 Morning everybody, welcome back to the average artist channel I am Steph, I'm the average artist and I am making a horror comic And if you don't know or haven't seen this process Basically, I'm documenting the whole process from beginning to end so starting out from just rough concepts to vinyl pages I will be vlogging it all so if you want to see those vlogs we'll start from the beginning I'm gonna put a playlist right here in the corner so you can catch up and basically where I left it I was showing you guys the final pages and I'm colouring them And different stuffs happening. I coloured this one on the stream last week I'm doing Friday morning streams Friday morning my time, so it's plus one GMT So if you can join me, let me know I probably start about 11, 12 depending on my awakeness Really to be honest with you and we did a couple of pages I think I coloured this one and then after that I did a couple more So today I've been basically what I do I went to the darker room to use the lightbox and I've been lightboxing these pages But some of them because they literally came from my roughs in my sketchbook So what I've done is I've taken these roughs that I've done so I've done all the pages with this And basically tried to like get it as final as I could in the sketchbook What I did is scan them and blew them up and then printed them out And then I had some empty spaces or things that weren't really defined So when I get to the next page I have to draw whatever I've left out Or fix things to make them look better So when I come to do the lines of the lightbox they won't look so crappy So I had to do these panels yesterday But I had already done them like I'd already drawn them really small in my sketchbook So I just had to copy them across because I knew what I wanted them to look like That's the rough and then I did the final page which is this one I didn't vlog this but yesterday I... So this page I did a couple of pages I did this page as well and this bit was all blank I had left that blank in the rough so I had to do it all over again I did this in the morning and I just hated it I really hated her face so even though this took me all morning for some reason It took me like a couple of hours not all morning I was like I need to do it all again And I really had to fight myself to be like yeah you have to do it again Because I can get really lazy sometimes And something that I've been working on since I was younger Because I know in my past projects in like uni and stuff I'd be like yeah that's good enough and just let it go And it's something that I started to notice as I was getting older Like I would just be like instead of being a perfectionist I'd be the opposite Like yep that's done and there's a fine line isn't there Where something it's perfectionism or it's just plain laziness And I was like borderline near laziness so I was trying to fix it But realising it myself that that's what I was doing So this page I was like nope do it again Because I want this comment to be the best it can be And even if it takes me a bit more time than I originally thought Then you know what screw it because I want it to be good So we did it again and I need to like obviously this looks very cheesy But I'm going when I colour it I'm gonna like smudge her up and stuff So it's not gonna look like that cheesy You see her through the window basically but it's like a silhouette of her So but I much prefer that face to to that face right This one is fine but it's not what she looks like So if you're looking at that and you're like I don't really see the problem is just because it doesn't look like the character It was a bit off model if that makes sense to you guys So yeah all these boxes are a little bit askew as well And you're probably thinking like that looks a mess But what I'm gonna do is when I scan these I'm gonna just fix stuff up in Photoshop So all the little mistakes that you see like here the lines are kind of blurring And the spacing is not very good I'm gonna sort all that stuff out in Photoshop and you'll see that when I've got to that point Which might be soon because this is I'm on page 9 basically of 17 But I'm really thick guys here here it is again I'm thinking of adding two more pages to the end just because of having a little bit of an epilogue kind of thing I hope I mean an epilogue that will be really embarrassing if I don't mean epilogue And I just think like it would conclude the story a little bit better No I don't know I don't know what to do guys I'm just I just need to figure it out Okay so today I'm thinking what I do is just color some pages and chat with you guys This is a page that I did yesterday and I'm very pleased with its outcome There's a few things that I want to change a little bit but I can do that in Photoshop And I really like this the way this bit turned out because there's someone shouting at the side why not I started to do the storm clouds yesterday and I just hated them I was like what have I done And then I kept going with it like push through the pain I want that woman to stop shouting Who shout talks anyway? Oh wait I do Hmm never mind Anyway push through the pain and yeah I really like the way this turned out I like the textile graphic look that I get with the Copics and the pencils I just think they look really nice together and they're visually interesting And they draw the eye and yeah what do you guys think I like it So so far the color schemes have changed a little bit But I think that is due to sort of the weather and time passing within the comic But they still have a similar vibe if that makes sense Obviously this one's very blue and this one's very purple They still have pops of color that this one has and they still have similar tones within the pieces And the pencil and stuff kind of brings it all together and you know that these two belong in the set Yeah um okay so let's get going with the coloring I was also really I'm really unsure what how much to show you Because I obviously I've said this before and I have decided that I want to do a crowdfunding thing for this So I can have enough money to print them out and send them off to people And that would be really cool if I could just get like a tiny bit of money and that would be That would just help me create this And it's really exciting because I've never done that before or I've thought about it so many times I've even I've even made like two projects on Kickstarter and never published them Which seems a bit silly but um the last one was due to like tax reasons Because they didn't want to tax me in Gibraltar or whatever So I think I'll have to use a different site to Kickstarter So they actually recognize my country but we'll see And I'm not really sure how much to charge for each comic as well I obviously don't want to make them too expensive because I want to I want more people to be able to enjoy it And it's also scary in the fact that this will be a comic that people will read Because I've never really had that before I have people online reading my Slice of Life comic and really enjoying it But I've never had like a book that people who aren't my friends kind of read Kind of read completed and done and ready So that is really exciting and I really hope hope to God that I can get this Kickstarter funded Or crowdfunding project because that's another terrifying thought that I won't manage to do it But obviously I think I'm going to set the bar very low so So I can actually accomplish it Oh my gosh you guys seriously This lorry came up and it was just like reversing and you can probably still hear it But it literally I've been here waiting ten minutes like Whenever you want, whenever you want to just you know leave Where was I? I don't even know so I'm probably going to repeat myself now But I was talking about the Kickstarter and Or a crowdfunding project and we keep calling it Kickstarter because that's kind of Simonymous Simonymous Okay it's kind of the word that people use to talk about crowdfunding Because I think it's the most famous one it managed to beat all the other And you know why I think it's the most famous one Because it wasn't the first I don't think maybe it was But I think it's just got better UI better UX like web design stuff It just looks better and people trust it more and that is a big deal If you're going to start a business and you want a website Make it look good pay for it to look really good And be really easily usable and accessible by multiple people And that will seriously put you on top like I don't understand why People always put like Patreon right? The UI it means user interface is just terrible on Patreon I can't stand it there's so many little things I'm just like why haven't they fixed that For instance I was updating my description and then I clicked to on the same page I clicked to add a discord to it I added to it and it refreshed the page And I lost all the stuff that I was doing like all the written stuff I'd made So I had to redo it all again I'm just like that is a simple just save you know It's so annoying just little things and the navigation is all screwed up And I would just love to be like calm down Maybe I should email them and be like please change this, this, this, this Because what are you doing? What is that? Okay my Patreon rant is over and obviously they're doing a good thing Helping people reach an audience and receive some money for their creative projects But also they take a lot of them like it's not a lot But they take a small percent of what you earn and they keep it themselves And I honestly don't know if like the website is worth that They're doing well so they don't give a shit that their website is cack a bit I hope I'm not putting you off using Patreon because it is good in the sense that You can connect with an audience and they can connect with you and you can do it like that There's just small things like you can only upload one image at a time What's that about? And then you can upload one image that people can see and then the other images People have to download them just to look at them which is so stupid You're a creative site obviously creative people are going to be uploading multiple images Now there's a car thing that Laurie got me in a bad mood Okay and I'm calm I'm also very very appreciative of having Patreon Obviously if that website didn't exist I wouldn't have the money that I get coming in from them And people supporting me which I really appreciate like don't get me wrong at all I super appreciate that and I really like connecting with people on Patreon And yeah my Monday video I did a shout out to my patrons And I'm probably going to do it again now just to like cover all bases And I think I'm going to do a monthly exclusive video but I'm not really sure what to put in it So maybe I'll do like a private stream or something But then it would just be like me and one person I think And I think that's you Miguel so we could just have a phone call Funny Yeah my Patreon is not crazy popular but it's doing very well for me I think I'm very pleased with it and I really really super, duper, duper appreciate people Who are following me or supporting me and it just is such a nice feeling I don't know there's nothing really compares to it like getting that email when Oh you've got a new supporter it's just like it's so nice And then the website pisses me off so you know it swings around about I don't know what I was going to say but the colouring process I think is the most enjoyable part For the other one I kind of went ahead and just coloured it straight And I haven't done that before like all the other pages I kind of scanned them and did like practice colouring And I definitely regretted it with this one because I think it could have been done a little bit better But I like the way that it turned out and yeah So I think like straight ahead colouring is not too bad Really it kind of works and at the end I'm going to go over everything Oh another thing that I wanted to speak about is pencils that I'm using to draw this So I have this one, the early learning centre one I think it was like a full big pencil when I started And now the lead inside is so brittle that I can barely use it I can use it for like two seconds and then it snaps So I had to bite the bullet and start with this sort of erasable black one It's not erasable at all, it's slightly erasable I got them from Lidl, they're like these coloured pencils from Stedler And I was like oh they like those erasable colour arrays I don't know what brand the colour arrays ones but you know the ones I mean like the really nice soft pencils I thought they were like a cheap alternative to that And they're okay, they're okay, like they are a cheap alternative You get what you pay for right So I've been using this black pencil to do the lines And then sort of going over parts of this one to make Because this one's more, it's darker and it's like thicker and more smudgy And this one's sort of more hard and not as smudgy So I've been using these two pencils and this one was as well a full pencil So I'm kind of worried about what I'm going to do when these run out Because they've been going back and like going over lines with this black one To sort of make sure that everything is looking similar But I think I'm just going to have to bite the bullet again And just go for like another black pencil It's been seriously hot recently I think it's one of those things where it's just for the next two months It's going to be boiling, boiling hot And I just can't, like it drains you You don't even realise like it slowly gets to you and it drains your energy And it's just, it's been doing that with me And I just feel so tired all the time And I'm just trying to like keep cool and keep having like cold showers And then getting back to work So I've been trying to do like long, longer days And I've got a few commissions now which is really great Oh if you guys don't know in my other video The Squishy Wern, which you probably might not have watched Because you're here for the horror I like horror and squishies Like a bit of a juxtaposition of things to like But I don't care Anyway, you might not have seen that I opened up my commissions So if you guys want to commission me I'm doing like about $30 per like a character Like a full character coloured So just let me know if you want that Or if you want something smaller we can discuss prices Like I can go cheaper or whatever I don't mind Um, yeah So working on commissions as well as like doing my comic is quite fun Because that gives me a break away from the comic Today I was working late on the comic till about 8 o'clock at night I know it's bad but I sort of don't really work very well in the morning So I'm just a zombie in the morning So I kind of take it really slow in the morning And then the afternoon evening is my time to shine I'm like bam bam bam And then after that I was working on my commission for about an hour and a half Just getting the sketch down But it's really fun to just take a step away from the horror comic Like I said in my Squishy video that you probably I don't know if you watched it But I got some random squishies and I took them as inspiration for character design And it was really nice to just focus on drawing something else And something I need to do more of because I want to do a sketchbook tour soon Like another half way one Because I think I'm nearly there because of all this horror stuff But obviously I don't want it to just be horror stuff that everybody's seen So I want to focus more on the sketchbook And do more studies and stuff as well Because I think I'm letting that slide a bit which is wrong Because I think you should always be learning how to draw stuff Because it incorporates itself back into your work So say if you did some life studies then the way that you draw people would become easier I think that's why I draw women so much Is because when I was in university we had a lot of life study classes But they were mostly with women So I got really used to drawing women And we had like one male model once I think that really affected the way that I draw Like I obviously draw women a lot more and more comfortable with it Which is really strange Yeah, it's been something that's affected my whole postgraduate art situation Which is fine because you know If you can recognise your weak points in your art and you can dedicate time to it Then you'll learn If you can recognise in yourself where you're not good enough And you sit down and you say okay fine I've done this with hands before a few times I could draw hands really well And then I went through a phase of when I was working not drawing for ages And I just lost the knack of drawing hands So what I did was I would sit down and study Like do pages and pages of hands And study the way other people draw hands And if I like that way like try to incorporate it into the way that I draw hands See in your own style And I think I really improved I'm drawing hands, I'm not perfect They were all striving to be better artists constantly I'm not saying like I did that exercise and I was That's it, I'm a famous artist now And Michelangelo, no You have to keep going with it And keep striving to be a better artist And as long as you can see improvement I think that's a really good thing And I'm saying that as somebody who totally does that You know, totally avoids drawing men With this comic I was like this guy And I had to keep stopping myself from drawing him small like her Because I realised as well Not only is he probably bigger I mean you can have men that are the same size as women But I wanted him to be imposing And I just wasn't doing it I was just automatically drawing him quite small And I realised that she's going to be quite a petite woman anyway So it didn't make any sense So I really had to stop myself and think about what I was doing wrong And because of that it looks better So if you are really critical of yourself it does help But yeah, so I've always just been Not the best, not the worst So just got used to working hard And just trying my best and not comparing But it's hard to just be like No, I'm not going to compare because It's easier said than done, right? I have quite a lot to get on with And I feel like I'm a little bit behind on the comic Because I did take that sort of art blocky break in the middle And now I feel like I need to catch up I don't know what I should do Because I don't know how long this project will last That's another thing that I need to consider After this project's done I don't know what else I'm going to do I might try and do another comic But I'm not sure what type Probably something maybe completely different to horror I've always had it in my head That I want to do an autobiographical one About me as a kid and like My dad and the army are moving around Like things that we faced in that situation That people probably might not be aware of Because it's very It's a very specific thing to Be an army brat and have that experience Of moving your whole world Basically at a young age It's a strange phenomenon And like culture shocks and things that affect you I don't know It would be fun to talk about that in art stuff I've always been inspired by Craig Thompson who wrote Blankets And that was his autobiographical Book And I thought it was so good And just inspiring And such a good story And it's his life And he just lays it all out on the table Type thing Like he's just super honest And you guys should check that out If you haven't read it It's like supposed to be one of the best comics ever It is to me as well Like I think it's super good So check it out It's super interesting It's okay I think we went on a massive tangent there A little bit And I hope that I have some Relatively good footage to show you And not just me rambling on about Random stuff And I'm just gonna get on with this really Because I hope by On Friday I'll do another live stream baby Actually really enjoying them And chatting to people Is quite exciting Whilst I'm colouring And answering people's questions Is really fun So I hope that I can do another one on Friday I get a bit nervous about them But then as soon as I start them I'm fine It was really fun So yeah I'm definitely gonna do another one on Friday Look around for that Or like click the bell icon And then you won't miss it at all Because you'll get a little notification If that's what you're into And if it won't wake you up at like 5am You let me know What you guys think of this series And I really appreciate all the comments I've actually up to date on my comments now And replying to you all Which is really cool So leave a comment And I'll definitely reply I can say that now Guaranteed Because I have replied to all of them And I really appreciate everybody Supporting me And giving me time And watching my stuff And liking my stuff And it's really cool being monetised now I mean I'm not making You know anything Any money but Like hardly anything But it's really cool It's just nice And hopefully like The hope is there That maybe I'll get some money from YouTube Just a little bit So I can keep working on stuff like this And like I said Once I finish this comic Maybe I can do the The autobiographical thing Which would be quite cool And I've always wanted to do that Because I think it's an interesting story That certain era of my life It sounds really self-absorbed But I think it is a good story So I want to tell it And yes So thanks for watching guys Please like and subscribe For more content And I will see you next time I just want to give a shout out To my top tier patrons For supporting me Those guys are Cecile James Liam Staff Megan Tom And Tim These guys are the real Mbps And if you want to shout out At the end of my videos Then go check out my picture Bye