So here we have the October ArtSnacks box!
should I open it up and see what's inside?
[awkward silence]
oh... you're waiting on me? let me get that
♪ music ♪
okay. -- the first thing I see is a couple different boxes of things
this is the menu that tells you everything that's inside the
box we have the monthly pretzel pencil sticker. this time it is a grayscale one
this is jumping up at me right now ah, this is gorgeous. what is this?
reminds me of a Palettefull Packs back when I used Sumi ink
this reminds me of
one of the brushes that came with that I can't remember what the brush was called
but you also have that little like loop
everything is written in a language that I cannot read
this is the Kuretake Bimoji Fude Brush Pen and it retails
for eight dollars apparently and it's limited edition
I assume that's the
print on it - oh it feels pretty cool too I assume it's got ink in it
that's really pretty - I love it there's like a metallic gold font on
there don't know if you can see that
next there's another box here
these are fineliner color graphics, Marabu , it looks like there's four colors
black, green, blue, and red -
oh look! there they are it's the little circles just like on the packaging
the gray makes it look a little cheap I don't know why it just
speaks to me; "cheap"
how much does this retail for?
this is $7 for all four they
feel very light will have to swatch those out
0.5 millimeter nib
there's the red, the blue, the green, and the black and
lastly the final supplies are wrapped in
this black tissue paper I assume that's to be October themed or
inktober maybe even
let's find out whats in here
okay we got two things so in here something I'm sure
everybody is pretty well acquainted with we have a white Sakura Gelly Roll Pen
and then we have this Amsterdam acrylic Marker
is it green?
[pause]
oh yeah permanent green deep
[pen prepping sounds: clicking and smacking]
there it goes! that's actually a really nice color
these are all the supplies in this
month's ArtSnacks box, I assume this is very inktober themed I mean everything
contain some form of ink but that's usually how art supplies go
so this Amsterdam marker retails for $7 *whoosh* better be fan-freaking-tastic -- okay it says:
this unique pen comes in 10 different patterns which one did you get okay
this is a special pattern I got
[limited edition woo's]
this is I believe a $24 with free shipping in
the US subscription box
okay with my math unless I'm completely wrong the
retail of everything comes out to $23.48 which is actually about 50 cents less
than the price of the box
so if you were to buy these things all separately you
could get them for 50 cents cheaper
I think last month's box was a better
value oh wait there's a joke I got to do the joke:
"what did the cow say to the artist?"
"this is a very mooving piece"
[awkward silence]
hmm was that joke worth 50 cents?
alright let's swatch out the supplies and i have this real tiny piece of people here
and we can swatch it out
that's a very thick marker - 2 millimeter
I think we all know how those work
they work just good enough to be useful but
just poor enough to be annoying, you know?
oh you know? your classic Sakura Gelly Roll
alright next let's swatch the Kuretake Bimoji Fude - I don't actually know how
to pronounce that - Brush Pen
it's a very like firm brush so I can get a very thin
line it's actually really cool
like if I push lightly I get that *demonstrates*
If I push hard *makes another stroke*
oooh, I don't really like that - it's not a very juicy pen - nope still having that
problem - this one is red ooh yes these are nice and juicy
I like it, I like it
oo, that works really nice I think I like this better than a lot of fine liners that I own
"water-based ink" so let's try going over it with this and see if it smudges
I'm getting a little bit more dry stuff again
what is going on with this
for an $8 pen I expect it to - I don't know - make a perfect stroke every time
at least maybe at least 90% of the time these were seven dollars for all four and
they work more consistently than this schmancy pen
I've been spoiled with both
the premier Palettefull Pack and the Scrawlrbox they usually come with
paper so you have like everything you need in one box and like as soon as you
get it in the mail you can just start drawing whereas this one there's a bit
more assembly required
so since this is a inktober themed-box I thought it'd be
cool to work on today's prompt since I haven't done it yet
so for day 20 the
prompt is "breakable" so we're going to mix that prompt with also using all of
these "sow-plies" (supplies)
so what are some things that are breakable?
♪ fragile
you ever seen that on a box? that should be a tattoo I get *nervous laugh
gel pen doesn't really - it's actually smudging the red ink a bit
it's not opaque over that ink at all I should probably test to make sure it's
opaque over any of these inks
I'm just as bad luck with this pen look it just
picks it up and smudges it around - let me try a different gel pen that I own and see
if I have better luck so this is a Uni-Ball -yeah look, look at the difference
that's the line I just drew with this uni-ball signo white gel pen okay I don't
know if they - did they like fail to test these supplies together before they sent
them that's - that's - that's no bueno
Oh like yikes like you'd expect the art
supplies to work together like these supplies are supposed to be you know
curated that's the point in paying the subscription fees is that you get art
supplies that are curated and like, I don't know, work well together so that
you don't have to do the research but like that's not working well at all
ehhh
okay so you can use the Kuretake Brush Pen on top of the Amsterdam
can use the white gel pen
yeah see look it doesn't even show up and then it smudges it
around and like stretches out the green ink
that is unacceptable to me
like how else was I supposed to use this pen except on top of the ones that
they've provided and it doesn't work on any of them
I'm not happy with that at all
[annoyed sounds]
now I'm kind of in a bad mood
it doesn't have a lot going for it at this
point, what it was 50 Cent's under the base price of the box
the supplies don't really work well together
yikes
well let's see if we can draw something with
these and maybe salvage my emotions
what if we have a person then there's like
their life is shattered so maybe the character has like pieces
that are like flying out of them - does that make sense?
so like if this was their face either eyebrows would be way out there
probably should have done that as an eyeball that would have been a lot cooler but you get
the idea right?
this is just the thumbnail and you could even be like a shattered
maybe there Will has been broken
this is an easier concept to work on digitally
cuz I can just draw the character and then grab the parts and move'um
but then again I'm still running into the problem how do I use these supplies
for this?
the colors really aren't inspiring anything in me I'm
liking this pen a lot - this marker paint pen thing
another idea is I could use this
as ink so like green and then use the acrylic marker is anything that needs to be like
filled in these are very similar colors actually they're like the same color but then
I kind of end up blatantly ignoring all of these supplies
I'm not drawing bodies today I guess
and then maybe some extra cracks - I think I need to do a bit
more concepting into the character design but once that's done I think the idea is
solid enough
I'm gonna give this thing another chance
oh it's working
maybe
that just wasn't dry enough okay the white gel pen is working pretty good on
the acrylic marker and it still doesn't work on - yeah it still smudges the
fineliners but it works on the acrylic marker now so that's for a little bit of redemption
maybe the mouth can be a little smaller than my concept that
seems a little bit more concerned like this one's more upset in this one it's
more like "huh!"
she actually kind looks a little bit like a Gibson girl - what if I
let me look one of those up
you see the resemblance?
it's somewhere around there
a high collar with a bow
maybe and then huge poufy - poufy sleeves, like a'dat
outline the shape a bit more - try to define it
instead of letting it be so loose
I totally forgot about the prompt and I was
just kind of enjoying myself
I don't think I even said anything, I was just like
*moans*
zombie drawing mode
I really like this sketch though I think it's cute
I just realize
like the Gibson Girl doesn't really fit into the "breakable" theme cuz I think she's
supposed to be a very independent and like strong woman but maybe this
particular character just received some heartbreaking or earth-shattering news
"shattering" get it? and now she's not entirely sure how she's going to go on
but in the end she will prevail
there we go but this is the moment where she gets
the bad news so you know shattering right? breakable? and it's at your lowest
points when you realize how strong you are, there we go
I made it work
need more curls up there? I dunno.
looking at these references and a lot of them have like
just a ton of curls up at the top of their head but I kind of liked it when
it was slimmer
right now it's time to destroy this drawing and add the cracks
I just cut right into it
maybe I don't need to actually - what if I just make
this line thicker so it seems like it's being pulled out a bit but I don't need
to like move the eye at all
cuz when I'm trying to do that I feel like it's just
really dis-proportioned the face
you could actually just redraw this line
just a ♪ smiiiiidge ♪ out farther
follow that same line
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there's some parts here that have sort of broken off - maybe some little particles
breaking off, yeah - now that I'm looking at it I like this one better than that
one so I think I do I'll pull the eye out - I mean.. not [pull] the eye out, but like
[move] this section of the drawing this way
like so
and add some particles breaking off of there as well, here we have the sketch
I'm actually quite happy with this I like it hmm
what if I used the green
like my original idea which was use the green and green for everything so anywhere
that needs to be thick use the marker and you wouldn't need to be thin
use the fine liner for the parts that have broken off I could color in a
different color like red
just lightly erase everything and then start with the
stuff I know is gonna be green at least like the hair
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this is the only Inktober day that I haven't used a Dip Pen
oh I guess I should mention if
you're interested in seeing all of my inktober drawings you can check them out
on my Instagram
erase that a little more now that I don't need it.
and then the eyeball
fill that in with the acrylic actually
I like the solid
coat you can get with this pen/marker-thing
I've been enjoying using dip pens
but Ohhh! have I missed using just regular fineliners - I feel like
it's been forever
switch to the marker
♪
it's hard to like give up on supplies and like force yourself to use only one
type of supply for a certain amount of time cuz I like to jump around and use
all sorts of different things so this is a nice welcome change
the bow - oops I messed that up - I think I
want to outline the whole thing with this marker
makes a funny sound doesn't it?
*scraaaaaatch*
*skriiiitch*
*scruutch*
now's the hard decision, do I want to do the shattered bits in a different
color? and what color do I want to do them in?
my gut instinct is red but red
and green are contrasting colors and I could run into some problems and look
Christmas-y so I could go blue but then I feel like there's not enough contrast
so then I'm left with just do it in green or black actually I have that zig
brush thingy
oh I forgot to draw the mouth I always forget
I always forget something
ooh lala trying to use this white gel pen here
either way this
would be green
all right I can't put this off any longer I have to make a decision
I'm way too worried about completely messing this up
let's just stick with
the green
like'a'so
I move it over just a little there you go
and then the ear
oh, I have to draw the eyeball
I'm just gonna draw it a smidge to the sketching
line I think that'll help me keep it proportionate properly
by just pretending the sketching line is just a little off
draw everything a smidge to the side of it
like that!
♪
fill in the pupils - add more depth to the shattered
wonder if I could mix
this with water and get a less opaque color or I can just color in the lips
with a hatching
that'll make it a little less dark
ooh I'm actually tempted to do
it in more places
"joo, joo, joo, joo, joo, joo, joo"
yeah like that I like
alright, lets do the rest of it
♪
almost done yeah
I'm liking that though I like that it's not quite as dark as like the pupils but it's still
got that green to it
oh wait this little piece
♪
kind of wish I had remembered to
draw that on this side
but oh well
now the only thing that's different
about this then what I had pictured was I kind of imagined coloring in this
entire background with this marker
I like it the way it is too
*ponders life*
nah, don't really like that
what if I fill in the background with this black
it's not really what
this pens made for I think it's made for more line arty stuff
I'm really disappointed with this pen
dang
yeah it looks so pretty on the
outside, the inside it's kind of poopy
mrwah mrwah ♪
*laughs* I just realize this prompt word I
feel like fit really well with this box "breakable" like it's just *sigh* so fragile
so it could have been so great but it's just "mwrah"
although I'm really happy with
the drawing I think it turned out kind of cute
this box is definitely a disappointment for me
I know some people might enjoy
these supplies but specifically the fact that this one didn't work very well
and that just seems - in my art I don't really want that texture
particularly so this is just you know if the gelly roll pen that works sometimes and
not all the time
this was really cool I quite liked this
these were all right but they do smudge with the white gel pen which was a little bit annoying and [a lot annoying]
and these are colors that I don't use very often but I do like what I was able to
come up with them and they're very smooth and they work really well I was
actually quite surprised with just how juicy and nice that they worked I was very
proud of those
I've only opened two of these and and
I'd it doesn't really live up to the other ones that I've opened like Scrawlrbox
or Palettefull packs
if you think I should continue to open these let me
know um again I didn't pay for this one it just came to me so Thanks to artsnacks
I assume for sending it to me anyway I hope this was informative to
someone and you enjoyed going through my process of creating an illustration with me
and yeah! I had fun creating this drawing I'm actually quite happy with it
so yeah thank you guys for watching I'll see you guys all next week
and I hope you have a ♪ delicious evening full of Waffles! ♪
♪ BYE! ♪
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*fork clatter*