hi everybody welcome back to another video where i am yet again publicly calling out my mom on the
internet my mom is really sweet in the sense that she's one of those supportive moms who doesn't
throw away literally anything that her kids give her it's a very sweet gesture but she'll save on
to the most mundane things from my childhood anytime i got any kind of like certificate or
award or like literally anything my mom kept it for example some of the stuff that i pulled out
from my mom's box of stuff that she has i found my 2003 reading award where i was in the lowest tier
of the reading club because i read two books you'll also find this 2007 newspaper clipping
which i have nothing to do with the actual story the newspaper reported on i just so happened to
be in the background of the photo when it was taken and my mom saved it you'll also find my
middle school newsletter it's literally just a newsletter that talked about the school week
and lastly a flyer to my high school award assembly which i wasn't even a part of the
assembly my mom just wanted me to feel included so she kept the pamphlet that they gave her
so it's a very sweet gesture that my mom does by saving all of my little paperwork and most of the
stuff that my mom has saved is you know just kind of like sweet silly little memories from
my childhood but there is one single thing that unbelievably my mom has kept and that is my very
first drawing at this point in time i'm 28 years old the drawing was done all the way back in 1998.
i was five years old i was in kindergarten and my class had a competition where you had
to do a full page drawing for a competition basically not to brag but i won fifth place
and because the drawing was considered one of the winning things my mom unbelievably has kept it
fast forward two decades later today i am going to be redrawing that drawing before we get into it if
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missed a video that would be amazing so yeah without further ado let's go get the drawing
allow me to introduce you to what my mom calls the book of life as you can
see it's a giant scrapbook of i guess you can say it's like my academic greatest hits
that my mom saved the entire time i was growing up and then she gave it to me
the day that i graduated high school inside this you'll find report cards both good and bad
mostly bad because i was a bad student tons of embarrassing botched class pictures that i took
for some reason i was just really against smiling and of course my very first drawing so here it is
all i remember is that this is a drawing of moi in the drawing it's my birthday as you can tell by
the cake that's located directly on top of my head in the drawing i have very long pink fingernails
there's three people in the background one of which literally just doesn't have arms
everybody's wearing party hats for some reason i also decided to draw a heart
that's getting like literally sawed in half by a sword pretty dark for a five-year-old
and yeah that's pretty much the essence of the drawing so my plans for the drawing is
that i'm going to keep the essential elements that i notice and somehow incorporate them into
the new drawing i'm going to try to make this drawing in my personal style which is realism
and how i'm going to do that is basically by recreating this exact scene except now so oh and
it seems like it's storming right now so i better hurry up and go to walmart before it gets too bad
oh my god i actually did my hair today so i am absolutely feeling myself so if you catch me
doing this the whole entire time you know what so i just got back from the walmart and i got every
single thing that i needed on my list that way i could recreate the drawing with a photo but there
is one single thing that i'm not gonna be able to buy from walmart or be able to recreate and that's
the three people in the background one of the only other things that i remember about making that
drawing is that those three people are my cousins who currently live far away and not only do i
think they wouldn't probably want to be on camera they live too far away so ultimately i've made the
executive decision to not include them so yeah right now the current plan is to um figure out
like the composition of the drawing take a bunch of reference photos and we will go from there
happy birthday to me
i just finished taking some of the reference photos and when i say some i mean i literally
took 90 different pictures out of all the photos i got it narrowed down to two and i'm kind of
teeter-tottering between the two i want to do so we got the first photo i really like this one
because it's kind of like goofy you know but what i don't like about this one is my hand it's like
it looks weird i don't know and the second thing i don't really like about this photo is the fact
that i'm like you know i'm kind of like spread out maybe someday for this photo if i ever wanted to
do a large painting but i don't think so so the reference photo that i'm ultimately going with
is this one the candles came out perfect i love the three-fourths of my face showing
i love the way the candle light is bouncing off my shirt really nicely
my hand doesn't look weird like everything about this photo came out beautiful and it
already kind of does look like a like a drawing you know it's currently seven o'clock right now
i'm gonna head to bed because tomorrow is the big day where i start the drawing
so it is currently the next day and i'm not gonna lie i originally thought about doing this whole
entire drawing in paint not ms paint but oil paint but the original drawing wasn't done with paint
it was done with a pencil and one singular pink colored pencil apparently so i decided to keep
that pencil situation going and i'm gonna do the drawing with colored pencils which by the way i
feel like it's been a very long time since i've done colored pencils on my channel when i first
started youtube that was the only thing that i ever did was colored pencils but now i'm so
focused on so many other things i never get the chance to use colored pencils so i'm excited oh
okay let's hope this works sometimes it doesn't work
why is drawing hands the weirdest thing in the world it's like hands themselves they
already look weird but then like you try to draw them and make them look realistic it adds like
another level of just weirdness but anyway here's the drawing so far the skin tone was a little
hard to create because i didn't have a colored pencil that matched that very warm color at all
so i used a lot of color theory in like four different colored pencils to create
the skin tone now i gotta decide what i'm gonna do with the background
the whole entire drawing is very like warm and yellow and brown so i'm thinking in order to
make it stand out i'll have to go to the color wheel and use either a purple a blue or a green
to like completely cover it and make it stand out does that make sense
so at this point i am not afraid to admit that there was kind of a problem
well i wouldn't say a mistake it's more like a creative difference if you will
the subject matter itself with the cake and the candles it's so warm and joyous
and directly behind it is a cold black void which doesn't mesh with the warmness so at
this point i made the executive decision to transform that cool gray into a warm tone
whenever you're by yourself do you ever accidentally like hit something or like
make a noise and you don't think it's you you think it's like a serial killer or something
it's like you like stay really quiet trying to like listen to see if anybody's in the house
at this point you guys already know the drill subscribe turn on notifications like
the video por favor and with that being said happy drawing and i will see you in the next video bye