Matte topcoat never lasts for me, barely been a week.
Anyway, today we're gonna be digging into the October Zenpop stationary box.
If you didn't know already, it's a, it's a, it's subscription
and it's full of Japanese stationery items directly from Japan.
What we're gonna do here is open it up, find out what's inside
then take some inspiration from the magical goodies and draw something.
Alright, there probably was a more efficient way to do that.
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First, we have the print, it's Luna as a witch.
I've learned from previous Zenpop boxes
that Halloween is more of an American holiday than a Japanese holiday
but I feel like they always at least try to put a little something in there for us.
So, I can see, that's so cute.
Yeah, I kind of just want to draw something like that but we'll see what's -
Oh, there's some art -
Oh there's a lot of art supplies.
What is this?
Is this like an inktober themed box? (Is this a glow in the dark eraser?)
We'll start with the first thing I saw, kind of went a little crazy.
We have the fudegokochi three-piece set by Zig.
Oh, they're brush pens, so we have a fine, a fine in gray
and then an extra fine.
Dropping or shaking the pen too much may result in ink leaking.
That's good to know, I'm a pen shaker.
So, this one's supposed to be the fine brush pen.
Oh, it's kind of squishy.
Oh, you know what it is, I had a pen like this once,
might have been this one with a different barrel and everything
and I actually used to use it a lot.
If I remember correctly, it's not great with like alcohol markers.
What's a light color I don't use all that often?
This one, it's at the bottom of my yellows.
It's a little smudgy, that is not that bad.
It's not going to work with pastels
but you probably could get away with some of the darker markers.
Oh, so extra fine, it feels more scratchy than anything
and then this one is supposed to be fine gray, oh so gray.
That one's the juiciest of them all.
I don't know what that means but it's something I noticed,
but, yeah, instead of having a super flexible brush nib,
it's actually more of a hard brush nib
and I found that much more useful for my needs
just because I do tend to have the shakes a lot.
So, just a little bit easier to control
if you're someone who has a hard time with the really long flexible brushes,
definitely recommend.
I'm gonna let those dry even longer and then try the markers again.
Alright, what do I even grab next?
This is very white, it's a pencil.
Okay, it's just a pen.
Oh, what, nothing's happening.
Uh oh, is it a gel pen?
Wait, I think it's a white gel pen but I'm not seeing a lot of white you know.
Oh, it's so fine.
Hmm, it's rare that I see a brand new white gel pen.
I literally made a video testing all the white gel pens I could find.
Maybe I'll link it but I don't think this one was in it.
This does not look very familiar at all.
Don't think I ever saw white gel pen that has retractable like that.
I digress, it is a white gel pen and it currently works, you've gotta love that.
Ceramic pen cutter, what am I gonna do with this?
Oh, you can use it cut paper, see if I can show you.
It is literally so small, see that little tiny tooth?
What do I cut?
I kind of want to just test it on something simple.
Yeah, I really want this to be amazing,
don't have too high hopes, don't have too high hopes.
[Excited squeal] Did you see when it just like, popped off?
Oh my gosh, I love this.
Should we test and see how many sticky notes it would cut?
How many did it cut?
Okay, it did two and then left an indent in the third,
so, it's not too deep when it comes to paper.
Can I do like a shape?
It was supposed to be a heart but maybe it's a diamond.
Very cool, I didn't know those existed.
That's, I'm a little speechless.
Let's do the washi tape next.
First one I see is like gray clouds,
guessing they're going for like an inktober sort of theme.
So, it's a bunch of clouds with a screen printing design on it,
that's so cool, you might as well throw a little in here.
[Gasps] I can cut this with this. I cannot go straight. [Angry groan]
We also have another washi tape.
Oh, they're little ink bottles, so there's a bunch of different sizes and shapes.
Well, I guess they're mostly the same size but different ink wells and ink bottles.
Might as well throw a little of that in here, see if I can cut a straight line.
[Angry groan] Nope, it's set at a diagonal again.
Alright, there's still a few more items here.
We have the, it looks like it might be a little mini Bullet Journal.
So it's Black Bullet Journal sticky notes.
That's actually really cool because then you could stick it in your bullet journal
and write with your white pen, where are you?
This is a well curated box.
oooOooo! Really shows up on black.
Oh, I see it even better at a different angle.
WooOooOoo. Okay and you have a sticky note, you can stick that in your book.
Okay, we got more to dig in here.
I see they're following that black and white sort of theme.
So it's a bunch of, it looks like pet stickers.
So they're actually on clear and they're all very lightly colored
so that they show up on something dark like the sticky notes,
those work really well with that.
Oh, here's some color, so these are like little pockets, sticky notes.
Oh, I see, they're sticky so you can keep them in your book
and then you can do the thing, you know,
you can have access to them, that's the word.
I don't know how do you actually get one out?
Oh, and now it's on this side, it doesn't work the other way?
If you grab this tab, maybe my mind is just simple
but I'm blown away right now.
Oh, it's a lot less sticking out.
I'll follow their advice, they kind of designed the thing after all.
There you go.
Alright, I forgot about these erasers.
I don't know if one glows in the dark but if it doesn't, this packaging is misleading.
There we go.
Hmm, I don't know, let's put him next to a white.
We will find out in a minute.
I'll leave that right there while we look into the last thing in the box.
It looks like a little sketchbook, that's fun.
I cannot get this open.
A Zenpop sketchbook, look at how cute Luna is.
Oh, this is actually I like the texture and the thickness of this paper.
So, I'm guessing, they're recommending we maybe do a little ink drawing.
I do happen to have the current drawing challenge going involving ink,
seems like this might be a good opportunity to continue it.
I do want to just check the menu and see what they're talking about.
Oh, so the theme was called Moonlight Shadow.
I'm gonna just start sketching a little bit,
maybe try and include some of this in the design
and I can like cut out the shape of it to fill in black
but you also have some black pens and stuff,
so we do have lots of options here.
Let's check on those little guys.
Okay, I can confirm that this one glows.
I can also confirm that this one doesn't.
So now we have two new erasers to enter the collection,
the little ghost kitties which is actually perfect because today's prompt is Ghost.
It's the prompt list from petite planner I believe is the name,
I'll have it linked in the description if you want to jump on in.
So, all my doodles have to fit into these squares, by the way.
If you want to see them, you can jump over to my Instagram.
I also have a video where I did a whole week of them,
that will obviously be available as well.
What we'll do is do our sketching here and then do the final one on here.
Maybe try out this brush pen,
if it freaks me out too much, I'll have to use my pen
but I was using a 0.5 so I let me test them next to each other.
So this is what I've been using, let's try it.
So I can obviously get thicker.
Alright, I need a pencil.
Right on theme for ghosts.
So I don't want to just do like this exact shape.
Alright, that wasn't even working, I was just trying to trace it.
I also need to include our little flowers.
So, I'm like drawing little like things like this
and they're all like doodly and it's so cute, I love it.
Okay, how do I incorporate flower and ghost and maybe kitty ghost.
So we're just gonna start drawing.
Since it has to fit into a square, I'm going to start with a nice little square
and we're gonna think ghost kitty thoughts.
They've got like little soft edge on the bottom.
WooOooOoOoooo!
Then what do I do with flowers?
Maybe give it a collar flower, cauliflower?
Maybe another with flowers on it, nope that bores me.
Also, this is heavy and bad for me.
Heheh. Next idea, they could be laying down, right?
So, then we have the cat ears and tail. And that houses the ghost.
Will we give it this face? Woo!
There's really nothing ghosty about that.
So, I want to try this again but maybe do it better.
I don't know, maybe incorporate the flowers in a more fun way
or maybe in a less fun way but a more artistic way.
I'm also gonna like draw it in just a different pose because you never know.
I'm gonna think of it more as a swooshy fabric of cat in a cat's shape.
Maybe it's like, that's like the inside of the ghost sheet.
Well, I remember this last time I drew a cat,
the tail kind of like competes with the little flowers that I end up drawing
but we'll see, we're gonna make this one a happy cat
because that usually makes me happy.
[Happy squeal]
Ghost kitty but we still forgot the flowers.
What I could do is just use them to fill in the space
and make the composition more interesting
but they're not going to make a whole lot of sense,
they're just gonna sort of be there.
Yeah it's kind of lame!
Since I'm still kind of uncertain at this point,
what I think might be a good idea
is to practice our line art just to see if I can try and get a nice consistent line.
Also, if it's transparent,
we might be able to draw like dotty lines of the flowers behind the cat.
Might be a fun idea.
See the longer the stroke of heavier I tend to lay it down.
Maybe fill this in, that's kind of the benefit of having a brush pen,
you don't have to switch pen so you can fill in this larger area.
Oh you know what I forgot to do,
test these brush pens once they were like fully dry.
Yeah, once it dries you can totally put marker on it.
Hey I thought I feel like I've used these before with Ohuhu markers
and I wasn't right, you just have to wait for it to fully dry or you can lift it.
Anyway, let's see if I can do little flowers.
It's not giving me the consistency
that I've really been enjoying in my line doodles lately.
Alright, let's go ahead and erase this especially where we drew it a while ago,
it should be alright.
Alright, it has a little bit of a sloppier nature than I want it to
and I think that comes from like the varying line widths.
Oh, we could try the gray and add in the rest of the flower
but that means like both of the cats that I've drawn
have flowers going through them.
Also, I did it too thick.
We can take that white gel pen and create little like border on the outside.
It didn't really show up but it's an idea.
I think I like the one where the little blobs look more like legs.
I bet there's a way to do it while also being able to see like the underside of it.
Let's try another one.
I kind of want to go closer to that idea.
I'm also not sure where to put the flowers because this is not doing it for me.
I might just try to redraw this but see if I can do it better.
See what we can do here.
No. [Laughs] Maybe if we like add like a squishy line first so it's like;
Oh everything's floating like this.
If it was just the ghost and not very cat,
what would that look like?
It'd be more like this and maybe a tail.
It does look like an arm right now but it doesn't have any other cat elements,
so, give it some ears.
Oh, the whiskers, let's just kind of make it a little bit more cat-like
to try and make it more of a cat-tail.
So, it's coming from here and then it would become around like this.
I also want to try it with the wobbles at the bottom.
Okay, it's like doily, it's like a little fancy doily instead of a bed sheet now.
Still need flowers and such.
I'm feeling like floaty flowers like this
but more compositionally fun
and we'd probably add some magic little particles.
Alright, alright, alright, there's things I like about it.
I feel like this is too much over here.
So, maybe end it here instead of having it go back underneath.
Okay, we're getting somewhere, they're definitely improving.
I want to also practice my line art again
but we're gonna try it with this guy this time.
I'm gonna grab my kneaded eraser, just roll over this a little bit just to lighten it.
I'm gonna try it with the tiny pen, the extra fine.
If you don't mind.
Just draw a little cat. I'm gonna make him wink.
I should probably make him smile.
The o faces were cute but something about it's just not me.
Oh yeah, this one's working a lot better.
I'm getting a little bit more consistency.
That got a little too squiggly.
I shouldn't have been talking while I was doing that.
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Let's give that a good erasing.
Okay, I'm willing to take this part to the bag but the tail, I do not like.
I think we need to go more just like coming out of the side of it.
The swirling flowers, I thought I'd like more.
I think the problem is that they're all one piece.
I'd like it better like if you could actually see the breakup of it.
I'm gonna try and draw a much bigger square
because if I have more of the actual size in mind.
I might be more free to add all the details I want.
So we'll try that.
Don't like the tails, we got to fix that
and then I want to try it smiling instead of going ooOoo or saying boo.
I guess I would say mooo because it's a cat. [Chuckles]
They're the swirly.
I feel like that did help.
Oh wait, oh what's this? What's this, what's this happening?
This is the head.
Oh yeah the smile is just the little personality I want from my dead cat.
Little rough edges.
Should I have the tail coming out from underneath? The little paws.
I might actually take this one.
Put it more forward
and then that gives us this space and this space for some flower action.
Thinking back here, maybe a little daisy.
That's the name of the cat, I'm naming the cat Daisy!
Okay and then over here we're gonna need something, too.
I like the idea of maybe seeing underneath but I don't know.
Okay this one's cute.
So, let's just try this exact same one but better.
I suppose I could just jump into this, why not?
Alright so we're gonna do this,
but just try and do it better.
I like the idea of the cat looking that way.
I like this swishy vibe.
The torso would be here with like a little leg.
The other leg could be more straight.
Then we'd have the booty back here.
This would be like the back leg back there.
It had to be here somewhere with a little tail taking up some nice space.
Even like angle the head up a little potentially.
Should move the ears back and then the eyes here.
The only part we're missing now is this and the flowers
because we have all that stuff we can kind of -
Oh, wait, no, no, no, unless I keep the cat in there, like all these lines
and make sure this is all doily.
I think that might be it.
Then we still need flowers.
I kind of want to incorporate both these ideas together maybe.
So, have some coming in front, so just focus on composition really.
It'll be coming around, no because then the flower's like upside down, you know.
You just kinda run out of combos to include the flowers
but I challenged myself with this so I kind of have to stick with it.
I think it's too much in front.
I'm just gonna get rid of this one, let's get rid of this one.
Although, it does do a nice job of filling that space.
We could put a little magic ghosts particles.
Okay, kind of fills that space.
Kind of like makes the head pop I think.
Are we ready?
I think I've gotten to the point where I can't improve this.
We're at the limit here, it's time for the line art.
We're gonna use the little extra fine one.
Just use the kneaded eraser just kind of lightly go over it.
It helps you see what you're doing when you're doing it
because sometimes pencil can be a distraction
but now it's a much lighter sketch,
a little harder to see but I can see it just fine.
We're gonna go ahead.
Let's do the face first because it turned out really cute.
I hope we don't ruin it.
Oh don't forget there's a flower there, it goes in front
So, we might as well do that first with the little swirly Roses.
The whiskers, you can do this part of the cat,
keep it swooshy, keep it swooshy.
Really hard to draw two lines right next to each other
and keep them equidistant apart.
What, by golly, I think I've done it.
We have a little foot here.
[Squeal] It kind of worked, there's a tangent right there
but there's nothing I can really do about it.
What I can do is add that depth and it might help.
That's like the back paw, you know
and this is another back paw,
so I might want to do the same thing
and if we're using the gray which was not this one, this one,
to color in this, oops, I went outside the line, got a little too excited.
Last thing is these flowers do I want them to be more Daisy-like
or would I want to just keep all roses, you know.
I decided to do this.
Smaller one and then this guy.
🎵 Magic ghost dots, magic ghost dots. 🎵
Alright, I guess we're going with the daisies.
We're going daisy land, keep them nice and fun.
Let's turn this one to the side.
I'm gonna need some leaves.
Probably make them a different shape than these,
so, it looks like a different kind of flower.
OoOooOoo. I think it's done.
I'm gonna let it dry just a little bit longer.
It makes me so happy.
I'm gonna look at it next to one of the other ones.
Oh, this line art is actually thicker.
I like both, this one, you obviously get a little bit more control
because it's a thinner pen
but this one gives you more of that like doodly vibe
but it's not so far different that it makes me mad.
So, that's always good news.
Okay, we need to erase, come on baby, good results, good results.
What is this?
Is this just an ink smudge?
Is it coming from my hands?
What, what's this? Oh sheesh.
Okay, that definitely came from my hand.
Eh, eh, eh, just give me a clean slate!
You know it might be cute, an extra um, particle,
a little magic particle here.
[Squeals]
Okay, this turned out so well.
Here we go.
So, we're continuing my daily challenge.
So, I Incorporated all the things that I wanted
which was tiny doodle, florals
and then the prompt for today which was Ghost
and then I also took inspiration from this box with these little ghost kitty erasers
and I used all of the art supplies that came in the box, too.
I really like these pens.
I'm gonna keep those out for the rest of the challenge.
We had the, oh, white gel pen.
Is there anywhere I could use this?
I could add like lines.
It's weird, it doesn't work on top of that, but it writes on this good.
I guess it just doesn't really like being on top of this ink, I dunno!
It's not what it was made for.
And I really liked this little guy. I just want to cut something.
Oh, I can cut some more of these squares I don't need -
I only need like two more, but I could cut six more.
Okay, it doesn't like this thicker paper, it likes thin paper
but that's alright, I think that might be the cue to step away.
I want to thank you guys for watching
and coming along with me today as I unboxed the October Zenpop box.
I had a lot of fun, I hope you enjoyed it, too.
If you want the prompt list, I'll have that linked down below
if you want to jump in.
I've been having a lot of fun, especially adding an extra little bit to it
that makes me really happy which is the floral flowers.
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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