good morning so the first thing that I do in the morning is make sure that I
have filled up my water bottle I try to drink three of these a day and then I
get straight on to my emails I try to get this done because I hate doing
emails so much once I've done that I'll get ready I'll put a little bit of makeup on
it just makes me feel a little bit more prepared and then today I needed to take
a couple of photos for a thumbnail so I did that and then edited it into a
studio vlog thumbnail and let me know if you watch the studio vlog actually
alright I am now dressed and ready for the day I'm not gonna lie some days I
don't get actually ready ready I'll sit in my joggers and like that cozy hoodie
and stay like that but today I am actually going out I'm gonna take my
grandma we're gonna go for food shopping and for some lunch which I think is
quite good actually it breaks up my day a little bit and I can take my lunch
break at the same time so yeah I'm all dressed I'm gonna get in the car and
whilst i'm out i'm also gonna take some things to the post office because I've
had some orders and they need to be sent so yeah I'll take you out with us many
hours have passed as you saw I was shopping with grandma and then we decided
or I asked it whether she wanted to go for lunch so we went for lunch and
then we decided to go to look at some show homes on an estate like a new
estate thing most definitely can't afford them but I get a girl can dream
maybe in like five years time so we went and look looked at them and I just got
home I've been out of the office for three hours which I wasn't planning I
was hoping for like an hour and a half max so I'll just have to make that time
up later tonight which is fine so don't have any like evening plans and I think
that's the beauty of working freelance because I can kind of drop everything
and go and do things when other people are free which is nice I just have to be
quite strict with myself on making sure I can catch up with myself
for the rest of the day I've already ticked off two things on my little to
do list actually let me show you this so this is my weekly planner I sold these
on my online store and I'm currently in the
process of creating some new weekly planners so keep an eye out on my
Instagram for those if you're into organization station with kind of things
I will leave the link in the description and on-screen but yeah I've ticked off let me show you this actually
so today's Monday I've ticked off two things on there so far three
actually I've ordered my new cello bags too I'm gonna go back and sort out
my video so I've got a video going up tonight and then I've also got a video
that I've pre-filmed ready for next week so I need to do the annotations for
that so the subtitles and the tags and then I've got actual graphic design work
so I'm gonna do some drawings on my iPad before I start doing the subtitles I
thought I'd quickly show you what I do when I'm replying to like Commission
emails a portion of my work involves me creating logos for people creating little
drawings for people stuff that involves like one single client they pay
me a fee and I give them a drawing or whatever my services so I replied to
a couple of emails this morning about Commission's I thought I would kind of
go into that a little bit more so if you're wondering how I go about it you
can kind of get an idea so let me just record my screen if you're wondering by
the way I use an app called screen recorder I think screen replay yeah it's
called screen replay on my Mac I get asked quite a lot how I record my screen
and it's just that I got it off the App Store I have an Apple Macbook and I use an
app called screen replay it was free at the time I've had it for years so I'm
not sure if it's still free but I really like it so I mean it'd be wonderful if
the internet would like to work yesterday let me tell you the internet was driving me
insane the one day I had like three videos to upload the internet just
wasn't playing ball at all considering the Internet is my job it's pretty
pretty frustrating alright for some reason Gmail isn't loading my emails
properly but I'll just show you my little template thing so here in my
Notes app so this is just the app that comes with apple
devices I guess I have this note here that I wrote ages ago and in it are some kind
of blanket style emails I guess so I don't send blank emails per se I hate
blanket emails but this is like the basic thing I will reply with when someone
asks me for a commission so I don't know if you can see but I have one for
Commission so if you want to pause it and like use this for yourself go ahead
just adapt it to suit you and it says like thank you for getting in touch for
a portrait like the one I have attached because I always attach something
because generally people email me like hi can you do a drawing of me and my
boyfriend and they don't specify what kind of drawing so I want to make sure
they're clear on the style and kind of what it is they're going to get and what
I'm charging for and just so everyone is clear you know so yeah it says I charge
this much and then I always change that to suit and this includes the full
resolution digital copy so you can print it as you wish three opportunities to
make changes to the drawing and also an A4 physical print I ask for the
full payment amount beforehand via PayPal or bank transfer let me know if
you're interested and basically that is the same principle for all the way
through so when I did a bunch of different kind of cartoon style
portraits I made one for just cartoons I rarely use this one anymore I could
probably get rid of it and then I have one so like YouTube banners because I
went through a phase of doing them a lot and then the one I use the most at the
moment is the logo one so I have like thanks for your email the final price
depends but it starts from and then I'll put a fee here tell them how they
receive it and then I also have this Google Forms link which I can go through
in another video if you'd like me to so just let me know in the comments if you
would but basically this form this takes you to a little survey online for the
thing I've created asking you a bunch of different questions what you want your
logo for where it's going to be used any inspiration photos you've found all that
that's in that form and then if someone fills it out it emails me and I have it
all in one place rather than doing like loads of back-and-forth email
so yeah I find it really really helpful to have these notes here because I
pretty much need to say the same thing every time so I'll copy and paste it
into my email account like into the reply and edit the name if there's
anything specific they've asked for I'll add that into my reply and I'll send that
and then either people will completely ignore that because they don't like the
price or they'll reply and be like yeah that's amazing let's go for it I never
really get a no and you forget ignore or let's go for it so yeah that is how I go
about that so I am now quickly gonna try quickly anyway I'm going to quickly do
the subtitles for my latest studio vlog and so I try and make sure I've got
subtitles on like 99% of my videos because I want them to be accessible to
a wider audience and it does take extra time sometimes it takes a lot of extra
time but I think it I don't know I just really value having subtitles and
I got into the swing of things and I don't want to not do it anymore so
I'm doing that maybe one day I'll end up having to like hire someone to do it but
for now I quite enjoy it and I like having control I'm very much a control
freak so I go into my creator studio app and on the app dashboard whatever it is
and I'm gonna do the annotations and luckily YouTube generates some
annotations itself and they are usually like 80% accurate so I just need to like
scroll through and change the words that it hasn't picked up right so that's what
on the agenda right now and I might listen to a podcast maybe watch a video
actually what's your favorite design youtuber like graphic design Etsy person
who else did you watch online because I need some new people to watch
can you hear how loud my laptop is yeah it's very loud it's currently exporting
a video because that video I was just captioning has a clip in there that I
was supposed to edit out and I didn't so I was just trying to save it again like
re-export and re-upload it because it's due up soon and my memory on my laptop
is full this happens a lot I have to empty my laptop's memory so often I have
a really big hard drive in my drawers down here I did like a full little office
tour video I did it recently so if you want to go and watch that you'll be able
to see where I store everything but yeah I have the big hard drive for like a big
clear out but then I also have these little tiny ones so I now have two I
think they're like 50 pounds like they're not much at all and it's one
terabyte my new one could be 2 terabytes I can't really remember but this one's
just a one and it's just usb doesn't require any power so I can take
this around with me so what I'm gonna do before I can do anything else I can't
even do any design work really because it's that full I need to move some of my
videos off my laptop and onto this I think storage is a very important part
of my job because obviously I have like 6 years worth of videos and I save all
of them and then I have design work from previous clients I don't need to keep at
hand immediately on my laptop but if a client wants something changing or wants
another backup of it or whatever I need to have that on hand too so all my old
client work is on these my own uni work all that kind of stuff so definitely
definitely recommend these I've never had a problem with them Touch wood that's
not wood is this wood so I'll link it in the description for you if you want to
get one I got it from like Curry's I think but I'm pretty sure like Amazon or
whatever I'll sell them I'll have a look around
and they'll be linked in the description for you whilst I'm waiting waiting for
my video to export I think I'm gonna do a little icon drawings so I'll put a
couple of them on screen these are some of the drawings I've been doing I offered
them a special offer price just before Christmas and I'm trying to get through
them so I'm gonna do a couple of those I think I've got four or five left and I
had twelve and it takes me a long time to do each one so it's been a bit of a
mission I kind of I think I took on too many but I enjoy it so I'm just going
with it so I'm gonna do them I'll give you a quick little time-lapse talk
through those once I got it done recently I actually uploaded a video
completely talking you through how I create these icon portraits so I'll
leave that linked in the clickable I button but in short I outline all the
important features of the face and the hair then as you can see I'm colouring it
in so I pick up a shade of skin tone do the eyes fill in everything and for this
I'm using procreate as always I used the smudge tool I use the pen tool I use a
whole different range of tools but like I said if you want a more detailed
version and head over to that video but I really like how these turned out I think
they're quite cute and simple and add a little bit of personality to people's
profiles alright I've been sat drawing it is now half
past seven in the evening I think I've made up for the loss of time working
earlier but I'm not finished yet I want to finish my to-do list I'm determined
I've got one more icon portrait I'm gonna do today and then I've got a
couple of little doodles and kind of drawings I want to do so I don't know if
you've noticed but if you go over on my Instagram I've been posting some little
quotes like in between my regular photos have been doing quotes so I want to do a
couple more of those because I've run out now I've done like a big bunch of
them and I've run out so I'm gonna do some more of those but I'm gonna go and
go and do that downstairs so I will leave you with a time-lapse I hope you
enjoyed this video and thanks for following me along for the day I'll
leave all my online social on screen in the description if you want
to follow me elsewhere subscribe if you've enjoyed this video I'm trying my
hardest to get to 100,000 this year and but yeah here is one more final drawing
time-lapse who doesn't love a drawing time-lapse