 Hi guys welcome back to the average today I'm going to do my year of art review if you haven't met me before I'm Steph I'm the average artist and I have a really squeaky chair so I've got this weird little setup here because hi I want to basically film a year review of my art which is what it says on the tin right as you can see I've got a little camera down here as well and I'm going to try and do this thing that professional youtubers do when they have two cameras and we'll see how that turns out because we all know I'm not a professional youtuber I am a hobbyist and I do this for fun so that's it I've put my art into three categories over the year so just like loose pieces that I've done for videos and stuff then my sketchbooks which two are completed and this one is sort of completed so I don't really know what I'm going to show you I'm just going to show you my favorite pieces through the year and then maybe flick through stuff and the third is special projects that I've done throughout the year let's start with the loose ones shall we do you guys mind I'm trying to film a video this video is really awkward isn't it standard and I haven't really put them in order of anything so I'm just going to flick through them this was for my Kickstarter I just did some sketches and stuff and then I never used this thing because I didn't like how it looked on the computer it didn't turn out very nice so I I don't know why I'm showing this really interesting right this was for my Frida Kahlo video where I recreated one of her pieces again most of these things that I'm going to show you now they are videos so go check them out if you like the look of the pieces and haven't seen the video I don't I don't know how this works maybe you maybe you click away now I don't I don't I don't know yeah so I don't why am I sharing that camera dumb and yeah I really like this piece it turned out swell and I want to frame it I think as you can see in the background I framed one of my pieces and TD and Kubo seem to be going a bit crazy do you guys mind you kind of ruin the video here anyway um yeah this was there's some crud on this one you can see I stole my art my art well this was a view of a street because we went and did this art competition where you have to paint within an area of Gibraltar for the heritage trust in Gibraltar so we did this competition I didn't win but it was a really fun experience again video this was for my hundred page challenge this was more early on in the year I think and my hundred page challenge I did what is this fangirl and it's a story about this girl who writes fan fiction uh um about Harry Potter but it's not Harry Potter it's different but it's Harry Potter and yeah it's pretty good pretty good um I don't know how you'd describe it I guess yeah romance young adult romance do you mind young adult romance so I did that this was for my collaboration with colourholed creations and we did a hundred page challenge there as well and I did we did Harry Potter and I did the first book and she did the last book so a hundred page challenge if you don't know there's a few videos um on my channel and you pick to page 100 and you basically get a prompt from the pages or you draw an illustration of what the page is saying that's a good exercise for people who want to be illustrators as well I think because it really puts you in a tough spot um yeah so that was that I really liked the way that turned out these ones go together because these were my slime girls so I drew an illustration I took some slime and I was inspired by slime um it was fun because I just wanted to play with slime really so these are my slime girls and there's a whole story about them if you like them go check out that video and then I drew them again this time with coffee so I did the coffee challenge and it was yeah that was fun I just used pencil and coffee I'm not sure if you're allowed to use pencil actually but whatever actually this is from last year take that away this was like something from the very beginning of the year I think this was for Casey Golden prompt that I joined in on I can't remember what the prompt was but I decided to draw sorry I keep probably moving the frame but that's because I keep having to get up to stop my cats from fighting um this was for Casey Golden prompt and I can't remember what the prompt was but this was kind of the beginning of the year and I think it was maybe tower and sand timer I can't remember this is something I did at the end of the year this was kind of inspired by another artist who they did like a veil over somebody and I was like I want to try that technique and it's scary because I had just watched wanting a hill house and I was in a very spooky mood this was for my Gustav Klimt video where I repaint one of the works in my style basically what I do is I go and do a piece of their work in my own style it was kind of a play on the draw this in your style challenge where I also learned a little bit about the artist and hope to teach people a little bit about the artist this was my second paper cut out so let's go to the first one I did so this was my paper cut out art and I don't know why I did this but I just wanted to experiment with doing something really different and I really like making art which is tactile and something you can hold your hands and sort of I don't know create with your hands if that makes sense that's why I did this and it was really fun at the time and then I went and I did um an underwater one which is kind of falling apart but I will fix it so you can't really see it very well but if you want to see the video of how I made these again fail videos and next I think we'll move on to we'll move on to the special projects that I did this year this was for a video again but I just filled a sketchbook in a day which was super hard work some of these have gone because they've gone to my patrons and some of them are still here and it was quite surprising the ones that some people picked because I let my patrons first come first to pick ones that they liked and the ones that I didn't really like very much people picked so I was like quite surprised and the ones that I really liked haven't gone so yeah these are them and there's a few missing obviously because they went to patrons this was one of my favorites and it didn't go and hands and yeah so if you want to watch that video of the actual struggle that was doing that then go ahead and look over there I think we'll start with my comics I do a slice of life comic which I haven't done for a while sadly because I started a new job and I sort of put it on the back burner when I tried to do my horror comic and more youtube stuff so I did slice of life comics I would do one every day every weekday so I do one a day of these and I put it up on my Patreon and people could read them you can't really see them but if you want to look at them then I'm going to be posting them on my Instagram more because I just posted a lot of them on Patreon but now I'm going to start putting them up on Instagram so you can probably see them there if you're not following me Instagram then go check that out loads of comics um I did that and then I created this little comic I made this for a comic on that I did in Gibraltar quite annoyingly made because I didn't have time to get it professionally printed so I had to kind of oh why is it not focusing I had to kind of get it printed myself so I don't understand sizing I had a lot of test prints to do and I was thinking what I'm going to do is do like a little giveaway here if you want to find out how to get this and some other stuff and find out at the end of this um video so those are my comics my slice of life comics and also underneath is another thing I did for a video which was I did mermaid but in a day these are all the mermaids that I drew in a day and that was quite painful as well but enjoyable too so I feel like that's my whole year review is like if you want to see that video it's like no and so I did this for my friend's Kickstarter but she did a Kickstarter of her comic overlord which was successfully funded and all the rewards are coming out now and this was one of the rewards which was a print of her character next up is something that I'm super proud of that happened to me this year which gave me the little boost I needed of confidence I guess with doing comics because I had my ongoing comic that I did for about a year and a half and it never really got like that much traction or anything like that but obviously I was doing it because I enjoyed it but sometimes you need you can't just do stuff because you enjoy it you need a little bit of um feedback or good feedback to keep you going you know what I mean so this comic was something that really helped my self-esteem with my art and stuff I know this one's really silly because people are gonna be like oh you have a youtube channel with lots of subscribers like obviously people like your stuff to some degree right this was a really good booth for me and it made me realize that I can make comics and I can do them obviously now I've got my full-time job so it's kind of hard to do the level of work that I was doing this whole year but I'm hoping to try and keep up stuff it's been a bit of a up and down for me over the last few months because it's just made me realize that how I need to prioritize my work outside of my nine to five job so this was my Emily is burning comic and if you haven't seen this I made this comic and I did loads of vlogs about it as well which did quite well like people seem to react well to it and found it interesting this was the print for the comic I did a paper cutout art piece so this was my big thing and I'll just show you some of the actual the actual rough and final pages and then how I took that to print so here are some of the pages this is how I organized it so I did the script and I put it in here I think lots of people have already seen all this stuff because we've already discussed it all and I've done live streams about it and I've done videos about it and I've done how to so if you want to see those there's a whole thing of blogs on how I did this project and how it came to be but here are some of the final pages in the end I didn't have right everything I just wrote them on the computer but yeah these are some of the pages I did them hand drawn and then hand colored and then I scanned them all in those are my comic pages and this was the final thing I got this printed with mix and printing and the cover is a lush mat so it feels very nice and smooth I really liked it and it came out good I did the insert pages as well which I really liked so everything about this project was a real confidence boost for me not only because people liked it but because I liked it and I managed to complete something that was not ongoing and it was a short project and I've never done I've never done a short project before like this or a short story I guess which I think is sometimes harder than doing a massive project because you have to tell yourself this is enough stop this is good enough you know so yeah that's my final big project of the year I'm going to go through my sketchbooks quickly because I know I've already done sketchbook tours and maybe this is a bit repetitive to some people but I just like it it's really interesting to go through everything and see what I've done throughout the year because it's been such a quick year for me but actually it looks like I've done so much and that is a really nice pat on my back if that makes sense without being annoyingly self confident there so yeah these are some of my sketches I did this fill this sketchbook up in the beginning of the year if you want a more in-depth view of this then go check out the sketchbook tour of this one this is probably the first sketchbook tour and yeah I completed this and I remember this was the jumping off point to my horror comic because I started at the end of this I started drawing little houses and I really like really like the way that those turned out so I decided that I wanted to do something about a haunted house or something involving that and it was you know it was really fun so that was my first sketchbook of the year and then I did this one and I really like these sketchbooks they actually came from little I always say that wrong people tell me it's lied or whatever yeah so this was beginning of my horror comic so this sketchbook pretty much took up a lot of the concept stuff for Emily is burning um just doodling and experimenting which was something I hadn't done really so that was really the best not the best part but one of the best parts about it really got me going and inspired and pumped to do this project because it was like oh you know um you've been working on something that's very similar style for a year so it's good to go ahead and do something completely different which is what I did and I I barely suggest people to do that if you're a bit stuck in a rut or anything to just go ahead and do something completely different I also managed to um publish my own book this year as well Princess Curse so the next two books for that are hopefully gonna come out this year because I'm trying to rein myself in and do these goals that I've said to myself to do yeah I think what I've done is I've just written down all the goals that I want to achieve in 2019 and even if I don't achieve them it kind of gives me like points of progress that I need to hit and I definitely want to do another comic this year and I definitely want to you know ramp it up a little bit even though I'm working even though it's going to be harder I need to just grin and bear it kind of thing so yeah this is the other sketchbook that I did this year and I really liked this one as well it's really good to see my progress and to see that I've sat down and done work it's satisfying to have a collection of these works this sketchbook isn't finished but it's got all my inktober stuff in it so if you want to see my inktober video I didn't finish inktober but I got halfway through and then that was when I was applying for jobs and I was really stressed out because I had interviews and I just hated doing interviews and then I got like two job offers that week and I was just overwhelmed like I didn't know what to do but now I'm a graphic designer for a company and it's really really nice and it's good to work in teams again and yeah so I don't know what that whole tangent was but I didn't finish inktober because I was getting a job so yeah sorry about that super tangent this is my sketchbook that is not finished um and I'll do a proper sketchbook tour by the time that that is done but totally not finished so we can see that later time so that's my 2018 art year review and I think I accomplished a lot and I'm pretty proud of where I've been to where I've come so the beginning of the year I had 100 subscribers and I thought what the heck I was so impressed with myself and so proud of that which is funny because now I'm nearing 10 000 subscribers and it sort of feels the same it's weird it's like I was so happy to get 100 now I'm so going to be so happy to get 10 000 but I feel like I've made a lot of connections with people through doing YouTube and that's a really important thing for me I feel like I've inspired people and people have inspired me so all in all it's been great for my personal growth and I hope to continue doing weekly vlogs or videos art videos as often as possible next year and I hope you guys stick along for the ride so that's it for me I hope you had a great holiday season and I hope you have a great new year and I hope that everyone is happy and healthy and doing well and I will see you next time guys oh also if you want to win a copy of this comic this comic um some prints and stuff then comment down below what your favorite thing that I've done this year is and you'll be entered into the draw and I will reveal the winner on the next video so that's it from me thanks for watching guys please like and subscribe if you haven't already and yeah see you next time bye