 Hey guys, so it is Friday but I've taken a day off work and I'm gonna work on some comic stuff, some YouTube stuff, drawing just for fun maybe. This is my current work from home desk, these computers come from my work, so does this chair, it's a very nice chair, and yes it's a behemoth of a machine right now and here's a little tour of my so-called work desk. I've got some Deena postcards there, Deena Norland if you don't know her, she does this Patreon where she sends cards and stickers every month and I love it. I will link her down below. We also have some Joyce and stickers here. I just covered my work computer with stickers and I've got like tons of hand cream here. My thick bit that I haven't worn in ages because I've been stuck in the house and my squishy. So that's my desk but today this will be my desk because it is a beautiful view. We're staying at a family friend's flat just for a little while until everything clears up but it has a beautiful view. So it's been a long time since we've had a chat or it's been a long time since I've done a vlog and I've been watching a lot of like studio vlogs lately and stuff like that and I realize I miss making this content a little bit so I'm thinking I'm gonna post sporadically these little vlogs when I can because I don't really have that much studio time because I'm working full-time so it doesn't make sense for me to make a vlog because I might not have that much to show in a week but yeah so I'm gonna just post these sporadically. I need a new tripod as you can see this one I've been using since the beginning of my channel and I have like this little extension thing on it and I've had two of these the past one broke and this one is on the decline because it's just kind of like leaning forward now it's like an extension thing so I can film over the desk I really need to invest in a better tripod but they're really quite expensive they're like a hundred and fifty quid and I've always had this thing where it's like well it's working should I replace it but now it's being a bit of a mess again so kind of regret not replacing it sooner. Yeah I don't know if you're tilted or not but hey this is a vlog so it's all relaxed and stuff I just wanted to sit down and chat with you guys a little bit about what I'm doing today because I took the day off work as I probably already said I took the day off work to focus on maybe figuring out if I can do a Patreon again it's like the bane of my existence because I really want to do art full-time but oh Pesto she gets really crazy with these seagulls around here she loves them so she chattels at them all day it's really cute yeah so it's a bane of my existence because I was thinking of all the rewards I could do and then I'm just like oh I can't draw I'm trying to do like the little things that you put after each reward like everyone has these cute little icons and I was trying to think what what icons could I do and I was thinking like for tip jar like the $1 thing where people just want to support you and don't want anything I was like oh maybe I could do Pesto with a little jar and I like drew it out here and then I was just like no no and I just don't like any of them enough I think maybe it's pressure because if you're doing a Patreon I want well if I'm doing a Patreon I want everything to be like good as you can see I'm a little bit obsessed with Pesto at the moment I've been drawing her a lot I saw her like I was on a work call and it was you know a one where I had to listen more than corporate in and I just saw Pesto sitting on this chair so just doodling her quickly and then I was thinking like of doing a zine where because I lived in a lot of houses my whole life of doing a little zine of like each house maybe picked out the best houses I don't know and then doing like a little comic of like a story from that house and I was just experimenting with like a certain style so it kind of reads like this because I didn't know what panels I didn't plan out I just drew it so it's not the best it's just a fun little style I'm really getting into using the modutos a lot more as you can see I really enjoying them and I think I want to just yeah go with them a lot more in my new stuff and also the there is a video coming out or will have come out with the pastels so that's coming out tomorrow my time to Saturday yeah I had to pre-plan a lot of videos and I have to say that it's a lot easier because what I do is I film on Saturday and then I edit like Sunday Monday and then it's ready for the next weekend and then I can have more time for filming so I can make maybe better videos I hope I don't know yes Pesto that is you she's like this mine how dare you there's my image don't show them everyone's flipping out but Pesto is number one so she can sit on the sketchbook she can do whatever she wants in my eyes she does like to be center of attention that's for sure just like her mama but you have to move Pesto because we're gonna draw on here I'm afraid so cute okay I think first of all what I usually do is write down my to-dos in my little this is a yeah a Moleskine Moleskine however you say it like notebook that I've had for two years my sister-in-law gave this to me and I just I stick lots of stickers on that I get from Dina and Joyce Anne and I really like the way that it looks it's really cool so I I want to cover it maybe with plastic so it just it stays as it is but yeah anyway that's my to-do thing I write a lot of notes in fear of what I have to do for that day or usually on Saturday when I have to plan and film video and then I draw out like maybe the thumbnails and stuff and write down what I need to do so like for this when I've written like I need to film I need to edit thumbnail voiceover etc then I like to draw out the thumbnails maybe like really roughly to see what would kind of work and ideas of the future and stuff like that it's a bit boring but yeah it helps me to figure out my ideas so I don't know if you guys actually like these studio vlogs when I had about maybe like 2,000 subscribers I know that a lot of people enjoyed them so if you're newer than 2,000 subscribers let me know I mean I think I'm gonna post them anyway because I don't think it's gonna do any any harm to the channel I mean maybe you will unsubscribe but I will still post like YouTube videos if that makes sense like challengey stuff and more concise videos I guess so today I'm going to focus on Patreon rewards I do know what I want to offer for sure it's just like redoing the style like redoing those icons and everything so I'm gonna I put to do Patreon rewards that's it no I need to do like a subcategory of research inspiration I've already kind of doodled out stuff but I think I'm gonna have like rough a rough doodle section of what I want to do rough doodles and then finals and I think that will be okay for the day I think later I should check on all the written stuff as well because that might be out of date too because when I went to do my full-time job as a graphic designer I stopped my patron from anything I'm closed down the page but the patron people I think are still on there so I need to send them a warning because I don't want them to just suddenly be surprised you're my patron again because that would be you know maybe people don't necessarily want to still get rewards and stuff from me so that would be yeah it's stuff like that I think patron frustrates me a little bit because the UI and stuff is a little bit weird I hope that they worked on it since I've last used it but I always find it really counter-intuitive like it's really not intuitive at all it's anyway I'm getting into the mind of UI UX kind of person being like what is this website fix it yeah wordage I'm just gonna write wordage because I know what that means and then yeah past rewards I need to write that down I think patron will also hold me accountable so I'm hoping to post like stuff of my horror comic on there I'm hoping to send out monthly rewards I want to be able to buy like a good printer at some stage invest in one of those well that's the hope isn't it that you can pay for stuff that you need with being what's the word patronized anyway yes so I want to eventually buy like a good printer and stuff like that so I can make my own like prints and things which would be very nice because people always ask me on YouTube well always get the occasional comment of like please make this into a print and I'm like yeah okay I don't really want to send this off to the UK and then wait weeks and weeks for it to come back and then it's just a lot of effort for me so and then not necessarily everyone will buy one like that one person's like make a print of this and it's like okay here you go one person buys it you know so if I have my own printer I could just print out when necessary which would be more cost-effective definitely and just handy you know just handy dandy so I'm hoping to do that anyway I digress I want to have a tip jar reward a book club and a print club and a YouTube gang I think for the print club that's going to be on hold for like a little while until I can afford that printer but yeah so I wrote down loads of stuff the book club will receive a new bookmark monthly okay that's probably also going to rely on my printer but I need to figure out what would the book club be you can vote on the books I should paint over read illustrate so that's like a cool thing but I need to expand on that a little bit book club let's see I think I'm very intrigued by that one because it sounds fun and it sounds fun for people to participate in so maybe monthly we could all pick a book Volvo on it and I will illustrate stuff from it as we go I don't know stuff like that sounds fun because I know my channel is like a lot more bookie at the beginning and it's it still is it's just that I haven't really had a chance to find any books with film covers on them seeing as we're all on lockdown my lockdown is easing at the minute so it's it's good it's good I hope I hope everything's gonna work out it's really crazy this whole situation I never I don't think anyone has been through something like this in our lifetime so anyway I am loving these Molotow pens I really said this a thousand times I just really enjoy them and I think they layer so nicely and they're really nice colors and I really want to buy the big set of them I think I'm going to watch some stuff once I continue drawing so yeah I'm chatting a bit chatting a bit so Chris is home so my peaceful sanctuary is over okay everyone it is now the next day it's Saturday and I got quite fire today so I did like a few different versions of the book club one and I really like this but I thought I needed to expand on it to make it more of an icon feel I also drew my lockdown uniform quite like this silly doodle and then I got completely distracted with that kiki redraw thing and I just wanted to play with that and loosen up bit then I took a giant break and then I did these and I really like them so this one was a no so we did it so this one would be for the book club icon this one for the YouTube icon and then this one for like the tip jar but access to posts and stuff so I'm not really sure on the wordage but these are going to be the icons and yeah that's it for that I used a lot of Posca and Moloto together and look my little kiki delivery service ruler that I got from Japan which I really like yeah and we're going into town today for the first time ever so we're going into town today for the first time ever for like two months because our lockdown has eased here we've been in lockdown for like three well no two and a half weeks two and a half weeks two and a half months and yeah we're just gonna go to social distance and go to a shop quickly to buy a swimming costume because we're gonna go out on Chris's parents boat this afternoon hopefully we don't know but we don't have swimming costumes because we came here in March and it was cold and we didn't think we would need them there's a bank holiday here there's a car passing by I don't know if you can hear that so I don't know if I showed you this I think I did I did this on Saturday I think and then I got into doing I found some space at the front of the book so I did from here and I really like these and then I went to upload them and realized stupidly that it was more a rectangle shape when I looked on mobile it looked like it was square but anyway I redid them and I really like the way that these look compared to these so I'm kind of glad that that happened yeah so this is like the this is the tip job on where you receive access to posts book club and YouTube club and I think this is really cool and I really like this the style thanks Pester thanks for coming in today I need to do some tidying a little bit because it's got a little bit messy and yeah so that's that I've nearly finished a sketchbook so probably gonna do like a sketchbook tour on YouTube some point or maybe I'll make that my first patreon post and then I'll publish it live another time on YouTube let's see I don't know it's kind of exciting I'm excited and so is Pesto excited there's a towel fallen from the balcony great I ordered myself a smoothie well juice I don't know if it's a smoothie it's basically banana chocolate powder and small banana and then they added loads of cream which I wasn't expecting but okay we can we can handle it because some cream she's like hey guys so it's now the end of my working day right now and at the moment I am editing the vlog for this what you'll see now and that's it I think yeah I'm sorry if this blog has been a bit right like random stuff but that's what I hope that these vlogs will be like yeah that's it okay hopefully see you guys next week or we'll see what happens thanks for watching and I will see you bye