hey guys today i'm doing a five below makeover i've never done one of these before but basically
i'll be taking stuff from five below and giving it a makeover pretty self-explanatory
exactly like it sounds yeah so the first thing i picked up was this portable lap desk it's nice and
sturdy it looks like wood but it's actually not wood i wish it would be wood but whatever it's
only five bucks it's fine it's fine it comes with a pillow backing to keep things comfy
i'm just gonna move these tags and non-necessities out of the way the pillow's making things wobbly
so now i'm moving to the back to remove the pillow backing luckily it's just velcroed on
there it's not wood yep that's not wood i don't know if paint would actually stick to it so i'm
just prepping the surface with mod podge lots and lots of mod podge after several layers of
that i started caressing the lap desk it feels so bumpy good texture will help the paint stick
better i went over it all with some gesso to further prime the surface in hopes that my paint
really adheres to this thing now that that's all done i'm ready to actually paint on this lap desk
i chose a cute charming black color it's not black it's actually a brooding bleak dismal
dark blue it's my fiancee's favorite color she's a scorpio so makes sense i'm joking i initially
painted it a dark blue and then i went in and highlighted some areas with a slightly lighter but
still just as dismal blue i'm going for a dark and stormy beautiful starry night vibe all right focus
so here it is four hours later my masterpiece i'm doing a little sketching with pencil that's
barely showing up moving on to plan b we're bringing in the dreaded colored pencils the white
colored pencil is actually showing up so that's nice if you've been loyal to the dark side you
can probably already tell that this is a drawing a very very rough sketch of booboo and honey some of
you have taken to lovingly referring to booboo as bobo that's a lovely pronunciation but her name's
actually booboo just like her namesake honey boo boo honey boo boo honey and boo boo see what i
did there boo boo and honey are two of my original characters they've been around for a while now oh
it's actually only been a year i feel like they've been around forever they're basically baby ogres
booboo has biting tendencies honey's a little scared of her to be honest but they're both a
happy little couple booboo's like a light blue color i would say like an aqua blue i'm using
posca paint pens my weapon of choice they would never let me down or so i thought until today
my poscas are making things look a bit streaky i even took a close-up shot trying to be all
aesthetic and satisfying and whatnot though the streaky paint job left much to be desired honey
and boo boo have like big bulging eyeballs that are like popping out of their heads
i like how disproportional and wonky they look i think it makes the characters look extra crazy and
distinctly evil keeping in line with booboo's biting tendencies today booboo is biting honey's
face it's supposed to be a kiss a little peck on the cheek when i sketched everything out things
were looking real creepy cute i was happy with it but the more i worked on booboo the less it
looked like booboo this hot mess doesn't look anything like booboo this is bobo meet bobo she
likes to wear blue lipstick and she has a bit of a double chin situation going on bobo's face
is just looking too lumpy what's wrong with you bobo i don't want to look at bobo anymore but
we have to because i keep going mama didn't raise no quitter though i must admit sometimes you just
gotta know when to quit i just keep on keeping on oh my gosh a close-up of bobo i probably should
have left this out she's disturbing but i kind of find that funny my sense of humor is broken
things just progressively get worse from here for bobo so i'm just gonna skip to honey honey
always just looks a little terrified of boo boo today he's experiencing some extra horror because
bobo showed up out of nowhere the poor guy just can't catch a break imagine turning around to this
little surprise i don't think i'd ever be the same while i was painting honey i was very distracted
by this whole house of horror situation going on not gonna lie i was a little sad this is meant to
be a little customized laptop desk for my fiance dark blue is her favorite color and she loves
honey and booboo she relates to booboo honestly she is booboo i just felt a little bad that she'd
be ending up with honey and bobo instead this situation has got to be rectified i know she won't
forgive me for this luckily for me honey actually looks like honey so that's a win in my book for
those of you who might not know honey and boo boo slash bobo have little green splatters around
their mouths it's meant to be like slime since they're ogres they spend a lot of their time
playing in slimy slump swamp water so that's what this stuff is now back to bobo clearly there's
something not quite right with her so i tried pinpointing the problem areas i thought maybe it's
the eyes she has the signature eyelids that i like to draw but the eyeballs themselves look a little
worried or something booboo is fearless she's aggressive she's never really scared
of anything so i redid the eyes did that fix the problem not really no maybe if i set the mood
add some glowing stars in the night sky maybe if i'm lucky it'll keep people from looking at bobo
no taking a closer look at this clearly bobo's got to go go get out of here bobo you're not welcome
here anymore i'm exercising you there's no saving bobo at this point and let's be honest i don't
want to save her this time around things improved significantly no double chins or blue duck lips
in sight bobo has left the building there's just one tiny problem the thing about poscas is i feel
they're best for smaller details and smaller characters larger areas are better off being
painted with like traditional acrylic paint so booboo's looking a bit streaky i didn't show it on
camera but i did paint in booboo with some acrylic paint to make some of that streakiness go away
all that's left to do is varnish the whole thing i went over it all with some glossy varnish i like
how the shine gives it a real finished look there it is a custom little honey and booboo laptop
lap desk i say little but it's actually huge compared to the lap desk my fiance currently uses
plenty of space for drinks or bones or cats i think she'll appreciate that anyways enough of
that i also happened to pick up a floppy rainbow sloth while i was at five below a lot of people
have asked me to do a plushie makeover i always pretend i didn't see those comments because i
have no idea how to go about that some people are confident in their makeover abilities and they
can go in on the plushie directly with paint and change the whole vibe i am not that brave i feel
like i would just ruin the whole plushie and then there goes my whole five bucks and the cute and
cuddly sloth friend sorry i just can't so instead i figured i'd add a bunch of removable accessories
mainly with felt the goal is to make it so that if i don't like the outfit i can just take it off and
it's not stuck on there forever i plan on dressing the sloth up as the tutu witch some sort of weird
out-of-season halloween party or something i would have sewn some clothes but i don't know how to sew
and i didn't really feel like learning today so i'm just using an alternative method which
i'll get to but right now i'm just eyeballing and cutting shapes out i cut out two rectangles
they're going to be like the tutu witch's tights the main reason i picked this sloth out was
because of his long legs i thought they'd look real pretty in the tutu witch's striped tights
i'm recreating the stripes with some purple fabric paint i originally tried to brush it on there but
i ended up finding it easier to just glob it on with the bottle i did use some pasta to just
kind of plan out the stripes a bit they're not perfectly even but they're close enough obviously
i need something to adhere the clothes to the sloth i thought velcro was a good option because
it's pretty easy to just cut and glue onto the felt it's a bit of a tight fit but honestly it
looks better than i expected i've never made doll or plushy clothes before but i'd say i'm a natural
i give myself an a plus after bobo i need this validation good job i also attempted to make a
witch's hat out of felt i don't know how but here we are i basically just cut out a circle and then
threw together a cone shape and just shoved the two together tried to make them stick oh that's
cute how'd you do that sheer talent that's how the tutu witch's hat is one of those bendy hats
it's not perfectly pointy so i tried giving it that shape to hide some of the hot glue globs
i made a little purple stripe to go around the hat's rim perfect i'd say it's acceptable after
bobo let me have this one if you don't like it i don't want to hear it let me just have this
one okay bringing back the tights like i mentioned i don't know how to sew i'm just sticking on some
velcro so instead of traditional tights these are going to be more like thigh high socks without
the feedy part but it's fine the tutu witch's signature purple tutu will cover everything up
for the tutu i basically just wrapped a string around the sloth and tied some purple mesh strips
around it sounds simple but don't let this fool you it was mildly agonizing i never want to ever
make a tutu again from this day forward no new characters will ever wear a tutu i need to stick
to painting on things it does look kinda cute though i'll give it that now all that's left to
do is assemble her wardrobe the sloth's looking a little bald the tutu witch wears a long white wig
so i felt that was a necessary addition would you like to have a nice full head of hair yeah
i don't know if anyone remembers when i first made the original tutu witch
i tried adding a wig and this is kind of exactly how things turned out it was
terrible i don't recommend you watch that video with that being said here
he is little floppy cuddly rainbow sloth dressed up as the tutu witch
bye bye
what is that i hear is that
is that bobo click on the top right or bottom left if you think bobo is a mess