 Hey guys, just before we start this week's video I wanted to speak on a topic that is obviously very pivotal at the moment for all of us. I didn't really know how to help but I think using my platform would be the best approach. So in case anybody out there has any doubts, Black Lives Matter and understand that I will never understand but I stand with you. Hey everybody and welcome back to The Average. Today we are going to be doing a little collaboration with my good friend Luisa at Colorhold Creations. Go check her out down in the description. She does loads of really fun videos with mostly Harry Potter themes. So today we're going to do a Harry Potter themed video with her and what we're going to do is eat to others Harry Potter Sona. I don't know how you would call it but I'm going to draw her out and then draw what she might have in her bag and then all these different things. So I did have the idea to draw like a gang of YouTube people like that's Casey that's Deena and this is Mira. So I was thinking like I was going to draw all of that but then in the end I thought that's a lot of stuff to do. So I'm just going to draw Luisa and yeah I've got a new Mosseri sketchbook which is looking very nice so I want to start that out because I have finished this sketchbook. I drew this at the front page because that's what I had left. So basically yeah I'm going to do a sketchbook tour soon I guess. Also if you guys don't know I have started a Patreon and it's open as of today and we're picking a book for our book club reward tier so get over there if you want to help pick a book and we'll read it together and then we'll create art on it and it's going to be super fun I'm really excited to do that. Anyway that's going to be happening soon. I will probably film a sketchbook tour and post it for early access on my Patreon so make sure you go check that down in the link in the description. Okay so here is my Mosseri sketchbook I haven't used this yet it looks very nice. It has a design by a really cool artist that everybody probably knows of that is hey color and she has this little thing that came with it of her process which is kind of cool. Anyway I bought this with my own money but I just always wanted to try these out and I've always been put off because I don't like ring bound sketchbooks but I'm going to try this one out anyway because it came with like a really nice watercolor paper and yeah I think it'll be fun to try out as different style and also it does lay flat which is kind of cool so we're going to try that out and I'm going to draw Louisa and we will see how that goes. So I did do an initial sketch so I want to just read I just want to kind of go for it with pen with this one because basically I'm trying to get more confident lines so if you just draw with pen it's really helpful to get those confident lines and this is the first sketchbook page so the nerves are up but we're going to go for it. Yeah so Louisa has a really nice channel she posts kind of sporadically but she has a really cool channel and it's really nice when she has stuff it's like chatty style so if you kind of like that style it's very nice to just listen to and draw along with. She works for a pet is it a pet company? It's not a pet shop it's like a pet company. She's gonna be like what are you saying and yeah so I want to draw like a few animals that she would kind of have with her Hogwarts Sona. I really feel like I'm getting that role it's not Hogwarts Sona it's just like you as a character if you are in Harry Potter I guess which is a Hogwarts Sona thanks stuff and also I kind of wanted to stray away from doing exactly what it is in the books where or as in like the style of the outfits I wanted to stray away from doing what is in the films like what they've perceived the descriptions of the uniforms and stuff in the film so I wanted to kind of do my own style and I hope that it's recognisable. Again with the pen it's a little bit of an adventure of trying to draw the right lines and correct things everywhere but I think I need to get better at my my line confidence so this is gonna be helpful for that and then what I'll do to color in is I will use my my new watercolor my new alcohol markers I got from Artex that they sent me these big batch of them because I've been getting into using them again within my old sketchbook and I really enjoyed using them so it's nice to get used to that again I realized that how much I like alcohol markers I've been doing a lot of experimenting with style recently and I hope that it's gonna work out in the better for me because I'm really enjoying what I'm doing so far and I think it's gonna be pretty cool so I want to do like a different kind of kind of uniform here not really sure what I'm doing here I'm just kind of going for it and hoping for the best so Louisa has a pet rat I believe so I wanted to draw him in this image because I thought that makes perfect sense for a Harry Potter style drawing so I have a little drawing of him previously done in my other sketchbook so I'm just gonna try and copy that as best as can if I make any mistakes I think I might just you know go over with the molotov pen or something like that but yeah let's draw her hand here okay I don't know how she's holding this wrap but there we go we could there's the first mistake that I've made oh well we're learning we're doing and then her other hand could be like here so it makes sense now little rat buddy it's super cute I mean I am I am saying like I'm drawing with pen and that's helping my land confidence but I also I have done preliminary sketches so I'm looking at that a lot so that helps out a bit it's not like I'm just going in without knowing anything I've definitely made this drawing way too big as well because if my other sketchbook it is a full body one but it looks like we're gonna just be able to fit just a torso in it which is fine okay I want to do something cool with the robes like a little bit different to how they are in the books or necessarily on on the in the movie I mean okay so there's my super quick doodle of Louisa and her Hogwarts Sona I'm gonna quickly color this in and then we'll talk about stuff that she's got in her bag and things like that so first of all I would believe that she would be half a puff so I'm gonna kind of draw this style of half a puff cape style what I'm saying of colors and yeah like I said I'm gonna make it different to the normal what we see all the time so I'm just gonna use orange and yellowy colors which is the house colors I think this is actually quite too bright of an orange let's see that looks exactly the same color but it's a little bit lighter I think I need like a more of a yellow right for half a puff I like now to do this thing where I do like the swatches above the page because I think it looks quite nice in a sketchbook as well Louisa you need to tell me if actually I've got this wrong and you want half a puff but I think you are and I think I am so we'll see what you put me as she's doing the same thing on her page so if you want to go check it out what she's made me into she's made me into or she I can't speak if you want to see what she's done with my if you want to see what she's done with my Hogwarts Sona then go check that out because I'm interested to see it too I know that she's put pesto in there so that will be really fun to see also I know that she recently colored her hair pink which is gonna be really fun to like have a go with I think I'm gonna make the heart yellow yeah what about it guys we're gonna do about it all the Harry Potter fans are like what doesn't make any sense well that's the thing it's my little Hogwarts universe so I can do whatever I want I'm liking the sketchbook so far as well by the way guys it's pretty nice I like the paper it's handling the alcohol markers very well let's see okay there was some bleed through but hmm that tends to happen with alcohol markers quite easily but yeah a little disappointed that that's not a little bit thicker because it is watercolor paper so you'd think that I'd be able to hold some ink so okay though I missed her other sock I think I want to make like the robe actually like not black but a dark blue as well having fun with with it basically rather than sticking to the strict style of Hogwarts style so oh maybe a purple because purple goes with oh decisions purple goes with um yellow I mean this is a lilac it's kind of a light purple so I was thinking the outside could be light and then inside of the cape of the robe could be dark and then with like stars and things like that do you guys remember and the old Harry Potter book when they had like a totally different Dumbledore on the cover and then now it's like worth loads of loads of money that print because it was like the first run of prints and Dumbledore looked totally different like his outfit and uniform the illustrator had made it really wacky I think I had a copy of that book but then I swapped it with um a friend of mine who then moved to America when we were like kids so it didn't matter and now I'm like damn it should have kept onto it if I can find an image of that I'll pop it up here but um maybe you guys know what I'm talking about I do enjoy using this lilac-y purple as a shade color kind of works quite nicely sometimes okay I'm gonna make her hair pink because that is what she's recently dyed it to find a nice pink that will work with our color scheme here kind of wish I was able to fit her whole body in here but that's all right I can't resist a pink nose guys all pink hands I don't know why all pink knees these are our colors what is a nice blue that could go with that probably maybe yeah okay I'm liking that so on the inside of all the Hogwarts robes in my imagination that bled really badly um they would have like stars and stuff like that so I'm gonna go over with like a white molotow pen here and do like star shapes and stuff I think I look cute and I think yeah let's go for the yellow socks let's round it off some more yellow I think kind of a more witchy vibe there um I'm gonna do some stars and stuff inside the cape cool kind of weird weird outfit but she's a wizard Harry um I want to do like a little bit of a background haze around her as well now I'm gonna draw what would be in her bag so obviously she would have her wand which I'm gonna make a little bit fancy a little bit of a curl at the end and then maybe make a cool little design on the end of a yellow stone or something I know this isn't very um I don't know on point for Harry Potter like it's not very in the brand if that makes sense it's it's kind of my interpretation so I like it and I'm good to make the wand pink to match her hair yellow like a yellow stowed on the end okay let's draw the pages of these books she would be going around because I think she would be quite a studious uh student yeah for sure or she would read a lot anyway I'm not sure if you're very academic or not but I know that you read a lot so I think that would be a lot of books even if maybe they were just for fun being carried around in your bag so maybe like a potions book I don't know what else would be under here but you can't really see you can't really see it so I'm just gonna do colors she would definitely have some little treats for her rat that she's carrying around I don't know what these would be like little delicious uh was it rat treats I don't know kind of looks more like an elephant but that's fine maybe some like potions bottles for later to put stuff into so empty bottles basically I don't know why but in my world uh she would be a potions master so maybe taking like taking like an a-level or something an a-level an owl in potions or something I don't know so she would have lots of empty jars just in case she wanted to pick up something or fill them up or something I like that idea oh yeah so I'm sticking to it nice cute so you've noticed that I am sticking to this kind of color scheme which I think is a good idea so then it doesn't get too crazy I think it kind of looks cute when I do like random colors and stuff I think it looks cute so I'm gonna do it oh yeah what else would you have maybe like some kind of charm or something I don't know what it would be for it's not a time turner but it's some sort of charm and it kind of matches her warden as well oh I think she would definitely have some like sherbet lemons as well which is a really nice sweet and it's a constant sweet that shows up in um in a Harry Potter because Dumbledore eats them a lot and I think that she would like them I like them they are quite delicious so let's do like them coming out the bag kind of doing like the made up language as well which I think would be kind of cool like a witchy style of language that they had for their own which reminds me she might have a purse of money I'm gonna draw a little purse as well something like a drawstring purse because I think that makes sense within the kind of realm of wizardry and lots of money inside because this is our magical land we can do whatever we want I think it would be pink okay I think I'm gonna stop there because I really like the way that this turned out it's just a fun little design the first page of a sketchbook a new sketchbook done and I do really like this um I am a little bit put off with the wire but maybe I'll get used to it that's something I don't usually like in sketchbooks but I thought I'd try it out so yeah I'm not bothered by it too much anyway this is Louisa's character as a Harry Potter Hogwarts goer she is half a puff with her new design robes that I've made she's carrying her potion books and history books and fun books rat treats her magical wand a little contraption that I haven't decided what that is empty potion bottles sherbet lemons and a cold a gold coin purse and I use these r-tex markers for them which are very nice and quite reasonably affordable actually so I do actually really like these pens I used the delta white liner to do like white lines and just a kind of random probably 100 yellow store pen for drawing it out I hope you guys like this and yeah that's kind of my first impressions of the um mossary sketchbook which is very nice I like it and yeah um if there was a bit of bleed through but overall quite good it at least didn't go into that page and so yeah go check out what Louisa has done for me on her channel let's see I'm excited to see that and I'm really looking forward to it also I have got my picture in open so please bear that in mind if you fancy some rewards I've got some original stuff going on for instance you can get this which is an original painting of a gibli scene that I did and that is one of the tier rewards but there's also youtube shoutouts book club tier and just general update here so thanks for watching guys and I'll see you next 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