 Hey everybody, welcome back to The Average. We're going to start a new sketchbook today. Yay! I have lots of great stickers, some from Joyce Anne, some from Dean and Orland and some from my friend Sarah who sent me some wonderful kept portrait pictures which are obviously going on the new sketchbook because we're starting this one outright my friends. Yes, we are indeed. Okay, so let's be real, you've seen the title and that's fine, we're here but we're going to pretend like I am experiencing this moment again and I'm full of optimism, I'm looking at this blank page, I'm happy with it, I'm going to do some good work and sharpen in my old Faber-Castell pencils and ready and yes, we begin and straight away I'm like hmm, some interesting sketches you've done there stuff, it's some strange work. Well we'll move ahead, we'll push on through, we'll use some Posca's, some mixed media and maybe we'll get over this feeling a little bit and yeah, we kind of did, I kind of liked that but then I messed up, I messed up horribly and you can see why. So like any good artist, I just ignored the massive mistake on the left and continued with the drawing that I kind of liked on the right because you know, that's how we get through things, we ball them up and we ignore them. Right? See at this point I was like, I'm using some gold paint because why not? It's a new sketchbook, we're fresh here, we're fresh to death, we're using gold paint and I just used a bit and I don't know why. So yeah I kind of, I do like the drawing of this woman on the right, I like her look, I like what it did and yeah that's the only redeeming quality of this page I think. And you're probably thinking, Nasta, you've been too hard on yourself but you guys wait, the video's not over yet. Here I tried to redeem whatever this monstrosity is and I think I'm only making it worse as I go but you know, we're gonna push through this, we're gonna push through the paint because sometimes paintings, they work out eventually if you just keep working on them, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. I mean there are some redeeming qualities to this woman, I like the blue dress, it's very opaque. That's about as far as I'm willing to go with that statement. I think what I try to do here is just try to use as much media as possible in the hopes that it would send me redemption and just make me have fun and enjoy the process. I mean I was having fun so there is that, but that is a big detail I think some people miss out. If it arts crap but you had fun, who's the real winner? It's, it's not me is it? And we're back to trying to redeem this and I think it gets semi-redeemed, it gets a little bit better but not to the standard that I like if that makes sense and I thought you know what would help this situation just add a cape. If in doubt add a cape, it always helps. If your characters are looking a little bit weird just add a cape and some rouge and you're good to go. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking okay stuff that's great you've done it now just move on to the next page you've finished here but that's where you'd be wrong my friends because we continue and I draw a random face sticking out of this character and she's much bigger than every other character and I don't know why but we did it and we went with it and we're using the poskers again because this paper hates the poskers but I love poskers so I'm gonna use it and you're thinking yeah you're gonna stop now no no no my friends you're very wrong I continue and I add pink blobs everywhere because because yes and we keep going with adding detail here and there in the hopes that it somehow just create this most amazing image I mean I kind of like this little drawing here it is it's a sketchbook so who really cares but yeah if you're trying to start off a good sketchbook with a bang I guess it's not the way to go I don't know I don't really care unless we move on to the monstrosity and I'm gonna do a reveal of this guy you're welcome internet so that's pretty much it that's the first stage of my sketchbook and you can see that it went downhill from there from what I showed you but from then on I kind of did some watercolor tests and I got back into the rhythm of just watercolor sketches and some designs that I just wanted to play around with to see how all the paper would handle water and I think it was quite fun I did that negative painting technique and I was really just enjoying it and trying to forget about making something amazing and just trying to experiment a little bit more which I think really helps roasting your own artwork helps too so I hope you enjoyed this video guys by the way my comic is up for sale on Etsy if you missed it out on the Kickstarter then it's available over there if you fancy it the link is down below anyway thanks for watching guys I will see you next time