Silver, The Name of the Wind, The Last Unicorn and Mistborn. So they're kind of just book stickers so you can put them in maybe or like book diaries or just put them on top of your computer or bookmarks or like they're just fun. I think they're really cool to put on stuff. I put one here on my computer which I quite like and yeah I'm gonna pop them in. I realized that these do not fit inside these envelopes so I'm gonna have to use a bigger envelope but that's fine I think it makes it more exciting like opening it I guess so I'm gonna use these envelopes boom and then put some stickers in and then play around with putting stamps and stuff on top of the envelopes and that's it. Two minutes left on my lunch break so I'm gonna have to do this after finish work. I might see you then I might see you tomorrow. Good morning everyone I've had a really fun morning of trying to unblock my card again because they apparently found some fraud on it or found some fraud that sounds bad that sounds like I'm committed fraud um now they blocked the card because the payment didn't go through or something so they thought it was fraud or something I don't know so they had to unblock it it was really annoying because I called yesterday yeah it was the same same thing because they didn't actually unblock it which was really fun thank you thanks Nat West cool okay I'm gonna go downstairs and grab a coffee. In my country the infections are down to just 22 people um so it's not too bad at the moment whoa but um everyone's still being cautious so you have to wear masks in public places and but you don't need to wear them out in the open air but I tend to just wear them like all the time if I go out so and uh some people don't agree with masks which is so stupid but hey I can't control everyone's minds can we? So yeah I'm just working today um I'm off tomorrow though on Friday because it's my birthday on Friday and I took those two days off and then the week after off and I'm really excited because then I can work on some projects and I'm hoping that I can work on my horror comic during that time finally because I'll have some downtime and I'm feeling a bit inspired and yeah watching Dina or listening rather as I work that was a weird sentence sorry good morning folks it is now folks that was weird um it's Thursday and I'm off work so I'm moving from that desk to this desk this is the desk that I usually film on um Chris has put his uh Street Fighter thingy that I hate so I just held my desk so I'm gonna move that and yeah I'm gonna do some drawing and stuff this is a little behind the scenes for you guys so I use this to film super janky because it's broken um I need I need to get a new one basically and uh yeah I found these old poster color paints that I have I think they're Chris's old paints but he didn't mind like letting me use them so those are pretty cool except there's there's just yellow blue and brown and black which is I wish I had a red so then I could mix colors but I don't ignore this this is a cat brush lovely um yeah so I'll see you guys in a bit film for my vlog a little bit say hi guys well that's like delayed now so yeah we're just filming um just doing a live stream for the for my birthday stream even though my birthday's tomorrow yeah we're just gonna do some doodling now for sunborn which is um like this nice restaurant my birthday this is my birthday great and uh I'll show you guys my food I guess I don't know if this is interesting but this is what you're getting quality content how do I turn it down it's action but Chris okay I'm opening the hyalica stuff you're going to be in it okay let's see what we have I've got a package from hyalica um I don't know if you guys know her she's really cool artist and she does like subscription boxes um I can't get it out I'm trying to save the day I don't want to hit pesto pesto stop it stop it she thinks it's for her yeah she's like thank you for my plastic gift it's very cool so I bought like different inks from her so I bought this blue pink set she's really cool and and I also got these other sets which is I think these are like greens these are the colors like a complimentary set so I've got the B set and then I got this this is like the main set does she make them primary no she doesn't make them but these are like the ink she used so she sets them up that's cool sells them and then you've got the masking fluid that she uses which always looks really like like it works well because she uses a lot of masking fluid so and then I got these paint brushes because I need new paint brushes and I was like oh she says they're cool then they must and they have these like acrylic ends which I really like oh that's cool they're cool right do I see what's at the back it's got like a little yeah I don't know why oh that's for like scraping the masking fluid I think oh that's mad good I have one no cool so there we go it's my little pineapple package I will do a video we'll do a video about them maybe so or I'll just use them I don't know okay see you in a bit okay so it's like 2am ish we just got back from my parents where I celebrated my birthday but Chris got me the Kreeka woohoo really excited I'm gonna do some like stickers and stuff which is um I'm a bit intimidated but it's gonna be awesome I'm gonna do some make some stickers I'm very excited it's a pretty like mint green one too love it it's awesome I'm very excited to get to work tomorrow and I will use this stuff and then maybe make some stickers I don't know the possibilities are endless hey guys so this might be a bit of a weird one but my mum made this for me for my birthday like one of my presents and they're basically reusable face wash cloths and she like stitched all of them so they're like cotton on this side so which is supposed to be like really good for reusable things and then um they're all like different patterns on the back and then inside there's like a you basically throw them all in inside this bag and then you put it in the laundry and it all cleans it it's so clever isn't it she just made this so cool so I'm just gonna wash my face with one of these now and she made this little box like stitch this box so when you want to get one you just have it right here and you can just grab one I didn't show that at all she made this little box so when you want to get one you can just grab one when you need one and I just use my face wash with it and I think that's really cool so I thought I'd share that it's not very artsy but it's kind of artsy for people who like stitching sewing and stuff like that I thought it was really cool nice huh okay also Pastu likes to drink Chris and I are kind of addicted to slunky at the moment so we're gonna play some of that and then head to bed and then tomorrow is Saturday and that's probably when I'll post this video but I might do some drawing tomorrow so I'll let you know if I say goodbye then hey morning guys so it is now Saturday and I'm very tired because we got home super late last night and then we stayed up for a little bit longer for some reason I don't know this is going to be the last day of the vlog so you're probably watching this later that doesn't make any sense you're watching this on Saturday and I thought I'd just unbox the Heila Kerr stuff as like the final kind of entry of the vlog and just check out all the ink sets and stuff I thought that would be fun so let's do it I'm very excited to check them out so I think usually I would make this into like a separate video but I think I'm just too excited to open them so I want to just look at the inks now I think I'm just gonna do like swatches and stuff and talk about the quality of stuff so it's not going to be like an in-depth painting or anything but we're gonna check out everything so I've never used these type of inks before like watercolor inks so it'll be quite exciting to see how they they work so I'm gonna open the primer set first and just check out oh they're so cool with these little pipette things so we've got magenta yellow and cyan blue which is gonna be awesome okay um let's see clean my palette here I don't know how much to use as well because I just want to get used to them too look that's super yellow it's kind of cool I really like how pigmented they look already resistant to erasing and waterproof sweet deal okay I'm gonna use my big new brush oh I think we should use a masking fluid as well how do I what does this work okay let's just do a little oh okay it comes out really fast let that in mind if you get this it's like a loose hair that which has bothering me let's see whoa this is like super super pigmented I guess like instantly absorbed into the paper which is kind of different to watercolors see how it reacts with wet on wet okay that's pretty cool it dries so quickly though like it all absorbs into the paper anyway so super quick I took a picture of my drive yesterday so I think I might like sketch that out with this see if it works I do really like the textures you can get with it because as it absorbs it quickly I was kind of going for the paper so I think what I'll do is finish it here I think I need maybe if I add more water it won't dry as quickly I will look up like um tutorials and how to use these inks I think later and maybe how I look at even has like something on her because I think she has a youtube channel actually now so good to know isn't it guys she's like one of my art heroes I think you know I'm a bit obsessed if you water it down it doesn't absorb quite as quickly so I think that's probably the way to go a bit I also think this paper is a bit too absorbent for watercolor paper like this is the what did I say it was mossary sketchbook that's it and uh yeah I'm not like a huge fan so I want to get like a good watercolor paint good watercolor sketchbook so if anybody knows anything that would be really handy yeah definitely not sure about the way that it looks on this paper kind of nice like I kind of like the grainy textures of it so let's do a green it is really nice to use like I'm saying that so I'm really excited to keep using them with these ones as well I just have to get used to it a bit I think it's a bit of a learning curve maybe if I wait for it to dry a bit let's see how it reacts reacts let's see how it acts then so you can use it straight like this like I'm doing or you can add water to it so it's kind of like watercolor and then it will be watercolor waterproof which is really cool so you can use inks on top as well or underneath and they won't get smudged obviously I did color to this so this is not the actual color I love them I really I don't know there's something about them like obviously I'm not doing them justice but I think they're really fun to work with and I'm really enjoying them so let's see what I can create with them hopefully I think the paper is not very nice but I'm gonna look up different ways to different things to use for it I think that's gonna be the end of the vlog for now but thanks for watching guys if you made it this far let me know if you enjoy this type of vlog I'm not sure that everybody does so I'm just trying to figure out what what works best for my channel basically because I want to do stuff that people want to watch obviously so at the moment I'm a bit like burnt out but just ensure what direction to go that would help me because I think I've just been like losing subscribers and I don't know it's not it's not like the end of the world but it's a bit demoralizing so you know anyway to end that or to end the vlog on such a happy note I've had a really good week and a really good birthday yesterday and I've obviously got the creek up and these inks and everything to like check out so hopefully that will be on my channel soon and I hope to see you guys there okay thanks for watching guys bye I would just like to give a shout out to my patrons before I go thanks so much guys really appreciate it it's been really awesome time and yeah so they are Devin, Acetubulum, Acetubulum I'm always wondering if I'm mispronouncing that let me know Jacqueline, Steph, Eva, Lucille, Erica, Miguel, Tim and Charlotte and Alex thank you so much guys it really means a lot and I'm really enjoying chatting to you and doing different stuff on Patreon with you thanks bye