 Hey guys, welcome to another video for my creative year This month the month of November we as I said in the intro video for the month are working with bright colors and I pulled out this Neon watercolor palette. This is probably the brightest palette of paints. I have in my art room and I said, you know get out those bright paints maybe the neons and Those paints those colors those bright colors maybe that you don't work with much and let's work with them this month So we're going to do that first thing I'm going to do is this is dollar store drawing paper It comes in a sheet. That's like about nine by twelve. So I cut it I usually cut them in half. So I have two six inch pieces and That's because that's perfect for my art journals and for what I use it for And we are going to make just some watercoloury Random mark marked backgrounds Just we're not going to try to paint anything in particular any particular picture if you will quote unquote So I'm going to just grab a color. I'm going to grab this orange. This is light orange. These are all different brands of paints So some of them are Uh from some Japanese brands some of them are from a new york paint company They're all different brands, but look how how bright is that holy cow? Can you even see how bright that is on camera? That's crazy bright. So I'm just going to put some down. I'm going to make some marks. I'm going to grab another color maybe this pink you can of course just go to amazon and Put in like um You know neat fluorescent Watercolors or fluorescent paints if you want to do it with acrylics you can totally do that There's plenty of acrylics out there. I'm going to take some water Just plain water I'm going to do this I'm going to take a straw This is harder to do because this is drawing paper and the paint doesn't want to move too much. It soaks right in Um, but you can do it. I'm going to this is just a piece of watercolor car paper I'm going to actually dip it in One of the colors of paint Just to make some marks So I want you to Create I also have a sea sponge which I might use So I'm going to make some random marks make some random paper and let it dry I'm going to speed forward through the process and I'll be back Okay, now that our brightly colored collage papers are dry Um, and I've grabbed a few other papers and some of my sticker flakes and things We're going to work on actually making something out of that So I've got my um our journal here that I've been working on for a while And it's a moleskin weekly notebook weekly Yeah weekly notebook. It's from 2017 2018. So it's an old one that I'm repurposing to be an art journal And we are going to just go to the next available page I do wax my pages and I have um started going to using mostly um Mat finish paints in my journal Uh journals because they're not sticky and when you close your journal the pages don't stick together You don't really have to wax them or anything If you've art journaled for a while, you know exactly what I'm talking about All right, but I got the habit a long time ago with most of my art journals of Um, even if they're wax like this one is and that there should be a piece of paper there I usually that's why there's all these loose ones in the front I usually take a piece of wax paper. I've cut And I just I put it in there anyway Because I have found sometimes depending on what I've used on the page There is not enough wax paper on the planet. Y'all know what I'm talking about And the pages stick together anyway so um I cut a bunch of sheets of wax paper and I've kind of just been going through here and Sticking them in there you can get you know your wax paper at the dollar tree It doesn't have to dollar or whatever dollar store you have usually You can get a brand and that whatever brand they have works just fine But most of my journals just have lots of like wax paper sticking out the edges at this point I'm okay with it. So that's why it looks that way So we're going to turn to the next available page, which is this one I am going to Turn the journal back on itself because it's starting to get a little bit full and puppy and so It'll give me a flatter surface to work on We'll clip it open There we go So, oh, I need to put these in. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What am I thinking? Okay, so let's put these in and these just helped me from getting the rest of the journal to messed up And having the pages get all stuck together again, I don't care if the edges are marked up necessarily but Um, if they all get stuck together because I've gotten sloppy with the paint and then I have to try to break them apart and then something rips You see where I'm going with that scenario, right? It's very annoying Okay So we are going to have the main focus of our journal page be our bright colors because that's what we're focusing on this Month and I would love since I saw the prompt I kind of wanted to get my neon paints out and use them On a journal page to see what I could do so And I do still have the paints out on the table like off that way off camera If I need them We of course are going to balance them with some dark Because that will make it show up the most. So I'm going to grab my big ballpoint pen my favorite pen um my sharpie fine point And a pencil I don't use that much any more Because I just forget about it Which is if I can find it Nice to be low all pencil Okay, and um So we're going to do something interesting I think so my focus On the page is going to be creating some movement on the page, which I've talked about in videos before on my channel I'm creating some movement on the page. I'm not concerned with covering the entire background I like working in the mole skins Because they have lines and dates and numbers And I already think of that as texture and part of the background of the page So I don't necessarily want to cover all of it up But I want to create some movement on the page and of course a message. That's usually what I do I like to use an app Well, I mean you could just google it. You don't have to download this app and I'm this is not a sponsored video or anything um I use an app called zero quotes z y r a And every day, um, when you open it, it has a different quote Now if the quote I'm usually you try to use the quote in a journal page. So if the quote doesn't appeal to you you can Just swipe left And you can keep doing that until you find a quote that you do like This one was kind of funny. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. That's actually kind of funny And um, I think we all need a good laugh right now, right? So I might actually use that one So we'll see. Um, and then I can also share to like facebook from the Um app. So I will be uh after I finish Creating the page, um, I will be sharing the quote that I used directly to the my creative year facebook group so, um, let's kind of have that your brain's falling out in the back of our mind and We're going to take a plain piece of white paper to start And I'm going to zoom in Look at a number two pencil And my glasses so I can see what I'm doing Well, it's not a number two pencil, but we use this so something I've been doing lately is creating sort of a meme of my face Um in my journals and I I do just hand draw them At some point I might make a make a sticker out of it, but So I just lightly use a pencil and draw sort of uh A brownish overly shape. I do have sort of a round head. So loose sketchy pencil lines Okay, can you even see that? I don't even know if you can see that Yeah, there you go. So Then I'll put a neck. I don't have a long neck and I have sort of a fat neck. So It is what it is and then I'll put some features on Now if you have straight hair You want to you know draw your Meme your face to have straight hair If you have curly hair or wavy hair, you want to do it that way I have this mouth line sort of going up and sort of a smile and then I'll just like hint at the bottom lip Now I like that quote it says something about your brain's falling out. I think that's actually funny So what if we took the head? And we sort of cracked it open Try to sort of mimic the shape that we have going on over here And then what if coming out of it? We just have like hearts I didn't plan this ahead of time by the way. I literally am just thinking of this while it's on camera Something like that now because I want it to be sort of my Face I usually have a t-shirt on and legging. So we're not going to we're just going to draw from like the shoulders up So we'll put a t-shirt neckline And then my hair is sort of wavy curly like the grayer it gets the more curly it gets so I just do some curly lines And then we'll do some over here Okay, something like that I know you probably can't see a ton of that on camera Because of the pencil, but once you have a sketch that you like and I'm gonna Ink everything And at least the lines that I like Okay, let it dry for a second And we want to take an eraser to it As soon as I find my eraser because you know I cleaned over here and so Finding the eraser can be challenging So then you go in and Erase the pencil lines Okay, we're gonna need a white gel pen If you let your pencil lines or your pen marks dry a little bit, they won't smudge like that So I'd recommend you let them dry a little bit. Let me get a couple markers saying I'm really when I color her in I keep it pretty simple I have gray hair I've let it go gray. It's natural color during covid so These are highlighter markers by the way if anybody's asking I like to get the highlighter markers that come in Interesting and unique colors. These are java powerline 2500. This is mild gray And then I picked up mild pink and I have a white gel pen so I'm going to just color in the hair okay I'm going to Give her some pink cheeks I'm also going to color the hearts in And this is a because this is a highlighter pen even though it's called mild pink. It's very bright But again, you have to balance your bright And light colors with your dark colors. I think I really make them pop now for the cheeks I usually have gotten the habit of going over it with some white gel pen And they're just kind of dabbing it with my finger Just to make it a little less like bright Of course, I have a love hate relationship with my gel pen. So that's kind of a thing My hair is gray. It's like silver This pen just does not want to work. Let's try a different one That could be the one that I've been having issues with I want to tore up the paper a little bit, but that's okay I'm telling you my pen downstairs works fine, but the ones up here don't want to work so much Let's try I gave up on these two. They're going in the project pan art supply box. I think they're both dried up So we're going to just grab a new one. Yep. That one works great And then while the gel pen is Uh, wet just dab it with your finger Now again those Were kind of dried up so they tore up the paper a little bit, but that's okay We can work with it And then I'm going to put some sort of white highlights in her hair Because my hair is silver gray And it just makes it pop And just make yourself a little meme So Now we're going to cut her out I always sort of roughly go um cut the shape out. I usually leave a little bit of a border Just because fussy cutting is not my favorite thing. I'm lazy You of course can cut it out more detail in a more detailed fashion if that's your thing Um I do think I want to go in here Cut some of that out like that Okay, now we're going to bring the journal back Yeah, that's going to be cute on the page. Let me zoom out a bit so you can see the whole thing. There we go Now I'm going to arrange some of my neon papers in a way That make this really pop Yeah, so okay Let's get to getting shall we all right? Let's put her aside and let's put some of the neons in the back And I'm kind of getting the idea do I want to take one of these neons and cut a bunch more hearts out And put those on the background and I think that is what I want to do So we're going to just do the whole old grade school thing And cut a bunch of hearts out Oh, yeah, I can kind of picture where this is going to go and it's going to be really cute So let me get everything glued on I'm going to speed forward through my process and I'll be right back I like the unexpected movement in the page. I'm kind of debating about whether I need something here or not I don't know that it does I'm kind of liking the way it's looking at the moment without anything in between the two The two main focal points. I like that the hearts and the strings holding the hearts coming out of her head Are just kind of connecting everything I kind of like that. So I think I'm going to leave it So simple quick easy using bright colors to really make it pop an unexpected quote Which I will actually share right now in The my creative year facebook group you click on newsfeed And then group my creative year post All right I'm going to get this video edited really quick and I'm going to get it up in the group too I hope you enjoy I would really love fruit to see you all try like making your own sort of meme It doesn't have to look like you look like you but like for instance, I have Very long wavy curly gray hair and so and kind of a short fat neck and a round face So, you know use some features That kind of make you stand out and then create sort of a cartoony kind of meme image of of yourself that you can use in your work and then you know Do that over and over and having words or a quote on your page To express how your feeling is not a bad thing and for those questioning it The places where the pen didn't want to write is because the glue stick is wet Um and this kind of Distressed piece of paper is one that I created in a live broadcast on my channel not long ago I'll link it in the video description using homemade um dies And then this is just plain lined paper nothing special Stuff from the dollar store. All right. That's it for the minute I'll see you next month in the next video. I've got something special planned I've got to wait for some parts to come in that I had to order and It's going to be exciting. We're going to Go out with a bang for 2020, right? But a good bang. All right. That's it. I'll be back