 why do the cats always start eating when i'm filming? it's so bizarre! you're doing it on purpose good morning everybody it is a bright sunny october day so there's loads of different shadows here in this video as i'm filming it but i guess i just apologize for that but at least we get some nice bright lights right? i feel summery even though it's october kind of sick of this sun to be honest with you um i decided to just run through my fourth sunny october so far and where i'm at with it and stuff like that because i know in my sketchbook tour video if you guys are up to date i did a sketchbook tour video of this bad boy and i showed the first three prompts um of october in here day one was poisonous day two was relaxed so i did that and day three was burning i think or roasted so i was like oh she's a witch and she's being roasted and then day four was spell so i just did like an experimental piece and so i wasn't really feeling inktober i think because i've never done the prompts before until now i've always just done whatever i want to draw so i think i was struggling a little bit with the prompts there's a helicopter so now there's some really loud women walking by my house i'm on the second floor and they feel like they're in my room that's so loud also getting like a suntan sitting here that is not right is it thank you october for this okay they're quiet now are they quiet now i don't know right anyway okay so i decided to do the prompts this year and i had never done the prompts before so i found it quite difficult to begin with because i wasn't really feeling inspired and then i realized that you know 10 days have passed and haven't drawn an inktober in like 10 days and they started to be like okay well i guess that's a right offer this year but then i decided to restrict myself more because i think with art when you restrict yourself it makes you be more creative so i kind of restrict myself with the prompt but it wasn't working for me so i restricted myself more to put a theme onto the whole scheme of what i was drawing so i decided to draw like scenes from my book um princess cursed to illustrate some bits in like in the book that is happening but that would work with the prompts because i thought that would be fun and then i just instantly felt like really into it and it just it was really enjoyable for me and yeah that was great before i start i just want to go into the materials i'm using so firstly i'm using the pentail pocket brush pen which is just like just ink pen and it's very nice and i use i used to use this all the time but it is quite hard to use um with line control so i've just got this zebra um something it's in japanese so if you can read japanese and let me know what it is because it came from jet pens i believe i ordered it from so it's like a a nib like that but it is still a brush pen but it's quite nice i use that for finer details and then for washes i just put a little bit of ink in this pentail pocket uh water brush pen which is really dirty but it works it does the job and then i just do washes of ink with that and then if i want to add more ink to it then i just i just get the tip of the pen and i just rub it on some ink or dip it in these inks and just use that because it works and i like doing that and these are my tools basically it's been quite simple and in sparingly oh shoot sparingly i have used these leaky inks red green and blue i'm gonna put them like that so they don't leak anymore i've used those sparingly in some places you'll see now okay so let's just get started you're like where are the images stuff shut up talking i know i'm sorry you're just trying to explain myself and now i've got ink all over my hand let's zoom in because it's ridiculous you need glasses to see this stuff first of all i ran out of sketchbooks so this sketchbook came to me after i had done these images i did them on this cheap watercolor paper that i got from tiger and i quite like the textures that it gave but also it was quite hard to use but i think it works pasto okay number five was chicken and i chose to feature two characters in the book one called jay and one called satin in the story in this scene this guy is being a bit of a douche to the group of friends that is the main kind of core of our story and she confronts him because she's pretty brave and he's like what what's happening so he is the chicken in this scenario and yeah i know that's a pretty big jump but i think it works number six was drooling and my story is about kora who's the main character and she runs away to become a battle mage and she joins the school and in this school she meets a group of friends so these are the friends that she meets so the satin janny in corner and there's another girl called mim so it's like this big girl group and it's a lot of girl characters which i'm really into writing about and i find it fascinating like the friendships that they produce and how they interact with one another all that all that sweet sweet good stuff don't know what i'm saying and they have to eat like basically like oats ludge and stuff for dinner because they they're at war at the moment so they don't have much to eat um it sounds very odd to speak about the story when you guys don't really know anything about the story but i guess these scenes will help explain it a little bit so corner likes the food and kora is just like hmm what is this so she's like you're gonna eat that because she would she would devour anybody's food basically and the other girl janny is looking at her like stop it because she kind of reigns her in she's very bossy and brutish in your face but like very loving character and then janny is kind of the girl that's her sidekick like her best friend but reels her in and tells her not to say things to people and she's just like nope gonna be bossy and nosy and stuff and she's like you're gonna have polite manners but no that's basically the story of those two so when kora first goes to this panel made school she's obviously very exhausted so i drew this scene that's not necessarily in the book but i know i do talk about her being exhausted after training because they have to do sword training and fight training every day and so i imagine that take somebody shouting take off your boots in the room because she shares a room with all these girls that i've told you about they'll share a room together so i imagine janny is telling her take off your boots because she's the only one who would care about that sort of thing these events that are in these images don't take place chronologically they're all out of order so don't think that this is the story um this is in the beginning of the book so there you go um okay bye and then star i decided to draw the night sky a scene where kora runs away she runs away with this guy basically not because she's in love with him or anything but because he says he can offer a place in the battle made school because he's sort of a scout for them he comes up with a plan with her to lie about her not having any powers he sort of lies to the guards and the people that gave her entrance saying that she has powers and they're sort of friends in this instance but at this point of the story i think kora is sort of regretting her decisions to leave her home and but also excited about what's coming next so i really liked to draw that scene i'm not a huge fan of this drawing particularly but it's nice to imagine what that would look like all this time i've just written these scenarios down and never really sketch them out and stuff so it's really fun to see it come to life here's a little spoiler for week um but number nine was precious and i fought the friendship between the two main characters kora and satine is very precious because they're sort of magical partners and they're soul twins do you mind pesto i'm trying to talk about soul twins i know you're not on the camera but you need to calm down so yeah that's what i did for precious and i do really like this image um i think it's really sweet and she just spilled all my gouache paints everywhere she's in a noxious mood right now okay sorry precious so their friendship is precious i think a lot of the friendships in the book are precious because i think that's what the story is about there's lots of different themes in the book such as prejudice bullying but i think friendship is probably the core of the story flowing was day 10 and this is corner one of the other girls the characters the one who likes food and his bossy and she's sort of like a martial arts fighter so i decided to draw her maybe you know in the air kicking kicking some birth and yeah that was that number 11 was cruel and i was like i really like this drawing but this drawing i didn't really like that much although it does paint the picture of the scene pretty well i think this girl looks a bit bigger than she is but i guess she might be quite big because in the school there's a lots of varying of different ages it could be like you know you're you're still at the school at 20 because you're still training but anyway a lot of people are prejudiced against sateen and her group of friends because they have a friend in their group who is who they think is a spy or just they're against her because she comes from the opposite side of the war i don't know i'm explaining too much but sateen um gets the brunt of bullying and the prejudice that happens in the book i guess i i do like this scene even though it's horrible but you know i think it creates some good conversations so next we had wail this is the video from hell and in the book sateen can create anything that she wants with her powers so she's sort of practicing here she gets like this ball of clay and she can create something from it and she's just kind of entertaining a group of friends creating a wail and i really like this image because i like the way that it represents their friendship so we have cora janny mim and corna and sateen and i know it's a lot of names and that's probably the number one problem of my book is that there's a lot of characters but i think you do get to know them quite quickly obviously me saying the names here now is probably a bit confusing next we had guarded so i drew the guards at the gate of the school in the story this school has to travel around a lot because they are being hunted by the people on the opposite side of the war because they have these powers and the other people don't like that obviously i'm super oversimplifying the story just to make it understandable for you guys who haven't read it but yeah and then clock here with cora in the beginning of the story and then sort of near the end where she's hardened up a bit and she's a sword fighter and did the clock in the background because i just like to show the passing of time and i really like drawing that clock that was really interesting even though it's a little bit wonky it was fun to do the the different levels and to look at medieval clocks and because of something you never would really think about and i think that's the good thing about these prompts is it's making me think what would that be in this story and stuff like that so number 15 was weak and i decided to show cora at the low point of the story which i will not describe more of but she kind of gets covered in blood and if you want to read the story and find out why that's such a bad hook isn't it look character gets covered in blood go read it why yeah so she's just weak there there we go i'm sorry about this light the light is steadily becoming darker on this side of the table okay i'm sorry about the changing light but the tape the light is slowly drawing away from my death so day 16 was angular and i decided to just kind of draw some weapons from this story so there's a lot of swords and daggers and things i guess i don't really mention daggers very much but i assume some characters would be wearing them i also delved into using this car mine winds are in uten ink just because i thought it would look nice and i used it here to highlight that that was blood but it is very pink i thought it would be more red but it's very pink i like the overall look of this one a lot and then the last day which was 17 which i did yesterday and i kind of jumped the gun on because today is the 17th was swollen and this is corner and janny and i told you before that they have like fight training and stuff like that and that corner is a martial artist so she would be fighting other martial artists and in my head in this scene she's gone hit or something and janny's just like put ice on it because she's basically like the mum of the group or the overall thinker and yeah that's that's all my submissions so far and i think i'll do if i manage to keep it up i hope i do um then i'll do more and like i said putting another constraint onto the constraint that i already had really helped me think of different ideas and different scenes and i thought this was really fun to do and i know that i go on about this book and stuff and i hope that you guys don't think i'm trying to sell you something because it's not what i'm trying to do i'm just saying that that's what i work on at the end of the day that's what my channel is about is what i work on the stories i produce what i'm doing with my time so i'm just yeah i just decided to draw images from my book because that is what i'm passionate about and that is what intrigued me more so i hope you liked seeing all these doodles and it kind of looks like a little bit of a comic doesn't it would be nice to do a comic of this but i've already written a book so that wouldn't make sense these are these are the images and i hope you like that sorry for the short video this week but i thought this would be quite interesting to some people so that's it and i hope you liked it so i will see you next time guys thanks for watching please like and 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