Hey everyone! It's Inés and
welcome back to Draw Curiosity - I hope you've had a happy Halloween.
I know it's been a while, and I know that each time I publish a video it's been a while - I'm
not going to lie, 2020 isn't the year that's treated us the best. I know it's not treated
me particularly well, although I'm sure it's something similar for you as well - it's taken
quite the toll on my mental health. I'll say my OCD came back, which was
unsurprising - but I am on the mend, again. You know, doing all the things that I know
are supposed to work, taking medication, revisiting old therapy, trying to stabilise
my life as best as possible, trying to stay in touch with my family and loved ones despite the
fact that the vast majority of them right now are on the opposite side of the world and it's also a
little bit hard for me to get to see them if I wanted to or needed to. But I've also turned to
something which I've done in the past and which I know works, and which is to try and be creative.
I find that channeling my energy into making something is actually quite good for soothing
obsessive thoughts, and I'm sure you've all heard of this October challenge where everyone
follows a prompt everyday from an official or unofficial promptlist and they make a drawing
or an official creation, and I decided that I wanted to take part this year, but in a
very special way which was, rather than doing drawings, I wanted to do something that I used
to love doing - which is paper crafting and paper engineering. When I was a kid, I used
to love making cards and pop-ups for my friends and my family, then becoming an adult, I'd still
make them every now and then, but I didn't have as much time, so my challenge this month was to try
and exercise my creativity in that area every single day, and I had two rules:
the first one was that I had to use prompts from smaller artists, and secondly, I just had to come
up with something made out of paper that was ideally interactive. There was no pressure on
it being perfect, in fact I tried to aim for one to two hours max, obviously there were some where
I did spend quite a lot more time working on them, and then there were quite a few which you'll see I
spent considerably less time. The idea was to come up with a concept rather than it looking perfect,
and then honestly the materials I used were quite budget as well: I had some paper card,
and a scalpel, and some scotch tape and a marker pen, so none of it was particularly high tech:
the idea was just to put things together and make something. Oh yes! And bonus points if I was able
to make it sciencey, so that I would also have things to talk about as I was making this video!
So, yes, without further ado, I'm going to show you through 31 (actually 16/32) pop-up
creations that I've been coming up with over the past month. I hope you enjoy it.
So, we're just going to jump right into. First of all,
I would just like to show off the front page of the scrapbook, because it is also a pop-up.
It's a scrap book, or as I decided to call it later, Popuptober, so I decided to make some sort
of pop up effect. Now, most of the letters have some form of interactivity - these letters are
mirrored and they can be unfolded, these letters can be jiggled, and SCRAP can be respelled in many
different ways - so I guess it can be a scrapbook, a cr apbook, a capbook, a rapbook and sapbook!
Now, the first one was with the promp fish. This was the only one from the official
promptlist. I wanted to do something which would depict my mental state at the time, because at the
start of the month I wasn't doing as well as am now. The idea was I wanted to represent my OCD.
At the time, I’d often have many racing intrusive thoughts which felt somewhat
like being stuck in a wave. I was trying to work on confronting some of the thoughts,
and sometimes it would go really well, and there’d be a good reaction, and I wouldn't
be as freaked out by it, and other times it would be neutral, and sometimes, honestly,
it would be bad, and it was honestly quite hard to predict which one it would be until
exploring it and confronting the thought, and hence, this little spinner spins round whilst also
having 8 random and difficult to predict outcomes that cover the whole range I've just described.
The next one was for FROGTOBER, and the prompt was EYES. Like the previous one, it is a spinner
animation, and I was trying to depict different stimuli a frog might perceive. Enamoured frog,
normal frog pupil, just a normal frog pupil,
another male frog who might be competing for territory, a fly - an overly detailed
fly because someone studied them for her PhD - potentially the frog's next meal, a frog crush
and a cricket - which I'd say is another potentially delectable morsel.
The third one is MUSHROOM, and I wanted to make it creepy.
It isn’t really referencing anything, but you can interact with it, and, just wait for it…
The fourth was REJECT. Now, when I was at school, I was bullied quite a lot and I was
actually - well... it sounds like I'm playing a little tiny violin, but I was often ostracised
and left out from activities. Now, I'm going to say I hold no animosity towards this at
present day, but at the time I did often feel like a reject and wanted to make something
that encompassed those feelings that I had back then as a kid - so here are all the OK people,
it literally says WE’RE OK - but not you, the REJECT. There’s also a term used in Singapore,
Bojio, which means “not invited”, which I also think covers this term quite well.
Number five was WITCH. WHICH WITCH you ask? This Witch! And yes, this is one of the most basic pop
ups ever, but you know, there's space for more complicated ones and space for very easy ones.
The prompt for this one is FORBIDDEN ROOM, and my forbidden room of choice
is a fig. So I decided to make a biologically accurate board game in which you must live
your best female fig wasp life! The rules are detailed inside, the playing pieces are here…
Essentially, the pollinating Agaonid female wasp enters the fig and lays her eggs inside the fig,
so your NPCs are the unfertilised females that are placed on these starter squares,
and the players play as the males, or “kings”, which are placed here.
You may notice that there are more females than males, and this is consistent with nature,
where there is a skewed sex ratio for fig wasps. The males must engage in local mate competition,
whereby they must mate with their sisters - notice you can swap out the females for a coloured piece
when successfully fertilised by a male. After you have fertilised as many females as possible,
the males must then excavate a special tunnel so the females can escape the fig
and pollinate more figs. Notice the exit has the option to be excavated by different male types,
making it possible to prevent females fertilised by other males from excavating their way out.
And if you wanted to play this tiny board game in hard mode, I also made it possible for the
other male to be able to re-fertilise females with their own sperm, just by flipping over
the female counter, which also honestly isn’t unheard of in many species in real life.
I’m very proud of this one for being something I came up with within a couple of hours, I do admit
there are a few flaws I would change about the board game if I was actually beta-testing it and
spending a decent amount of time to produce it, but I like the concept.
This one was also a science one, and it's HEART. I originally considered drawing heart muscle,
but eventually settled on an anatomically correct heart,
followed by a pop-up rollercoaster in the shape of an electrocardiogram
of someone who is nervous. I wanted to add some carriages with some letters to spell out a word,
such as NERVOUS, but I ran out of time, so you've just got the first part of what I just described.
Number 8 was GHOST PARTY, so I imagined how transparent ghosts might celebrate - probably
by stealing Pacman’s fruit and eating it, to dress up as those different fruits.
Very basic, but actually I'd say it's quite effective. I like how this one turned out!
Number 9 was night sky and it's a shooting star. It’s supposed to be a shooting star, and I had
very little time to make this one - can you tell? There’s really not much to it - I know.
Number 10 was BOOK, so I wanted to take a leaf from this book,
because after all an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Number 11 was BLUSH for Animetober, which is why there's this attempt at an Anime character.
Of course one blushes went consensually flirted with and complimented - so here you go!
Number 12 was CELL MEMBRANE! I really wanted to make a 3D pop up model for this one,
so here are the two layers of lipid, with a transmembrane protein in the centre,
which allows for the passage of certain compounds across the membrane
that would normally be blocked by the lipids. Despite its looks, this one was
one of the fastest ones I made this month and I'm very happy with how it turned out.
Number 13 was DANCE, and it came from ghostober. So hence, the ghost. It's a very basic animation,
but I still wanted to use it at least once. Dance for me dance for me dance for me Ohh~ohhh
I’ve never seen anybody do the things you do before~
And number 14 was CAMOUFLAGE, so I've chosen obviously a chameleon.
Honestly I screwed up the slider on this one and I used cellotape in an attempt to make it smoother
and it made it stickier, so it's not particularly smooth or elegant, but concept over execution...
Number 15... is falling apart in my hands. *laughs* The prompt for the 15th was SPOOKY
SPORTS NETWORK. Now, this one you might have actually seen already if you follow my second
channel - RhymesWithFace - I recently did a stream over there whilst I decided to make this one, and
I thought it would be fun to make a paper version of Pacman. It ended up being the one I worked on
the longest BY FAR, took me 5 hours - and despite taking 5 hours, it wasn't even that effective.
But you know, the ghost change colour, and pacman can technically eat the fruit, and you can take
them out and put them back in. "waka waka waka"
"ahhh even though I'm a ghost..." So again, concept over execution...
I’m also going to take this moment, I guess, as I have just shamelessly self-promoted my second
channel to add that, you may have also seen some snippets of these of my pop-ups on my
Twitter and my Instagram, so if you happen to have those social media and are so inclined,
feel free to follow me over there too, because it's true that in between posting YouTube videos
that have recently been quite far in between, I'm a little bit more active over there.
Anyway, I really hope you enjoyed all of these, I know it was
a little bit different than usual, but I hope it was easy and enjoyable viewing. As always,
I want to thank my Patrons on Patreon for supporting my content.
And as always, thank you so much for watching me and I'll see you in the next one!