- It has been a long time
since I have customized Starbucks cups on my channel.
So if you're new here
this is a series that I have been doing for a couple years.
I use different art supplies
and I draw and I paint all over these cups.
If you look behind me, you can see the collection
of cups that we have made over the years together,
you and me, the art family.
So in honor of this series, I busted out the cups.
They're gonna be behind me for this video
and we are gonna decorate some new ones.
This video is a little special
because I have some new paint brushes
from the Artistic Bear Co.
You may have heard about them through Chloe Rose.
Another cool thing,
we're gonna use jelly gouache for this whole video
because that just sounds really fun,
like I haven't used that in a while either.
Let's just create, let's go.
Let's do this.
(jazzy music)
First, let's take my nasty water bottle
that I use for painting
and spray down this whole pallet.
What a beaut.
Everything preserved really nicely too.
All right, we have our first cup.
We've got a little pencil here to assist us on this journey.
Now let's just map out what we wanna do.
I usually don't sketch out the design first
but for this one, I feel like I kinda need to.
(inspirational music)
Can you see that okay?
We are going to do pencils all over this cup
and it'll be a cute little pencil cup
and we can even use it to store our pencils later.
How precious.
Let's do cute little sideways one.
Okay, everything is mapped out.
Now, I think for this cup
hmm, should I get like a palette
to blend my colors over here?
Decisions.
Don't judge my palette.
I haven't cleaned it in a while.
That's just who I am as a person.
So, okay I'm gonna be using Chloe's paintbrushes
creating a color for the background currently.
We are gonna have a green cup.
(inspirational music)
I just realized this green just
about matches the handles of these brushes.
It was totally unintentional,
but I'm kinda loving it. (laughs)
(inspirational music)
Okay, we are almost done painting the cup
like the base color.
I think I need to do another coat
at least in some spots, you know, gotta touch it up.
This is fun so far.
I'm enjoying this.
It has been a while since we have customized Starbucks cups
and it almost just feels like home or something, you know.
It's our thing, like sketchbook videos.
Just makes me happy.
I hope it makes you happy too.
(inspirational music)
All right, I'm gonna let this dry and eat dinner
and then we'll do a lotta cool stuff to the cup.
(inspirational music)
All righty, I finished my dinner.
It was wonderful
and now I am back to painting this cup with you folks.
We are painting a bunch of little colored pencils
with erasers all over this cup.
And I thought this was so adorable
because I made them
like really tiny little pencils. (laughs)
Something about like tiny art supplies like this
is just really cute.
Like, do you think tiny art supplies are cute?
Let me know in the comments down below.
When I go to art stores and I'm in the checkout line
they always have like the mini portable art supplies there,
like as you're checking out
and I don't know something about it is just
so stinking adorable to me (laughs)
and I've definitely been tempted to buy that stuff.
Maybe I should do another tiny art supplies video.
That would be really fun.
(inspirational music)
Anyway, let's talk about this cup.
So I chose this minty color for the background
and because of that, I kind of wanted to
carry the pastel theme over to the pencils.
So all of the pencils are a pastelish color.
There's like, okay, there's like two blue pencils
two of each color, you know, kinda thing
except there's one pencil on here
that only has one of that color.
I worded that kind of weirdly
but there's not two pencils in that color.
So if you wanna play another game,
'cause if you're at this point in the video,
a secret game happened
that you will have to rewind to find if you missed it.
But guess the colored pencil that only has one
of them on the cup, like which color.
I worded that so weirdly, sorry. (laughs)
This cup took way longer than I thought it would.
And I think it would have been faster
had I incorporated other art supplies.
Like in the past you saw all my cups already
In the beginning of this video.
I usually use Posca Pens
and I use like gauche, colored pencil, copic markers,
so many different types of art supplies.
And when I use stuff in the marker family on these cups,
it goes way faster.
But I really just wanted to only use jelly gauche.
I was really in the mood for it and I think it was worth it.
Like, yeah, it took more time
but I really enjoyed the process
and I felt like it also helped me
to keep the cups more simple.
So yeah, you'll see with the next cup too.
I don't wanna hint too much, but yeah.
After I did all the little pencils, you can see here
I'm doing like lines coming out of all of them,
like little scribbles.
I did that because,
I don't know like,
leaving it as it was just felt really bland
especially for art supplies.
Like I wanted the cup to feel like
it was exploding in creativity and possibilities.
Kind of like (sigh) an imagination
that's just ready to take off and create a piece of art.
So that was the inspiration, I guess, for all these lines.
And then I just did like little other minty splashes
of brushstrokes here and there for interest.
I really enjoyed this cup though.
It was a good one.
I think this might be
one of my favorite cups I've ever created
just because I like art
and this one relates to art
and it just feels so imaginative.
I hope you like this one.
(inspirational music)
So for the first cup, I feel like we unlocked
the cutesy side of the imagination
and now I really want to unlock
the weird side of the imagination.
So I'm gonna do some stuff with this cup
that is probably different than most of my artwork,
but it sounds really, really fun. (laughs)
So let's cover this cup first.
We gotta get the colors down.
I did two coats.
I want to create tension on a cup,
but like in a purposeful way. (laughs)
You'll see with the colors that I choose
but I'm painting eyes all over this cup.
So be careful 'cause this cup is watching you
from every angle.
It's like Mad-Eye Moody to the max
if you've ever seen "Harry Potter" (laughs)
you might get my reference.
But anyway, I thought it was really fun though
just to do a bunch of like different types of eyes
but keep it cartoony.
And this color here is kind of subtle.
So it kinda feels like, ugh it should be bolder.
But I wanted to do that because
you'll see, I'm gonna choose some other colors now.
It's just gonna be some craziness on this cup.
So now we have this and neon pink and I'm going in.
And I just, I don't know,
I like doing weird color schemes like this sometimes.
I feel like it kind of makes everything feel chalky and fun.
Yeah, just experimenting with color like this is
kind of a liberating way to approach art.
So if that's of any inspiration to you, yeah.
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After I did some stars
I felt like going in and doing more unrelated things.
So now we're here doing botanical leaves. (laughs)
Like none of this is relating to anything with this cup.
I don't know, it's just really weird,
but this was what was in my mind. (laughs)
(inspirational music)
And then I decided, okay
we need some brighter eyes here and there.
So I took this yellow color
and did some more eyes.
(inspirational music)
At the end I did a bunch of little polka dots
and I felt like, I don't know,
this cup gives me so much chaotic energy
and I just love that.
So I hope you like it too. (laughs)
(inspirational music)
All right, folks, we finished the Starbucks cups
and this took a lot longer
than I thought it would. (laughs)
It's kind of funny
because you paint on something three dimensional like this,
it really takes a lot more time.
And I always do simpler designs on cups
because it's just harder, you know, going with the curves
around the cup and trying to keep things proportional
with the curvature and everything.
Yeah, like this cup here
this cup probably took me about three hours to make
and it's not like super realistic or anything, but yeah.
Let me me tell you about the other cup though.
This one is a little different than my uge.
It's kinda weird.
Basically what inspired this one
is the jelly gauche palette that I am using
comes with a lot of different shades
of like pink and orange and reds and purples.
So I kind of wanted to toy around with
colors that are similar,
but also kind of clash a little bit
and just create tension on a cup.
It was fun to bring back this series
because it has been a really long time
since I have done a Starbucks cup video
and I honestly missed it.
Like it's been too long. (laughs)
So with that being said, I hope you enjoyed coming along
for the ride again and painting Starbucks cups with me.
I think this process was also a lot more time consuming
in hindsight because you usually
when I do these Starbucks cup videos
I use some sort of like marker with it
and that really speeds up the process. (laughs)
So using jelly gauche, it was just a bit more tedious
than it would've usually been.
I usually use Copic markers and Posca Pens.
It was nice to switch things up though.
I've been like really craving using jelly gauche.
Alrighty, have a good day.
I will see you whenever I see you.
Bye.