Hello, and welcome back to Jenna Gets Creative! Today's video: ScrawlrBox! This is the April
(2019) ScrawlrBox. I know, I know, I'm putting this video out on the 28th of May. I'm filming
this on the 14th... 14th? 15th? I don't know if midnight has passed yet. [laughs] Of May.
and this was just in my mail box today, on the 14th. April ScrawlrBox, got mailed out
around the 17th of April, it's international to me, I live on an island, what'cha gonna
do? I know you've probably already seen at least 3 other YouTube artists do this. I seem
to be the last one to get it. It is what it is! Let's go ahead and do this.
The featured artist in this month's box is Kiki B. You can pause when I show it to get
her instagram information and read her little blurb. Her print is this cool little calligraphy
thing with a whole bunch of fancy swirls everywhere, and it says "If you're not learning every
day, then you're not living every day." That's a really cool motto. I'm looking forward to
being done recording this so I can put the print up on the wall in my art room. I'm gonna
read the card to you now. At the top, under the April box, it says "This month we want
you to think about an inspirational quote, something that motivates you to create something
or be a better person. It can be a famous quotation, something your grandma always said,
or something you created yourself. Use the supplies in this box to either write out the
quote in beautiful brush lettering (like our featured artist) or draw something to effectively
communicate the essence of the phrase. ScrawlrTip: The Ecoline pens are water based and can be
blended with water. Try creating clour gradients and experiment with different colour combinations."
So, they did send us a 5 pack of "Royal Talens Ecoline Brush Pens. The Ecoline brush pen
uses a fantastic transparent watercolour ink. The ink has a shorter drying time than other
watercolours and is beautifully vivid. The bright ink lends itself to blending and mixing
extremely well, simply add water to the colour to mix and blend. The pens use a large fibre-brush
nib which is soft and flexible, perfect for achieving a variety of line widths and effects.
These nibs also keep their shape very well. The ink is water-based and not very lightfast,
so Ecoline advise keeping your finished work protected in a portfolio for better colour
retention." The suggested retail prince in British Pounds Sterling is £12.95 per pack.
And of course, I will have the price converted to USD and CAD in the description box down
below. Next up "Uni PIN Drawing Pen Dark/Light Grey. The Uni Pin fineline drawing pen features
waterproof and fadeproof pigment ink. Ideal for all types of art and design, including
sketching and technical drawing. The black ink pens are the most popular, but Uni have
recently expanded their range to include more colours. We have included the light and dark
grey pens, so you can experiment with how these colours and different line widths can
add something a little more subtle to your work than the standard black." So we got a
0.1 and a 0.5, the dark grey is 0.1 and the light grey is 0.5. I do have the full size
range in black from Uni Pin, and I do like them. The suggested retail price , again in
British Pounds Sterling, is £2.43 each, per pen. The also gave us a "Viking Element 1
Graphite Pencil. A new modern classic from Viking, made in Denmark. The Viking Element
1 pencil has a beautifully simple matt black barrel, with silver metallic text printed
on the classic hexagonal shaped barrel. The graphite core is a very smooth HB lead providing
a great all-around pencil for drawing and writing." Suggested retail price in pounds
is £1.00. It is, it's a very nice looking pencil. I keep on accidentally picking it
up when I'm trying to find my Faber-Castell water soluble pencil! [laughs] It looks almost
exactly the same. And we also got a "Faber Castell Kneadable Artists Eraser. Kneadable
Art Erasers are the perfect choice for correcting encil, charcoal or pastel work. They are super
soft and easily kneadable. The eraser is very absorbent and picks up graphite easily from
the paper, while leaving no residue behind." Suggested retail price £1.49. This one comes
in white, and it's very, very sticky compared to some other kneadable erasers I've used.
It reminds me of poster putty, or blue tack, sticky tack, whatever you wanna call it. They
did not give us any information on the paper provided. It feels like just your basic cartridge
paper. The challenge is "Words of Wisdom."
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What! What! Ahh! I was so excited to get these because I love watercolour markers. Like proper
watercolour paint markers, and I've known about Ecoline for so long, and I was really,
I was considering getting Ecoline liquid watercolours when I got my Ph Martin's India inks, and,
yeah... What you just saw me fail at doing was attempt number like 5 or 6 at actually
doing this ScrawlrChallenge, and these are not working for me. So, yeah. Um, originally
I was going to do a dancer and have the quote "Life's not about waiting for the storm to
pass, it's learning to dance in the rain." Because that's just, yeah, I love that quote.
So um... I wanna do it, I really like the sketch I'm working from. It's referencing
an Instragram photo of Robbie Downie, and I do have her permission to use it. So I'm
gonna go ahead and finish off this video using something else to do that picture, the picture
that represents that quote to me, and we'll get back to whatever I was just saying in
the voice over. [music: Waltz of the Flowers resumes] So if I got that bonus video I was
teasing out over the weekend before this is going live, then you've already seen me doing
this watercolour technique. If I didn't, or if you missed that video, this will be the
first time you're seeing it. I am also going to put out at least one more in the very near
future doing this techique. Recently Monique Renee, who I also watch here on YouTube, did
a watercolour tutorial called "Let's Make a Watercolor Painting" or something along
those lines, where she did this, where she put down just a splattered cloud of mixed
watercolour colours, and then drew a portrait within the confines of that and coloured the
portrait using the colours that were already there, not really going for realistic colours.
I really liked that, so that's what I did for the piece you hopefully saw on the weekend,
that's what I'm doing for this one, that's what I will be doing for a tiger portrait
very soon. And yeah, I'm playing with my new Winsor & Newton Cotman traveler palette. I
really like it so far. This is on Bee Paper Company 100% rag cotton coldpress watercolour
paper. That is my go-to when I want really good coldpress watercolour paper. So as I
mentioned, this is based on a photo off of Robbie Downie's Instagram account. She is
an up and coming ballet dancer. She has a YouTube account as well, I've been watching
her for years. Her YouTube channel is My Dance TV. And like I said, I've been watching her
for years. She's a great dancer. I really hope that she gets into the company of her
choice when she's ready for that, which should be pretty soon, she's getting up there in
the teenage years, that's about when you start looking. I found her along with several other
ballerinas, ballet dancers I watch and read when I was doing ballet recreationally, and
it was really inspiring. And yeah, I still- She's the one that I continued to watch all
the way through from then til now. Most of the others I dropped off a bit after I moved
out here to Newfoundland back in 2012, and I didn't have the time or the resources or
even know where a studio was to go and continue recreationally dancing. Recently I've got
back into watching the dancers I like on YouTube, and she's always been one of them. I follow
her on Instragram as well, and her sister, and they're just, they're gorgeous dancers.
Thank you again, Robbie, for letting me reference your photo, paint it. It's gorgeous! And uh,
sorry everybody if you can hear noise in the background. My kitties are being extra needy.
[To cats:] Yes you are, Hi Camo. Might be able to hear her purring. Anyway, so yeah,
I... I have seen other people do this ScrawlrBox with these supplies, the Ecoline brush pens,
and they pulled out great things, but I just... I don't know. Maybe my markers are duds? But
I found that if I was using them on any sort of regular paper, they were just way too pale,
they were eating up the paper like crazy because they're water based, and I don't know, like,
I like Winsor & Newton watercolour markers, and that's a similar type of nib. And I love
the watercolour brush pens that are just like a waterbrush pen but filled with a watercolour
liquid or an ink. But these just, they're not working for me! I also, as you saw, I
tried to draw the dancer on tracing paper, because I thought it might be a cool effect
with the translucency of the watercolour ink to do it on that and then try to do the quote
behind it, but of course I forgot about the fact that tracing does not take kindly to
getting wet! So that idea went out the window. And then I got real frustrated, and the last
attempt you saw me doing before I interrupted myself was just a last-ditch effort to do
SOMETHING along the lines of an inspirational quote, and I was gonna do "You do you," and
I was gonna make splotchy patterns on it, and I brushed my hand across to get a cat
hair off it, and I smudged it. You can't really see on camera that it smudged, but in person
it looked horrible, and I was, I was done with it. Just, SO done with it! So yeah, I
tried. Here's my not at all using the box piece, representing the quote that I immediately
thought of when I read the challenge: "Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's
learning to dance in the rain." So, that's what I wish for everybody. Just, however you
want to say that quote, it's a variation on if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I'll
see you on Thursday, guys.