 Hello and welcome back to this beautiful sunny day in England. It's not sunny at all, I'm lying. But we've got shades of summer here from Meow Cafe Watercolor on Etsy. They looked really cute and yeah, that's pretty much my judgment on paints. If they look cute, I'm gonna try them. Let's get into it. Quite simple packaging, but we don't mind. At least it's not a nightmare to get into. Here they are, they're all handmade and I think that's really nice. It's something really special about one person, a company, a small business, hey, say, making stuff, like me. I don't know why I said that, I'm really sorry. Pesto, pardon you. I don't know if I can, no, I can't take them out. Stick off a little bit carefully. I think I spoke too soon about the packaging, but... Do I have tweezers? No, I don't. It's coming off, but it's a little bit stuck on the paints but I think that's just to protect them. Okay, so here they are. This is the shades of summer palette. I will link this down below, by the way. I bought this myself, so this is, you know, not sponsored or anything, it's a small business and I really like them. They look really cute and I can't wait to try them. I figured with this one, I would try it with some black paper, but I also wanna see how they look on white paper just to test them out. First of all, I wanna see what it looks like from this white paper. I'm just doing a quick test because I've seen them being used on black paper more because they're more like fluorescent. Yeah, they're quite nice. I mean, not so pigmented, but I think that's because I think the intention is to use it on black paper. Orange, let's try it. Orange, you're glad you're watching this video. Sorry, yeah, nice. I mean, I'm like, yeah, they work. Do you know what I mean? I really wanna try them on this black paper, which I fought ahead about and I got because I was like, I think I wanna try it on black paper. Let's try out them. Let's try out them. Brilliant English. Let's see what they look like. I mean, I'm just gonna, ooh. I'm a little bit excited because that looks really cool and I'm really glad that I'm testing them on water, on watercolour paper, on black paper because I think that they're intended to use so I think that looks really pretty. What do you guys think? Love it already. Okay, end of the video. Done and done. No, but we are gonna paint something and I have been thinking about what to paint in the meantime because, you know, I know I was gonna film this video and we're just gonna paint like a little jungle scene, I think, because I thought it would be really nice if this was like a jungle in the dark, in the nighttime. I'm a little bit in love with when the pigment first hits the paper and it's so bright like that. Finger looks so beautiful and I really, really like the textures that the paint is bringing up. Does that make sense? I feel like that does make sense and you guys are just being difficult. Come on, understand me. I really like these. This is so nice to just do something completely different because I've been working so hard on my new comics. And speaking of my comics, it's time for a little shout out to the sponsor of this video. And now a word from our sponsor, me. Do you like comics and stickers? And you don't know where to buy them and you just, you can't even know. Well, check out the link down below because there's some amazing quality products for you to let your hands on today. And so I just, I have this really nice idea to just do like a whole kind of jungle scene. Really like that you can just kind of push the paints around the paper a little bit. It gives off that kind of glowy effect. I don't think I've ever done anything on black paper like this before. So maybe that's why I'm just like having a bit of a moment of awe. Really wanna do like a, oh, I love that. A star field or something, like a galaxy up here. Oh, just love these colors as well. I know I'm just in awe of these, but I think they're so fun. I'm gonna try this blue because I think it's gonna be absolutely stunning. I was right. I was right. That is beautiful. Really like the idea of like these incoherent shapes like these inconsistent shapes in the background. I would just say that it just, it does just feel like I'm playing with watercolors at the moment, which is something that I haven't, you know, felt in a while. Crazy how well they layer as well because usually with watercolors they're not like this opaque. And I'm not sure if that's just because they're like designed for black paper, but usually if you wanted to layer this green over that purple, it just wouldn't look as vivid as this with like normal watercolors. So it's just fun. This is so cute and beautiful. And I'm really having fun. Truly having a joyful moment. It would be really nice if it had like a white in it, but that would be cool. Like a really opaque white like this. Not really looking much like a star field, but hopefully it will. When I've done more details, I'm kind of doing it like blocking out the rough shapes at the moment and then I will go in and rejig stuff. Didn't you know that was the artistic term rejig stuff? I want to build up these leaves like a lot, a lot, a lot more. The layering and the textures that it's giving me is just so beautiful. I think, I don't know, there's something I really enjoy personally about this kind of texture that you're getting where it's sort of like not fully covered and just giving that that kind of grainy feel, but I just think it looks nice. It's definitely something very calming and relaxing about using these beautiful vivid watercolors on black paper. I'm just zoning out, having fun, chilling, vibing. You know, it's a rare thing for me. I don't get like that withdrawing. I'm like, you know, you've seen the videos. So the only thing that I am having a hard time with with my own abilities, obviously, is that going from dark and then light on top and then no way to get back to that darkness is kind of like difficult for me because I want to do like shadows on these leaves and stuff. And I'm like, oh, wait, I've already made it all bright. So how am I going to do that? And yeah, that's a difficult one. Really loving these paints, man. Man, I want to see what it works like with pencils because sometimes that's what I do with watercolors is I use pencils over the top and I would be interested to see like how these work with that. So let's try that out. So I'm going to try the black pencil just to add definition in certain areas. It's working well. I nearly said it's working nice and I would have absolutely been annoyed with myself. A bit of mixed-media action, guys. I think that is going to be swell. Let's see what the blue pencil looks like on top. So it does like layer really nicely with these watercolour paints, which is something to consider. Let's try this pink because it's got a bit of pink, like random action going on. I think maybe like the light is pink. I don't know. Yep, the pink is working nicely on top. Very good. I wanted to see if I could use black. So I've been using this pencil brush a lot recently, but actually I think the pencil is a bit more desirable. I think this might be like a little bit too dark, whereas the pencil kind of blends in like a little bit, if that makes sense. You need to work on the sky a little bit more just to define it what it is because at the moment it just kind of looks like swirly blobs. And I'm just like shading the areas where maybe there might be shadow a little bit behind the leaves just to give that like definition kind of pops out. It kind of looks like it could be like paper art a bit. I do love these like random blobs that are supposed to be like bushes and stuff, but they don't really look like anything. Interesting shape. Yeah, definitely shading with this black pencil is working I think. It's giving, it's making it really like pop out. Like everything is getting a bit more depth to it. I definitely want to do like some more definition on the leaves as well to make them look more like leaves rather than just like random shapes. That's looking cute. I changed the word nice for cute. Did you notice that? Just steadily changing my vocab there, you know? Do you just want to add like a few more leaves here and there? Before we start this action, need the jungle to kind of go way more higher, way more higher. So I like the idea of having this star kind of exploding over here. And to get that kind of vibe, I want to really layer some color here and then use the hairdryer and push the paint paint around. I definitely like in the way that's looking, I want to act like this is actually just a mountain. So I'm just going to try and do like a little bit of color here and then steadily get it darker as it goes down the page. If this is a mountain, it would pick up the color from the exploding star on top of it. So we probably need to emulate that a little bit. And we're just going to bring color down slightly. Getting some pink down now where the light might, where the star is exploding, it might just pick up on the leaves and around how that might look through different leaves. And it would just be like a rim light on most of this stuff. But I feel like it would shine through the leaves a little bit as well because leaves are not so opaque, right? So let's see, just a little bit here and there to hint at this light coming from here. That's the final look of this image. I really like it as you guys can probably tell. So a little thing there I want to change. And yeah, that's it. I really like these paints. I think that much is obvious throughout this video. And I'll leave the link down below. Obviously not sponsored again. And I really like them. So you guys should check it out. So please see the end of the video. Please let me know what you think. And I'll hopefully see you next time. Bye.