hello welcome to a studio vlog I have a hair change and I don't think I've
filmed a studio vlog since I had it done but it's darker now and shorter and
straight which is a very strange but I am enjoying it so in today's studio vlog
I need to go to the post office I've got some orders to post and some returns to
take and then I've got hair on my face I've got a logo to finish and I've also
got a commission to start and hopefully finish today or at least finish and send
to the client so I thought in today's video I could show you mainly how I
speak to clients how I kind of get a client and what happens when they first
inquire and how it kind of progresses into a final piece I thought I'd show
you that all the way through but first I need to go to the post office I always
seem to be in a rush when I go to the post office cuz I leave it too late
and I need to beat their last pickup time so I'm gonna go now I literally am
in my cozy clothes I've got black joggers on a black top and then my
Cadbury's Freddo shirt from the event look at that so cute like at this point the
post office have seen me in every every scenario they've see me fully dolled up all
the way down to this so yeah right let's go to the post office and then I will get
back here with the Commission stuff and also let's not forget I've spent two
hours already editing this video and it's not even like a quarter of the way
done so I'm just leaving that there whilst my laptop overheats I'm gonna go
to the post office and hopefully when I get back
it is calmed down just been to the post office look at this just sent a parcel
to Belgium how exciting so if that's you you got a
parcel from me hope you like it how exciting you
made my day thank you very much
back from the post office and I've just done it a little bit of editing actually
was a lot of editing I think I've been editing for like five hours now and I
think it's done but we'll see whilst I wait for the
video to save I am gonna get started on this commission so prime example of my
life always multitasking so I'm actually doing it for a lovely girl called Emily
so Emily actually messaged me after I posted on my Instagram stories I was
doing Commission's if you don't have a lot of kind of people watching your
stories and stuff I recommend posting on your own Facebook or telling your
friends and family that you're doing these drawings and you're looking to get
more experience and you're happy to do them for them for a little little fee
and that's how I got started basically so when I first started doing design or
photography or whatever whenever I first started I used to share it on Facebook
and then word of mouth kind of got around and that's how I got work in the
beginning so obviously now I do have a little bit of a following online so I
get to share it that way so we just spoke in Instagram DMS sometimes I ask
people to email me because I find it easier but in this case we did it in DMs
so she just asked me if I'm still doing them and then the first question I
always ask is what is it you're after because I do do logos and drawings and
digital cartoony things I needed to make sure what she was after
so she let me know here I sent a image of an example and told her the price so
I said that I could add all the bits that she wanted in the background and on
the banner and it would be seventy pounds including an a4 print that I post first
class over to her so then she basically sent me the photos I usually because
it is an old-fashioned photo obviously there's only one version of this but if
I was drawing a couple from nowadays I would ask for multiple photos just
so I can gete an idea of hair color and kind of facial expressions and stuff but for
this one it's gonna be a little bit different so we're gonna give that a go
together I will share the journey with you so then once
I've got the photos I let her know how the payment works so what I do is I ask
for 50% of the money beforehand and then 50% after this is so I kind of can save
a slot for people and I am ensuring that I'm gonna get paid and also it gives
people the chance to kind of make amendments before they send me the full
price so yeah 50% before 50% after via PayPal
or bank transfer for those of you that don't know
PayPal do a service called PayPal.me I'll link in the description and that is
so helpful for stuff like this definitely recommend and so yeah we're just talking
about the names that she wants in the banner and talking about things and then
she decides to pay on PayPal so I passed her my paypal email which I will cover
up so then yes she sent me the payment and now it is time to get the drawing
done it's taking me a little while to get round to her Commission because I
did have that many to get through but I use my iPad pro and it is the older
version of the iPad pro so I don't think they sell it anymore but I bought it on
Amazon refurbished so it was like 2 200 300 pounds cheaper then it would have
been if I bought it directly from Apple and then obviously I use the Apple
pencil which is the first generation model not gonna lie I have been eyeing
up the new iPad for a long time but I feel like that's an expense
I don't need to make unless this thing breaks I don't think I need to buy a new
one so I'm gonna keep telling myself that so I don't so this is my iPad love that
I've got this in the background and I use procreate which is down here and on
procreate I design a bunch of things I do the sketches for my logos that I
design I drawings themselves I've done this before
little kind of cartoony style things I do a lot of things on procreate one of
which is couples portraits so I have a folder for couples portraits and in here
are like the most recent ones that I've done and we're gonna just start a new
file I think I opened one yesterday so then in here I am going to import the
photos that she sent me so I've got them to look at there we go so these are the
photos that I am going to use as reference let's just do this so you can
see and the first step is to sketch things out just
using my pencil so I'll do that now and I'll show you a quick little quick
little time-lapse bear in mind that my sketches are always very very bad it
takes a lot of refinement to get it to look like it does in the end so just
trust me before I start the time-lapse I've decided to get rid of the photos
off the canvas and do it a different way so if any of you have an iPad I think
all iPads do this I'm gonna open it as a split screen so I just swipe up
from the bottom click my photos drag it over and then I have a little screen
that's next to me with the photos in that I need to use so I can kind of flick
between which one I need and zoom in and stuff whilst I'm working on it on this
side
so as you can probably tell by the light is now dark it actually makes me so sad
that it's dark at this time of day it's 25 past 6 and it's already dark but I
have finished the first draft of that Commission it actually took me an hour
and 51 minutes according to my like screen recording thing that you've just
watched so what I do now I've just sent it back to the client she's actually
usually quite speedy at replying which is great for me because once I get
started I just want to get it finished and usually a lot of the time hearing
back from clients is the bit that takes the longest and that's that
frustrates me a lot so I sent her a message and all I said was here's the
basic drawing just wanted to check and see what you think so far and it still
needs shadows and the writing added but what do you think - the colors I didn't
attempt to draw it in black and white as you probably saw but it looked really
weird so I decided to do it in color and then I just need to know the color of
the hair and the color of the guy's tie and so I've asked for that and hopefully
she can find that out with me but yeah I'm happy with that so far I think I
need to change well I definitely need to change the color of the banner and the
heart in the background I just kind of did that for now I feel like it needs to
be a bit softer but that is the process so far while we wait for her to reply I
thought I would show you what I do then so once I have finished the drawing
I will send it to my laptop and just adjust it in Photoshop so let's pretend
that this is the finished drawing and this is one that I did a while ago and
I'm just gonna send this straight to my laptop so I'm just going to airdrop it
to my macbook and then up here I'm going to open Photoshop and then in Photoshop
you'll be able to see the image itself so actually I've totally done this wrong
so usually I open it up in an a4 size because I print on my prints in a4 so
I'm just going to open a new page and put it
like that and then I'll drag the drawing over so I usually
position it however I might make a little bit smaller or bigger and to be
honest the prints that I make fit really nicely in frames like this this isn't my
print this is what I bought but prints that I print in a4 fit really nicely
in a frame like that without the mount so that's why I print in a4 because
it means you can either frame it a4 or frame it in a square frame and that
frame is just from Wilko so they're really easy to get hold of so I print on
a4 paper and I do have to outsource my printers but I am looking
into getting a printer of my own that will print a4 and A3 I just
need to look at the price and kind of work out whether that's doable because I
feel like that'll be good for my commissions and also my shop if you guys
follow what's going on with my shop anyway back to work so I've inserted the photo
I've made it smaller let's just pretend I did all that and then usually it's in
the wrong color format so to view photos on a screen your photo in image and mode
up here image mode is going to be in RGB but for print I need it to be in CMYK so
I change it to CMYK then it will flatten the image and then that is now ready for
print so I'll file and save that as a new photo I usually save it with the
same name and just put print on the end so if I ever come back to it I know
what's what and yeah so that's that and then I just upload it straight to the
printers hopefully by the time I get around to editing this vlog I will have
finished that drawing so I'll be able to insert it on the screen now I'll put it
here if not head over to my website it should be on my portfolio very soon but
it's been fun to draw so far right I need to now edit another video so I've
got another studio vlog to edit and I also have a logo to finish so that is
how I'm gonna spend my evening but I do feel like this video has got really long
already so I'm going to end it here thank you so much for watching another
studio vlog please do let me know what you like the best in my studio vlogs
which kind of parts you like to see I'd love to hear that and yeah thanks so
much for watching and I'll see you soon the floor another vlog bye