- Is everyone alive?
How are y'all feeling?
Because I am not okay.
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Hi guys It's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
So it is currently Friday, April 12th, 2019 9:00 a.m.
You might think that's quite early
for me to be filming a video,
but I've actually been up since 4:30 a.m.
because today was BTS comeback day,
as in the new album drops, their new title track,
new music video, everything dropped
and it was very overwhelming
but obviously I had to wake up right when it came out.
So yes, I've been up for about five hours now,
but totally worth it.
This album is amazing and I just love BTS so much.
And I knew I wanted to do a video for them.
I'm even dressed accordingly.
Obviously I had to wear pink for persona.
So this is my persona fit.
I know that some people on my channel
might not know or listen to BTS,
so this BTS video is like extra.
Doesn't take away from my regular content, don't worry.
I know I've been doing a lot of BTS stuff recently.
This is an iconic day in BTS and ARMY history,
and also for my personal relationship with BTS,
because it's my first comeback ever.
But anyways, when I was thinking of what I wanted to do
on my channel, there was a couple of different ideas.
I was like, I could letter some lyrics
or like the song titles
'cause I know you guys like when I do lettering
and calligraphy.
I'm kind of calling it like a Doodle Party/Doodle
jam session.
I just wanna like make stuff.
This album is making me feel so inspired,
and BTS inspires me a lot to create.
So I'll see where the wind takes me.
We might do some lettering,
we might do some drawing or doodling, who knows.
And yeah, Doodle Party.
If you like this type of format,
maybe we can do it again for some other albums or musicians,
just 'cause music is something that I love,
not just BTS, but just music in general.
Anyways, I feel like very antsy,
I wanna get creative and I want to listen to the album
more, which is what I'm obviously gonna be listening to
while I draw stuff.
So let's get started.
My idea right now is to create almost like a lettering
collage word map, map of the soul.
See what I did there?
Anyways.
Yeah, I wanted to create kind of like this whole thing
that has the song titles,
maybe some of my favorite song lyrics
and we'll play around with lettering.
And I also just wanted an excuse to use every single pink
marker that I own, so let's do this.
All right guys,
so I have got every single pink marker
that I can find in my whole collection in front of me.
I mean, I think I have enough options here.
I also have all my super tips as well.
So if there is a pink in here that I don't have,
we have another issue.
Right now, I'm just gonna map everything out.
Every time I say map,
you know where my head goes.
Yeah, I'm just going to use pencil
to see where I want things.
And then we'll go in and add the colors
and the lettering and stuff.
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All right guys, sorry.
The lighting changed as usual.
Amanda can never have consistent lighting in her videos.
But I've mapped it out with pencil,
and I'm actually very excited.
I tried to play around with a lot of different fonts
and I went with fonts that suited the feel of each song
if you know what I mean.
And there's still some empty space because I mean,
there's only what, how many songs are there on the sample?
One, two, three, five, six, seven, seven songs.
But I figured in the empty spaces,
we can add some song lyrics and stuff.
I just wanted to get like the main stuff down.
But now we can go in and start lettering.
I'm very excited.
Okay, let's do this.
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(laughs)
I got too excited, I messed up.
Hey, what should I do?
Oh, no.
Okay, I'm gonna try to fix it.
Oh my God, I'm so dumb.
It's not the best fix, but done the best I can fixing that.
Hello, this is voiceover Amanda.
At this point in the video,
I had decided to just focus on the drawing.
And also I think I was just a little bit delirious
from being up since 4:00 a.m.
so I wasn't really talking much, which is weird,
but I'll just take over on voiceover
and kind of explain what I was going for.
I started out by of course,
writing out the name of the album,
"Map of The Soul Persona" in the center.
And in the background behind the title,
I used a pink marker to recreate that heart-shaped line
contour thing that's on the album cover.
It's very similar to the type of lines that they did
for their "Love Yourself" series.
But I thought it was a nice background,
especially since it's so simple.
And you'll see that I actually used
a lot of different pink accents throughout this whole thing
because obviously that's the color palette of the album,
and I thought it tied everything together very nicely.
All right, the first song that I am lettering is of course,
the title track "Boy With Love."
And I felt like the music video was very vintage,
there's a lot of old school references.
I do know that a lot of the music video
was an homage to the film "Singing in the Rain."
So I wanted to kind of emulate this old school vibe.
So I went with this cursive font
that's more even throughout,
it's not like my classic sort of hand lettering
where there's thicker downstroke and then thinner upstrokes,
it's more even throughout.
And it makes it look like a old vintage sign
or like a neon sign or something,
which I thought was very fitting for the song.
And then for the pink accents,
I added a bunch of pink hearts
because obviously "Boy With Love,"
you got to add hearts,
and then a pink banner underneath
where I wrote featuring Halsey,
which she honestly killed it in the song.
I was not expecting much just 'cause I don't really
listen to much Jose's music.
But I love that she spoke spoken Korean,
she apparently wrote and produced some of the track as well
and she learned the choreography.
So I don't know, I thought their interactions with her
was very cute.
For "Home," which is one of my favorite songs on the album,
I went with this all caps, serif font.
And then for "Jamais Vu,"
I wanted to go for something very elegant and soft
just because of the song is like a ballad.
So I did go for the brush pen,
which I was using the Tombow Fudenosuke hard tip
I believe. I'm gonna link all of the supplies that I used
in the description box below,
but I use that and instead of pressing down very hard,
I pressed down lightly.
I made the size of the letters a bit smaller
and kind of stretched it out,
so it gave it a very soft looking feel.
This is a new font for me,
the one that I'm doing right now for "Intro:Persona,"
it's very just like classic typewriter font,
almost like Times New Roman, but a little bit thicker.
I think I still need to practice
because it does look a little bit uneven.
But for like my first ish time trying this type of font out,
I really liked the way that it looks.
I think it would have looked a lot better
if I had used a ruler and like measured it out
because with that type of font,
you do need to be a bit more exact.
For "Dionysus,"
I need to figure out how to pronounce this
because I've been butchering it every time I say it.
So I will look that up and get back to you.
But anyways, the song is very hype and bold and lit,
so I wanted to reflect that with the font that I chose.
So I went with this very graphic, thick, all caps font.
The next song is "Make It Right,"
which is the song that they collaborated
with Ed Sheeran for.
And Oh, by the way, didn't do these in order
of the track list,
I just kind of did it based off of what fits the composition
of the page.
But I experimented with some banners
and I really liked the way that this banner turned out.
I liked the little shadow lines that I added,
I feel like it adds a nice touch to it
and makes it really stand out.
Okay, and finally, this is the last one, right?
Yeah, I think it's the last one.
This is a "Mikrokosmos" another one of my favorite songs.
And I feel like no one's surprised
that this is my favorite song
because I love everything to do with like stars
and space and the moon and just like the night sky.
So even the name of the song really just spoke to me.
I tried another new font style for this one
and I really, really loved the way it turned out.
It's this bold graphic, 3D block letter
that looks like it's jumping out at you,
and I colored in the 3D portions of the lettering.
So it almost looks like a really intense drop shadow.
You guys know, I love me a good drop shadow,
but this is taking it to a whole other level.
And my idea for this was to draw and doodle a bunch of stars
around the name of the song,
but also to draw some stars within the actual font.
So you'll see that later on,
I go in with a white gel pen,
and I draw some twinkling stars and lights
within that thick block part of the drop shadow.
And I think it adds a nice, unique,
fun part to the lettering.
And I just love the way it looks.
It's definitely my favorite one
that I did out of all of them,
which is fitting because it's one of my favorite songs
on the album.
To finish the whole thing off, the final touches
I threw in some more doodles,
filled in some of the empty spaces with some accent lines,
like for "Dionysus" I added this like spiky power thing.
(laughs)
I don't even know what I'm saying at this point, guys,
you know I suck at voiceovers.
Oh, and there is an empty space in between "Make It Right"
and "Map of the Soul Persona,"
so obviously I had to give a shout out to BTS and ARMY,
so that's what I included there.
Couple of other pink accents here and there
and we are good to go.
Here is the final "Map of The Soul Persona"
watering collage, doodle illustration thing.
I don't even know what to call it,
but I hope you guys liked it.
All right guys so I am finished,
here is the completed lettering creation.
I'm actually so happy with how everything ended up looking.
Originally, I was gonna add song lyrics around it,
but I kind of liked the way it looks with just the song
titles right now.
Plus there isn't really official translations
for every single song yet,
so I don't wanna butcher that.
And I also don't wanna butcher trying to right-hand goals.
So I think we should just keep it the way it is.
And I am very satisfied with that.
I had so much fun playing around with the different fonts
and lettering styles and choosing which one fits the vibe
and the mood of each song.
Like I think this vintage kind of cursive
goes really well with "Boy With Love."
And I added stars for "Mikrokosmos"
because of course "Mikrokosmos."
And then "Dionysus"
I don't even know how to pronounce that,
it's a very powerful song
so I went with a bold font here.
"Jamais Vu," BTS is making me speak
a lot of different languages that I don't speak,
so excuse my pronunciation.
But it's a very soft power ballad
so I went with more of an elegant cursive for that.
In case any of you were wondering,
I think my current favorite song would have to be either
"Mikrokosmos," "Home" or "Jamais VU,"
but I don't know, my favorite keeps changing.
I got a lot of inspiration from my favorite lettering
account, her handle is @oraarts.
I talked about her a couple of times before,
but she is my ultimate lettering goals.
I love her account and I always go there
when I want some inspiration.
So I highly recommend you guys check her out.
Overall, very pleased with this,
and I like how it kind of ended up looking like a poster.
Maybe I'll scan this and make it downloadable for you guys
if you want.
All in all, I feel very happy with what I created today,
I hope you guys liked it as well.
I think I'm gonna wrap things up now
and then go take a really, really long nap
because I need it so badly.
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And you can also go follow me over on my Instagram
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lettering inspiration,
and I also stand about BTS.
Instagram and Twitter are probably the two places
that I talk about BTS the most.
So if you wanna stand out with me,
those are the two places.
I love this album, I love BTS so much.
I know they're never gonna see this,
but thank you BTS for working so hard on this album
and for blessing us with your music,
brings ARMYs together into a cute little community
which I love.
Speaking of which, feel free to comment down below
and start a discussion,
I wanna know what your favorite song on the album is.
Have a great day everyone, keep doodling
and I will talk to you in the next video.
Bye everyone.
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