 in California. The sun is always shining right. People are smiling, making plans, hiding behind their shades, and you're doing the same. No rain, no flowers, nothing's growing way. Your heart is fire, but baby, I bet you're cold. Without me, even when it's 90 degrees. Without me, I bet that you can get any sleep in the bed lying. So, it's been a while since, um, so I'm like looking at a car because I've rubbed my eye, made a couple of my eyes. Cool story. It's been a while since we've had a conversation, and basically I've been through a lot because I got married last week, and that was my stressful thing ever because even though we had a small like COVID appropriate wedding, it was still pretty crazy. I had so much to do. I don't know why it was like mentally straining, so I took a break from YouTube, Patreon, stuff. I did my comic, I got that like pre-order. Yesterday, I actually sent them off to be printed, which is really cool. And yeah, I'm really looking forward to having them in my hands, so that's pretty much the update. I'm sorry I've been quiet. It's just that I needed to take a break, but now I'm feeling like really inspired, especially with the wedding stuff being over. It's like I can finally focus back on YouTube and things like that. Even though maybe the wedding, well, it's like strangely took up lots of time, even though we had like a small thing with just family, um, in Gibraltar where I live. Everybody is vaccinated. I say everybody, like 99% of the people are vaccinated and we don't have any cases currently, or we have like five cases. So there's like totally different rules right now, so it was kind of nice to have a party and just be like kind of normal for a little bit. Um, we also got a kitten, Mochi, who's attacking my camera, my rings right now. Um, here's my wedding ring, my engagement ring and my wedding ring in case you're interested. I will show you clips of the wedding now if it wants to focus. If you want to focus, it's two. There you go. That was my wedding ring. So at the moment, I'm kind of inspired again to draw. I feel like it's been a few weeks since I've done like properly some drawing, which is really weird to me because usually I've been, you know, you know me guys. I've been drawing like every day for a while and so with all this wedding stuff, it's been like I haven't been drawing at all. So I was feeling super rusty. Um, I did some anyway and I'm thinking what I'm going to do to get out of that rust is just have fun with it. I got the pastels out and I was like experimenting and just having fun again. My, a lot of the alcohol markers that I got, which I really like have run out because obviously I made two whole comics of them, so of course they're going to run out. They weren't last forever. Um, so I'm going to buy more or some refills online when I have the chance. I'm pretty sure there's a shipment coming for art from Artex. They said they're going to send me some, some alcohol markers from them. So I'm looking forward to getting those because it will be like, yeah. Um, I think it'll be, I think they'll be nice. I think they have like the brush, brush pens now. So lots of life updates and from now I really want to post a lot more on YouTube and stuff. Since about a week, I've been quite sick. I got a COVID test. It wasn't COVID. Luckily, my God, can you imagine? And yeah, I've just been ill. So I'm just like just now kind of getting over it. I still feel quite ill. I still feel like super drained and I think it's just like the wedding escalated, escalated it a lot. Um, but yeah, that's the update. And sorry that I've been quiet. I have missed you guys. Um, I've missed doing YouTube and content and Twitch as well, which I was steadily getting on with, but I think because I had so much stuff, it was just too much to keep up with. But yeah, everyone hates that. Like I hate when people will like content creators are like, oh, I'm so busy, but it's like, it's true, you know, life happens. Um, if YouTube was like my job, obviously I wouldn't act like this, but it is just a hobby for me at the moment. So that's why I need to take breaks. Um, that's it. But yeah, getting back to it, a little bit of a art blocky kind of moment because since not drawing for a couple of weeks, I feel like I've lost the groove. Um, so I've just been doing like loads of random doodliest stuff. Um, some hands because I felt like I was really rusty with drawing hands. And then today I've just been like limiting my color palette and just drawing not this one, but like these two, just drawing with like really limited supplies. So I just picked up a few and went over to my day job desk and stayed away from my other supplies to just not be tempted. And yeah, I'm just having fun with the supplies that I have and trying to mess around. I'm doing like a little window thing with some washi tape here and I'm going to do like a little, I don't know, a silhouette of a window. Um, yeah, I'm just messing about basically. And I think that's really helping me loosen up. I really like these. I'm trying to get some like design ideas for Patreon stuff because I'm giving everyone on Patreon a mega bundle this month, um, to make up for taking a break for a couple of months. So it's going to be loads of prints and different stuff. So I'm trying to think what like to send. And I really like the idea of doing like a little bundle of mini prints and called like dream call it dreamscapes or something like that. And I thought that'd be quite cute. So I'm toying with that idea, but it really helped to just limit what I was using and explore that way. So I'm really glad that I'm doing this. Yeah. I made these little dreamscapes and I'm thinking I'm going to make them on little small prints and they'll come in like a pack of free. Um, but I really like this one. I really like this one. And then I did like an ocean wave. And for some reason I hate it. I will do a different one. I think because, um, maybe these colors don't really work for ocean escape or like the approach wasn't so good. Um, I don't hate it. I just don't think it works. Also, I broke my rule and I like took this Molotow pen into it, which doesn't make sense because now it looks like a totally different color scheme. And my point was to have the three together. So yeah. Um, I'm going to do a third one. But yeah, I think these would be really cute. I'm going to go get them printed in town at my local printers. And I was thinking, yeah, just three little, like really small prints and you can put them side by side. But yeah, I'll send those out to my patrons. If you're interested in getting some, link down below. But yeah, I think this would be a good idea. I'm going to redo this one. And we'll see, we'll see how it works out. So I've done this one and I like it. I'm going to go in with some like pencil to make it more like these ones. So it's really expressive. And yeah, I like, I like this one now. Um, don't like this one. This one gets a no. But yeah, the other two cool. And then the same like similar color palette because we'll add a bit of pink here, like this bright pink as well. So they go together, but using the same color palette on each of them. So they all look nice lined up. Yeah. Taking some pictures of the books that I want to sell. So this is going to be up on my Etsy. And I'm trying to make like cool pictures, kind of inspired by, um, books in La La, if you know her, she's a really cool Instagram slash YouTube booktuber person. And yeah, I really like the way that she does like flatly images. So sort of inspired by her. And then I'm going to put these images up on Etsy and try and sell some of these books. I'm selling the goosebumps one. Oh, sorry. The goosebumps one. The, um, are you, what's this called again? Scary stories telling the dark. I was like, are you afraid of the dark? That's not there. And then all of the, I'm going to sell the PSI. I'm going to sell all the boys I loved before in a bundle. Um, this one is like, these are two are really good still, but this one like is flaking a bit. So I'm going to have to like go over that again. I think, I'm not sure what happened there. I think maybe just too much acrylic paint. But yeah, I'm going to go over that again and then re gloss it so that it can be sold. And uh, yeah, they're still readable as well. So I think they're really cool. Um, I hope that people like them. I'm going to be selling the it one as well, which I'm not sure anyone will buy because it's just creepy, but has the open book function, which is I think kind of cool. So I'm doing like a flash sale of 10% off everything or not everything, just the comics, not the books for just like a week, I think. So if you guys were holding on to not buying it or whatever, maybe that will give you the incentive. It's only a little bit off, but maybe yeah. So hopefully that'll be all good. Okay, I updated my Etsy with some of the books. Um, I'm only going to do these three, um, well, five, because this one is the, to all the boys I love before trilogy in one. So I'm just going to do those listings for now and see how it goes. Um, they're going to be with free shipping. And I really hope that they find loving homes if that makes sense. So I think I'm going to end the vlog here, but thanks very much for watching. And I'm hoping to post a video on Saturday as well. So I'll see you then if you fancy it. Bye. I, I went to the bathroom for two seconds. This is all soil because somebody decided to attack the succulent pond. I regret things. I regret things guys, but it's so cute. So she's worth it. I have to tidy this up now. Great fun for a, what is it? Wednesday. Wednesday morning. Good times. Pesto's not impressed. And Mochi thinks this is a game. It's not a game. It's not a game. She's like, ooh, time for this. I'm trying to sweep and hold the camera. It's not really working out for me. So I'm going to have to put this down. Mochi, please. That's so sort of out.